WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.359 Well, Oklahoma against a little revenge for getting swept by 2 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:06.759 the Wildcats in Lexington, as the Sooners eleven eight Kentucky 3 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:09.119 by the final score of five to one here at 4 00:00:09.119 --> 00:00:10.119 the SEC Tournament. 5 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:11.279 That's how the game ended. 6 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:14.480 Darren Hedrick called it on the UK netwhere Kentucky falling 7 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:16.559 to Oklahoma. 8 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:16.600 Five to one. 9 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:20.719 Wildcats flatter it seemed today then last week's club soda. 10 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.879 They lose to an Oklahoma team they swept last weekend, 11 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:27.120 So now their fate is in the hands of the 12 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:30.879 selections committee. Wildcats with just twenty nine wins on the 13 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:35.000 year and yeah, thirteen of them in SEC play. But Kentucky, 14 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:37.200 which put runners on base in each of the first 15 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:39.920 re innings in scoring position, but they were one for 16 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:43.399 seven with runners in scoring position, scored one run thanks 17 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:47.000 to an Oklahoma error. Five to one was the final, 18 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:50.560 So now their fate is a real mystery. Nick Menzione 19 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.960 appeared on the SEC Network yesterday with Paul Finebaum and 20 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.200 broke down some numbers, which I find fascinating, especially with 21 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.439 baseball such a numbers game. But I remember talking to 22 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:04.760 Gary Henderson a few years ago about one of those 23 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:08.760 years where Kentucky was so close. You know, in certain situations, 24 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:10.280 might have been here, they were ranked number one in 25 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:13.120 the country a couple of times, but just to win 26 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.560 here or there, and wins come down oftentimes to one inning, 27 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.680 which can come down to one pitch or one play, 28 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.599 just so many moments. And you can say this about 29 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:25.519 a lot of different sports, but we're talking about baseball here, 30 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:28.280 and it just seems like baseball is easier to crunch 31 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:32.599 numbers of this sort. And Minjeo, and being an analytics guy, 32 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:35.560 has gone through and he's done the math. He's done 33 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:38.680 it simple arithmetic, really, and he broke down some of 34 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.480 these numbers for Fine Baumb when he was describing what 35 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.840 the regular season was like for Kentucky, which came so 36 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:50.040 close so many times to winning a series. And that's 37 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:52.920 what's about, of course, in the regular season in the SEC, 38 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.680 we talk about it all the time on TV side, 39 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.480 Darren talks about it on radio side. Win the series 40 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.400 at home that you have and maybe get one win 41 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:05.400 on the road and you're in great shape and pull 42 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.280 off a surprise on the road, two or even three 43 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.199 wins on the road in one weekend. Now you're contending 44 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:16.039 for an SEC championship, which Kentucky won last year. That's 45 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.439 how the Wildcats did it. For the most part. They 46 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:21.479 took care of business at home and got some big 47 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:24.479 wins on the road because they were able to take 48 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.080 advantage when the moment was right there for the taking. 49 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.919 And they've come up just short this year in so 50 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:35.479 many ways. And here's how MinJe O described it mathematically 51 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.039 to Paul Feinbaum on the SEC Network. 52 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:42.159 This is crazy, but in an average SEC game, the 53 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:45.280 average SEC team throws one hundred and fifty four pitches 54 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:46.759 in a game. 55 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:48.560 Now, so you times out by. 56 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.879 Two, there's about three hundred and eight moments in every 57 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:55.280 single game. Well, for us, when you look at it 58 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.080 and you break it down that way, we've had nine thousand, 59 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.599 six hundred and sixty eight moments in our thirty game season. 60 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:07.560 We are five plays away from winning four more SEC 61 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:10.960 series and winning eight, which only Texas did, and we 62 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:14.800 are nine plays away out of that nine, six hundred 63 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.400 and sixty eight from being back to back SEC champions 64 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:18.400 nine plays. 65 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.879 I knew they were close to being much much better 66 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.120 in terms of their record. I didn't realize. I guess 67 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.319 if I had sat down and pulled out a pencil 68 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.719 and figured it out. Yeah, I knew they could have 69 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.800 won more series, but they were that close. And the 70 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.960 reason is to an SC title again because as good 71 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.479 as Texas was, as good as a Florida was good 72 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:41.960 as a lot of teams were, nobody ran off and 73 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.520 hid with the SEC title. 74 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:45.800 Vandy has done in the past. 75 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.639 Other teams have done it, but there was so much 76 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.800 parody this year, and there's always going to be now. 77 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:54.120 I think that nobody ran away with it. And look, 78 00:03:54.400 --> 00:04:00.400 Kentucky won one game over Texas right in Lexingon, could 79 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.319 have won, two, might have won, three, might have swept. 80 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.879 The Longhorns. Had enough moments, had enough opportunities, and if 81 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.319 Kentucky had, Texas wouldn't have won the SEC championship. That's 82 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.040 where things turn in the Southeastern Conference. It is so 83 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.000 hard to win. But that's what made last year so special. 84 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:26.279 And as men Geones said, he believes this team is 85 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:29.519 a really good team, and he has said it all year. 86 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:34.560 He hasn't complained, he hasn't you know, talked about injuries. 87 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:38.240 He's talked about how well they've played at times, how 88 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:42.519 they've come up short, but he still has never stopped 89 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:43.879 being proud of this ball club. 90 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.360 I'm really proud of this team, and we really believe 91 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:48.079 we're one of the best teams in the country because 92 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:50.199 we're battle tested and we've been through it. And I 93 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:52.879 would say there's thirteen or fourteen teams in our league 94 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:53.600 that believe that. 95 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:55.240 And that's why. 96 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:57.879 Yeah, you're gonna have one team win this tournament, obviously, 97 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.560 but the other teams in the tournament that that get 98 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.240 bids to the NCAA, they'll know going in in Kentucky 99 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:08.199 included that, Hey, you know, we might have lost in Hoover, 100 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:11.199 but we're still good enough to win in Omaha. 101 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.480 And you may well see that. You may see a. 102 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:17.279 Team that didn't win the SEC title. Now Tennessee did 103 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.319 it last year, but you may see a team from 104 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.519 the SEC they got knocked out in Hoover and jump 105 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:28.879 up and win in Omaha. Because you're not playing day 106 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:30.680 after day after day. You get a little bit of 107 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.240 respite in Omaha. But you got to win that first one. 108 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.839 That's the key. That's one of the keys, the other key, 109 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:41.079 just as it is in the SEC tournament. And men 110 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:44.800 Jones said this prior to today's game to find Bomb, 111 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.639 but he has said it all year again when fine 112 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:52.120 Baum asked him in terms of pulling Kentucky through these 113 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:56.000 close games that the Wildcats they won some, they've lost 114 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.800 too many. But fine Baum said, if you could wave 115 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.519 a magic wand what might that turnaround be? 116 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:04.639 I believe it comes down to one thing. If you 117 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.800 said manage, put it into one word, I would say, 118 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:11.360 it comes down execution. That's it, plain and simple for 119 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:15.079 our players to execute what we are trained to do 120 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.000 and what we're capable of doing. If we do that 121 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.480 one thing and we execute at a high level, with 122 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.720 tremendous focus, tremendous energy and persistence, we'll like the result. 123 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.839 So ask yourself, did they execute today? Yes? Or no? 124 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:33.079 And can they keep executing once they get into the 125 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:38.120 NCAA tournament if they get a bid. But after losing today, 126 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:42.439 twenty nine and twenty four, and I've seen Kentucky teams 127 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.439 with better records not get a bid. But the SEC 128 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.680 wasn't nearly as tough. You get a lot more credit 129 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:53.079 these days for winning an SEC game, winning an SEC series, 130 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.560 And the Wildcats did win four and it might come 131 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:00.000 down to that series win at Tennessee when Kentucky really 132 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.519 he was at its best. So now they've got to 133 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:08.160 sit and wait until next Monday at noon. That's when 134 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:12.000 the selection show is. That's when the Wildcats will learn 135 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.959 their fate. So five won the final the loss to Oklahoma. 136 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:18.560 One other note in the SEC this was a pretty 137 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.839 big headline not related to baseball, and that was finally 138 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:26.759 the rumors are over and its official. Florida has landed. 139 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.360 Boogie flanned through the portal. 140 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:30.240 You'd heard about this. 141 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.680 Had he pulled his name from the NBA consideration, he 142 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.399 would end up at Florida. That's exactly what happened on Sunday. 143 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.560 He pulled his name and now he's a Gator, and 144 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.759 it makes sense. He's represented by Mike Miller, a former 145 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:52.160 Florida Gator. Ask yourself this though, why does he leave 146 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:56.920 Arkansas when you know that Caliperi, at least his past 147 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.399 year was running everything. 148 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:00.639 Through him before he got hurt. 149 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.000 I firmly believe Arkansas was better after Flann got hurt 150 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:08.000 and then came back, and everybody had gotten. 151 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:09.680 Used to being involved in the offense. 152 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:11.639 Prior to that, it was like give the ball to 153 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:14.560 Boogie and get out of his way, and they struggled. 154 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:19.199 He goes down Arkansas finds itself. Boogie comes back makes 155 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:25.759 him better. But now with ironically enough, Denzel Aberdeen leaving 156 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:30.319 for Kentucky, that might be why he sees an opening 157 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.039 in Gainesville. Maybe he's the point guard. Well, he will 158 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:38.799 be the starting point guard for Todd Golden down in Gainesville. 159 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:43.240 And this gives Florida a really nice class out of 160 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.159 the portal. Flann was rated the eighth best player in 161 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.240 the portal. Had to be because he was coming back 162 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:53.559 off that injury. But you know a guy who was 163 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:57.879 five star coming out of high school and insanely talented 164 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.879 and now joins the defending national champs. Now, of course 165 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:06.039 they lose Walter Clayton Jr. Among others, but they get 166 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.799 Xavion Lee out of the portal from Princeton. 167 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:10.840 They get aj Brown from Ohio. 168 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.159 You you might not heard those names, which you will 169 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.600 when the Gators take on the Wildcats this year. And 170 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.399 of course Boogie Flynn was going to be a Wildcat 171 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:24.080 until Caliperi left, but now he is a Florida Gator. 172 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.240 It's official. When we come back. 173 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:32.720 There is controversy brewing with the proposed changes to the 174 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:38.360 nil one SEC school in particular may not be cooperating 175 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:42.080 a little bit later on the incredible story of Sunday Silence. 176 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.799 In nineteen eighty nine, on this date he won the 177 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.759 preak Mistakes, the second Jewel of Racing's Triple Crown, after 178 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:53.799 twice literally defying death. We'll talk about that a little 179 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:58.080 bit later on David Siske of Cats Illustrated Forrest Tucker WTVQ. 180 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:01.279 That and more come out up right here on six 181 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.440 thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider. Coming 182 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:07.840 up at the bottom of the hour, a great story 183 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.600 about Sunday Silence. It was on this date in nineteen 184 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.279 eighty nine that he won the second jeweler Racings Triple Crown. 185 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.559 He won the Derby and then followed up with one 186 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:19.679 of the greatest Preakness finishes of all times, right up 187 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:21.840 there with the one we saw this year, different but 188 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.480 right up there with it. So and it's a great 189 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.559 story that began one county over in Bourbon County, on 190 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:32.200 Stone Farm in Paris. And we'll hear from Arthur Hancock, 191 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.879 who owns Sunday Silence, and we'll hear from him a 192 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.159 conversation that he had ten or eleven years ago with 193 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:41.320 a blood horse. But all the backstory about Sunday Silence. 194 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.159 It's an incredible story and he's one of my all 195 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.799 time favorite horses. So if you'll indulge me, that's coming 196 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.559 up at the bottom of the hour. I wanted to 197 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.039 point out if you haven't seen this yet, you know, 198 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.399 if you're a college sports fan, and if you're listening 199 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.639 to the show, thank you, and I'm sure you are, 200 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:03.159 that the House Settlement ruling is imminent. Right, that's supposed 201 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:09.879 to bring some guard rails, some enforcement to NIL, which 202 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:13.759 is right now the scourge of college athletics. But the 203 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.399 state of Tennessee has plopped itself squarely. 204 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:18.960 In the way. And here's how. 205 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:23.600 Back on the first of May, Governor Bill Lee quietly 206 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:28.799 signed a six page state bill, Tennessee Senate Bill number 207 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:33.159 five thirty six. According to Yahoo's Sports, they dug it 208 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:36.399 out last week, and that paves the way for state 209 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:42.519 schools in Tennessee, UT, Vandy, Memphis, et cetera, and their 210 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:48.679 affiliated collectives to break House Settlement related rules and prevents 211 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:55.919 college sports New Enforcement Entity from penalizing those schools. I 212 00:11:55.919 --> 00:12:01.200 mean this is directed squarely at the INNSA membership power 213 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.519 conferences and their desire to police the revenue sharing era 214 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:11.080 of college sports takes aim at any athlete compensation cap 215 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.519 and any penalties for rule breakers and policies that prevent 216 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:20.960 phony booster backed image, name, image and likeness deals to players. 217 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:22.840 What they basically did was say, we're going to do 218 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.960 whatever we damn well please, and by our state law, 219 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.679 there's nothing you can do to hurt us within the 220 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:32.759 state of Tennessee. What's to stop other states from doing 221 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:37.320 the same things? Now, Power conferences, according to the story, 222 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:42.480 have plans to combat such laws. You have officials from 223 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.559 the Big Tennis he see Big twelve acc There's a 224 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:49.759 draft of what Yahoo describes as groundbreaking, first of its 225 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:54.840 kind document intended to prevent these schools from using their 226 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:59.919 state laws to violate the new enforcement rules and requires 227 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.639 schools this is Big now to waive their right to 228 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:09.240 pursue legal challenges against the new enforcement entity called the 229 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:16.919 College Sports Commission. And remember, this is what everybody, fans, administrators, coaches, 230 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:21.360 players not so much, have been calling for from day one. 231 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.279 Guard rails everybody said, it's the wild West out there. 232 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:29.759 And there are people, some administrators who had said, you know, 233 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.440 we really don't like the terminology. 234 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:33.000 So what it fits. 235 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:36.600 It is the wild West, and it's ruining college athletics. 236 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:40.320 Not that players should get what's coming to them, but 237 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.519 it's just a little too crazy right now. 238 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:42.720 Isn't it. 239 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:47.240 So they came up with this design, and now the 240 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:50.240 state of Tennessee jumps in and says, no, Now, we're 241 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.360 gonna do whatever we want, and we're gonna make it 242 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:55.799 so there's nothing you can do about it. Well, now 243 00:13:55.840 --> 00:14:01.519 the power conferences are pushing back, and dozens of leading 244 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:06.879 school administrators, it says, are checking out this document. It 245 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:11.159 would bind institutions to the enforcement policies. They basically would 246 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.639 have to agree, all right, we want to be a 247 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.919 part of the NCAA, or if you want to do 248 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:18.840 a way of the nca and give it a new initial, 249 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:23.320 who cares? Whatever it is this membership, this group, if 250 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:24.639 you want to be a part of it, you got 251 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:25.600 to follow the rules. 252 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:27.000 And there's nothing wrong with that. 253 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.919 So, and it also says, even if their state law 254 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:36.519 is contradictory, it would exempt the CSC from lawsuits from 255 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:41.480 member schools over enforcement decisions, offering instead a route for 256 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:49.840 schools to pursue arbitration. Arbitration, how about that membership agreement affiliation, 257 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:53.799 call it whatever you want. But a draft of this 258 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:57.200 contract's been distributed to a lot of school presidents, general councils, 259 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:03.200 athletics directors have expressed legal concerns with several of the 260 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.919 document's concepts, and so they're trying to hammer them out right. 261 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:11.799 But in the state of Tennessee, they're trying to fight 262 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.519 at all. Why because they want their schools to have 263 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:22.759 a leg up on everybody else. Whether this enforcement policy 264 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.440 takes rute or not, the College Sports Commission, whether it 265 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:30.240 takes rude or not. We in Tennessee are saying, you can't. 266 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:32.440 Tell us what to do. We're gonna do whatever we 267 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:33.159 damn will. 268 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:36.440 Please, and if you try to stop us, we will 269 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:41.480 sue you. And I already saw one commentator on Twitter 270 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:44.639 say Greg Sanki, not that Sankie could do it, and 271 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:47.960 not that they're gonna do it, but said Greg Sanki 272 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:53.720 should kick Tennessee out of the sec That ain't gonna happen. 273 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:58.759 But this could get messy, This could get bloody. But 274 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.879 one athletic director said, you have to sign it or 275 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:05.639 we don't play you. As a condition of membership, you 276 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:09.279 must comply with a settlement and enforcement says one president, 277 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:13.080 or you're out. This is going to get tied up 278 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:15.360 in the courts. Lawyers are going to get rich. But 279 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.039 this has to happen in order to save college athletics. 280 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.639 It's going to be easier to deal with the portal. 281 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:24.000 They can pass a rule saying you can come through 282 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:25.840 the portal as many times as you like, but after 283 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:29.120 the first one you gotta sit. That to me seems 284 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.679 like it's going to be on the way. But this 285 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:35.279 involving all the nil dollars is going to be a 286 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.840 lot more complicated. 287 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:40.440 A couple of other notes before we hit the brakes. 288 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.440 Ryan Ritter, former Kentucky Gold Gloves shortstop, is the Pacific 289 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:47.480 Coast League Player of the Week. He plays for the 290 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:52.159 Albuquerque Isotopes Go Topes. That's a Homer Simpsons favorite team, 291 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:57.720 the Springfield Isotopes. But Ritter last week get This delivered 292 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:00.480 either a game time or winning hit in the ninth 293 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:05.880 inning of three straight games wins over Tacoma and in 294 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:09.920 that series ten for twenty two with four doubles, two triples, 295 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.519 and a homer. We all knew this watching him, he 296 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.519 knew he'd be. He's already special when he was at Kentucky. 297 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:18.880 The only thing that held him back a little bit 298 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.039 was his bat, but he had shown flashes of brilliance 299 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.759 at the plate. And once he gets that worked out, 300 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:26.960 he'll be in the biggs, and he'll be in the 301 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.200 biggs for good. Finally a tip of the BBI Captain 302 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:31.960 our man, Sewan Woods. He'll be with us on the 303 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:35.400 air schedules permitting tomorrow. He has been named the coach, 304 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:37.920 the head coach of La Familla. 305 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:39.079 For this coming year. 306 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:44.480 He was an assistant last year and takes over coaching 307 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.319 the team the head coach now that he's the head 308 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.680 coach at Scott County High by the Way for this 309 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.720 coming tournament. So we'll talk to Sean about that tomorrow night. 310 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:53.359 All right. 311 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:56.119 Up next to great story about Sunday sile Ons how 312 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.160 he survived a near death experience literally to bounce back 313 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.640 when the Derby win the Preakness, which happened on this 314 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:07.319 day in nineteen eighty nine, and in I number two, 315 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:11.920 David Sisk of Cats illustrated Forrest Tucker of WTVQ back 316 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:15.440 in a minute on six thirty WLAP Welcome back to 317 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:18.240 the Big Blue Insider. It was on this day in 318 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:23.200 nineteen eighty nine that Sunday Silence won the Preakness Stakes. 319 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:25.839 This is the time of year when people pay attention. 320 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:27.680 Even if you're not a horse racing fan, you pay 321 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:31.480 some attention, especially Derby Week, of course, but if there's 322 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:33.680 a triple crown up for grads and sadly there is 323 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.039 not this year, but there was in nineteen eighty nine, 324 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.039 and the reason was because of a horse that was, 325 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:46.440 by you know, usual thoroughbred standards, not the prettiest animal 326 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:49.200 you're going to see. And his name was Sunday Silence 327 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.880 and he was black, technically dark. 328 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:52.599 Brown, but black. 329 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:55.920 You know, you've got to qualify in a certain way 330 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.680 to be in the jockey club black, but Sunday Silence 331 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:04.960 jet black. Again, not the prettiest of horses, but man 332 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:07.960 could he run. And it's a great story. This is why, 333 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:09.839 if you'll indulge me, I'm going to share it with you, 334 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:15.039 because I covered that horse as the Thoroughbred Racing Guy 335 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.720 at WKYT Channels twenty seven, and to me, it was 336 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:21.720 a great story because he was owned locally. He was 337 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:26.200 winning his way to Churchill Downs out in California, but 338 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:29.880 Arthur Hancock owned him. Arthur of course, from Stone Farm 339 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:34.000 over outside of Paris and Bourbon County, the brother of 340 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:37.759 Seth Hancock, part of that Clayburn Farm family. It's a 341 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:42.960 famous story. Bull Hancock was the great horseman who created 342 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.400 Clayburn Farm, and then when he died, the board of 343 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:51.160 directors named Seth the younger brother, to run the farm, 344 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:55.440 not Arthur, the older brother. So Arthur set off and 345 00:19:55.880 --> 00:20:00.319 bought his own land, created his own farm called Stone Arm. 346 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.240 He liked the name Stone just because it was, you know, 347 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:05.759 of the earth, that kind of thing. And I got 348 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:08.920 to know Arthur and his wife, Stacy, who grew up 349 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.960 in Louisville as I did. She went to Westport High School, 350 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:15.480 which doesn't exist anymore. But Westport High School was one 351 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.839 mile away from from my home. If I had not 352 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.079 gone to Trinity, which was one mile this direction toward 353 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:25.240 the west, one mile east was Westport High School. In fact, 354 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:27.440 I went to summer school there to take typing because 355 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:28.319 I wanted to be a journalist. 356 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:29.000 All right, there you go. 357 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:32.519 So anyhow, I got to be very friendly with the Hancocks, 358 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:37.559 and I began to really follow Sunday Silence his progress 359 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:40.279 derby week. I got there on Monday morning, and I 360 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:43.599 liked him because he had won the Santa Nita Derby. 361 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:47.319 But Easy Goer was the horse. Easy Goer was a 362 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:49.759 son of the great Ali Dar, you know, the horse 363 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:51.680 that came in second to a firm and all three 364 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:56.359 legs at a triple Crown in nineteen seventy eight, and 365 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:58.720 he was supposedly the greatest horse to look through a 366 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:01.160 bridle in the last twenty five fifty years or whatever. 367 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:06.039 Big beautiful red horse reminded people of Secretariat was coming 368 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:07.839 through New York, so he had New York height behind 369 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:12.359 him and a great trainer in Suge McGee, and Sunday 370 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:14.440 Silence was kind of he wasn't a little horse, but 371 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:18.000 in terms of his reputation was, you know, shaping up 372 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:20.400 as the little horse that could. But the reason I 373 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.599 bring it up is because the Preakness Stakes that he 374 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:27.119 won after he won the Derby was probably still the 375 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:30.880 greatest Preakness steaks that I had ever seen leading up 376 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.960 to this recent one where Journalism managed to fight his 377 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:38.880 way to the finish line two different types of races, 378 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:42.720 because in eighty nine it was Sunday Silence and easygo 379 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:44.880 or battling down the stretch one on one. 380 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:46.079 You'll hear that in a moment. 381 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:51.759 But when I was looking at this year's Preakness, asking myself, 382 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:54.200 was it the greatest I've ever seen? I had to 383 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:56.440 go back to one of my favorites in eighty nine. 384 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.480 But let's back it up. Sunday Silence was lucky to 385 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:03.160 be there. He got really, really sick when he was 386 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:06.119 a weanling and survived this terrible virus that might have 387 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:08.559 killed him, but he didn't pass the eyeball test. He 388 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.839 was not the prettiest of horses, and in a great coincidence, 389 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:15.359 he was bred and owned by oak Cliff's Stables, the. 390 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:17.880 Guy who owned that outfit out of Texas. 391 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:20.160 Oak Cliffe is a part of Dallas. That's where I 392 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:22.160 lived when I was in Dallas. I didn't know that 393 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:25.799 until recently. He was bred known by Oakliffe Stables at first, 394 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.839 but as Arthur Hancock told Bloodhorse Magazine, there's a video 395 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:35.400 on YouTube, he was not a pretty horse. And one 396 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:38.000 of the people who worked for oak Cliff Stables, owned 397 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.559 by Tom Taysam, There's a guy named Ted Keefer who 398 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:44.119 made a pointed comment when the colt was just a 399 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:46.880 foal and hadn't turned black. And he was kind of 400 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:50.839 silver gray running around the paddock and some people liked him, 401 00:22:50.839 --> 00:22:52.599