Speaker 1: It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
Speaker 2: we are Get.
Speaker 1: Off our show, idiot.
Speaker 2: The kids are crying or turning off.
Speaker 1: The countries are screwing it up. Gold Play Intermurals, Brother,
Speaker 1: gold Play Intermurals.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
Speaker 2: Who's the kid here? Who's the kid here? Are you
Speaker 2: kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee. So we made an
Speaker 2: executive decision here on Coffee and Company earlier in the
Speaker 2: week on Monday, that we were going to embrace football
Speaker 2: season actually being here because week zero is here right tomorrow,
Speaker 2: there will be football games and we will watch, we
Speaker 2: will wager, and we will enjoy ourselves. I mean, I
Speaker 2: can only speak for me, but I know I'm not alone.
Speaker 2: I know the Company man himself is with me on this.
Speaker 2: But I have to say, just to be honest, it
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like it, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 2: I'm kind of I'm not having to like psych myself
Speaker 2: up because to be honest with you, as much as
Speaker 2: I am happy that we're gonna have football tomorrow there's
Speaker 2: no games that I really care about. There's some opponents
Speaker 2: that we can watch that Louisville will in fact play
Speaker 2: three of their opponents, and the twelve games they play
Speaker 2: this year are all playing tomorrow, so you gelt somewhat
Speaker 2: of a look at these opponents. But like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it just wanted. I wanted today to feel like here
Speaker 2: we go. It is in fact here, but I think
Speaker 2: I've kind of learned throughout that, you know what, I
Speaker 2: get it like week zero, it kind of isn't really
Speaker 2: a thing like it is, but it's not. And I
Speaker 2: tried to just lean in earlier this week and embrace it.
Speaker 2: But I'm not feeling the vibes.
Speaker 1: John, I gotta say, I am feeling the vibes. But
Speaker 1: one thing that could really play rub off on me
Speaker 1: about week zero is if there was a Marquee primetime matchup.
Speaker 1: And I know you've got the twelve o'clock June game in.
Speaker 2: Iris, respecting George, it's in Florida State.
Speaker 1: Come on talking about the Nevada game at eight pm,
Speaker 1: Like that game's not gonna I mean, if you want
Speaker 1: to watch football and there's nothing else on, sure you're
Speaker 1: gonna pop on SMU versus Nevada, but it would be
Speaker 1: it would add a little juice to Week zero if
Speaker 1: they had a top twenty five versus Top twenty five
Speaker 1: matchup to get things rolling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the ceiling for Week zero if your
Speaker 2: team is not playing when you have these type of matchups,
Speaker 2: because Week zero last year, and I guess even the
Speaker 2: year before was kind of the same as far as
Speaker 2: the type of games that you get the ceiling for.
Speaker 2: It meaning like the best, like the best thing is
Speaker 2: just knowing that you can, in fact turn on a
Speaker 2: football game tomorrow and it really is a game that counts,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And it's you know, occasionally
Speaker 2: you'll see you know, for example SMU Nevada. I don't
Speaker 2: think it gets any any added boost here, but at
Speaker 2: least it does include a power for team sunt until
Speaker 2: this year and then yes, as you mentioned, the game
Speaker 2: in Ireland, of course is a big deal, just because
Speaker 2: it's rare to see, you know, teams from from from
Speaker 2: the States travel across the pond to play a game
Speaker 2: of American football. But I mean, I'm ready for it again.
Speaker 2: I've already had my bets locked in for quite some time,
Speaker 2: so there's excitement there. But I felt like if I
Speaker 2: did what I did on Monday, which is really just
Speaker 2: lean in, like, you guys are losers if you're not excited,
Speaker 2: week zero is here and we got real football, and
Speaker 2: now here I am on Friday, I'm like, yeah, they
Speaker 2: didn't really work out for me, but hey, John said
Speaker 2: he's feeling the vibes and I'm hopeful that they will
Speaker 2: rub off in these next three hours.
Speaker 1: And here's what'll happen to you, Nick. This is what
Speaker 1: happened to me last year when Notre Dame and Navy
Speaker 1: kicked off in Ireland. Leading up to it, it just
Speaker 1: felt like a weird, underwhelming type of matchup.
Speaker 2: It was Navy, writer was an army either most Navy.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. You're right, Yes, when.
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech and Florida State play tomorrow, I think that's
Speaker 1: for you and for other people. If you're watching that game,
Speaker 1: that's when it'll hit that college football is officially back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll make me in fact what it does. And
Speaker 2: this is another positive here is I'm trying to find
Speaker 2: some potential positives for Week zero because it's just awkward
Speaker 2: and kind of weird if for being honest, but it'll
Speaker 2: make you even more excited to know that next week
Speaker 2: your team plays, Yes, right, like that's that's I think
Speaker 2: where I'm because I know Florida State and Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: That'll be the first game you get to watch, and
Speaker 2: Louisville will play both those teams, and you know I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be thinka well next week, Louisville's got Austin p
Speaker 2: and you know that's not a real opponent for being
Speaker 2: honest here, it's an FCS team and they're not any good. However,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure we'll overreact to everything, the positives,
Speaker 2: the potential negatives that they're there, and you know it's
Speaker 2: what it's all about. So welcome in everybody. Happy Friday
Speaker 2: to you. It is coffee and Company. We are fueled
Speaker 2: by Thornton's and this is Sports Talk seven ninety. Appreciate
Speaker 2: you guys hanging out with us as we always on
Speaker 2: a Friday. Try to get the weekend started for you.
Speaker 2: Maybe your weekend has already started, and if that's the case,
Speaker 2: cheers salute. Hopefully your weekend is off to a good start.
Speaker 2: If not, maybe your weekend starts while we're on the air.
Speaker 2: Maybe it starts once we wrap it up, but either way,
Speaker 2: we're gonna try to carry some good vibes here as
Speaker 2: we get the weekend started. That's always our goal. I
Speaker 2: can't guarantee that we've done it every single Friday, but
Speaker 2: I tell you this, we're gonna try. That's what we do.
Speaker 2: Day off for us, well, there are days off the
Speaker 2: Fridays now when it comes to vibe enhancement, that's what
Speaker 2: we try to do. So stick with us, take us
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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. A couple of guests gonna join
Speaker 2: us today at four o'clock. We'll bring him in. He's
Speaker 2: doctor Larry Bench. You know the name, it's the name
Speaker 2: brand around here. Larry Ben's from pro Rehat Physical Therapy.
Speaker 2: He'll join us around four o'clock when to get his
Speaker 2: thoughts on obviously the big injury we've been talking about
Speaker 2: all week, which is and you know Larry obviously for
Speaker 2: you know, patient safety, prophecy, that kind of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 2: he can't give us probably every little detail, despite he
Speaker 2: is somebody that would have it, but Colin Lacy like,
Speaker 2: how realistic is it that he gets out there and
Speaker 2: he again, Larry's not going to give us. Hey, here's
Speaker 2: the exact day he's cleared to practice, here's the first
Speaker 2: game he can play in. But you know, given Larry's
Speaker 2: profession and what he does, again, he's the I mean,
Speaker 2: he's the owner of pro Rehab physical therapy. Guy knows
Speaker 2: about rehabbing injuries. He's close to U of L. So
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna stop doing the word vomit here and
Speaker 2: just you know, see what he's willing and able to
Speaker 2: share with us, because I know he's got a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff, but again there's things he can't share because
Speaker 2: that's how it works. So he'll join us at four
Speaker 2: o'clock and at five point thirty, the one, the only
Speaker 2: mister Kent Spencer from Whas eleven, he'll stop by and
Speaker 2: we'll get his thoughts on a variety of things, including
Speaker 2: the big high school matchups tonight because high school football
Speaker 2: is underway. I'm gonna be under the lights tonight, John
Speaker 2: not playing, but I'll be at North Bullet High School
Speaker 2: because yeah, the alma mater. They've got their first home
Speaker 2: game and it's youth night, so I guess the local
Speaker 2: youth football teams here. They're hosting them. And it's the
Speaker 2: kids who play for the play for the league in
Speaker 2: the community that would feed into North Bullet, you know,
Speaker 2: when they get a lot older. My son is four
Speaker 2: years old, so he's got a long ways to go.
Speaker 2: But they're hosting the youth leagues tonight, and you know,
Speaker 2: Moose is gonna be out there seeing what it looks
Speaker 2: like to play the real sport, right tackle football. In fact,
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about it till just now. I don't
Speaker 2: know if he's ever been to a real football game.
Speaker 2: I don't know when he would have. I've never been
Speaker 2: able to take him to a Louisville football game, just
Speaker 2: because you know, it's not easy to do. He's at
Speaker 2: the AH now though, like this year, like we could
Speaker 2: take him to a game, and we probably will. But yeah,
Speaker 2: hopefully he's as excited as I am. It's just gonna
Speaker 2: be me and him, the wife and my daughter. They've
Speaker 2: got some plans with some family that's in town, so
Speaker 2: little Dad sun night out out under the lights. It
Speaker 2: Uh gosh, I'm embarrassed. I was I was gonna say
Speaker 2: the name of the field that where I went to school,
Speaker 2: North Bullet High School, and you know where I'll be tonight.
Speaker 2: But I should know it, and I think I do,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to get it wrong. What's worse
Speaker 2: just admitting that you're not sure or saying it confidently
Speaker 2: and not having the name right. That's a good question
Speaker 2: because both are bad, right, especially as a proud Bullet
Speaker 2: County guy. You know, I think I'm gonna google it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I want to say, is that I know
Speaker 2: there's a Collins in there. I know that's I know
Speaker 2: that's a thing. Yeah, c T. Collins Field. There we go.
Speaker 2: And I was gonna say that, you know, you'll just
Speaker 2: have to believe me. You can call me a liar,
Speaker 2: and I get it, But like that was what was
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, And I felt like, maybe it's
Speaker 2: not CT. I knew there was. I knew there was
Speaker 2: a Collins in there, so it at least.
Speaker 1: Was Eganfield, at least when I was there. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's changed, but that's a big.
Speaker 2: Name out there in matt Washington. I know that, so
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked if, you know. When I asked
Speaker 2: kent Spencer about the big high school matchups tonight in
Speaker 2: the Kentuckian area. Wouldn't be a shocker if he doesn't
Speaker 2: bring up my North Bullet Eagles taking on Holy Cross.
Speaker 2: But you know, maybe he does. Maybe he decides to
Speaker 2: humor me and just you know, gas up the Eagles
Speaker 2: because I have no clue if they're going to be
Speaker 2: a good team this year. But I'm always gonna support
Speaker 2: him because that's my that's my squad. Shout out to
Speaker 2: North Bullet. All right, so let's get right to it.
Speaker 2: I know everybody's waiting. I say that sarcastically. So first
Speaker 2: of all, thank you to those that did come out
Speaker 2: to the Bats game yesterday. I am sure you were
Speaker 2: there just because you wanted to be there, But there
Speaker 2: were people that said that they came because they wanted
Speaker 2: to see if I would embarrass myself. And I was, oh,
Speaker 2: I just say this. I when I did my practice
Speaker 2: throws yesterday morning and on Wednesday as well, I overestimated
Speaker 2: how far it was, Like I did, I guesstimated with
Speaker 2: a tape measure to get to sixty feet in six inches,
Speaker 2: and I felt like, Okay, I'm throwing with a t ball,
Speaker 2: which is not a real baseball, right It's it looks
Speaker 2: like it, but it's softer and doesn't weigh the same,
Speaker 2: So I, you know, a little makeshift mound slash plate.
Speaker 2: You know, I was at one end of the fence
Speaker 2: and I measured out and I put something down at
Speaker 2: the other end that I felt like was close to
Speaker 2: sixty and a half feet. But then I added, I
Speaker 2: made it a little bit further, thinking okay, well I
Speaker 2: might be thrown with a different ball. So therefore I
Speaker 2: am going to, you know, make some adjustments here to
Speaker 2: try to give myself the most realistic look here as
Speaker 2: far as throwing a baseball from the pitcher's mound to
Speaker 2: home plate. So in doing that, you know, I was
Speaker 2: I was throwing it pretty hard, not like you know,
Speaker 2: to where I was throwing gas, and it was going
Speaker 2: to hit the radar but ended up. If I would
Speaker 2: have just relaxed and kind of loft at it rather
Speaker 2: than just trying to make sure I didn't fall short,
Speaker 2: I think I could have put together a much better
Speaker 2: pitch than I did. And it wasn't good. It was
Speaker 2: not good. It was not a strike. Buddy back, God
Speaker 2: love you brother. You really worked hard to make sure
Speaker 2: that that just didn't go way outside and hit somebody
Speaker 2: in the head. He had to work for it. I
Speaker 2: didn't want to make Buddy bad work that hard, but
Speaker 2: it just happened. It was high and outside, but he
Speaker 2: made me not look as bad. So again, this is
Speaker 2: in no way me saying that my pitch yesterday was impressive.
Speaker 2: It wasn't. In fact, my goal was to make sure
Speaker 2: you could still say you've seen much worse first pitches
Speaker 2: than that one, and I do feel very confident that
Speaker 2: that goal was accomplished. But I did better than I
Speaker 2: thought I would, because again, if you listened at all,
Speaker 2: my expectations were very, very low. So I exceeded my expectations.
Speaker 2: I feel like if I ever get an opportunity again,
Speaker 2: which I probably won't, I will do better. And you know,
Speaker 2: it wasn't the worst pitch ever. So thank you to
Speaker 2: those who came. And I'm a little embarrassed internally, and
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna share with you because you guys know
Speaker 2: him an open book. When I left yesterday, left the
Speaker 2: studio to go down there, I was really really nervous,
Speaker 2: but I couldn't. I couldn't really, like I kept telling myself,
Speaker 2: why are you, like, who cares like you? If you
Speaker 2: if you walk up there and you throw down, like
Speaker 2: you fall down while throwing it, and it has to
Speaker 2: roll like you're no, you're not a You're not. It's
Speaker 2: not gonna be a big deal because like, nobody knows
Speaker 2: who you are. Like, you know, maybe some people in
Speaker 2: the Louisville Twitter world or whatever would like have fun
Speaker 2: with it, you know, clown me be mean about it,
Speaker 2: But like you know, I'm just I'm telling myself, like
Speaker 2: it's not that big of a deal. There's not a
Speaker 2: lot of pressure, there's no expectation. I mean, I'm throwing
Speaker 2: pitches along with the U of L president and Pat
Speaker 2: Kelsey among others. Like again, they're gonna introduce this basketball
Speaker 2: coach everybody's excited about because he's injected real enthusiasm in
Speaker 2: the basketball fan base. But the first time in forever,
Speaker 2: you know, and then there's me who people are gonna say,
Speaker 2: who the hell is this guy? So I kept telling myself,
Speaker 2: you have nothing to be nervous about, don't be nervous,
Speaker 2: just chill. And what did calm? Two things calmed me
Speaker 2: to where I went out there and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't care if I you know, when I was
Speaker 2: up there throwing, I wasn't nervous. But when I was
Speaker 2: walking in after I parked and I got to park
Speaker 2: next to where the players Parke John feel like kind
Speaker 2: of a big deal. But anyways, I'm walking in and
Speaker 2: there was a gentleman who was getting out of his
Speaker 2: car U and he was with his wife and two children,
Speaker 2: and he stopped me and said, hey man, I just
Speaker 2: wanted to say, I really appreciate you at you talking
Speaker 2: about special needs kids. And I kind of looked at
Speaker 2: him like, oh, well, well, thank you. And then he
Speaker 2: showed me. He showed me I think it was headphones
Speaker 2: that he had that had for autistic children and it's
Speaker 2: got you know, the the the autistic color ski, you know,
Speaker 2: the the sign that you see for like autistic awareness,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, and you know, he just said,
Speaker 2: my son's autistics. So you know, I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2: And that made me completely, like just so appreciative that,
Speaker 2: like somebody said that to me, which has happened before,
Speaker 2: but when it never gets old and it's not something
Speaker 2: that happens all that often, and my mind was just
Speaker 2: so in a pretzel worried about this stupid first pitch,
Speaker 2: and then that just made me feel so good. And
Speaker 2: for those who don't know, you don't listen very often.
Speaker 2: My daughter's special needs. She's intellectually disabled, has a lot
Speaker 2: of the traits of an autistic children with sensory issues
Speaker 2: and whatnot. And I've talked about it here and there
Speaker 2: over the years, and it's something i'm you know, I'll
Speaker 2: use this platform to always talk about that and make
Speaker 2: people aware and advocate for special needs people. And you know,
Speaker 2: that just got me thinking, Okay, well, hey, at least
Speaker 2: whatever I get to do, which is who knows, maybe
Speaker 2: this will be my last show. Who knows. I mean,
Speaker 2: I hope, God willing it won't be. But you just
Speaker 2: never know how long this kind of stuff is going
Speaker 2: to last. And I love doing it. It's a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. But I also try to use the platform
Speaker 2: when I can to you know, not inspire or make
Speaker 2: the world a better place, because that's given myself too
Speaker 2: much credit. That's just that's a little much. But you know, hey,
Speaker 2: tell people, hey, there are kids with special needs. You
Speaker 2: know you should. You should educate your children about their
Speaker 2: differences and inclusion. That kind of stuff I'm getting emotional
Speaker 2: thinking about it, but that's something I wanted to do.
Speaker 2: So I was just so on cloud nine from that.
Speaker 2: And then my kids get there and they tell me, uh,
Speaker 2: by the way, big shout out to Brandon Klein, who
Speaker 2: works for the Bats, who was the guy who you know,
Speaker 2: when I got there, helped get me situated, took me
Speaker 2: down in the basement where I got to run, you know,
Speaker 2: come out of the tunnel and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: and he said, yeah you can. You can bring too,
Speaker 2: as much as two people out there with you. So
Speaker 2: I had both my daughter and my son with me,
Speaker 2: and once we got out to the field, my my
Speaker 2: daughter could see her mom, my wife up in the
Speaker 2: you know, right next to the where we were doing
Speaker 2: it in the stands, and she wanted to go with
Speaker 2: her mom, which was fine. But you know, Moose was
Speaker 2: was I mean, he was he was excited as can be.
Speaker 2: He's a little little like he was a little nervous,
Speaker 2: I guess, like he kept, you know, just holding onto
Speaker 2: my leg, but like he could tell this was this
Speaker 2: was cool for him. I mean, he thought it was awesome.
Speaker 2: But he was most enamored by one man, and that
Speaker 2: was Pat Kelsey. He just he got to see him
Speaker 2: for the first time. He just thought, like, I mean,
Speaker 2: he was like any you know, he's right, he said,
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey's pitch was a lot better than yours, Dad,
Speaker 2: And it was. It was a lot better, much better.
Speaker 2: So I took him out there with me, and you know,
Speaker 2: I don't want to give the little fellow too much credit,
Speaker 2: but like that made me not as nervous. I don't
Speaker 2: know why, Like I just felt like I was just
Speaker 2: you know, so once I was there, it was you know,
Speaker 2: it was great, and I'm so appreciati that the Bats
Speaker 2: let me be a part of it, especially on a
Speaker 2: night when they were including people that you know, should
Speaker 2: be called upon to throw out a first pitch, you know,
Speaker 2: the president of the University of Louisville, the head coach
Speaker 2: of the Louisville men's basketball program, other folks that work
Speaker 2: at u of L in very prominent positions. So it
Speaker 2: was great and the night was awesome. I mean, those
Speaker 2: two dollars beers were flowing. I'd tell you that right now, John,
Speaker 2: they were flowing pretty good, and it was just a
Speaker 2: beautiful night. I know, the Bats let one, I mean,
Speaker 2: they let a lead slip away late ended up losing,
Speaker 2: but one of the Reds pitchers that was drafted not
Speaker 2: that long ago was pitching, and it sounds like he
Speaker 2: continues to show that that was a good investment, a
Speaker 2: good draft pick by the Reds, who, of course, you know,
Speaker 2: that's the parent club of the Bats, so it was great.
Speaker 2: And I don't just say this to you know, kiss
Speaker 2: the rear end of the Bats, who you know, let
Speaker 2: me be a part of something really cool. But if
Speaker 2: you ever just like want to get out and do something,
Speaker 2: like you know, you want something to do, go to
Speaker 2: a Bats game. I mean, I'm not a big baseball fan.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't. I just don't. It's not a sport.
Speaker 2: I was totally exposed to a whole lot when I
Speaker 2: was growing up, But like, there's something about being at
Speaker 2: a baseball game to where you can enjoy yourself with
Speaker 2: great ballpark food. They've got cool promotions that they do,
Speaker 2: and nobody does better promotions than the Bats. And that's
Speaker 2: just not me being a louivillion that says that if
Speaker 2: you go look at how they evaluate in rank which
Speaker 2: baseball clubs out there have the best promotions, the Bats
Speaker 2: are always up there. I mean they do a great job,
Speaker 2: everybody from top to bottom, Greg Galliot and his entire team.
Speaker 2: So you know, we've gone to three or four games
Speaker 2: this year, and obviously last night I was there for
Speaker 2: that reason. But I mean it's anytime we go, it's
Speaker 2: a reminder, you know, you go to Slugger Field, you
Speaker 2: can take advantage of again. Last night, two dollars beers
Speaker 2: for like a three window. You know, they had I
Speaker 2: think it was two or three dollars chicken fingers last night,
Speaker 2: and they were like a big basket that you'd get
Speaker 2: at a restaurant where they'd charge you twenty bucks. So
Speaker 2: if you ever just are looking for things to do,
Speaker 2: things to take, you know, to take the kids, I mean,
Speaker 2: you won't find a first of all, a better view
Speaker 2: of the city of Louisville. The atmosphere is great, parking's
Speaker 2: not a mess. Tickets are very affordable, and if you like,
Speaker 2: if you pick some people can't because you know they
Speaker 2: have other things going on. But if you strategically sort
Speaker 2: of map out which days you want to go to
Speaker 2: a Bats game, you know, once a month, twice a month,
Speaker 2: I feel like giving them where the economy is, it
Speaker 2: can actually be one of the more affordable and awesome.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's you can actually go and drink and
Speaker 2: eat and let your kids play on the playground, let
Speaker 2: your kids rite the merry, go round, enjoy baseball. If
Speaker 2: that's your thing, obviously that's why people are there. There's baseball.
Speaker 2: But like I'm just saying, if you're not, I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're somebody that never thinks I want to go
Speaker 2: to a baseball game, don't just look at it like that.
Speaker 2: Look at it as an event, as something to go
Speaker 2: do with your family and your friends. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: if you if you pay attention to what they're doing
Speaker 2: and the promotions, the deals they're offering, with the mini
Speaker 2: games they have every year, like you can do it
Speaker 2: and then it'll be way more affordable than you would think,
Speaker 2: and probably way more affordable than anything else that includes,
Speaker 2: you know, great atmosphere, downtown Louisville, beautiful views, awesome food,
Speaker 2: boot booze. I mean, they got a full bar. You
Speaker 2: don't have to just get the two dollars beers. So again,
Speaker 2: would I'd be saying this on a Friday if I
Speaker 2: wasn't just there last night to throw out the first
Speaker 2: pitch probably not, but I'm also willing to say everything
Speaker 2: I just said is true, and in fact it's it's factual. So,
Speaker 2: you know, again, thank you to the Bats, and you know,
Speaker 2: we'll see if I ever get a chance to do
Speaker 2: that again. If so again, I'm confident that it'll you know,
Speaker 2: it won't be fast, it's not going to register. But
Speaker 2: if you, if you, if you, if you've seen the video,
Speaker 2: which by the way, it's out there on all my
Speaker 2: social media, if you want to go check it out.
Speaker 2: And it's not like you got to run to your
Speaker 2: phone to pull it up and watch it. It's nothing entertaining.
Speaker 2: It's just you know, me throwing out a pitch, throwing
Speaker 2: a baseball. But it was very very you know, high
Speaker 2: and outside. But again, big thanks to Buddy Bat for
Speaker 2: getting it done. But I'm telling you, if I got
Speaker 2: a chance to throw another one, I feel like I
Speaker 2: might even you know, I might even get it in
Speaker 2: the strike zone. I don't know why I was so
Speaker 2: intimidated when somebody told me sixty and a half feet,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my goodness, can I get it there?
Speaker 2: And that really wasn't the challenge. It was just, you know,
Speaker 2: so I threw it so I wanted. I threw it
Speaker 2: so hard I didn't have any type of control because
Speaker 2: I was so I was so worried about it falling
Speaker 2: short that it just you know, there was no control.
Speaker 2: And as soon as I walked off the field, by
Speaker 2: the way, every camera in town, seemingly from the local
Speaker 2: media in television was there, and you know, not to
Speaker 2: not to cover me thrown at the first pitch, but
Speaker 2: obviously to see Pat Kelsey do it and do a
Speaker 2: Q and a. He talked to the media afterwards last night.
Speaker 2: I actually have some sound from that, just just a
Speaker 2: quick little Q and A with him in regards to
Speaker 2: him being a big Reds fan, him moving into his
Speaker 2: house in Louisville. The Indiana matchup that, of course we
Speaker 2: found out yesterday is going to be the Battle for
Speaker 2: Atlantis game for them in their first their first match
Speaker 2: up there. So but yeah, all the cameras and stuff
Speaker 2: were there. As soon as I walked off the field.
Speaker 2: Jody Dimmling said, well, wasn't the worst one I've ever seen,
Speaker 2: And I was like, it makes me so glad to
Speaker 2: hear you say that, Jody, because that's exactly my goal.
Speaker 2: Just don't put out there something to where somebody can say, well,
Speaker 2: now we know, in fact, the worst first pitch we've
Speaker 2: ever seen. So again, big thanks to the Louisville Bats,
Speaker 2: and they're in. You can go to slugger Field tonight.
Speaker 2: I mean, the hot weather has has emerged once again.
Speaker 2: It's not terrible. It's gonna be much worse over the
Speaker 2: next week. But man, once once it cools down a
Speaker 2: little bit, there ain't no better. I mean, I get
Speaker 2: we set in the the area that is the grass
Speaker 2: area that's over near the playground, so the kids could
Speaker 2: play and we could kind of just you know, hang
Speaker 2: out and you know, take in the atmosphere and take
Speaker 2: in those two dollars beers and I mean just a beautiful,
Speaker 2: beautiful view of this beautiful city that is Louisville. So
Speaker 2: also I want to say thanks to the people. Like
Speaker 2: there are a few people there last night that, like
Speaker 2: I know of that I haven't talked to in a
Speaker 2: long time, just friends that I haven't caught up with,
Speaker 2: a caught up with in a while, or just acquaintances.
Speaker 2: There was somebody that he used to work with, and
Speaker 2: you know, some of them were just there, but there
Speaker 2: were others that that did say Hey, I'm not even
Speaker 2: staying for the game, but I wanted to come and
Speaker 2: see this, so I wasn't expecting that. But thank you
Speaker 2: to those that did that. That was that was really cool.
Speaker 2: All Right, enough about me, We'll move on because I
Speaker 2: know there's another name we've talked about quite a bit,
Speaker 2: and I still feel like we have now. I mean,
Speaker 2: i'll just say It'm Mariy Huggins Bruce. He's in Louisville.
Speaker 2: He has enrolled in school. He's here. That was first
Speaker 2: reported by I believe Jodi Dimmling. I don't know. Ty
Speaker 2: Spaulding has also been reporting on it as well. So
Speaker 2: he's here, he's enrolled in school, but he's not with
Speaker 2: the football team yet. And that's sort of how we
Speaker 2: saw this thing playing out, right, And we'll get into
Speaker 2: it a little bit more on the other side here,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to kind of set the table before we
Speaker 2: get to our first break. I want to try my
Speaker 2: best to keep this thing on track and you know,
Speaker 2: work on my clock management. But in the last two
Speaker 2: three days, this is sort of what it seemed like. Yeah, look,
Speaker 2: I mean there's clearly something going on. He's no longer
Speaker 2: at South Carolina, he's not practicing with them. Is he
Speaker 2: gonna beat Louisville. Now we know he's at Louisville. Now
Speaker 2: we know he's a student, he's enrolled in school. But
Speaker 2: how does he become elig Well, that's what I don't know,
Speaker 2: and I've not even heard. I mean, I've read every
Speaker 2: write up that the local guys here do in regards
Speaker 2: to this story, because it is a story, but I've
Speaker 2: yet to hear anybody throw out any type of theory
Speaker 2: as to how he could be eligible. The only thing
Speaker 2: I can think of is that just nobody cares about
Speaker 2: the NCAA anymore. So we'll get back into that coming
Speaker 2: up here. On the other side. It's not going to
Speaker 2: dominate the show or anything like that, but it is
Speaker 2: something I want to want to get to. Also, we've
Speaker 2: got a sports wagering controversy on the Internet that I
Speaker 2: find to be hilarious, so we can get into that
Speaker 2: as well. If you're into, you know, seeing where your
Speaker 2: team ranks in regards to talent in college football. The
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven Sports Crew they have team total
Speaker 2: team talent rankings, and I want to give them a
Speaker 2: little credit. Again, there's no perfect science to rankings or
Speaker 2: anything like that or formulas when it comes to players
Speaker 2: and all that stuff. But they actually are putting something
Speaker 2: together here that factors all of it. Freshmen, returning players
Speaker 2: transfer portally like your overall ross. And I was a
Speaker 2: little surprised to see where some of the local teams
Speaker 2: came in, So we can get into that as we
Speaker 2: get yourself for the weekend. College football season is here,
Speaker 2: It just doesn't kind of feel like it yet maybe tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Like whenever I see Georgia Tech in Florida State playing
Speaker 2: in Ireland, I just don't even know if that's going
Speaker 2: to do it for me, because that's just weird. But anyways,
Speaker 2: I hope John's good vibes about week zero rub off
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Speaker 2: I mean, take advantage of that. Who wouldn't take advantage
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Speaker 2: or whenever you're checking out at the self checkout. Thornton's
Speaker 2: has spoiled me in a major way. And I know
Speaker 2: that there's others that have copied what they do, because
Speaker 2: I mean, imitation is really flattering to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: but the self checkout at a gas station? Like, how
Speaker 2: do you exist as a gas station if you don't
Speaker 2: have self checkout? Right now? I mean anytime I go
Speaker 2: cause again and this is this Thornton's'm putting this on you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know why you which is with
Speaker 2: as much love as I have given Thornton's, and I
Speaker 2: think the love has been mutual. Like why don't you
Speaker 2: just put one in my backyard? Like, open up a
Speaker 2: Thornton's in my neighborhood and it'll it that. I mean,
Speaker 2: it'll be your best location, I bet, But there you know,
Speaker 2: there are times where I'm out and about and I
Speaker 2: can't you know, Bullet County, for example, there's not one
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Speaker 2: talk to get a Thornton's in Bullock County. You've come close,
Speaker 2: in fact, you put two near the county line. But
Speaker 2: there are times when I'm out in the county a
Speaker 2: little bit, you know, a little more south of Louisville
Speaker 2: than where I live, and you know, I got to
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Speaker 2: What are we doing anyways? Shout out to Thornton's shout
Speaker 2: out to Mary Huggins Bruce as well, because he loves
Speaker 2: Louisville so much that he wanted to come back. So
Speaker 2: this is something that I still kind of can't believe
Speaker 2: has played out the way that it did. But Louisville
Speaker 2: has a star receiver transfer in Colin Lacy. That move
Speaker 2: alone is what led to a Marriy Huggins Bruce. I believe,
Speaker 2: you know, realizing, you know, I should probably look into
Speaker 2: my options if I do hit the portal, and he
Speaker 2: had an option to go back home and play at
Speaker 2: South Carolina, where he's from. He had a lot of
Speaker 2: love for Louisville. I can't remember, and it's not as
Speaker 2: if he did anything crazy, But I just know of
Speaker 2: some people that got to know him a little bit
Speaker 2: during his time here he was here three years, and
Speaker 2: also people at U of L that just still continue
Speaker 2: to speak highly of him. They're not talking about him
Speaker 2: right now because he's they're not allowed to, but he
Speaker 2: was somebody that I think of when I think of guys.
Speaker 2: Tran and I've talked about this before, he to me
Speaker 2: is a great is the is the first example of
Speaker 2: someone that nobody wants to leave. He's not a superstar,
Speaker 2: but he's valuable to you. You can be okay without him,
Speaker 2: but you don't want him to leave. He seems to
Speaker 2: be pretty well liked by the community. He likes it here,
Speaker 2: but he now has a chance to leave and go
Speaker 2: play where maybe he can get more reps. So he
Speaker 2: decided to do that and go back home. But it
Speaker 2: was kind of a bummer because you know, it was
Speaker 2: the first one I can think of in that in
Speaker 2: that situation. So him making sure Louisville fans knew that
Speaker 2: it's all love. He's always going to be a cardinal.
Speaker 2: He's just you know, he's going back home. Like that
Speaker 2: just stood out to me, so you know, it was understood.
Speaker 2: Like I don't understand. I mean, maybe one day we'll
Speaker 2: get there to where fans don't have this feeling of
Speaker 2: being disrespected by a player because they decide to leave,
Speaker 2: Like I mean, I've never had that, but I understand,
Speaker 2: Like if you're a diehard fan, I mean, like it's
Speaker 2: kind of like getting dumped, right, Like when a coach
Speaker 2: leaves for a better job that you know is a
Speaker 2: better job, Like you can maybe hit pause on the
Speaker 2: energy that's flowing through you. That makes you a die
Speaker 2: hard fan. That's just you know, at times makes you
Speaker 2: crazy because that's what we are. Fan is. I mean,
Speaker 2: fan is short for fanatic. So you know, when you
Speaker 2: give it some thought, like you know, they're probably doing
Speaker 2: what's best for them, but in the end you're dumped.
Speaker 2: They've dumped you, they're moving on from you. And you
Speaker 2: know that's technically what Amari Huggins busted, but it was,
Speaker 2: you know, what was best for him, at least he
Speaker 2: thought so. Colin Lacy comes in, didn't have a big spring,
Speaker 2: and then ends up starting to really come on in
Speaker 2: fall camp and then he gets hurt on Saturday in
Speaker 2: the scrimmage and is now out for six to eight weeks,
Speaker 2: has a broken collar bone. He's going to miss extended time.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have no problem saying this. It's not
Speaker 2: like I'm, you know, breaking any hippo laws or anything.
Speaker 2: But I think everything they've told you is exactly the truth.
Speaker 2: He had broken collar bone injury. He's had surgery, and
Speaker 2: they initially said six to eight weeks. They've not adjusted
Speaker 2: the press release by any means, but they've made it
Speaker 2: just I've now been told, you know, team spokesman type
Speaker 2: of stuff like extended time not really wanting to give
Speaker 2: as much of a range. Doesn't mean he won't be
Speaker 2: back in six weeks, but it sound like it was
Speaker 2: a pretty bad break and it could take him a
Speaker 2: while to get back, you know, does that mean it's
Speaker 2: closer to eight than six? I don't know what does
Speaker 2: mean it's longer than eight, No clue, Only time will tell.
Speaker 2: But that's a big hit. And then out of nowhere
Speaker 2: this and again. Maybe we'll find out eventually whenever he
Speaker 2: does get cleared to join the team, if that happens,
Speaker 2: and he can maybe you know, share some insight on
Speaker 2: his end as far as what happened, like did he
Speaker 2: I mean did he was? Was Saturday the day where
Speaker 2: he realized he didn't land on the depth chart where
Speaker 2: he wanted to at South Carolina, and he didn't earn
Speaker 2: a starting spot. In fact, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: have the South Carolina depth chart pulled up here. But
Speaker 2: and this could just be what fans say because he's
Speaker 2: getting you know, of course he's taken a beating online
Speaker 2: from South Carolina fans, you know, for calling him a quitter.
Speaker 2: You know you weren't good enough to play here see
Speaker 2: you later. Some were saying he was third string. I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's true or not. However, you know, Saturday,
Speaker 2: like it sounds crazy, but I guess it really isn't crazy.
Speaker 2: Like did he get done with practice on Saturday at
Speaker 2: South Carolina realizing this isn't working out the way he wanted.
Speaker 2: He's back home for his last year of college football
Speaker 2: and he's not really looking to have a bit. He's
Speaker 2: not expected to have a big impact within their offense. Well,
Speaker 2: then he sees the guy who came in that had
Speaker 2: to be a factor in his decision to move on
Speaker 2: is now hurt and going to miss time. He loved Louisville.
Speaker 2: He's missing Louisville. Did he just think, like, I wonder
Speaker 2: if I could maybe make this happen, And it hasn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, it has happened, but it hasn't because again,
Speaker 2: he's here, he hasn't rolled in school. He's back in Louisville,
Speaker 2: he's a student, but he's not rejoined the team yet
Speaker 2: because I guess they're trying to figure out if and
Speaker 2: how they can do that. So a very unusual situation
Speaker 2: here as far as you know, roster transaction. But I
Speaker 2: just still have yet to hear anybody give me any
Speaker 2: kind of anario where Because here's the thing. Louisville's going
Speaker 2: to reach out to the NC Double A and say, hey,
Speaker 2: this kid is back on campus at school as a student.
Speaker 2: What can we do? What are we allowed to do?
Speaker 2: And I can't see a scenario where they just give
Speaker 2: you the green light thumbs up, you're good to go.
Speaker 2: Let him back on the team. How many he never
Speaker 2: played at South Carolina? Right, who cares? It's not like
Speaker 2: it's you know, I'm not acting like he shouldn't be
Speaker 2: allowed to play, because really it's stupid, like kids should
Speaker 2: be able to play wherever they want. And technically he
Speaker 2: got here before school started and he never played a
Speaker 2: snap for South Carolina. So it's not like I'm defending
Speaker 2: the NC Double A. A's like, no, these are their rules.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna be able to play. But they have
Speaker 2: a portal window. And I assume they have that portal
Speaker 2: window because they want to enforce it that you can
Speaker 2: only transfer during this time. In fact, there's something we
Speaker 2: can get into a little bit later where the NCAA
Speaker 2: Football Oversite Group is actually looking into eliminating the spring
Speaker 2: transfer portal window, which would be good for the sport.
Speaker 2: Means these guys can't come in for spring ball and
Speaker 2: or they can't come in in December and go through
Speaker 2: spring ball, collects them nil money and then bail like
Speaker 2: many have done across the country. So you know, with
Speaker 2: all that said, I'm not trying to act like you know,
Speaker 2: eat it Amuri. Huggins, Bruce, you can't play, because if
Speaker 2: I hope he can play, why not? Right? He just
Speaker 2: gives you another receiver at a spot that you have
Speaker 2: had a big injury at and he's not a guy
Speaker 2: that's going to lead the acc in receptions or yards,
Speaker 2: but he can play a little bit, and you now
Speaker 2: need more depth because you lost a guy that was
Speaker 2: going to be on the field a lot. In fact,
Speaker 2: Huggins Bruce, let's just say in a world he gets cleared,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked if he doesn't start, because I
Speaker 2: think Hicks, who is probably going to be your starter
Speaker 2: at that spot now that that Lacey's hurt, you know,
Speaker 2: I think he didn't. I mean to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: he hasn't proven it yet because he's a red shirt. Freshman.
Speaker 2: By all accounts and people I've talked to, he's a
Speaker 2: better player than Huggins, Bruce. Now you've got to show
Speaker 2: that on the field, you know, when it matters in
Speaker 2: a real game. But I just don't see a scenario
Speaker 2: where he's able to play. And again it's not because
Speaker 2: I'm saying he's done something wrong, but like why how?
Speaker 2: Because here's here's something that I just cannot see not
Speaker 2: being the case here Louisville, the university, the compliance department
Speaker 2: Before they do anything with this kid, they're going to
Speaker 2: reach out to the n s double A and ask
Speaker 2: what they're allowed, like what, like, what's the process here?
Speaker 2: This kid is back at you of ella and he
Speaker 2: wants to play. What are we looking at right? Like,
Speaker 2: you know, can we talk to him? He hasn't been
Speaker 2: cleared because he didn't enter the portal because you know,
Speaker 2: the portal's closed. And I just what I find a heart.
Speaker 2: What I have a hard time seeing is the nsaba
Speaker 2: A just saying okay, you're good. Who cares? But then again,
Speaker 2: the n SBLA is extremely and I mean extremely unpredictable,
Speaker 2: So maybe that is what they end up saying. Who knows,
Speaker 2: But man, this guy, I mean, he must really really
Speaker 2: love Louisville and who you know, that's awesome to hear
Speaker 2: because you know, Louisville's a great place and he loved
Speaker 2: Louiville when he was here. I don't think he left
Speaker 2: louisll because he didn't love it. He left Louisville just because,
Speaker 2: you know, he had one more year left and he
Speaker 2: thought South Carolina would be a better opportunity for him
Speaker 2: and it didn't work out that way. But him, what
Speaker 2: do you think about this? John? Like, try to put
Speaker 2: yourself in his shoes, and I guess we can't really
Speaker 2: do that. But is there a scenario that he just
Speaker 2: did all this without even knowing if he'd ever be
Speaker 2: able to play this year? Because I feel like that's
Speaker 2: probably what he did. But then again, I'm thinking, like
Speaker 2: who would do that. That's a really rash decision to
Speaker 2: just leave your team and get on a plane after
Speaker 2: dropping out of school and then re enrolling at the school.
Speaker 2: You just mean, that's like that's a four day window
Speaker 2: here for Amari Huggins Bruce, where like he just kind
Speaker 2: of did something rash and I don't I just have
Speaker 2: a hard time thinking there's any indication that he he
Speaker 2: like he's been told, Hey, it's all gonna work out,
Speaker 2: You're gonna be able to play this year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to put yourself in his shoes
Speaker 1: because this is a very unique situation. I do hope
Speaker 1: the best for him. Maybe it'll work out for him
Speaker 1: in the long run or I guess a short run,
Speaker 1: because I mean, he's only got one year left. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see if he finds his
Speaker 1: way on the field for louis Ville at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I kind of hate it for him because
Speaker 2: this story and just this this whole unusual scenario. I
Speaker 2: think it's led people to think that he's better player
Speaker 2: than he is. I mean, like, and I know you're
Speaker 2: not super familiar with him, John, and you shouldn't because
Speaker 2: he's just an average receiver. I say he's above average,
Speaker 2: but I mean he's not somebody that, like, you start
Speaker 2: looking at Louisville differently because he's there. And yet just
Speaker 2: because of like all the Internet rumor stuff like, I
Speaker 2: just I think it's I don't think people are out
Speaker 2: there claiming he's a great player, but just given how
Speaker 2: much attention this whole thing is received, and people are
Speaker 2: obviously excited about the thought of him being able to
Speaker 2: play this year. But I don't think it would. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think it would. I mean, again, I have
Speaker 2: no problem saying this. Maybe I'm way wrong, and if
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, I'm wrong. If he's eligible to play, I
Speaker 2: think he would be a backup here, and it wouldn't
Speaker 2: be because he just got here. It would be because
Speaker 2: they actually think that the young guys are probably a
Speaker 2: little bit more you know, maybe not talented, but like
Speaker 2: they really like what they have with guitarist Hicks, who's
Speaker 2: the backup. But again you've got more experience with Huggins Bruce,
Speaker 2: and clearly he he knows the offense. But some of
Speaker 2: these guys who've been practicing for you know, and even
Speaker 2: though these guys are red strip freshman like Hicks that
Speaker 2: I mentioned, I mean, he's a guy that was here
Speaker 2: last year, right, It's not like he you know, he
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to play. It's it's not like
Speaker 2: he he's you know, just showing up. He was here
Speaker 2: a year ago, and they expect big things from him.
Speaker 2: I mean, they liked him and still I mean they
Speaker 2: were talking highly of him before Colin Lacey got hurt.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to you a quick break. We'll
Speaker 2: come back on the other side, And I want to
Speaker 2: talk about an athletic accomplishment that I find to be
Speaker 2: crazy impressive, But yet nobody seems to be. Like I'm
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, why isn't this being talked about more?
Speaker 2: Why isn't this a bigger deal? This is insane. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what it is. On the other side, it's
Speaker 2: Coffee and Company. We are feel about Thorton's right here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety. First time that's happened in
Speaker 2: a while, John.
Speaker 1: It happened the first time, the first return from this
Speaker 1: bur or the other break you two times in a row.
Speaker 2: What do you blame that on?
Speaker 1: Again, I don't know what to blame it on. I
Speaker 1: blame it on next Gen in general. But it's aggravating.
Speaker 2: Well, what like, do you hit stop?
Speaker 1: Listen? So what happens is every once in a while,
Speaker 1: it will whenever you hit it, it'll kind of say
Speaker 1: it twice a little bit at the very beginning, and
Speaker 1: then that cuts off the end. It's very It's like
Speaker 1: a glitch almost in next Gin.
Speaker 2: So you just how long is it like seven seconds
Speaker 2: or something five seconds, five seconds, So when you just
Speaker 2: hit play and it plays to the end, it just
Speaker 2: plays to the end, but it doesn't finish it.
Speaker 1: I think the way to solve it. First of all,
Speaker 1: you're correct, But I think the way to solve it
Speaker 1: would be if I re uploaded it and added some
Speaker 1: more empty space at the video.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, now, okay, Now I know exactly what you're
Speaker 2: talking about as far as how next gin works, as
Speaker 2: far as the time space thing, yeah, got it. Okay,
Speaker 2: now I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it, and it pisces me off though every time.
Speaker 2: And I don't care. I'm I mean, I didn't even
Speaker 2: notice that it had done it earlier, like like you said,
Speaker 2: And it's not a big deal by any means, but
Speaker 2: I know it bothers you. So that's why I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, well, I don't want John upset because I
Speaker 2: need your vibes today. Right.
Speaker 1: I could easily fix it myself.
Speaker 2: I just don't do it.
Speaker 1: Well because happened. I mean, you said it nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten. I mean, we just started doing remote
Speaker 1: shows again.
Speaker 2: We yeah, so yeah, And for those who don't know,
Speaker 2: today I am remote with the good equipment and hopefully
Speaker 2: it's a situation where you wouldn't have even known if
Speaker 2: I didn't say anything. It's not like how we were
Speaker 2: and with the pool zone. Yeah, the pool zone last week.
Speaker 2: But you know, obviously I'm gonna do I will be
Speaker 2: doing probably many of the postgame shows for football here
Speaker 2: in my home, and I just we just you know,
Speaker 2: earlier this week, I wanted to make sure and see
Speaker 2: if this you and we're good. We're good. It's just
Speaker 2: that little thing. I just know that it bothers John.
Speaker 2: And you know, trust me, if you were if it
Speaker 2: and I know you so I know it has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with me. You just you know, you're a perfectionist,
Speaker 2: which is why you're good at what you do. You
Speaker 2: don't want little glitches on these clips, the liners that
Speaker 2: we play when we come back, So you know, that's
Speaker 2: that's one of the many things that makes him the
Speaker 2: company man. You know, he doesn't he's not cutting corners.
Speaker 2: He don't want any glitches. He wants it to sound
Speaker 2: as it should sound. So I'm confident we'll we'll either
Speaker 2: get it figured out or you know, it'll happen again
Speaker 2: and you'll get upset, and I'll just tell you, and
Speaker 2: I'll just have to tell you that it's okay. So
Speaker 2: we're good, all right? So am I crazy when I
Speaker 2: say this? I think it is unreal And I would
Speaker 2: have never believed you that that it was possible. Maybe
Speaker 2: not possible, but like I can't believe that Tom Brady
Speaker 2: at forty seven years old can dunk a basketball with ease,
Speaker 2: wearing jeans. I mean, I'm not gonna act him like
Speaker 2: he's the most athletic specimen that's ever walked this earth,
Speaker 2: but like I would have never expected that he'd be
Speaker 2: able to do that at all. Because Tom Brady, yes,
Speaker 2: he played in the NFL a lot longer than most,
Speaker 2: right he probably mean he could still play. Tom didn't
Speaker 2: walk up. Tom Brady didn't leave the NFL this last
Speaker 2: time around because he was getting old and like couldn't
Speaker 2: play anymore now he wasn't. I mean he wasn't as
Speaker 2: good as he was in his prime, of course, but
Speaker 2: like that wasn't because he's an old man, Like he
Speaker 2: takes care of his body. I mean, he looks younger
Speaker 2: now than he did probably ten years ago, right the
Speaker 2: TV twelve method, But at forty seven years old, and
Speaker 2: how tall is Tom Brady. I'm gonna guess he is
Speaker 2: six ' three. He's six ' four. Like, am I
Speaker 2: crazy to say that a six ' four guy who
Speaker 2: is forty seven was never known to be an athlete? Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, clearly he's a professional athlete. He's one of
Speaker 2: the best of all time. But as far I'm talking
Speaker 2: pure athleticism, right, Like, if you'd told me he could
Speaker 2: never dunk at any point in his life at six
Speaker 2: foot four, I would have believed you. And even when
Speaker 2: he if there was ever a rare situation during his
Speaker 2: twenty three years in the NFL that Tom Brady took
Speaker 2: off running, it would end up as a viral video
Speaker 2: because nobody could believe he runs like that because he
Speaker 2: doesn't look like somebody you'd ever see on an NFL
Speaker 2: football field. He looks like a pretty boy, a model
Speaker 2: or something. So there's this video that is on It's
Speaker 2: on Twitter if you go to overtime on Twitter. It
Speaker 2: shows him dunking at forty seven years old, and he's
Speaker 2: wearing you know, he's wearing Tom you know, Tom Brady's
Speaker 2: wearing the jeans that hug your privates. He's not wearing
Speaker 2: bad loose athletic genes. My man's got the tight jeans
Speaker 2: on that look like they'd fit my eight year old daughter,
Speaker 2: and he's out here just dunking it like it's nothing.
Speaker 2: And I just, again, when we ever, if we ever
Speaker 2: decide to put together a list of the most insanely
Speaker 2: impressive athletical athletic accomplishments, just these guys that are just
Speaker 2: built different. This is not gonna end up mentioned, but
Speaker 2: I have I just I couldn't believe that. I mean,
Speaker 2: forty seven years old. Yes, he's six or four. I
Speaker 2: know people that are six six that can't dunk, especially
Speaker 2: at forty seven. I mean, I, I mean, yes, I
Speaker 2: know the answer to the question I'm about to ask him.
Speaker 2: I overdoing it. Yeah, But nobody's acting like this is impressive,
Speaker 2: and I'm telling you it is to me.
Speaker 1: I'll say when I when I was in high school,
Speaker 1: I don't know why this made me think of this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it is dunking related. There were
Speaker 1: people who I was friends with. We'd hang out and
Speaker 1: shoot basketball on the court atter school sometimes and they're
Speaker 1: probably maybe six foot, but they get dunk fairly easily.
Speaker 2: And I know they're younger.
Speaker 1: But when you think extra four inches was six '
Speaker 1: four and you were a professional athlete. I don't think
Speaker 1: it surprises me as much as it maybe it did you.
Speaker 1: To me, it's the forty seven years old thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what gets me. Now Again, he's clearly still taking
Speaker 1: care of himself working out. But I mean, there are
Speaker 1: NBA players that are forty seven that have retired, and yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably if they can't dunk, it's because they don't
Speaker 1: take care of themselves anymore and they just aren't trying
Speaker 1: to be athletic.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I don't know. I just thought that
Speaker 2: that was insanely impressive. But back to your point about
Speaker 2: being a pro athlete. When I played in the Chris
Speaker 2: Mack Fantasy camp, again, we did win the championship. I
Speaker 2: know some people are probably still talking about. As I
Speaker 2: say all the time, it was a big deal. But
Speaker 2: Chris Redmond was on one of the other teams. And
Speaker 2: you know big Chris, you know, bowling a China shop, right,
Speaker 2: guy who looks like a football player playing basketball. But
Speaker 2: he was a good athlete and everything Chris Redmond was,
Speaker 2: I mean, he was good at everything. Obviously much better
Speaker 2: a football than anything else. He's a legend around here.
Speaker 2: But you know, he would be out there playing basket
Speaker 2: and it wouldn't look like, oh wow, that guy should
Speaker 2: have been in the NBA. But he'll do something athletically.
Speaker 2: He'll make a move, make a shot, just make a play,
Speaker 2: maybe one that sometimes does require some really good athleticism,
Speaker 2: maybe one that you're just like, damn, Chris, I didn't
Speaker 2: know you had that in the bag. And then you'll
Speaker 2: remind yourself, oh, yeah, that guy played in the NFL
Speaker 2: for a decade. He's a professional athlete. We are not
Speaker 2: so like to that point, John, You're right, like the
Speaker 2: guy was in the NFL. You know, even if he
Speaker 2: isn't known for athleticism in the NFL, his athleticism is
Speaker 2: probably much higher than the average Joe or even a
Speaker 2: guy that you know was an athlete, but not at
Speaker 2: that level. So again, I just felt like it was
Speaker 2: really impressive. And in high school, I mean I remember
Speaker 2: I was like one of like the eight, like the eight.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it was gonna exaggerate a little bit,
Speaker 2: but like everybody who played on my high school team
Speaker 2: that started could dunk other than me and I guess
Speaker 2: one other, but he did dunk one time, not in games.
Speaker 2: We never we only had two guys that ever dunked
Speaker 2: in a game. But like I remember, whenever I was
Speaker 2: like a freshman, there'd be kids like it at lunchtime,
Speaker 2: shooting around in the gym dunking, and they, you know,
Speaker 2: they were like, you know, sixteen years old and six
Speaker 2: foot six two, and I'm like, oh, he can dunk.
Speaker 2: I bet he starts for the varsity team. And like
Speaker 2: these kids never played basketball. So you're right to that point,
Speaker 2: like you know, when you're in your athletic prime, at
Speaker 2: that age, you got probably more hops than you'll ever have,
Speaker 2: But it doesn't necessarily translate to you know. Now, once
Speaker 2: I got older, I realized, yeah, you can be you
Speaker 2: could be an average joe. But if you're you know,
Speaker 2: tall enough and you've got a little bit of ability
Speaker 2: to jump, you can throw it down. I was never
Speaker 2: able to dunk, which probably doesn't surprise you guys. All right,
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