Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Early Edge. We are brought to you by BedMGM. Make it legendary. We got a great show for you today lined up on a Wednesday going into Thursday. Thursday's going to be a great show.

Friday's going to be a great show. Let's see how Tuesday's show was. Let's look at the recap screen. We go three and four buckets has been really kind of carrying this show for the last week. He ends up 0 for two. Jeff Hockman. Tom Casale hit their picks. I mean, Tom Casale, that was an absolute runaway just as he predicted, certainly in the first half as well. Sportsline picks only go one for three. Shout out to Larry Hartstein for hitting his Anthony Black play. Let's bring in the stars of the show and try to improve on three and four. I think we've got the team to do it. I just smashed the like button, says Ken Jenkins. We've got Mike McClore, Danny Brasco, Buckets, and Mikey,

B, a few of you are going to be joining me at 12 o'clock on CBS Sports Network for an expanded

version of this show. Danny Brasco, how are you doing today? I'm doing well, see it. I'm feeling

good in the NFL, been rolling. Nice Monday night game. Man, what a game-sealing pick that was. I was watching the reactions. But yeah, man, I'm excited to talk about this UFC fight night. It's the last of the year. There's going to be a six-week hiatus. So we've got to get some early fight picks in. See, I'm hyped up to close the year on a bang. Mike McClure, we don't have football today.

I assume maybe we got a college basketball pick coming from you.

We got some college basketball coming and possibly a football lean as well.

Just maybe a little different kind of football here tonight today.

Very interesting buckets.

Does that mean footy?

I don't know.

What do we have on tap today? It's a big day in soccer, correct? We've got nine more Champions League matches. I think Mike saw me go 0 and two yesterday and said, Buckets, take a seat. I'm going to handle this. So I'm excited to see where Mike's going with this. Me too. Mikey, I'm always excited to have you on the show. What do you have for us today?

At least set up what the NBA slate is like. It's another light slate today or no? Correct. We are still in the Emirates. Hold on. I almost forgot to get that. And then the Emirates NBA Cup quarterfinals continues tonight. Two games, two exciting games last night. I joke about the Emirates NBA Cup, but it does

seem like teams and players care. So I'll take anything where guys care about a regular

season basketball game. Yeah, you don't necessarily get that a lot early in the season.

We do get big cheesy and people like Eric David and Katie Taylor in the chat. And I might

have just said Aaron Taylor, they're giving out picks every day in this chat. And I know Big Cheesy gave out some college basketball yesterday. I think he gave out a, well, actually, he gave out some NBA props. He gave out a money line play in college basketball. I believe they all hit. So shout out to Big Cheesy and everybody in this chat. Please hit the like button. Maybe not for us this time. Hit it for Big Cheesy and all of you that are so sharp, not just in this chat, but also in the sports line discord, just great, great stuff, as always, by all of you. Buckets, let's turn it around. You know, listen, you've been pretty good on this show. The last probably couple of weeks, you go 0 for 2 yesterday.

Maybe we bounce back for a 2-0 and maybe we get some sort of extra lean from Mike McClure. I have no idea. Talk to me about your two picks, though. I'm so nervous about this Mike Lean, but I'm excited for it. No, guys, we had a bad day yesterday. I hate saying, like, we were due for a bad day it just happens sometimes Liverpool saw my take took

it personally decided that they were going to play their first good game in two months just on the

wrong end so let's bounce back let's keep things you know moving forward and have some fun today

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