A Numbers Game | August 4, 2026 | Hour 2

**Dustin Swedelson** (0:00)
The numbers told the story, they always do.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:03)
One of those idiots who believe in analytics.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:05)
This is A Numbers Game with Gil Alexander on VSiN.

**Dustin Swedelson** (0:12)
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**Kelley Bydlon** (0:48)
We get tweets, Dustin. Before you start, do you know that there's a baseball favorite today of minus 276?

**Dustin Swedelson** (0:58)
The Dodgers?

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:59)
The Phillies. Oh, we have a palmquist on the mound for Washington.

**Dustin Swedelson** (1:03)
Oh, well, he's opening for Zach Lattell, I believe.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:07)
OK.

**Dustin Swedelson** (1:08)
Yeah, I believe that Zach Lattell allows home runs at a very rapid rate. That is the thing with him. I thought about the Phillies team total today, but I'm not really in the mood to back them at this point. Yeah, minus 276 in them is pretty absurd, right?

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:21)
That is a big number. And yeah, not the Dodgers.

**Dustin Swedelson** (1:23)
I mean, the Dodgers minus 219 against the Cubs.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:26)
We'll do more on the road.

**Dustin Swedelson** (1:27)
We'll do more on the baseball card later, Kelley, because I have a couple of K-Prop unders I'm going with today. And I'll explain why as we do get tweets, want to read them as they're coming in here. And a Buddhist man writes in, and this is a good one.
These are the specs. I pictured Dustin Swedelson rocking this morning as I drive to the office. They look like a bedazzled pair of Cartier glasses that are tinted kind of pinkish purple bluish. I would rock those.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:51)
I was going to say, those are some bad-ass glasses.

**Dustin Swedelson** (1:52)
I'd wear those, too. I would look a lot like Elton John, but I would rock them. At Scola underscore 10, nerds, nerds, nerds, Dustin all white and nerdy looking today, because I bought a new pair of specs, man.
I like them. They're going to take a little bit of getting used to. And it's difficult to find glasses that fit my big fat face. This is reality.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:11)
This show is tough with new glasses, OK? Gil rocked a new pair like six months ago and had to go back.

**Dustin Swedelson** (2:17)
Yeah, but I don't I don't fall pressure to peer pressure. Like the more you hate something on me, the more I'm going to lean into it. OK, that's just my life in general. The more people say, like, I don't like that you do this. I'm going to do it more like say that John Mathews better than Arch Manning right now.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:31)
Yeah.

**Dustin Swedelson** (2:32)
Yeah.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:32)
JVT, if you're still listening, all that did was make him want to bet it more.

**Dustin Swedelson** (2:35)
Yeah, you know, I just I'm going to stand ten toes on it. Colin Murphy writes in our discussion about the Falcons.
All I've heard all offseason is Atlanta over six and a half wins, and yet they aren't moving the number. I took a shot on them to finish last in division plus 160, fewest wins in the league, 17 to 1, 2 is cooked. I'm with you. Yeah, I don't see what everyone's seeing with 2a and Atlanta. If it's Panix, I can buy it a little bit more, but you're waiting for him to get hurt at some point in time. Someone tweeted us last week when I was in, maybe the week before, about them trading for Zach Wilson or something like that. And I'm not a Zach Wilson guy, but as many warm bodies as they could get at quarterback with upside, I think would be a positive for the Falcons.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:11)
Man, here's my counter. Who in the NFC South is running away with this division?

**Dustin Swedelson** (3:18)
Well, you and I are both pretty low in Carolina. Yes.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:22)
And are you a part of this camp that thinks that Tyler Schuck has all of a sudden revitalized everything happening in New Orleans?

**Dustin Swedelson** (3:29)