Follow The Money | September 1, 2026 | Hour 1

**Pauly Howard** (0:02)
That's what I always say, you always follow the money.

**Mitch Moss** (0:11)
Here we go, welcome in. It is Follow The Money on VSiN, Vsports betting network, Mitch Moss, along with Pauly Howard. We are live in downtown Vegas. Circa Resort and Casino is the spot. A three hour banger lined up for you today. Great guest on the program. Robert McCall is gonna be in studio coming up in an hour. He is the creator, the founder, jointhesharps.com. Very cool app, website to get involved with. Pauly and I are doing a head to head weekly. We'll tell you about more. John Dziostrimski is gonna be in studio today. JJ!
Tons of bets for the NFL and Major League Baseball as well. Best Bets in Soccer with Steve Wiss and Derek Stevens. Are we gonna get to 30,000 survivor entries here at Circa by the time this bad boy kicks off next weekend? And thanks for watching as always on YouTube TV and listening starting today on Series XM Channel 189
I make it a $2 favorite that I get the number wrong today in the next three hours, at least once.

**Pauly Howard** (1:04)
Okay.

**Mitch Moss** (1:04)
What do you think?

**Pauly Howard** (1:05)
Understandable.

**Mitch Moss** (1:06)
189

**Pauly Howard** (1:07)
Yep, we'll let it slide.

**Mitch Moss** (1:09)
Welcome aboard.

**Pauly Howard** (1:09)
Welcome aboard is right.

**Mitch Moss** (1:11)
Cubs blasted nine home runs yesterday, man.

**Pauly Howard** (1:12)
Can we stop with the position players pitching?

**Mitch Moss** (1:15)
It's not, this is turning into something that's, we're getting increasingly, by the year now, more and more of this happening consistently. I like Doug Kazarian's point. Why don't teams do it when they're up by 15 runs?

**Pauly Howard** (1:28)
Yeah.

**Mitch Moss** (1:28)
Right. Why do you want to waste any of your relievers at that point?

**Pauly Howard** (1:31)
Come on. Guys goes three innings, just throwing an EFIS pitch up there. Well, you could throw harder than that. Here's batting practice.
What was going on? Although, you know, like Bregman's third one, you have to supply your own power because the ball's hardly moving.

**Mitch Moss** (1:45)
Now, how about that with him? That was Bregman's second three homer game of the month. He never had one in his career before this.
Can you believe that? As a team, they blasted 62 home runs in August. That's a franchise record.
62 That is second to the Yankees in 2019 They hit 74

**Pauly Howard** (2:07)
Yeah.

**Mitch Moss** (2:08)
The rest of the series today, we get Gasser against Boyd. It's a four-gamer. So if somehow the Cubs could sweep this, well then that division race is going to be back on. Boyd going today, like I said.

**Pauly Howard** (2:20)
Gotta sweep.

**Mitch Moss** (2:21)
They have to. Mizorowski goes tomorrow against Peterson, Henderson against Gossman on Thursday.

**Pauly Howard** (2:27)
So they have all these meetings coming up and so does Atlanta and Philly.
After this series, they meet seven times in the next 10 days. So Philly's hot and that's down to four games.

**Mitch Moss** (2:36)
Wasn't yesterday and kind of this month in general and tie that into how much we liked, what the Cubs hit at the deadline. Isn't this the reason why they can win the whole thing?

**Pauly Howard** (2:48)
I think it's wide open, though. I mean, this is a strong league. I still think Philly's got a great chance with their pitching, the Cubs are good. Dodgers, Brewers, Atlanta. I mean, I think you can make a case for five teams.

**Mitch Moss** (2:58)
I think at the current number with Chicago, I think that is, I haven't bet it yet.
I know several have here at the network. I think it's kind of tantalizing.

**Pauly Howard** (3:07)
They can hit. I'm worried about getting slow teams down though. That's why I think Philly could be so strong come October with that pitching staff.
But it's going to be interesting to see what these matchups are and probably play one another early on. But it's a crazy year.
The Couser catch was all-timer to rob a home run in a game-winning walk-off by Colorado. Baltimore continues that series tonight. Colorado's lost 10 straight home games. Baltimore is a game out of last, but half a game out of the final wild card spot.

**Mitch Moss** (3:43)
I think that sums up the AEL quite nicely.

**Pauly Howard** (3:45)
That does, right.

**Mitch Moss** (3:46)
Well, here's, I mean, when you look at the fan graphs, overall playoff projections in the American League, the Rays and Yankees are 100%. Red Sox, 98%.
The White Sox are at 81.4% to make. They're 68% to win the division. Is that a bit high in your opinion? The Astros are almost 73% to make the playoffs and about 70% to win the division.