Tonight’s BEST BETS: MLB + NBA and More! | The Early Edge in 5
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Coachman is joined by Eric Cohen, Mike Barner and Jason Spector to bring you MORE best bets for Monday!
ABOUT THE SHOW: Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more!
Need more? Catch The Early Edge in 5 every weekday afternoon at 4pm ET as we attack MORE best bets for that night’s slate…and in only five minutes! No hot takes, The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for both the first time bettor or sports book sharp and everyone in between. From spread betting to totals, player props to parlays and so much more, The Early Edge is here to win. Together.
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| 0:00.0 | Skybet, Acker Freeze. |
| 0:03.0 | If an absolute screamer or a howler from their keeper has put you in front, |
| 0:09.0 | don't let a lively winger on a mazie runs or your bet. |
| 0:13.0 | Just freeze a winning score and win a leg of your Acker early with Skybet Acker Freeze. |
| 0:19.0 | Skybet for the fans. Minimum five selections. Pre-match football only, |
| 0:23.8 | full-time result market only. Max 820 pounds. Max three freezes per week. Eligibility restrictions |
| 0:27.5 | and further TNCs apply. 18 plus. Gambleaware.org. Oh, ho. We're feeling good today. What's up everybody?? Welcome in to the early edge of five. More best bets for the night in sports. I already see the chat is up and hopping. Burke Betts is in there. Do you have any questions for him? Ask them. He will answer them in real time. By the way, as you know, I've got to beat you over the head with this. When you come into the show, just hit the like button for me. And then you can just start chatting amongst yourselves, as you always do. But we need you to hit the like button. It's very, very important. If you haven't subscribed to our YouTube channel, go ahead and do that now as well as we continue to grow. Now, as you can see, I'm in a very good mood today. You guys know I live in Southern California. |
| 1:11.5 | And now I'm adopting the Los Angeles Lakers as my new team. |
| 1:15.0 | I got to go to Lids this morning. |
| 1:16.5 | And I got to spend a bunch of money that I won yesterday on the Lakers and the Clippers. |
| 1:22.3 | If you were on the Suns, what were you thinking? |
| 1:26.4 | But we'll get to that as we bring in the stars of the show you know |
| 1:29.3 | them you love them i got my absolute three very i got my absolute two very best ready to go today |
| 1:36.1 | our mbaughan vish and i don't mickey b and fricking frack on the right side of your screen |
| 1:42.8 | gentlemen how was your weekend mike, how was your weekend? Mikey, how was your weekend? It was good. It's good. I'm getting over the spring break for the kids being home, but yeah, everything's good. You look like a dad that has little ones done spring break at home. Sorry, I'll go break in the basement. Just like somebody in the chat said, oh, it's lunchtime. Best part of my day is the early edge fam. |
| 2:02.4 | Speculator, how do you feel about being the best part of somebody's day? |
| 2:05.9 | Oh, I'm honored to be the best part of anybody's day. |
| 2:09.4 | You know, if you want to come here, watch Early Edge in Five and listen to me, say that the warriors are going to play great tonight. |
| 2:16.3 | I'm here for it. |
| 2:17.9 | The man is here for it. Now, you love the Warriors tonight. I love part of that game |
| 2:24.1 | tonight. I also love the Clippers over the weekend. And E.C., your pick of the L.A. Clippers |
| 2:30.0 | over the Suns live on social media. Oh. Why would I do that? Now, why would I do that? The Suns are going to, that was a fluky result. The Suns were going to win this series in no more than six. I have no doubt about that. No doubt. No doubt. None. Michael in the chat said it best. I love you guys. Coach, you are awesome. Yes, I am. Yes, I am. And I bet on the clippers yesterday. All right, let's get into it. Because you know our lead data scientist. He's on our team. And he makes us smarter. He makes us better. Speculator, start us off. Let's go. Yeah, there's a particular part of the Warriors game |
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