NLCS Odds Update: Mets vs. Dodgers Series Insights

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00:00Let's take a look at where we sit in the NLCS right now.

00:06The Dodgers are still the favorite despite this series being 1-1 and the next three games

00:10playing in Queens.

00:11The Dodgers minus 156, the Mets at a plus 132 price.

00:15Let's sit there first.

00:16Number one, Dubsy, do you agree the Dodgers should be the favorite in the series despite

00:20it being 1-1?

00:21And also, which side would you might be looking towards for the rest of this series here?

00:27I agree with the oddsmakers.

00:28Donny, if you look at the series with two games being in the books, we've now got a

00:32best of five.

00:33And as you highlight, the next three are going to be out there at Citi Field.

00:36So I think the Mets have got a really good chance of doing a bit of damage here, especially

00:40in their ballpark and hopefully trying to claim this series.

00:44I mean, it pains me to say that, but I think the Dodgers are up on the ropes and the Mets

00:49have shown us time and time again here in 2024 that as soon as you count them out, they

00:54just turn it back and punch you right in the throat.

00:56We saw that in game two, returning serve seven to three of the Dodgers.

01:01So I like the look of the Mets.

01:03You've got plus money, you've got the next three, so you can really try and build a bit

01:07of momentum in your building.

01:08If they pick up two of the next three, I think they've got a really good chance being a team,

01:13a side, an offense that can play in any park, especially out on the West Coast, the Dodgers

01:19Stadium.

01:20So I like the plus money.

01:21I like the look of the Mets.

01:23I cannot believe I'm saying that, Donnie, going against my hometown Dodgers here, but

01:27I just think the way the series looks to play out, the arms for LA just been a little spotty.

01:32That's going to be the play for me.

01:35We talk about resiliency and that's certainly what the New York Mets have become here in

01:392024.

01:40A baseball team over the summer where they're trading away their older assets, just looking

01:44to get younger, play it out and maybe hit the free agency market at the end of 2024.

01:49Hasn't been the case.

01:50the end of the season, played their way into a play-in game on a Monday, played their way

01:55then into the playoffs, then knocking off the Philadelphia Phillies, the Milwaukee Brewers,

02:00and you get beat nine to nothing in game number one of the NLCS.

02:03Ah, Mets, thanks for playing.

02:05Thanks for coming along.

02:06And then the Mets return that favor in game number two.

02:09It's going to be a crazy scene at Citi Field.

02:11That New York crowd is going to be ready for the Los Angeles Dodgers, that East Coast,

02:16West Coast thing.

02:17It always plays into it.

02:18But if we are looking at the series itself, Dubsy, two games played in LA, three games

02:22now going to be played at Citi Field, and then two games, if needed, back in Los Angeles,

02:27the number for the series to end five and a half games to the over, it's hefty at a

02:33minus 350 price, the under at a plus 270.

02:36To me, this screams extended series for me, Dubsy.

02:42It really does.

02:43Games five and a half, let's send the overs there.

02:47Be nice little series, wouldn't it, Donnie?

02:49Dodgers, Mets, going all the way to seven games.

02:51But I do think that the upper hand, the advantage squarely looks to be pointed towards the Mets.

02:57And I think they've got a really good chance in game three, if they can take two of the

03:01next three at Citi before coming back out to the West Coast, I think they've got a shot

03:06at trying to finish this thing off.

03:07And for the Dodgers, they've got that pedigree, they've got that star power, but they've

03:12also got that ability to just go missing at times.

03:16And the resiliency and that moxie, that grit that you highlighted from the Mets, it looks

03:21to be tailor-made for October baseball.

03:25We've seen that through the last couple of weeks, and I don't think they're going to

03:28be deterred by the situation, at least not overroared by it.

03:33And if you look at the teams remaining out of the four, who's the pressure on?

03:37Who's got the most to lose going into this series?

03:41It's going to be the Dodgers again for Dave Roberts.

03:44They spent all this money and it's the starting arms, which I think are going to be the concern

03:51for this series, trying to take down the Mets.

03:53So give me New York, give me a series that goes the distance, let's get it to a game

03:57seven.

03:58But I think the Mets could have a good chance of prevailing, even if it does come out here

04:03to the West Coast to finish off.

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