The Cash That Ticket podcast returns for a stacked Friday edition covering three MLB games from the opening weekend card, two confirmed Elite Eight matchups with live lines, and a pair of best bets to send listeners into the weekend with a plan. Host Munaf Manji and veteran handicapper Uncle Diamond Dave Esler open the show on a high note, with Dave having cashed his Pregame.com dollar best bet the night before on Texas covering against Purdue, a play he held firm on despite the line moving from 7 to 8.5. The MLB conversation starts with the A's visiting Toronto, where Dave makes the case against Kevin Gausman at a steep price point, citing shaky early-season splits and a structural argument against backing home teams on the run line when they might not bat in the ninth. Both hosts like the under 9 on a cold night with the Rogers Centre roof closed, and Munaf takes the plus-money A's given Luis Severino's strong road profile from last season. The Royals and Braves provide the pitching matchup of the night, with Cole Ragans facing Chris Sale in Atlanta. Dave leans into Royals history against Sale, highlights Salvador Perez's success in career at-bats against the veteran lefty, and notes Sale's pattern of allowing three or more earned runs in his first four outings of a season. Both hosts agree on under 7.5 and find value with Kansas City at plus money. The third game sends the Guardians to Seattle for Game 2 of a series Cleveland opened with a 6-4 victory. Dave challenges the assumption that the Mariners automatically bounce back, pointing to taxed bullpens on both sides, George Kirby's history of being managed carefully on innings, and Gavin Williams' quiet effectiveness against Seattle in limited head-to-head history. The Guardians run line in the first five innings is the preferred play. The show then shifts to Saturday's Elite Eight, with Dave and Munaf covering both confirmed games. Iowa gets the points against Illinois, with both handicappers respecting the familiarity factor between Big Ten programs that already played a close game this season, and cautioning against overreacting to Illinois' dominant win over Houston. Arizona gets the stronger endorsement, with Dave breaking down Purdue's difficult tournament path, its free throw-dependent win over Miami, and a late scare from Texas before facing a Wildcats team that dropped 109 on Arkansas and holds a top-three defense nationally. Best bets close the episode, with Dave backing Michigan team total under 91.5 based on the weakness of the Wolverines' previous tournament opponents, and Munaf laying the points with the LA Clippers against the Indiana Pacers behind Kawhi Leonard's recent form and Darius Garland's fit alongside him in the backcourt. Use promo code MVP15 at Pregame.com for fifteen dollars off any picks package, valid through April 6th.

Real_GWarner drops episode 27 on March 27th with a full breakdown of the Sweet 16, the opening Elite Eight lines, and a seven-game Major League Baseball card to close the week. The show opens 4-1-1 over the last six with a push on the Tulsa NIT game, then moves immediately into the college basketball action from Thursday night. Illinois enters as a 6.5-point favorite over Iowa with a total of 139, and GWarner's first lean is to the under, citing Iowa's preference for a slow grinding tempo against a team he describes as the tallest roster ever assembled in college basketball, a program built on a pipeline of Eastern European big men that Brad Underwood has quietly turned into a national title contender. Purdue gets 5.5 points against Arizona at a total of 152.5, and GWarner argues that Boilermaker shooting from the perimeter is an equalizer that makes them worth backing as a dog against even Arizona's thick and long front line. The MLB card runs from a Yankees-Giants getaway day game where GWarner leans to the Giants underdog and the under, through a Royals-Braves matchup with Cole Ragans against Chris Sale, a Tigers-Padres game that produces his strongest lean of the baseball portion, and a Guardians-Mariners matchup where the under at 7 in Seattle catches his eye as a solid play. GWarner is a believer in Framber Valdez as one of the better pitchers in baseball, trusting his ability to keep the ball in the yard in a park where it does not carry, and he takes the Tigers at plus money with confidence. The promo code SPRING25 gets listeners $25 off anything at Pregame.com, including March Madness All Access and MLB packages. The episode closes with one best bet, no hedging, delivered straight. Framber Valdez, Detroit Tigers, plus one hundred and nine. Take that to the bank.

Manji and co-host Uncle Diamond Dave Esler arrive on Thursday, March 26th locked in and ready to work. Dave opens the episode acknowledging a backdoor cover loss on Auburn from Wednesday before confirming the OKC-Boston play cashed and kept the audience in the green, then pivots immediately to a live golf position on Marco Pence at 43-to-1 at the Texas Children's Open, tied for the lead through seven holes before the afternoon wind picks up. Before the first baseball pitch is handicapped, Munaf drops significant league news, as two NBA expansion franchises have been formally approved by the Board of Governors, one heading to Las Vegas and the other returning professional basketball to Seattle for the first time since the SuperSonics departed for Oklahoma City. The NBA breakdown centers on the most meaningful game of a thin three-game Thursday slate, the New York Knicks traveling to Charlotte to face the Hornets as 1.5-point home favorites with a 222.5 total. Dave makes the case for a first-half under, noting that Charlotte's recent win streak has been built almost entirely against bottom-of-the-standings teams and at home, while Munaf backs the Knicks plus the points after pointing out the Hornets hold a 19-24 record against above-.500 opponents this season. The real work of the episode is Opening Day itself, and the hosts cover three full games with methodical depth. Red Sox at Reds features Garrett Crochet at -163 against Andrew Abbott, and both hosts identify the first-five under and the Cincinnati run line as the sharper plays rather than following the public money on Boston, with Dave raising valid concerns about relying on Crochet's strikeout prop at 7.5 given Opening Day pitch count management. Tigers at Padres brings Tarik Skubal to Petco Park to face Nick Pivetta, and Munaf delivers a detailed case for the Padres plus odds, citing Pivetta's seven shutout innings against Detroit last April, his 0.99 WHIP and 8-1 home record in 2025, and a San Diego bullpen built to close games. The evening game at Dodger Stadium pits Zach Gallen against Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Dave and Munaf both gravitate toward unders, with an alternate first-five total of 5.5 as the cleaner entry, while Munaf notes that Yamamoto's career home ERA of 1.33 against Arizona and his tendency to finish Opening Day starts around 72 to 90 pitches complicates any strikeout prop that requires a deep outing. Dave closes with his best bet on the Orioles-Twins first-five under 4.5, crediting Trevor Rogers and Joe Ryan as two elite early-innings arms, and uses the moment to reflect openly on a 2025 baseball season where his top-rated plays were profitable but overall volume worked against him, committing to a tighter, sharper approach in 2026. Munaf's best bet is the Padres money line at +113. The episode closes with a mention of the Pregame.com season-long baseball package available at $15 off with promo code MVP15, and a preview of Friday's episode covering Sweet 16 results, more MLB action, and a look at the NBA standings.

Munaf Manji and Uncle Dave Essler came ready to work on the March 25th edition of Cash That Ticket, rolling through three sports with sharp opinions and sharper picks. The NBA led the charge, with Boston hosting Oklahoma City in what Munaf called a potential Finals preview between two of the three true title contenders in the league alongside San Antonio. The Celtics entered as 2.5-point home underdogs with a total of 218.5, and both hosts landed on Boston, with Dave targeting the Celtics team total over 108.5 at DraftKings as the cleanest angle in the game. The reasoning was airtight. In the previous meeting, Boston shot just 40 percent from the field, got out-rebounded, and still hung 102 points on Oklahoma City, all without Jason Tatum and Derrick White. With both players back in the lineup and Nikola Vucevic the only notable absence on the Boston side due to a right ring fracture, even a modest shooting improvement pushes the Celtics comfortably past that team total. Dave noted he had personally bet Boston the day prior at plus 3.5, a number that had since moved to 2.5, and while he acknowledged the rematch rarely produces the same result, he could not argue against the value Boston represented at home. Munaf was equally firm, backing the Celtics outright and noting their defense would keep Oklahoma City in check on the other end. The Friday Sweet 16 card came next, and the hosts worked through all four matchups in order. Duke opened as a 6.5-point favorite over St. John's with a total of 141.5, and Dave made the case for the Blue Devils while freely admitting a Red Storm victory would not shock him at all. His reasoning centered on Jon Shire's year-over-year improvement at Duke, a neutral-site resume that included wins over Kansas, Arkansas, and Florida, and the fact that St. John's only loss since January came to UConn, a team that plays a style nearly identical to Duke. Rick Pitino received full credit as perhaps the best in-game coach in the sport, but Dave believed Duke gets it done. Michigan State and UConn served up the most creative betting strategy of the episode, with the Huskies laying 1.5 points on a total of just 135.5. Dave went two-part, backing UConn in the first half and the first-half under, then floating the idea of grabbing Michigan State at an improved live number at halftime. Both teams ranked in the top 13 nationally in defensive efficiency, and Dave was emphatic that fading Tom Izzo in the final minutes of a close game is simply not something he is willing to do. Munaf liked Michigan State for the full game and agreed that patience at halftime represented the sharpest path to the number. Iowa State laid 4.5 against Tennessee with a total of 138.5, and both hosts landed on the Cyclones despite the number feeling short. The case against Tennessee was statistical and pointed. The Volunteers turned the ball over more than every SEC team except one, struggled to score consistently, and were poor from the free throw line. Iowa State led the entire Big Ten in turnovers forced, and the teams that beat Tennessee this season did exactly what the Cyclones do best. The Josh Jefferson injury loomed over the entire conversation, but even accounting for his potential absence, neither host could build a convincing case for Tennessee covering. Alabama and Michigan closed the college card with the biggest total on the board at 174.5 and Michigan laying 9.5. Dave went Alabama with the points, crediting the Crimson Tide for handling better tournament competition than Michigan despite missing their suspended star Holloway, while questioning whether the Wolverines had truly been tested after wins over Howard and St. Louis. The MLB segment landed just as the season officially opened, with both hosts aligned on the Boston Red Sox at plus 320 in the AL East, pointing to Garrett Crochet as a Cy Young candidate and the division's best overall rotation. The AL Central produced a split, with Munaf backing Detroit at plus 110 and Dave preferring Kansas City at plus 225 behind Bobby Witt if not the Tigers. Both agreed Seattle wins the AL West at even money, with Dave pitching a creative parlay structure combining the Mariners and Tigers with the Yankees, Red Sox, or Blue Jays for returns between 11-to-1 and 16.5-to-1. The best bets closed the show cleanly. Dave went Auburn minus 9.5 over Nevada in the NIT, citing 12 wins over top-20 opponents for Auburn against a Nevada team whose last true road win came January 17th at Air Force, the 345th-ranked program in college basketball. Munaf laid the big number with San Antonio minus 16.5 against Memphis, pointing to four recent Spurs wins by margins of 28, 1, 15, and 25 points, three of which featured 130 or more points scored, against a Grizzlies squad getting blown out by 39 and 23 in back-to-back outings. Dave endorsed the pick and suggested 16.5 might actually be light.

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Griffin Warner opened his March 25th episode of What I Bet on the Pregame.com Podcast Network by reporting a 4-1-1 record over his last six plays, with the push coming from a Tulsa bet that held a 16-point first-half lead in Tuesday NIT action but failed to cover after Wichita State reached the number late. Warner then broke down his Wednesday NIT quarterfinals, starting with Illinois State as 7.5-point underdogs at Dayton, total 139.5, tipping at 6 p.m. Central. He praised coach Ryan Piton for rebuilding the program and retaining talent in a transfer-heavy Missouri Valley Conference, but flagged Chase Walker, the preseason Player of the Year, as a major liability due to recurring foul trouble. Walker projects at roughly 6-foot-8 against Dayton's 7-foot-1 center Latong, a length mismatch Warner called a serious structural problem. He leaned Illinois State as a value play with 7.5 points of cushion but stopped short of a firm bet given the home crowd advantage Dayton carries, which he called among the most valuable in college basketball. The second NIT game featured Nevada as 9.5-point underdogs at Auburn, total 154.5, at 8 p.m. Central. The line opened at Nevada plus-10 before moving a half-point toward the Wolf Pack. Warner identified Auburn point guard Pettiford, a McDonald's All-American, as the best player in the game and noted Auburn finished around 17-16 under a first-year coaching staff after Bruce Pearl retired. He highlighted Nevada guard Corey Kamper Jr., coming off a triple-double, as the key player to watch in late-game fouling situations. Warner called Nevada his bigger NIT interest but held reservations on both games. For the Friday Sweet 16, Warner addressed Duke minus-6.5 over St. John's, total 142, in Washington D.C., stating that Duke point guard Caleb Foster would not play. He credited Rick Pitino as a major coaching edge over Jon Scheyer and noted the line dropped from St. John's plus-7 to plus-6.5 without significant Duke money arriving, calling that movement rare and meaningful. His official best bet was Alabama plus-10 against Michigan in Chicago, total 174.5, where he called the number disrespectful and backed the Crimson Tide to stay competitive through perimeter shooting despite Michigan's dominant interior led by 7-foot-3 center Adai Mara. Warner also noted Michigan State as a straight-up win candidate against UConn despite being plus-1 to plus-2 underdogs, and favored Tennessee plus-4 against an Iowa State team likely missing star Josh Jefferson due to a high ankle sprain. The episode closed with promo code SPRING25 for twenty-five dollars off at Pregame.com.

Munaf Manji and Uncle Diamond Dave Esler roll through a multi sport betting card on Tuesday March 24 2026, starting with the final MLB season win total in their run and ending with Sweet 16 Thursday leans and two best bets, the MLB focus is the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers at 102.5 wins, with Munaf recapping last seasons 93 win profile plus a strong run differential and Dave centering the handicap on one key question, whether a loaded roster stays locked in across the regular season, the discussion turns into practical futures logic around pitching depth, lineup protection, and how a team with elite talent can survive injuries and variance, both hosts ultimately lean to the Dodgers over despite acknowledging it feels like the obvious side, then the show pivots to March Madness with Dave explaining why he prefers betting the second weekend when matchups are clearer and situational factors matter more, on Thursdays Sweet 16 slate Dave leans Texas plus 6.5 against Purdue and also sees a path to the over 148.5, citing free throw rate and defensive concerns, he follows with Iowa versus Nebraska where Nebraska is a small favorite at minus 1.5 and the total sits low at 133.5, Dave cautions against overreacting to recent results, sticks with his pre tournament view, and leans Nebraska with interest in the over because close games can turn into late free throw scoring, the best bet segment closes the episode with Dave taking St Josephs versus New Mexico under 152.5 in the NIT based on pace control expectations perimeter defense turnovers and free throw limitations, while Munaf stays in the NBA and plays Hornets team total over 123.5 versus the Kings by targeting a matchup where he expects Charlotte to keep scoring against a defense that has been giving up points

Warner delivers a college basketball only episode built around immediate NIT betting and an early market read on Thursday Sweet Sixteen lines, he opens by recapping a four and one run over the last five and sets the goal of adding another winner on Tuesday night, the first handicap focuses on Wichita State at Tulsa in a rematch scenario where he expects Tulsa to play sharper at home and prefers laying four instead of paying up for the half point, he then breaks down St Josephs at New Mexico and explains why the number feels larger than expected even while respecting the challenge of playing in The Pit, the show pivots into a Thursday preview where he notes the Texas line move versus Purdue but remains skeptical about matchup scoring and late game separation, he follows with Iowa versus Nebraska in Houston and argues the game profile points toward a slower tighter contest that makes underdog and under logic connect, the late window includes Arkansas versus Arizona where he emphasizes perceived market disrespect and the importance of key numbers in late foul sequences, and Illinois versus Houston where he questions crowd dominance and leans toward taking points in a game he expects to stay close, he shares promo code Spring twenty five for twenty five dollars off purchases on Pregame dot com good through March thirty, and he closes with the official best bet for Tuesday, Tulsa minus four in the NIT.

On the Thursday March 19 2026 episode of Cash That Ticket on the Straight Outta Vegas AM feed Munaf Manji and Uncle Diamond Dave Esler set the table for a massive sports day as the NCAA Tournament officially tips off and they remind bettors that if today feels busy the prep was done wrong They open with a best bets recap including a push after late injury news and a win on Illinois State then shout out listener Kelvin Welch for tracking the shows results with the updated best bets mark sitting at 46 31 1 and up 10 point 8 units while hitting 59 point 6 percent From there the NBA talk starts with a major update on Cade Cunningham as the Pistons star is expected to miss extended time due to what is being described as a mild collapsed lung and the guys discuss the immediate ripple it creates in the MVP futures market The first handicap targets Suns at Spurs with San Antonio laying a big number as Dave digs into market movement and why the total may be more mispriced than the side while Munaf leans into the Spurs season profile as an elite defense paired with top tier offense and looks to Spurs scoring including the team total over They then turn to Lakers at Heat with uncertainty around who plays for Los Angeles on a back to back and with travel details noted after a late night arrival into Miami the angle centers on Miami pace and team totals with both hosts looking for ways to attack Heat scoring and Dave adding a Tyler Herro points rebounds assists over look After a quick reminder about pregame dot com the March Madness contest format and the LUCKY25 promo code the show shifts to MLB season win totals for the two New York teams Munaf and Dave break down the Mets at 90 point 5 as a talented but volatile roster in a competitive division and land on the under then move across town to the Yankees also at 90 point 5 focusing on pitching health offensive regression risk bullpen questions and the reality that public teams often get shaded high with both hosts again siding with the under The episode closes with best bets as Dave goes to the NCAA Tournament with Gonzaga team total over 87 point 5 projecting a fast paced scoring script and Munaf stays in the NBA with the Miami Heat team total over 122 point 5 tied to pace travel and matchup dynamics with final reminders to enjoy March Madness bet within your means and avoid chasing