What is up? Welcome, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to the Early Edge. My name is Alan Bell. I'm going to host for you today. Our coach, he is out for the week on some much needed vacation, get him ready for the football season.

But thank you so much for tuning in.

And look, we want to start the show exactly

with where we were yesterday

and put our transparency right on the board.

It was a terrible day.

And it's been a terrible couple days that we've had.

You take a look at what we had,

our man, Jay Smooth, nationals,

Oriel's, over 10, nope, Braes, Phillies, nope,

Yankees, Red Sox, nope, me, White Sox Brewers, nope. Luckily, our man Zach came through for us

with the Royals on the money line play, and then our side place, U.S. Jamaica, nope. Costa Rica, nope,

Costa Rica, Canada, nope. And then you look at the jewelers, Jim Parlay. We took a shot. Note on that as well. So we want to start at the show and really let everybody know that, you know what? Coach is out. We can't let them down. This seat is important and we've got to hold it up for them. And that's exactly what we're going to do today. But we wanted to definitely start with where we were in regards

to that. Now, before we get and bring the experts in, let me say, we're the finalist for a

sports category, the People's Choice Podcast Awards. We'd appreciate you nominating us and voting

for us in that if you go to podcastawards.com slash app slash sign up, toggle down the sports category.

We're right there.

If you'd lob us a vote,

obviously,

we really,

really appreciate that.

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