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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Wednesday's BEST BETS: Atletico Madrid-Arsenal + NBA + MLB

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Sports, Football

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Join our  crew of Sia Nejad, Amags, Mike Barner, Mike McClure, and Buckets as they dish out their picks for the NBA and NHL playoffs, MLB, Atletico-Arsenal, and MORE!


(0:00) Intro

(1:43) Recap + NBA Props Recap 

(2:47) One Hit Wonders

(4:33) Buckets' Atletico Madrid-Arsenal Bet

(6:52) Amags' MLB Bets

(10:22) Mike's MLB Prop

(12:58) Free Sportsline NBA Prop

(14:48) Mikey B's NBA Props

(16:45) Mike's French Open Bets

(18:51) Sia's Golf Prop

(19:40) Buckets' Dice Roll

(21:25) Bonus MLB, NBA Bets

(30:40) Model HR Picks


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone.

0:10.3

Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to by BetMGM, Make It Legendary.

0:14.5

We have such a great cast today.

0:16.2

I really want to get right to it as we're going to cover some day baseball, some NBA, and a more, of course, soccer and PGA as well. And of course, your questions, you're probably questioning the recap screen. We have two recap screens, by the way, because we had that special NBA show, just like we had last week and just like we're probably going to have next week. Now, this is for the morning show. Not very good. Shout out to Buckets, who has been red hot and, of course, prop bet guy for hitting the sports line pick. Two and seven, though. Baseball didn't go well. Hockey did not go well. Brad did have the play that he lost, but that was plus 230. I want to make a note of that. But the NBA prop show, the special show, goes seven and three again. That's back-to-back weeks that that 530 show has gone seven and three. Stay tuned for the next one we're going to have. It's probably going to be early next week again. But again, shout out to Adam Thompson, who has been red-hot. You can find his picks over at Sportsline. So give him a look. And, of course, Larry has been red-hot as well. let's bring in the stars of the show because we've got a lot to get to, like I said, including day baseball. Hello to Joe in the chat, big roadie. We've got Stephen Fulkerz. Jen is in the chat already. Mike McClure is on the show and in the chat. Buckets, you've been red hot in soccer. No? How you doing, buddy? Thanks. I've been good. What about you?

1:28.6

Wow, really.

2:18.6

Okay, yeah, I've been very good. I do want to footnote something as red hot as you've been. I put out on Twitter yesterday, favorite one-hit wonders. And your response was, hey, Jude, by the Beatles. Yeah, I googled most famous song of All Time and then just copy and pasted the first answer that popped up. Good stuff. Mike McClure, do you have a favorite one-hit wonder by any chance? I thought Buckets was the one-hit wonder, but he's proven me wrong. He's on a little bit of a heater right now, so. Yes. And do you have the dice buckets for the one and done? Oh, no. Oh, no. You figure this out. You figure this out. Mikey B. We have a birthday in the chat. James Rainwater turned 39 or turns 39 today. Any chance, as buckets scurries to get his dice, any chance we can cook up a birthday parlay for some NBA playoffs?

2:24.5

Of course. Happy birthday, James. I will come up with a parlay for James's birthday.

2:28.8

Big Rody has come up with a one-hit wonder. Put you one-hit wonder in the chat or in the YouTube comments. He says Snow Informer. That is a really good one, which was definitely

2:32.9

nominated yesterday as well.

2:34.3

Amags, do you have a favorite one-hit wonder? And do we have day baseball? And you're wearing

2:39.3

the Yankees at a Yankees play today. One hit wonder. I'm going to get back to you by the end of

2:44.3

the show on that. I'll maybe put it in the chat. One hit wonder. That's a good question.

2:48.5

But yeah, a lot of day baseball, some exciting stuff happening.

2:51.3

Yankees get to see the debut of Elmer Rodriguez. We'll talk a little bit about that. So a lot of exciting stuff going on. And as you can see, I had to shave the beard. I was going on a little bit of a bad run. So switch things up. I had to cut the beard off. All right. You look great as usual. I'll tell you what, we're going to get to your Yankees pick and your baseball pick.

3:10.0

You and Mike are actually in sync a little bit. Buckets, I'm going to let you go first, though, with the soccer play on a big game that we have today. Yes, and more importantly, I found the dice. So we're all good for splashboards. So today we've got the second semifinal first leg between Athletico Madrid and Arsenal. Yesterday, we had PSG Byron, a game in which broke a record for nine goals. It was the most goals in a Champions League semifinal ever. 5-4 to PSG. And now the problem is, is we're probably not going to get anywhere close to that in

3:41.0

Arsenal Athletico Madrid. Everyone and their mother, including my own Mama Buckets, is saying

3:45.4

this is going to be a low scoring and drab affair. There's not a lot of expectations.

3:50.1

McKell Artetta for Arsenal tends to park the bus when on the road and play a more cage

3:54.5

in defensive style of football. Everybody is betting on unders. So I am going to be the bad guy here and say that even if the under hits, I also think that both teams of score will hit at minus 110. This will not be a popular bet. I would argue that most people are going to bet against this, but I am okay with that, because for as bad offensively as Arsenal has been, that's not what I care about. I care about

4:14.7

Atlatico Madrid's recent form and their form in Champions League as a whole. Athletico Madrid

4:19.2

have the third most goals scored in Champions League this season, only behind PSG and

4:24.5

Bayern Munich, and they've conceded the second most goals in Champions League play, only behind

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