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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Tuesday's BEST BETS: Buckets' BIRTHDAY! + MLB Picks & Early CFB Week 1 Bets

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8744 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sia Nejad is joined by Buckets, Mackenzie Brooks, Amags, and Larry Hartstein as they dish out their BEST BETS in the NFL, CFB, MLB, Golf, and MORE for Tuesday's games! (0:00) Intro + Buckets' Birthday Celebration (6:20) Amags' MLB Prop (8:45) Buckets' Soccer Bets (12:00) HR Model Picks (14:10) Mackenzie's CFB Week 1 Picks (19:25) Sia's NFL Prop (21:05) Larry's MLB Pick (23:35) SportsLine MLB Bet (24:35) Chat Questions (31:53) Recap 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Get your daily bets here FIRST! The No. 1 sports betting show and podcast—powered by SportsLine & CBS Sports—delivers the day's best bets in a fast-paced, fun environment, first thing in the morning. Starting at 10 a.m. ET every weekday, The Early Edge goes live on YouTube, breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, college football, NBA, MLB, NHL, college basketball, soccer, and more! The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for everyone—from first-time bettors to sharps, and everyone in between. From point spreads to totals, player props to parlays, and so much more, we're here to win. Together. 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️MERCH • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Head to https://www.sportsline.com to find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! #sportsbetting #bestbets #todayspicks #collegefootball #cfbpicks #TuesdayBets #DailyBets #HomeRunBets #BaseballPicks #DailyPicks #GolfPicks! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Early Edge. We are brought to you by

0:13.5

Bed-MGM, the sports book born in Vegas. It is a very special day today. I'm dressed up for

0:20.0

the occasion, but let's see how we did yesterday before

0:22.9

we bring in the birthday boy and the stars of the show. We go five and one, coming off 12 and

0:28.8

six, coming off six and one. That's Kobe Bryant, 24 and 8 over the last three recap screens. It was

0:35.1

824 just two days ago. So very, very fitting.

0:39.1

824 being the date, not the win loss. We have been absolutely crushing it over the last three

0:44.1

recap screens after a rocky last week, at least at the beginning of the week. A shout out to

0:49.3

buckets, 2 and 0. A shout out to Mike McClure. Shout out to Bruce Marshall. We got another pick from him coming up.

0:55.9

But ladies and gentlemen, the chat is buzzing because we have a birthday boy in the house and we got to bring in him and the rest of the stars of the show.

1:04.4

It is a packed house. We got Mark Buckholz in here. We got Ian Lights out. We got Texas Joel, Justin Bowman and confetti.

1:12.4

Because Larry McKenzie and Amags, it bucket's birthday the most beloved early edge member we've ever had buckets how you doing

1:18.6

happy birthday not don't don't build me up like that the most well that's not no it's not thank you everyone

1:24.6

for the birthday wishes i am 31 i. I consider myself old now. I'm

1:28.9

old man buckets, so I've got to kind of switch some things up and just reinvent myself a bit here, see ya.

1:35.0

Old man buckets. Very, very interesting take there. It is your birthday, says Ben Woodenstein here.

1:43.7

Larry, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. It was nice to see buckets get a little choked up, show some emotion. I just wanted to know, what does he have planned for today? That's a great question. So today, I'm just doing a quiet little dinner with friends. Friday, I am wanting to get over my biggest fear. So Friday afternoon, I'm going skydiving. So we'll see how that goes. Are you serious? I, yeah, no, full. This is I, I want to do something big for 31 because 31 kind of wigs me out for some reason. So I'm going to try skydiving out and just see how that goes. And you're calling yourself old man buckets. Now you're going to jump out of a plane.

2:18.0

With someone. Well, the thing, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. I'm nervous. Are we worried buckets that we're not going to follow through on this? And like, no shame if you don't, but are you like all in like you're not scared? You're just going to I've like, I'm all in. I'm either I'm all in or I'm losing the deposit I already put down.

2:13.7

So I'm trying to like financially force myself to do this a little bit.

2:17.2

So many birthday messages in. I'm either I'm all in or I'm losing the deposit I already put down. So I'm trying to like financially force myself to do this a little bit.

2:36.8

So many birthday messages in the chat.

2:38.6

Mackenzie, are you a little disappointed that you weren't invited to the friends gathering today for his birthday?

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