Speaker 1: Oh, guess what day it is? Guess what day it is? Huh? Anybody,
Speaker 1: It's hump Day? Up day, Yes, it is hump Day.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Moon. Sider to Gabriel with you
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, sixty six days away from college football
Speaker 1: from Kentucky Football. Thank you very much, Corey Price. He's
Speaker 1: got that running tally on his Twitter account. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's coming up fast, and in fact, so our SEC
Speaker 1: football media days this year in Atlanta. I will be
Speaker 1: checking them out coming up next month. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: a lot of football, but today more basketball because we've
Speaker 1: been talking to the basketball Wildcats and we heard recently
Speaker 1: from Mark Pope about his team. There is a little
Speaker 1: bit of football news in a recruiting variety, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, a lot of basketball chatter tonight because
Speaker 1: the NBA Draft is tonight and Kentucky likely will be
Speaker 1: represented at least once, maybe more. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in a minute, but I did want to share if
Speaker 1: you missed it earlier, that UK got another commit Recruiting
Speaker 1: is picking up. I know people are concerned after the
Speaker 1: Big Dog left Bud. Kentucky just got a third wide
Speaker 1: receiver commitment in the class of twenty twenty six within
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours. That's Dallas Dickerson from Bogart, Georgia,
Speaker 1: and was looking at some other D one schools Indiana,
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech, Oklahoma, but committed to the Wildcat six' one
Speaker 1: point eighty and this guy's a. Speedster won a state
Speaker 1: championship in one hundred meters dash with a personal record
Speaker 1: in the event of ten point three six seconds two
Speaker 1: four seven has him on a scale of one hundred
Speaker 1: at an eighty nine and considered the nation's number fifty
Speaker 1: four wide. Receiver and as you, know those are all
Speaker 1: crap shoots because these are young people growing. Quickly but
Speaker 1: this guy's got the. Speed you already know about. It
Speaker 1: so he'll join The wildcats next year as a class
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. Six and when you talk about track,
Speaker 1: stars naturally you think back To Jordan, anthony a Kid
Speaker 1: kentucky signed out of a small town In. Mississippi but
Speaker 1: everybody knew about the guy because he was clearly a
Speaker 1: world class athlete From, Tylertown, mississippi AND i had him
Speaker 1: on this. Show he interviewed him after he committed To,
Speaker 1: kentucky but he quickly transferred To arkansas as much as
Speaker 1: anything to further his track. Career arkansas's got what do
Speaker 1: you want to call, it The cadillac of track and field,
Speaker 1: programs always in the, running if not winning national. Championships
Speaker 1: he did play football this past, year made eight catches
Speaker 1: for one hundred eleven yards and a touchdown and his
Speaker 1: long play was twenty seven, Yards so he's you, know
Speaker 1: and he was not a great foot ball player in high.
Speaker 1: School everything was, about you, know the potential when it
Speaker 1: came to, football but it was all about track and
Speaker 1: field for him. Anyway and in, fact the first Team
Speaker 1: All american in the sixty meter, class silver medals in
Speaker 1: the sixty meter dash at both THE sec and THE nca.
Speaker 1: Indoors So Jordan anthony has become the sprinter everybody thought
Speaker 1: he would. Be don't know if he's going to keep playing.
Speaker 1: Football but WHENEVER i Hear kentucky signed the track, star
Speaker 1: which it just, did or got at least a commitment
Speaker 1: from this kid From, georgia you think About Jordan. Anthony so,
Speaker 1: yeah you like it when they're fast to begin. With
Speaker 1: they can put on, muscle they can keep that. Speed
Speaker 1: so we'll see how this kid works out for The Football.
Speaker 1: Wildcats now THE Nba draft, Tonight yeah it's going to
Speaker 1: Be Cooper flagg going number. One we know, this but
Speaker 1: what about The. Wildcats, Well Kobe brad by all, accounts
Speaker 1: has worked his way into the, draft very likely second,
Speaker 1: day so you won't hear his name. Tonight and according
Speaker 1: to one survey or one, Analyst Jonathan givney OF, Espn
Speaker 1: Kobe brea will Go this is just his, prediction number
Speaker 1: forty two to The Sacramento. Kings but he's also got
Speaker 1: To Mauri williams going in the second, round going number
Speaker 1: fifty three to The Utah, jazz which could really really
Speaker 1: use him quite, frankly because, Yeah utah's been struggling of.
Speaker 1: Late sacramento's got a decent, base but, Yeah utah has
Speaker 1: been really. Struggling and J billis has said that he
Speaker 1: Thinks Jackson robinson could be, drafted but probably, won't you,
Speaker 1: know coming off that, injury but still likely will land
Speaker 1: a free agent. Contract he'll get a good look from THE.
Speaker 1: Nba so, yeah it's not quite the way it was
Speaker 1: With caliperi, here AND i know a lot of people
Speaker 1: that was a source of frustration when kids were going
Speaker 1: so high in the draft after not doing a whole
Speaker 1: heck of a lot with their team At. Kentucky but
Speaker 1: we all know what This kentucky team last year, accomplished
Speaker 1: and now they'll set out to try to do even
Speaker 1: more this year with a new core of, players but
Speaker 1: returning players adds the outstanding sinees Under Mark pope and
Speaker 1: by the, way his. Program according To, joelnardi the latest
Speaker 1: bracketology for twenty twenty, six talk about early but, again
Speaker 1: this is just for, Fun this is just for. Eyeballs right,
Speaker 1: Now Joe lonardi has The wildcats as the three seed
Speaker 1: in The midwest region that's coming out Of, chicago and
Speaker 1: this is so. Great here we are what In june
Speaker 1: talking about what's gonna happen Next, march he says they'll
Speaker 1: PLAY Unc wilmington In Saint louis in that, pod and
Speaker 1: then if they move, on they'll play the winner Of
Speaker 1: Texas tech the sixth seed and the eleventh Seed TEXAS
Speaker 1: a and m OR. Smu so, again way too, soon
Speaker 1: But leonardi's got the number one seeds As houston in The,
Speaker 1: midwest perdueing The South duke in The, West florida in The,
Speaker 1: east So florida will be strong, again he, says and
Speaker 1: we'll contend to repeat as the national. Champion one of
Speaker 1: the key players For florida last year is A wildcat,
Speaker 1: now and that of course Is Denzel, aberdeen who talked
Speaker 1: to the media this week and one of the things
Speaker 1: he talked about was the fact that the traits that
Speaker 1: helped Carry florida to a national championship last, year he
Speaker 1: sees similar traits in This kentucky. Team definitely some.
Speaker 2: Similarities on my, thing even here is even more, better
Speaker 2: just knowing that the guys we have here and coaching
Speaker 2: staff and stuff like. That and then just as university,
Speaker 2: itself the people here are. Amazing the atmosphere is. Amazing
Speaker 2: SO i think that pushes us. On we know what
Speaker 2: we got to do when we come, here put On kentucky,
Speaker 2: jersey and just playing for The university Of kentucky is
Speaker 2: a is a big. Thing so just being here it's
Speaker 2: a blessing, man and just can't look.
Speaker 1: Back a little while, Back Mark pope talked about new
Speaker 1: guys from The Southeastern conference helping his, team Including. Aberdeen
Speaker 1: so high on.
Speaker 3: Him and This Denzel, ABERDEEN i, mean he's coming here
Speaker 3: wearing a, big, fat giant ring and there's there's no
Speaker 3: way to replace that type of. Experience and he's a
Speaker 3: beautiful kid man like, uh he's spending time with his
Speaker 3: his parents was was really. Special you, know comes from
Speaker 3: a military family, background and and you know he he
Speaker 3: he cares about, people and he's an incredibly talented basketball.
Speaker 3: Player and so specifically those two, GUYS i can't wait
Speaker 3: to get him here and AND i can't wait for
Speaker 3: him to come experience basketball at The University kentucky because
Speaker 3: it's just. Different and even being in this, League i'm
Speaker 3: excited for those guys because he gets to walk in
Speaker 3: the doors and then learn how this is so different
Speaker 3: here and they're going to make us a better.
Speaker 1: Team and of course the OTHER sec, Guy Mohammed, diabate
Speaker 1: he talked about physicality with. Us he also talked about
Speaker 1: defense with. Us takes a great deal of pride in.
Speaker 1: It and you, know this was a, problem as you
Speaker 1: know For kentucky last year was kind of getting off
Speaker 1: to a slow start when he came to. Defense for
Speaker 1: the longest, Time kentucky was one of the worst teams
Speaker 1: in the country. Defensively when you looked at, stats you
Speaker 1: know they had scored a lot of people but still
Speaker 1: struggled on defense till they turned things around a little
Speaker 1: bit beyond mid. Season But diabte said that's going to
Speaker 1: be a strength of his and his. Teammates like we
Speaker 1: got guys like LIKE.
Speaker 4: Jq he hasn't even played, Yet LIKE i just just
Speaker 4: knowing what he could. Do he's not even practice, Yet
Speaker 4: like that's. Scary like guys Like neill take a. Jelf
Speaker 4: we take pride of. Defense SO i feel like that's
Speaker 4: something that the team and stuff like, that AND i
Speaker 4: feel like it's going it's gonna be a real good
Speaker 4: year defensively for. US i don't think that's gonna be
Speaker 4: one of the liabilities we.
Speaker 1: Have and of Course mark Pope hi on the guy
Speaker 1: who transferred in From alabama.
Speaker 3: Is mo Diabat. MAN i think he's a special, Person
Speaker 3: LIKE i don't know his second or third. Conversation we
Speaker 3: were talking about his family and his history and his
Speaker 3: and his faith and his commitment to all three of those.
Speaker 3: Things and he wasn't talking about. That he was talking
Speaker 3: about his life and how he thought about the world
Speaker 3: and his decision. Making but it was so clear and
Speaker 3: transparent that it's all built on those three. Foundations AND
Speaker 3: i think he's. SPECIAL i think he's, special and then
Speaker 3: his skill set fits us in a brilliant. WAY i
Speaker 3: just can't wait to see what he can do for
Speaker 3: us on the. Court he's coming from an incredible program
Speaker 3: and incredible coaching, staff and and we're going to get
Speaker 3: to be the you, know we're going to get, to you,
Speaker 3: know enjoy some of the fruit of all the labors
Speaker 3: that have come with him and by him before he got.
Speaker 3: Here but really excited about.
Speaker 1: Him so The wildcats played against these guys last, year
Speaker 1: now they're playing with them this, season and of Course
Speaker 1: pope sees a great advantage and welcoming two players who
Speaker 1: already know THE. Sec it's.
Speaker 3: Nice THE sec guys know the, league and they know the,
Speaker 3: physicality and they know the, talent and they kind of
Speaker 3: know the flow and venues are going to be familiar to,
Speaker 3: them and all those things are. Advantageous but Mostly i'm
Speaker 3: just excited about the guys that we.
Speaker 1: Got and AS i mentioned, before they're making the, players
Speaker 1: but the returning players and the new guys available to
Speaker 1: us each, Week so we will be hearing more from
Speaker 1: the basketball, cast but coming up of course after THE
Speaker 1: sec meetings In. JULY i mean football is gonna come
Speaker 1: rolling at. Us you, Know pope talks about the talking,
Speaker 1: season so that's going to be on top of us before,
Speaker 1: long and pretty soon they're going to be teeing it
Speaker 1: up on college Football. Saturday more basketball chatter and some.
Speaker 1: Football on the other side of the, break bottom of the,
Speaker 1: Hour aaron gershawan of The cat's, pause and each and
Speaker 1: Every wednesday we visit with The Unforgettable Guard Sean. Woods
Speaker 1: we heard from him yesterday at THE tbt news, conference
Speaker 1: so we'll follow up on that and talk more hoops With,
Speaker 1: sean and then of course West End Bureau Chief Gary.
Speaker 1: Moore but also on the other side of the, break
Speaker 1: Kroger field gets an undeserved slap from a media member
Speaker 1: And Anthony, davis in my humble, opinion is. Underappreciated next
Speaker 1: on six THIRTY, Wlp welcome back to The big Bloon.
Speaker 1: Sider coming up at the bottom of the Hour Aaron
Speaker 1: gershawn a little bit later On Unforgettable Guard Shawn woods
Speaker 1: and West End Bureau Chief Gary. Moore this is the
Speaker 1: time of year when we all look for things to talk,
Speaker 1: about look for ways to fill, time fill. Airtime Phil
Speaker 1: collin inches things like. That so there are a lot
Speaker 1: of lists and surveys and one man shows on the,
Speaker 1: interweb And i've come across a couple of. Them one
Speaker 1: of them was the top twenty five best and worst
Speaker 1: college football stadium. Nicknames this was posted by a blogger
Speaker 1: Called Big, Name Big Game. Boomer so right, away, locally
Speaker 1: you look for the team you, cover the team you,
Speaker 1: follow and under worst nicknames of a football stadium. Nicknames
Speaker 1: now number two on the list was THE uk Was Kroger.
Speaker 1: Field that's not a. Nickname, SEE i just you have
Speaker 1: to throw these this Entire it's fun to look at
Speaker 1: stuff like, this but you have to. DISQUALIFY i think
Speaker 1: both sides good and, bad because this guy doesn't really
Speaker 1: grasp what a nickname, is except for the fact, that all,
Speaker 1: right number one is The swamp At. Florida, okay that's.
Speaker 1: Good swamp's. Good number, two for whatever, Reason Central, florida
Speaker 1: it's called apparently the Bounce, house all, right that's. Fine
Speaker 1: sticking with best, Nicknames, pittsfield apparently it's called the big Ketchup, Bottle, Heinzfield,
Speaker 1: yeah you, Know, michigan The Big. House that's a traditionally good.
Speaker 1: Nickname Death valley AT, lsu The horseshoe At Ohio. State that's,
Speaker 1: Easy but, again so much of it's tied Into Ohio state.
Speaker 1: Tradition number seven in the list between the hedges At. Georgia,
Speaker 1: YEAH i didn't know. THIS i guess we'll find out
Speaker 1: from covering them and the in THE sec. Now But
Speaker 1: Oklahoma stadium evidently is known as The palace on The. Prairie,
Speaker 1: Fine but number, Eight i'm, Sorry number NINE, ucla which
Speaker 1: plays home games in The Rose bowl In. Pasadena he
Speaker 1: says the stadium is called The granddaddy of The. Mall
Speaker 1: that's totally. Wrong The Rose bowl game itself is known
Speaker 1: as The granddaddy of The. Mall so, again this is
Speaker 1: just suspect lists on both. SIDES tcu evidently Aiming Carter
Speaker 1: stadium is known As hell's Half. Acre that's, FINE i
Speaker 1: didn't know. THAT i wouldn't call it that WHEN i
Speaker 1: was down. There but there are some other good. Ones
Speaker 1: but he Says South carolina's stadium is Called WILLIE. B
Speaker 1: never heard that. One he's Got utah rank number eighteenth
Speaker 1: among best. Nicknames, okay here's the Nickname Lavelle Edwards. Stadium,
Speaker 1: no right after, That TEXAS a AND m the Twelfth. Man,
Speaker 1: no that is not the nickname of their. Stadium so
Speaker 1: you go back. Ohing by the, way it's kind of.
Speaker 1: Funny but number twenty Five Tennessee saban's second home a
Speaker 1: real dig At. Tennessee but of course that's not what
Speaker 1: the stadium is known for down there Among tennessee. Fans
Speaker 1: now again on the worst, Nicknames he's Got South florida
Speaker 1: number one is the worst, nickname The Pirate. SHIP i,
Speaker 1: mean what's so bad about? That But kentucky's second With, Corogerfield,
Speaker 1: now come, on forget. It Rutgers, stadium he, claims is
Speaker 1: called the birthplace of college. Football he, said USC's home,
Speaker 1: field The, coliseum is known as The Grand Old. Lady
Speaker 1: i've never heard. That and if it, is, yeah that's
Speaker 1: not very good as. Well they're all kinds of what
Speaker 1: he calls the worst. Nickname one of. Them he's Got
Speaker 1: Virginia tech The Terror, dome if indeed they call it, that,
Speaker 1: yeah that's not. Bad Notre dame the house That rockney.
Speaker 1: Built you, know that's just not. Current so it's a
Speaker 1: list that somebody put, together trying to have some fun with,
Speaker 1: it but he did a, really really bad. Job in
Speaker 1: my humble, OPINION cbk report ranked the top thirty one
Speaker 1: and done's in college basketball history and did not list any.
Speaker 1: Critter if it's individual playing, effort individual skill, set that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff thrills and chills. Maybe but in terms of,
Speaker 1: Accomplishments Anthony davis is under. Ranked they've got him, fifth
Speaker 1: AND i hope it's a DoD to what he is
Speaker 1: a player accomplished with his, team of, course won the National.
Speaker 1: Championship he WAS Sec Defensive player of The, YEAR Sec
Speaker 1: player of The, year went on to win a gold,
Speaker 1: medal was the most valuable player in The final. Four
Speaker 1: he had the best season in the history of college.
Speaker 1: Basketball when you add in The olympic gold, medal it's
Speaker 1: going to be. UNMATCHED i don't think anybody will ever
Speaker 1: match that season for the individual honors in the conference
Speaker 1: or the, championships won both league TOURNAMENT. NCAAA i don't
Speaker 1: know that anyone because if you fold in The olympic,
Speaker 1: medal will ever be able to do that. Again it
Speaker 1: all kind of came together right but ahead of him
Speaker 1: on the Li Zion, williamson and yeah he was a wrecking.
Speaker 1: Crew but what do they win any did they want? Anything?
Speaker 1: No he won. Nothing Michael beasley Of Kansas State great highlight,
Speaker 1: player didn't win. Anything Kevin, Durant texas didn't even go
Speaker 1: to The final. Four great college, Player Cooper flag Of,
Speaker 1: duke number, four number, Six Bind, Davis Carmelo anthony finishing
Speaker 1: up the top. Ten greg Odin Ohio. STATE i had
Speaker 1: a really nice one and done Career Kevin love AT,
Speaker 1: Ucla Chad holmgren At, gonzaga And Marvin bagley the third At.
Speaker 1: Duke but no criteria. Listed is it accomplishments or individual,
Speaker 1: play individual, Effort, because to be quite, Honest davis was
Speaker 1: a tremendous defensive player by the end of the. Year
Speaker 1: he was never a dominant offensive. Player SO i give
Speaker 1: him credit for Putting davis as high as they did
Speaker 1: if you're just looking at individual skills and. Effort but
Speaker 1: in terms of what he did and how he did,
Speaker 1: IT i think he's the best one and done in basketball.
Speaker 1: History AM i? Biased? Yeah but so be. IT i
Speaker 1: mean he did it and he's got the resume to
Speaker 1: show for. It on The Caitlin clark. Front there's more
Speaker 1: and more talk about improving the referees within THE, wnba
Speaker 1: which needs to. Happen they've lost control so many times
Speaker 1: in games Involving Caitlin, clark including the one where she
Speaker 1: got poked in the eye BY. J. C sheldon of
Speaker 1: The sun and then later in the Game sheldon knocked
Speaker 1: to the ground By Sophie. Cunningham it's kind of Become
Speaker 1: clark's personal. Enforcer six foot, five just came over From.
Speaker 1: Phoenix cunningham laid blame on the, referees but she also
Speaker 1: kind of rejected the notion that she as a player
Speaker 1: is first and foremost and.
Speaker 5: Enforcer, oh you know, What i'm just going to be.
Speaker 6: ME i don't go in there trying to predetermine. Anything you,
Speaker 6: Know i'm dialed. IN i need to focus on hitting my,
Speaker 6: shots making Sure i'm executing the schemes. Right i'm not
Speaker 6: focused on the extra curricular. Activities and you know, what during,
Speaker 6: that it was just part of the. GAME i think
Speaker 6: the rest had a lot to do with. That it
Speaker 6: was a build up for a couple of years now
Speaker 6: of them just not not, protecting you, know the star
Speaker 6: player of THE, wnba and so at the end of the,
Speaker 6: Day i'm going to protect my. Teammates that's WHAT i
Speaker 6: do And i'm a team, player so it's all.
Speaker 1: Good and As Sophie, cunningham, who by the, way since
Speaker 1: that little dust up in that game where she threw
Speaker 1: the opposing player to the, floor has picked up more
Speaker 1: than a million followers on social. Media back in A
Speaker 1: minute With Aaron gershan on six THIRTY Wlap welcome back
Speaker 1: to The Big blue and sider joining us on our
Speaker 1: celebrity outline as he does each and every. Week aaron
Speaker 1: gershawan of The cat's covers, football, baseball, basketball and, yeah
Speaker 1: it is football. Upcoming we'll talk about that in a, Minute.
Speaker 1: Aaron but As i've been talking about this week in
Speaker 1: the last they're making the basketball players available to, us
Speaker 1: so we'll talk some basketball as. Well the two guys
Speaker 1: who transferred in FROM sec teams talking this, week and
Speaker 1: you wrote about them on The Cats ball's, Website diabate And.
Speaker 1: Aberdeen how big an advantage and it is clearly Because
Speaker 1: polk talked about, it the players. Did but your take
Speaker 1: on the fact that these guys not only come in
Speaker 1: from THE sec they played Against, kentucky but they played
Speaker 1: for teams that, really quite, frankly achieved more Than kentucky
Speaker 1: did last. Year.
Speaker 5: ABSOLUTELY i mean you look at both of These both
Speaker 5: of these guys played in The final four because you
Speaker 5: thought they was there as a freshman and then got
Speaker 5: to The elite eight With alaxamba last, year and Then
Speaker 5: Daniel aberdeen as a national championship ring which obviously is
Speaker 5: the only player on this route or so it's, massive
Speaker 5: and you, know playing in THE sec is one. Thing,
Speaker 5: obviously all these guys having all both of them are
Speaker 5: multi year. Guys so they've played in every gym in the.
Speaker 5: Conference maybe Not Texas, oklahoma but you, know more or
Speaker 5: less they've played everyone in the. Conference they've played against,
Speaker 5: most you, know the core guys in the conference who
Speaker 5: are still. Around you know they've experienced playing against. Them
Speaker 5: none of that is going to phase, them but neither
Speaker 5: Is march. MADNESS i, mean these guys have not only been,
Speaker 5: there but they've had. Success you look At Denzel, aberdeen
Speaker 5: he averaged almost eight points per game bearing forward as
Speaker 5: running the national championship last, year scored seven points in
Speaker 5: The National championship, game had TWELVE i believe in the
Speaker 5: sweet sixteen Against maryland so a guy who has some
Speaker 5: success and Then motibaze as a. Freshman they had a
Speaker 5: tough game in the round of thirty two Against Grand,
Speaker 5: canyon and you go look at him and he was
Speaker 5: kind of the separator for them in that game as
Speaker 5: a true, freshman and he did some good things for
Speaker 5: them down the stretch last year as well in postseason.
Speaker 5: Play so you, know both of these guys are completely
Speaker 5: and utterly, tested battle. Tested they've just played at the
Speaker 5: highest level of college. Basketball and you, Know kentucky obviously
Speaker 5: got to A sweet sixteen last year back for those,
Speaker 5: guys but these two have a little bit something extra
Speaker 5: on their.
Speaker 1: Resumes, yeah and it's more than just being emotionally ready
Speaker 1: and mentally ready they. Are they're as physically ready they you,
Speaker 1: know it took a little WHILE i thought for the
Speaker 1: transfers last year to kind of assimilate DAN cec, play
Speaker 1: and they admitted as. Much but these guys will literally
Speaker 1: And i'm sure already have hit the ground.
Speaker 5: Running, yeah no. QUESTION i think that's the story of
Speaker 5: the whole transfer. Class to be honest with, you when
Speaker 5: you when you take, it, well look At Jayden, Quainton
Speaker 5: SO i, know, yeh, yeah he didn't play in THE,
Speaker 5: sec but that guy was all big twelve defensive you,
Speaker 5: know team, guy and you, know two and a half
Speaker 5: in blocks per. Game like One seed's, HEALTHY i don't
Speaker 5: think the physicality is going to be a problem for. Him but,
Speaker 5: yeah specifically with these two, GUYS i, mean starting With.
Speaker 5: MODIABATTE i, mean and he pointed it out On monday
Speaker 5: talking to the. Media he's exactly what this team was
Speaker 5: missing last. Year they were missing a guy who was the,
Speaker 5: enforcer like you, know not that he's gonna Be willy Colly,
Speaker 5: stein but that's What willy Coley stein was when he was.
Speaker 5: Here just a guy that is going to every play bring.
Speaker 5: It he's going to be extremely. Physical he's going to
Speaker 5: be hard to obviously get by if you're on. Offense
Speaker 5: he's gonna be hard to get rebounds. AGAINST i, mean
Speaker 5: he's a guy who was top five in THE sec
Speaker 5: in defensive rebounding percent and only six. SEVEN i say,
Speaker 5: only but that's just because it's you, know he's a
Speaker 5: four to a, three you, know from a size point,
Speaker 5: positionally but gosh is hed a good rebounder and he's so,
Speaker 5: physical and he Gave kentucky, real real problems both in
Speaker 5: the game At rough and then the game In nashville
Speaker 5: and in THE sec, tournament so you, know He's. Pope
Speaker 5: he pointed out That Mark pope told, him quite, frankly
Speaker 5: he needed a guy like, him that it was kind
Speaker 5: of missing last, year and he talked about how when
Speaker 5: they played Against, kentucky you, know he kind of sensed
Speaker 5: blood in the water That kentucky simply couldn't keep up
Speaker 5: with them, physically and h he's a guy that's going
Speaker 5: to bridge. THAT i, mean he just needed a guy like.
Speaker 5: Him and then you, Know aberdeen's a very good defensive
Speaker 5: player as. Well that was kind of you, know, yeah
Speaker 5: he can definitely shoot it a little. Bit he shot
Speaker 5: at a forty one percent club in it's five games
Speaker 5: as a starter from, three but he was really known
Speaker 5: for being a really good defensive. Guard and he's six,
Speaker 5: five he's. Long SO i think both of these guys,
Speaker 5: physically you're, right they're they're not going to be at.
Speaker 5: All it's not going to be an adjustment at all
Speaker 5: because they've been in this conference and they know what
Speaker 5: to expect and. Diabate if, anything guys are going to
Speaker 5: have to adjust to. Him for the guys who are coming,
Speaker 5: in you know as transfers at other schools or freshmen
Speaker 5: at other, schools because he's a guy that's been around
Speaker 5: the block and he's not easy to play.
Speaker 1: Against talking To Aaron gershin of the Cast, BALL i
Speaker 1: just covers the basketball cats as well as the Football
Speaker 1: wildcats a little bit of baseball as. Well were you
Speaker 1: surprised or how surprised were? YOU i GUESS i should
Speaker 1: say when these guys transferred in BECAUSE i got to
Speaker 1: admit WHEN i heard about it and write about, it
Speaker 1: you keep an eye on on the. Portal it made
Speaker 1: me sit up. Straight i'm, like why in the world
Speaker 1: are these guys leaving these successful program and they were
Speaker 1: playing appreciable minutes to come To.
Speaker 5: Kentucky So Dia BOSSE i wasn't too surprised because he
Speaker 5: didn't start at all when he was At alabama last.
Speaker 5: Year didn't get as much run as he would think
Speaker 5: in THE ncaa. TOURNAMENT i think he was around sixteen
Speaker 5: ish mints per. Game he also didn't shoot many, threes
Speaker 5: which is something he could. Do he was a forty
Speaker 5: six percent free, shooter but he only said twenty six.
Speaker 5: Attempts SO i wasn't too. Surprised he was looking for something,
Speaker 5: else just to kind of showcase himself. More But, Aberdeen,
Speaker 5: Yeah aberdeen was the surprise because you go look at
Speaker 5: What florida lost on. Paper they lost all three of
Speaker 5: those star. Guards, yeah they lost you, Know Walt clayton's
Speaker 5: going to hear his name call during the draft. Tonight
Speaker 5: you Lose Little richard And Elijah martin as. Well so
Speaker 5: it was surprising because you would, think, naturally a guy
Speaker 5: who's been in the program for three, years a guy
Speaker 5: from the state Of. Florida he was, committed remember To Mike,
Speaker 5: white and he stayed committed through the coaching. Change so
Speaker 5: a guy who's been you just don't see that. Anymore
Speaker 5: so a guy who's been completely and utterly loyal to
Speaker 5: his home state, program and you would think naturally he'd
Speaker 5: be in line to be a. Starter and when he
Speaker 5: entered the, PORTAL i definitely was a bit. Surprised it's
Speaker 5: a no brainer For kentucky to go get a guy like,
Speaker 5: that but it was a little bit, interesting to say
Speaker 5: the least when his name. Popped but then you hear
Speaker 5: him talk yesterday about he feels like This kentucky team
Speaker 5: could have a chance to be better than the one
Speaker 5: That florida had last. Year and you hear how he's you,
Speaker 5: know so badly wanted to play for this fan, base
Speaker 5: and you, know it seems like maybe there was, something you,
Speaker 5: know some things off between his relationship with him And
Speaker 5: Todd golden that you, know natural could have just been
Speaker 5: a part of no ways that needed to. Happen but on,
Speaker 5: paper just with Like florida's roster, situation definitely was, surprised
Speaker 5: But diabase not as big as, one but definitely one
Speaker 5: that you, Know, look you can go back to my
Speaker 5: tweet when he entered the, Portal i'm, like that is
Speaker 5: a Guy kentucky needs to be involved with AND i
Speaker 5: wasn't so forgoing to Be And i'm definitely glad that
Speaker 5: they saw the vision there because, again he's exactly what
Speaker 5: they were.
Speaker 1: Missing, Well i'm glad you brought that up About diabat's
Speaker 1: Rather aberdeen's, recruitment BECAUSE i was a GUY i don't
Speaker 1: know if you could. TELL i was a guy who
Speaker 1: asked and when you were watching the, tape the question Of,
Speaker 1: aberdeen why would you Leave, florida and he basically, said
Speaker 1: that's between me and my, family WHICH i, MEAN i
Speaker 1: believe first of all that there could be some nil. Issues, secondly, sure,
Speaker 1: yeah if you're not playing for the guy who recruited,
Speaker 1: you that's, big isn't.
Speaker 5: It it? Is it absolutely. Is it's a real. Thing
Speaker 5: and even though he's been playing For Todd golden for three,
Speaker 5: years again he was recruited By. White you built years of.
Speaker 5: Relationship he built the years worth of a relationships With
Speaker 5: Mike white and that, staff so it is a little.
Speaker 5: Different and you, know he rode the bank his first year. There,
Speaker 5: YEAH i don't know he's or the bank all three.
Speaker 5: Years he put, himself he played himself into a bigger
Speaker 5: role this past. Season but you, know you go look
Speaker 5: at What florida ended up doing in the portal and
Speaker 5: it's it's you gotta speculate maybe they were also going
Speaker 5: in a different. Direction they bring In Xavier, lee one
Speaker 5: of the best point guards in the portal From. Princeton
Speaker 5: they're Bringing boogie fland, Uh and they also brought in
Speaker 5: a transfer guard From, ohio and they looked to be
Speaker 5: again one of the front runners in THE sec up
Speaker 5: there With, Kentucky auburn and those. Teams so you, know
Speaker 5: maybe it was just the mutual parting of ways that
Speaker 5: needed to, happen but it's DEFINITELY i could definitely see
Speaker 5: why the day he entered the portal and the days,
Speaker 5: following it's, like what are you? Doing because they had
Speaker 5: definitely seems like you had a starting spot open on
Speaker 5: the defending national champions in your home home state.
Speaker 1: Team there, well AND i mentioned more than, ONCE i
Speaker 1: think it may not be the best portal. Class Maybe
Speaker 1: kentucky's is the. BEST i don't, know But florida's to
Speaker 1: me is so intriguing Because Boogie. Flann but then you
Speaker 1: get a kid From princeton and a kid From, ohio you,
Speaker 1: uh you, know but, hey they come from. Everywhere And
Speaker 1: patino took a kid from AN nai. School patino took
Speaker 1: a kid From idaho. State if you can, play you can, play,
Speaker 1: right that's.
Speaker 5: RIGHT i, mean, Look Walter clayton was playing For Rick
Speaker 5: patino and, iona, yeah he ended up pretty darn. Good you.
Speaker 5: Know Elijah martin obviously was a guy who went to
Speaker 5: the Final. Florida he was that. Fau so you, know
Speaker 5: sometimes it just takes the right coach to find that.
Speaker 5: Talent and you, Know Todd golden's done a good job of.
Speaker 5: That AND i think the biggest thing For florida that
Speaker 5: whole front court's. Back that front court Was fall And
Speaker 5: condon and hand locked in and and the other. One Uh.
Speaker 5: Chinulu they're all. Back so you you have a pretty
Speaker 5: good advantage if you're coming in as a new guard
Speaker 5: there to just feed the boys down, low and those
Speaker 5: guys are gonna run for you as.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah and some people think that they're already A
Speaker 1: final four. TEAM i mean some of them way too.
Speaker 1: Soon Joe lenardi's got them on one seat. Already so
Speaker 1: we're Talking aaron gershan of the Cast. Balls we'll come
Speaker 1: back with more of The Big blue And sider on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break here on six THIRTY
Speaker 1: Wlap welcome. Back we're talking With Aaron gershaan of The Cats,
Speaker 1: pause who covers baseball football basketball for the magazine for
Speaker 1: the website part of the two four seven. NETWORK i
Speaker 1: probably should ask you this off the, air but will
Speaker 1: you be going TO sec preseason media days down In.
Speaker 5: Atlanta we're still juggling that with you, know kind of the,
Speaker 5: ATTENTION i guess you could, say with the program and
Speaker 5: everything that's going on But i'll get back on.
Speaker 1: That plus everything is online.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah it's a big part of.
Speaker 1: It, YEAH i, mean it's fun to be. There i'm
Speaker 1: gonna go down there for a couple of.
Speaker 5: Days but, Yeah i've always said a bout, yeah but it's.
Speaker 1: AND i love going down To dallas stomping grounds last,
Speaker 1: year but now that everything's. Up used to be we
Speaker 1: had to wait until ten, o'clock ten thirty at night
Speaker 1: for edited comments off the satellite and now we, can
Speaker 1: you know you. Can you can record it all. Live
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be interesting to hear some of the
Speaker 1: comments and questions From Mark, stoops, right BECAUSE i think
Speaker 1: that of course, EVERYBODY i guess he's on a hot.
Speaker 1: Seat sure he, Is, uh there there are hot seats
Speaker 1: for the, fans hot seats for the. Administration but we've
Speaker 1: talked before about how he's raised the, ceiling raised the,
Speaker 1: floor and so now like VETERAN sec, Coaches, uh he's
Speaker 1: feeling some, heat isn't.
Speaker 5: He, Yeah i'll say he's he's a good position THAT
Speaker 5: i think they're closing the event, again so a lot
Speaker 5: of a lot of the national media that's there is
Speaker 5: gone by, then the at least that's. True, deal who
Speaker 5: do as much as that of?
Speaker 1: That but, yeah last, day he's in the last day right.
Speaker 5: Exactly, YEAH i know last year they were the last
Speaker 5: team AND i think they might be that. Again i'd
Speaker 5: have to double check on, that but they're definitely on
Speaker 5: the last day there On. Thursday but, anyways it's just,
Speaker 5: yeah you would, think just hypothetically and just taking that
Speaker 5: out of, it just say national media is still there
Speaker 5: a lot Of Vince, marrow a lot of what what
Speaker 5: happened last year with the portal miss, evaluations you, Know
Speaker 5: brock honestly a, big bigger storyline and not especially if
Speaker 5: you have Some georgia media, there like Did brock Vander
Speaker 5: greff really just like what happened that let him to
Speaker 5: retire from? Football like was it so bad last year
Speaker 5: he loved the? Law like he just lost his love
Speaker 5: for the? Sport did he get? Hurt Like there's a
Speaker 5: lot of storylines that could come out from that just
Speaker 5: from a national scope That i'm thinking, of but it
Speaker 5: definitely would start With Vince marrow and what the heck
Speaker 5: happened there for him to go to the art travel
Speaker 5: in the middle Of june and you, know and now
Speaker 5: like it's kind of a it's. INTERESTING i, MEAN i
Speaker 5: don't it's hard to say there's a, correlation But kentucky
Speaker 5: in the last two weeks has really gotten finally gotten
Speaker 5: hot on the recruiting, trails AND i don't, know, AGAIN
Speaker 5: i don't know if there's any correlation, there but there's
Speaker 5: just so many interesting storylines and, unfortunately like none of
Speaker 5: them are fun talking, Points like we're not talking last,
Speaker 5: year you, know big. Talk you, know even though they
Speaker 5: came off two seven and six. Years you, know you're
Speaker 5: talking About Dion walker as a potential top ten pick
Speaker 5: a couple of years. Back you, know you're talking about
Speaker 5: coming off the ten and three year and Having Will
Speaker 5: levis as the potential a potential top five pick in the.
Speaker 5: DRAFT i, mean you, know a lot more fun subjects
Speaker 5: and a lot more guys who can kind of highlight
Speaker 5: and guys who can you, know you don't want to over,
Speaker 5: hype but those type of guys who want to. Market
Speaker 5: and unfortunately that's just not the case for This kentucky
Speaker 5: team this. Year and you, know there're gonna be some
Speaker 5: tough questions for soups And i'm, awesome really curious to
Speaker 5: see what three players he brings BECAUSE i, think you,
Speaker 5: Know i've talked about it. BEFORE i think they need
Speaker 5: to do a better job at marketing some of the
Speaker 5: fun personalities on this. Team you, Know Mac harrison was
Speaker 5: the guy that last YEAR i thought should have been
Speaker 5: brought to media, days and you saw that personality during
Speaker 5: THE Nfl, draft and that's a guy like that can
Speaker 5: really sells some tickets and get fans into. You AND
Speaker 5: i hope they bring a guy LIKE i know that
Speaker 5: he's been hesitant to bring these portal, guys but like
Speaker 5: Ches i And, PETE i don't know if you got
Speaker 5: to tell, him, yes, yes what a, person bring him
Speaker 5: Bring he's got an amazing, story you, know growing up
Speaker 5: on An indian. Reserve he's got this infectious. Personality he's,
Speaker 5: funny he's quick. WITTED i Mean brenack kid for crying.
Speaker 7: Out.
Speaker 5: Ye, yes so you know a lot of interesting things
Speaker 5: that are going to come. Up bring. It but, YEAH i, mean,
Speaker 5: look they're probably they like to bring the fiftieer seniors
Speaker 5: who have been in the program for a, while LIKE
Speaker 5: i Expect Josh, caattis who does have a good personality
Speaker 5: to be. There you, know guys like That. Jordan maybe
Speaker 5: Not jordan love. It there was an off season thing
Speaker 5: that happened. There but like a Ty, bryant MAYBE.
Speaker 1: I THINK i would do a good.
Speaker 5: Job, YEAH i think they'll do a good. Job let's
Speaker 5: just bringing the guy like She's pete. Man he could
Speaker 5: he could light up a, room LIKE i, think do
Speaker 5: your program a lot of Good, yeah.
Speaker 1: You, know and they want to make sure someone who's
Speaker 1: not going to say something controversial or you know, Whatever.
Speaker 5: But, yeah come on. Here, yeah that's.
Speaker 1: A that's a great point, though a few minutes off
Speaker 1: Of Aaron gershaan of The Cat's, balls AND i will
Speaker 1: Give stoops. Credit he has fielded difficult questions at that
Speaker 1: event in the, past and he's done a pretty good.
Speaker 1: Job you. Know he hasn't really ducked, things and he
Speaker 1: likes to he takes. Pride you're there every, week and
Speaker 1: every once in a while he brings up the fact
Speaker 1: that he tries to be as honest as he, can
Speaker 1: AND i appreciate. That AND i think he's done a
Speaker 1: good job really since day. One not, perfect but who who?
Speaker 1: Is but, uh, YEAH i think This Vince merriw situation
Speaker 1: might be the most difficult topic That stoops in his twelve,
Speaker 1: years will have ever dealt with an sec media.
Speaker 5: Days, yeah because it's very hard to. Explain yes it really. Is, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: yes exactly Because loud it's an art. Rival you grew
Speaker 5: up with this. Guy you, know you're Both. Youngstown you
Speaker 5: built this program from nothing basically to what it is
Speaker 5: now or what it was at least when it was
Speaker 5: at its best a couple of years, ago and you
Speaker 5: guys kind of did it hand in hand And, marrow you,
Speaker 5: know honestly up there With Mike. LEACH i Know league
Speaker 5: wasn't here, long but just the personality was is one
Speaker 5: of the most, popular if not the most popular assistant
Speaker 5: coaches IN uk football. History, like this guy was beloved
Speaker 5: here for what he, did and you lose him to
Speaker 5: the art. Rival and again you lose him in the
Speaker 5: middle Of, june you, know a month and a half
Speaker 5: before you start fall camp and then the busiest recruiting
Speaker 5: month of the. Year so it's really you, know you
Speaker 5: can't shy away from. It down To, Atlanta he's going
Speaker 5: to have to give some, context even if it's something
Speaker 5: that he doesn't want to, know necessarily give up because if,
Speaker 5: not you, know those questions are just going to boil
Speaker 5: Into august and and if things go wrong In, october
Speaker 5: they're going to get a random. Question they have to
Speaker 5: mess up the locker, room like there's just you got
Speaker 5: to get in front of. It it, sucks but you
Speaker 5: know it's part of the.
Speaker 1: Gig yeah it. Is and, uh there are as you,
Speaker 1: said there are a lot of media people. There but
Speaker 1: almost by the hour they once the first couple of
Speaker 1: days have, concluded everybody starts to. Leave so, yeah that
Speaker 1: room there's a benit of Going. Thursday that room maybe
Speaker 1: two thirds empty by the time that the stoops does this.
Speaker 1: Thing h thank you so. Much surry The Reds, beacher
Speaker 1: The Reds beach Or?
Speaker 5: Yankees oh, god yeah The yankees have they played seven
Speaker 5: extra ending games this year and they have two hits
Speaker 5: even though you get you get a run around.
Speaker 1: Second, yeah but they scored. Run they scored though right
Speaker 1: run last?
Speaker 5: Night yeah a while.
Speaker 1: Pick what is it like back? Home just thirty or?
Speaker 1: Less what are the media doing back? Home? Oh?
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah the extra inning games Are, yeah they're ripping
Speaker 5: them from the shreds for the extra inning. GAMES i mean,
Speaker 5: again we're talking two hits and extra innings in seven
Speaker 5: games all year and you get a runner on second.
Speaker 1: Date The Manfred, man The Manfred.
Speaker 5: Man almost. Impossible Oh, god.
Speaker 1: Where My cardinals are still up and? Down SO i
Speaker 1: KNOW i know how you. Feel Aaron gershan of The
Speaker 1: Cats PAWS A gershon ninety. Nine follow him in the
Speaker 1: pages of The Cats paws and at two four seven
Speaker 1: the two four seven website as. Well thank, you, sir stay,
Speaker 1: Cool we'll talk to you next. Week.
Speaker 5: Yep any Time aaron does a.
Speaker 1: Great job keeping an eye on a transfer portal and
Speaker 1: if you're FOLLOWING uk, baseball he's got an eye on
Speaker 1: the Baseball portal's got the portal tracker going, on keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on the comings and goings For Nick Benji
Speaker 1: Oons Team hour number two is up next With Sean
Speaker 1: woods And West End gal Chief Gary moore on six
Speaker 1: Thirty wlap.
Speaker 8: Sut such stake saying don't show, anything can think, anything then.
Speaker 1: Su welcome back to The big Boon. Sider joining us
Speaker 1: now Is Sean, woods The Unforgettable guard As jersey hangs
Speaker 1: in the rafters Of rup, Yesterday sean and Twenty, beckham
Speaker 1: THE gm of THE Tvt Entry laphamia appearing at a news.
Speaker 1: Conference you heard part of that on here on The Big.
Speaker 1: Boone you were lavish in your praise of Twenty. Beckham
Speaker 1: he has really impressed your hasnty.
Speaker 7: He has as a young, Man, Dick he's got a
Speaker 7: lot on the. Ball he's a creative. Mind he's very,
Speaker 7: innovative great business since and man he needs to, be you,
Speaker 7: know trying to get a job as an ASSISTANT gm
Speaker 7: for AN nba team or. SOMETHING i think that.
Speaker 1: Much of him what led you to realize all that
Speaker 1: you've known him for a, while but now you're working
Speaker 1: even closer with, him.
Speaker 5: Right, YES i.
Speaker 7: Am and just to see how he does, business how
Speaker 7: he attracts, players you, know in the negotiation because you,
Speaker 7: know when you're talking to, players all these guys are
Speaker 7: pros that we're trying to get to come back and
Speaker 7: Represent kentucky in THIS tvt, deal and everything is about what.
Speaker 5: Can you do for?
Speaker 7: Me and he's you, know is very very good at
Speaker 7: tracking folks and talking business and. Negotiating that is so
Speaker 7: impressive that you know he even got. Me and the
Speaker 7: way he's put this thing together because it's not, easy
Speaker 7: and the way and how organized it is is second to,
Speaker 7: none especially in THIS tvt.
Speaker 1: Situation, yeah and you also MADE i thought that the
Speaker 1: best point of the, day AND i thought a lot
Speaker 1: of the media people grabbed onto this is you said
Speaker 1: that these guys coming in the Former wildcats get to
Speaker 1: be A kentucky player. AGAIN i thought that really hit
Speaker 1: home with a lot of. People that really described what
Speaker 1: it was all about for these. Guys AND i know
Speaker 1: how much you love playing here and him what it
Speaker 1: still means to you and what it's meant to you
Speaker 1: to see these guys realize as older men what they
Speaker 1: had as, youngsters which you, know none of us really
Speaker 1: appreciates what we have right when we're young until we
Speaker 1: look back on it.
Speaker 7: Exactly and you, know when you're in the trenches and
Speaker 7: your coaches into you and you're practicing every day and
Speaker 7: you got to go to study, hall you got to
Speaker 7: go to, class and you know everybody else reached the
Speaker 7: benefits of your, labor and when you done at The
Speaker 7: university Of, kentucky it doesn't go in. Vain everybody appreciates.
Speaker 7: It but when you don't understand the appreciation that people
Speaker 7: have for, you and so you don't know how relevant you.
Speaker 7: Are and as you go through, life you, know playing
Speaker 7: basketball because most of these guys that come to the Universit,
Speaker 7: entucky nine times out of, ten they're gonna be pros.
Speaker 7: Anyway they're gonna play this game for a little while,
Speaker 7: professionally and you forget and you really don't realize how
Speaker 7: relevant and how appreciate you are in The commonwealth Of.
Speaker 7: Kentucky and it gives them an opportunity to come. Back
Speaker 7: it really realized, that you, know because in the last
Speaker 7: fifteen twenty years they've been and. Done so how can
Speaker 7: you really know how relevant you are when you only,
Speaker 7: go you, know spend eight to nine months at a.
Speaker 7: Place but last year was the eye opener for these.
Speaker 7: Guys and you, Know god makes no, mistakes you, know
Speaker 7: and having me here really showing them the appreciation and
Speaker 7: how relevant they are really really really set president in
Speaker 7: their minds and in their. Hearts and that's the reason
Speaker 7: why these guys like to come. Back and it's more
Speaker 7: than just playing A tbt for a million. Dollars it's
Speaker 7: representing The university Of kentucky, again which is the all
Speaker 7: time great basketball program in all of college.
Speaker 1: Basketball talking To Sean, was he's a head coach At
Speaker 1: Scott County high and the head coach of law For. Melia,
Speaker 1: NOW i was an assistant last year and still struggling
Speaker 1: with that. VOICE i know you've been yelling a lot in,
Speaker 1: practice but you're not gonna have to yell as much
Speaker 1: at these, pros are.
Speaker 7: You, no, no, no. No it's it's a lot of
Speaker 7: talking and strategizing and how you, know one, thing when
Speaker 7: you become a, pro they want to know how can
Speaker 7: we be successful in this? Situation you, know show me
Speaker 7: what we need to do and how to. Do that's
Speaker 7: what pros are and that makes it. Easier so you
Speaker 7: just give them a game plan and how you like
Speaker 7: to do, things and they go at, it you know
Speaker 7: WHAT i, Mean you go over it once or, twice
Speaker 7: and after that they just they just take it. On
Speaker 7: and last YEAR i turned down they had job BECAUSE
Speaker 7: i didn't know IF i can coach pros or, not
Speaker 7: you know WHAT i mean with the mentalities and things like.
Speaker 7: That but, man it was a breath of fresh.
Speaker 5: Air and you, KNOW i see.
Speaker 7: White college coaches like going to the pros because you
Speaker 7: don't have to. Recruit you, know they're. Pros you, know
Speaker 7: they're supposed to show, up you, know and they want
Speaker 7: to be better and they want to grab everything that
Speaker 7: you can and to make them look good and the
Speaker 7: lights are.
Speaker 1: On and the flip side of, That i've heard pro
Speaker 1: coaches talk about how sick they get of dealing with.
Speaker 1: Agents but you And twany don't really have to do
Speaker 1: that with this, team do.
Speaker 7: You, no, no no. No it's your basketball man at,
Speaker 7: best and you know it's very refreshing for, Me, Dick
Speaker 7: i'll tell you. What And i'm looking forward to these
Speaker 7: new guys because they all have my. Mentality you. Know
Speaker 7: they're all with big time, defenders like getting after, it ultimate,
Speaker 7: competitors and they like playing fast and in. Transition so
Speaker 7: it's going to be a big time for us And
Speaker 7: i'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1: It one of the things you guys touched on yesterday
Speaker 1: was fan, support and, YEAH i know that over In,
Speaker 1: louislle they've already out sold so they get the host
Speaker 1: if you guys, Play but people forget THAT a lot
Speaker 1: of the people buying tickets In louisville Are kentucky fans
Speaker 1: because that's their chance to see you guys. There BUT
Speaker 1: i thought you made a great point about the support
Speaker 1: for THE tbt entry primarily based you know in lexiing
Speaker 1: and Or kentucky, players and you kind of, motioned you,
Speaker 1: KNOW i got. IT i counted shown at least six
Speaker 1: or SEVEN tv, cameras there a dozen, reporters, notebooks, Microphones
Speaker 1: and you made a great point in. It there's probably
Speaker 1: no OTHER tbt entry that is having a press conference
Speaker 1: like that that gets that kind of media play. It
Speaker 1: as you, said only In kentucky would you see? THIS
Speaker 1: i thought that was a great. Point what's?
Speaker 7: True you, Know i'm watching the tvt over the. Years
Speaker 7: the biggest fan support THAT i saw home court advantage
Speaker 7: Was wichita When wichita was really really. Good Wichita state
Speaker 7: and that place will be. Electrifying But i'm sure they
Speaker 7: didn't have press conferences when they were putting the team,
Speaker 7: together brackets and all that type of. Deal and it's,
Speaker 7: true anything About kentucky basketball is. Huge And, dick you
Speaker 7: been Around kentucky basketball way longer than, me covering it
Speaker 7: way longer THAN i even was a. Player and you're
Speaker 7: one of the, guys and you know it's. Rich you,
Speaker 7: KNOW i, mean how many how many, reporters media guys
Speaker 7: meet up for? Breakfast, yeah you, know how many guys
Speaker 7: have a you, know a media guy have a separate memorial,
Speaker 7: service like you, Know Ronnie, demiray did you? KNOW i
Speaker 7: mean this is this is unlike any place In, america
Speaker 7: And i'm just so privileged and so happy THAT i
Speaker 7: had an opportunity to play at The university Of kentucky
Speaker 7: and to experience the love and the passion that people
Speaker 7: had for, me not only for, me but the program
Speaker 7: THAT i. Represented one other.
Speaker 1: Question ABOUT, tvt you guys unveiled the. Bracket i've got
Speaker 1: to be, HONEST i don't know much at all about
Speaker 1: any of those. TEAMS i thought it was interesting you
Speaker 1: guys talked about how you did scouting port you studied
Speaker 1: video last. Year that was all part of taking it so,
Speaker 1: seriously which was a PREREQUISITE i know from twenty yeah
Speaker 1: when he, said, look this is just not a fun.
Speaker 1: Thing we're here to win. It but is it too
Speaker 1: soon to know about your opponents in the bracket?
Speaker 5: Upcoming, yes it is because we don't know. Personnel we
Speaker 5: don't know who they have.
Speaker 7: YET i, thought, yeah so, yeah that'll that'll be even
Speaker 7: leading up to the. Game that first game is kind
Speaker 7: of a, uh you, know you can watch if they you,
Speaker 7: know you're looking at their, roster and if they've got
Speaker 7: a lot of guys from last, year then we'll go
Speaker 7: back and look at those. Guys you know what they
Speaker 7: looked like last. Year but after, that it's it's it's
Speaker 7: it's it's you, know treating this game just like we
Speaker 7: would treat any game that we're that we're preparing. For so,
Speaker 7: yeah you, know we played For, kentucky you know WHAT i.
Speaker 7: Mean and our fans are. Spoiled our fans are spoiled
Speaker 7: and they want to, win so we want to be
Speaker 7: prepared to.
Speaker 1: Win, yeah and it's easy to. Sell you guys are
Speaker 1: still so disappointed That Nate sisina had to. LEAVE i
Speaker 1: know you don't hold it against him. Personally you knew
Speaker 1: that going in he had a. Contract but now you
Speaker 1: guys have taken steps to make sure that kind of
Speaker 1: thing doesn't happen, again that you don't lose a key
Speaker 1: player at the worst. Time you all were in the
Speaker 1: final four last year when he had to.
Speaker 7: Leave, man if he, stays we win, it there's no
Speaker 7: doubt about. It but that comes with. Experience you. Know
Speaker 7: that's when we And swanny came to heads and now we.
Speaker 7: Know you know What i'm, saying that was our first
Speaker 7: time doing, it and we want to make sure it
Speaker 7: doesn't happen. Again so you got to make sure you
Speaker 7: got some guys that are in it for the long
Speaker 7: haul and checking their schedules and so on and so,
Speaker 7: forth you. Know so you, know we're in it for
Speaker 7: the long, haul and we going to make sure we
Speaker 7: bring in guys THAT i have the same mentality that we.
Speaker 1: Have, Yeah Sean, woods the head coach of A tbt
Speaker 1: entry left for me Also Scott. GUNNY i will come
Speaker 1: back and talk more about The wildcats on the other
Speaker 1: side of the break here on six thirty w welcome.
Speaker 1: Back we're talking With Sean. Woods he is the head
Speaker 1: coach Of Scott County High, school joins us each and every,
Speaker 1: week also the head coach of THE uk essentially THE
Speaker 1: uk entry and UH TBT LA FA mea and you
Speaker 1: guys are going to play and practice as you did
Speaker 1: last year against this Current kentucky, team which gives you
Speaker 1: a great opportunity to See Mark pope's. Team but tell
Speaker 1: me about the. Benefits it's pretty, evident pretty obvious of
Speaker 1: what you. GOT i don't know how many other teams
Speaker 1: get to do. This you, know you get to go
Speaker 1: against a, yeah, hey one of the top college teams In, america.
Speaker 7: And it's good for. Both you, know they get to
Speaker 7: go against. Pros we get to go against you, know
Speaker 7: big time college. Programs so it's great preparation and not only,
Speaker 7: that is great camaraderie to bring these guys back getting you,
Speaker 7: know get acquainted with the new guys that's on the.
Speaker 7: TEAM i, mean you, know LIKE i said, before only
Speaker 7: at The university Of, kentucky baby that you can do
Speaker 7: that type of. Stuff and, uh you, know we got
Speaker 7: one of our own as the head high show of our.
Speaker 5: Program we got.
Speaker 1: A chance this week to talk To Denzil aberdeen And Mohammed.
Speaker 1: Diabote these are two guys who played FOR sec programs
Speaker 1: that were extremely. Successful florida wins the. Title alabama had
Speaker 1: A final four run last, year And alabama Handled kentucky this.
Speaker 1: Year of, course The wildcats beat The gators in a
Speaker 1: great entertaining. Game no defense played very. Little but they
Speaker 1: Transfer sean after all that success To kentucky and they
Speaker 1: talked to us this. Week they were just. Beaming they
Speaker 1: were both wearing a brand NEW UK t shirt and
Speaker 1: they couldn't stop talking about what it was like to
Speaker 1: join this, program Which i've got to ADMIT i GUESS
Speaker 1: i was pleasantly. Surprised you're probably not surprised by. That
Speaker 1: but what do you make of two guys who came
Speaker 1: FROM sec programs that did what programs have been trying to,
Speaker 1: do and that is Match, kentucky and yet they wanted
Speaker 1: to transfer TO. Uk you know WHAT i.
Speaker 7: Mean everybody wants to wear their, Uniform everybody wants to
Speaker 7: be the home team and Rupp. Arena everybody asked questions
Speaker 7: on what it's like to be A kentucky basketball, player
Speaker 7: no matter where they're playing. At i'm talking About duke,
Speaker 7: Players carolina. Players kentucky is the epitome and it's people
Speaker 7: like you and The commonwealth that makes it so attractive
Speaker 7: that people want to be a part of. It and
Speaker 7: everybody wants to be recruited By. Kentucky so even though
Speaker 7: you win a national, championship it's still Not.
Speaker 1: Kentucky i'm guessing you heard a lot about, that not
Speaker 1: just as a, player but probably more as a, coach an,
Speaker 1: assistant a, recruiter a head. Coach i'm guessing you fielded
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about what it was like to
Speaker 1: be A, uk.
Speaker 7: No doubt about. It and you know these guys got an.
Speaker 7: Opportunity they left for national championship caliber teams to come
Speaker 7: to Un Russe. Kentucky that speaks balls about our.
Speaker 1: Program, well put your head coaching cat back on and
Speaker 1: tell me about having two guys come through the portal
Speaker 1: and they had great success with kids From Fairleigh dickinson
Speaker 1: And drexel and play And dayton last. Year these guys
Speaker 1: are SEASONED sec. Veterans just how big an advantage is
Speaker 1: that For pope and the rest of his ball.
Speaker 7: Club now you're getting a higher caliber. Transfer you see them, Sayings,
Speaker 7: yeah you're not getting them major. Transfer you Getting you
Speaker 7: getting transfers from the, Best and that's what you. Want you,
Speaker 7: know WHEN i was coaching college AND i was getting,
Speaker 7: TRANSFERS i wanted transfers to come from winning. Programs and
Speaker 7: they're getting transfers that are coming from winning. Programs how
Speaker 7: you can't get any better transfers than.
Speaker 1: That Rachel, lawson as the softball coaches you know At,
Speaker 1: kentucky g SATs success and one of her rules or
Speaker 1: guidelines or whatever for recruiting is she recruits kids primarily
Speaker 1: from winning. Programs she doesn't recruit, kids for the most,
Speaker 1: part who might be a great player on the team
Speaker 1: that struggles a. Bit she wants kids who already know
Speaker 1: how to. Win tell me about the value in. THAT
Speaker 1: i know where you were coaching in college that wasn't
Speaker 1: always the, case but you. Did like you, said if
Speaker 1: you could get a, transfer you wanted a kid who
Speaker 1: already knew how to be. Successful tell me about the
Speaker 1: value of.
Speaker 7: That, well it's huge, mentally you know WHAT i. MEAN
Speaker 7: i don't want a kid that average thirty points a
Speaker 7: game was on the losing. Team, yeah you, know now
Speaker 7: he has a loser mentality because he's you, know he's
Speaker 7: coming in with selfish. Situation you, know selfish. Mentality you
Speaker 7: are guys that have already been coached that knows what
Speaker 7: it feels like to be challenged and know what the
Speaker 7: common goal is is to. Win you want to recruit,
Speaker 7: winners and that's hard to do and to, change especially
Speaker 7: if you're getting a kid who's a sophomore junior coming
Speaker 7: from a losing program or an average program to change his.
Speaker 7: Mentality you are guys coming in from another program that
Speaker 7: has that, mentality so they're easier to, coach the expectations
Speaker 7: are the same as, yours then they're going to work
Speaker 7: as hard as you want them to work for that
Speaker 7: common goal is to.
Speaker 1: Win is it harder to? Evaluate AND i don't know
Speaker 1: how much experience you've, had but when you're talking about
Speaker 1: a kid who might have left his high school for
Speaker 1: a prep program or like an overtime and lead a
Speaker 1: situation or something like, that as opposed to A Malachi
Speaker 1: moreno whose team as a junior they went to The final.
Speaker 1: Four as a, senior they win The sweet. Sixteen so
Speaker 1: you know what you've got there in terms of a winning.
Speaker 1: Mentality but what about the kids who kind of bounce
Speaker 1: around a little?
Speaker 7: Bit those are the ones you got to watch because
Speaker 7: their habits there's it's always somebody else's fault is the
Speaker 7: reason why they're. Leaving it's always the coach's fault or
Speaker 7: someone else's. Fault and that's one THING i can say About.
Speaker 7: Malachi all these guys Around kentucky left chasing. Something at
Speaker 7: the end of the, day you're still the same, player you,
Speaker 7: know and you know and coaches want loyalty and that's
Speaker 7: big in college basketball right, now and it's hard to
Speaker 7: find and that's why the transport is the way it.
Speaker 7: Is you, know there's two thousand people thinking the same.
Speaker 7: Way so they're going they're searching for the next deal
Speaker 7: when the grasses and holly evergreener on the other. Side
Speaker 7: So kentucky's getting a great one because he's. Loyal you,
Speaker 7: know he knows what he's getting, into and he's not.
Speaker 7: Chasing he's true to. Himself and these other, kids they're.
Speaker 7: Not and those are the guys that you can't trust
Speaker 7: because they got one foot coming in then the next
Speaker 7: foot stepping, out and they you can't win because they're
Speaker 7: never going to sell all the way out for.
Speaker 1: You and of, Course malachi played a great crossing over
Speaker 1: In Scott, county your arts. Rival NOW i know you're
Speaker 1: beating the bushes looking around for seven footers. OVER i
Speaker 1: don't know how many there Are Scott. County. Bud you
Speaker 1: were telling me you like what you've seen in your
Speaker 1: young team so, far.
Speaker 7: Right my team's growing leaps and, bounds And, dick you,
Speaker 7: KNOWS i know we're gonna be better than what a
Speaker 7: lot of people think just because of the work that
Speaker 7: we're putting. In so you, know and that that's what
Speaker 7: makes you attractive for want to where other people want
Speaker 7: to be involved in that type of. Program so that's
Speaker 7: what we're. Doing we're making these kids. Better and you
Speaker 7: know with my pedigree of you, know every kid wants
Speaker 7: an opportunity to get a college. Scholarship, well you, know
Speaker 7: two years AGO i was the judge and the. Jury
Speaker 7: so what better coach to come play for and knows
Speaker 7: how what college coaches are looking.
Speaker 1: For that's. Right so how are they doing? NOW i
Speaker 1: know you're. Working they're probably harder than they've ever worked,
Speaker 1: before especially in the. Summertime well they.
Speaker 7: Worked they've never worked this. Hard and guess. What we
Speaker 7: had a good two weeks of summer ball and we
Speaker 7: had a great come. Rider cool my, lie cool my. Eyes,
Speaker 7: uh swimming picnic. Yesterday it's all.
Speaker 5: Good so.
Speaker 7: It's all good With Scott County cardinals right.
Speaker 1: Now sounds good to. Me Sean woods is the unforgettable
Speaker 1: guard As jersey hangs in the raptors of. Rup oh
Speaker 1: and by the, way one other question ABOUT tvt playing
Speaker 1: in the coliseum instead of Rupp. Arena, UH i guess
Speaker 1: it makes more of sense business. Sense, yeah and they
Speaker 1: love playing in ROUGH i know, that but, man there
Speaker 1: is an intimate feel At Memorial, coliseum isn't?
Speaker 7: There you said the magic word. Intimate you know WHAT i. Mean,
Speaker 7: now it's where the fans going to re ride on
Speaker 7: top of. You, yeah like the old. Days, yeah like
Speaker 7: the old. Days and you, know LIKE i said, before
Speaker 7: it gives these guys an opportunity to come back and
Speaker 7: really embrace What kentucky basketball is all about as grown men,
Speaker 7: now not as. Kids just looking forward to the next,
Speaker 7: step which was THE nba.
Speaker 1: Coach thanks so. Much we'll talk to you next.
Speaker 7: Week, okay looking forward to, It buddy.
Speaker 1: And Westn Berruci Gary moore is up next on six
Speaker 1: THIRTY Wlap welcome back to The Big blue In. Cider
Speaker 1: at His wednesday, meeting we cast our eyes to the,
Speaker 1: west to The west end OF i sixty four and
Speaker 1: Our West End bureau, Chief Gary moore outing each and every,
Speaker 1: week he's got a lot on his. Mind, well two
Speaker 1: guys in a six.
Speaker 9: Pack we've got six, things six wigs to Take the
Speaker 9: first twig here dick a week, Ago, Monday, monday a week,
Speaker 9: ago after The racers were no hit By. ARKANSAS i
Speaker 9: hate to bring that, up but it. Happened players hadn't
Speaker 9: even hit the showers before speculating genius has already Had
Speaker 9: Murray state Coach Dan skirka going To duke in a
Speaker 9: four maybe even a five year, deal depending on the genius.
Speaker 9: Speculating same guys who Said Shadur sanders would be a
Speaker 9: lock in the top four in the, Draft not so,
Speaker 9: fast my uninformed nostra damis. Wannabes murray is holding on
Speaker 9: to its National coach of The year with a four year,
Speaker 9: extension which is good news not just For racer, fans
Speaker 9: but for The Missoo Valley conference and For skirgus family as,
Speaker 9: well who've been in my hometown for twelve year's total
Speaker 9: kind of off and. On he did get his masters At,
Speaker 9: murray by the, way and they, realize like a lot
Speaker 9: of people have when they, leave That murray's not only
Speaker 9: a great place for raising, kids but now now it
Speaker 9: boasts The World series caliber baseball. Program hard to beat
Speaker 9: that combination if you're a young, parent isn't, It.
Speaker 1: Dick, Abris, yeah you're. Right and here's a guy who
Speaker 1: was part of a staff that was blown out a
Speaker 1: couple of head coaches. Ago he got fired with everybody.
Speaker 1: Else you, know when the head coach, goes generally the assistants.
Speaker 1: Go but he came. Back you. Know so he's got
Speaker 1: racer blood and there aren't many guy AND i couldn't
Speaker 1: have blamed him for. Leaving nobody could. Have and like you,
Speaker 1: said he's a young guy with a. Family but he
Speaker 1: is the perfect guy right now for that. Spot WHAT
Speaker 1: i also Like gary is the fact, that, yeah they
Speaker 1: poured money into his, contract but also into the. Program,
Speaker 1: Yes AND i got to think that maybe there was
Speaker 1: a little bit of embarrassment when the national media began
Speaker 1: to Examine cinderella and oh my, gosh, look here's the,
Speaker 1: ballpark here's the torn up ye outfield fans, here you,
Speaker 1: know so it all came together and good for.
Speaker 9: Them second swig in the six, Pack let's go from
Speaker 9: college ball to the majors and we may have an
Speaker 9: answer why so MANY La dodger pitchers are coming up
Speaker 9: Lame to. Refresh fourteen pitchers have been on THE la
Speaker 9: injured list again this. Year it includes Reigning National League
Speaker 9: Sy young winner and former bowling green Hot rod by the,
Speaker 9: Way Blake snell came up lame in Early.
Speaker 1: April after just two.
Speaker 9: Starts after citning a huge contract in the off. Season
Speaker 9: plus you Got Tyler glasnow who also didn't make it
Speaker 9: to the month Of may before shutting down again this.
Speaker 9: Year and then herald and Rookie japanese right Handed Rokie
Speaker 9: sasaki went down In april sixteenth after eight. Starts dodgers
Speaker 9: beat writer For The Athletic Fabian ardarya said last week
Speaker 9: that there are a cup of. Issues one we already
Speaker 9: knew kind of about that The dodgers are targeting guys
Speaker 9: with checker injury histories at a lower price Like glassnow
Speaker 9: they see some of these brittle guys and, say, hey
Speaker 9: we can probably get them for a price and just
Speaker 9: keep our fingers. Crossed and one glaring, Reason DICK i
Speaker 9: really didn't. Know did you know The dodgers had the
Speaker 9: hardest throwing rotation in all Of DOUBLE A baseball In
Speaker 9: tulsa two years ago in twenty twenty, three where a
Speaker 9: number of current pitchers who've been injured were before they
Speaker 9: got To La fabian, said, quote The dodgers aren't the
Speaker 9: only team prioritizing velocity and, spin but they seemingly go
Speaker 9: closest to the red.
Speaker 1: Line.
Speaker 9: Unquote DO i expect anything to change now if they
Speaker 9: win Another World.
Speaker 1: Series, no, no, no because they can always go get somebody. Else,
Speaker 1: yep you, know and you've got younger guys coming up
Speaker 1: throwing like. That but of course we talked a year
Speaker 1: or two ago About Ben joyce To. Tennessee candy through
Speaker 1: one oh five made it to the majors, quickly and
Speaker 1: now he's on the injury. List, yeah as long as
Speaker 1: the team professional teams are willing to throw bad money after,
Speaker 1: good this will not. Change if they're interested in, changing
Speaker 1: then they'll study the, metrics you know that they use
Speaker 1: to do a lot of other things and figure this.
Speaker 1: Out now there's a, Change, GARY i truly believe it
Speaker 1: would never, happen but it's a simple. CHANGE i wasn't
Speaker 1: aware of this until my broadcasting, Partner Doug flynn notified
Speaker 1: me because he worked a lot of games for The
Speaker 1: reds and they had e Allus chapin and all. That
Speaker 1: now they measure with the radar gun the speed out
Speaker 1: of the hand of the, pitcher not as the ball
Speaker 1: crosses the, plate and so sheer physics tell us that
Speaker 1: the ball's not going quite as fast across the plate
Speaker 1: as it was out of the pitcher's. Hand SO i
Speaker 1: think if they more accurately clocked it that, WAY i
Speaker 1: wonder would pitchers stop trying to throw the ball to
Speaker 1: a concrete. Wall that'll never happen because the, PITCHERS i,
Speaker 1: think would be upset about. It you, Know, oh they're
Speaker 1: Saying i'm only throwing this When i'm really throwing. That
Speaker 1: there are some fixes to, This but LIKE i, said
Speaker 1: as long as clubs like The dodgers are willing to
Speaker 1: throw a bad money after, good they're going to keep doing.
Speaker 9: It third swig in the six pack one of those
Speaker 9: rare starters FOR la who's actually healthy and he's got
Speaker 9: the sixth BEST era in The National. League Yoshinobu yamamoto
Speaker 9: was one strike away from one of those rare immaculate
Speaker 9: innings Last thursday. Night we strike out all three batters
Speaker 9: on nine straight. Strikes on the ninth pitch To padre
Speaker 9: Hitter Fernando Tattist, junior he threw a strike clearly in
Speaker 9: THE tv. Box in, fact it was closer to the
Speaker 9: middle of the box then at the top of. It
Speaker 9: but Umpire Marvin hudson inexplicably called it a. Ball broadcast
Speaker 9: crews went. Crazy the x, account by the, way for
Speaker 9: umpire auditor posted that that was one of seventeen missed.
Speaker 1: Calls in the.
Speaker 9: Game hudson has ranked eightieth out of eighty nine umps this,
Speaker 9: season to WHICH Cbe buckner, said wait hold my ball strike.
Speaker 9: Indicator On, Sunday buckner missed a season high twenty eight
Speaker 9: calls In Saint. LOUIS i saw some of this.
Speaker 1: Game it was.
Speaker 9: Crazy The Red's cardinals. Game buckner ranks eighty fourth out
Speaker 9: of eighty nine.
Speaker 1: Umps.
Speaker 9: Dick Last, thursday my Buddy Gary guthrie AND i went
Speaker 9: over to The bats game here at The Slugger field
Speaker 9: and saw THE abs system just Doing gangbuster's. Job they
Speaker 9: overturned one strike, call affirmed one ball, call and each
Speaker 9: one of those took about all of twelve seconds to.
Speaker 9: Do some fans and players aren't wild about THIS abs
Speaker 9: system coming to The major's next, season saying they want
Speaker 9: the human element to. Stay but when humans have the
Speaker 9: strike zone all over the, place how can you justify
Speaker 9: not one to see this?
Speaker 5: Coming you?
Speaker 1: Can't you? Can and you AND i swapped text about
Speaker 1: this summer. Long, yeah it is so hard now to
Speaker 1: defend the, umpires and it's almost as though they're arrogant
Speaker 1: about How i'm going to call strikes. AWAY i want
Speaker 1: to call them and there's nothing you can do to change.
Speaker 1: Me and it's going to cost, him you. Know now
Speaker 1: they are held. Accountable and EXHIBIT a is the clown
Speaker 1: who worked The College World series plate on that Same,
Speaker 1: Sunday Angel, campos who was fired By Major League baseball
Speaker 1: for doing the same nonsense that he did In. Omaha
Speaker 1: poor walls and strikes and poor management of. Games but
Speaker 1: you cannot defend played umpiring, anymore you, know and WHICH
Speaker 1: i did for a long, time because they just won't.
Speaker 1: Listen that's a good.
Speaker 9: Point the, world The College World series had strike zones
Speaker 9: all over the.
Speaker 1: Place, yeah especially against My. Racers but that's another story
Speaker 1: for another.
Speaker 9: Day fourth twig of the six pack a local baseball
Speaker 9: note to mention BECAUSE i hate talking about football when
Speaker 9: it is this.
Speaker 1: Hot, okay so here a tip of.
Speaker 9: My big RED wku capt to your big Blue Alba Mater,
Speaker 9: dick because the portal giveth and the portal taketh. Away this,
Speaker 9: MONTH uk picked up My hilltoppers number two, pitcher right
Speaker 9: Hander Jack, bennett who went seven to. One, yeah forty
Speaker 9: eighth best era in the nation three point one to.
Speaker 1: Three it was a.
Speaker 9: Big part of The toppers fourth best era in the
Speaker 9: nation at three point five. Zero and your Guy nick
Speaker 9: is also bringing in a lefty From South, carolina another
Speaker 9: riety From Grand, canyon and a shortstop From. Indiana so far, Anyway,
Speaker 9: meanwhile after a record breaking season down In Bowling, green
Speaker 9: Seventeen hilltoppers have entered The, portal Including CONFERENCE Usa player
Speaker 9: of The Year Ryan, widman who's going to be going
Speaker 9: To clemson after he had a season At western, who
Speaker 9: by the, way got him from A georgia community. College but,
Speaker 9: hey thanks for stopping by last. SEASON i asked, You
Speaker 9: is it about the money or is it about maybe
Speaker 9: wanting to play tougher competition on a bigger. Stage i'm
Speaker 9: going with the dough on this.
Speaker 1: ONE i think all of the above because in talking
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys who have come through the,
Speaker 1: portal and especially moving from the so called mid, majors
Speaker 1: they want to test themselves in THE sec and which
Speaker 1: could lead to more. Dough you, know they if they perform,
Speaker 1: well they got a better chance at being drafted in
Speaker 1: a more advantageous. Spot fifth swig in the six.
Speaker 9: Pack, hey speaking of biggest sports stories of the past,
Speaker 9: WEEK lsu winning Another World, Series lakers being sold for ten,
Speaker 9: Billion Red sox trading yet another marquee, Player, nope, nope
Speaker 9: and triple. Nope the news you AND i have been
Speaker 9: waiting For.
Speaker 1: Joey chestnut is.
Speaker 9: Back last year in The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating, Contest
Speaker 9: joey was banned because some organizers got butt hurt that
Speaker 9: he'd made a deal with the plant based dog, maker
Speaker 9: and once, Again, dick it was the fan who, suffered
Speaker 9: but all is forgiven, apparently And joey. Who by the,
Speaker 9: Way Joey chestnut was born in Western, kentucky In Fulton.
Speaker 9: COUNTY i didn't know. That by The mississippi Re it's.
Speaker 9: True he's going to be back a week From, Friday july,
Speaker 9: fourth On Cony. Island two quick questions for, you, sir
Speaker 9: is there a more, disgusting stomach churning display of unnecessary
Speaker 9: human food consumption than The Hot dog eating? Contest and?
Speaker 9: Two will you and your bride watch it live or tape?
Speaker 1: It let's go for option three not only. ABOVE i
Speaker 1: am not a. Fan, yeah it's, gross BUT i ALSO
Speaker 1: i have a hard time watching any of these eating contests,
Speaker 1: now and there's too many hungry people out. There AND
Speaker 1: i know that the companies that sponsor have begun to
Speaker 1: really throw sponsorships into food, banks which is. Great so
Speaker 1: that just leaves me with my initial. Complaint it's pretty,
Speaker 1: disgusting especially when they went dunking them in the. Water oh,
Speaker 1: no thanks.
Speaker 9: Our sixth and final. Swig you, know we got The
Speaker 9: savannah bananas over here in town for some sold out
Speaker 9: games at The Slugger, field AND i Believe dick by
Speaker 9: next week's version of this, show we should know the
Speaker 9: name of the minor League Eerie seawolve's new, rebrand as
Speaker 9: decided BY Hbo Max's John oliver and his brilliant last
Speaker 9: Week tonight's staff in case you missed it last, month
Speaker 9: after Hilarious may fourth segment which everybody should see on
Speaker 9: how wacky minor league baseball teams can, Get oliver invited
Speaker 9: teams to apply for a new rebrand that he and
Speaker 9: his staff would create based on the team's, geography area
Speaker 9: history and with absolutely no input from the, team and
Speaker 9: they would have to agree to doing all of Whatever
Speaker 9: oliver's staff came up. With well forty seven teams forty
Speaker 9: percent of all minor league teams, Applied eerie was. Chosen
Speaker 9: we don't know if it's going to be a new
Speaker 9: identity for one, game a few, games maybe a permanent
Speaker 9: rebrand for The DOUBLE a affiliate of The Detroit. Tigers
Speaker 9: BUT i tell you, this whatever, becomes you, know it
Speaker 9: will be a merchandising gold.
Speaker 1: Mine oh, yeah, Yeah and that was one of the
Speaker 1: great things that the two summers That Doug flynn AND
Speaker 1: i spent doing minor league, games we got to see
Speaker 1: all that up close and. Personal there's very little in
Speaker 1: minor league marketing people won't at least consider this was
Speaker 1: a great idea By. OLIVER i do like The Sea wolves.
Speaker 1: NICKNAME i guess it'll come back. Somewhere but it's not
Speaker 1: a bad. IDEA i think they're gonna keep.
Speaker 9: It, possibly but, again we don't know this is gonna
Speaker 9: be your permanent. Rebrand this is the new, one and
Speaker 9: hopefully it's not going to be something. Embarrassing but they
Speaker 9: took a. Chance there Was, look there's forty seven teams that, Said, okay.
Speaker 1: Do your, duty do what you want to do with.
Speaker 1: Us gary Mare, is Our Western bureau, chief will come
Speaker 1: back and talk hot reids With gary just a minute
Speaker 1: here on six THIRTY. Wlap welcome back to The Big
Speaker 1: blue And. Sider we're chatting with Our Western bureau, Chief Gary.
Speaker 1: Moore we have heard two guys in a six. Pack
Speaker 1: time now for a couple of hot reeds and part
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Speaker 1: About japanese food, Sushi, Gary The Florida panthers ordered sushi
Speaker 1: for Their Stanley cup parade from a restaurant where The
Speaker 1: oilers had. Booked anticipating A game six. Victory they had, dope,
Speaker 1: yes their celebration in that sushi. Restaurant we talked about marketing,
Speaker 1: before but in terms of strategy and you, know just
Speaker 1: sticking it to the other. Guy is this not one
Speaker 1: of the all time?
Speaker 9: Greats it is, great and this is up there With,
Speaker 9: hey we've already made plans for the victory parade that's
Speaker 9: gonna happen after game seven On. Friday oh, really, well
Speaker 9: let's see, there, okay you, know just go, ahead thanks
Speaker 9: for the bulletin, board mature and they put that ON
Speaker 9: i guess on the, whiteboard, right and then what Does
Speaker 9: florida come out and do they? Score what was outscored
Speaker 9: them in the last two games ten to, three five
Speaker 9: goals in both of those. Games, smart really good. Idea
Speaker 9: maybe you just kind of want to temper that a little.
Speaker 1: BIT i should have looked this up ahead of, time
Speaker 1: BUT i want to, say you got to go back to,
Speaker 1: Well i'm going To i'll pause things right, here and
Speaker 1: we'll find out when was the last time A canadian
Speaker 1: team won The Stanley? Cup ninety? Three, yeah right? Here, yeah,
Speaker 1: okay good, man all, right that's amazing to. Me The
Speaker 1: Stanley cup has been living in The United. States and
Speaker 1: by the, way The panthers damaged it almost immediately they
Speaker 1: were taking it. Out but my buddy From toronto once
Speaker 1: he told me the other, night he, said, yeah once
Speaker 1: a team accidentally left The Stanley cup on the side
Speaker 1: of the highway. THERE i guess they all got jumped
Speaker 1: out to take care of. Business and whoever was in
Speaker 1: charge of putting the cup back in the vehicle failed.
Speaker 1: Miserably All, right our Next Todd, reid, is WOULD i
Speaker 1: think a brilliant way that A SEATTLE tv Anchor Aaron
Speaker 1: levine Handled Oklahoma city's win in the championship game over
Speaker 1: The Indiana. Pacers, now the, backstory of, course is The
Speaker 1: thunder used to be The Seattle. SuperSonics they got yanked
Speaker 1: out Of seattle, unfairly and now they're in Ok, see
Speaker 1: they're still. Bitter in, fact this SoundBite i'll play for
Speaker 1: you in a minute came along with a hashtag bring
Speaker 1: him back and hashtag still. Bitter here it is finally.
Speaker 9: Tonight, unfortunately The Indiana pacers Lose game seven of THE Nba.
Speaker 1: Finals big game.
Speaker 9: For The sounders tomorrow we will see out At.
Speaker 1: Livingfield that was the end of his sports, Cast. Gary
Speaker 1: that's all he said about it was that not, brilliant.
Speaker 9: Beautiful that's all they. Deserved after the owner who initially
Speaker 9: said we're gonna do everything we can to keep thumbing
Speaker 9: The seattle and then it's, like, well we didn't buy
Speaker 9: the team to keep it In, seattle talking out of
Speaker 9: both sides of his. Mouth they didn't even deserve that
Speaker 9: much of. It look if you have no allegiance to
Speaker 9: Either seattle Or Oklahoma, city go visit both and then
Speaker 9: tell me which one would you rather go back and
Speaker 9: spend a little more time. In especially this time of.
Speaker 1: Year seattle is my favorite city in The United, states
Speaker 1: all due respect to my hometown Of louisville to my
Speaker 1: city here Lexingon seattle is. Incredible but here's a cool
Speaker 1: little tie in for. You the radio voice of The
Speaker 1: Utah jazz Is David Locke. Lockheim he goes By David.
Speaker 1: Locke he was part of the broadcast crew for The Seattle,
Speaker 1: SuperSonics AND i think he had just landed the playbo
Speaker 1: play job because the guy. Retired bottom line is he
Speaker 1: had just gotten his dream, job and then they moved
Speaker 1: To Oklahoma city and they fired everybody in the front,
Speaker 1: office Including. DAVID i have Met david because he's married
Speaker 1: to a former co worker from w KYT A kemy To.
Speaker 1: Kay she moved from lexingon To. Seattle she was a
Speaker 1: sideline reporter for The seahawks and met up With. David
Speaker 1: they got. Married kemy is the niece of Mister Sulu
Speaker 1: george Ta. Kay i'll be daring just HOW i know
Speaker 1: it's pronounced a k and not the. Kui because she corrected.
Speaker 1: Me that's of course has the background to do so quite.
Speaker 1: Well so all of that to me is in her.
Speaker 1: Twelve So i'm angry at The SuperSonics on behalf Of
Speaker 1: david and A kemi who ended. Up they've landed on their.
Speaker 1: Feet they ended up In Salt Lake, city, uh with
Speaker 1: The Utah, jazz but that that damaged a lot of
Speaker 1: people when they. Did it was, unnecessary completely.
Speaker 9: Unnecessary and, LOOK i was born In, evansville So i'm
Speaker 9: going to cheer for The pacers anyway if they got in,
Speaker 9: there hopefully they would win one of. These and also
Speaker 9: because of what happened with The SuperSonics, yea AND i
Speaker 9: think they're finally going to get ANOTHER nba team at some, point,
Speaker 9: right Didn't silver say that the next time they do an,
Speaker 9: expansion they want to Do. Seattle DIDN'T i dream?
Speaker 1: That he basically Said seattle deserves, it, which on the other,
Speaker 1: hand the folks In louisville who have been banging the
Speaker 1: drum for THE nba that would put them with at
Speaker 1: least one city, Behind so you, know you gotta take
Speaker 1: it as you can get. It he Is Gary. Moore
Speaker 1: he is our West end bureau. Chief we hear him
Speaker 1: each and every week and you can follow along, daily,
Speaker 1: hourly in fact on Extra twitter at.
Speaker 9: At nine to five to Five, gary WHERE i follow
Speaker 9: you by the microsecond at that's, right a big boone sider.
Speaker 1: One thank, you, Sir stay, cool you, too, brother by the,
Speaker 1: way for tuning in THE nba draft and you already
Speaker 1: know all about the player. Evaluations but if you just
Speaker 1: keep an eye on THE uk, guys and you might
Speaker 1: have heard me earlier talk about how ESPN's expert Had
Speaker 1: Kobe brea And Mari williams going in the second. Round
Speaker 1: Yahoo sports has ranked the top seventy, players not how
Speaker 1: they're going to be, drafted just ranked the players with
Speaker 1: of Course Cooper flag number. One but they Got Kobe
Speaker 1: brea forty. One they've got A Mari williams fifty, three
Speaker 1: which is basically very similar to what they had on
Speaker 1: THE espn. Side but they've got a Du theero twenty. Seventh,
Speaker 1: interesting what else do they? Have JOHN. I broom is
Speaker 1: ranked Behind Kobe brea at forty. SEVEN a lot of
Speaker 1: people had him going in the top ten for a while.
Speaker 1: There Chucky, Hepburn louisville's. Guard really good, player fun to.
Speaker 1: Watch they have him ranked fifty. Eighth they Got Jackson
Speaker 1: robinson ranked sixty, fourth AND i find it fascinating that
Speaker 1: he is ranked. Ahead patinos GUY. R. J, lewis who,
Speaker 1: went was ranked at sixty seven By Yahoo's. Sports so
Speaker 1: just something to think about if you keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the. Draft tonight thanks to my Guest Gary, Moore Shawn,
Speaker 1: Woods Aaron. Gershawn that's. It good night from the garage In.
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