Derek Brown

The difference is in Boston, Alex Cora and the rest of the guys who were let go from his staff were posing for pictures.

with thumbs up and the biggest smiles and then sub-tweeting about how happy they were to be out of Boston.

We haven't seen that from Rob Thompson yet, so we will get a chance to see how Rob Thompson reacts.

Quick programming note.

We're going to get to the draft.

There is some gambling news I do want us to discuss.

We're going to bring Derek Brown back because he's been awesome and you guys crushed it, and I know you both cleaned up, so I want to review the draft.

This Thursday...

our Kentucky Derby betting preview with Mike Conte, who is the freaking best in previewing the Kentucky Derby.

We love having Mike on.

Next week, we are going to do a little bit deeper dive on the NFL draft with some team by team.

Recap, we'll do NFC, AFC with James Weaver from Sports Info Solutions.

That'll be exciting.

But sometimes I feel like, you know, we're obviously in the gambling space.

We are sponsored by a sports betting company.

I have been covering this forever.

You are a professional better.

And sometimes I feel like lately there is so much bad news about what's happening with legal betting.

And we can have a very long debate about is there more bad news being uncovered, more illicit behavior being uncovered?

Because sports betting is legal, because it's easier to track, because there are more people paying attention, or is it happening because there's more opportunity and more people are trying to capitalize, there's more bad actors?