A Numbers Game | July 21, 2026 | Hour 3

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The numbers told the story, they always do.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:03)
Swans those idiots who believe in analytics. This is A Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN.

**Gill Alexander** (1:09)
Hour number three of A Numbers Game at VSiN, eSports, Benny Network, vsin.com, Game Plus, iHeartRadio, YouTube TV, and of course, SiriusXM Channel 158 It's Gill Alexander. Kelley Bydlon is here as well. Earlier on the show, I tried to do my promo homework on air. It was fantastic.
It was.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:27)
It was nine and a half stars out of ten.

**Gill Alexander** (1:32)
By the way, I'm told the third one is way too long. Man, come on.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:36)
I have to clean that up. Gonna have to clean that up. I'll bring them up because there's also a non zero chance he's listening right now.
I just I did a cruise by in the casino and then I had to do a double take and walk closer to the blackjack tables because I thought Tim Lawson was out there playing blackjack.

**Mark Borchard** (1:53)
There's maybe it is Timmy Lawson.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:54)
There's guy looks exactly like him. I'm pretty sure it's not him, though.

**Gill Alexander** (1:58)
Timmy Lawson, the the Better Life host for all the years. Great podcast. We get tweets beating the book Xavier 82 I know Dave Ross would be happy hearing Whale Capper, meaning Drew Dinsick's review of the NFC East earlier in the show. How about them Cowboys? Oh, I've got stuff to say about the Cowboys.
Bobby Geddes, the what's beat the who's in what year? Did you say the St. Louis Maroons? If so, I think I finally won A&G Bingo. Yes, the Red Sox are trying or the Red Sox Orioles game yesterday was the first game between two teams with win streaks of seven games or more since 1884 game between the St. Louis Maroons and the Washington Nationals. The Maroons, New Jersey, New York.
Regarding Washington schedule, Gill, you might remember this, but in 2013, the New York Giants had such a brutal start of the schedule that you kept repeating on guessing lines and the megabot. If they start two and five, that's a success. The season isn't completely over. Sound familiar? Yeah, that's exactly right.
Chance Copperpot, I rage bet your Red Sox most wins in July at nine to one before the All-Star break, Gill. I wrote these most wins in a month plays off, but if you cash and I didn't get a piece, it would haunt me. What could possibly go wrong? Go Red Sox. It was so funny about these. It's like we've been close every time this year, really. I mean, two of them didn't really have a chance. It was more cosmetic, but they ended up very close. So the proof is in the pudding in terms of the thinking is correct. And this is just, again, months of frustration all pouring in.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:36)
But that's also important. If you are betting these, that's of how you're evaluating yourself. It's important to do that after the month, not on the 10th day of the month.

**Gill Alexander** (3:48)
Right.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:48)
I mean, like, for sure, like you said, Gill, like, yes, there have been there have been months where 11 days into the month, you knew like you were probably done.

**Gill Alexander** (3:55)
Right.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:55)
But then, hey, you have to evaluate how the bet was after the month when you see what the final record was.

**Gill Alexander** (4:01)
Todd Crisostomo.

**Kelley Bydlon** (4:04)
Nice.

**Gill Alexander** (4:04)
I like that. I just want to say that name again. Hi, Gill. What happened? He said, what happened to the Jesper De Jong match on the overnight? I put his play in VS Jan Schoenski in a parlay, so it was voided because De Jong played Timofee Skotov instead. Why the switch? They had a reserved sub on site to fill in. This happens a lot at the beginning of tennis tournaments where matches are scheduled, but then someone invariably pulls out. I'm actually not sure what the reason is because I was prepping for the show. I know show prep, but I know.