The 2026 Masters and an NBA Awards Debate | The Ringer Gambling Show

April 8, 2026·57 min·5 clips

Joe House reveals his three Masters winners, excluding world number one Scottie Scheffler.

Masters Week comes in loud. Cousin Sal opens the Hump Day show with Joe House and Anthony DeBundo, then clocks that House is nowhere near his usual setup. House is in an undisclosed Orlando hotel, trying to make Easter, spring break, and Masters prep work from one room. It plays like a dry little family-trip parlay before the golf board even settles in. Mike Weir is four over after five holes, and the room treats that ugly scoreboard as bad news with comic value. DeBundo's phone turns into its own side market. He says one spot on his main screen changes with the sports season, after March Madness and now into the Masters app. Sal and House want odds on it immediately. The bit wanders through whether the NBA playoffs, the draft, the Bachelor, or other sports apps should get space, while Action Network, ESPN, MLB, credit cards, and bank statements all get dragged into the phone-layout audit. The punchline is that the bottom-left slot is the rotating spot. House then claims the Weir presidency, which means a top-Canadian ticket at plus 19, maybe a Twitter tracker, and a promise to post every bogey, birdie, and double. Then the board pulls everyone back. House gets a winning-score prop at 274.5 and turns the math into golf terms for the table. Even par is 288. So the debate becomes whether the champion gets to 14 under or better, or lands nearer 13, 12, or 11 under. Hotel chaos, app clutter, Mike Weir pain, and Masters scoring all fold into one fast argument about what the number is really saying.

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Masters-week betting chat that keeps Augusta talk, app icon jokes, and a running Mike Weir bit moving at a good clip.

The Ringer Gambling Show stays on Masters Week, with Sal, House, and DeBundo also making room for NBA playoffs talk and the Major League Baseball plays of the day while House checks in from a hotel in Orlando. The pace is the main draw.

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You want Masters Week odds talk that still feels like a hangout.

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