A Numbers Game | August 27, 2026 | Hour 1

**Zach Cohen** (0:01)
The Numbers told the story, they always do. One of those idiots who believe in analytics.

**Gill Alexander** (0:05)
This is a Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN. Good Thursday morning, today's the Numbers Game at VSiN, the esportsbettingnetworkvision.com game plus iHeartRadio, YouTube TV, and of course, SiriusXSup Channel 158
It's Gill Alexander. That right there is Kelley Bydlon. And this is Danny Higgins' Second to Last Day.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:24)
That's right, man.

**Gill Alexander** (0:25)
I want to do something for Danny, but Danny's like, I will be out of here the minute after the show in a different state.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:31)
He's working, packing, hitting the road. He's got work to start early next week.

**Gill Alexander** (0:36)
Also, what I learned just moments ago is that Kelley Bydlon may be leaving the show because you want to start what? What do you want to start?

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:41)
An escalator company, maybe escalator repair company. I don't know if anything I've learned in Vegas over my what, nine years living out here now is that every casino I ever walk in, there's a broken escalator and there's people fixing it. It looks like a massive project. It looks really expensive. Like Derek Stevens has to have an escalator company on retainer. There's people here like once a week.

**Gill Alexander** (1:02)
There's an escalator in the middle of the strip. So right where there's a lot with the skywalk with the skywalks, right? Where the right where the Cosmo is, you take the skywalk right across the street and there's like the Walgreens and that kind of thing. So right in the heart of the strip corner of Parmen and Las Vegas Boulevard, there is an escalator there on that other side. I swear to you, it is broken 86.4 percent of the time.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:25)
That's what I'm talking about. There's always people working on these things.
There's got to be good money in that business.

**Gill Alexander** (1:30)
Creating jobs.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:31)
Creating jobs.

**Gill Alexander** (1:32)
That's what I'm here for. Kelley Bydlon, maybe his second to last. I don't know.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:35)
Maybe.

**Gill Alexander** (1:36)
On the show today, Zach and Crack. Zach Cohen makes his triumphant return to the show. He was on a European vacation, I believe it was. He'll talk US Open with us the day before we get together with Drew Ditzig, do the podcast on the open post draw. We're getting the draw here later today.
He will talk NFL with us as well. Michael Montesano will join us. He in studio?

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:56)
He's in studio. Let's go.

**Gill Alexander** (1:58)
Montesano.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:58)
I think he's at the gym right now.

**Gill Alexander** (2:00)
Well, where else would he be? Bets and reps, by the way, is his Twitter. He will talk college football futures with us. I think he has an NFL future as well. Montesano will join us. Now, Right Angle Sports joining the show today. Michael Reardon will join the show today, talk college football with us. We'll talk week zero with him. Now, this is usually what we will have with him is a release, a live release on the show. I don't know that we're getting that today because it's week zero. And these have been up for 100 months. So, don't know we're getting that, but we'll talk college football, week zero primarily with Michael Reardon. And then it is unscripted with the Crack Man a little bit earlier than normal today, about 15 minutes earlier than normal. And the reason for that is because for the majority of the final hour, the co-founder of World Sports Exchange, Jay Cohen, will be joining us from an undisclosed location somewhere in Eastern Europe, I believe. But he will be joining us courtesy of the Progressive Guest Line to talk about his new book, Odds Man Out.
And I will say it once again, I don't know if I've looked forward to a guest as much as this guy ever, because again, I read the book, I devoured that book, it was so awesome. It's a wild story, man. It's an incredible, well, it's for those of us of a certain age who also played on World Sports Exchange, what a story from being revolutionary to believing in America, to having it all just crumble. And we'll get into all the details. For those who haven't read the book, for those who don't know the story, we'll get to the nuts and bolts of the story. And then I have a bunch of questions to ask him regarding, I don't know, regrets. What about people left holding the bag at the end? So many things to discuss, but what a story. And there should not be, I say this about the baseball hall of fame, there should not be a baseball hall of fame without Barry Lamar Bonds. There should never be a sports betting or sports gambling hall of fame without Jake Cohen in it.