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Coming to you from the Circus Sportsbook here in downtown Las Vegas. I'm Scott Seidenberg, this is Live Bet Saturday here on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network. You guys can contribute to the program. Hit me up on Twitter at scottsonair. You can hit us up on the network at VSiN Live as we're monitoring all the Major League Baseball action in progress here on this Saturday evening. We have games that are getting underway in about 10 to 15 minutes from now. We do have a best bet on one of those games. And of course, we are going to get into football mode. We are all in football mode here on the network, VSiN NFL Betting Guide, the College Bowl Betting Guide, out right now for VSiN Pro subscribers. More on that coming up a little bit later on. But we're going to talk about some of the future's bets that have already been placed. And some of the things that we have our eyes on as we progress throughout the NFL preseason that has gotten underway with the Hall of Fame game that kicked off on Thursday and week one of the NFL preseason kicks off this Thursday. So plenty of football discussion coming up here on the program. Let's get you caught up on what's going on in progress right now in Major League Baseball, taking a look at the scoreboard with any live betting opportunities that present themselves. Right now, it is the Red Sox trailing the A's 7-3 in the bottom of the ninth inning, but they do have the bases loaded and the tying run at the plate. So if it's a grand slam, we're going to be tied. If it's the third out of the inning, the Red Sox lose, which is very rare for the Boston Red Sox who seem to win every single day. The hottest team by far in Major League Baseball setting all sorts of records with the amount of wins that they have had over the last 35 games. Plus, it's been an incredible run to the point where I'm reading a lot of stuff online about Chad Tracy, the interim, that's right, interim manager for the Boston Red Sox who took over after Alex Cora got fired earlier in the season. A lot of Red Sox fans are already saying it. Why is he the interim? Just take the interim tag off and name Chad Tracy the full-time manager because the job that he has done this year with the Boston Red Sox is not going to get replicated by any new manager that you bring in. He has won this job and not only has he won this job, but he might as well or he might have already won the American League Manager of the Year Award. Right now, Chad Tracy has overtaken Will Venable of the White Sox as the betting favorite to be the American League Manager of the Year, minus 105 right now up on FanDuel for Chad Tracy to be the AL Manager of the Year. There's no, I talked about this months ago, not months ago, but like all-star break, July last month when I was looking at the Marlins and the job that Clayton McCullough has done. I mean, that has completely gone downhill. But my argument at the time was that at the time, there was no better story in baseball than the Miami Marlins. There's no better story in baseball right now than the Boston Red Sox. They're the hottest team in baseball. It's the resurgent story. You fire your manager early in the year, much like the Phillies did, but no one had expectations on this team because the Yankees, the Rays are doing well in the American League East, and here are the Boston Red Sox that are not only competing now for the division, competing for the first wild card, but are a threat to win the World Series because of how good they've played here over the last month plus. And even if I say month plus, it's been like 35 games. What were they? They were 21 and 3 in like a 24 game stretch, it was 31 and 5 in a 36 game stretch. Like this team never loses.