VSiN By The Books | July 23, 2026 | Hour 3

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**Dave Ross** (1:16)
Top of the hour. It is VSiN By The Books. Dave Ross here at the Mick Gaming Hall in Franklin, Kentucky. Our closer Jensen Lewis back home in Cleveland, Ohio. Got a lot of football talk to get to. We cannot wait for football season here. Again, if you're not a decent pro subscriber, you should be so right now. $175 is going to cover you all the way through the Super Bowl. We'll get to a couple surprise bets that we don't know about yet. That's in said betting guy, Jensen, later on. Our best bets, golf is underway as well. People, Scottie Schaeffler out there right now at the 3M Open. And we're going to break down the Cincinnati Bengals in a little bit more detail. But right now, very interesting from the beginning of the year to where we are in Major League Baseball. We'll talk about that right now in this edition of The Daily Diamond.
By the way, that crack of the bat will never get old to me, Jensen. This is our second year now doing Daily Diamond. It is Yeoman's work that you do each and every day on this fine program to bring people the best baseball information that you can get. I might be biased, but I think it's top notch. Now, Gil Alexander does a really good job of this as well over in a numbers game with Kelly Bidlin daily right after us here. So again, keep watching and listening if you're doing so once we're done. And he talked about a bet that I think you liked as well at the beginning of the year, which was potentially the Dodgers to go under their win total of 102.5. Let's hear from Gil talking about that very wager.

**Gil Alexander** (2:44)
The LA Dodgers under 102.5 wins. These are adjusted season win totals. Kelly, like last year, I just simply don't believe the Dodgers are incentivized in any way to try to eclipse this. I think the only thing that matters to this franchise and rightfully so, is the postseason, is winning a World Series.
All they care about is getting the one or two seed. And right now, the Brewers and the Dodgers are comfortably clear, comfortably clear, of everybody else in the National League. In other words, the Dodgers and Brewers, Dodgers are 64 and 38, Brewers are 63 and 38 The next best team is the Braves at 58 and 42 So right now, with still obviously more than a quarter of the season left, talking about about 60 games left, right now it's comfortable, but I just don't think there's a race. And remember, the Dodgers didn't end up with the number one seed last year. They didn't end up with the best record. The Brewers did. So I'm going under 102 and a half, just from a baseball management of games standpoint.

**Dave Ross** (3:55)
That's fantastic stuff. My first question is, is Gill doing the show from heaven? I mean, that looks beautiful. That background behind him, if you're watching on Pindo Sports Network or YouTube TV.
But Jensen, the bigger point here, the Dodgers under, I think that's a play you liked as well at the beginning of the year, right?

**Jensen Lewis** (4:11)
Yeah, it was one of the, the only two win total bets I made all year. And I took them both in our VSiN MLB futures draft. Found an under 102 and a half at even money. And Dave, it's been one of my favorite win total wagers the last couple of years is betting the Dodgers under because they don't, and Gill eloquently stated it, they don't care about the regular season. It's about getting healthy in September, getting ready to go through October. And they will do what is necessary to back guys off, especially now with the Otani knee inflammation issues. They're still working Blake Snell back Tyler Glass now, still trying to get his way back. So they still have some piece. Will Smith is still going to be out another month. They still have key pieces that are trying to get back healthy so they can be ready not only for September, but also the stretch run through what they hope is a return to the World Series for a three-peat. Now, right now, Fran Graf has the Dodgers projected at 162 So a couple of wins breathing room under there. And we always say, Dave, it's harder to get wins than it is to get losses. And so if they do decide to scale guys back, then you're kind of in a great spot there. I wanted to throw a couple other ideas at you. And with the win total market, great friend of the program, Jim Bowden, who hosts the award-winning front office show on Sunday mornings on LE. Network Radio Series Channel 89