Wednesday's BEST BETS: NBA Playoffs + MLB + Soccer
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Our Sia Nejad, Propstarz, Buckets, and Mike McClure dish out their picks for the NBA, Soccer, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:25) Buckets' Soccer Picks
(8:11) MLB Rapid Fire Bets
(10:13) Propstarz NBA Prop
(16:18) Free Sportsline MLB Bet
(17:31) Mike's NBA Bet
(21:15) Soccer Rapid Fire Picks
(23:09) Model HR Chart
(23:55) Sia's Golf Parlay
(26:17) Bonus Soccer, NBA Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.0 | Hopefully your morning is starting out. |
| 0:14.2 | Great. |
| 0:14.5 | And I thank you for joining us on a Wednesday. |
| 0:17.5 | Let's look at the recap screen. |
| 0:19.1 | Of course, this show is brought to you by |
| 0:21.0 | BetMGM, Make It Legendary. I had to get right to the recap screen because these are looking |
| 0:26.3 | really good as of late. We go 8-4-1, and it's Tony Clay's comment that I want to highlight. He said, |
| 0:32.3 | I hope you guys bet soccer yesterday from Buckets and Brad. I hit a $100 four-leggar for $1,528. Not that I'm necessarily advocating |
| 0:41.5 | for four-leggers, but Tony Clay, great hit there. Brad Thomas and Buckets really carried the show. |
| 0:46.7 | Sniper one for two. The sports line picks go two for two. I end up pushing my Royals first five. |
| 0:52.9 | But let's go ahead and bring in the stars of the show. And as I do that, I want to remind everybody that we recorded an NFL draft show yesterday. And it's in your feed right now. It's on the Sportsline YouTube channel. It'll probably be on your podcast feed in the coming hours. Prop stars, I got to ask you, because I know you're so NBA-centric right now. Are you |
| 1:11.4 | looking forward to the NFL draft? Very much looking forward to the NFL draft. Yeah, I always look |
| 1:16.1 | forward to the NFL draft. I like betting on the NFL draft as well. So, yeah, super excited |
| 1:22.6 | about the NFL draft. I don't think this draft class is as good as previous years. But yeah, nonetheless, still |
| 1:30.1 | excited. All right. Yeah, we had a really good conversation with R.J. White and Dave Richard on that show. |
| 1:35.2 | So I'm very much looking forward to people watching that show. Mike McClure, I do want to point |
| 1:40.4 | something out. Now, you have an NBA NBA pick today but you have run your simulations |
| 1:44.3 | in your numbers for the MLB today as well so if we have MLB questions especially related to |
| 1:49.5 | signs and totals you're going to be able to answer those so get your questions going in the chat |
| 1:54.0 | Mike how you doing today? Doing well see you ready for everything ahead we've got a little |
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