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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Wednesday's BEST BETS: World Cup Picks + MLB Bets + WNBA

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, SportsLine

Sports, Football

4.5779 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Join Sia Nejad, Buckets, Martin Green, Mike McClure, and Calvin Wetzel as they dish out their picks for Wednesday's World Cup matches, MLB, Travelers, and MORE!

(0:00) Intro

(2:41) Recap Screen

(2:04) Free Sportsline World Cup, MLB Picks

(4:51) Martin's World Cup Picks

(8:20) Mike's Golf Pick

(14:30) MLB's Best Hitting Enviroments Today

(16:01) Calvin's WNBA Bet

(19:40) Buckets' World Cup Bets

(21:46) WNBA Rapid Fire Picks

(24:02) Sia's Golf Pick

(25:04) Buckets' OAD Dice Roll

(25:42) World Cup, MLB RAPID FIRE Picks

(31:50) HR Chart Picks

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone.

0:10.7

Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary, a great show.

0:15.8

We're coming off the NBA draft.

0:17.2

I wonder if we'll have reaction to that.

0:19.3

We've got WNBA picks today. We got MLB picks,

0:22.9

soccer World Cup, of course, and some PGA. Let's take a look at the recap screen before we

0:27.3

bring in the stars of the show. It's a losing day coming off a winning day, but this is three and six.

0:32.6

I will note one of the three is a plus 200 from Adam Thompson. We'd love to see that. Buckets

0:37.3

goes one for two, misses his plus money from adam thompson we'd love to see that buckets goes one for two

0:38.3

misses his plus money play amag's hits his play but i lose my m lb play we got a few other losses in

0:44.5

there we go three and six we got to bounce back let's start to bounce back with some sports line picks

0:49.9

we actually have a three pack of sports line picks to lead the show hit the the like button for Eric Cohen and his pick on the A's money line tonight,

0:58.0

minus 120.

0:59.0

Also, prop-back guy, Braxton Ashcraft, over 5.5Ks, minus 138.

1:03.0

And then finally, Brad Thomas, Czech Republic versus Mexico, under two and a half, minus 130.

1:10.7

Zach Kassanke says, is that son of a tailor? It very much is. Son of a Taylor. Let's bring in the stars of the show. I promised I'd wear a son of a tail. I promised Liddy specifically. Martin Green, Calvin Wetzel, Mike McClore, don't worry, Buckett's going to join the show in just a couple of minutes. He's just coming off Galazzo. Martin Green, how you doing, buddy? Doing great, thanks. See, a bit disappointed by England's Neil-Nill draw with Garner yesterday, but I'm loving the World Cup so far, really entertaining tournament. And we've got six games to look forward to today. I've got picks on two of them, and I'm sure John will have a couple more, too.

2:01.6

Mike, I know we've got a big Travelers Championship today. You and I have picks on that. I might even, Ben, you're going to have to let me know if we have first round leaders to give out that I, I've got a four pack of those. But Mike, you came in with PGA. You might be able to answer some MLB questions today as well, right?

2:03.6

Absolutely, see, yes.

2:08.0

Focused on PGA, you might be able to answer some MLB questions today as well, right? Absolutely. Yes, focused on PGA mostly, but run the full slate of MLB already.

2:13.9

So fire away. Any questions there? Yep. Calvin, a big day in the WNBA, or I should say a big night in the WNBA today, correct? Yeah, four games and no double-digit spreads, which we often

2:19.5

see. So they should all be four good. Two of the games are single-digit spreads. So definitely a big

2:24.7

night of hoops and at least should get two or three really good games. All right. Well, normally we have

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