Thursday's BEST BETS: Sweet 16 Picks + MLB Opening Day Bets + NBA
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It's a Sweet 16 Thursday! Join Sia Nejad, Tom Casale, Amags, Mike McClure, and Larry Hartstein as they give out their plays for the Sweet 16 and MLB Opening Day!
(0:00) Intro
(4:34) Larry's NBA Picks
(7:02) Tom's Sweet 16 Bet, MLB Pick, and CFB Future
(10:50) Amags' MLB Prop
(13:03) Free Sportsline MLB and NHL Bets
(15:03) BONUS Sweet 16 Bets
(19:10) Sia's Golf Bet
(20:15) Mike's Golf Prop
(22:00) Amags' MLB Bonus Bets
(24:16) Chip's Sweet 16 Bet
(26:05) BONUS MLB Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very good morning. |
| 0:10.3 | Happy Thursday and welcome to the early edge, brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary, a legendary show today. |
| 0:16.1 | We're tracking golf right now. |
| 0:17.6 | We've got golf picks on the show. |
| 0:18.9 | We've got March Madness picks on the show. |
| 0:25.6 | We've got Major League Baseball opening day back, a two o'clock live betting stream on this sports line YouTube channel. A lot going on. That's just a half of it, to be honest with you. Let's |
| 0:30.5 | see how we did on the recap screen. Is it another winning day? It is four and two. And look where |
| 0:35.8 | the losses were. Gary Payton loses by the hook mikey b's loss |
| 0:40.7 | we had jalen smith get hurt you might have had an early exit for that one i think it was in the |
| 0:44.7 | first quarter that he got hurt we go four and two nonetheless shout out to mike amags and |
| 0:50.8 | all the other green check marks i got a green shirt on we're looking for more green. Where we can get it, let's bring in the stars of the show. Ladies and gentlemen, look at this cast right here. We've got all of you in the chat. We've got Chip Patterson. We've got Tom Casally, Larry Hartstein, Amags, Mike McClure. Gentlemen, we have so many picks on the show. Like, I'm not even sure where to start, but Amags, I got to start with you. You and Mike smashed the Yankees. No sweat. How are you feeling today? Oh, man. Finally, get out from hibernation there, and the Yankees get the first win of the season. That was great. One thing that was not great was Aaron Judd striking out. But if you watch this show or if you're in the Discord with our sports line crew there, you were on the first plate appearance strikeout. So that was, you know, better than plus 300 in some spots for us to kind of get a nice little bump to start the season. So I'll take it. Yeah, we'll take it. Chip Patterson, we had a college basketball show yesterday, |
| 1:44.6 | and I'm looking, I'm cheating a little bit, looking at the rundown. You and Tom are on |
| 1:50.0 | similarly situated picks here, which I absolutely love to see how you doing today. |
| 1:55.1 | Oh, fantastic. You know, I was heartbroken, truly heartbroken not to be able to join y'all yesterday. |
| 2:02.0 | I was traversing the country. |
| 2:04.0 | We are toes down in Houston for the South Regional. |
| 2:08.4 | I'll be watching tonight the corn battle of Iowa and Nebraska and then just a true, |
| 2:15.3 | like this is a phrase that's used too much, but it's a final four game in the Sweet 16. |
| 2:20.4 | Houston and Illinois are number four and number six on the odds board to win it all, |
| 2:24.9 | and they are playing tonight and only one team gets to advance, fired up to be here, |
| 2:29.5 | feel very privileged to be here, and excited to be sharing some picks with you today. |
| 2:33.9 | Down in Houston, I'm actually watching the Houston Open over to my right because we've got |
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