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00:02 Now, let's have some fun with the Major League Baseball card
00:05 which does start early today.
00:07 And that's in a game between the St. Louis Cardinals
00:10 and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
00:11 If we're lining this game up here
00:13 on the FanDuel Sportsbook,
00:14 Thompson versus Ortiz,
00:16 slight favorite here to St. Louis
00:18 as a favorite of -126
00:20 and a total that's listed at 9.5.
00:23 Temperatures today for this game, 75 degrees,
00:26 light wind blowing in from right field.
00:28 Any thoughts today, Mark, for you
00:30 on a game between the Cardinals and the Pirates?
00:32 - Oh God, I mean, at this point,
00:35 do you wanna play a game
00:36 with two teams that are playing for nothing?
00:40 Unless, yeah, unless you see a major edge here or side,
00:44 and I genuinely don't with these two starting pitchers.
00:46 There's nothing about this game that really entices me
00:49 or this series.
00:50 I know it's early day baseball,
00:52 but I gotta be honest,
00:53 that's a game I looked at for about 12 seconds
00:56 and said, "This is not worth me digging
00:59 to try to find an angle here with these two teams."
01:01 I mean, look, if you just wanna take the short route
01:04 and say Cardinals team total over
01:06 against a bad Pirates team in a bad Pirates bullpen,
01:09 then maybe you have a shot there.
01:10 It'd be the only place I'd probably look.
01:12 - Yeah, exactly.
01:13 And you're taking a look too
01:13 because one of the things I always like to do
01:14 is give me a little basis here, Mark.
01:16 Like, give me 30, give me maybe five or six weeks here
01:18 where we can go back and see how you're doing as a pitcher.
01:20 Luis Ortiz hasn't thrown there
01:22 for about over a month and a half at this point,
01:24 so hard to get a feel on what he's coming back to.
01:26 And also, both of these teams going nowhere here
01:28 in the 2023 season,
01:30 but it is a day game, 12.35 in the afternoon,
01:32 and yeah, we'll see how many people are attendance there
01:34 in Pittsburgh.
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