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Guess what golfers Vegas isn’t just casinos and pool parties. In fact, there are 50 golf courses within a 15 mile radius of the strip, all boasting beautiful desert oasis landscapes. So if you’re looking for a break from the action, consider hitting the links. See you in Las Vegas. Let’s get lucky. Donny. The season is six months five. If you check out in September, you’re going to have a bad month. The Yankees had a horrible month. That is true. But beyond that, their regular season looks okay. They’re going to win their 90 games or maybe a little bit more and get to the postseason. What is everybody freaking out about? Everybody freaks out the Yankees and the Yankees fan tax as well. We’re every single season you enter into the equation going like it’s championship or bust. Newswire only on sports Grid. Remember these names Azzi Fudd, Olivia, miles, Lauren bets. Depending on who wins that lottery, that’s going to depend on who goes one. If Washington wins, it’s fun. She’s from the area. If Dallas wins, they’re going to bring fun to play with. Obviously, Paige, if Minnesota wins, I think they go miles with the point and Seattle wins, they go with Miles. And the same thing with Chicago betting above the rim only on sports Grid. College football can’t allow Notre Dame to have the type of, you know, fear they have and schedule they have and honestly put them against up up against other teams because Notre Dame looks like they’re going to be a decent football team. They could lose I think next week. Texas A and M Joe I don’t think he’s a great football team but still ranked team and then run the table and still be in the playoffs and absolutely beat nobody. The worst schedule I’ve ever seen in college football is Notre Dame this year. Sports grids, college football today. Top of the hour power right here on the Sports grid network Donny right side Joe Ranieri the early line. You know it. You love it. It’s two hours. It’s Monday through Friday getting your day set on the sports grid network with your hand off the baton to some fantastic programing across our networks here and always having fun because the energy I feel is the key. Like you watch this show, if they’re just two guys talking in a monotone voice, not laughing and smiling, you ain’t tuning in. But you need that energy and we provide that energy and away we go. It’s just Joe, what we do, right? Just what we do every day, Donny, Monday through Friday. That’s what it’s all about. Starting your day off with the right foot, knowing exactly what you need to know to make it a pretty darn profitable Wednesday. I might admit it’s fun. You talk sports, you talk handicapping, you talk betting. You have a couple laughs, get in and out and you sort of say, you know what? Life is pretty good here. It is a hump day. We don’t have football and today it’s okay. It’s going to appear tomorrow. And by the way, as we pointed out many times, that is a damn good football game. You’re going to get to watch on Thursday night, or at least it appears to at the opening number, with a slight favorite there to the green Bay Packers taking on the Washington Commanders. But as always, we like to get to the hottest topics across the sports landscape in the seven and seven, and maybe none hotter than the spotlight that’s going on in South Florida. Joe, you know it’s hot enough in South Florida. You don’t need any more heat on you. And it looks like the Miami Dolphins. The heat is on like Miami Vice. Hot like Crockett and Tubbs hot down there in South Beach. Why? Well, the football team stinks right now. The coach is probably going to get fired. Tua Tagovailoa makes a ton of money. Looks like he don’t give a damn what’s going on in the field. And then there’s Tyreek Hill always a lightning rod. Understand this about professional sports. If you are dominant at your position you get a real long leash in the NFL you really do. But if you are not performing up to your capabilities and a tie contract, the team ain’t going to like that and neither will you. With that contract, that’s probably going to get cut loose. Tyreek Hill, accused of domestic violence by his estranged wife. Not one not two, not three, not four, not five, not six not seven but eight different times. Not a good look for Tyreek Hill and the Miami Dolphins. Yeah and but you know what where there’s smoke there’s fire Donny. Because this is not the first situation in which we’re hearing about off field issues for Tyreek Hill. Now it’s important to note also that there is no indication I’ve seen nothing where police are investigating any of these claims by his estranged wife or anything along those lines. But at this point because of your history. Well, now the NFL is going to have to look into it, and it’s just yet another distraction for a team in the Miami Dolphins that they need fewer distractions and they need more football because this is a dumpster fire of an organization and a team right now. And he’s not helping matters whatsoever. No he’s not. He wanted out in the off season. Now who knows what he wants at this point. But understand this. We usually know how this plays out because it’s always allegedly, as we like to say, like whether or not it did happen, let’s just say she wants criminal charges pursued. And then Tyreek Hill’s legal team goes, okay, you can pursue him. He’ll get cut. You’re not going to get any money here moving forward. Oh you know what? I rescind all that I take that back. Whether it happened or not. That’s probably the way it’s going to play out at this point. We’ll see how it goes. But Jalen Carter his situation played out in real time. He spit on Dak Prescott. He got thrown out of the opening night football game in Philadelphia against the Dallas Cowboys. Well the NFL said you know what we’re not going to suspend him here. He basically served his one game suspension. We will find him $57,000, which, by the way, for all the hype and talk that we were talking about, suspensions and fines, doesn’t 57 like 57,000. Some of these guys get fined for like wearing like orange cleats when they’re not allowed to do that. Seems like Jalen Carter did get off light, but that missed game. Game number one proved to be what that one game suspension really was. Joe. Yeah. And that’s good news for Philadelphia. Maybe not such great news now for the Kansas City Chiefs. But it makes it makes sense. This is one of those situations where you know cooler heads prevail. Common sense took over Donny like the guy didn’t play a snap in the game. Of course that’s the game he’s going to be suspended for. Plus they wrote the check. All is well. You move on. And just I would imagine he’s not going to be spitting on anybody else for the rest of the season. Yeah you never know. Maybe. And again other smart teams will bait him Patrick Mahomes if he’s smart he will hide behind two offensive linemen, spit in the general direction of Jalen Carter, laugh at him and hope he approaches him and spits on him to get him tossed out of the game. Teams will. If they know you’re a hothead, they’re going to test you repeatedly throughout that game. How about the NFL, though? You know what I’m excited about, Joe? I never returned a kick in in peewee football, high school football, or in college football. I was always a punt return, never a kick returner. But kick returner is back in business. The Devin Hester’s of the world. Like back in the day, the Dante Halls, they got to be smiling. Guys are getting the return kicks. I gotta say, I like it, I do. Hey, Tom, way more return kicks than we have seen with different rule changes in years past. So yeah, listen, I mean, you know, we’re trying to the idea that the reason we’re doing this is less collisions, safety, safety, safety. Well, the ultimate safety is to kick it through the end zone or kick a field goal off the off the tee. Right. And nobody gets hit. But everybody’s getting hit here one way or the other. It appears on kickoffs. Now you know it’s getting hit now. Third string quarterback that’s now the starter for the Colorado Buffaloes. That’s Ryan Stahl. Dion’s like I’m not playing these games five star and four stars. You’re not putting up right now putting the young kid in the game. By the way, it’s not that young. I think he’s a third year college player here. So redshirt sophomore technically, but he’s going to start over some big names for the Colorado Buffaloes. Yeah, it’s kind of crazy, right? I mean Caden Salter former Liberty quarterback comes in right. The experience factor for Dion. But you know he brings in this five star recruit that was supposed to be really Juju Lewis supposed to be the future of this team I’m wondering how much money Juju Lewis by the way is making in nil not to play in this one. But it feels like maybe, just maybe there could be more to this story. The third string quarterback certainly earned it because he was the one that was responsible for pulling away against Delaware last week, when early. It did not look good for Colorado in that game. Yeah. If you are those two quarterbacks there like Salter and company like hey I’m high veteran I’m going to come in and play. You got a short leash there and going to an unheralded player. We’ll see how that turns out for the Colorado Buffaloes here. Bo Bichette he’s down ten days on the IL knee injury which he got trying to beat a throw from Cody Bellinger in right field at Yankee Stadium. Great place block there for the New York Yankees catcher. He’s injured. He’s off ten days. Not a good look here for the Blue Jays. Yeah they better hope that that’s all it is because he is. He has been a big reason as to why Toronto remained in first place for as long as they have here. Donnie the bat has been amazing. He has been started out a little slow, but you know, playing some of his best baseball and now he’s got to go on the shelf for ten days. And let’s hope it’s just ten days for the Toronto Blue Jays. 85 wins on the season for the Philadelphia Phillies, 50 bombs for Kyle Schwarber, the second to do it in franchise history. Joe, do you know who the first player in franchise history was to do that for the Phillies? Do you know Mike Schmidt? I don’t know. Who was it? No. Ryan Howard, forget about the big piece. Joe forgot about the big piece. Right? That’s a good point. I forgot about that. Most of those years were forgettable, Donnie, you know that. Oh, come on. But Kyle Schwarber, by the way, and ain’t no way he wins the the MVP. No nothing. No. You don’t think? Not even close. Not no way. It happens. No. He hit his 50th home run. He probably moved Ohtani to -3 trillion to win that MVP. Here it is what it is. Ohtani is the best player. That’s that’s the way it goes here I’ll tell you the New York Yankees wish they had Shohei Ohtani right now because they’re trying to mill their way around and not get passed up by the Red Sox and try to chase down the Jays. Yeah, you do that. Yeah. Get a two nothing lead over Detroit. But then don’t give up 12 unanswered runs here and take a loss to the Tigers. That’s not how you do it, Joe. No. And the Yankees are probably kicking themselves that Mariano Rivera blew out his Achilles there at the old timers game, because maybe they could have signed him to try to get some outs in the seventh, eighth or ninth inning. What do you think, Yankees nine runs in the seventh inning bullpen. Really? Yeesh. Devin Williams looked really good in an Athletics uniform right about now. No pressure. Go hang out and relax. 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And the same thing with Chicago betting above the rim only on Sports Grid. I was looking through my phone at first. I’m like, why is there such a delay and why are we getting pictures right away? Oh, the pitcher got thrown out for some reason. Maybe he hurt himself, but no. Turning out and seeing a brawl was absolutely hilarious to let that one play out just the way it is. Sometimes in baseball, we don’t get a lot of good fights and a lot of good brawls and anger, specifically from two teams that aren’t going to the playoffs. So good on them for showing that moxie last night, but it’s good to see a little bit of a brawl and a little bit of that passion here. The early line only on Sports grid. If a game is on the line, give me the Navy kicker. Oh, the guy’s going in the battle in two weeks. He can’t make an extra point. Come on. From from a mindset perspective, I’m not I’m not. Listen, we thank them for their service. I love them, okay? But the bottom line is if you have a bet and you have an academy kicker with a field goal or an extra point, you got 27 yards, 27 yards. The kid shanked it from like 30 sports grids. College football today. It’s not quite game time decisions because the game isn’t up yet. On deck we’re talking about a Sunday afternoon football game. Joe Ranieri at 4:25 p.m. All the brightest lights will be there. All the best Telecasters and a lot of energy put in. Why? It’s the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs. A rematch of the Super Bowl, if you can see right now over my shoulder if I got this one correctly right there. See, there’s a Lombardi Trophy in the background. That Lombardi Trophy is specific to the Philadelphia Eagles knocking off the Kansas City Chiefs 40 to 22, in New Orleans. What a glorious day it was in the doctor’s household. And it might be an even more glorious day on Sunday, as the Philadelphia Eagles hope to pulverize the Kansas City Chiefs. Before we get to the game itself, let’s set the table right. You look at the side opened up as a favorite towards Kansas City. Minus one and a half. No longer the case. The Eagles are now the favorites at minus one and a half. You look at the total Joe 46.5 still out there in the marketplace. 40 sevens starting to creep in. The Eagles and the Chiefs Sunday afternoon rematch of the Super Bowl. Yeah you don’t often see this here. But this is you know Patrick Mahomes in 68 career home starts Donny you want to know how many times he’s closed as an underdog. How many once once back in 2022. You want to care to guess on who that was against. Yeah the Eagles Buffalo. Yeah. No no Buffalo. The only time he’s even come close to being either a very short favorite at home or an underdog has been against the Buffalo Bills during the regular season here. So listen he is only been a one and a half or shorter favorite three times at home. All three against the bills. All three. Well he gets you know what happens there eventually. So do we believe this Eagles team is better than what the bills were back then? Can they actually go into Arrowhead and crush the dreams of the Kansas City Chiefs? Finally I have my doubts, Donny. I have my doubts. You normally I would say in Philadelphia. Yeah. Beat them in Arrowhead. Here’s how here. By the way, the Eagles did win at Arrowhead a couple seasons ago. So shout out the Philadelphia Eagles on that one before they collapsed at the end of the season which I don’t want to remember. I want to remember the good times like hammering the Chiefs. If you are the Chiefs Joe, do you know what you do though? You put the sprinklers on. You ever see Bull Durham like the night before the game? They are going to cause a rain delay. You go and turn the sprinklers on. Patrick Mahomes should go out and turn the sprinklers on the night before. And nobody understands. The field is flooded so the Eagles can’t get a pass rush. If the Eagles get a pass rush, they will smash this Kansas City Chiefs team. I can’t wait to watch it play out. And also Jalen Carter playing in this game. Expectations are yeah he’s going to be motivated from being embarrassed that he sat out game number one. But also does that mean an extra personal fouls I mean the refs watch him extra close and we could get some danger territories because he has to pay a $57,000 fine, which nobody wants to do. But also understand this, there must have been some automatic triggers, because here’s what I can’t figure out is the Eagles and Drew Rosenhaus came to an agreement where they weren’t going to take his signing bonus away or a proration of that signing bonus. Which means if you are suspended for a game that’s in your contract, it must have been an automatic trigger that they work back out. Because the one thing I know about human beings, yes, they get angry, but there’s nothing worse than when they get extra angry by saying, well, I lost $57,000. Now you want to take away $3 million of my signing bonus? Yeah, that’s the way you get the best out of your players. I think they avoided an absolute ridiculous anger issue for Jalen Carter. If they were going to take additional money away from him. Yeah. Well it it could have the whole scenario. Donny could have been absolutely a train wreck, especially had they had lost anything. But I think they all avoided it. It’s now ancient history. Right. What have you done for me lately. So he has an opportunity and the Eagles have an opportunity. I mean quite honestly we’re also talking about a mahomes team and a Chiefs team that are absolute money off a loss. I mean this is a team that is always bet on 23, 27 and three. Straight up is what we have seen them do off a loss with Mahomes and Reid. So they don’t lose a lot. But when they do, they don’t tend to lose two in a row. I got to tell you, this is a chance for the Eagles to just basically bury the Chiefs to start the season. Joe’s pointing out a very good point like teams that start. Oh and two oh and three it’s a wrap on your season. Can you make the playoffs? Sure you can. But it takes a Herculean effort. And also understand this. This isn’t a full go. Chiefs team two of their best wide receivers will not play in this football game advantage Philadelphia Eagles. We’ll see how it plays out Sunday. You know where else there could be an advantage for the New Orleans Saints. What that team stinks. They would never have an advantage. Well it’s always nice when the other team comes to town and maybe doesn’t have their quarterback, Brock Purdy. Whether it’s a shoulder injury or the toe that they’re worrying about, they’re going to see how he progresses throughout the week, which is a major indicator on why this line. Joe dropped from seven and a half to four and a half. George Kittle, we already know, is out. But your starting quarterback down on the road, that gives hope to the Saints. Well I mean listen you got to ask yourself last week with the Saints did this. Were the Saints better than what we gave them credit for. Or is Arizona just a joke here that they they couldn’t pull away from that team? Because don’t forget, New Orleans had a chance late in that game to actually pull it out and win it and pull out the upset, but they didn’t. So they are home. But to me, Brock Purdy, no. Brock Purdy is Christian McCaffrey healthy? Is he available? Is he a guy that you can rely on to win a game for you when you’re down a couple of guys? Yes he is. So as long as he’s in the game, I give the 40 Niners a pretty good opportunity still to beat a very bad Saints team exactly like Purdy is there and just able to play the game. I do think that bodes well for the San Francisco 40 Niners as you look at their schedule. Nice win for Seattle over the weekend here in a conference game a divisional game and a conference game on the road you take on the Saints. Then you get the Cardinals. Then you get the Jags. It’s a good level where it’s like, all right, if we’re not at our best at 100%, this is the time that you want to have a little bit easier of a schedule. You don’t want to run a gantlet where your quarterback and your best tight end are down for multiple weeks. We’ll see how it plays out. But also understand this it is tough to win football games on the road in the NFL, regardless of the environment. And you saw that with Arizona. They were in a dogfight there with the New Orleans Saints. I’m not saying you’ll get that this week, but this isn’t also like we talked about. The Chiefs show a full gas full go 40 Niners team. They’re down at wide receiver. They’re down at tight end. They’re quarterbacks beat up. And who knows if McCaffrey can have another 20 touch week and still be not injured the rest of the way. But what they are is a darn good defensive team. Still, that could make Spencer Rattler turn the ball over two times three times. So the defense and Robert Saleh there will have will be ready for whatever this offense of the Saints thinks they have. You know, the defense can win games too. And that may be what happens in this 40 Niners game. It’s hump day, Joe, which means it’s getaway day. Not for me and Joe Ranieri. We ain’t getting away from anything. We’re right here on the Sports Grid network today, tomorrow and Friday. But Major League Baseball teams afternoon baseball handicapping these games on a hump day Wednesday. You signed up for this? I signed up for this. Join us right back here on the Sports Grid Network. Let’s get to some MLB. First time on a casino floor and feeling a little overwhelmed. Well, here’s a tip lots of machines have a free demo mode you can try for practice, so give those slots a spin in practice mode before you start putting down some real cash. Now you’ll get lucky. See you in Las pages. Let’s get lucky. College football can’t allow Notre Dame to have the type of, you know, fear they have and schedule they have and honestly put them against up, up, up against other teams because Notre Dame looks like they’re going to be a decent football team. They could lose I think next week to Texas A and M Joe, I don’t think he’s a great football team but still ranked team and then run the table and still be in the playoffs and absolutely beat nobody. The worst schedule I have ever seen in college football is Notre Dame this year. Sports grids, college football today. Quarterback coach has to answer for it right. Goff cam I listen I’m not I’m I’m not firing Dan Campbell already I might be shipping Goff I don’t know but I think the Lions again it’s week one. Are we overreacting I don’t think I think the panic meter in Detroit is blaring. I think people are wondering when do the Pistons start pro football today only on sports grid. It’s the most beautiful time of the year. No, not because of foliage or pumpkin spice lattes. It’s because of football. Sports grid has you covered all season long, covering every snap, every score and every line. Move. Prepare. Watch. Win. Weekends are for winners. Only on sports grid. Major League Baseball. We love it. We love the bet it. We love to watch it. It’s a hump day Wednesday. It’s a perfect day to sink your teeth back into baseball so many times. Joe, we talk about the month of September. We know you love your football out here, but don’t you dare turn your back on the Major League Baseball season. There’s some angles, some fun you can have, and also afternoon baseball on a Wednesday to get you over that hump day into Thursday where you watch the NFL, who says no, not me and not Joe Ranieri. Let’s get into some action here. 975 976 on the rotation, a 235 start today. Milwaukee and Texas. That’s Peralta and Kelly. And if we line this game up overnight -135 in the marketplace that’s now gone. They’re moving higher here FanDuel -142 DraftKings -148 BetMGM -145. Those numbers are on the move and a total Joe of seven and a half. Any thoughts on Milwaukee and Texas for you today? In the afternoon? Well, heck of a pitchers battle, right? Good old Freddy Peralta versus Merrill Kelly here. And I mean don’t look now. But it looks like the Rangers might just sweep the Brewers. But that has been unbelievable. Donny. Over the last month here his last five starts right. No runs allowed. He had a scoreless inning streak. Now that rested what 29. But he labored his last time out last Thursday against your Philadelphia Phillies here. So can the Rangers do the same. They are hot. Make no mistake about it Texas 13 to 17 I believe. Now putting the pressure on both Seattle and and Houston. So the Rangers have won the last three starts for Merrill Kelly. He to 1.77 ERA in those last three starts. This is a dead under to me. There is no way I’m expecting an early start. We’re going to get some sort of crazy offensive output from either of these teams. I’ll take the first five under. I think it’s for Donny, and I think this is going to be a pretty good pitchers duel for a while in this game. Gotcha. I don’t think we’re in the pitchers throwing this next game we’re going to talk about, even though it is a true pitchers ballpark out there on the West Coast. It’s Arizona and San Francisco, this game taking place in San Francisco at an all team total yesterday on the Diamondbacks just needed three runs. Joe, what they got for me? Yeah, they got me three runs. Thank you Diamondbacks. But a victory there for San Francisco. Trying to close that gap here on the New York Mets and make the playoffs. My goodness Seymour is going to be on the mound not myself. That’s Carson Seymour here. The favorite in this game actually not really a favorite anymore. -115 -110. Call it roughly a pick em here in the total. Let’s listen at eight between 8 and 8 and a half depending on where you’re shopping at. Rodriguez bad pitcher Seymour. Not a great pitcher, Joe. I never like to go over the total there in San Francisco. Afternoon game ball. Only 69 degrees. Sign me up for the over eight today. Let’s go. Well, the power surge continues for the Giants Donny right seven home runs in two games. They won 11 five and five three. In the first two games. They’re getting ready for the sweep here I mean that’s not exactly conducive to a home run ballpark there. But the power is there now it really starting to hit the ball. There is no reason to think they can’t continue both these guys I mean Rodriguez is a gas can too. Who are we kidding. And we know that Arizona can chip in a few runs. I’m kind of with you, man. I think runs runs are coming, and I’d even look early to maybe a team total over two and a half in the first five for the San Francisco Giants. There you go. Giants stay hot at home. Close that gap. Make the playoffs. We’ll see if it plays out. You know the two teams fighting for playoff spots. The Phillies look like they have the NL East all but wrapped up with a nine game lead. And we sit here on September the 10th. They’re going up against Clay Holmes tonight. But they got their ace on the mound Christopher Sanchez heavy favorite for the Phillies Joe in that middle of the -170. You see the placard coming up there to -172 where as high as -176 at DraftKings right now in a total which opened up at eight. That’s now dropped across the board at just about every outlet to seven and a half. Now. Holmes versus Sanchez. The Phillies break out the bats once again and embarrass the Mets and have a ten game lead. When it’s all said and done tonight, Joe, do they? Well, again, it’s the lesser split for the Mets. They’re not great against left handed pitching. We saw that last night with especially elite left handers like Ranger Suarez last night. Well what are you going to get now from Christopher Sanchez? Who is what I mean when you look at his last couple of starts, Donny, he has been absolutely lights out here. And yeah, got to give the edge to Philadelphia early. And that would be another first five for Philly for me jumping all over the Mets pitching nine is the lead and also nine. Joe is the magic number for the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies win. You take two more off there to go to 8 to 7 by the end of the night. Could be incredible here. We’ll watch as this one plays out. We’re going to set the table for the next one, because we talked about it a couple of times during the show already. New York Yankees a two to nothing lead yesterday on the Detroit Tigers at home in the Bronx. 12 unanswered runs scored by the Detroit Tigers. They’re going to get it going once again in the Bronx tonight, starting at 705, 969, 970. On the rotation. Flaherty versus Rhoden. Both of these lineups look really good. The Yankees against right handed pitching and certainly the Tigers against left handed pitching. Let’s handicap this one and see those Yankees can afford another loss. Or if they even are going to take a loss tonight for baseball. Up next. Quarterback or coach has to answer for it right. Goff. Cam I listen I’m not I’m I’m not firing Dan Campbell already I might be shipping Goff I don’t know. But I think the Lions again it’s week one. Are we overreacting I don’t think I think the panic meter in Detroit is blaring. I think people are wondering when do the Pistons start pro football today only on sports grid. If a game is on the line. Give me the Navy kicker. No. The guys going into battle in two weeks, he can’t make an extra point. Come on. From from a mindset perspective I’m not I’m not. Listen we thank them for their service I love them okay. But the bottom line is if you have a bet and you have an academy kicker with a field goal or an extra point, you gotta hold your seven yards. You know, 27 yards. The kid shanked it from like 30 sports grids. College football today. To your point, Craig. If anybody else is able to make a dent it’ll have to happen. Now ESPN has had about 3% market share. Their goal is to get to 10% by next year. So if they can’t make a big push this year and really see a lot of the new features that they put on their apps, a lot of the integrations with ESPN, fantasy products, with ESPN, you know, flagship products across the board. If those don’t pay off soon this football season, it might be curtains for them. Newswire only on sports grid. I give them no excuses for the mistakes that Lamar and that team made when they played Buffalo in the playoffs last year, but I do think they’ve done enough to improve the team in the off season. I think the offense was way better. The defensive line and the offensive line played really well in the back half of the year last year. Almost all of that talent is back and I think the Ravens are going to be right there. Game time decisions only on sports grid. The Yankees win will ? Tonight we’ll find out. Flaherty versus Rhoden as we teed it up before the break here Joe. Heavy favorite for the Yankees once again with Rhoden on the mound. -168, -172. Across the sports betting landscape. And a total that’s listed at eight Flaherty Rhoden. Two pretty good pitchers, but the lineups look really good today. Could we get runs in the Bronx? We got them yesterday, at least from a Detroit side. Yeah, we did from the Detroit side on what was a cold and big wind blowing in last night. Didn’t make a difference for Detroit because while they had to face the Yankee bullpen. And when that happens, yeah, nine runs usually come in the seventh inning, which is exactly what we saw. But listen, Rhoden has been the guy for the Yankees, especially down the stretch here, right? He has been the stopper. He’s what Gerrit Cole was for him the last couple of years. That is the role he is right now when they have needed him. He has shown up here and now that they lost ground on the Blue Jays. Every win is important and I think having your ace on the mound kind of makes you forget about what’s going on with the bullpen situation there. So yeah, I’m good man. I mean, he’s what, five and 02.05 ERA. His past five starts, one earned run in six innings last time out at Houston. I think he’s good to go in this one too. It will only be Yankees for me here. Paul Skenes should be good to go tonight here. He’s going to win the Cy Young in the National League. But also we’re going to probably get one of those awkward videos where he’s in some sort of like a chair and Libby Dunn’s in the room and he gets prevented with his, his, his Cy Young Award. And it’s kind of awkward at that point. But before we get there, he’s a favorite today, -155 or so as a price point across multiple market places in a total of seven and a half schemes, Wells, Pittsburgh and Baltimore schemes should be able to dominate today. Keep that score low. No. Well, I mean, it’s a red hot Orioles team. They’ve won six of their past seven games. They the Pirates have now lost four straight. And not to mention that, you know, sometimes I’d rather be lucky than good right. The Orioles last three wins have all been in walk off fashion with walk off hits. So they they are getting it done one way or the other. And Tyler Wells going for Baltimore. You know, it’s his second appearance of the season coming off the IL. He was really good in San Diego. He held the Padres to one run five hits, didn’t walk anybody. He went five innings there. Listen, it’s pretty simple here. The Pirates and Schemes is always a first five under for me, no matter who he plays. So it’s three and a half the total. Yeah. This could very well be a big pitchers battle early on once again. But Baltimore 14 and three all time in the regular season against the Pirates. Don’t you worry Pirates fans out there. Bob Nutting’s got your back in the off season. Sign a ton of free agents and you’re going to win a lot next year. Enjoy your ballpark. Not at that point. And that ain’t happening here. How about Houston and Toronto? Two teams in first place looking to stay there Joe it’s Alexander versus Berrios on the mound 707. Start north of the border of the total. Listen at eight and a half to nine depending on where you’re shopping. But a favorite here for Toronto open up at -130. Is a price point starting to move a little bit further north? 132 is 137 are out there in the marketplace. Do we get a walk off winner? Can Houston stave off the Mariners? Can you get the Toronto Blue Jays to keep that three game lead over the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees today? What gives? Yeah, well, what gives is last night was kind of hard for Houston because they had just gotten Garcia back from Tommy John surgery and his rehab. He had a couple of delays, but he had already pitched once. And then he gets out there, I think in the second inning, and he. And he’s pointing to his elbow and he had to get out. They had to go to the bullpen. Just a a rough situation there for for the Astros who need they got some injuries going on here. And it looks like Garcia is going to have to go back to the IL, which is unfortunate. Having said that, they did lead that game until the bullpen blew it there. So I think Houston is in bounce back mode at plus money. I think they’re a pretty good bet here to go up against Berrios and get the better of him. Two teams that absolutely wins today the Cincinnati Reds and the San Diego Padres. They happen to play each other today. Abbott, the lefty now going up against the right hander. Nick Pivetta, 9.599 60 on the rotation. John 840 start out on the West Coast. If you look at the side perspective, it opened up heavy -198 as a favorite towards San Diego. We backtrack mightily here. 168 169 165 in the marketplace and a total that’s listed at seven and a half. So walk off, victory walk off. What was the final score of that game? Was it a walk off? Did I get that wrong yesterday on that one. But it is today Cincinnati and San Diego. What gives this game for you, Joe? Well, I mean, the Reds need Abbott to get back to what he was going into the all star break. Right. Eight and 12.07 ERA. Yeah, but not good. After the break, 21 earned runs and nine starts since that all star break. Oh, and five. Not good here at all. So they’re going to need Abbott to turn things around here and get it done. It looks like mechanically he had been dealing with some issues. We’ll see if he gets it straight here. But again at this ballpark with these two pitchers feels like a under to me seven and a half. That’s the only way I would look less runs in this game. Yeah 4 to 2. Yesterday was not a walk off their win for the Cincinnati Reds. As they move on to try to get closer there to the Giants, or stay with the Giants and maybe surpass the New York Mets. A lot of interesting stuff. And again, don’t forget about baseball, as we said, just in the handicapping way. Yes, but also the standings. Man, so many of these games mean so much more now with the advent of the extra wild card position. Fun to watch it down the stretch. Wild card position possibly here for the Seattle Mariners. They’re going to take on the Saint Louis Cardinals. No chance of a wild card position. Mcgreevy’s on the mound going up against Gilbert. Monster favorite -235 overnight here. We’re still sitting at minus two. Excuse me. -225, -233, -230 in the marketplace and a total that’s listed at seven and a half. I think this could be another easy win tonight for those Mariners here over the Cardinals. Joe. Yeah I agree. And I would almost look to fade the Cardinals offense especially at this ballpark against Logan Gilbert here. I don’t think a lot of runs are coming from the Cardinals. I think this is an under and I think it’s a team total under for the Cardinals here. How about that. Yeah car. It’s not always tough to get extra hits up there. Yesterday if you had a team total in Seattle that did cash in here I thought Seattle was the better team yesterday and rightfully so. As a favorite, they won. You know it’s another big heavy favorite. We’ve been getting used to this for the Dodgers. We expect this for much of the year. Didn’t see it all that much. Why? Because the Dodgers not having as grandiose a season as some might have thought. But they’ve been a $3 favorite or higher every game against the Rockies so far. That doesn’t change tonight at 1010, start on the West Coast. Kyle Freeland the lefty on the mound going up against Blake Snell, another lefty. This line opened up Joe overnight at FanDuel at -405. Now granted I don’t know if anybody’s going to bet that up higher. But most people seem like it’s a baseball game. Anything can happen. I’m going to take a bite of that. And they did. Now we’re seeing minus three 50s, minus three 60s in the marketplace and a total of eight and a half. But the Dodgers just monster favorites over that Walking Dead team, the Colorado Rockies. Yeah. But the problem is Dodgers also don’t hit lefties worth of anything. And Kyle Freeland for all his issues, is actually not a bad lefty here. So I think everyone’s expecting Dodgers blowout. If it happens, it will have to happen in the latter half of this game here. So I’d be looking to go contrarian and look to back maybe Colorado early in this one, especially maybe a first five under, because I don’t think either offense is going to have a ton of success. Yeah. Take a look at Kyle Freeland. Where can I find I haven’t 20th on my card at a 31 today Joe 450 ERA past 45 days, a 440 Sierra number. And then we take a look at Blake Snell, who’s up higher on that chart at six overall with a 351 ERA and a 2.74 ERA. I’m interested to see how the Dodgers down the stretch handle their pitching staff here, because if they can line up with some of those pitchers healthy going to the playoffs, that will help. But the one thing we can agree upon, those bats really need to wake up for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They’re way more talented to get the results. Now granted, they won last night, scored some decent runs, but overall it used to be man, you don’t get a breather in that Dodgers lineup. If they get back to that before Major League Baseball starts the playoffs Joe that’s really going to help them out. Yeah. Well they’re going to need to figure it out in a big way here because they have been very hot or cold here down the stretch in the second half. Donny. And it was a rough road trip. It’s good to get home and you get to face the Rockies. But tougher, tougher competition lies ahead for him. They need to figure it out. Exactly. Fun times down the stretch. As we pointed out in Major League Baseball, it is the month of September. There’s about three weeks left to go. Playoff baseball is spectacular. It’s sensational. It happens in the afternoon and we love to see it. But before we get there, there’s a lot of baseball that needs to be played. So also a lot of handicaps. Don’t get yourself caught up. Oh, baseball’s dead in September. Yes, the taxes are high on the teams that have to win versus the teams that have given up. But there’s still money to be made. People. Team totals still sit out there. Keith Stewart up next. Golf. Absolutely. Keith’s going to bring the heat next with us. Quarterback or coach has to answer for it right. Goff. Cam I listen I’m not I’m I’m not firing Dan Campbell already I might be shipping Goff I don’t know but I think the Lions again it’s week one. Are we overreacting I don’t think I think the panic meter in Detroit is blaring. I think people are wondering when do the Pistons start pro football today only on sports grid. If a game is on the line, give me the Navy kicker. Oh, the guys going into battle in two weeks. He can’t make an extra point. Come on. From from a mindset perspective, I’m not I’m not. Listen we thank them for their service I love them, okay. But the bottom line is if you have a bet and you have an academy kicker with a field goal or an extra point, you gotta hold 27 yards. 27 yards. The kid shanked it from like 30 sports grids. College football today. To your point, Craig, if anybody else is able to make a dent, it’ll have to happen. Now ESPN has had about 3% market share. Their goal is to get to 10% by next year. So if they can’t make a big push this year and really see a lot of the new features that they put on their apps, a lot of the integrations with ESPN, fantasy products, with ESPN, you know, flagship products across the board. If those don’t pay off soon this football season, it might be curtains for them. Newswire only on Sports grid. I give them no excuses for the mistakes that Lamar and that team made when they played Buffalo in the playoffs last year, but I do think they’ve done enough to improve the team in the off season. I think the offense was way better. The defensive line and the offensive line played really well in the back half of the year last year. Almost all of that talent is back and I think the Ravens are going to be right there. Game time decisions only on sports grid. Bringing the fire in our number two. It’s what we do on the early line. It’s how we get down on the sports Grid network. We’re experts at everything. And even if we’re not, I’ll pretend to be. But when we need to call in the big guns, we absolutely need to do it. Donny. Right side. It’s Joe Ranieri. Our biggest gun right now is Keith Stewart, our resident PGA tour professional right here in the building with us. Yes. To talk off big events. Keith. Excitement. Yes. Donny. Joe. Good morning. On the early line. Oh, man. I tell you what. The Pro Corps Championship used to be a little bit of a sleepy event out there in Napa in wine country, but guess what? Captain Keegan Bradley has the boys fired up for Bethpage. He’s got ten of the 12 Ryder Cup participants for the US side out playing and competing this week on the PGA tour. Yeah, we’re going to take a look at the Ryder Cup in just a few moments here. But there we are in the scramble. You need that you know anchor leg that’s there. That’s Keith Stewart for us this morning talking about the PGA tour and the Ryder Cup. Let’s get started is the pro corps. It’s a long way from Bethpage. The boys get away from it here to practice up Silverado Resort North Course in Napa California. We’ll start there first. How does this course line up? And also why are these guys playing in this tournament here? Keith. Well, Donny, first things first. You know, the Silverado course, the North Course specifically. They have 36 holes out there. We’ve seen this event many times on the PGA tour. We just haven’t seen some of these names out there. These Ryder Cup guys the elite usually take the fall off. But you know what. Captain Keegan has them out there. And if they’re going to play this place then you know what. It’s not a bad preview for Bethpage. You got to drive the ball in the fairway here. So if you want to go through a couple quick keys you got to keep the ball in play. There’s no doubt about that. And you got to be a wedge wizard on attack. All right. So you’re hitting a lot of approach shots from that 125 to 150 range. Now I know that doesn’t sound a lot like Bethpage Black, but I’ve already seen the scorecard for the Ryder Cup from the PGA of America. And we’re going to focus on our guys attacking with some scoring irons and not doing again, what we know. We’re not going to run back roam where every shot was with with a three iron in hand. So that’s another thing. The other thing is that you got to get the putter warmed up. And uniquely enough, you’re right, we’re thousands of miles away. But the mix on the greens, this poa annua bentgrass is the same sort of grass that you’re going to see at Bethpage Black. I know it sounds crazy, but you know what? The temperate zones are about the same. The conditions are, the growing conditions are about the same. And I guess what, this is going to be a perfect preview for those ten guys to get ready for this big match coming up. It this was named something else, wasn’t it? Wasn’t this like a what was the name of this tournament before it was here, the Bob Hope classic. Was it the. No. The Frys.com. It was the Safeway. It was the it was the Rainier Open. It was the doctors scramble. Yeah. I mean, there’s a bunch of places. Hey guys, it was the Fry’s open. The fact of the matter is this you talk about a guy like Scottie Scheffler, who started his year hurting himself with a wine glass is now out in wine country. I mean, the symmetry’s unbelievable. You convince Captain Keegan, convinces these guys, all ten of them, to get out there. Now Bryson can’t play and Xander just had a baby, but the other ten guys are there. We’ve seen pictures already. Keegan’s walking in USA gear with groups that are paired up for guys that are possibly going to play there. Harris English and Collin Morikawa together yesterday. What a foursomes partner. That would be an alternate shot. I mean these guys are committed. This is not Rome Redux. This is definitely a new age. And I love what Captain Keegan’s doing here. I love the Ryder Cup Keith. And the reason is like like we take a look at like the Masters, which I think is a phenomenal tournament. The history behind it, the same golf course. It’s just like right to spring here. But every two years the Ryder Cup, like the guys aren’t playing like the tour competition. Hey, you know it’s nice to win that. We put an extra 10 to 20 million in our pocket. It’s not about the money, it’s about the pride and the team, you know, the teammates that you have and going out which Europe does a fantastic, fantastic job of. But also understand this some of the times like yes, you’re in Europe or you’re like Whistling Straits or Kiawah Island, the fact that they’re back at Bethpage, which means you get the most vocal gallery that you can possibly get with national pride on the line. It’s the perfect cocktail of exactly what we love with golf and also the fan pageantry. Talk to me about the expectations. Not for the team itself right now, Keith, but what are we expecting from Bethpage this year? Well, Donnie, it’s funny you use the word cocktail. I would use Molotov cocktail. The roof is going to come off of this place. And here’s why. We all love the masters. We absolutely love the masters. But Joe might root for a guy. I might root for a guy, and you might root for a different guy. All three of us are rooting for team USA, and there’s a whole nother continent that’s rooting for their side. They’re going to come together in the center of the universe, at a place that we already know is a little bit on edge almost every single day. And I tell you what, everyone’s talking about the ticket prices. You’re not going to get the everyday man in there. Everybody’s going to show up for this thing. I mean, cue the PSA for the PGA of America and what like noon on Friday? Like everybody’s got to calm down. I mean, it is going to be completely out of control. I’ve been on site a couple times already this summer. People are lining up two, three days in advance to try to play this golf course. I mean, everybody I mean, it is a powder keg ready to blow. Love it. So it’s interesting too, because I know when they lost in Rome a couple of years ago, the the feeling was that the Europe squad was in much better form. They, you know, they had continued to continue to play afterwards or ready to go, whereas the America, a lot of the guys took off. Is that a big reason as to why a lot of these guys are playing in this tournament now? And what are the European guys doing right now? Well, the European guys are overplaying. In the DP World Tours flagship event, the BMW Championship. They did that before Rome. They’ve got 11 of their 12 playing Sepp Straka who you know who. He skipped a playoff event at the BMW. He’s not playing this week but the other 11 are. We’ve got our ten out at the Pro Core. You know, it’s been three weeks since I’ve seen you guys. You know, this break is not good for where the Ryder Cup lines up on the calendar. Now, it’s a perfect time of year to have this event because it’s featured and even on a football weekend. I know Donny, it sounds sacrilegious, but even on a football weekend, we’re going to get some action here in golf. And I tell you what, like people are learning, you know, you watch all these old Ryder Cup, you know, films and everything, and these guys are like, oh, I was too nervous to play on the first tee, an alternate shot. So I let my partner do it. We’re not doing that anymore. We have analytics that says, Donnie, you’re on the odd holes, Keith. You’re on the even. And that’s what we’re doing. We are learning addition by addition. Now, you got to remember it only happens every two years. So it’s not like every week you get to learn. But the US side is learning. And I know I’ve talked to their camp intimately, and the way we’re set up the golf course, we are going to be much better prepared than we were in Rome. And even though it might be a buddies trip to Bethpage, right, we are bringing back the Cup. I love it here. Team USA is a -132 to lift that trophy, but some of my favorite things from Bethpage are hit the ball Sergio. And every time, like a guy like Colin Montgomerie would miss a putt, the place would explode. It is such. It’s such different golf. It’s golf for the fans that you can have that national pride. There’s nothing like the Ryder Cup. We have Keith here for the next couple of weeks helping us cover it here. Keith Stewart joining us in the morning here on the Early Line. Thank you Keith. We’ll talk to you shortly for myself and Joe. We’ll shut it down next. Quarterback coach has to answer for it right. Goff. Cam I listen I’m not I’m I’m not firing Dan Campbell already I might be shipping Goff I don’t know but I think the Lions again it’s week one. Are we overreacting I don’t think I think the panic meter in Detroit is blaring. I think people are wondering when do the Pistons start pro football today only on sports grid. If a game is on the line. Give me the Navy kicker. Oh, the guy’s going in the battle in two weeks. He can’t make an extra point. Come on. From from a mindset perspective, I’m not I’m not. Listen we thank them for their service. I love them, okay? But the bottom line is if you have a bet and you have an academy kicker with a field goal or an extra point, you got 27 yards, 27 yards. The kid shanked it from like 30 sports grids. College football today. To your point, Craig, if anybody else is able to make a dent it’ll have to happen. Now ESPN has had about 3% market share. Their goal is to get to 10% by next year. So if they can’t make a big push this year and really see a lot of the new features that they put on their apps, a lot of the integrations with ESPN, fantasy products, with ESPN, you know, flagship products across the board. If those don’t pay off soon this football season, it might be curtains for them. Newswire only on sports grid. I give them no excuses for the mistakes that Lamar and that team made when they played Buffalo in the playoffs last year. But I do think they’ve done enough to improve the team in the off season. I think the offense was way better. The defensive line and the offensive line played really well in the back half of the year last year. Almost all of that talent is back. And I think the Ravens are going to be right there. Game time decisions only on sports grid. You want college football. We give it to you want the NFL. We give it to you. You want breakdowns in Major League Baseball. We give that to you as well in just a few moments. We’re also going to give you some winners to go away with on your daily card here at the Sports Grid Network. But before we do that, Joe, we love the people out there. We love to reach out to the people we want information from the people. Here’s our faith. The public poll. Cooler heads prevailed here. Look, Joe Ranieri, Donny. Right side, cool heads here. You know what you get here. No, no pulling punches here. We give it to you straight. The NFL goes. You know what? I don’t think we should suspend Jalen Carter. Here’s the question we asked. If you follow us at Sports Grid on X it’s easy. Should Jalen Carter have been suspended for week number two. Was the question yes or no. Answer no 47.3% yes 52.7%. Sounds like a lot of Chiefs fans voted today on the Sports Grid network Joe for the public? No, they absolutely did. I mean, listen again, if he would have played even half the game, you know, we could make the argument that yes, a full game suspension is warranted. But since he got thrown out and he didn’t even play a snap. So yeah, he missed that game and that’s that’s it. I mean, what are we going to do here? You’re already paid and wrote the check, right, Donny? So let’s not then you’d have to look at it like, you know, the champion Philadelphia Eagles. Are we trying to put them behind the eight ball to start the season. He paid his dues. He paid the check. Let’s move on. Absolutely. Let’s move on. Let’s get a big time win for the Philadelphia Eagles. Look I told you before Joe the Dallas Cowboys no longer America’s team. But also did you see we talk about ratings a lot like in the sports business. They had the Philadelphia Eagles Dallas Cowboys game track to be the most watched opening day performance in NFL history until the lightning strike started here. And it wasn’t the Cowboys holding those ratings Joe. No no no it was your Philadelphia Eagles. That’s how I like to get down. We’ll see how Jalen Carter does in week number one for him. That’s really in week number two by the way 90 degree temperatures on Sunday afternoon in Kansas City. Something to watch out for a drink. Your pickle juice people. No cramping is allowed. Now let’s get to some more fun stuff here. We love to give the people winners. Here’s by by by. Joe got a dub last night. He’s ready to double down. What do you got today, Joe? For the people. Well, it’s Paul Skene’s day, so let’s go to Baltimore, where Pittsburgh is going to try to salvage this and not get swept. But they’ll have a good they’ll have a good opportunity to do it with Skene’s on the mound early. But, you know, Skene’s on the road is not what Skene’s has been at PNC Park in Pittsburgh has now lost four straight games, while the Orioles now have won six of their last seven. So they are doing pretty well and they’ve got a pretty good pitcher on the mound in Wells. Tyler Wells, making his second start coming off the IL. This was an unfortunate injury for Baltimore because this this kid is going to be a very, very good pitcher for this organization. He shut down San Diego a week ago in his first start on the road. Let’s face it Pittsburgh bats. Yeah I’m not worried about it. On the road. They’ve lost four straight for a reason. So while I already told you at first five under three and a half runs, I’m going to take the run and a half with Baltimore here for the full game, because I think once games gets removed. Yeah, the sky is the limit for the red hot Baltimore Orioles right now. I’ll take that run and a half with the home team. Had a hot streak busted up yesterday by the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets. Trying to stay under eight and a half runs. Took nine to beat me. They got 12. I understand this, there was four runs scored up until the seventh inning. Thought I was in cruise control. Not the case here. Bats busted out. Oh well. New week, new money, new day, new money for me. I’m just going to keep it simple. And that’s been really effective. I take a look at the Marlins and the nationals. We’re kind of boring game is that why would you go to that game? And maybe it’s not a great pitch or excuse me, hitting environment. It doesn’t matter. You got to take a look at the pitchers here. I have Jake Irvin, pitcher for the Washington Nationals, the worst pitcher on the card today, an 8.86 ERA over the past 45 days, a 5.45 xfip and a 5.70 Sierra number, which is the worst on the card that we have. Yuri Perez, which actually had a decent year for the Marlins. He’s starting to fade now. Joe, a 5.88 ERA past 45 days and a 4.96 xfip number. Don’t love the lineups, but I can’t stand these pitchers. I’m going over eight and a half runs in a game that if you need some runs late, these bullpens should be able to give it to you. Joe feeling a two and zero night for the boys as we wake up tomorrow and the NFL will be back for us. Washington. Miami. Over over, over. I mean, listen, Washington quietly is red hot right now and crushing the ball. Eight and a half. They can score eight runs themselves in this game. So yeah I like the over spot for you. Absolutely. Let’s go. Let’s get down. Let’s go two and oh tonight let’s have some fun. Let’s regroup tomorrow morning. Because you know how we get down every single Monday through Friday 7 a.m. We are live right here on the early line. It’s Donny right side it’s Joe Ranieri for the boys in the back make us look good. You know what? See you early tomorrow morning.
