Ready Set Bet | August 1, 2026 | Hour 1

**Matt Brown** (0:09)
This is Ready Set Bet with Matt Brown and Mike Somich on VSiN, The SportsBetting Network.

**Mike Somich** (0:22)
Hey, it's Ready Set Bet here on a Saturday, VSiN, The SportsBetting Network, Matt Brown, Mike Somich, right here on the desk with me, live and in living color, world's largest sports book out here behind us. And buddy, it's good to have you in here.

**Mike Somich** (0:36)
Who's got it better than us?

**Mike Somich** (0:37)
I'm telling you.

**Mike Somich** (0:38)
Nobody.

**Mike Somich** (0:38)
There's a rumor, rumor we birdied the same hole yesterday. There's a rumor going around out there that we birdied the same hole yesterday.

**Mike Somich** (0:45)
We actually got an email from TPC Las Vegas, your home course, that mentioned they're going to have to link to the par fives. They weren't happy with how much we took down.

**Mike Somich** (0:53)
We had good par fives. There were other holes that maybe not so much. The par fives certainly worked for us. No doubt about it. We're going to hit everything going on in the sports world today. Obviously, Justin Mark is going to join us. We'll see what he's got to say about the NFL. We'll get Eric E. Gross in here. Some major league baseball and trade deadline talk with him. And then Brandon Kravitz is going to join us. Get some college football, which is also right around the corner.

**Mike Somich** (1:15)
I am, I feel unprepared for college football this year. It snuck up at the World Cup, ate up too much of my summer. Not complaining, because I loved having the action, be able to play games during the day. But it's definitely put me behind on the college football side. Our betting guy comes out on Monday.

**Mike Somich** (1:30)
I was about to say, we might as well just go ahead and get the free read here. Probably that isn't scheduled, which is this college football guide will be out on Monday. And it's a, I say this every single year.
Mike has said this every single year. It is not lip service. It's the best thing we put out because you did not follow what went on in the off season. It's impossible to, there are thousands of players that enter the transfer portal and all that. It is impossible for you to follow what went on. You don't know who's coaching where. You don't even know what conference some of these teams are in and I promise you that because there's a lot, been a lot of reshuffling and conferences as well. Some of these teams, you don't even know what conference they play in. So get the guide. It's worth it. Come in and just like take a weekend, go to the beach, go to the lake, go to wherever, sit down, bring it, greet it.

**Mike Somich** (2:14)
You have to be a hardcore college sports fan to be able to stay up on everything that's happening in college basketball, college football, the coaching movements, the coordinator movements, the player movements, you met the team movements, all of it. It means that you really got to lock in.
It's tough to do that for me during the summer. So like I said, I'm excited for Monday. I'll read that one cover to cover.

**Mike Somich** (2:32)
You know, Gil Gil has kind of like made the most wins bet for a month, a thing in the sports betting world.
It's funny because like I've been bettin those for a long time just for fun. But like Gil made it a whole bit. And like now it's a huge thing. Of course, coming off the Red Sox for him, we'll get into August as well. The first game isn't until three o'clock Eastern. So a little after we get off air here. So we got three hours to kind of decide where we want to go. I'd actually already made a bet and maybe it was a good one because I see the odds are different from when I made the bet. So that's always a bonus.

**Mike Somich** (3:03)
Closing line value. Yeah, exactly. What more could you possibly want? I've got a 50 to one shot I want to run by you.

**Mike Somich** (3:07)
Well, I love it. Yeah, so that'll be a little bit later as well. Last night in Major League Baseball, Red Sox get it done over the Dodgers. Brian Bayov, four scoreless innings of relief, kind of that bulk thing going on there for them. Ranger Suarez still making his way back. So kind of did the piggyback thing with that and they get it done over there in LA, Mike. And you know, this Red Sox team obviously incredibly hot right now goes, what this really does is flip what's going to happen on Monday completely on the head. I think we know a half dozen definite buyers.