Follow The Money | August 18, 2026 | Hour 1

**Mitch Moss** (0:11)
Here we go, it is Follow The Money on VSiN, the sports betting network, Mitch Moss along with Pauly Howard. We're live downtown Vegas, Circa Resort, a casino is the spot. As always, a three hour banger lined up today. Great guest on the program, Fantasy Football Hall of Famer, Best Bets Today for the NFC East, Paul Charchian coming up in 30 minutes. Also, we'll kick around season long props slash fantasy news with some of these injured players as they keep popping up now on a daily basis. Robert Walker on the show in one hour.
Long time Las Vegas odds maker. This guy has so many stories, it's going to knock your socks off, Paul. I don't know, he has so many, he's been around, he's seen everything. I don't know which one I'm more excited about today to hear from.

**Pauly Howard** (0:55)
Well, we finally get the story for the first time anywhere because he worked with the guy and was there. When it's an all time Las Vegas story, well, Bill Brennan walked out the side door with half a million dollars as was never seen or heard from again. Awesome to this day, he said.
Can't wait to get into that story with him.

**Mitch Moss** (1:16)
Some think that he is in the bottom of Lake Mead.

**Pauly Howard** (1:18)
That's right, absolutely.

**Mitch Moss** (1:20)
Which by the way, have you noticed the water levels here recently again?

**Pauly Howard** (1:25)
Yep.

**Mitch Moss** (1:25)
The Coover Dam, like all these bodies are going to be popping up kind of like right after the pandemic.

**Pauly Howard** (1:29)
Holyfield, Tyson too, bite night. And robbed on his first day of work.

**Mitch Moss** (1:35)
That'll be good. Also, he was taking bets.

**Pauly Howard** (1:38)
What a character.

**Mitch Moss** (1:39)
Right, the Toledo point shaving scandal, college football.

**Pauly Howard** (1:42)
Yep.

**Mitch Moss** (1:42)
Yeah.

**Pauly Howard** (1:43)
He had that too.

**Mitch Moss** (1:44)
Very good.

**Pauly Howard** (1:44)
And how about a $5 million bet on a Super Bowl if we have time?

**Mitch Moss** (1:47)
Not bad.

**Pauly Howard** (1:48)
This is great.

**Mitch Moss** (1:49)
Derek Stevens on the program today as well. Are we going to, maybe this thing plays out. Remember if you go back to like the middle and end of May, we said, oh my God, this National League young race is going to be one for the ages. We had like six guys in it that were, it was The Miz and it was Sanchez and it was Otani and it was Sale. It was Mason Miller. We're like, this is incredible. Well, I never really, this is now what we're getting. It's not like six guys, but it's two in the National League MVP race. And this might be a daily thing. And I posted today on X at Mitch Moss radio. Like if it's tonight and you had to make a bet on this, because it's basically a pick them. I got all the numbers in front of me right now. I got prediction markets. I got national books, basically a pick them everywhere.
PCA is a small favorite at a couple of spots. If you had to make a bet on the NL MVP and they announced the award tonight, how would you bet it?
Not who you think should win the award. It's this is the bet that I would make right now with my money. Those are two completely different things.

**Pauly Howard** (2:54)
Yep. I think it's just riding these guys with the player props and what they've done. And come back with Otani tonight.
He has a hit in 21 straight games at Coors Field. Four for five last night. During the stretch at Coors, nine home runs, 24 RBIs. He's hit in 420 Career against Sagano, he's now 7 of 11 with four bombs. I'm glad we mentioned that several times yesterday as he hit two, which was 15 to one.

**Mitch Moss** (3:21)
Yeah. Maybe in that situation, anything, it was not two to one. It was a little bit shy of that. But to go back to our many of our conversations with the great Matt Vasquez and MLB Network, like what are we doing with these prices? They're unbettable. I don't know. Is last night for people who had him, certainly they're going to say, well, of course he was bettable at plus 180 to hit a home run. He hit two. He dominates there.
I don't know, maybe anything in the two to one neighborhood is worth it for Otani.

**Pauly Howard** (3:43)
Total basis too, yeah. I would just say the total basis is the way to attack it as well.