A Numbers Game | July 23, 2026 | Hour 1

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The numbers told the story. They always do.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:03)
One of those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gill Alexander on VSiN.

**Gill Alexander** (1:10)
Good Thursday morning to you. It's a numbers game at VSiN, eSports betting network, vsin.com game plus iHeart Radio, YouTube TV and of course, Sirius XM channel 158 Gill Alexander in San Francisco for the week.
Kelley Bydlon in Las Vegas, of course. You say in Las Vegas, you say at Las Vegas.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:28)
Sounds weird if you say in Las Vegas. Yeah.

**Gill Alexander** (1:31)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:32)
We don't say that in football games, though, right? Yeah. Right.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:34)
Right.

**Gill Alexander** (1:35)
Yeah.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:35)
Well, let's not confuse ourselves already. We're 10 seconds into the show. OK. Am I at Circa or am I in Circa?

**Gill Alexander** (1:42)
That's the I don't know.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:43)
Maybe we should ponder that. Or am I in the Vison studios at Circa? I could go about with this for hours.

**Gill Alexander** (1:50)
So it's a little better than our pre-show conversation moments ago where Kelley told me that he and Dustin debated the best cheese last week, which is fascinating as well.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:59)
Yeah, I don't know how much that was on air or off air, but yeah, it was it was a debate.

**Gill Alexander** (2:04)
It's fun. It is Thursday. You know what that means.
Zach and crack Zach Cohen joins us to discuss any remaining tennis plays he has. He's got some thoughts on that. And of course, also NBA going to look ahead to the US Open. Also speaking of tennis, going to look ahead to the US Open, but NBA thoughts as well. I don't know, maybe an NFL thought or two from Zach. And the other part of the comedy duo of Zach and crack, Bill Krakenberger unscripted, just because I'm in San Francisco doesn't mean he's not going to spend time in the studio with Kelley. So he will join us a little later, whatever's on his mind. We continue our NFC division by division previews. We go to the glorious NFC South today, Kelley. That was fun.
Dive deep into that division. Oh, boy.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:49)
You know what? I've actually got I've got more thoughts and more things to say about it. Gil, the after after diving back in more yesterday than I really thought I was going to. So mainly about like one team.

**Gill Alexander** (3:02)
I have a lot of question marks, which should surprise anybody. Yeah, a whole bunch. And it all starts with quarterbacks. Jeff Erickson. We have Nick Whalen on every week, co-host of Prop Points. And we lost touch with our buddy Jeff Erickson. So Jeff Erickson is going to be on today.
He's got some MLB for the day. It's a really small day, only five games in Major League Baseball.
We'll also talk some NFL with Jeff as well. I was looking forward to getting together with him. And then, you know, our producer, Danny Higgins, came to, you know, just on his own, sort of put together a nice little MLB trade deadline package for us, which we should dive into. The Major League Baseball trade deadline now 11 days away. And this is not a prisoner of the moment comment, because I realize this kind of happens in some form every year and has for a long time. But I don't remember a year where this many teams, 11 days out, you cannot determine if they're going to be buyers or sellers yet. Like it's just too close to a playoff position to know the answer to it right now. But we'll dive into the biggest names, who might be a buyer, who might be a seller. We'll do all that. First, let's talk about tennis. And you've got some golf to talk about. Tennis, another five plays. I don't plan on it being five plays, but we've had five plays, I think three days in a row now on the show. One was in the books before the show started. Yannick Hanfmann takes down Sebastian Baez. Yannick Hanfmann, Kelley, is the German pronunciation of that, I would imagine. Minus 135 favorite, he beats Baez in straight sets. Currently being played, Tomas Martín Echevarria up a set on Ignacio Busse, the Peruvian, don't really say that every day, the Peruvian tennis star, Ignacio Busse. So we're up a set there, we're on serve late in the second. Hopefully can get that plus 113 play on Tomas Martín Echevarria home.