A Numbers Game | August 26, 2026 | Hour 3

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

**Gill Alexander** (0:02)
It's one of those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN. Outcom Game Plus, I Heart Radio, YouTube TV, SiriusXM, Channel 158
It's Gill Alexander. It's Kelley Bydlon right there, everybody. Kelley's sprinting back in the studio.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:18)
Yeah, sir.

**Gill Alexander** (0:19)
What he does.
Still to come, Todd Wishnev. We're gonna continue with our head-to-head props in the NFL a little later on, and momentarily win Total Wednesdays.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:29)
That's right.
Can I give a shout-out quick, please? How about my cousin Nicole? Nicole just had a brand new baby at home on maternity leave.

**Gill Alexander** (0:38)
Congratulations, Nicole.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:39)
Brand new healthy baby, Harper, there at home with her husband, Connor.
Okay, I've been watching the show. Connor's a big tennis fan, so he had got really excited apparently at the beginning of the show. You were going into all the tennis. I don't think he watches as much. Nicole watches a lot.

**Gill Alexander** (0:54)
Oh, wow.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:56)
Yeah. Nicole, when I was growing up, my last name, Wartaberg, married Connor Funk, Funk.
What's the worst last name to go through life with? Wartaberg or Funk?

**Gill Alexander** (1:10)
I think Funk is cool.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:11)
Those are two tough ones. I think Funk's cool too.

**Gill Alexander** (1:14)
Is she now Nicole Funk?

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:16)
She's Nicole Funk. Yeah.

**Gill Alexander** (1:17)
Come on. That's awesome.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:18)
An awesome name?

**Gill Alexander** (1:19)
Yeah.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:19)
That's kind of how I look at it too.

**Ryan Noonan** (1:21)
I understand what you're going with.

**Gill Alexander** (1:22)
It's tough.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:22)
It's tough.

**Gill Alexander** (1:24)
You can pretty much put any name before Funk and it's cool.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:26)
I kind of think the same.

**Gill Alexander** (1:27)
Especially if it's multisyllable.

**Ryan Noonan** (1:29)
So shout out to the Funks at Home Watcher.

**Gill Alexander** (1:30)
Congratulations, Connor and Nicole Funk. That's short for Funkadelic. Did y'all go to Ellis Island? It was Funkadelic was your last name. They they shorted it to Funk.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:39)
Man, it's up in the story this week.

**Gill Alexander** (1:41)
Chris of St. Bart's on Twitter. Nothing like betting gilly tennis while loopy under nitrous at the dentist.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:46)
Nice.

**Gill Alexander** (1:47)
As long as they win.
Doesn't matter if you even know what you're doing, right? As long as they win. Chance Copperpot, thank you for this, Chance. Chance, isn't it funny how some of us take pop culture references as assumed knowledge? How did y'all not know that was from I Get Around from Tupac? How did you not know that was an I Get Around reference?

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:04)
I don't even know how many hundreds of times I've listened to that song, too.

**Gill Alexander** (2:07)
He said, if I see Torch D pop up in the Toddy chat, in the Discord, Todd Wishnev joining us later, he said, I see satin in your panties and just assumed he knew, oh, I say satin in your panties, in the Discord he says it, and just assumed he knew what that meant. I'll tell you why, Chance Copperbot. I'll tell you why we're on one plane and they're on another one, because Gen X, I'm going to assume you're Gen X like me, Gen X just better human beings.
That's what I'm going to go with.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:33)
He's not, Chance is like my age.

**Gill Alexander** (2:34)
Oh, sorry about that.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:35)
How about, you want some news?

**Gill Alexander** (2:38)
Please. It's about time we got around to some news.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:42)
Here's a funny one, PGA Tour suspending a golfer for betting on golf.

**Gill Alexander** (2:48)
Oh, wait, I like this.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:50)
I liked it, too.

**Gill Alexander** (2:51)
Until you found out who it was.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:52)
Until I found out who it was. This would be Matt. No, no, no, actually, because it's not intriguing at all. Matt Goggle, who's on the Champions Tour.

**Gill Alexander** (3:01)
Oh, Matt, come on.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:02)
Oh, of course, in golf like fashion, like his his apology, I just read through it. It was like he's like, it was a couple of years ago. I didn't even know it was wrong at the time. It was like on stuff I wasn't playing in.

**Gill Alexander** (3:13)
That's a stupid question. How did they find out that Matt Goggle bet on golf?

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:16)
That's a great question. I don't know. I've been scrolling through this article. That hasn't come up yet.