Live Bet Sunday | August 2, 2026 | Hour 1

**Femi Abebefe** (0:01)
This is LiveBet Sunday on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network.
It's a great day to be alive, and it's a great day to be better. Welcome to another edition of LiveBet Sunday here on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network. I'm Femi Abebefe, hanging out with you guys at the Circa Resort and Casino in downtown Las Vegas, alongside our guy Joe Ceraulo, fresh and back from his South Beach adventures. Joe, welcome back to the West Coast. How are we doing on this Sunday?

**Joe Ceraulo** (0:32)
Femi, I am glad to be back, my man. All is right in the world. I'm back in Los Angeles. The farmer's market was marketing this morning. Oh boy.
Everything that is right in the world is going on right now because seven days in South Beach, I think you were right. That's more like a residency than a vacation. That was maybe two to three days too many.

**Femi Abebefe** (0:51)
You were gracious enough to still hang with us last Sunday, so we do appreciate that because I'll be honest, if I was in Miami, I'm not sure I would have done the show, but you actually did the show, so we at least appreciate that. I'm sure we'll have some stories to tell, appropriate stories to tell, at some point throughout these four hours, but want to let the folks know, as always, if you'd like to watch us, vsin.com/watch the VSiN Watch app, and you can listen live on SiriusXM channel 158, where we're in your ear 24 seven, every single day of the week. And make sure to tweet at us. You can tweet at the show, at VSiN Live on Twitter, at Femi Abebefe, where you can find me, at the Joe Ceraulo is where you can find Joe. Our whole crew behind the glass with us here at Circa, our producer Preston Saia with us on the ones and twos. And we have four guests who will be joining us across these four hours. Starting 30 minutes from right now, co-founder of the Sports Gambling Podcast Network and the host of the Sports Gambling Podcast, Sean Green, our VSiN teammate, will hang out with us in about 30 minutes. We're gonna talk some college football as we're less than a month away from week zero. College football will be here before we know it. We'll get into some futures bets with Sean at 3.3 Eastern time at four o'clock Eastern. That's one hour from right now. Professional sports better Rob Donaldson will come in and check in with us as we'll talk the betting ramifications from the blockbuster trade that saw the Dodgers acquire two times. Sal Young winner, Tarek Schubel, plus we'll break down the afternoon slate in Major League Baseball at 4.3 Eastern time. Our recent teammate, Lou Finaccaro, Uncle Lou, NFL and UFC betting analyst will give us some of his best bets for the upcoming NFL season. Then at 5 o'clock Eastern time, co-founder of Just Baseball, the man who actually broke the story last night that Tarek Schubel was going to the Dodgers, Peter Apple will talk Schubel and also who else might be on the move before tomorrow's trade deadline, trade deadline, by the way, 6 o'clock Eastern on Monday. But Joe, well, we got some bets we have to get to because we do have some West Coast games that are about to get underway. I will give you first shot on the Tia. What do you like here in this 3 o'clock window and maybe even the 4 o'clock window as well?

**Joe Ceraulo** (2:57)
Yeah, I think we're kind of hand in hand here. It's the Royals, it's the Rockies, it's the Rockies, right? So I'm going to go with the over 11 and a half. I got this at plus 105
Now you might look at this and say, well, Kansas City's offense stinks. And that's true, but so does Kyle Freeland. And people like to point out Kyle Freeland actually has weird reverse splits where his ERA is slightly lower at home than it is on the road. It's still over six at home. It's not like it's good at Coors Field. It's just over eight when he's on the road this year. So Kyle Freeland on the bump for Colorado. I'm expecting Kansas City to get to him. And then for the Royals, Seth Lugo on the mound. I mean, this is a guy who it wouldn't shock me if he got dealt. The contract is not an appealing one, but if you're a team looking for rotation depth, this could be Lugo's last start in Kansas City. So there's uncertainty there. He has been horrendous since the summer solstice. The guy's got an ERA of 5.4 since June 21st, and he's allowed 8 of his 15 home runs in this month and a week since June 21st. So the long ball's been prevalent against Lugo. Coors Field is a place where the long ball thrives. And oh, by the way, don't forget the meteorology of it all. It's 100 degrees at Coors Field. You know, when we take those baseballs out of that humidifier, that's 70 degrees, every degree north of 70 adds about four to six feet. We're talking about 30 degrees north of 70 here. So I expect quite a few home runs at Coors Field today.