A Numbers Game | August 25, 2026 | Hour 3

**Jeff Erickson** (0:00)
The numbers told the story, they always do. Swando's idiots who believe in analytics.

**Gill Alexander** (0:05)
This is A Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN. Our number three of A Numbers Game at VSiN, eSports betting network, vsin.com Game Plus, iHeartRadio, YouTube TV, SiriusXM Channel 158, Gill Alexander, Kelley Bydlon, here at Circle Resort Casino, downtown Las Vegas. This week, as I mentioned yesterday, Thursday, not just Bill Krakenberg, but courtesy of the crack man, Jay Cohen, one of the founders of the World Sports Exchange, going to join us. He has written a new book. It's called Odds Man Out. I devoured it this weekend. Two sittings, 350 pages, on my phone, by the way, in PDF form. Didn't even have the hard copy off my phone. On your phone. That's how good it was. Wow. I'm nearsighted. It's easy for me on the phone.
Spectacular. Can't wait to have Jay Cohen on the show. Lots of questions.
I got some tough questions too.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:59)
I'm looking forward to it.

**Gill Alexander** (1:00)
What just happened with the ear? What just happened right now?

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:02)
See, this little box that controls our audio, when it loses battery power, it becomes a little useless. So if I'm going to hear you, I don't really want anything in my ear.

**Gill Alexander** (1:11)
Sorry about that. By the way, Kelley, Kelley often leaves the studio on breaks. Not often, but, you know, multiple times a show, not multiple.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:18)
Once a show, once a show.

**Gill Alexander** (1:20)
OK, be fair, because his bladder is not as powerful as some other people. And today or just now, he came back in the studio and he says to me, what do you say to me?

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:29)
I got to tell you about this bathroom story on air.

**Gill Alexander** (1:31)
OK, tell me about a bathroom.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:32)
First of all, packed bathroom at 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. Oh, my God, I forgot what day it was, too. You did that at the beginning of the show.

**Gill Alexander** (1:39)
Can we interject this? We love Circa. We love this place, which is the greatest sports book on Earth. It's the greatest pool experience at Stadium Swim.
The bathroom design of the building is a little quirky, very sneaky. There are none on this side of the building. You have to go to the other side of the building.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:56)
You have to go to the other side of the building. So I got to run to the other side of that book in, you know, three and a half minutes, right, right behind that big screen, right? Well, it says fuel. What happened there? It's like clear. Clearly, guys, first week doing the bathroom attendant job because there's probably three or four dudes lined up at the urinal. And he just walks in and starts asking everybody how they're doing.

**Jeff Erickson** (2:17)
I thought it was really not.

**Gill Alexander** (2:18)
It's awkward.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:19)
I almost lost it. I was the only guy who answered. I'm like, I'm doing well.

**Jeff Erickson** (2:22)
I do it, man. He literally went one by one. He's like, how are you?

**Gill Alexander** (2:26)
Did you raise your arm and point?

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:28)
Did you really do that?

**Jeff Erickson** (2:29)
Oh, OK.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:30)
I really raised the head, though.

**Gill Alexander** (2:31)
I was going to say. That was pretty dear devilish. Jason.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:34)
Oh, I was dying laughing. That was hilarious. He's like, hey, he's like, how are you guys? How are you?

**Gill Alexander** (2:39)
How are you? He's just schmoozing for tips.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:41)
I was very nice, very nice guy.

**Gill Alexander** (2:43)
Jason Stark also saw Public Enemy open for GNR Guns and Roses a couple of weeks ago at Saratoga.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:48)
Wow.

**Gill Alexander** (2:49)
Funniest thing of that was Flava Flav was at the horse track the day before and did Riders Up.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:54)
Wow. That's an amazing picture.

**Gill Alexander** (2:55)
He included. He sure did. Flava towering over the jockey. Stringfellow Hawk, you thought I donut you tried to glaze me. Oh, yes, Eric B and Rakim. Eric B is president. Make him clap to this. I got your back, Gill. Thank you, Stringfellow.
Oversight on my part. Jeff Erickson letting everybody know he'll be on the show here momentarily, and we are excited to have him here momentarily.
Jeff's going to come on and talk fantasy with us. He's got some plays in Major League Baseball for us here momentarily, and he also lets us know that, of course, he and Nick Whalen will be on Prop Points Top of the Hour. All that. And then Willie B. Benton. Don't look now, Gill, but 16-year-old American and 2026 junior Roland Garros runner-up Michael Antonius is absolutely bodying Henry Searle in qualifiers this morning. Second day, a 60-year-old wild card won their qualifying match. The future is bright. Thanks for chiming in on that. We appreciate it. OK, we never like to see a man lose his job nor a lady.