Ready Set Bet | August 8, 2026 | Hour 3

**CJ Sullivan** (0:00)
This is Ready Set Bet with Matt Brown and Mike Somich on VSiN, the SportsBetty Network.

**Matt Brown** (0:12)
Our number three here, Ready Set Bet.
Matt Brown, Mike Somich, as we... I'm watching this, like, old-timers game going on over at the Yankees. I don't really get the point of it. No one came to. It's like you...
There's no one in the stands. Like, I just don't even... It's, like, weird. It's weirdly sad. Like, it's like they all got dad bods now. They just, like, taking half swings and there's no one watching. Like, I don't know. They should just all get together and have a dinner and drink and stuff and whatever instead of, like, throwing on the unis and getting out there and taking half swings, pulling hamstrings and stuff.

**Mike Somich** (0:47)
Look, man, you got to get one last run in. Yeah, like a little charity softball game out there with the boys, you know, laughing, joking, maybe some beers in the clubhouse. I don't mind it. Let them have their fun.

**Matt Brown** (0:58)
I just want to see someone just just absolutely hit a yak. Just just just absolutely bomb one. Like, just get up there.

**Mike Somich** (1:05)
Usually there's the one dude who, like, took care of himself for the last 30 years. He doesn't have the dad bod who can still do it. And like everyone else was like, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. And then that guy walks up full swing and just launches it out of the stadium.

**Matt Brown** (1:16)
Yeah, let's we'll see if anyone actually like takes one out over there. This is before the Braves and Yankees game, which will be here in about an hour. That's going to be Chris Sale and Garrett Cole.
Chris Sale now out to about minus 140 there with the Braves on the road. Plus 131 on the Yankee side of things. Seven and a half is the total. If you look at this game, Mike, I mean, this is this is strictly just based off the offensive production here because like we said, Garrett Cole actually kind of rounded into form and it's not a small sample size. Last five starts. He's looked much more like Garrett Cole than he did when he first came back. And so we're basically getting some movement here, not on the fact that it's that is Garrett Cole VS Chris Sale. I think more on the fact that it's just this Braves offense going up against this Yankees offense that man for man, almost one to nine is is better.

**Mike Somich** (2:04)
It's interesting too. I mean, like you said, we're getting Braves money here, which I would agree with. I also would argue that this total at seven and a half is actually a tick too high, which is rare for me. I usually am not an under lower totals guy, but sitting at, I made this 7.2 and a lot of it was this Yankees offense, which has been absolutely putrid for the last six weeks. They have not been able to hit anything.
Now you're taking on a very good pitcher here for the Braves in sale. Cole been very good. You mentioned it over his last three, over his last five as well. Under first five for me here, you can get three and a half out there in the market. I'll take first five under three and a half Braves and Yankees minus 110

**Matt Brown** (2:38)
I'm going to, I'm going to give you a layup. Over the last 21 days, so last three weeks, who do you think has the lowest weighted on base of any team in Major League Baseball? I bet you get it right.

**Mike Somich** (2:50)
The Yankees.

**Matt Brown** (2:51)
It is, in fact, the New York Yankees. Yes, they are.

**Mike Somich** (2:54)
Look at that.

**Matt Brown** (2:54)
Worse than the Blue Jays, worse than the Angels, worse than the Cardinals, like all these teams that are really struggling to hit the ball. The Yankees with the lowest weighted on base over the last three weeks in all of the major leagues.

**Mike Somich** (3:08)
It's amazing the difference judge makes.
Like you talk about MVPs all the time, the impact to lineups. Aaron Judge in the New York Yankees line up, when he's out of it, it shows you why he is the MVP of the AL because it just completely transforms that baseball, that baseball team offensively.

**Matt Brown** (3:24)
If you look at Chris Sale today, too, in that same timeframe over the last three weeks, this Yankees team is striking out as a team 26.2% of the time, Mike. So every fourth guy that walks in that batter's box is striking out. If you think you can get any length out of Chris Sale today, I don't know if it's necessarily a strikeout props. It's already pretty happy. Like maybe it's just an outs like, you know, maybe it's just, you know, over under on the outs type of deal. If you think you can get him in there, it looks like there might be some, some easy at bats for him in this. And so it wouldn't surprise me if sale is, is able to go seven innings in this game.