Seattle Beats Boston 3-1: Impact on MLB Betting Trends

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00:00We're going to bring up right now the Boston Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners.

00:02Three to one yesterday.

00:03That stayed under and continues to do so.

00:05So let me ask you this, because I like to do now, Joe,

00:08taking advantage of some alternate team totals, which means, hey, look,

00:11the Yankees are five and a half last night, whatever it is.

00:13Well, let me get them down to two and a half and parlay them with some other

00:16chances to sort of lower those numbers.

00:18Now, granted, again, the Yankees only got two runs.

00:21But do you watch anything from Major League Baseball and feel like, you know,

00:24Andrew McCutcheon putting out that statement, like the seams are higher,

00:26baseball knows about it, they can't do anything about it this year.

00:29Like, does that play into, like,

00:30we should just be shifting to looking at unders because the overs are

00:34inflated and the baseballs aren't holding up and being conducive to overs?

00:40Well, I mean, the problem is here we are in the middle of June.

00:43Weather has shifted.

00:45Humidity is up.

00:46We know the ball travels in a number of these ballparks.

00:49And we also know this story, Don.

00:51This is not a news story.

00:54I mean, what folks don't realize is that Major League Baseball bought

00:58Rawlings years ago and the plant down in Costa Rica where all the balls are made and

01:03ships them out.

01:04There is one organization that controls what's happening with those baseballs.

01:09Oh, yeah.

01:09And it happens to be Major League Baseball themselves.

01:11So we have heard this every season now for about the last five years where we go through these

01:19crazy amount of run games.

01:20Then we go through periods of the ball's not the same.

01:23Pitchers are saying it.

01:24Players are saying it.

01:25And Major League Baseball is like, I don't know, take it off with the guys who make the

01:29balls.

01:29You're the one who makes the balls, Major League Baseball.

01:33You own Rawlings.

01:34Figure it out.

01:36Seems a little suspect to me.

01:37Okay.

01:38Yep.