It was such a great idea. Blue Jays (as in Vladimir Guerrero, Jr.) and Boston Red Sox in spring training. Ask some players about betting on stuff. Watch some batting practice.

And then it rained. But baseball is timeless and so is baseball banter, this time with plenty of legal sports betting angles.

In the big interview of the week, it's John Levy of theScore on becoming a sports betting purveyor in New Jersey, not just a source of news on your favorite teams.

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TheScore wants to become a sportsbook.

MLB wants no betting on spring training games.

You can bet legally on the Oscars in New Jersey and dream about it elsewhere this cinema season, so Brant James and Ryan Butler defer their dreams of OBP if IMDb.

Jeff Smith knows more about movies than anyone should and theorizes on the future of a movies betting market of the future (11:00). Legendary Vegas oddsmaker Johnny Avello's "for entertainment purposes only" odds are not open for business (52:00).

 And he watched Roma twice (56:00) to make sure he really doesn't like it.

Professor Jeff Smith (6:30) begins; on Roma (28:00).

The guys make their picks (35:00).

Brant James and Ryan Butler fire the engines on the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup season, with Gambling.com contributor and SiriusXM's Pete Pistone running down a myriad of offseason changes and how they could affect the betting public.

Brant reports from Daytona 500 media day, featuring mini-views with seven-time series champion and admittedly poor sports bettor Jimmie Johnson, Las Vegas natives and gambling advocates Kurt Busch and Brendan Gaughan.

Chase Elliott (41:36)

Kurt Busch (42:28)

Jimmie Johnson (43:37)

Brendan Gaughan (54:15)

Martin Truex Jr. (58:26)

Brad Keselowski (58:39)

Want more #NASCAR content? Yes. And 'yes.'

Cool engine sound used with permission, courtest #RevHeadz

photo courtesy @jeff_gluck

And welcome to the download family, Cyprus and Mexico! 

Randy Lee, winner of the controversial inaugural DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship joins Brant James and Ryan Butler to discuss his win and how many buffalo $1.1 million can buy.

Part 2 with Gambling.com Group Plc founder and CEO Charles Gillespie and the last shards of Super Bowl LIII.

A lively debate on getting late-game calls right, for the sake of the game and the health of the wagering public.

And Ryan is confronted with the Scotland-Ireland 3-way.

Ryan Butler and Brant James sort through the death spasms of the National Football League season as pirates prepare to come ashore on Gasparilla weekend.

The big interview of the week features Gambling.com Group PLC founder and CEO Charles Gillespie on the current and future state of legal sports betting in the United States. He has knowledge.

@charlesgillespi 

@brantjames

@bets_ryan 

https://www.gambling.com/

https://bookies.com/ 

SugarHouse Online Casino & Sportsbook analyst David Tuchman joins Brant James and Ryan Butler to hash out the NFL Divisional Round and look ahead to the conference finals, specifically the weird routes these four obvious teams took.

Oh, and Brant wears socks with grizzly bears on them.

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At the end of a work junket - no, seriously - to New Orleans, @brantjames and Ryan Butler land at DraftKings at Scarlet Pearl Sportsbook to conclude a weekend of National Football League Wildcard merriment.

Topics within: NFL playoffs, Clemson and the Trevor Lawrence mania machine, a sitdown with Scarlet Pearl sportsbook director Nico Sfanos and some deep-diving analysis on Divisional weekend with our new friend, Golden Boy. Good kind of friend to have.

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In the Ocho, Brant James and Ryan Butler mull the remnants of the college football season and set up the National Championship. Brant calls the Clemson secondary the worst unit in the game.

And NFL expert Adam Caplan dispenses a fire hydrant of knowledge on the National Football League playoffs.

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Brant James and Ryan Butler prune the leaves of what was the sprouting legal sports betting industry in the United States this year to bring you the most important, sublime, and baddest persons and moments of 2018. Or at least in the history of this podcast.

And David Caraviello of Bookies.com to discuss the college football playoffs.