A Numbers Game | August 25, 2026 | Hour 1

**Gill Alexander** (0:00)
The Numbers told the story, they always do.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:02)
It's one of those idiots who believe in analytics.

**Gill Alexander** (0:05)
This is a Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN.

**Pete Fuitak** (0:08)
Good, what is it, Tuesday morning?

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:10)
Tuesday!

**Pete Fuitak** (0:11)
Yeah, it's a Numbers Game. Good start.

**Gill Alexander** (0:14)
Taco Tuesday.

**Pete Fuitak** (0:15)
VSiN, or Spending Network, visi.com, Game Plus, iHeartRadio, YouTube TV, SiriusXM Channel, 158
Skill Alexander, that's Kelley Bydlon. There's roughly 5,473 Taco Tuesdays around the country. Someone had to do it first.

**Gill Alexander** (0:32)
Someone did.

**Pete Fuitak** (0:33)
You think that person is bent, that they didn't copyright it, or are you allowed to do that?

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:38)
Wait, wasn't there like a LeBron thing about this too at some point?

**Pete Fuitak** (0:42)
Taco Tuesday specifically?

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:43)
Yeah.

**Gill Alexander** (0:44)
Oh, wow.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:44)
I'm going to have to look at the LeBron claims video. Like at some point, if I'm remembering the story correct, he partially claimed ownership of that. I'm going to have to double check my facts here.

**Pete Fuitak** (0:54)
Breaking news coming over that one out of four NFL players, it says, can get CTE. I'm going to I'm going to push back on that study and say four out of four. I can get CTE.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:06)
Four out of four. Anybody can get CTE.

**Pete Fuitak** (1:07)
That's right. We might get CTE before the end of the show.
Not that it's a laughing matter, but that's a weird headline.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:13)
Yeah, right at the same way.

**Pete Fuitak** (1:16)
Pete Fuitak is going to join us this hour. Oh, I was going to say, speaking of CTE, that didn't seem like an appropriate transition. Pete Fuitak from College Football News. Get his thoughts on the college football season. By the way, Dave and Jensen, the by the books host, by the books, Dave Ross, Captain America, Jensen Lewis, the closer.
They just had Ryan Kramer on from the Sports Galley Podcast.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:38)
That's great work.

**Pete Fuitak** (1:39)
Did I hear that correctly on the way in? He has Virginia Tech winning it all.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:44)
Was it winning all or ACC?

**Pete Fuitak** (1:46)
ACC followed by them winning it all.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:48)
There you go.

**Pete Fuitak** (1:48)
500 to 1
See if Pete agrees with that or not. Drew Dinsick is going to join us. Talk NFL and US Open. We got a tennis podcast coming up this week after the draw. Let's go. Mark Borchardt, Major League Baseball, a little later, and Jeff Erickson. Always great to hear from Jeff when he has the time to join the show. Talk NFL. We'll talk real football. We'll talk fantasy football with him. Got your fantasy football questions lined up?

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:11)
Yes.

**Pete Fuitak** (2:12)
You are lying. I can tell you are lying right there.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:16)
Rank wide receivers, one through six.

**Pete Fuitak** (2:18)
That's a good question. Maybe you should ask him that.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:20)
Exactly six, Gill.

**Pete Fuitak** (2:22)
Six randomly six. Yesterday, yesterday, tennis split the dogs. Renata Sarasua won the first set against Clara Tassin as big plus two whatever dog plus two something. I can't remember anymore. She won the first set and then she just got rolled after that. Diane Parry, your girl, she came through last night, late night. That was a long way to split dogs and make 35 cents last night. It's a long day for that today. And this is, you know, usually we're our tennis bets are dogs, big dogs, short favorites. This is a this is a very odd sort of day for us. We have five plays. These are strewn. Any chance you get to use the word strewn? You got to take it. These are strewn between Winston Salem on the men's side, Monterrey, Monterrey on the lady side, three on the lady side. They're all favorites.
Jiang Shuai, minus 125 versus Maria Timofeeva.
Anna Bondar, Hungarian. Anna Bondar versus Christina Bucsup, minus 130 Daria Vidmanova.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:26)
Oh, there's a name.

**Pete Fuitak** (3:27)
Minus 145 versus Kimberly Burrell. And then on the men's side, this is in Winston Salem, North Kakalaki. Rinky Hijikata, plus 102 versus Rafael Colignon and Continalis, minus 149 versus Benjamin Bonzi. So those are all five plays again, all day long. North Carolina, Mexico on the run up to the US. Open draw, which is this Friday. And then the open itself, the last slam of the season begins on, I believe it's Sunday, if I'm not mistaken.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:55)