Ready Set Bet | August 2, 2026 | Hour 2

**Matt Brown** (0:15)
Welcome back to Ready Set Bet with Matt Brown and Mike Somich on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network.

**Mike Somich** (0:27)
Matt Brown and Mike Somich sitting live on the desk together here at the World's Arch Sportsbook Circus Casino down in downtown Las Vegas. If you have not made it down here, come in. If you ever see Mike Somich make a wave, he'll buy you a drink.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:39)
I'll give you a drink ticket.

**Mike Somich** (0:41)
Until I run out. He has drink tickets that he can give away. Nice little dinner downstairs at Barry's last night.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:47)
Yes, sir.

**Mike Somich** (0:48)
They sat us on the nice little table.
The fresh flowers. We were somebody.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:56)
We got the NFL player. We've come here, gone to Barry's after a show on a Saturday night, and there's been NFL players down there. They always get that table. It felt very special. We sat right next to the DJ, had some fun with Kelly Bidlin misnaming bands all night.

**Mike Somich** (1:12)
If you do run into Kelly Bidlin in the evening, and they're songs playing, just humor yourself and ask him who sings them.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:18)
Because he's going to get the genre correct, but the band is going to be wrong.

**Mike Somich** (1:22)
World's worst.
His go-to is John Mellencamp. It's basically if he doesn't know who sings it, it's just John Mellencamp.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:29)
That was guess. And it's never John Mellencamp. No, it's never is.

**Mike Somich** (1:31)
And it's never John Mellencamp. Because you know the John Mellencamp songs.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:35)
He was very good with the yellow card type of bands. I was impressed with Simple Plan. He was able to call those out, but ACDC, good luck.

**Mike Somich** (1:45)
Yeah, there was no no chance on that. I would have come back with like, he'd have been like, I don't know, Rolling Stones, you know, like whatever, stuff like that. There's he just goes to the absolute default. But good times had by all. And shout out to the guys downstairs with all of that. We do have everybody out on the course right now. And Davis Riley and Michael Brennan go out in Birdie one. So they are in Chris Kirk. So the entire first, the entire group birdies one. And so that just basically leaves us where we were at is Davis. Riley is now 16, Brennan is now 15, and Kirk is now 13, but still the gap between all of those is the same.
Davis Riley coming off of a 64, 63 round two and round three there, Mike Somich. So was able to string together a couple of really, really low rounds and see if he can close this thing out. Michael Brennan, if you go win this after what you did to me last week, I'm going to be so incredibly upset.
If that ends up going on, Michael Brennan was in the thick of it last week and goes out and one of two guys who shot over par, like everyone destroyed that course on Sunday, except for my guy that could have gone and won the tournament. So he learned he wins this one. Yeah. If he wins this one, Brennan is off the list. He's off the list.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:56)
Would he be your JJ spawn?

**Mike Somich** (2:57)
Yeah. He's never getting better. Yeah. I that's that's well, I already have my JJ spawn and that's Patrick Cantlay because he has the most punchable face in the history of sports. Like when you see Patrick Cantlay, you're just like, you know, man, I just want to punch you.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:07)
Yeah. I mean, I'll never forgive JJ spawn for making that putt. I would have been fine with him winning. Just don't make that putt. I had a head to head bet with someone else and that putt was the difference there. I will say this is a par 70 course. So you're here in 63, 64 That's six under seven under. That's not going absolutely nuclear. Still very good golf, but not going absolutely crazy.

**Mike Somich** (3:25)
Summer Slam.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:26)
Oh, I love it.

**Mike Somich** (3:27)
Started yesterday.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:28)
Yeah, I know. I was locked in.

**Mike Somich** (3:29)
Yeah. I think that were they playing it here? Yes, I think they were playing it here.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:33)
You're wondering you bet on Summer Slam.

**Mike Somich** (3:36)
I don't. I mean, probably on the prediction markets.
You know, probably. I mean, seriously, you go create a market. Yeah, the CM Punk.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:44)
Yes.

**Mike Somich** (3:45)
One. Yep. He beat Cody Rhodes.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:49)
You know, fun, fun fact about CM Punk. OK, only wrestler to ever have an autograph in a hockey card set.