00:00By the way, why are the White Sox minus 140 at the Cubs tonight?
00:03What am I missing here?
00:05I have no idea.
00:07The Cubs were a bigger favorite.
00:09Oh, no, it's a run and a half.
00:09I'm looking at the wrong thing.
00:10No, no, no, I'm looking at the wrong thing.
00:11I'm wrong.
00:12I'm wrong.
00:12I'm wrong.
00:13Okay, that's the run line.
00:14Okay, minus 150.
00:15Imanaga versus Castillo.
00:16I was going to say, I have to put you on hold and hurry up and make a bet here.
00:20I got the wrong odds.
00:21Yeah, I got the wrong odds.
00:22Yeah, because call me crazy.
00:25Although, listen, White Sox had a great weekend, right?
00:27I think a sweep over the weekend there for the White Sox.
00:32The Cubs have not been.
00:35They just got swept.
00:36So that's not great by the Cardinals here.
00:39But Imanaga, Castillo went seven, I believe, there his last time out against.
00:44Oh, that's right.
00:45It doesn't count if you could throw seven shutout innings against the Reds, right?
00:49Then we can just discount that by Castillo.
00:52So there you are.
00:53We're going to discount that.
00:54But it's, again, the Cubs, to me, are hit or miss.
00:58Which version shows up here tonight?
01:00And that's what worries me here, Greg.
01:03Definitely so.
01:04So, yeah.
01:05Look, it's also, historically, when the Cubs play the White Sox, it is a little like A's
01:11Giants.
01:11It is a little like Yankees-Mets.
01:13You kind of throw out everything because it is a rivalry game.
01:17And I could see the White Sox winning the series.
01:20I could.
01:20I don't know that tonight is the night that they win.
01:22But I could see the White Sox potentially winning the series just because these things
01:26tend to go sideways when they play each other.
01:30Also, I want to ask you about this line tonight.
01:32A little bit of a freaky line.
01:33Uh-oh.
01:34Why is Atlanta only a light favorite tonight at Minnesota?
01:39What am I missing with this one?
01:41Is it because Lewis and Buxton are righties and that's not going to play into Martin Perez,
01:48who's a lefty?
01:50Is that the reason why?
01:51Ober has been okay.
01:53But is he very good?
01:55Like, I'm looking at this game.
01:57Shouldn't it be minus 110 on both sides?
01:59What am I missing here?
02:00Why is Atlanta only minus 128 tonight?
02:06I don't know.
02:07I thought Atlanta is much better than Minnesota.
02:10Atlanta has advantages across the board here.
02:14Starting, listen, Martin Perez has been phenomenal.
02:16We've talked about him, right?
02:18I don't get it.
02:18He's been very good lineup.
02:22Now, granted, Atlanta has kind of let a few games over the last couple of weeks get away
02:27for him, but you had mentioned this two weeks ago, and it's still true.
02:31Matt Olsen quietly having the season of the year right now, and nobody's kind of talking
02:37about him here.
02:38He's got 36 ribbies, 77 RBIs.
02:41He's hitting about 270 right now.
02:43And he has been phenomenal all year long.
02:47It's certainly not a bullpen advantage by Atlanta here.
02:51So they might have the split advantage here over the last couple of weeks, but call me
02:58crazy.
02:59I think Martin Perez more than capable of getting it done here tonight at a relatively cheap
03:06price for an Atlanta team that, give me Akuna, even Riley, give me Riley now starting to hit
03:12the ball too.
03:13I just don't see how this is even remotely close to only what, minus 130 or even less than
03:20that right now, Greg.
03:21Don't understand this one.
03:22Yeah.
03:23Don't understand this one at all.
03:24But the only thing I can think of, Joe, is that Minnesota is one of those rare teams
03:29in baseball these days that does more damage against left-handed pitching.
03:33So maybe that's, you know, sort of the reason why.
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