A Numbers Game | October 16, 2026 | Hour 1

Gill Alexander (0:00)

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Paul Carr (0:30)

The Numbers told the story, they always do. Swando's idiots who believe in analytics.

Gill Alexander (0:35)

This is A Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN. Good Friday morning to you. This is A Numbers Game at VSiN, the sports betting network, vsin.com. Game Plus, iHeart, Radio, YouTube, TV, SiriusXM Channel, 189, Gill Alexander, Kelley Bydlon. What's happening?

Kelley Bydlon (0:50)

Not much, man.

Gill Alexander (0:51)

Good seeing Dustin here.

Kelley Bydlon (0:52)

Yeah, man. I'm by the books with Jensen this morning. Dustin always doing a great job. Oh, it was a great job.

Gill Alexander (0:57)

Always a great job. Um, we have a...

Kelley Bydlon (1:01)

I heard he scared the crew this morning because he was here so early.

Gill Alexander (1:04)

Oh.

Kelley Bydlon (1:04)

People underestimate the work ethic of one Dustin Swetelson. He was first to the gym, last out of the gym, or sort of, you know.

Gill Alexander (1:12)

Dustin Swetelson, tribesman, on the show today, Fezik, Steve Fezik, Fridays, Fezik Fridays, we call it. Little later on the show. He's got a lot on his mind. He's got bets.

Kelley Bydlon (1:23)

Did you catch that I AI'd Fezik? Oh, no. That's what that was.

Gill Alexander (1:26)

Where?

Kelley Bydlon (1:27)

That little screen shot he sent. I was like, what do we do with Steve, right? Then I just put it in a ChatGPT and it just did it all.

Gill Alexander (1:33)

Is it in the text? I didn't see anything.

Paul Carr (1:35)

Yeah, I just texted it back to you.

Gill Alexander (1:37)

I like that someone put together something of you yesterday.

Paul Carr (1:42)

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

Gill Alexander (1:43)

We got a photo of that up on the screen. Chris Felica, the Bear, with all his college football plays, his Prem picks as well, Premier League. Felica, we got the Bear, we got Fezik down the road. Borchard, a special Friday appearance from Mark Borchard as the NLCS is now in the rear view. But the ALCS, we hope, plays a game for tonight. I don't know. We'll see.

Mark Borchard has thoughts moving forward. Paul Carr with a three pack on the Premier League as well. And we will talk, of course, every game in the National Football League. You know, we say this often. We used to get off the air at 12 noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. And all the breaking news would happen afterwards, right after the show. And Ron Flatter, who was our adult supervision for many years here at the network, used to say to me, you know why that is, Gill? Do you know why that is? I don't know why is that? And he would say, well, I'll tell you why.

It's because the news cycle begins and ends right there. And then we went, you and I, Kelley, to, we extended to 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. And it seemed like the world was like, let's just wait another hour. And Jalen Hurts right after the show yesterday with a superficial blood clot.

Kelley Bydlon (2:49)

Yeah, wild stuff. Blood clot.

Gill Alexander (2:51)

The not going to start for the Eagles this week. It's going to be Tanner McKee. So, you know, blood clots are serious things. And now it is a superficial blood clot, but it did move. So you can't take and they they detected it before the London game played through it.

Precaution, you know, hey, and moved a little. And, you know, as someone who has had one and not the superficial variety, but the much more serious variety, that can be a serious situation.

Paul Carr (3:21)

So he's not playing. For sure.

Kelley Bydlon (3:23)

Yeah, it sounded like they were monitoring it heavily and saw that it moved. Yeah, you get shut down after that. So I thought it was really interesting listening to Derek and Wilbo on Follow the Money yesterday talking about because we were what was the I said told you the news and the first question you asked me, you're like, when did this come down?

Paul Carr (3:40)