Alright, it's Tony and Dwight Show with Dave Jennings. Spotch a boy the
Kentucky Office of Highway Safety April coming up here as driver distraction or distract,
don't drive, don't drive distracted, right, buckle up, put the phone
down, do the speed limit please. This weekend, baby, it's finally
here. We're talking Bats baseball home opener this Friday night. And by the
way, sixty seven degrees and sunny, first pitch at seven point fifteen.
But that's not all the story. There's more to it. Dollar beers six
dollar number one Marguerite is superstars, and there's a happy hour too, right.
First, first of all, welcome Greg Galliett. But it's a happy
hour too, right. Well, we're gonna put the gates at six o'clock
and we'll have those dollar beers popping right then, and only Dave Jennings gets
the first one, and dollar Margarita is from our friend over at Number one
Tequila. Yes, we'll even have since it's good Friday, we'll have a
fish fry going on beautiful and like you mentioned, the Zuperstars are going to
perform during the game. Then after a game, big fireworks show thanks to
our friends that or Humana. So, oh it's good Friday. Yes,
it's good Friday. So we're bringing it all for opening night. Well,
it's gonna be a bit. So we talked about Dave's first beer because we
used to do the afternoon A Dog's There and we were already there. We
did the show three to six. Gates would open up at whatever five point
thirty, so we would carry the cell phone and go live. We would
be live as he walked around describing the stadium, and then he'd wander over
and then he'd get in an argument with the lady, going I can't sell
you the beer yet, and he's like, I'm here for the first beer,
and then he would gulp. And that's when that's when you weren't drinking
beer at the time, and I say, oh, that's so cold it
makes my teeth hurt. Those ice crystals. Let's talk about the beer for
a second, because we're not talking drafts right, We're talking it'll be twelve
ounce canned Miller Lite and Curz Light. How about that night a baller.
We are basically rolling back the prices on opening night celebration of us opening the
doors for the twenty fifth time or the twenty fifth season of slugger Field.
Five years? Hard to believe? So much birthday? Is it? Then,
Dwight? Would it be the twenty four doing that we have a long
standing it's going to be twenty four years of bats baseball at slugger Field.
We'll celebrate the twenty fifth year playing baseball next year because of the works.
Well, no, I understand that, but you can't say it's the twenty
fifth birthday already twenty stadium birthday. Yeah, it's twenty five. We were
there in nineteen ninety nine broadcasting from the outfield wall when Dion Sanders is on
the field. Yes, here's the issue I'm going to have, and I
guess I'll go with both because one of the favorite things that I have is
the fried Baloney sandwich yep at at the stadium. But now Guestavo's the best
Mexican restaurant in the universe. Two locates locations first and third base concourse,
along with our friends over at four Pigs, Wow, great barbecue out in
right center field where the Miller Time Tap House is. Low Kid, you
just keep stepping it up. Greg Galliat with the Bats is joining it's this
Friday, baby, I'm talking seven to fifteen's first pitch, but get there
at six fifteen is the six two clock, open the doors, talking dollar
beers, six dollar margaritas or number one plus the Zuper Stars. It goes
and fireworks are having a fish fry for the last fish fry. But let's
talk about one of the just his long term tradition with the Bats is for
thunder over Louisville. You have a doubleheader, and then you go in and
you have got the great restrooms, you've got private parking, the whole bit.
Not playing a game this year, but there's gonna be a happy hour
at Slogerfield from one pm until three pm? Is that right? Correct?
And since Major League Baseball is basically now running the minor leagues for whatever reason,
this year is the first time they've scheduledst away on that day, so
we'll not be playing a home game, will actually be on the road that
afternoon. But that doesn't mean we're not gonna have a good time at Slugger
Field. Right. We've got three really top notch bands. We got the
Juice Box Heroes, JD. Shelburne and his band and the Crashers Wow,
and they'll be performing around two o'clock until about eight o'clock that night, along
with the air show going on. They'll be performing out in the outfield,
so folks can pay just a little bit of an upgrade and come down and
sit in the outfield grass with their blanket, listen to some great music,
watch the airplanes, and of course, as everybody knows who's been to Slugger
Field for Thunder Day, it's probably the best venue in all of downtown Louisville
to take in the fireworks show. Heads down, No, you got clean
restrooms, you know, Umonga's playgrounds, you got kids, yeah, and
wristband everybody. So when you want to leave the ballpark and go venture around
on the waterfront, you're more than welcome to. But when you got to
go to the restroom and you don't want to use one of those thunder porta
potos, you can come back to Sluggerfield and use a real restroom. And
of course, we just talked about all the great food we're gonna have throughout
the twenty twenty four season, so obviously that's gonna be available that day.
So again, make Thunder as far as your headquarters. It's got to be
Louisville slugger Field that day. And the neat thing is and you know this,
Dwight and Tony, you know this. You can actually feel the stadium
shake during the fireworks show. Oh yeah, no, you're that close to
it. No, it's the best place to view it, and it's the
best place for comfort. And I want to add get there at one o'clock
in the afternoon because from one to three, two dollars beer happy hours going
on for two hours, and you can't I mean, think about what it
costs just to get one beer at Thunder over Louisville. I bet it's gonna
be twelve thirteen bucks. Oh yeah, eas easily, It'll be NFL,
NBA pricing and all those other stands. It's a no brainer. If you're
gonna venture down for Thunder over Louisville, watching a sluggerfield is the only option
if you had. It's also very man We talk about the beers and all
that. It's so family friendly. The playgrounds are unbelievable. I can still
remember. I can't remember who the pitcher was that was thrown over one hundred
miles an hour. Rollis Chapman. Yes, and my son went to our
first baseball game and he's eating that ice cream and not paying attention to the
to the field until you hear the ball right hit the mit at one hundred
and four miles an hour and he's his his head turned around and was like,
what was that? And I said, that was the ball being thrown
to that guy, and that was it. He was hooked. Unfortunately,
years ago when a rollers was warming up as a starting pitcher back in that
day and that bullpenal on the third base side, Unfortunately, the ball never
hit the catcher's mit when he was warming up. And I was standing right
in front of our dugout and I got hit right in a hip bone on
our pitch and I had the stitches on my hip for about four or five
days. Oh my, into my skin. That's why. God, that's
pretty cool. You can show people and say, look at this, that's
Chapman's fastball. Baby, ask him to sign it. Hey signed my bruise?
Well, pull my pants outside my hip. That always makes me think
of the major league pitcher that said they do you want a gun? He
goes, No. I keep a bucket of balls next to my bed.
He Doesn'tnita gun, He's just gonna fire, all right. So is there
a Dela Cruz? Is there a Look? That was an amazing What is
happening? You're almost saying that, is there one of those in the We
were pinching ourselves last year for about six weeks when it Ellie de la Cruz
and Carnacion Strand and Matt McClain and all those guys rolling through and Joey Vado
happened to be doing a rehab at the same time, right, I mean,
we had a heck of a team. I mean, come on the
double A team in Chattanooga last year won their first half. So there's some
more young talent coming. I think we're gonna have some pretty strong veteran pitching
as far as starting pitching to start the year out with us. Probably some
guys who probably won't be too happy to be in louisvill probably think they should
be in Cincinnati. They will probably start out on our roster. So we'll
see. I'll go talk about the suspension that's going to affect the Reds.
That's an eighty game suspension, that kind of yeah, yeah, he he
got caught obviously trying to enhance his body, and now he won't be able
to play professional baseball until almost July third, mid season. So that and
the fact that I went out to spring training. I'm sitting there watching the
Reds playing the Mariners. First game, first couple of innings, and I'm
then watching TJ. Friedel start outfielder for the Reds. Fractures risk trying to
make a div so go, great, here we go. It's gonna start
all over again. And then the next couple of days i'm there, it
just continuing, one injury after another. So we're gonna have a little bit
of a mash unit for the first few months until we get these guys back
healthy with the Reds. But hey, it's baseball. It's one hundred and
fifty game season. It's marathon. But it's great to be back playing on
the green grass in downtown Louisville, talking bouts baseball with Greg Galliat. Opening
Day this Friday, by the way, sunny and sixty seven degrees doors at
six, first pitch at seven to fifteen. We're talking dollar beers for the
first from six to seven fifteen. Right. Actually, we're gonna go dollar
beers until about the middle of the game Wow. And I do want to
remind folks we're going back to the old days now. iHeartMedia is gonna be
our Thursday night Happy Hour sponsor again like they were back in the old days.
Nice. And also on Saturday nights and Saturday nights we're gonna feature some
craft beers in cans for six dollars plus six dollars wines for the ladies.
So we got a lot going on this season at Slugger Field, and really
the best place to get information and all the cool promotions we do just go
to bats baseball dot com. You'll find out all the neat things we're doing
day to day. But also it's a great place to buy your tickets.
And it's just you know, you buy them on your phone now and just
as you take it, and you know what, you all started that,
you know all were the first place that the ticket was on your phone.
I was like, how's that gonna work? And now you can't. You
can't go to a high school wrestling match where the tickets on your phone.
So it's now everyone's used to it, and we've started a new trend coming
on the pandemic. We kind of mimic the Kansas City Chiefs. We're one
of the few professional sports teams in America that has a digital program. So
you can our game program your phone. Yeah, actual program, Yeah,
forty pages. You go to the restaurant, you just scan the QR code
and it's on your phone. Wow. Every seat at Slugger Field will have
a sticker in front of it with a QR code on the right hand side
to access our team program anytime you want. And then on the left hand
side, we're gonna have all kinds of cool games and fun things to do
with a QR code that you can access throughout this season. So it's going
to be a great way for fans to stay in touch with the team on
There are mobile devices throughout each and every home game. I haven't read anything
about it, but any new rules, experimental stuff that'll be beta tested at
Triple A anything like that this year, David, Not really. We've been
the laboratory for all the you know, the rules and the changes in the
game that Major League Baseball is now going through the last few years. The
one thing you will see this year or actually here Friday, Saturday and Sunday
games instead of the with the automatic ball strike challenge just being displayed on our
video board. As far as the ruling, whether it's all or strike,
the umpires are actually gonna be miked now, so they will actually tell you
the result of the challenges a strike. Oh, where is Billy Martin?
Mike? Okay, okay, right, that's what I'm thinking. I was
like, they're not gonna be Mike the whole time to Yeah, you don't
want to hear Pat Kelly going on. Yeah, but you know what he
called fairness. You can hear Pat Kelly without him, you're sitting down low.
Yeah, Pat's gonna get his money's worth it. He's getting tossed out
of a game. So bad's baseball? What a beautiful ballpark. That's where
I had my wedding reception. I love to play so much, looking forward
to it. First pitch at seven fifteen, but look, get there early.
It's gonna be Sonny and sixty seven. Can you believe you're playing Indy
which is cool? Yeah? Playing Andy right right up the road. Dollar
Beers six dollar number one Da Kilas and number one Margeritas Zuperstar Guestavo Mexican man.
I can't wait. Are they the Indianapolis indigenous now not yet. Yeah,
it's probably going to be coming soon. We actually, if you're a
baseball nerd Paul Skins who pitched for LSU, we'll probably be facing the bats
at some point this weekend. He's a Pittsburgh Pirate farm hand and the number
one draft pick last year in the draft, and you'll probably be with them,
and we'll probably see him at some point this week. I think it's
crazy that you can lose a player within hours of a game. Turn on
your TV. Within hours of a game, they're saying, hey, get
your ass up here to Cincinnati, and it's literally two hours later on television.
Yeah, and that's been the great part that the Reds love about the
relationship with the Louisville Bats is the fact they can call guys up at four
thirty five o'clock and they're in the game probably that night at Great American Ballpark.
So they love that. Okay, let's so opening night Friday, then
a couple of homestands here open a night dollar beer happy hour, and Antonio,
I do want to remind everybody we're home Saturday afternoon, Okay, two
five, So I know folks are going to start looking for things to do
on spring break. Yep. So we're home Saturday afternoon. Bring the kids
perfect, it should be a good weather day. Yep. We'll have kids
run the bases after Saturday's game. We'll have kids inflatables because Saturday we're treating
as our kids. Opening Day nice and then Sunday will be home Easter Sunday
at one five. Oh really again, don't forget the postgame fireworks after the
game on Friday night, thanks to humanity. So hey, those gonna look
really cool after a couple of the margarita madness. I'm getting ready to roll
the dice and a bad joke jar Are you ready? And they are.
Remember Bad's Baseball is home Sunday for Easter, and everybody's welcome. All righty
damn, here's Greg Kelliat. We love you. We'll see you Friday for
Opening Day at Louisville Slugger Field. Thanks for having me, guys, Hi
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back after this on NewsRadio eight forty whas just an update on the container ship
that struck the Francis Scott Keybridge in Baltimore. None of those ships, obviously
on the other side of that, are getting out, so they are unloading
those ships at least and getting them on trucks to get them where they're supposed
to be. But that will be shut down until further notice. You're listening
to the sweet sounds of Teddy Pendergrass. Teddy would have been seventy four today.
I believe women used to throw their undergoments at him as he would sing
his songs on stage. I didn't realize the details of his car crash.
It happened in nineteen eighty two, driving his new Rolls Royce Silver Spirit.
At the time of the accident, he had a suspended license for unpaid parking
tickets. He directed a Maserati the previous week. He was reportedly driving to
Nika Wattson, a transgender performer who we'd known since the seventies, to our
house, saying only that she was a casual acquaintance. What a story.
She claimed that the car was tampered with because he was having issues with the
brakes. Ah, she wasn't hurt. He was paralyzed from the chest down.
Never walked again. That again, that's a story. You don't hear
a lot of knock on wood now these days, because in the seventies it
was quicksand you know, stuff that we don't fear now. And one of
them was the brakes going out. Like how many episodes of whatever TV show,
of whatever movie, or the brakes are out. They'll show the dripping
brakes and then they're on the course, are on the pch and so and
so cut the brake lines? Yes, oh, what's going on. I
wouldn't know where to find the break line. We also have the new audit
that places blame on Jefferson County Public Schools and Alpha Route that is the transportation
company out of I think is Detroit, and according to Sieman Johnny, they're
still using them. That's insane. They did not perform adequately, not satisfactor
rec trek Ali. I would sais the word again I forgot for me?
I would say that Alpha Route is that fault. Jefferson County Public Schools is
not a trucking company. They're not a routing company. If Alpha Route,
that's what they do for a living, didn't say this is going to be
a disaster, then I would sue them for what happened to our kids and
our schools. I mean, I don't know. Of course, we live
in the age where Kenny Payne will get millions to that coach John Caliperi will
get thirty three million, not to coach Alpha Ratute will get however much money
to suck at what they did. So complete disaster and then one of the
other big stories. Oh well, Sean Diddy combs that that is not going
anywhere. People are calling him the Epstein of the music industry. We will
see his kids are gonna have a hard time now. So somebody needs to
sit him down and say, look it, it's all right to be a
little ditty, all right. There has been some very sick allegations that have
laid against him, and nothing on social media would lend me to believe that
it is not true that he didn't take his private jet to a non extradition
country. Correct somewhere in the Caribbean. He had some lawsuits against him in
the last couple of months, which probably prompted him to hide some money and
get out of town. I think they're a fity of them. It's called
Diddy's Fitty. Thank you, You're welcome, all right. So besides that,
I've been watching social media and how the other journalists and broadcasters in this
town and have handled the coaching search at the University of Louisville. And there's
another broadcaster that's been around for like thirty years. They just fell into a
trap mm hm. And somehow got out on his show that the other coach
from Indiana State had said that May which is now Michigan and everybody thought he
was going to come to Louisville, had said he got death threats from the
Louisville fans. Well, that started to blow up social media. UK fans
jumped on board and going typical U of L fans, disgusting, and I
was like, we can't. We were never going to get a coach if
we're doing miscattle stuff. Well, it turns out that was never said on
his show, so he sort of backtracked, didn't backtrack. Tim Sullivan got
involved, you know, and Tim gets involved. He's digging down to find
out what's going on, and then don't make me turn this car around people.
Eventually, coach May that's now at Michigan. Every thought he was going
to Louisville has had to say. I never got any death threats. I
would have loved to be the coach at Louisville. We just it just worked
out that I went to Michigan. That's it. By the way, there's
a rumor out there about Richard Patino. Yes, that is now. That's
more than a rumor. They're saying that ul has talked to let me read
some numbers to you. Richard Patino. In his time at Minnesota, when
he took over with someone else's players in twenty thirteen, he went twenty five
and thirteen, still a losing record in the Big Ten. In year two,
he dropped off to eighteen and fifteen. Year three, when your players
are in you're getting your system going. That's usually a big jump for coaches.
He was eight and twenty three, two and sixteen in the Big Ten.
Overall in the Big Ten, fifty four and ninety six currently in the
Mountain West, with New Mexico losing record in that league as well twenty three
and thirty. Nothing about his past, where he's been mediocre at every stop,
suggests he's ready for the Louisville job. Please do not make this mistake.
I haven't seen a lot of great decisions. And by the way,
this administration doesn't get credit for the Jeff Brahm high so you can't. I
know that's on his REZI, but that was the Broms. Whenever ad would
be in place at the time Jeff decided he wanted this job, would get
the credit. It happens to be Joshuerre. Yes, now you get credit
for him not turning down Jeff. That's true. But when Jeff just went
to the Big Ten championship game to play Michigan from Purdue and Saderfield took off
and gave you a gift, Cincinnati gave you a gift. You don't get
credit for that. So I haven't seen in the last ten years Louisville University
of Louisville athletic department making great decisions. So what makes you think they're gonna
make one now? In eleven seasons, Richard Patina went to three NCAA tournaments,
never making it past the round of thirty two. Please do not make
this mistake. I don't know what we're doing. I don't know what they're
doing. But again I am not expecting much. That the bar is set
very low for me when we're talking about the University of Loulvin. Now we're
gonna get Nick coffee. He is three to six pm on Sports Talk seven
ninety. He's stiff in us. He is stiffen us. He's doing some
live event on Twitter, like watching it right now, and I don't know
what they call him anymore, Like I don't know what those events are called
anymore. But he's doing some sort of live event trying to explain it.
Last night I thought was fascinating with Cali Perry because everyone was thought, they've
got the buy out ready, They're starting to look is Caliperi gone? And
he was. Cali Peri was doing his tap dance and doing his fun thing
and sounding positive and and so I listened to it right here on News Radio
eight forty whas I thought Tom Leach did a fantastic job trying to navigate,
but got right to it. I mean right from the jump of the radio
show. Sometimes they make he'll wait before they start to talk about it,
but they went right into it. I would much much rather have John Caliperi
at Louisville than Richard Patino. Oh, no question. But cali Peri didn't
sidestep too much of it. But he was selling. That's what Caliperry does.
As Colin Calherd it's on twelve to three on seven ninety says he calls
him Calapanzi and calls him, Oh, what was the other one? He
calls him a grifter, super califragilistic. I don't know what happened to Colin
Calherd in Caliperi years ago, but he called him a grifter. Says he
was a Cali Ponzi grifter at UMass methis off Tucky. That's awfully personal.
Really, he's been successful everywhere he's gone. Should he have done more at
Kentucky with that talent? Oh? Yes, Oh my gosh, yes.
So where is Kentucky going to go? It certainly sounded from Caliperi's position that
he's gonna have his job later today, you can say he's moving on you
could take former Kentucky All Stars that are now in the NBA, make an
Olympic team out of them and they'd win the gold medal. To totally agree,
because I can't even imagine both schools looking for a basketball coach at the
same time. Like, I can't even People are gonna lose their mind.
Didn't they play the Harrison Twins like crazy and Booker was on the bench for
good chunks of the season. Yeah, but maybe no one Karl Anthony Towns,
Okay, I get it, But you know what they won thirty nine
games in a row. They did with the Twins in the back course Stone
Cold Killers. So I'm just saying. I mean, everyone wants to hindsight,
but I'm like, did they not win thirty nine straight games with them
at the back court? I think I saw the Shirts and Booker coming and
Booker coming off the bench. Yeah, okay, well, at some point
you might want to flip them out and uh, and you know Booker is
now an NBA All Star, So all right, Richard Petito possibly the coach
at the University of Louisville. No, it's coming in. I can't imagine.
No, I can't imagine what a gamble. But you may look if
Josh hert And by the way, I don't know if you've seen pictures of
Josh Hurt today. Looks like he's been president. He's in the US,
he looks like he's been president for twelve years. He looks I mean,
remember Obama is the same way. Obama looked very young, came in,
he looked he was old when he left eight years later. Is that's what
Josh Hurd looks like, gray hair, wrinkles around his eyes. I'm like,
boy, that job will make you old. Uh. Richard Patino has
won fifty five percent of all of his games, nowhere near fifty percent of
his conference games in leagues that aren't as good as the ACC the Big Ten
probably is this year. Yeah, I again, I am setting the bar
very very low for the University of Louisville coaching decision on who's going to be
the new coach University of Louisville. I really am setting it. And then
we need to scrutinize that decision like crazy, because we didn't with Kenny.
We just assumed a lot of things. We assumed that, well, you
know, he doesn't have the temperament and I say it all the time.
Outside of Tony Dungee, who's the nice guy that's won it? All coaches
have a certain intensity to him, and Kenny wasn't that guy. No,
they are. Who knew though, I thought that more basketball knowledge would have
kind of assimilated its way into get well. And who knew he was going
to be so disconnected from the community community, Like, you know, look,
what's make no mistake there. There have been calling for an African American
to coach University Louisville for decades since Denny left and whatever, Rick and all
that, and it was like, we need a coach that reflects the reputation
of the University of Louisville. And he didn't even embrace that community. When
he came, he embraced none of the community. He was nowhere to be
seen. Now, if you're winning games, that's cool, no one cares,
right, But if you're losing games and you still have no connection to
the fans and to the community, it was it was embarrassing. There would
be events where all the major coaches are watching players, scouting players, recruiting
players. Guess who wasn't there, Yeah, Kenny Payne. Well, yeah,
might have had Nolan Smith there or somebody. Well, I mean nothing
like there wasn't you know, there wasn't a Kenny Payne Christmas thing or Kenny
Payne in the summer. We have the workouts in the West End, or
working out in the East End, or doing some high school stuff or just
showing up at high school games. He was not part of the community whatsoever,
which was shocking, Like we didn't know that part. We didn't know
that part. But it was a bad decision. So Nick Coffee has successfully
stiffed us because we need to really needed his expertise. And I want him
to say, don't worry, Dave Richard Patino will not be the next coach
at Louivio, please please please, who knows, don't head to mediocrity town
here. I didn't do that. That's what he is. A mediocre coach.
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