WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:08.640 It's time for coffee and Company. Fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine 2 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:11.640 day, Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think when we 3 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:15.960 are get off our show, idiot. The kids are playing a trail off 4 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:19.160 and the coaches are screwing it up. Gold Play Inner Murals, Brother, 5 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:23.920 gold Play Inner Murals. They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really 6 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:28.359 not. Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you kidding 7 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:34.560 me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee? Well, not exactly, Nick Coffee. 8 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.119 You got the substitute teacher for the next day. It's like walking into 9 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:41.960 the classroom and seeing the projector up there and you're like, oh, man, 10 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:44.119 could have been quite the day, isn't it. Hey, I'm Scott 11 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:47.079 Fitzgerald. I'm back, yeah for a second day. Last day here, 12 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:50.079 Knick's back with you on Monday. He's off on vacation. When he went 13 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.159 down to the Land of Whoop Pig. He went down to Arkansas, I 14 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:58.240 believe correct, John Alden good direct, Yeah, good afters and Bobby Petrino, 15 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:02.200 That's what it was. He's Is he back there now? Is he's 16 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.599 their offensive coordinator? Now? Oh my god? I couldn't think of he 17 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.400 was at Missouri State stillor if he was, he's got to be super awkward 18 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.879 for the head coach of Arkansas whose name I'm it's fleeting my mind right now. 19 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.920 But to be the guy who Arkansas fans kind of, you know, 20 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.840 worship in a sense, Bobby Petrino being him, it's kind of odd if 21 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.319 you're the guy like you're not really in charge, but you are right right, 22 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.599 that's exactly right. I wonder if he's going to go try to get 23 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.280 a vibe check with Bobby. That'd be something, wouldn't that be cool? 24 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:33.519 But boy, yeah, good to be back here. It is a Friday. 25 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:36.920 It is the be as we put out on X you know, high 26 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.760 five check out. Let us take you home, Let us get you home 27 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.319 on the right home, because I know you got that cold brew. Folks 28 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.319 sitting at home or whatever. It is your libation of choices, there's not 29 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:49.599 I always notice John when I'm driving home, especially in the Waterston people driving 30 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.159 a little bit faster on Friday. It's it's different. It's got a different 31 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.079 much more. There's a high level of urgency to get home on Fridays. 32 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:02.120 There is, and I notice it and The nice thing is that getting up, 33 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:06.359 Like I'll get up tomorrow morning and come down here because we do the 34 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.479 Saturday show on HS what we call Radio Study Hall. So it kind of 35 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.599 keeps me in check a little bit because I don't partake of libations. If 36 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:15.159 I have to get up that early the next day, it just it doesn't 37 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:22.000 work out. My body disagrees. Uh, So it kind of keeps me 38 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.360 in check. It's awesome. So I've now replaced going home and having that 39 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:30.599 libation with heading to the gym, which is a good feeling now, very 40 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:35.719 healthy alternative. Right the Saturday, that's a different story. Bro Saturday is 41 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.680 my day of gluttony. The gloves are off. I mean, I walk 42 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.280 out of here and it's I'm back to I'm back to who I was. 43 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:50.240 I indulge. Although I have discovered through through this journey that califlower pizza and 44 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.520 I know people collectively roll their eyes is not bad. And I don't even 45 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:54.840 want to call it pizza, to be honest with you, because it's not. 46 00:02:55.159 --> 00:03:00.039 I get that I'm a pizza snob. I love pizza. I just 47 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.439 you gotta have good. There's one place in town that I go to that 48 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:06.840 is amazing. Like, it's one of those where my wife goes, Okay, 49 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:08.199 where are we going to dinner tonight? What do you feel like? 50 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.240 I go? I feel like pizza. Okay, where are we going? 51 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:14.560 Well, we're going here, and so we go there because the pizza is 52 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:19.439 amazing. But what I've discovered now is that I did this while I was 53 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.080 trying to lose the weight. That is, I make my own cauliflower crust. 54 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.039 You go, you get yourself a big old headed cauliflower. You dice 55 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:28.919 it up, use the food process or stick it in the steam it in 56 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.039 the microwave for about seven minutes, get it moist, let it cool off, 57 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:37.599 take it out, season it however you want, however you want. 58 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:40.479 And I'm a spicy kind of guy, so I tow some Hobernaro Italian seasoning 59 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:45.599 in there. You take the crush, you put some egg in with it, 60 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:47.280 whatever you want laid out, put it in the oven, bake it 61 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:51.319 for about ten minutes. Makes a nice crust. Pull it out. Put 62 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.759 whatever you want on there, dude, whatever you want, I'll load it 63 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.199 up. I get the regular thing of sausage, ground it up, put 64 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:00.520 my own spices in it. Make that hot too. Comes out boom, 65 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.280 you got your pizza. Dude. You're making me hungry on that fright. 66 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:08.800 So I'm not I'm not a cauliflower pizza god, but you're making it sound 67 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.520 pretty good. That's what I'm saying, dude. That's what I'm saying. 68 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.639 And I found out over time that I didn't miss the doing and I'm sitting 69 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.560 or eating and going, this tastes pretty damn good because and it helps that 70 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:23.079 I have the beers I've been waiting on all week. And it's funny because 71 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.120 there's times where where do we go. We went one from oh, I 72 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:31.600 know it was, oh I amc the local Iron Union Workers awards banquet at 73 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.879 This was last two saturdays ago. I think I put it up on X 74 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:39.480 and it was at the Blind Squirrel. So I'm looking. It is during 75 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.519 the day, so I'm MCing, so I don't want to drink anything. 76 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:44.800 Abou'm MCing. But afterwards, I'm sitting down with my wife's sitting at the 77 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.279 bar and she's partaking ABU is it a white claw? What are those? 78 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.439 And I'm looking at the taps and she goes, you're not going to get 79 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:56.160 a beer, and I go, I really really want to I'm looking at 80 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:58.360 them. They're all my favorite beers. But this was like three in the 81 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.839 afternoon. If I start now by about seven o'clock, I'm gonna be ready 82 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.439 for bed. And it's not that I'm going out and getting tanked. It's 83 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:08.759 just that when you get up, like I'll get up at two thirty in 84 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:11.560 my morning to come down here, And when you get up that early and 85 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.920 you start, if you start drinking that early, after just a few beers, 86 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:16.439 man, you're gonna be done. You're gonna be tired. But I'm 87 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.720 looking at the tap and you know, my wife goes, that's not like 88 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:23.160 you Usually we go out to these things and you'll be part, especially if 89 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:27.040 they got the beer you want. Well, what I did was what I 90 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:30.199 found out, is that right about when I have that pizza, when I 91 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:32.439 pull that pizza out there, I'm starting to prepare it. There's something about 92 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:38.000 that first beer when you haven't had one all week that just tastes amazing. 93 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.879 And that's called respecting the SuDS. I mean, that is just straight up 94 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:46.920 respecting the beer and treat it like that. So that's the nice thing. 95 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:48.759 So long story short, how we got here, I guess is if if 96 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.639 you're heading for home. A lot of you want it. Particular my wife, 97 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:56.000 she loves Friday Happy Hour. She goes. She says to me all 98 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.959 the time she goes, let's just meet. She wants a glass. She's 99 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.000 a red wine drinker. We'll sit at the We'll sit at the bar people 100 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:06.639 now because we don't have kids, they're doing their own thing, and she'll 101 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.279 get like, she wants one glass, maybe too, if it's been her 102 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:13.959 strong week, and then we'll either split a pizza if that's what she wanted, 103 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:16.879 or we'll split something and then she wants to go home ship put up 104 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:20.160 jams on and read a book and go to bed and see for Fridays. 105 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:23.240 For me, I'd rather go to the gym now Saturdays. I'd like to 106 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.680 go on Saturdays. She kind of wants to chill out. So we've got 107 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:29.199 to figure out a happy medium there and how we want to navigate those waters. 108 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.800 But yeah, if if there are ways to go. Some of the 109 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:36.680 other things I made with cauliflower too, I made some Asian wings with cauliflower, 110 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:41.800 which are amazing. They're amazing, dude. You throw some some sesame 111 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:45.240 seeds and you season them with you know, whatever you want Terioku sauce or 112 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:48.519 whatever. And once you get past the idea that it's calflower, you don't 113 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.639 even notice it. I feel like it's probably a mental thing. That's all 114 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:57.079 it is. It's all, it is, all it is. And and 115 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:00.759 when you look at the carbs, the big thing for me was because and 116 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:02.879 everybody's different. But see, I'm not carbs, and I do not get 117 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:08.160 long. Carbs and sugar are like my kryptonite. Which sucks because if I've 118 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:12.920 had a few beers, I incessantly crave chocolate. I just want chocolate, 119 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:16.680 and like I'll go, It'll be about midnight on a Saturday, after I've 120 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.639 had a few beers, and I'll be going through the house just looking for 121 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:23.360 all this chocolate. And that's the thing. And carbs are the same way. 122 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:29.519 So the payoff is once you've had, for instance, the calflower pizza, 123 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.319 you've satisfied that craving for the pizza, and then you look and you 124 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.560 go, I barely eve injest today, carbs. I'm okay with that. 125 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:39.160 I'm all right. But then again, everybody's body is different. Some people 126 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.759 can't. Some people from my wife, for example, example, she's on 127 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:45.560 the high blood pssure medicine. She can't handle the sodium content on what I 128 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.879 eat. But I've got my blood pressure is so low it's a healthy low. 129 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:54.800 But I can get away with that one day a week. So you 130 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.040 know, whatever you do. What's your go to there, John, when 131 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.360 you guys head out on a Friday, just going out for a night on 132 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.519 the town type of thing. So for me, so first of all, 133 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:07.959 I'm not a big beer drinker, right, I do enjoy and this is 134 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:13.399 gonna make me sound pretty lame, Honestly, I enjoy on occasion the point 135 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.959 five percent or lower alcohol type beers. Nothing wrong with that. I don't 136 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.439 know what it is. I think I just like the beer flavor without the 137 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.879 taste of the alcohol. Yep. And it's one of those things where I 138 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.399 mentioned the swim spot yesterday. If I'm hanging out at the d Laws and 139 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.240 I'm hanging out in the swim spot and I can get one of those point 140 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.320 five percents, that's a good way to relax in a week. See that's 141 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.600 awesome. And see that works for you, That's awesome, dude. That's 142 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.440 see, that's where I was going. Everybody's got their own way to unwind. 143 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.200 On a Friday. And you know, I see people that are at 144 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:48.840 the gym on Friday, very light day at the gym on Friday, mind 145 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:50.759 you, but I see people that untwind that way. And like you said, 146 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.039 you can go and partake of that. And I'm gonna look, I'm 147 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.399 a beer snow, but I'm gonna throw my hand up and say, you 148 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:01.399 know, we keep a fridge full of Trulies at home. And because and 149 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.320 be honest with you, the carb count is down. And because I'm not 150 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.720 as big as what I was, you know, I can get by with 151 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.159 the five percent stuff. It used to be my sweet spot was getting up 152 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.799 to seven, nine, sometimes ten percent with some of these bruis Man just 153 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.679 because I was bigger, and you know I could handle those. You can't 154 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.919 do that all the time now. For example, like Great Legs just came 155 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.320 out. I saw Lake Ey Beer Snobs, and know what I'm talking about. 156 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.559 Great Lakes Brewing came out with Lake Erie Monster, which is one of 157 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.840 my favorite IPAs well. Now they have a double and I saw it when 158 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.600 I was out at Total Wine. I grabbed that bad boy. Those are 159 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.120 sitting in my fridge and those are nine point five. And if you start 160 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.440 out with that boy, you're you're cooking. If you're not careful, you 161 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:41.559 got to make sure you got something in that stomach. Like instant mashed potatoes 162 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.919 don't take very long, right exactly. So the nice thing is too, 163 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:52.919 we got a waiting to go to tomorrow night, which is nice looking forward. 164 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.240 I'm actually looking forward to this because, and I hate to say this, 165 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.120 but it's a non church wedding so it won't go on long. And 166 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.159 it's it's gonna be at the Speed Museum, which is awesome. I've never 167 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.200 been to the Speed Museum. This is my first time getting head over there, 168 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.320 and it's with somebody my wife works with. And you know, weddings 169 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:13.879 are cool. I'm like, when did I graduate from that point in my 170 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.320 life? When I was younger, in my twenties, I loved weddings because 171 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.200 I loved hanging out at wedding receptions. I would always meet somebody always. 172 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.720 It's an awesome place to meet somebody, you know, because that was still 173 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.679 when I was in my twenties. That was long before you had the whole 174 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.080 app dating type day. Oh yeah, so you had to go out and 175 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.039 physically talk to people. That was the way to mingle. It's right. 176 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:37.679 So you mentioned kind of like feeling like you've outgrown the weddings. So I've 177 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:39.639 mentioned this probably a couple of weeks ago when Nick was here. Yeah, 178 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:43.159 something about once you've already had your own wedding. I've been married now for 179 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:48.879 four four and a half years, something like that, and something about going 180 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.200 to weddings after you've already you know, you grow up, you go to 181 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.879 the you know, family weddings, friend weddings that you maybe have gotten married 182 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:58.279 before you that kind of thing, but once you've already had your own wedding, 183 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:05.320 or something about I guess remembering the stress that you went through to you 184 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.679 know, put it all together, make it look nice, that kind of 185 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:09.879 a thing. And it was a great day. My wedding day was one 186 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:11.879 of the most fun days I ever had. But at the same time, 187 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.159 it's it's a it wears on, it's a it takes a toll on your 188 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.399 body that day, as they say, it sure does. Now what month 189 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.159 did you all get married, So I don't want to get too deep into 190 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:28.600 the weeds. Yeah, we got married right as COVID was kind of firing 191 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.080 up. We were supposed to get married in April of twenty twenty, and 192 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:37.919 once we realized that everything was shutting down, we had to kind of move 193 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.679 everything up a couple of weeks. We had a very private ceremony, if 194 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.360 you will, in March, March twenty first of twenty twenty, and that 195 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.799 was our official wedding, but we had we ended up had doing the reception 196 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:50.519 all that kind of stuff. I think it was a year or two later, 197 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:52.919 I remember, because I think might have been twenty twenty two. Did 198 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.399 in April, the end of April of twenty twenty two. That was the 199 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:01.919 actual celebration, if you will. So we got married right before COVID and 200 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.000 then kind of celebrated it a couple of years later. So, oh, 201 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.440 beauty, where'd you guys do it? I mean, what did you guys 202 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:09.879 have it? It was out in Bardstown, so okay, we both grew 203 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.240 up in big Catholic family. Actually, well her family's a massive Catholic family. 204 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:16.600 Yeah. I kind of was a grandfather into it a little bit whenever 205 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.840 I was younger, into my own family's Catholic stuff. But uh so we 206 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.639 got married out in Bardstown Saint Gregory Church. Oh yeahs yes, Coxs. 207 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.440 Yeah, good people down there. Great, Yeah, Bartstown, great stuff. 208 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.120 So that's when we got married. At the reception, it was no 209 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:33.879 a good time. Oh that's awesome, dude. Yeah, that was That 210 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.399 was the fun part for me because both my wife were Catholics. So when 211 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:39.519 we got married and we invited our and most of my family is Catholic, 212 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.559 but there are some that aren't. I remember one of them going, you 213 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.120 people, up down, up down, up down, give me a give 214 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:50.759 me a decent program. So I know what's going on. No, you're 215 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:54.559 right, so it was. It is to your point. It is wedding 216 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:56.639 season. In fact, my wife and I just celebrated ours. We got 217 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:01.759 married on June twelfth that year. It was at Saint Aloysius and Peewee Valley, 218 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:07.679 and I will never forget because it was about as hot as what it 219 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.879 is right now out there, and I just remember it being so hot and 220 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.080 it was one of those days where it was really hot and then the storms 221 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:18.679 would come through. So what we did was we got married in the old 222 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.120 chapel out there, which was nice because this was before they did all the 223 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.320 paintings. I mean, everything was all original and that bad boy still you 224 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.320 know. When we got married. So the heat of the day had been 225 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.519 building had been building, and our reception was at Owl Creek. You're familiar 226 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.399 where that is. It's a little bit of a dry but it was at 227 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:39.279 Owl Creek and it's kind of off the beaten path. So the storms built 228 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:41.720 up and built up, and my wife and I had this brilliant idea we 229 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:45.759 were gonna do the traditional thing, that is, once your wedding's over, 230 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.879 you leave for the airport and you go on your honeymoon, dude, And 231 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:52.240 we went to We went to the Cape for our honeymoon. We went to 232 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.159 Falmouth, Massachusetts. In part I saw. I saw my wife cause I 233 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.919 wanted to see some cake Codball and I'm like, you know, she goes, 234 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:01.120 can we stay at Bed and Breakast Because at the time Bed and Breakfast 235 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.480 and brb's weren't a big deal. Then yeah, we can stay there. 236 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:07.039 I like, I would preferred to stay in a hotel, like a nice 237 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:09.600 hotel, but yeah, I said, as long as I can go see 238 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:15.039 Cape Codbald, Okay, dude. We went back and watched our wedding video 239 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.399 a couple of years ago, and it was like it was like a scene 240 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.480 out of one of those Mate for TV like rescue movies. Oh yeah, 241 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.440 you had. The Anchorage fire department came in and told everybody they could finally 242 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.879 leave after a like two in the morning. And it was my wife's and 243 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.840 or somebody gave him a big old kiss like she was being rescued, and 244 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:35.159 I mean trees were falling all over the place. Long story short, you 245 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.159 know, we ended up we obviously we didn't make our flight to Boston. 246 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:41.759 And in the airlines were great, they were like, look, we totally 247 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:45.240 understand. We'll get you out in the morning, that's no problem. But 248 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:46.759 you know, but by the end of the day, to your point, 249 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:50.879 dude, it was like, man, I am gassed. I am straight 250 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.000 up just gassed. So I you know, I didn't mean to turn this 251 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:58.039 into wedding talk or anything, but but it is. It's that time of 252 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:00.679 year. It's happy hour. It's time for everybody to have a good time. 253 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:03.159 Time to let you let your hair down a little bit. We do 254 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:07.840 have a big show planned for you today. We are going to talk about 255 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:11.200 yo. L Hoops just announced they're heading to the Bahamas this summer. That's 256 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.159 good news for U of L fans. We'll get a chance to see that. 257 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.440 We'll have reaction to what Reggie Jackson said last night. I thought Ian 258 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.759 vert reason now we're talking in the hallway. I thought Fox did an amazing 259 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:28.000 job with the Negro League tribute last night. John Batiste was just unbelievable as 260 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.679 always. That didn't surprise me. We're also going to talk a little Caitlin 261 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:37.679 Clark versus Angel Reyes Part three. Dude, ticket prices are insane. They 262 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.279 are insane. I checked them before we got on the air, and it 263 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.879 is unbelievable with people. I can't imagine they're going to get these prices. 264 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.960 I can't imagine people are asking a large amount whether people will pay them. 265 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.360 I'll give you a little teaser. Cheapest ticket price to get in the door. 266 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:52.960 At least when I checked, it was one hundred and fifty one dollars. 267 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.720 And that's up in the corner. That's way up in the corner. 268 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.120 So that'll give you an idea. We'll put perspective on on that. We'll 269 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.480 talk about that. We're gonna do a little mascot trivia with John. We're 270 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:06.919 gonna get his lowdown because football season's coming out. I love that. Yeah, 271 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:10.080 football seasons come in fact, Fletcher Long, who I do our high 272 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:14.960 school football podcast with every Saturday morning. Just reached out to me and texted 273 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.360 me today. He goes, you know what, guess what. It's getting 274 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:19.600 to be that time? And I go, are you kidding me already? 275 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.159 I said, dude, we're still in June. Slow your role Beavis. 276 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.360 But he says, no, it's getting to be that time. He says 277 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:27.440 he's gonna do a little previous show. So we're gonna do that, but 278 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.320 we're gonna talk a little mascots, get everybody's favorite mascot. I see that 279 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:34.720 your boy there at Western's impressing folks do My son said he was impressed. 280 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.519 They got the new look Western Kentucky. The new Big Red is out. 281 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.679 They oh the little he's kind of the new logo, know what you're saying, 282 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.320 Yes, you're talking about Yes, So they they updated the logo, 283 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:51.639 I believe, and it's it's uh, you know, it's it's it's always 284 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:53.240 been the same, the hill top. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 285 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:57.360 Did you like when they put him on the helmet? Uh? I 286 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:02.360 mean he's always kind of look like a tellotubby, So I thought it. 287 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.839 I was thinking toy box and yeah, that's fine. So it's one of 288 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.759 those things. It's it's it severally bothered me. Yeah, you know, 289 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.519 it's part of who I am as an alum of Western Kentucky, So you 290 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.559 know it lives with me a little bit. Man. They got to be 291 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.240 feeling good at Western. We're gonna talk a little bit about. You got 292 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.599 a new basketball coach there, you got things going on with the volleyball team. 293 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:23.839 Dude, I mean Tyson Helton. Tyson Helton has got did you see 294 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.000 how many people are on the West are on the All Conference USA preseason team 295 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:30.480 from Western Kentucky. It is crazy, dude. I mean, it's crazy 296 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.920 to think what he does. And obviously Tyson's been able to recruit talent to 297 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:40.000 come through there, especially at the quarterback position. I was really hoping Bailey 298 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:44.400 Zappi would really pan out for the Patriots, But right now, the Patriots 299 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:47.920 are a giant, you know what show on every level. And I feel 300 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:49.640 bad for Bailey because he's caught up in all that. But you know, 301 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.400 if you're my son's good friend from high school is a Hilltopper. Now he's 302 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:56.960 wrapping up his He wrapped up his freshman year and said he just loved it. 303 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:00.319 He loved everything about it down there and Bowling Green and I have yet 304 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.519 to get down there for a game. I want to go down and see 305 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:06.400 a game. I wanted to go down and see a basketball game. When 306 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:10.359 Rick Stansbury was there. I was a big Rick Stansbury guy. I know, 307 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:12.720 I know he didn't pan out and he'd never lived up to expectations in 308 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.720 our boss, Gus s All, and he, you know, he had 309 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.920 his own thing thoughts about about Rick Stansbury, but he was down there whenever. 310 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.799 I was kind of on the beat, if you will, not professionally, 311 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.119 but as an intern that kind of a thing. And he was always 312 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:27.960 very kind to me. He's always very kind to the students in general. 313 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:33.799 And he was just a professional human being for coach at WKU, and he 314 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:38.240 was just I just enjoyed. He really epitomized basketball culture. He fit the 315 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:44.920 Kentucky college basketball scene, if you will. It's just unfortunate that he himself 316 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.279 was never able to break through the Hilltoppers. Obviously, with Steve Lutz last 317 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.319 year they were able to do that and then he moved on. So good 318 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:53.920 for WKU, but it wasn't fortunate to see it not work out with Rick 319 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:57.960 Stansbury. You know. And the thing I liked about Rick dude was that. 320 00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:00.759 And that's all I did was in the press conferences because I do a 321 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:04.319 lot of it for what we do on HAS. He was my favorite press 322 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:08.680 conference to listen to, and he just the way. There were times you 323 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:14.759 could almost understand him, but he's got their aspe voice. But he always 324 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.640 knew and if he saw someone in the press conference he didn't recognize, he'd 325 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:22.240 ask who they are. I don't know who you are? Who are you? 326 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:23.720 And I've seen coaches do that before, which I think is kind of 327 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.720 cool because they, well, they want to know who's out there, for 328 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:29.799 one and who's writing about him. But the fact that he knew that. 329 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.920 But you know, I was telling Tony, I was sitting there watching Old 330 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:41.000 Miss was playing Memphis this year and I'm watching the Old Miss Memphis game and 331 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.559 I'm looking on the sidelines and there's Penny Hardaway and I looked at go, 332 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:48.759 is that Rick Stansbury? I said, that is no way it's Rick Stansbury. 333 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.319 And of course they wouldn't show him for like ten fifteen minutes after that, 334 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.119 and sure enough, excuse me, there he is on the sidelines. 335 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.720 I didn't know he went to Memphis because when he left Western for health reasons. 336 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:03.279 At least that's what I thought. And evidently he's better now because he's 337 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:07.599 down there with Penny Hardaway. So fun factoid about Rick Stansbury. He used 338 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.480 to always take its recruits to Cracker Barrel. Did he realize something that does 339 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.279 not surprise random? That does not surprise me? So it's like one cracker 340 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:19.880 Barrel and bowling Green. Yeah, right off. One of the exits what 341 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:23.559 I do love. What I do love is because my son goes to Xavier 342 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:29.720 and it's taken a while to get him warmed up to campus life because the 343 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.640 girl he was dating at the time she went to UC. So I was 344 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:34.720 we're trying to get my son, Hey, look, why don't you hang 345 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:37.680 out on campus more at Xavier. Instead, he was spending every weekend her 346 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.680 dorm room over at U SEE. And so they split up for mutual reasons. 347 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.400 I mean, it's good, it was a good split up. They 348 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:47.480 just were doing their own things. They're still friends and whatnot. So he's 349 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.799 finally doing his own stuff and he's going to more basketball games now because literally 350 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:55.079 centtas centers. You step outside his dorm and you're right there, which is 351 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.920 a beautiful arena. By the way, never let it be said that you 352 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:03.440 can't build a beauty before Rena on campus U of L Centas Center is gorgeous 353 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:07.279 and the weirdest thing, man, when you're when you're watching those games, 354 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:08.599 when your kid goes to school there, because they're always on f S. 355 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:11.880 Warner Fox. We're sitting there one night and we see him all the time. 356 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.839 He's like texting while he's walking down to his seat. So it's the 357 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.480 most bizarre thing to see your kid, you know, texts at a basketball 358 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:23.319 game. So anyway, I was going with this was David McKnight, the 359 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.519 longtime Hilltopper of course from here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, played for Xavier 360 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:32.799 last year and he knows that I covered Kentucky News Network and he's like, 361 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:36.880 Dad, did you see David McKnight was going to to Xavier. I said, 362 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:38.519 oh, yeah, I did, dude. So it was it was 363 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:41.920 exciting because I got to watch him playing, got to watch he was one 364 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.480 of my favorite Hilltoppers, just just to watch him play. And and you 365 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:51.119 know Western, there's just a culture John at Western. I told Gus this, 366 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:56.079 your boss, our boss Uh, everybody who comes out of Western are 367 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:59.640 just good people. I'll put it that way. And it's it's known for 368 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:03.680 theirjournalism. It's known for their sports journalism. Really, and everybody I know 369 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:07.440 in this business that comes out of Western they're just they're good people. They 370 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:11.319 just they get it. They understand it. Yourself, Gus included. And 371 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:15.400 every time I meet somebody that's got that Western logo on, you kind of 372 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:18.319 perk up a little bit and you go, that says something, that says 373 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.000 something about you. So that's good stuff. Hey, we're just getting started. 374 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:23.599 We got a lot to talk about, a lot to unpack here when 375 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:26.599 we come back. We'll get that reaction from Reggie Jackson last night, and 376 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:30.720 what about that when we talked to Matt Melosevich. Remember Matt and I said 377 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:33.880 yesterday it was going to be something special. It sure was and it's impressed 378 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:37.240 a lot of people and everybody's talking about it today. I'm scoff and strolledon 379 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.200 for Nick coffee. He'll be back with you monday. John Holden is working 380 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:45.240 hard down the hall putting this all together for us. We're back after this 381 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:49.920 on Sports Talk seven ninety. Hey, welcome back. It is three point 382 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.599 thirty on a Friday, it's quitting time. Let's pack it up, let's 383 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.480 head home. And for those of you who are still working, big salute 384 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:59.559 to you as well as we salute you all, especially the ones who are 385 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:03.079 working with this on a Saturday morning too, Saluting our whack pack who get 386 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:04.799 up with us and check in with us on Saturday morning. By the way, 387 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:07.440 Coach Scott Davenport at Bellarman and part of the whack Pack, a member 388 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:11.200 in good standing. He's up on Saturday mornings listening to us as he goes 389 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:15.359 out for his run through Crescent. Well was it Crescent? Where's the water 390 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.359 park? Creston Hill? Thank you? Yeah? Coach gets up and does 391 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:19.119 his run through there. I don't know if it'd be running tomorrow. It's 392 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:23.599 gonna be a little warm. I'm Scott fitz GERALDA he is John Alden. 393 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.160 Of course, Nick Coffee will be back with you on Friday. I think 394 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.640 he's officially made it to Arkansaw now, all safe and sound with his family, 395 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:37.559 certainly enjoying great time away. Absolutely appreciate everything Nick does. Again, 396 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.559 had a great chance to catch up with Nick under the grandstands there at Churchill 397 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.920 Downs during Kentucky or no, it was Oaks Day. Nick and I had 398 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:48.599 a chance to talk about a lot of off the air stuff, which is 399 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.960 really nice. And it was clearing. Nick and I see I and a 400 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:55.519 lot of stuff. And we're in good hands with Nick Coffee here on seven 401 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:59.400 ninety and I really really hope he doesn't go anywhere. I'm not saying he 402 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.160 is. I'm just saying that we need him here. We're lucky to have 403 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:06.480 him in our back pocket. He's one of the good guys in sports talk 404 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:08.960 radio, and they're few and far between. It seems like in twenty twenty 405 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:11.599 four, Nick's one of the good guys. So as as they like to 406 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.519 say, John, pay the man, they should not the thing they have, 407 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.079 but they should if they all know if they're not paying more, because 408 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:19.960 we got to keep him with us. So Nick, hope you're enjoying, 409 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:22.559 buddy, be glad to turn this back over to you when you come back 410 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:27.759 on Monday. All right, We did have Matt Melissa is John WKA. 411 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:30.400 What great conversation with him. By the way, we posted up on next. 412 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.160 When I come on these shows like this, when I get a little 413 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.599 long form, I like to bring in folks here locally that you can see 414 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.240 in a different light. For example, coming up, I'm talking to Hockey 415 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:44.720 Nation. Major Mikelines is going to join us at four point thirty to talk 416 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:47.680 Stanley Cup and all things hockey. A lot of people hear him with us 417 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:52.680 on news radio eight forty whs. He's a military analyst for CNN and he's 418 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:56.920 a major. He's fought the Gulf War. But he's all serious. Well, 419 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:00.680 now he's going to kind of let what little Harry has down and we're 420 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.759 gonna have a little fun because he knows a thing or two about the NHL. 421 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.279 We'll find out why that's so important. But last night we were talking 422 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.240 about yesterday were talking aout Matt Melosa bitch about the Negro League tribute on Fox. 423 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:15.039 So I left here, got in the gym, got on the treadmill, 424 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:21.000 dialed up Fox, and the great Reggie Jackson sat at the round table. 425 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:25.759 Big Poppy was there, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and you know 426 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:27.960 Reggie jacks That was the first World Series I watched. I believe it was 427 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:32.480 seventy eight is what it was. It's the first one I remember is Yankees 428 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:36.039 Dodgers. So I was endeared to Reggie Jackson. I mean I didn't bandwagon 429 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:37.640 as a fan or anything. He just he was larger than life to me. 430 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.480 So when he stepped to the table last night to sit down and talk, 431 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:45.119 I listened, and I got to admit, not only was I blown 432 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.240 away, I was impressed one. And here's a little bit of what he 433 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:52.559 had to say. I would never wanted to do it, want to do 434 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:56.400 it again. I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and said, 435 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:00.119 I can't eat here. I would go to a hotel, oh, 436 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:04.039 and they said, can't stay here. We went to Charlie Finley's country Club 437 00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:08.119 for a welcome home dinner and they pointed me out with the N word. 438 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:15.839 He can't come in here. Finley marched the whole team out. Finally they 439 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.240 let me in there. He said, we're going to go to the diner 440 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:22.559 and eat Hamburger's, or go where we're wanted. Fortunately, I had a 441 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:29.119 manager in Johnny McNamara that if I couldn't eat in the place nobody would eat, 442 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:32.279 we'd get food to travel. If I couldn't stay in a hotel, 443 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:36.160 they'd drive to the next hotel and find a place where I could stay. 444 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:41.359 Had it not been for Raleigh Fingers, Johnny McNamara, Dave Duncan, Joe 445 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:48.359 and Sharon Rudy. I slept on their couch three four nights a week for 446 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:52.559 about a two month and a half. Finally they were threatened that they would 447 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:56.240 burn the our apartment complex down unless I got out. Now, what you 448 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:03.400 heard bleeped out was the N word only wasn't bleeped out on the national broadcast. 449 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.000 The Fox went through it on their official site, where we had permission 450 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:10.279 to grab their audio from. They bleeped it out. I would have bleeped 451 00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:12.640 it out here, obviously, But when Reggie Jackson used it in context, 452 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:17.640 even I was on the treadmill and I were oh, and you could just 453 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:21.400 see everybody took a collective pause. But this was Reggie and he was talking 454 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:25.519 about life in Birmingham, Alabama. He played for the Birmingham A's at the 455 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:33.279 time, and it was just I'm listening to this and this is an ancient 456 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:37.359 history. I think this is what's important to remember. This didn't happen like 457 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:44.279 two hundred years ago. And what an ugly time to be alive, and 458 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:48.240 what a great time I was thinking it is to be alive. Now we 459 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:55.720 look at the Pride Festival, they sold out, sold out, and how 460 00:27:55.759 --> 00:28:02.319 we're becoming more accepting of people in twenty twenty four. And if you think 461 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:07.559 that's a bad thing, I can't help you. I feel bad for you, 462 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.799 but I can't help you. Because what was interesting was joh iok I 463 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.880 was reading some of the Pride posts that were up. They were talking about 464 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:19.839 the success of the Pride Festival, and now this the hatred that's still there, 465 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:26.640 and not all of its hatred. Some of it's misunderstanding, some of 466 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:33.960 it's just people being naive. And I'm thinking, Okay, I can't change 467 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.759 the way people think, but I'm thinking how far did we come? And 468 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.680 so after reading all that on Pride Festival last week, and then hearing Reggie 469 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:48.759 Jackson tell these stories about Birmingham, I'm like, how far have we come? 470 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.000 We have a long way to go, but how far have we come? 471 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:59.240 And then then I started thinking, how could someone live like that day 472 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:03.720 in and day and then still go out and play baseball? I mean, 473 00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:07.960 I get upset when I forget my coffee cup and that throws my whole morning 474 00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.960 off. Listen to Reggie Well, I'm thinking how do you keep your wits 475 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.240 about you? How do people like Willie Mays keep their wits about him? 476 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.400 And then here's what Reggie had to say, And this is where it kind 477 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:23.119 of all made sense. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. At the same 478 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:27.480 time, had it not been for my white friends, had it not been 479 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:33.839 for a white manager and Rudy Fingers and Duncan and Lee Myers, I would 480 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:37.920 have never made it. I was too physically violent. I was ready to 481 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.839 physically fight some I'd have got killed here because I'd have beat someone's ass. 482 00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:47.400 And you just saw me in an oak tree somewhere. I mean, come 483 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:52.960 on, Reggie, preach, and I mean, that's just raw anger that 484 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:56.680 if Reggie had to live with it, imagine those that came before him that 485 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.759 had to live with it. And then go out and baseball, and then 486 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:04.640 Reggie becomes one of the greatest of all time to play the game. It 487 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:07.319 took me back to a time I remember growing up. I was talking to 488 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:11.799 my wife and daughter and I were having this conversation yesterday after I got home, 489 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:15.039 and it took me back to a time I remember sitting around the table 490 00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:21.759 with my relatives, some of my relatives and just using language that at the 491 00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:27.000 time, you know, that's that's what they said. And I just remember 492 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:32.720 sitting around and thinking, now in twenty twenty four, I'm like, haw, 493 00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:37.599 is that Why? Why did we live that way? And my wife 494 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:40.400 responds to me, she goes, I was in the same boat. She 495 00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:42.839 said I had relatives, and she said that was life. Then in fact, 496 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:45.240 there's during the week, there's three things I watched while I'm on the 497 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.240 treadmill because it helps pace out my time. It's Taxi, followed by All 498 00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:53.440 in the Family in mash and Man, you start watching All in the Family 499 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:57.559 now in twenty twenty four, and you realize how far ahead of his time 500 00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:03.480 Norman Lear was and how Norman Lear addressed these ugly conversations that people were like 501 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.960 this, that they were like this, So now the beauty. I was 502 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:12.480 telling Ian out in the hallway that I was pricing out Negro League jerseys because 503 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:17.240 I just I'm a big I just since I became aware of the Negro Leagues, 504 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:21.559 I've just really kind of embraced this. At two hundred and ten dollars, 505 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.799 bro two hundred, that's how big this phenomenon has become. And as 506 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:29.160 I told Tony on the show this morning. He started bringing up stories about 507 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.440 Jackie Robinson. I do not Jackie Robinson was the band I have. You 508 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:36.200 know, my Brooklyn Dodgers had as one of my prize possessions, and that 509 00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:41.240 movie was great and I love that entire story. But I told Tony, 510 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.000 I said, if you really want to go on an adventure, and I've 511 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:47.400 been doing this now for the better part of two years, because we're got 512 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:48.400 to talk about that here coming up in just a bit if we have time. 513 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.000 If not, then we'll get to it. I'll probably talk about it 514 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:57.319 tomorrow. I take just a couple, three, four, or five Negro 515 00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:02.759 League players at random, dive into their lives, dive into their stat lines, 516 00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:07.160 take a look at who they are. I mean, Louisville was home 517 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.519 to the Negro Leagues in the thirties. Well, we get to it. 518 00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:13.519 We'll talk about a couple of the players that played for them. And so 519 00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:15.599 one was born right here in Louisville. One was born in Uniontown, Kentucky. 520 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:20.079 You know, it's right over along the banks of the Ohio. But 521 00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:22.279 dive into these and get to know these people. And this is where I 522 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:28.559 think on Slugger Museum uncovered the Louisville Unions around nineteen oh nine. That is 523 00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:34.079 a great story in itself that they were able to embrace this, But you 524 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.799 look at just some of the what these players had to endure, and I 525 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:39.119 think, going back to Jackie Robinson, what brings it all home? Have 526 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:42.799 you seen the movie forty two yet? John, I haven't. Okay, 527 00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.559 when you see it, I'm not gonna play spoiler here, but there's a 528 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:50.640 scene in there where they played the Philadelphia Phillies. Very telling, and I 529 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:52.799 immediately thought about that when I heard that second sound bite from Reggie Jackson, 530 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:59.640 because it's a point where the Phillies manager just keeps going and going and going 531 00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:05.240 in Finally, finally Jackie Robinson snaps. He goes into the locker room and 532 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:10.400 he just snaps, And I just I don't know how this generation of players 533 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:15.559 did this. And when John Batist came out and sang last Night, and 534 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:17.920 they did, when the Saints come marching in and there was dancing and everybody 535 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:22.240 was happy and they were wheeling out the Negro League, the surviving Negro League 536 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.720 players, I'm like, they finally are getting their due. They're finally getting 537 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:30.680 the respect they deserve. And it gave me goosebumps, It really did. 538 00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:34.759 And it was a night for the ages. It was a beautiful night of 539 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.279 baseball. John Battist who couldn't have asked anybody better to do it. The 540 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:43.640 national anthem was on point. The flyover it hit like dude, they threaded 541 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.200 the needle. I've seen good flyovers, this one they threaded the needle with. 542 00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:51.160 And just everything about the night was just a beautiful night. It was 543 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:54.880 a beautiful celebration of baseball. And of course lost in all of that is 544 00:33:54.920 --> 00:34:00.000 they did honor the great Willie Mays. He of course was from Birmingham, 545 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:02.240 Alabama. That's where it all got started. The last Negro League game was 546 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:06.400 held there in nineteen forty eight. Reggie did speak what's everything? Once you 547 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:09.760 call him down the emotions, Reggie had a chance to talk about, well, 548 00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:14.519 what Willie Mays meant to him, The way that he showed the love 549 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.960 of the game, the way he respected the game, even when he had 550 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:22.559 a complain about what may have been going on with minorities or whatever in his 551 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.679 era, you didn't speak about it. He loved the game so much that 552 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:32.440 he refrained. But my admiration for him was how he went about it and 553 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:37.480 how he showed people like me following him how to play. That was it. 554 00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:43.719 And there's a SoundBite in there where it was Derek Jeter and I want 555 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:45.159 to say Ken Griffy Junior, don't quote me, and I was in the 556 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.039 mill of bit on the treadmill. But I think those are the Yeah, 557 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:50.920 those are the two asked. They asked Willie Mays. They said, well, 558 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:53.320 how do you want to be remembered? And WILLI said, not for 559 00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:59.559 what I did in baseball. What I did outside of baseball is how he 560 00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.199 wanted to be and that's that's Willie Mays. And for me, that brought 561 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:06.840 it all home. But okay, so if those storylines weren't enough for you 562 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.159 last night, well let's fast forward to the game itself. Okay, the 563 00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:13.440 Cardinals are playing the Giants, right, Cardinals come up to the plate. 564 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:15.800 Brendan Donovan steps up and the f Rogers checks the runner at second. Now 565 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:20.199 comes to the plate, he ex choose me swing, that's a base it 566 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:22.239 up the middle. Here comes a runner around third, that's Burlasman. He's 567 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:27.800 going to score. And Goldschmidt goes into third base. So on RBI for 568 00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:30.840 Brendan Donovan his third of the night. Calling KMOX sounds like a routine play, 569 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:37.880 right RBI. Brendan Donovan's an Alabama native. He's born and raised just 570 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:40.199 south of Birmingham. He goes three for four with a home run. Those 571 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:44.599 three RBIs that clutch one right there? Win the game for him. My 572 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:51.199 man comes home and Alabama native and wins this thing in a place known for 573 00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:54.400 baseball and Alabama. And afterwards, even as skipper Ali Marmle says, that 574 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.639 was kind of a big deal. He's been taking much better at basketball. 575 00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:01.480 For him to come home, that's special. It really is. So you 576 00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:06.760 love seeing it. I know he came into the dug on his side welcome 577 00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.719 home. And even Giants skipper Bob Melvin talks about playing on the field kind 578 00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:14.599 I can feel what transpired here a long time ago, and the players have 579 00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:17.480 played on the field, and you know, you just don't get to experience 580 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:22.760 something like this in the move season much so it was just telling. When 581 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:24.880 I ran into Ian in the hallway before we started the show, he goes 582 00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:30.119 said, you watch last night ago, Yeah, and everybody has this whoa. 583 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:36.000 That was amazing reaction. So I don't know what baseball's going to do 584 00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:39.440 to top that. I mean, it just everything seemed to work out the 585 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:43.719 way it did. But just to kind of bring you up to speed, 586 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:45.960 Louisville has its past with the Negro leagues. Now, there was, of 587 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:51.639 course the Louisville black Caps. They played in nineteen thirty and then they transferred 588 00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:54.800 their name over to the Louisville White Sox in nineteen thirty one. Then in 589 00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:59.480 nineteen thirty two they played in the Negro the Southern League as the black Caps 590 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.039 again, but unfortunately, five months into the season they moved out and they 591 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:07.079 moved to Columbus so but the team did feature players like say Spoon Carter his 592 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.800 real name was Ernest C. Carter Junior. He went one for three. 593 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:14.360 He was one and three with the black Caps in nineteen thirty two. He 594 00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:19.079 tossed twenty seven innings will striking out twenty six with a three point zero er. 595 00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:23.519 He'd go on to play sixteen years before leaving the league. In nineteen 596 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:28.079 forty eight, he played for the Memphis Red Sox. He passed away in 597 00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.679 nineteen seventy four. He was seventy one years old. He's laid the rest 598 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:37.000 ironically in Birmingham, Alabama. And then of course there's lefty Willie Geisentanner. 599 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:43.400 He was born in eighteen ninety nine in Ozark, Alabama. He played for 600 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:45.360 the Black Caps and the White Sox in nineteen thirty and nineteen thirty two, 601 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:49.519 and after runs with teams like the Kansas City Monarchs, probably one of the 602 00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:52.960 famed Negro teams, then one of the more known Negro teams. He went 603 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.920 nine and three with sixty seven strikeouts, and some accounts, if you read 604 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:01.719 some stories on him, he did it with a mangled left hand, which 605 00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:06.079 that does not surprise me. I mean, it's it. And then the 606 00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:08.920 team, as we mentioned, had two local players. It was catcher Lewis 607 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.679 English. He was born in Louisville in February twenty fourth, nineteen oh two. 608 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:17.000 In addition to playing in Louisville, English also played with the Detroit Stars 609 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:22.199 and the Baltimore Leite Giants. He finished his career here in Louisville. He 610 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:24.239 had one hundred and twenty four hits in his short four year career, while 611 00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:29.000 hitting two forty seven lifetime. He passed away at the age of seventy four 612 00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.159 in Butte County, Georgia. And then finally there was one other player from 613 00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:37.519 Kentucky, Henry Harris. My man was five to three, one hundred and 614 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:40.119 thirty seven pounds. I mean nothing like what you see in these players that 615 00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:44.639 are out there now. Harris was born November twenty fifth, nineteen hundred, 616 00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:46.079 Union Town, Kentucky. If you know you're Kentucky, if you know, 617 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:50.440 it's about one hundred and fifty miles west of Slugger Field. It's along the 618 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.719 banks of the Ohio. He enjoyed a modest career. He played just four 619 00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:58.159 games with the Saint Louis Giants in nineteen twenty four before a season with the 620 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.000 Memphis Red Sox. A lot of them appeared to have play. They went 621 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:05.079 through Memphis for whatever reason. Before He hit two forty four with Louisville, 622 00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:08.400 we'll scoring four fifteen runs. He notched twelve RBIs in nineteen thirty. He 623 00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:14.119 died May seventeenth, nineteen seventy nine, in his hometown of Uniontown, where 624 00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:17.519 he's laid to rest. So it's pretty incredible. You just dive into these 625 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:22.519 players and you get to know them, and you get to know the Negro 626 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:27.239 League tradition. I'm so glad Major League Baseball has brought this to the forefront, 627 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.239 also addressing some of the social issues that we still face in this country. 628 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:34.440 So big tip of the hat to all involved. All Right, I'm 629 00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:36.960 Scott Fitzgerald. He's John Alden. We're gonna take a quick break. I'm 630 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:40.039 gonna get a bit of water here and refresh, and we'll come back. 631 00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:44.239 We'll talk some more. We'll test John's knowledge with mascot trivia too, coming 632 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:46.599 up next hour. We'll have some fun with that. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. 633 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:52.880 He's John Alden. We're back after this on Sports Talk seven ninety. Oh 634 00:39:52.960 --> 00:40:05.280 good stuff, John Alden. That's good stuff right there, John Alden playing 635 00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:07.480 it for us in the studio. I'm Scot Fitzgerald, filling in for Nick 636 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:10.119 Coffee. He'll be back on Monday. Man, I gotta tell you, 637 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:14.119 bro, there are days where I get in the car and I'm in a 638 00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:16.360 Motown mood. Oh yeah, I am in a Motown mood. There's this, 639 00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:20.480 you know. Motown just really always put me in a good mood. 640 00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:23.440 And if you ever get the chance, if you ever venture up to my 641 00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:27.519 home state and you're in Detroit, sometimes do stop in on the Motown Museum. 642 00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:30.880 It's Walworth. What part of Michigan is it Detroit that you're from Green 643 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.840 Rapids, So I'm on the west side of the state. So but get 644 00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:36.280 up there and hang out to the Motown Museum. They do a great I've 645 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:38.079 always wanted to see a show at Van Adel. Oh it's nice arena, 646 00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:43.039 dude, beautiful, beautiful, made for hockey. Just saying, just saying, 647 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:46.000 it's beautiful. But yeah, man, I love me some Motown you 648 00:40:46.039 --> 00:40:50.079 get in the right mood. I could listen to that all day. Hey, 649 00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:52.920 quickly before we go to break news, just coming out this. I'm 650 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:58.440 getting this from the University of Kentucky this afternoon. Outfielder Ryan Waldschmid has been 651 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:02.519 named a Baseball All American. Congratulations to Ryan Waldschmid. That, of course, 652 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:07.199 he's already been named in All American by Perfect Game by the Baseball College 653 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:14.159 Coaches Association rawlings as well, So congratulations to Ryan. Good job. Wish 654 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:15.960 the Cats were playing for a College World Series, but hey, look, 655 00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.199 Tennessee and Texas A and m you can't beat him. That's for darn sure. 656 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:22.840 We're gonna take a break. When we come back, We're going to 657 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:24.960 talk. Well we might well. At some point we're gonna test John's mascot 658 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:30.440 trivia and it's Caitlin Reese Part three. You won't believe the ticket price is 659 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.639 for this too. We'll talk about that and more. I'm Scott fitz Jolie, 660 00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:37.360 John Alten. We're back after this. On Sports Talk seven ninety