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00:05 The Astros are the favorites.
00:06 That's fine, they've earned the pedigree.
00:08 It makes sense.
00:09 Plus 250, but they're a full dollar in front of the Baltimore Orioles.
00:13 The O's at plus 350 have the best price, or excuse me,
00:17 the best record in the American League.
00:19 Then it's the Rays, then the Rangers, then the Mariners, and
00:23 then who is going to be a divisional champion, Donnie, who you don't see on
00:27 that screen, Minnesota, a plus 950 number with the sixth best price.
00:31 >> Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see it play out, and
00:34 I guess that's what we're processing, the process, I should say, to go through it.
00:37 Final two weeks of the season, right?
00:39 One team's gonna win, one team's gonna lose, teams are gonna drop out,
00:42 teams are gonna win divisions.
00:43 The reason why I wanna set it up this way is you take a look at the FanDuel sports
00:46 book, and as you saw in that graphic, the Astros, a plus 250 price here to win it.
00:50 They don't have the best record technically, but
00:52 that's not where the matchup comes in.
00:54 The matchup comes in when these teams actually play each other in the playoffs,
00:57 in a short series, or whether it be a seven-game series.
01:00 You're looking for the cream to rise to the top,
01:02 similar to what we talked about in the WNBA.
01:05 If this was a three-game set, you're like, okay, wait, you know what?
01:08 We're just gonna lean on starting pitching.
01:09 Maybe Milwaukee would win the whole thing.
01:11 But over a seven-game series, you're gonna be battle-tested.
01:14 You better have a one through nine in that lineup that can get after it.
01:16 Houston does.
01:17 You better have front-end pitching that's won Cy Young's before, and
01:20 also World Championship.
01:22 Houston has that.
01:23 You better have a decent back-end to the bullpen.
01:25 Houston has that.
01:26 And also, I know it's a little bit disrespectful now to the Orioles,
01:29 because, Ben, we're not in April, May, or June.
01:31 We're sitting here in late, or getting towards late September.
01:34 The Baltimore Orioles are a really good ball club, but
01:36 even myself, as looking at the playoff picture in the American League, going,
01:41 I don't know if I trust the Orioles.
01:42 There are hundreds of games, over 100 games into the season, and
01:46 yet I'm still having my doubts, because unless I've seen that team do it before,
01:50 there is gonna be a little bit of doubt there.
01:52 I've seen the Astros win World Championships and succeed in the playoffs,
01:56 and have a very good roster, which is why they sit on top of the standings at a +250
02:00 price at FanDuel.
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