WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.000 Welcome to the Big Blue Insider Day. Gabriel with you 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.839 on a Monday as we wrap up the month of June. 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:10.199 Amazing it is shot right by and once again tonight baseball, 4 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:12.839 football basketball to talk about. We're going to be joined 5 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:14.359 a little bit later on at the bottom of the 6 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:18.920 hour by Ainsley Almanor, who of course wants a Wildcat, 7 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:22.120 always a Wildcat, but also now is a member of 8 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:25.239 La Fa Meia. It's the team that plays in TBT, 9 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.480 the basketball tournament you know it by now. That's the 10 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:31.079 tournament where a lot of former players get together and 11 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:34.920 play for a one million dollar person winner take all. 12 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:38.039 And the Kentucky team last year, which was one of 13 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:41.840 the favorites to get to the championship, ended up in 14 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:44.600 the final four, which is where the Wildcats lost, or 15 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:47.679 La fa Mea lost a name. Of course, it harkens 16 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:50.520 back to the Caliperi era, but people seem to like it, 17 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:53.439 and Ansley Almanor is happy to be on the ball love, 18 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:55.799 so we will talk with him at the bottom of 19 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:57.560 the hour. A little bit later on, we're going to 20 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:01.560 talk to Doug Flynn, my broadcasting brother, who of course 21 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:05.359 is my partner on the SEC plus telecasts of the 22 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.719 streaming channel of UK Baseball, and we always talk to 23 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.439 Doug here in the garage for the chain Gang of 24 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.959 Keith Madison, Darren Headrick and Doug. But I wanted to 25 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.560 talk to him about the upcoming documentary on his life. 26 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:22.319 And you heard perhaps the man who produced that documentary, 27 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:26.640 my former WKYT colleague, David Patrick, on Friday, talking about 28 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:28.719 the project. So we'll talk to Doug about it, as 29 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:34.120 well as the Wildcats and yesterday's College World Series, which 30 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.120 just a mess if you don't know by now, the 31 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:41.159 head coach of Coastal Carolina and an assistant coach ejected 32 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:42.920 in the first inning. And I will get to that 33 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.280 in just a moment, but I also want to point 34 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:48.560 out that Lee K. Howard will Travelers as well, coming 35 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.920 up in the hour number two. But I got to 36 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.719 talk first about SGA Shay Gildess. Alexander capped off the 37 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.640 year of a lifetime, the season of a lifetime that 38 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:02.920 saw him lead the league in scoring at thirty two 39 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.680 point seven points per game. He wins the MVP Award 40 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:10.520 and now he's a world champion and the MVP of 41 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:15.000 the NBA Playoffs. Following the Thunders win over the Pacers yesterday. 42 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:17.560 And as I mentioned before, I loved it when ABA 43 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:20.800 teams the former ABA teams and gosh, you know you're 44 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.240 talking about fifty years ago with the ABA. But those 45 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.919 of us who are ABA fans, we still revel in 46 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.840 the fact that there was success coming out of that league, 47 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:33.759 great players, the three point shot style of play, and 48 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:38.199 now another ABA teams won a title because San Antonio 49 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.639 won five. But yeah, the Pacers came close again. I 50 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:44.680 could not root for them because I just hated the 51 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:48.039 Pacers when they were in the ABA. But I'm also 52 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:51.280 rooting for SGA and Cason Wallace, who had a nice 53 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:53.639 game as well. He had double figures. He had ten points. 54 00:02:54.080 --> 00:03:00.159 But say, Gilles Alexander put together the greatest season and 55 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.879 that a former Wildcat ever has in the NBA. And 56 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:05.960 as you know, there have been a lot well there 57 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:07.560 are a lot of Wildcats now in the NBA. But 58 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:11.120 he had twenty nine points twelve assists. Wallace also had 59 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:13.919 three steals and a couple of rebounds to go with 60 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:17.400 his effort. And I will say, yes that Pacer fans 61 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.479 will always look back on the fact that their best player, 62 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.560 Tyrese Halliburton, who would have been the MVP had he 63 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:28.199 kept going the way he was early and had the 64 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.520 Pacers want it. He went down with the injury, and 65 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.800 it wasn't the calf injury that sidelined him earlier. It 66 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:38.159 was an achilles and one may have led to the other, 67 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.840 I don't know, but that happened in the second quarter 68 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:46.400 and the Pacers never really were able to catch up 69 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.280 and put as much pressure on the thunder as they 70 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:54.439 might have. But one of the other things I wanted 71 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:58.800 to mention was the fact that the stats for Shay 72 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:04.159 Gilgess Alexander put him in some heady company like namely 73 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:09.919 Michael Jordan and Kareem up du A Jabbar. Okay, there's 74 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.439 this uproar now and who brought it up on TV? 75 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.240 But Stephen A. Smith like him or not? Steven A. 76 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.560 Smith knows the NBA, and he's passionate, you know, and 77 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.360 he does the yelling and screaming thing. I like his. 78 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.879 He's a really good writer. He's a really smart guy, 79 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:32.480 smart enough to parlay his persona into millions and millions 80 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.680 of dollars. But that said, I often wonder if a 81 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:38.759 guy like that is imitating himself when he does everything 82 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:43.160 at the top of his lungs. But he was extolling 83 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:47.160 the virtues of SGA and he mentions Jordan and Jabbar 84 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:51.240 as it relates to stats, and some people lost their 85 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:55.160 minds on the internet immediately. Oh, he thinks he's as 86 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.959 good as Jordan, Asbai. You know. Know, here's what stephen A. 87 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.160 Stephen A Smith said, you beat a judge. 88 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:02.079 It was com met us. 89 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:02.639 Absolutely. 90 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.000 We look forward to the NBA Finals. A lot of 91 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.639 people doubted that it would be the spectacular, but it 92 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:11.319 exceeded expectations because the Indiana Pacers showed up and give 93 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:13.439 them a lot of credit where credit is due, and 94 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:14.800 there's going to be a lot of people out there 95 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.240 that's so question. What would have happened if Halliburton had 96 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.000 it gone down? That's inevitable, but should know what the 97 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.120 answer to that question is. It's a brother by the 98 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:27.319 name of Sga, Say Jilles Alexander twenty nine points, twelve assists, 99 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:31.480 one turnover, just one turnover in forty minutes. This brother 100 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.120 is something special. Only the third player in history thirty 101 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.199 points per game during the regular season and NBA League 102 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:41.720 MVP and obviously the MVP of the NBA Finals. You're 103 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:44.079 talking about Jordan three times, you're talking about. 104 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:45.800 Kareem Matthew Jabar, you're talking about. 105 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.879 Shake Gilgs, Alexander. That's the conversation that he is in. 106 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:50.319 That's the kind of season he has had. 107 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.240 That's the kind of season he let ok t s 108 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.160 do and a lot of people could do nothing but 109 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:55.600 stay on and congratulate them. 110 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.480 And that was it. The stats add up. He was 111 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:03.519 comparing the stat line who else has done this, who 112 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:05.480 else has led the league? And then going on to 113 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:08.040 do what SGA did this year. Well, two guys, Jordan 114 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:12.879 three times, crime Abdul Jabbar. That's it. Never said SGA 115 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:16.160 should be in the same conversation in terms of ability, 116 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:18.839 and it's it's too soon in his career. Of course, 117 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:22.680 he'll never, though, be Michael Jordan. Nobody will. I don't think. 118 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.160 I mean maybe somebody will someday. But I do think 119 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.360 he's the greatest of all time. And Jabbar for everything 120 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:32.160 he did, is underrated when people who are eat up 121 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:34.720 with recency bias start talking about the greatest players in 122 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:38.360 the history of the league, just like well Chamberlain. So anyway, yeah, 123 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:41.480 that stuff. I get really tired of that when when 124 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.160 people because it's everything's an instant take. Everybody's got their 125 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.439 phone in their hands. Everybody without thinking, they tweet things. 126 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.199 I've done that. I've gone back and deleted tweets, or 127 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:51.920 I've refuse to hit sin when I look at it 128 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.920 and go, that's really stupid. Uh. But I felt like 129 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:58.319 the criticisms of SGA and yeah, I know I'm being 130 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.439 a bit parochial because he's a UK guy, but I 131 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:03.720 just think it's silly, and I like to point out 132 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:07.720 silly things here. You know, what was beyond silly was 133 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:11.680 the College World Series. And I tuned in a little 134 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:12.959 bit late. I was out of the house and I 135 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:14.759 tuned in. I'm like, oh my god, what happened? And 136 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.279 I started going back and looking and reading and looking 137 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:21.720 at video. In the first inning, Coastal Carolina's head coach, 138 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:26.680 Kevin Schnall was ejected from the game for arguing balls 139 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.920 and strikes. Now coaches know this, managers know that you 140 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:34.839 cannot argue balls and strikes. The problem here was it 141 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.800 was such a knee jerk reaction by the plate umpire, 142 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:42.560 whose name was Angel Campos, and I had forgotten about 143 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:47.040 this guy. This guy has a rep for being hot tempered, 144 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.759 rabbit ears, whatever you want to call it, so much 145 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:55.360 so he was fired by Major League Baseball MLB. And 146 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:57.519 for those of you out there say officials are not 147 00:07:57.560 --> 00:07:59.279 held accountable, and I don't know what's going to happen 148 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.680 to him now, but they are held accountable. He was 149 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:06.720 fired by Major League Baseball for being poor behind the 150 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.000 plate on balls and strikes, throwing out too many guys, 151 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:14.399 too many ejections, and just being not up to the job. 152 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.959 He got the dream job, he got called up to 153 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.439 the show, and he blew it. So the next thing 154 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:26.439 you know, he's working college baseball and he works the 155 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.600 championship game of the College World Series, or at least 156 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:31.959 one of them. There might have been another one if 157 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.679 Coastal had won, and he blew it. And look, I 158 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.679 am as sympathetic to officials as anybody you'll ever hear 159 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:42.440 in the media, and I mentioned it more than once. 160 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.639 When I was young, I umpired baseball games from peewee 161 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:53.679 to adult league games, fraternity games, you know, intermurals. I've 162 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:56.120 talked to Jim Dopplas the other night, the former NFL 163 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.480 rough I worked for him at UK. I have had 164 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.840 people threaten me I have had somebody tell me they're 165 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:04.600 going to meet me in the parking lot after the game. 166 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:08.759 I've had a father who is an ex marine come 167 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:10.440 at me because he thought I'd said something to his 168 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:12.600 kid and he wanted to fight me. I had a 169 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.559 fraternity come after me, come walking at me with bats 170 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.600 in their hands because they were so mad at me. 171 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.360 And you know, one of the worst was one game 172 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.720 in particular, where these moms were screaming at me over 173 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:29.799 eleven year olds and you know their voice is just 174 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:34.080 piercingly loud. So yeah, I am extremely sympathetic because I've 175 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:37.399 been the behind the plate. I've caught pitches not just 176 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.360 by kids, but by guys who were playing college baseball, 177 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.840 So I know what it's like. But I also know 178 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:49.879 this officials have discretion, and I will let you hear 179 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:53.600 from the head coach, Kevin Schnall about what happened. This 180 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:57.000 is according to the head coach. Now from coast to Carolina. 181 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:03.519 There's twenty five thousand people there, and I vaguely hear 182 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:08.799 a warning issued as the head coach. And I was 183 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.799 an assistant for twenty four years, and as an assistant, 184 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:16.039 you're almost treated like a second grade second level citizen 185 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.799 and you can't say a word now as a head coach, 186 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:22.279 I think it is your right to get an explanation 187 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.399 of why we got warned. And I'm forty eight years old. 188 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.600 I shouldn't get showed by another grown man, right, So 189 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.080 when I come out to ask what the warning is, 190 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:38.399 a grown man showed me. So at that point I 191 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:42.799 can now hear him say it was a warning issued 192 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:47.360 for arguing balls and strikes. And at that point I said, 193 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:55.480 because you missed three. At that point ejected. If that 194 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:59.840 warrants an ejection, I'm the first one to stand here 195 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:04.519 a man and apologize to words that the Fine Art 196 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:08.039 program or own it. And what does that mean is 197 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:13.000 you have to own You have to own everything that 198 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:22.240 you do without blame, without defending yourself, without excuses. 199 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:25.600 If you guys watched. 200 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:29.840 The video, there was a guy that came in extremely 201 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:37.000 aggressively tripped over the campos his foot, embarrassed in front 202 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:42.799 of twenty five thousand, immediately goes two game suspension and 203 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:49.279 said bumping the umpire immediately does that there was no bump. 204 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.200 He was embarrassed. I shouldn't be held accountable for a 205 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:59.440 grown man's athleticism. Don't retract it, though, because now it's 206 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:03.440 accept and the reason why is excessive because I was 207 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:08.799 trying to say I didn't pump him. It is what 208 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:12.799 it is. But if that warranted an ejection, man, there'd 209 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:16.279 be a lot of ejections. As an umpire, I feel 210 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.120 like it's your job to manage the game, the National 211 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:25.320 Championship game, with some poise, some calmness, and a little 212 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:26.159 bit of tolerance. 213 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:29.919 That's an accurate depiction. I went back. I've seen the 214 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:32.440 video several times and yeah, one of the other umpires 215 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:36.879 tripped over the play Empire's foot and fell down but 216 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:40.480 embarrassing and immediately jumped up as though he had been shoved. 217 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.679 And that's what they said with the release in the 218 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.279 fifth inning. That was a bad look by the NCAA 219 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:49.799 bad look. You know. They never had a chance to 220 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.759 sit down and debrief everybody before they released the statement. 221 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:57.600 Then they changed the wording, which is just weak. Yeah, 222 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:00.480 it really ticked me off. And again I am as 223 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.840 sim My brother's been a sports official for almost fifty years, 224 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:06.759 and of course I'm arguing with him about this via 225 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:10.919 text message. But it wasn't as though I wondered were 226 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:14.039 they chirping from the dugout the campos go over and say, hey, 227 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:18.200 that's enough. And then if that happened and the coach 228 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.799 comes charging out of the dugout to argue balls and structs, yeah, 229 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:23.559 he's got to go. That's baseball. That's part of it. 230 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.679 I don't care what level, but that's not how it happened. 231 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.440 He came out of the dugout and all in one 232 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.840 fell sup, here's the warning, you're gone. The umpire choked. 233 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:35.799 In my opinion, he was not up to the moment. 234 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:39.759 And I can't say that it cost Coastal the game 235 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:42.159 and the championship. LSU wonted five to three. I think 236 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:46.759 ls she was a better team, But in my mind, 237 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:49.960 it just kind of ruined the memory for anybody who 238 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.159 wasn't an LSU fan. Off you were certainly a Coastal fan, 239 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:59.320 but man, that was ugly. And of course, you know, 240 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.440 they talked about it throughout the game, and I've seen 241 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:06.559 people ripping the announcers on social media. I mean, what 242 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.879 are you supposed to say? You're really not supposed to 243 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.759 have an opinion when you're calling a game like that, 244 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:15.279 beyond the fact that, oh man, this is a shame 245 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.559 that this happened because up there when you're live on 246 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.559 the air, and I've never had this happen to me 247 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:22.600 in a game like that, but I've had odd things 248 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.320 happen where you don't know why call was made, but 249 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.480 you have no information at your fingertips. You have no explanation. 250 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:32.600 As I said that the release they came out in 251 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:36.639 the fifth inning, yeah, did it help, Well not really. 252 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.759 It kind of confused the situation even more because what 253 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:44.799 the hell is this? So I can't really say anything 254 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:50.159 about the response to the broadcasters, but it just needed 255 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.879 more information which they did not have at the time. 256 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:57.879 So anyhow, those were the two huge sporting events yesterday, 257 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:00.919 and one of them with Tyrese Halliburton going down, put 258 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.039 a question mark over I do think the Thunder would 259 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.639 have won. They were the better team and the coach 260 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:07.240 being a jacked and by the way, the first base 261 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.879 coach was ejected too. That's another thing in baseball coaches. 262 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.519 You've got the head coach is one thing, the manager, 263 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.600 the base coaches, no, they're not allowed to say much 264 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:20.200 of anything. That's kind of an unwritten rule. That might 265 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.000 be a written rule. That's you know, I remember in 266 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:26.759 one of the ball games when Marks Troops was drawn 267 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.679 back and forth with Georgia Tech's head coach and one 268 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.759 of the Georgia Tech assistant coaches chimed in, oh, man, 269 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:37.480 that was bad form now, but it was just a 270 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.759 weird weekend for sports, and I'll go back to the 271 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.759 NBA playoffs for just a moment. Also, social media uproar 272 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:49.240 by Christian schenaw with who sang the national anthem. She's 273 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:52.399 an Oklahoma City native. She's a Tony Award winning actress. 274 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:54.679 You've seen her if you don't know the name, She's 275 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.159 been in a lot of stuff. Tremendous voice. She sang 276 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:02.519 the national anthem and got some black. She was fine 277 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:04.159 at the end. She put a little bit of her 278 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:04.679 spin on it. 279 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:21.080 Here it is what the lote I love hold. 280 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:30.840 Yeah, she took it up a notch at the end. 281 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.000 A lot of singers do they go up that one note. 282 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:34.679 She went that second note. I think she was just 283 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.399 showing off because she has such a great voice. But man, 284 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:40.840 some people just trashed her on social media. Others chimed 285 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.080 in and said it was one of the best they'd 286 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:44.879 ever heard with you know, not for me, but I 287 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.519 thought she did a nice job, but two each his own, 288 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.000 I guess, but I thought it was something like I said, 289 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:52.960 you want to grab your phone and tweet, that's fine, 290 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:54.879 but think about it. More to come. At the bottom 291 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:58.159 of the hour, Ansley Almanor talks about joining La Famia 292 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.559 here on six thirty w LAP Welcome back to the 293 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:04.359 Big Bloon Sider quick segment here because I managed to 294 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.920 go on about refereeing and umpiring and SGA in that 295 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:09.920 last segment, but I will tell you that coming up 296 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.680 in a few minutes, Ansley Almanor will join us. The 297 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.960 sharp shooting perimeter player. I'm a swing man, I guess, 298 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.240 more forward than anything for the Wildcats this past year, 299 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:21.960 and now a member of La Familia, which is the 300 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.920 Kentucky based UK based I should say, a team that's 301 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.240 involved in the basketball tournament Winners take All for a 302 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:32.119 million bucks. They made the final four last year. They'll 303 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:33.920 try it again this year, and Angsley will talk with 304 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.720 us about his opportunity to play and being Rapperina once 305 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:44.440 again again mentioning what happened with the College World Series. 306 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:48.240 But I can relate it as much to basketball, and 307 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.400 you probably can as well, because there have been moments, 308 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:54.839 especially if you're a Kentucky fan, if you follow the Wildcats, 309 00:17:55.200 --> 00:18:00.880 I go back to two situations where discretion came in 310 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.319 and now a number one. Maybe a little too much, 311 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:08.119 but I guess it's understandable. Let me take you back, 312 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:09.960 and if you're of a certain age, you remember this. 313 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:11.960 If not, you may have heard about it or read 314 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.200 about it. If you're a Kentucky fan, you know the 315 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:19.680 Wildcats made the Final four nineteen seventy five. Use your 316 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:21.680 Google machine if you're young and you want to know 317 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:27.400 more about that game. The Wildcats beat Indiana up in 318 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:30.480 Dayton in the regional championship game. The Indiana team that 319 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:34.519 had beaten Kentucky by twenty four points undefeated Bob nineteen, 320 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:37.319 virtually the same team the next year went undefeated and 321 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.440 won the national title. Kentucky pulls the upset, goes to 322 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.720 the Final four. Beat Syracuse in the first game. It 323 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.680 should have been a UKUL final, but U OFL blew 324 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.079 a late lead and lost to UCLA and John Wooden 325 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.599 in the day. On the day between the two games, 326 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:59.000 the Saturday and Monday games, John Wooden announced his impending retirement, 327 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:04.480 which of course changed so much and of course, John 328 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:09.240 Wooden later on addressed and anybody who supported John Wooden, 329 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.799 the notion that if Wooden had not done that, Kentucky 330 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.359 would have won. I've said before, I mentioned that once 331 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.319 to Denny Crumb, who was an assistant under John Wooden 332 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.119 up until you know what nineteen seventy one when he 333 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:24.359 went to U of l oh Man. Did he take 334 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.319 me a part on that wasn't mean about it, but 335 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:30.400 sternly explained to me why I was wrong. I've talked 336 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.640 to a couple of former UK players, Kevin Greevy and 337 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:37.559 Bob Guyett from that team, who had the same opportunity 338 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:39.559 to speak to Wooden, and they brought that up, and 339 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:44.599 John Wooden patiently but pointedly explained why they were wrong. 340 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.240 His point was UCLA was quicker and faster, So anyway, 341 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:52.279 think what you will. Here's what happened in the championship game. 342 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:55.200 And again Kentucky missed opportunities. There were free throws the 343 00:19:55.240 --> 00:20:00.839 Wildcats missed, but John Wooden at one point walked out 344 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:05.359 onto the floor during the game to protest a call 345 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:08.559 and then of course quickly a dead ball. But he 346 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:12.599 was out there on the floor in a situation where 347 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:16.400 any other coach would have been teed up. And he 348 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:18.079 didn't just step out and step back, you know. I 349 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:20.519 mean Calipari used to step out, Patino used to walk 350 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:25.400 on to the floor. No, this was a calculated move 351 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:29.319 by Wooden to take on the officials and it worked 352 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.759 only in that he was not ejected. But look, you're 353 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.160 a referee in that game. It's one of the biggest games, 354 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.920 maybe the biggest assignment of your life, and you're going 355 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:46.000 to tee up John Wooden and possibly eject John wouldn't. 356 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:49.000 No way, You're not going to do that, even though 357 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:56.599 proper protocol demanded it. Why not discretion? That's when a 358 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.480 referee and official can show discretion, and they did. Now, 359 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.519 Joe Hall wasn't happy about it. I don't know that 360 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:07.440 it costs Kentucky the game, but that was a glaring 361 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:13.119 example of discretion. Here's another one for you December thirty, 362 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:18.640 twenty oh too, Louisville's Freedom Hall Kentucky Indiana crucial point. 363 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:21.799 Late seconds, Indiana goes in for a shot that either 364 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:25.519 ties or puts them up and a player gets banged around. 365 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:30.240 No call. Mike Davis, the Indiana coach, ran out on 366 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:33.480 the floor in the middle of the play live ball, 367 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:38.079 demanding a foul, and then you know, the officials stopped 368 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:41.079 to play finally, and he's chasing the referee up the floor, 369 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:45.359 Bert Smith, and you can see the video of Bert's 370 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.599 he's already tied him up. But now Bert Smith, you 371 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:51.480 can read his lips clearly saying walk away coach, walk 372 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:57.200 away coach, and he didn't. Finally they throw him out 373 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:00.240 of the game, and Davis later apologized, wrote a letter 374 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:04.519 and all that stuff. But Bert Smith was willing to 375 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:09.680 leave it at a technical foul by seeing walk away coach. 376 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:16.920 That's discretion. Ultimately, Davis paid the price literally, but it 377 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:21.200 can't happen. Good officials know when to apply discretion. All right. 378 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:25.079 Up next to Annsley Amanor of tbt's Lafa Meya here 379 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:28.480 on six thirty WLAP, Welcome back to the Big Blue Sider. 380 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:30.920 We're joined now by a guy who was so popular 381 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:34.079 to the basketball Wildcats fans of the Big Blue Nation, 382 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:37.880 Ansley Amanor, sharp shooting perimeter player who now will bring 383 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:41.559 his skills to TBT part of the Lafa Mea Aley. 384 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:44.400 Welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us, Congratulations on 385 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:45.440 joining the ball club. 386 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:47.799 Thanks for having me I appreciate you. 387 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:51.960 Tell me about just what excites you about this project. 388 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:54.640 You know, just having an opportunity to be able to 389 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:57.319 represent you Ban one more time, you know, put it 390 00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:59.599 on jersey that you know represents the University of Kentucky 391 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:03.400 and playing with you know, so much prestigious alumni. It's 392 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:04.839 just a great opportunity. 393 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:08.240 I feel like for me, you've played against this team 394 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:12.200 last year, did you not. Weren't you guys able to 395 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:14.960 square up against the TVT squad last year? 396 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:18.440 Yeah? Yeah, last year you played against them. You know, 397 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:19.920 it was a good experience. If I got to meet 398 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:22.839 somebody guys this year, it's gonna be a little bit different, 399 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:25.480 but there's definitely gonna be some carryover, so I'll be 400 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:26.359 familiar with somebody. 401 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.880