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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Join our crew of Sia Nejad, Propstarz, Matt Snyder, Brad Thomas, and Jeff Hochman as they dish out their picks for the NBA and NHL playoffs, MLB, UCL, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:53) Snyper's MLB Picks
(6:41) Brad's Soccer Pick and Golf bet
(10:00) Jeff's NHL Pick and Prop
(12:10) Sportsline Picks and SPECIAL Guest
(16:43) Propstarz NBA Prop
(19:27) Sia's MLB Pick
(21:40) BONUS Bets
(25:48) Model HR Chart
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? Good morning and welcome to the early edge. We are brought to you by |
| 0:13.8 | BetMGM, Make It Legendary. We've got a lot going on at the brand today on this Sportsline |
| 0:19.6 | YouTube channel, which I'll tell you about in just a minute. Let's take a look at the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. We'll take four and two Larry Hartstein. He's on a little bit of a run over at Sportsline, if you hadn't noticed, and Mikey B has been on a run for the entire year. So they go four and oh combined. We end up losing two with Amags and Tom Casale, but we'll take four and two pretty much every time. I want to get to this show because we've got a lot of picks and we're covering a lot of bases today on the show. I've got Jeff Hockman here. I've got Matt Snyder. I got Brad Thomas and Prop Stars and Propi. I have to start with you. Eric David in the chat, he says, speaking of heaters, huge NBA night last night from the Sportsline early edge cappers, which is absolutely true. And we've got some good news for everybody because Prop Stars at 530 today on the Sportsline YouTube channel, they're going to see you, ATM Thompson, and the Maestro for a special NBA show. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, very pumped. |
| 1:13.5 | We've got a nice little three-game slate tonight. |
| 1:16.3 | I love the NBA playoffs. |
| 1:18.1 | The point spreads, a couple of double-digit points spreads, but plenty of opportunities to be had in the land of props. |
| 1:25.0 | And, yeah, looking forward to our show later this afternoon. |
| 1:27.5 | Make sure you subscribe to the channel, And you might want to have your notifications |
| 1:30.6 | turned on to make sure you catch that show. Jeff Hockman, there's also going to be some |
| 1:34.5 | Kentucky Derby shows this week. Yeah, we got the network show on Thursday, 12 noon Eastern, 9 a.m. |
| 1:41.8 | Pacific. Make sure you check in for that. It's going to be outstanding, |
| 1:45.5 | a lot of information. There's already a lot of content right now on the Kentucky Derby at the |
| 1:49.9 | Sportsline website. So go check it out. Just hit the analysis tab and cycle down to horse racing, |
| 1:55.0 | or there's just simply a Kentucky Derby tab that you can hit as well. Brad Thomas, we've got a pretty big golf event in Durrell. I know you've got a pick there, and I think you have a pick for soccer today as well, correct? Oh, yeah, absolutely. I couldn't get on here and not give out a golf pick, right? Especially returning to a golf course we haven't played in 10 years. Yeah, I had to give one. All right. Speaking of picks, Matt Snyder, you're going to actually lead us off here. You've got a couple of picks for us in one of them, because I've got a first five today, which I think people may or may not be excited about. I guess it depends on your perspective. Two, two and two so far on the season for me. So I'm just like a flat 500. But But one of your picks actually implicates one of my picks. Either way, you've got two to offer us. I'm always excited to hear your first five, see ya. Come on. Thank you. Thank you. I will start out. Yeah, I will start out with the first five. And we're going to go to Toronto. And I'm going to go with the Red Sox first five. Minus 105. |
| 2:51.5 | Look, the Red Sox have won three straight. |
| 2:53.6 | If you fire your manager, apparently all the players start playing better. |
| 2:57.8 | Hey, that's, Phillies, are you guys listening? |
| 3:00.5 | Look, they won three straight. |
| 3:03.1 | Peyton Toley on the hill right now. |
| 3:05.2 | He dominated the Yankees last time out. It looked really, |
| 3:08.8 | really good. On the flip side, Trey is Savage on the mound for the Blue Jays. I know everybody's |
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