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Start your day off with a winner! The Pregame.com team breaks down the games, the stories & the bets you need to know every morning. With contributions from Pregame’s RJ Bell, Steve Fezzik & More!, SOV AM is your daily destination for sports conversation with a Vegas lean!

  1. 9H AGO

    What I Bet - Thursday April 2nd

    Griffin Warner talks betting for Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    19 min

  2. 16H AGO

    2026 Valero Texas Open Preview and Picks

    Will Doctor delivers the sharpest preview and card for the Valero Texas Open at Oaks Course at TPC San Antonio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    35 min

  3. 22H AGO

    Cash That Ticket - Wednesday April 1st

    Munaf Manji and Dave Essler talk betting for Wednesday Cash That Ticket opened the month of April the same way it closed March — with winners. Host Munaf Manji and co-host Uncle Diamond Dave Esler delivered Wednesday's episode on the Straight Out of Vegas AM feed riding a 2-0 night from March 31st that pushed their season best-bet record to 54 wins and 35 losses, 60.6 percent, plus 14.5 units, a pace Munaf openly challenged any daily sports betting podcast to match. Dave added important framing: every pick on this show goes out before noon Eastern, before injury reports are finalized, before the market has all available information, a degree of difficulty the raw numbers don't reflect but the results consistently reward. The episode covered four games across three sports, beginning with the College Basketball Crown quarterfinals at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, where Dave quickly identified the transfer portal as the dominant storyline in the Oklahoma-Colorado matchup, with Colorado missing three players to opt-outs including freshman Isaiah Johnson, their leading three-point and free-throw shooter, and a 7-foot-4 starting center who had scored 22 points in two of their last three games. Dave called the full-game under 166 the play in a lopsided game where neither team has reason to push pace or run up score, and also floated the Colorado team total under as a derivative. For the late quarterfinal at 10:30 Eastern, Dave took Minnesota to upset Baylor, citing Baylor's 13th-ranked conference defense and turnover-prone offense while expressing greater belief in the Gophers' motivation under coach Medved. On the MLB side, Dave endorsed Joe Ryan first five innings in the Twins-Royals matchup, calling the Royals nine-run total through four games evidence enough that Kansas City won't solve Ryan tonight, while Munaf locked in the Twins -120 full game as his primary play and flagged the under 8.5 as a lean. The featured matchup was the Guardians visiting the Dodgers with Gavin Williams, a pitcher carrying a 13.03 career ERA against Los Angeles and a six-walk performance in his season opener, lined up against Yoshinobu Yamamoto coming off a 0.38 ERA across four April starts in 2025. Dave took the Dodgers first five innings on the run line, while Munaf made the Dodgers full-game team total over 4.5 at -135 his official best bet, citing Williams' walk tendencies and the Dodgers' pending offensive breakout as the two forces converging tonight. Dave's NBA best bet was the Knicks team total over 121.5 against Memphis, an intangibles call built on the argument that New York, sitting three games behind Boston for the two-seed, cannot afford to drop a fourth straight game to a Grizzlies team that plays no defense and has no season left to play for. Munaf endorsed it as a textbook get-right spot. Listeners who want in on Uncle Dave's MLB season-long package can visit Pregame.com and use promo code PLAYBALL20 for 20 percent off anything on the site, including already-discounted season-long subscription packages, through April 13th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    33 min

  4. 1D AGO

    What I Bet - Wednesday April 1st

    Griffin Warner talks betting for Wednesday. Griffin Warner, the Realness of Pregame.com, returns for the April 1 episode of What I Bet riding a 5-2-1 run over his last eight plays and targeting a sixth win with a best bet built around one of the strongest pitching matchups on the board. The episode covers the opening day of the Crown college basketball tournament in Las Vegas, starting with a deep dive into Oklahoma's rapidly inflating line against Colorado, where a move from minus 6 to minus 9.5 triggers genuine curiosity about the Buffaloes without quite enough roster clarity to commit. Baylor and Minnesota follow in the late game, where Griffin makes the case that minus 4 is cheap for Scott Drew's program given how competitive the Bears were all season despite historic injury attrition, while Minnesota's road limitations and talent drain make them difficult to trust on a neutral floor. The bulk of the episode belongs to major league baseball, where Griffin works through all 12 games on a packed Wednesday slate. In Atlanta, Chris Sale and Luis Severino frame a matchup where the under 8 and the Athletics run line both draw interest, while Oakland's strikeout vulnerability against ace-level pitching provides the clearest structural lean. The most committed play of the card comes in Cincinnati, where Griffin fades Paul Skenes at minus 154 and backs Andrew Abbott at plus 139, citing Skenes' worst big-league start in his previous outing, O'Neil Cruz's likely absence against a left-hander, and a recurring market inefficiency where Pittsburgh gets more love than their roster deserves. Griffin also identifies Tampa Bay at plus 120 in Milwaukee as a legitimate lean, likes the Kansas City Royals as underdogs against a Minnesota rotation being carefully managed toward a trade deadline, and acknowledges Gavin Williams in Los Angeles as a pitcher still worth backing despite recent rough luck against the Dodgers' power lineup. Before the best bet, Griffin rolls out the Pregame.com promo code HOMERUN20, good for 20 percent off everything on the site including full MLB season all-access packages through the World Series, the largest discount he has offered in his seven-year tenure with Pregame.com. The episode closes with the best bet locked in on the New York Yankees versus Seattle Mariners, under 7, with Cam Schlittler opposing George Kirby in Seattle. Griffin reinforces the setup with a reference to Monday's low-scoring result in the same series, credits Kirby as the defining factor in the pitching matchup, and offers a first-five under as an optional half-unit side play for listeners who want an extra layer of protection against extra innings. Use promo code HOMERUN20 at Pregame.com to save 20 percent, follow at therealnessgorgiewarner across all social media platforms, and find the Straight Outta Vegas AM feed wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    15 min

  5. 1D AGO

    Cash That Ticket - Tuesday March 31st

    Munaf Manji and Dave Essler talk betting for Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    39 min

  6. 3D AGO

    What I Bet - Monday March 30th

    Griffin Warner talks betting for Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    18 min

  7. 5D AGO

    Cash That Ticket - Friday March 27th

    Munaf Manji and Dave Essler talk betting for Friday. The Cash That Ticket podcast returns for a stacked Friday edition covering three MLB games from the opening weekend card, two confirmed Elite Eight matchups with live lines, and a pair of best bets to send listeners into the weekend with a plan. Host Munaf Manji and veteran handicapper Uncle Diamond Dave Esler open the show on a high note, with Dave having cashed his Pregame.com dollar best bet the night before on Texas covering against Purdue, a play he held firm on despite the line moving from 7 to 8.5. The MLB conversation starts with the A's visiting Toronto, where Dave makes the case against Kevin Gausman at a steep price point, citing shaky early-season splits and a structural argument against backing home teams on the run line when they might not bat in the ninth. Both hosts like the under 9 on a cold night with the Rogers Centre roof closed, and Munaf takes the plus-money A's given Luis Severino's strong road profile from last season. The Royals and Braves provide the pitching matchup of the night, with Cole Ragans facing Chris Sale in Atlanta. Dave leans into Royals history against Sale, highlights Salvador Perez's success in career at-bats against the veteran lefty, and notes Sale's pattern of allowing three or more earned runs in his first four outings of a season. Both hosts agree on under 7.5 and find value with Kansas City at plus money. The third game sends the Guardians to Seattle for Game 2 of a series Cleveland opened with a 6-4 victory. Dave challenges the assumption that the Mariners automatically bounce back, pointing to taxed bullpens on both sides, George Kirby's history of being managed carefully on innings, and Gavin Williams' quiet effectiveness against Seattle in limited head-to-head history. The Guardians run line in the first five innings is the preferred play. The show then shifts to Saturday's Elite Eight, with Dave and Munaf covering both confirmed games. Iowa gets the points against Illinois, with both handicappers respecting the familiarity factor between Big Ten programs that already played a close game this season, and cautioning against overreacting to Illinois' dominant win over Houston. Arizona gets the stronger endorsement, with Dave breaking down Purdue's difficult tournament path, its free throw-dependent win over Miami, and a late scare from Texas before facing a Wildcats team that dropped 109 on Arkansas and holds a top-three defense nationally. Best bets close the episode, with Dave backing Michigan team total under 91.5 based on the weakness of the Wolverines' previous tournament opponents, and Munaf laying the points with the LA Clippers against the Indiana Pacers behind Kawhi Leonard's recent form and Darius Garland's fit alongside him in the backcourt. Use promo code MVP15 at Pregame.com for fifteen dollars off any picks package, valid through April 6th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    35 min

  8. 6D AGO

    What I Bet - Friday March 27th

    Griffin Warner talks betting for Friday. Real_GWarner drops episode 27 on March 27th with a full breakdown of the Sweet 16, the opening Elite Eight lines, and a seven-game Major League Baseball card to close the week. The show opens 4-1-1 over the last six with a push on the Tulsa NIT game, then moves immediately into the college basketball action from Thursday night. Illinois enters as a 6.5-point favorite over Iowa with a total of 139, and GWarner's first lean is to the under, citing Iowa's preference for a slow grinding tempo against a team he describes as the tallest roster ever assembled in college basketball, a program built on a pipeline of Eastern European big men that Brad Underwood has quietly turned into a national title contender. Purdue gets 5.5 points against Arizona at a total of 152.5, and GWarner argues that Boilermaker shooting from the perimeter is an equalizer that makes them worth backing as a dog against even Arizona's thick and long front line. The MLB card runs from a Yankees-Giants getaway day game where GWarner leans to the Giants underdog and the under, through a Royals-Braves matchup with Cole Ragans against Chris Sale, a Tigers-Padres game that produces his strongest lean of the baseball portion, and a Guardians-Mariners matchup where the under at 7 in Seattle catches his eye as a solid play. GWarner is a believer in Framber Valdez as one of the better pitchers in baseball, trusting his ability to keep the ball in the yard in a park where it does not carry, and he takes the Tigers at plus money with confidence. The promo code SPRING25 gets listeners $25 off anything at Pregame.com, including March Madness All Access and MLB packages. The episode closes with one best bet, no hedging, delivered straight. Framber Valdez, Detroit Tigers, plus one hundred and nine. Take that to the bank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    23 min
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Start your day off with a winner! The Pregame.com team breaks down the games, the stories & the bets you need to know every morning. With contributions from Pregame’s RJ Bell, Steve Fezzik & More!, SOV AM is your daily destination for sports conversation with a Vegas lean!

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