00:00Kyle, we thought we would at least pique your interest here.
00:02One selection from you, one selection before we begin the World Cup on Thursday.
00:06I know there's something you like.
00:08Yeah, I'm interested in soccer the same way most of the country is right now,
00:12in that it's going to be on, and it's like the Olympics.
00:14It comes around once in a while.
00:15I'm not going to pretend to be any kind of expert soccer handicapper.
00:19I played in high school 100 years ago, but that's a million years ago.
00:24I do, I work in the numbers business, right?
00:27And we've seen this over the last decade or so, the offense has become a little bit more prevalent in
00:32World Cups.
00:33And to me, Belgium is a team that can score a lot of goals.
00:36They've got a dude up top that gets a lot of interest, and we've just seen this trend.
00:40And if this trend is going to continue, I think Belgium's sneaky at 40-1 right now.
00:45France scored multiple goals in five of their seven games on their way to a win in 2018.
00:50And in 2022, Argentina did it in six out of seven.
00:53If a team's going to score a bunch, and that's going to be required, not this defensive nonsense, one-nothing,
01:00boring games for us soccer novices.
01:01We're going to get some excitement.
01:03I think Belgium can do it.
01:04And at 40-1, that's a hefty price tag to get in the round of 16.
01:08That just means getting through the group and then winning one more game, minus 150.
01:11That's kind of how I'm hedging this bet so I don't have all my eggs in the 40-1 basket
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