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Alright, it's Tony and Dwight Show
with Dave Jennings. Spotch a boy the

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Kentucky Office of Highway Safety April coming
up here as driver distraction or distract,

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don't drive, don't drive distracted,
right, buckle up, put the phone

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down, do the speed limit please. This weekend, baby, it's finally

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here. We're talking Bats baseball home
opener this Friday night. And by the

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way, sixty seven degrees and sunny, first pitch at seven point fifteen.

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But that's not all the story.
There's more to it. Dollar beers six

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dollar number one Marguerite is superstars,
and there's a happy hour too, right.

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First, first of all, welcome
Greg Galliett. But it's a happy

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hour too, right. Well,
we're gonna put the gates at six o'clock

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and we'll have those dollar beers popping
right then, and only Dave Jennings gets

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the first one, and dollar Margarita
is from our friend over at Number one

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Tequila. Yes, we'll even have
since it's good Friday, we'll have a

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fish fry going on beautiful and like
you mentioned, the Zuperstars are going to

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perform during the game. Then after
a game, big fireworks show thanks to

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our friends that or Humana. So, oh it's good Friday. Yes,

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it's good Friday. So we're bringing
it all for opening night. Well,

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it's gonna be a bit. So
we talked about Dave's first beer because we

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used to do the afternoon A Dog's
There and we were already there. We

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did the show three to six.
Gates would open up at whatever five point

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thirty, so we would carry the
cell phone and go live. We would

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be live as he walked around describing
the stadium, and then he'd wander over

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and then he'd get in an argument
with the lady, going I can't sell

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you the beer yet, and he's
like, I'm here for the first beer,

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and then he would gulp. And
that's when that's when you weren't drinking

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beer at the time, and I
say, oh, that's so cold it

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makes my teeth hurt. Those ice
crystals. Let's talk about the beer for

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a second, because we're not talking
drafts right, We're talking it'll be twelve

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ounce canned Miller Lite and Curz Light. How about that night a baller.

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We are basically rolling back the prices
on opening night celebration of us opening the

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doors for the twenty fifth time or
the twenty fifth season of slugger Field.

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Five years? Hard to believe?
So much birthday? Is it? Then,

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Dwight? Would it be the twenty
four doing that we have a long

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standing it's going to be twenty four
years of bats baseball at slugger Field.

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We'll celebrate the twenty fifth year playing
baseball next year because of the works.

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Well, no, I understand that, but you can't say it's the twenty

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fifth birthday already twenty stadium birthday.
Yeah, it's twenty five. We were

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there in nineteen ninety nine broadcasting from
the outfield wall when Dion Sanders is on

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the field. Yes, here's the
issue I'm going to have, and I

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guess I'll go with both because one
of the favorite things that I have is

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the fried Baloney sandwich yep at at
the stadium. But now Guestavo's the best

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Mexican restaurant in the universe. Two
locates locations first and third base concourse,

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along with our friends over at four
Pigs, Wow, great barbecue out in

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right center field where the Miller Time
Tap House is. Low Kid, you

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just keep stepping it up. Greg
Galliat with the Bats is joining it's this

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Friday, baby, I'm talking seven
to fifteen's first pitch, but get there

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at six fifteen is the six two
clock, open the doors, talking dollar

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beers, six dollar margaritas or number
one plus the Zuper Stars. It goes

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and fireworks are having a fish fry
for the last fish fry. But let's

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talk about one of the just his
long term tradition with the Bats is for

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thunder over Louisville. You have a
doubleheader, and then you go in and

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you have got the great restrooms,
you've got private parking, the whole bit.

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Not playing a game this year,
but there's gonna be a happy hour

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at Slogerfield from one pm until three
pm? Is that right? Correct?

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And since Major League Baseball is basically
now running the minor leagues for whatever reason,

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this year is the first time they've
scheduledst away on that day, so

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we'll not be playing a home game, will actually be on the road that

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afternoon. But that doesn't mean we're
not gonna have a good time at Slugger

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Field. Right. We've got three
really top notch bands. We got the

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Juice Box Heroes, JD. Shelburne
and his band and the Crashers Wow,

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and they'll be performing around two o'clock
until about eight o'clock that night, along

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with the air show going on.
They'll be performing out in the outfield,

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so folks can pay just a little
bit of an upgrade and come down and

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sit in the outfield grass with their
blanket, listen to some great music,

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watch the airplanes, and of course, as everybody knows who's been to Slugger

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Field for Thunder Day, it's probably
the best venue in all of downtown Louisville

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to take in the fireworks show.
Heads down, No, you got clean

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restrooms, you know, Umonga's playgrounds, you got kids, yeah, and

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wristband everybody. So when you want
to leave the ballpark and go venture around

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on the waterfront, you're more than
welcome to. But when you got to

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go to the restroom and you don't
want to use one of those thunder porta

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potos, you can come back to
Sluggerfield and use a real restroom. And

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of course, we just talked about
all the great food we're gonna have throughout

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the twenty twenty four season, so
obviously that's gonna be available that day.

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So again, make Thunder as far
as your headquarters. It's got to be

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Louisville slugger Field that day. And
the neat thing is and you know this,

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Dwight and Tony, you know this. You can actually feel the stadium

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shake during the fireworks show. Oh
yeah, no, you're that close to

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it. No, it's the best
place to view it, and it's the

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best place for comfort. And I
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in the afternoon because from one to
three, two dollars beer happy hours going

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on for two hours, and you
can't I mean, think about what it

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costs just to get one beer at
Thunder over Louisville. I bet it's gonna

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be twelve thirteen bucks. Oh yeah, eas easily, It'll be NFL,

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NBA pricing and all those other stands. It's a no brainer. If you're

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gonna venture down for Thunder over Louisville, watching a sluggerfield is the only option

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if you had. It's also very
man We talk about the beers and all

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that. It's so family friendly.
The playgrounds are unbelievable. I can still

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remember. I can't remember who the
pitcher was that was thrown over one hundred

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miles an hour. Rollis Chapman.
Yes, and my son went to our

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first baseball game and he's eating that
ice cream and not paying attention to the

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to the field until you hear the
ball right hit the mit at one hundred

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and four miles an hour and he's
his his head turned around and was like,

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what was that? And I said, that was the ball being thrown

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to that guy, and that was
it. He was hooked. Unfortunately,

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years ago when a rollers was warming
up as a starting pitcher back in that

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day and that bullpenal on the third
base side, Unfortunately, the ball never

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hit the catcher's mit when he was
warming up. And I was standing right

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in front of our dugout and I
got hit right in a hip bone on

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our pitch and I had the stitches
on my hip for about four or five

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days. Oh my, into my
skin. That's why. God, that's

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pretty cool. You can show people
and say, look at this, that's

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Chapman's fastball. Baby, ask him
to sign it. Hey signed my bruise?

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Well, pull my pants outside my
hip. That always makes me think

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of the major league pitcher that said
they do you want a gun? He

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goes, No. I keep a
bucket of balls next to my bed.

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He Doesn'tnita gun, He's just gonna
fire, all right. So is there

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a Dela Cruz? Is there a
Look? That was an amazing What is

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happening? You're almost saying that,
is there one of those in the We

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were pinching ourselves last year for about
six weeks when it Ellie de la Cruz

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and Carnacion Strand and Matt McClain and
all those guys rolling through and Joey Vado

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happened to be doing a rehab at
the same time, right, I mean,

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we had a heck of a team. I mean, come on the

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double A team in Chattanooga last year
won their first half. So there's some

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more young talent coming. I think
we're gonna have some pretty strong veteran pitching

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as far as starting pitching to start
the year out with us. Probably some

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guys who probably won't be too happy
to be in louisvill probably think they should

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be in Cincinnati. They will probably
start out on our roster. So we'll

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see. I'll go talk about the
suspension that's going to affect the Reds.

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That's an eighty game suspension, that
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got caught obviously trying to enhance his
body, and now he won't be able

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to play professional baseball until almost July
third, mid season. So that and

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the fact that I went out to
spring training. I'm sitting there watching the

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Reds playing the Mariners. First game, first couple of innings, and I'm

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then watching TJ. Friedel start outfielder
for the Reds. Fractures risk trying to

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make a div so go, great, here we go. It's gonna start

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all over again. And then the
next couple of days i'm there, it

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just continuing, one injury after another. So we're gonna have a little bit

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of a mash unit for the first
few months until we get these guys back

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healthy with the Reds. But hey, it's baseball. It's one hundred and

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fifty game season. It's marathon.
But it's great to be back playing on

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the green grass in downtown Louisville,
talking bouts baseball with Greg Galliat. Opening

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Day this Friday, by the way, sunny and sixty seven degrees doors at

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six, first pitch at seven to
fifteen. We're talking dollar beers for the

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first from six to seven fifteen.
Right. Actually, we're gonna go dollar

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beers until about the middle of the
game Wow. And I do want to

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remind folks we're going back to the
old days now. iHeartMedia is gonna be

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our Thursday night Happy Hour sponsor again
like they were back in the old days.

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Nice. And also on Saturday nights
and Saturday nights we're gonna feature some

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craft beers in cans for six dollars
plus six dollars wines for the ladies.

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So we got a lot going on
this season at Slugger Field, and really

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the best place to get information and
all the cool promotions we do just go

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to bats baseball dot com. You'll
find out all the neat things we're doing

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day to day. But also it's
a great place to buy your tickets.

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And it's just you know, you
buy them on your phone now and just

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as you take it, and you
know what, you all started that,

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you know all were the first place
that the ticket was on your phone.

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I was like, how's that gonna
work? And now you can't. You

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can't go to a high school wrestling
match where the tickets on your phone.

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So it's now everyone's used to it, and we've started a new trend coming

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on the pandemic. We kind of
mimic the Kansas City Chiefs. We're one

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of the few professional sports teams in
America that has a digital program. So

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you can our game program your phone. Yeah, actual program, Yeah,

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forty pages. You go to the
restaurant, you just scan the QR code

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and it's on your phone. Wow. Every seat at Slugger Field will have

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a sticker in front of it with
a QR code on the right hand side

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to access our team program anytime you
want. And then on the left hand

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side, we're gonna have all kinds
of cool games and fun things to do

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with a QR code that you can
access throughout this season. So it's going

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to be a great way for fans
to stay in touch with the team on

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There are mobile devices throughout each and
every home game. I haven't read anything

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about it, but any new rules, experimental stuff that'll be beta tested at

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Triple A anything like that this year, David, Not really. We've been

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the laboratory for all the you know, the rules and the changes in the

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game that Major League Baseball is now
going through the last few years. The

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one thing you will see this year
or actually here Friday, Saturday and Sunday

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games instead of the with the automatic
ball strike challenge just being displayed on our

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video board. As far as the
ruling, whether it's all or strike,

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the umpires are actually gonna be miked
now, so they will actually tell you

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the result of the challenges a strike. Oh, where is Billy Martin?

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Mike? Okay, okay, right, that's what I'm thinking. I was

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like, they're not gonna be Mike
the whole time to Yeah, you don't

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want to hear Pat Kelly going on. Yeah, but you know what he

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called fairness. You can hear Pat
Kelly without him, you're sitting down low.

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Yeah, Pat's gonna get his money's
worth it. He's getting tossed out

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of a game. So bad's baseball? What a beautiful ballpark. That's where

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I had my wedding reception. I
love to play so much, looking forward

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to it. First pitch at seven
fifteen, but look, get there early.

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It's gonna be Sonny and sixty seven. Can you believe you're playing Indy

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which is cool? Yeah? Playing
Andy right right up the road. Dollar

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Beers six dollar number one Da Kilas
and number one Margeritas Zuperstar Guestavo Mexican man.

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I can't wait. Are they the
Indianapolis indigenous now not yet. Yeah,

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it's probably going to be coming soon. We actually, if you're a

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baseball nerd Paul Skins who pitched for
LSU, we'll probably be facing the bats

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at some point this weekend. He's
a Pittsburgh Pirate farm hand and the number

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one draft pick last year in the
draft, and you'll probably be with them,

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and we'll probably see him at some
point this week. I think it's

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crazy that you can lose a player
within hours of a game. Turn on

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your TV. Within hours of a
game, they're saying, hey, get

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your ass up here to Cincinnati,
and it's literally two hours later on television.

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Yeah, and that's been the great
part that the Reds love about the

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relationship with the Louisville Bats is the
fact they can call guys up at four

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thirty five o'clock and they're in the
game probably that night at Great American Ballpark.

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So they love that. Okay,
let's so opening night Friday, then

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a couple of homestands here open a
night dollar beer happy hour, and Antonio,

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I do want to remind everybody we're
home Saturday afternoon, Okay, two

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five, So I know folks are
going to start looking for things to do

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on spring break. Yep. So
we're home Saturday afternoon. Bring the kids

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perfect, it should be a good
weather day. Yep. We'll have kids

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run the bases after Saturday's game.
We'll have kids inflatables because Saturday we're treating

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as our kids. Opening Day nice
and then Sunday will be home Easter Sunday

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at one five. Oh really again, don't forget the postgame fireworks after the

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game on Friday night, thanks to
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really cool after a couple of the
margarita madness. I'm getting ready to roll

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the dice and a bad joke jar
Are you ready? And they are.

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Remember Bad's Baseball is home Sunday for
Easter, and everybody's welcome. All righty

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damn, here's Greg Kelliat. We
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back after this on NewsRadio eight forty
whas just an update on the container ship

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that struck the Francis Scott Keybridge in
Baltimore. None of those ships, obviously

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on the other side of that,
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those ships at least and getting them
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to be. But that will be
shut down until further notice. You're listening

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to the sweet sounds of Teddy Pendergrass. Teddy would have been seventy four today.

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I believe women used to throw their
undergoments at him as he would sing

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his songs on stage. I didn't
realize the details of his car crash.

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It happened in nineteen eighty two,
driving his new Rolls Royce Silver Spirit.

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At the time of the accident,
he had a suspended license for unpaid parking

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tickets. He directed a Maserati the
previous week. He was reportedly driving to

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Nika Wattson, a transgender performer who
we'd known since the seventies, to our

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house, saying only that she was
a casual acquaintance. What a story.

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She claimed that the car was tampered
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brakes. Ah, she wasn't hurt. He was paralyzed from the chest down.

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Never walked again. That again,
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a lot of knock on wood now
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was quicksand you know, stuff that
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them was the brakes going out.
Like how many episodes of whatever TV show,

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of whatever movie, or the brakes
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brakes and then they're on the course, are on the pch and so and

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so cut the brake lines? Yes, oh, what's going on. I

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wouldn't know where to find the break
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that places blame on Jefferson County Public
Schools and Alpha Route that is the transportation

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company out of I think is Detroit, and according to Sieman Johnny, they're

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still using them. That's insane.
They did not perform adequately, not satisfactor

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rec trek Ali. I would sais
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I would say that Alpha Route is
that fault. Jefferson County Public Schools is

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not a trucking company. They're not
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that's what they do for a living, didn't say this is going to be

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a disaster, then I would sue
them for what happened to our kids and

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our schools. I mean, I
don't know. Of course, we live

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in the age where Kenny Payne will
get millions to that coach John Caliperi will

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get thirty three million, not to
coach Alpha Ratute will get however much money

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to suck at what they did.
So complete disaster and then one of the

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other big stories. Oh well,
Sean Diddy combs that that is not going

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anywhere. People are calling him the
Epstein of the music industry. We will

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see his kids are gonna have a
hard time now. So somebody needs to

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sit him down and say, look
it, it's all right to be a

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little ditty, all right. There
has been some very sick allegations that have

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laid against him, and nothing on
social media would lend me to believe that

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it is not true that he didn't
take his private jet to a non extradition

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country. Correct somewhere in the Caribbean. He had some lawsuits against him in

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the last couple of months, which
probably prompted him to hide some money and

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get out of town. I think
they're a fity of them. It's called

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Diddy's Fitty. Thank you, You're
welcome, all right. So besides that,

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I've been watching social media and how
the other journalists and broadcasters in this

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town and have handled the coaching search
at the University of Louisville. And there's

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another broadcaster that's been around for like
thirty years. They just fell into a

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trap mm hm. And somehow got
out on his show that the other coach

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from Indiana State had said that May
which is now Michigan and everybody thought he

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was going to come to Louisville,
had said he got death threats from the

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Louisville fans. Well, that started
to blow up social media. UK fans

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jumped on board and going typical U
of L fans, disgusting, and I

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was like, we can't. We
were never going to get a coach if

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we're doing miscattle stuff. Well,
it turns out that was never said on

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his show, so he sort of
backtracked, didn't backtrack. Tim Sullivan got

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involved, you know, and Tim
gets involved. He's digging down to find

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out what's going on, and then
don't make me turn this car around people.

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Eventually, coach May that's now at
Michigan. Every thought he was going

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to Louisville has had to say.
I never got any death threats. I

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would have loved to be the coach
at Louisville. We just it just worked

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out that I went to Michigan.
That's it. By the way, there's

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a rumor out there about Richard Patino. Yes, that is now. That's

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more than a rumor. They're saying
that ul has talked to let me read

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some numbers to you. Richard Patino. In his time at Minnesota, when

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he took over with someone else's players
in twenty thirteen, he went twenty five

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and thirteen, still a losing record
in the Big Ten. In year two,

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he dropped off to eighteen and fifteen. Year three, when your players

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are in you're getting your system going. That's usually a big jump for coaches.

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He was eight and twenty three,
two and sixteen in the Big Ten.

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Overall in the Big Ten, fifty
four and ninety six currently in the

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Mountain West, with New Mexico losing
record in that league as well twenty three

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and thirty. Nothing about his past, where he's been mediocre at every stop,

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suggests he's ready for the Louisville job. Please do not make this mistake.

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I haven't seen a lot of great
decisions. And by the way,

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this administration doesn't get credit for the
Jeff Brahm high so you can't. I

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know that's on his REZI, but
that was the Broms. Whenever ad would

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be in place at the time Jeff
decided he wanted this job, would get

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the credit. It happens to be
Joshuerre. Yes, now you get credit

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for him not turning down Jeff.
That's true. But when Jeff just went

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to the Big Ten championship game to
play Michigan from Purdue and Saderfield took off

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and gave you a gift, Cincinnati
gave you a gift. You don't get

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credit for that. So I haven't
seen in the last ten years Louisville University

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of Louisville athletic department making great decisions. So what makes you think they're gonna

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make one now? In eleven seasons, Richard Patina went to three NCAA tournaments,

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never making it past the round of
thirty two. Please do not make

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this mistake. I don't know what
we're doing. I don't know what they're

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doing. But again I am not
expecting much. That the bar is set

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very low for me when we're talking
about the University of Loulvin. Now we're

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gonna get Nick coffee. He is
three to six pm on Sports Talk seven

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ninety. He's stiff in us.
He is stiffen us. He's doing some

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live event on Twitter, like watching
it right now, and I don't know

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what they call him anymore, Like
I don't know what those events are called

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anymore. But he's doing some sort
of live event trying to explain it.

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Last night I thought was fascinating with
Cali Perry because everyone was thought, they've

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got the buy out ready, They're
starting to look is Caliperi gone? And

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he was. Cali Peri was doing
his tap dance and doing his fun thing

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and sounding positive and and so I
listened to it right here on News Radio

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eight forty whas I thought Tom Leach
did a fantastic job trying to navigate,

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but got right to it. I
mean right from the jump of the radio

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show. Sometimes they make he'll wait
before they start to talk about it,

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but they went right into it.
I would much much rather have John Caliperi

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at Louisville than Richard Patino. Oh, no question. But cali Peri didn't

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sidestep too much of it. But
he was selling. That's what Caliperry does.

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As Colin Calherd it's on twelve to
three on seven ninety says he calls

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him Calapanzi and calls him, Oh, what was the other one? He

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calls him a grifter, super califragilistic. I don't know what happened to Colin

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Calherd in Caliperi years ago, but
he called him a grifter. Says he

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was a Cali Ponzi grifter at UMass
methis off Tucky. That's awfully personal.

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Really, he's been successful everywhere he's
gone. Should he have done more at

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Kentucky with that talent? Oh?
Yes, Oh my gosh, yes.

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So where is Kentucky going to go? It certainly sounded from Caliperi's position that

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he's gonna have his job later today, you can say he's moving on you

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could take former Kentucky All Stars that
are now in the NBA, make an

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Olympic team out of them and they'd
win the gold medal. To totally agree,

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because I can't even imagine both schools
looking for a basketball coach at the

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same time. Like, I can't
even People are gonna lose their mind.

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Didn't they play the Harrison Twins like
crazy and Booker was on the bench for

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good chunks of the season. Yeah, but maybe no one Karl Anthony Towns,

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Okay, I get it, But
you know what they won thirty nine

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games in a row. They did
with the Twins in the back course Stone

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Cold Killers. So I'm just saying. I mean, everyone wants to hindsight,

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but I'm like, did they not
win thirty nine straight games with them

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at the back court? I think
I saw the Shirts and Booker coming and

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Booker coming off the bench. Yeah, okay, well, at some point

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you might want to flip them out
and uh, and you know Booker is

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now an NBA All Star, So
all right, Richard Petito possibly the coach

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at the University of Louisville. No, it's coming in. I can't imagine.

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No, I can't imagine what a
gamble. But you may look if

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Josh hert And by the way,
I don't know if you've seen pictures of

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Josh Hurt today. Looks like he's
been president. He's in the US,

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he looks like he's been president for
twelve years. He looks I mean,

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remember Obama is the same way.
Obama looked very young, came in,

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he looked he was old when he
left eight years later. Is that's what

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Josh Hurd looks like, gray hair, wrinkles around his eyes. I'm like,

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boy, that job will make you
old. Uh. Richard Patino has

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won fifty five percent of all of
his games, nowhere near fifty percent of

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his conference games in leagues that aren't
as good as the ACC the Big Ten

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probably is this year. Yeah,
I again, I am setting the bar

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very very low for the University of
Louisville coaching decision on who's going to be

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the new coach University of Louisville.
I really am setting it. And then

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we need to scrutinize that decision like
crazy, because we didn't with Kenny.

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We just assumed a lot of things. We assumed that, well, you

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know, he doesn't have the temperament
and I say it all the time.

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Outside of Tony Dungee, who's the
nice guy that's won it? All coaches

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have a certain intensity to him,
and Kenny wasn't that guy. No,

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they are. Who knew though,
I thought that more basketball knowledge would have

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kind of assimilated its way into get
well. And who knew he was going

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to be so disconnected from the community
community, Like, you know, look,

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what's make no mistake there. There
have been calling for an African American

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to coach University Louisville for decades since
Denny left and whatever, Rick and all

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that, and it was like,
we need a coach that reflects the reputation

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of the University of Louisville. And
he didn't even embrace that community. When

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he came, he embraced none of
the community. He was nowhere to be

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seen. Now, if you're winning
games, that's cool, no one cares,

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right, But if you're losing games
and you still have no connection to

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the fans and to the community,
it was it was embarrassing. There would

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be events where all the major coaches
are watching players, scouting players, recruiting

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players. Guess who wasn't there,
Yeah, Kenny Payne. Well, yeah,

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might have had Nolan Smith there or
somebody. Well, I mean nothing

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like there wasn't you know, there
wasn't a Kenny Payne Christmas thing or Kenny

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Payne in the summer. We have
the workouts in the West End, or

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working out in the East End,
or doing some high school stuff or just

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showing up at high school games.
He was not part of the community whatsoever,

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which was shocking, Like we didn't
know that part. We didn't know

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that part. But it was a
bad decision. So Nick Coffee has successfully

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stiffed us because we need to really
needed his expertise. And I want him

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to say, don't worry, Dave
Richard Patino will not be the next coach

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at Louivio, please please please,
who knows, don't head to mediocrity town

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here. I didn't do that.
That's what he is. A mediocre coach.

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