Cashing Out | August 18, 2026 | Hour 1

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This is Cashing Out with your host, Dustin Swedelson on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network.

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Yeah, buddy, August the 18th, be with you on a Tuesday night. I'm Dustin Swedelson, and I'll be with you all night long as we broadcast from the Circus Sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas. Appreciate you making us part of your night. However, you may be tuning in Sirius XM, Channel 158, YouTube TV, the Visa Watch app and radio affiliates across the United States of God bless America. We got a fun show lined up for you tonight on the program, a three-hour excursion as we'll hit a little bit of everything along the way.
National League MVP, the candidates with shots fired, trading them back and forth last night into today. More on that in just a moment here. Preseason line moves for week two in the National Football League. We also have a lot to dive into as far as futures are concerned. Fewest wins market. There's a team that feels so obvious. I know I can't bet it because I bet the obvious team the last two years and it hasn't worked out well for your boy. Also, NFL rushing touchdown leader. There is a number on a guy in a new place that I don't think makes any sense around 40 to 1 in the market currently, plus college football rankings. Do they matter to the teams? If they don't anymore, should they matter in our handicaps? Plus, we have a lot to do as far as quarterback situations heading into the season. All of that and more coming your way over the course of the next three hours. Fired up to be with you here on a Tuesday. And we'll begin with the live Major League Baseball as to what one game currently in action. One is in a weather delay.
First in Chicago at Wrigley Field, eighth inning, we're looking at a 3-3 ball game between the Cubs and the White Sox. This one was dramatic last night as we were on the air when Pete Crow Armstrong hit a walk-off homerun. And PCA led off today with a homerun as well. That's a homer in three straight games, four homers in that span thus far. First player with multiple lead-off homers and a walk-off homerun in two games. And PCA now is your betting favorite at minus 165 for NLMVP. We took a little bit last night as the ball was leaving the wood, heading for the bleachers in right field at Wrigley Field. We took a little PCA at plus 110 and plus 105 as the number was moving. Now, if we wanted to, we could take Otani at plus 130 I don't hate the idea of doing that. And here's part of the reason why. Shohei Otani is not going to get punked. He is not going to get shown up because as PCA does that in Chicago, Shohei Otani delivers his 30th homerun of the season for the Dodgers in Coors Field. He's one for three, two ribbies on the night. And right now, we are looking at a 7-4 ball game in the eighth inning. Dodgers have the lead. They're minus 16-20.
Total in game is 12 and a hook right now.
But this one closed with the Dodgers near minus $2.
Total in this one, 11 and a half. That's worth noting here because the Rockies will get a final at bat in this contest if things continue to shake out the way they are right now. Nobody out in the eighth. There's still an opportunity for a couple runs here to go over the original total of 11 and a half. We're at 11 on the dot. In game total is 12 and a half. So just worth monitoring as we hit the stage here with these final two games. Alive in the Monday or Tuesday card in Major League Baseball. White Sox right now in the Cubs. With that one in a delay in the eighth. Remember, Chicago used a bunch of relievers last night. The Cubs did as well. But the White Sox bullpen is one that I do not trust. The Cubbies are minus 144
White Sox are plus 125 Seven and a half is the total.
You can't bet anything right now at this moment. But once we get going again, I don't hate the idea of the Cubs who now are up to minus 164 as I'm speaking right now. What is going on here? What am I missing? But that is correct to me. Is that the Cubs will be the play. The longer this theme goes on, the more they have the advantage. They're the bullpen I trust more. We were raving about Jacob Webb working in and out of trouble last night here on the show.