Live Bet Saturday | August 1, 2026 | Hour 5

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This is Live Bet Saturday at VSiN, the sports betting network.

**Brad Taylor** (0:54)
And we are off and racing here at Kentucky Downs, right above the Circa Sports Book here in Franklin, Kentucky at the Midgaming Hall. I am Brad Taylor, and I'm back. And Live Bet Saturday will be back all football and basketball season long, and we are looking forward to it. But for now, it is Live Bet Saturday here on your Saturday night. We are here for the next four hours to try to take you through this big night of Major League Baseball and maybe look ahead to some college football. We got Paul Stone coming up, some NFL football. We've got all kinds of guests coming up later in the show, and we're going to try to get some winners. Because a lot of times in football season, they'll tell you those tickets you cash September, October, November. A lot of times you cash them in July and August. And that brings up all of our guests coming up here on the show today on the Progressive Guest Line. Coming up at the beginning of the next segment, Paul Stone. He of Paul Stone Sports. We are going to grill him about college football, one question per conference, and then I'm going to ask him something. I need his help personally, because I do a show with Lexington, Kentucky every day, and I think I'm going under Kentucky four and a half wins this year, and nobody else is doing it. Even our friends at VSid, the college football betting guy, I saw people go over four and a half wins for Kentucky. I didn't have the heart to go under, but I feel like I'm the only person on earth. Could Paul Stone help us? Then coming up in the 8 o'clock Eastern hour, it will be Bob Nightingale from USA Today. What do we make of this trade deadline? Is Tarek Scoobel, where is he going? And man, have I got a rookie of the year vote in the National League that he needs to consider.
Why is this one guy favorite and the other guy not? We'll talk about that. Tony Cotillo, he's from Philadelphia. He will join us in the 9 o'clock Eastern hour. He have BetQL Market Watch. And then in the 10 o'clock Eastern hour, it is Jared Smith from Fox Sports Radio, a cornucopia of stars here to join us.
And we're all going to try to cast some tickets. Make sure to settle in, turn on your TVs to the Major League Baseball games going on right now. Let's try to cast some tickets here on your Live Bet Saturday. Looking forward to all these guests, including Paul Stone coming up at the beginning of the next hour. Of course, I've had to deal with Justin Emery all morning out in Las Vegas telling us, hey, the guy that he picked to have the most strikeouts yesterday, Zebby Matthews, got option to triple A today. What's up with that? Yeah, Justin Emery turning me on to these daily leaders and strikeouts. Let's go Yamamoto. That's all I got to say about that one. But let's look at the games that are coming up right now in the world of Major League Baseball because we have a lot of games going on right now. Of course, Marlins 6-2 over the Mets, bottom of the eighth there. We are tied in Seattle. Twins and Mariners 3-3 there. We are the second inning in Cincinnati. Pirates and Reds are scoreless in that one. And of course, earlier today, we saw the Rays and Rasmussen with 10 strikeouts. How did that happen? They win 1-0 over the White Sox. Blue Jays 5-1 over the Cardinals. But a lot of games starting this hour in the world of Major League Baseball.
Phillies and Orioles is one of those games going on that's about to start here. And we see in that matchup, we see our guy Christopher Sanchez, one of the favorites for the Si Young in the National League. Not the favorite, that's Mizorowski. 13-4, 2.73 ERA.