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00:00Just a few more minutes left here on this Monday morning on the early line on sports grid in about 24 hours from now
00:06Wow, our first game of the Major League Baseball season in 2025 will already be done in
00:13Finished more than likely because it opens up in Japan
00:18the Tokyo series a two-game set in Tokyo begins tomorrow between the Dodgers and
00:24The Cubs in our first matchup of the season features two Japanese aces for the Dodgers
00:30It's Yoshiya Mamoto for the Cubs
00:33It's sure to Iminaga the Dodgers of course booked as a slight favorite on the money line as you would anticipate maybe for
00:41155 of a hundred and sixty two games of the regular season this year for the Dodgers
00:45total at seven and a half outside of the starting pitching matchup DRS that we can look at in just a moment big news for
00:52The Dodgers Mookie Betts dealing with some illness that has caused him to lose
00:56By reports 10 to 15 pounds more than likely not playing in the Tokyo series for LA
01:01No
01:01And that's big news too because I think they said they're even contemplating and Ben put him on a plane sending him back to Los
01:06Angeles just to get ready for the next couple spring training games and getting ready for the actual home opener
01:11Which will take place next week, but that is scary situation. That's like I got some sniffles
01:15I don't feel that good 15 pounds for Mookie Betts and as their manager pointed out
01:18It's not so much about he can recover and play in these games. It's you're dehydrated
01:22So, okay run the second base there goes a hamstring injury
01:25There goes a calf industry industry and now you're taking a look at saying I'm down three to four weeks at that point good point
01:29Send him home, but trust me
01:30The Dodgers got an 18 B team C team and a D team even though the one of the best players in baseball is that you like?
01:36Hey, no big deal and you have two starting pitchers that are now in their second year of Major League Baseball both
01:42Sensational in their first Yoshi Yamamoto from Japan Shota
01:46You mean Agha the start of his MLB career, although he's a little bit older than your classic rookie
01:51He was in the running for rookie of the year around the National League the two aces there in game number two of the Tokyo
01:57Series on Wednesday starting at 6 10 a.m
02:00Eastern time the rope for the Dodgers also from Japan and Roki Sasaki going up against Justin Steel
02:07so a lot of Japanese flavor for this Tokyo series and of course the biggest star in the sport who has already received quite a
02:15House warming and a welcome back show. Hey, Ohtani DRS for the Dodgers who is the short favorite to a National League MVP?
02:23Yeah, and it'll be fun to watch too because it is baseball but understand this like it's a long season at this point
02:29Okay, Dodgers win two games against the Cubs then they sit out for like a week and then they got to play their home
02:34Respectively which we don't like but again
02:35It's fun that we have an early morning show be able to update it and probably the game getting over just about the time
02:40That we get on the air tomorrow for the early line
02:42I do think it's interesting that that line is sitting at seven and a half and I do technically agree with it
02:46Usually early in the season. I give the edge to the pitchers now having said that the pitchers usually aren't stretched out
02:51Like we're not expecting a Yamamoto was fantastic. He went seven and two-thirds innings pitch
02:54You're probably looking at maybe five
02:57Maximum six innings regardless of how many pitches these two pitchers have thrown in the opener
03:01So it might be a bullpen game, which you always lean on the Dodgers now
03:04Take a look at that spread and to open up at minus 154 now
03:07We're sitting at 146 some other outlets much higher and much lower
03:11So a lot of bouncing around and sometimes it's best just to watch how some of these play up because he's they got it
03:16Who's your advantage more?
03:17I have no advantage in this game
03:18Do really good pictures to decent teams in a stadium that they're not used to playing in for two games and then coming home
03:24You're probably you know, put it this way dog dog both games
03:28Probably come away one-on-one the Dodgers opened up the season last year in the Seoul series in South Korea against San Diego
03:35I believe they split that against the Padres as well
03:38If I remember if you were directly last year the first time and I think 10 years around MLB
03:43We did not have at least one team
03:45Get to a hundred wins not a single 100 game winner
03:48including the Dodgers who ended up winning a World Series that expected a change this time around the Dodgers have a win total of
03:56104 and a half they are a minus 340 favorite to be a
04:01100 win baseball team the Cubbies a more modest win total 87 and a hook
04:07But Donnie Chicago the favorites in slight minus money minus 105 when the National League said I like the Cubs a little bit this year
04:13And again, they play in a division that's manageable
04:15They should be outspending everybody by a wide margin
04:17But they don't because they don't have to and that's up to the owners at that point
04:19But also focus on this for the Dodgers. It's crazy where let's just say just a hundred win marker
04:24162 games been like it was gonna be favored a hundred and fifty plus games
04:27But if they don't win a hundred games this year, it's like what are we doing?
04:31You should just take go against the Dodgers every night because their margin Ben isn't like hey worried about them being favored minus 135
04:37Like no, they're gonna be minus 180 plus every single night of the year. It's gonna feel like I think DRS
04:43If you were to do that for a hundred sixty two games bet the underdog on the run line
04:47You would probably find your way to some profitability throughout a very long Major League Baseball season
04:53Of course, the Dodgers are the short favorites to a second consecutive World Series