Thursday's BEST BETS: World Cup Picks + MLB Props + UFC 329
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, SportsLine
4.5 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Join Sia Nejad, Martin Green, Amags, and Danny Brasco as they dish out their picks for Thursday's World Cup matches, MLB, UFC 329, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(2:04) Wednesday Recap Screen
(2:25) Free Sportsline MLB Picks
(3:00) Martin's World Cup Bets
(9:08) Amags' MLB Pick
(14:06) Danny's UFC 329 Picks
(18:40) BONUS World Cup, MLB, UFC Picks Pt. 1
(24:20) Sia's Golf Bet
(25:42) HR Chart Picks
(26:37) BONUS World Cup, MLB, UFC Picks Pt. 2
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BedMGM, Make It Legenders in Chicago last week, DC yesterday, Fort Lauderdale today, coming from you for you from the studio. Let's see how we did yesterday on the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. We'll take four and one every time. AMAX didn't hit his play. He'll bounce back today on the show. We got Calvin Wetzel, Larry Hartstein, Eric Cohen, and the sports line pick courtesy of prop bet, all hitting. We will take 4-1 every single time. |
| 0:39.2 | And let's start off 2-0 before we bring in the stars. |
| 0:42.8 | We got two Sportsline picks. |
| 0:44.0 | Go to Sportsline.com slash join to see all of these and all of the rest of the sports line picks. |
| 0:48.6 | Brady Singer under 16 and a half outs, minus 114 from Prop bet guy. |
| 0:52.7 | And Bryce Miller over 5.5Ks, minus 144 from propette guy and Bryce Miller over five and a half case minus 149 |
| 0:56.3 | from Eric Cohen all right that's enough of me let's bring in the stars of the show big thank |
| 1:01.5 | you to ben for handling everything on the show and a big thank you to brasco martin green and |
| 1:07.0 | amags for coming on to the show buckets is traveling he'll be on the show tomorrow But Martin Green, we've got you for soccer and we've got a big game today in the World Cup. Yeah, huge game seeer. France versus Morocco. A lot of history between these two countries and a lot of history on the football pitch, too. France knocked Morocco out of the last World Cup, 2-0 in the semi-finals. They're going to bid for a repeat of that today. I do think that France's superior |
| 1:33.1 | firepower should prove decisive. Kille and Abapé has scored seven goals in five games at this |
| 1:38.3 | tournament. And I do like odds of him at minus 110 just to find the back of the net today. That looks like a great price |
| 1:45.1 | for a player prop. But for my official play for the show, I'm just going to combine France |
| 1:50.1 | to win with over 1.5 goals in the game. Even if Mbapé doesn't score, France just have so |
| 1:57.2 | many potent attacking weapons. The likes of Michael Alise, Usman Dembele, Bradley Barclay, |
| 2:03.3 | Desire Dezre Duet. The list just goes on and on. Morocco are pretty solid defensively. They're |
| 2:08.6 | very quick and incisive on the counterattack and they could score even though they're missing |
| 2:12.5 | their star striker Saibari. But I just think the French will outscore them. Their games have averaged 3.2 goals at this tournament. They've won all of them. So I think going for over 1.5 goals seem safe. Morocco's matches of average 2.8 goals. They're also on a really long unbeaten streak. They're doing so well, but I just fear that this could be the end of the road for the Atlas Lions. So minus 110 on France money line and over 1.5 goals looks great. That's the only World Cup game |
| 2:39.9 | today, I'm afraid. So I've looked ahead to tomorrow's game. Another real heavyweight clash |
| 2:45.3 | between Spain and Belgium, two big rivals with lots of elite. Players on the pitch, I do expect Spain to grind out another win in this game, though. |
| 2:54.5 | They're the reigning European champions. |
| 2:56.7 | They're on an extremely long unbeaten streak. |
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