Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Blue Insider to Cabrie with you
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday edition of our program, abbreviated per usual
Speaker 1: for Kentucky Baseball. But we were going to go till
Speaker 1: seven forty five tonight with an eight o'clock start for
Speaker 1: UKU OFL, but they moved a game up in our
Speaker 1: because it is so blasted cold here in the spring.
Speaker 1: So it's a seven o'clock game now, which means six
Speaker 1: forty five pre game for Darren heddricks it. We'll step
Speaker 1: out a little bit earlier then we anticipated. Coming up
Speaker 1: in a few minutes, a man, Doug Flynn, my broadcast
Speaker 1: partner on UK baseball streaming broadcasts on SEC Plus, will
Speaker 1: join us and we'll preview the series a little bit.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about what happened over the weekend and where
Speaker 1: they are right now with Wildcat Baseball. Of course, you
Speaker 1: know by now that Florida Gators are the national champs
Speaker 1: in an incredible finish, playing Houston's game down the stretch,
Speaker 1: holding the Cougars with no scores in their last four
Speaker 1: possessions for Sint Houston to turn it over or missshots.
Speaker 1: It was an ugly game. It was played just the
Speaker 1: way Houston needed it to be played, and in fact,
Speaker 1: the Cougars led it by twelve early in the second half,
Speaker 1: and somehow the Gators come back without Walter Clayton's junior
Speaker 1: dominating offensively. You know, he was scoreless for the longest
Speaker 1: time or held without a field goal at any rate
Speaker 1: until a crucial three point play late in the game.
Speaker 1: But he made the plays. He made, assists, he made
Speaker 1: defensive players, made the defensive play of the game when
Speaker 1: the last guy with the ball for Houston trying to
Speaker 1: get off a three pointer and Clayton came flying at him,
Speaker 1: forced him to rethink it and drop the ball, and
Speaker 1: he couldn't go pick it up because it would have
Speaker 1: been a traveling violation. That's why it was a loose
Speaker 1: ball and a scrum at the end. Just an amazing finish.
Speaker 1: And you know, Houston never gets off a shot nineteen
Speaker 1: seconds left and looked like it was playing for a
Speaker 1: three by as Jay Wright put it, Florida blitzed the
Speaker 1: ball handlers and Houston didn't have an answer. And I
Speaker 1: thought Houston would look for a three for you know,
Speaker 1: ten or twelve seconds and if it wasn't there, try
Speaker 1: for at least to two to get it to overtime,
Speaker 1: but didn't happen. Congrats to the Gators. The SEC wins
Speaker 1: the national championship as most people predicted, but everybody, not everybody,
Speaker 1: but most people thought it would be Auburn until later
Speaker 1: in the season when Florida started playing the best basketball
Speaker 1: in the conference and Duke was playing better than Florida.
Speaker 1: But we all know what happened to Duke, and then
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought it was Houston's for the taking,
Speaker 1: and it was. But now, for the seventh time, the
Speaker 1: Cougars have made the Final four and have not won
Speaker 1: the championship. So think about this, Florida thirty six and
Speaker 1: four on the season. Who did the Gators lose to? Missouri, Georgia,
Speaker 1: Tennessee good team and Kentucky. So least Wildcat fans can
Speaker 1: brag about that we own a win this year over
Speaker 1: the defending national champs. Now, of course, what about next year? Well,
Speaker 1: ESPN and other agencies have their way too early top
Speaker 1: twenty five, espns Houston as the way too early favorite,
Speaker 1: then Purdue number two, Louisville number three, and they go
Speaker 1: through projected lineups and all that. Yukon number four Michigan five,
Speaker 1: And how about the Kentucky Wildcats at number six, with
Speaker 1: a projected starting lineup per ESPN of Jalan Lowe, the
Speaker 1: kid from pitt Jasper Johnson, the freshman from Versailles, otega Oway,
Speaker 1: Brandon Garrison, and now Mohammed Diabate to transfer from Alabama.
Speaker 1: So in the way too early poll, ESPN's got Kentucky
Speaker 1: number six, followed closely by Arkansas with a lineup that
Speaker 1: includes DJ Wagner and Carter Knox who would have been
Speaker 1: a Kentucky Wildcat. They got Duke eighth, Saint John's ninth,
Speaker 1: with Bryce Hopkins in the lineup former Wildcat who went
Speaker 1: through Providence, UCLA tenth, and a couple of SEC teams
Speaker 1: after that, Alabama eleven and Auburn twelve. ESPN dot COM's
Speaker 1: got it if you're interested in such a thing. One
Speaker 1: poll's got BYU in the top five. ESPN's got him sixteenth.
Speaker 1: So never too soon to look at that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: is it? No, it's not. By the way, as we
Speaker 1: signed off last night, we talked about the House Settlement,
Speaker 1: and that's the lawsuit named after the former Arizona swimmer.
Speaker 1: It was not decided yesterday by the judge out in Oakland,
Speaker 1: she declined to provide final approval of the deal. She
Speaker 1: directed the lawyers to address a short list of her
Speaker 1: remaining concerns. Within one week. Now, four athletes testified against
Speaker 1: the settlement, one of them being Livy Done, the gymnast
Speaker 1: from LSU, who she claims is and you can back
Speaker 1: this up. She claims to be the highest earning female
Speaker 1: athlete since the NIL rules changed, and she believes she's
Speaker 1: going to be shortchanged by the settlement. She said, a
Speaker 1: settlement fails to acknowledge her true value. The settlement's going
Speaker 1: to a lot x amount of dollars per athletes. She
Speaker 1: thinks she's going to basically lose money in the deal.
Speaker 1: Later on, a Planet's attorney said the gymnast would receive
Speaker 1: an updated allocation. But I thought that was interesting that
Speaker 1: Livy Done went as far as testifying against the settlement.
Speaker 1: So this may not be wrapped up again for another week.
Speaker 1: So we say goodbye to college basketball, and in doing so,
Speaker 1: we say hey to the Masters yep Masters, beginning this week.
Speaker 1: As you know, Scotti Scheffler, according to the PGA Power Rankings,
Speaker 1: is the favorite defending champ followed by Rory McElroy, who
Speaker 1: lacks only the Masters to complete his career Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: He's got two wins this year, so maybe this is
Speaker 1: his year. Colin Morikawa third, John Ramis fourth, Brice and
Speaker 1: the Shambeau fifth, and Justin Thomas. The Kentuckian is sixth
Speaker 1: in the Power rankings. Had a solo second at the
Speaker 1: vallast Bar Championship earlier this year. Two runner up. Finishes
Speaker 1: four top tens in his last seven starts, so apparently
Speaker 1: he is playing some of his best golf right now.
Speaker 1: Zero for two at the Masters, and he had two
Speaker 1: top tens among the top twenty fives prior. Also among
Speaker 1: the top ten. Brooks Koepka is ranked ninth. Xander Shotley
Speaker 1: just outside of top ten at number eleven, So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on the Masters. We will help you keep
Speaker 1: an eye on it as well, but as we pre record,
Speaker 1: we really can't, you know, provide much in a way
Speaker 1: of expert commentary. A little bit of recruiting news from
Speaker 1: Kentucky football. This is for the class of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: UK got to commit from a quarterback from Knoxville, Dj Hunter.
Speaker 1: He's the first for the Wildcats in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven recruiting class, according to two four to seven Sports
Speaker 1: and the Cats Pause. He is election in Native but
Speaker 1: is playing his high school football in Knoxville, recruited by
Speaker 1: bush Ham, Dan and Eric Walford. Before we get to
Speaker 1: the break and hear from my man Doug Flynn, I
Speaker 1: did want to mention the fact that once again I
Speaker 1: stayed up all the way through the coverage last night
Speaker 1: on CBS and thoroughly enjoyed one shining moment, and I
Speaker 1: bring that up and I tweeted this as well last night.
Speaker 1: It's become kind of fashionable, kind of du riguur, if
Speaker 1: you will, for some people, mostly in my line of work.
Speaker 1: But those are the everybody's got a platform now, you know,
Speaker 1: on social media. But I don't know why people in
Speaker 1: my line of work think it's incumbent upon them to
Speaker 1: complain about really anything and everything. But I've seen more
Speaker 1: complaints about one shining moment, like you, oh, that's run
Speaker 1: its core. So I'm so tired of that. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: to me, Well, for one thing, I'm biased because having
Speaker 1: worked in TV most of my career, I recognize and
Speaker 1: appreciate the amount of work that went into that production.
Speaker 1: The number of people with cameras on their shoulders shooting
Speaker 1: that low level video. That's the dramatic video, right, not
Speaker 1: the high white game stuff. It's the stuff that puts
Speaker 1: you right on the court with the players and the
Speaker 1: coaches and the cheerleaders and the dancers and the fans.
Speaker 1: So to sift through miles and miles, hours and hours
Speaker 1: of that video to pull just the right clips and
Speaker 1: then edit it all together and update it in the
Speaker 1: in the minutes right after the game has ended, is
Speaker 1: an incredible amount of work, enormous and it always delivers. So,
Speaker 1: as I said last night on my late night tweet,
Speaker 1: if you're going to complain about it, just stop, turn
Speaker 1: your TV off, and be done with it. Doug Flinn's
Speaker 1: next in six point thirty eight WLAP Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Big Moonsider coming up Kentucky Baseball, the Cats and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and joining me down the Celebrity hotline. Is
Speaker 1: a guy who spent much of the weekend dodging rain
Speaker 1: drops and calling baseball, Mister Doug Flynn, my broadcast partner
Speaker 1: on SEC Plus. That was a long weekend. Brother the
Speaker 1: double head Better and then the extra any game fun,
Speaker 1: but didn't go the right way, did it.
Speaker 2: Well, it could have been a lot of fun in
Speaker 2: one to three, But you know, they were in every
Speaker 2: ball game. Every ball game went down to the last
Speaker 2: at bat, and there was a lot of really good
Speaker 2: things we saw from UK, but I think there was
Speaker 2: a lot of things that they haven't got better at
Speaker 2: as of yet. And you know, when you look at
Speaker 2: their record now, they've got a lot of losses just
Speaker 2: by one game, by one run and just a big
Speaker 2: hit away. So hopefully they'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, you know, they go down, they win a
Speaker 1: game at Georgia, they were in the opener, kind of
Speaker 1: blown out in the third game. They dropped that series
Speaker 1: here at home against Auburn, and the two losses were
Speaker 1: both by eight to seven, Right, that could have been
Speaker 1: a sweep. And then they take two out of three
Speaker 1: at A and M. So clearly a team that's got
Speaker 1: talent but trying to figure things out.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I kind of use the analogy with you,
Speaker 2: which is kind of funny. I said, since I'm a fisherman,
Speaker 2: and I think with this ball club it's the same way.
Speaker 2: If you want to win a fishing tournament, you have
Speaker 2: to fish clean, right. It means that every bite you
Speaker 2: get you take advantage of it. You get that fish
Speaker 2: in the boat, you don't break any lines. Same when
Speaker 2: you get playing baseball games. I think Kentucky because it's
Speaker 2: so balanced in this league that when you have a
Speaker 2: chance with the runner on third and less than two outs,
Speaker 2: you've got to find a way to get him home.
Speaker 2: If you are called to bunt, you have to get
Speaker 2: the bunt down. If there's a double play opportunity, you
Speaker 2: have to turn the double play. And I think what
Speaker 2: we've seen from UK, I believe it was three times
Speaker 2: in the game they got beat yesterday or they got
Speaker 2: beat on Saturday, they have runners on second and third
Speaker 2: with one out, and not one time did they get
Speaker 2: them home. And that's not to say that you know
Speaker 2: they're playing hard, they're really trying. Was the pitching that
Speaker 2: good man? You know, we saw a couple of really
Speaker 2: nice pitchers from Ole Miss, but we saw a couple
Speaker 2: I thought Kentucky for the handled a little better too.
Speaker 2: So it's just you know, you could say, when you're
Speaker 2: in a game and their one run game record, now
Speaker 2: it's not very good. If you could turn that around
Speaker 2: a little bit, I mean, they're gonna be right to
Speaker 2: hunt with these teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know when I mentioned in Georgia and the
Speaker 1: Auburn Series and A and M, and they gave up
Speaker 1: a lot of runs for different reasons. I thought the
Speaker 1: pitching against a good old miss team with a lot
Speaker 1: of pop, that was the first thing out of your
Speaker 1: mouth on the first game. How much power was in
Speaker 1: that lineup. I thought the pitching for Kentucky was just terrific.
Speaker 2: I thought it was outstanding, by far, the best we've
Speaker 2: seen all year long. Everybody that came in did their job,
Speaker 2: pitched well, was effective, and we've got some good arms
Speaker 2: on this ball club. They're probably has been untimely walked
Speaker 2: or owen two base hits that they give up. You
Speaker 2: fix some of these things and these guys start commanding
Speaker 2: the plate. Missus ole miss. I would love to know
Speaker 2: the statistic on how many first pitch strikes they threw,
Speaker 2: because they were a bun double. If you can do that,
Speaker 2: then it sets up all your other pitches. And I
Speaker 2: know that's what they practice at UK. But you've got
Speaker 2: a lot of different guys that they're throwing, got some
Speaker 2: younger guys throwing as well, But you hope the veterans
Speaker 2: will take charge of this pitching staff and the rest
Speaker 2: of the team will just kind of follow right in
Speaker 2: behind them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Talking to Doug Flynn of the SEC plus net work,
Speaker 1: he of course works alongside yours truly on the WILK
Speaker 1: at home games that you stream on your computer. And
Speaker 1: the Cat's coming off a really difficult weekend season dropping
Speaker 1: the series. We forget as well that Ole Miss picked
Speaker 1: to struggle this year, in fact, has been one of
Speaker 1: the pleasant surprises in the SEC. Ranked ninth in the
Speaker 1: country coming in this weekend again, power up and down
Speaker 1: the line. But you and I talked about this off
Speaker 1: the air more than on. Wouldn't be proper to say
Speaker 1: it on the air. I thought Kentucky was every bit
Speaker 1: as good for the most part as All Miss which
Speaker 1: is a ninth rank team in the country.
Speaker 2: And I know you did, yeah, absolutely, And Auburn came in,
Speaker 2: you know, which was supposed to be a little bit better.
Speaker 2: But I thought Kentucky was equally as good as Alburn was.
Speaker 2: It's just some of those teams have won those close ballgames.
Speaker 2: Kentucky has not as of yet, and they've got to
Speaker 2: beat those four games that were non conference games too,
Speaker 2: So you know, it's I don't know if it's a
Speaker 2: team that's still looking for an identity. It's not the
Speaker 2: same ball club as last year. Last year kind of
Speaker 2: spoiled everybody. They had nine guys that could run, do everything,
Speaker 2: a great baseball IQ still trying to find some identity
Speaker 2: with this ball club, because when you look at them
Speaker 2: compared to what we've seen so far, they match up
Speaker 2: very evenly with each of these teams we've already seen in.
Speaker 1: Terms of conference play. Now, look, they've lost a couple
Speaker 1: of non conference games that may come back and haunt them,
Speaker 1: but in terms of conference play, if they win one
Speaker 1: of those games they dropped against Ole Miss, I think
Speaker 1: they're right on schedule, especially given the fact, and I'm
Speaker 1: not making excuses, these are just facts that this is
Speaker 1: a team that from the Omaha team last year, lost
Speaker 1: seven or six basically of the eight position players. James
Speaker 1: McCoy started most games, and right they got Devin Burg's
Speaker 1: back behind the plate. Otherwise, all News starters entire weekend rotation,
Speaker 1: the guys who pitched in the SEC games as starters,
Speaker 1: plus their best stopper and the guy who led them
Speaker 1: in relief appearances. How many programs have had to deal
Speaker 1: with that answer is not many. And yet they're in
Speaker 1: there banging around in the SEC. You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they win won more of those games this
Speaker 2: past weekend, they're five hundreds to conference. Yeah, and right
Speaker 2: on target, because it's gonna be guys beating each other
Speaker 2: up all year long. We've already seen that over the
Speaker 2: first couple.
Speaker 1: Of weeks, that's right. And you've also got guys who
Speaker 1: are still trying to figure out how to compete in
Speaker 1: the SEC, Guys who have transferred in, Guys who are
Speaker 1: playing more regularly now than maybe they did at their
Speaker 1: last stop. But this is, you know, the conference right now,
Speaker 1: This is the league, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah? And there comes a point in time when you
Speaker 2: come over here, and I'm sure there's some doubts in
Speaker 2: some of the guys' minds. Well, you know, I've played
Speaker 2: at some smaller schools. We didn't see this kind of competition.
Speaker 2: But at some point in time you have to realize
Speaker 2: I belong here, I can contribute here. And we've seen
Speaker 2: I mean, we got guys that can hit home runs,
Speaker 2: guys that can hit for power. The defense, if you
Speaker 2: get rid of the hares about the picture of the
Speaker 2: defenses right on target build in nine to eighty something.
Speaker 2: So it's the ball club that can't compete, just looking
Speaker 2: for that one big hit that going to turn it around.
Speaker 1: Possibly, Yeah, FYI. What Doug's talking about is the fact
Speaker 1: that Kentucky's pitchers. Of the twenty five twenty six errors
Speaker 1: that the Wildcats have committed at least going into this weekend,
Speaker 1: seven or eight of them by pitchers throwing a ball.
Speaker 1: All kay. You know, they've got brand new middle infielders,
Speaker 1: and I know you like what you see in those guys,
Speaker 1: don't you?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you got you know, Luke Lawrence came
Speaker 2: over from up North and Tyler Bell's a young freshman
Speaker 2: at shortstop. They both are playing really, really well. They're
Speaker 2: great kids. They play hard. You could tell they got
Speaker 2: a pretty good baseball IQ. But they're going to continue
Speaker 2: to get better and better. That has not been a
Speaker 2: problem for this team this year. To me, It's been
Speaker 2: more some of the fundamental things like moving runners. You
Speaker 2: got a mantle second and nobody out trying to move
Speaker 2: that runner to score position, and then once you get
Speaker 2: him there. We just haven't had the guys that have
Speaker 2: been driving them in. Now. We were so close the
Speaker 2: other day the basis and Devin Burke hits the rocket
Speaker 2: court stop and always.
Speaker 1: Took his glove off ended the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was it right there. I mean, if
Speaker 2: his that ball goes through, uh, Kentucky wins. But Dad,
Speaker 2: it just about takes his glove off and uh, and
Speaker 2: then we had had two guys thrown out the plate
Speaker 2: on perfect throws. You know, right now, we've we've just
Speaker 2: seen other teams that, for whatever reason, playing against Kentucky,
Speaker 2: they have been uh, they played much better fundamentally and
Speaker 2: they've been doing things just a little bit better. I
Speaker 2: mean it's close because we've lost a lot of one
Speaker 2: run ball game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maddening. We'll talk more with Doug Flynn on the
Speaker 1: other side of the break here on six thirty w
Speaker 1: Al welcome back. We're talking with my broadcast partner on
Speaker 1: SEC Plus Doug Flynn, who of course won a Gold
Speaker 1: Glove in the Biggs played eleven years uh for a
Speaker 1: number of teams and part of the Big Red machine,
Speaker 1: but always a middle infielder. And we talked about the
Speaker 1: Kentucky middle infield prior to the break, and I know
Speaker 1: you had a chance, and we talked about this a
Speaker 1: little bit on the broadcast over the weekend. One of
Speaker 1: them that you had a chance to have a conversation
Speaker 1: with those guys. You're not allowed to coach them, but
Speaker 1: you guys talked baseball and you said they were receptive,
Speaker 1: and that had to make you feel good. You know
Speaker 1: a little bit about playing in field.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's a lot of things that I
Speaker 2: learned from other players, and most of it I didn't
Speaker 2: learn until like that's to the major leagues, and so
Speaker 2: I've just always felt that if possible, if it would
Speaker 2: help to just spread the knowledge around. These kids are
Speaker 2: so big and they're really talented, but there's just a
Speaker 2: few little things that you learn over the years that
Speaker 2: if you can, you know, relate that to them, it's
Speaker 2: going to help them a little bit. Yeah, and Nick's
Speaker 2: always been open for things like that, and these kids
Speaker 2: they're very receptive, you know, whether it be releasing the
Speaker 2: ball or turning it, turning a double play, maybe how
Speaker 2: to position a guy where to cover the bag. There's
Speaker 2: just a lot of little things you can do that
Speaker 2: will enhance your game an awful lot. Of course, you know,
Speaker 2: every game you get scouts here, so you see some
Speaker 2: guys that are pretty good. Well, the record speaks for itself.
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys have been drafted out this program.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. And you were telling me some of
Speaker 1: the things you shared with the middle infielders, and to me,
Speaker 1: it's fascinating because I mean, it's as much as you
Speaker 1: know one step or just where your body weight is,
Speaker 1: as you manipulate a throw coming in or leaving the
Speaker 1: base at second on a double play, things like that,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, but that's that could be the difference.
Speaker 2: It could look at me, plays that we see at
Speaker 2: first base that a bang bang, and they've got to
Speaker 2: be reviewed.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, if you can do some little things
Speaker 2: that would get that ball to first base just a
Speaker 2: little bit quicker, it's gonna eliminate those close plays. And yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know I had to be reminded to. I
Speaker 2: mean even nineteen eighty one, I remember coming playing a ballgame.
Speaker 2: Chuck Cottie or was my coach, and he said, can
Speaker 2: I tell you something. I went, Yeah, he said, you
Speaker 2: get a little lazy with your feet on you on
Speaker 2: your double plates. And I just had got so use
Speaker 2: to just going with my arm because my arm was
Speaker 2: pretty strong for second base. Yeah, and so I would
Speaker 2: just I wasn't moving my feet and I went, man, thanks,
Speaker 2: because you know you're getting sometimes you don't realize what
Speaker 2: you're doing. So I told those two guys, you got
Speaker 2: to feed off each other. You're got to help each other,
Speaker 2: watch each other. If you see something that the other
Speaker 2: one's doing, don't be afraid to go over there and
Speaker 2: talk to him about it, because you know, you guys
Speaker 2: are the heart of the infield. You control everything that
Speaker 2: goes on. I mean, you're calling plays, you're talking to
Speaker 2: the pictures, you're going telling the outfield, you're doing all
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. So you two be each other's best
Speaker 2: friend and watch each other and if you see something
Speaker 2: that you don't think, let's rite talk about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and for all the plaudas coming out of high school,
Speaker 1: Tyler Bell's a freshman, you know, and then yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he could have gone to pro ball, But had he
Speaker 1: done that, he would have been playing against guy who
Speaker 1: are probably similar to the level of competition he's facing
Speaker 1: right now in the SEC. So he's got a lot
Speaker 1: to learn. Lawrence has played a lot of infield, but
Speaker 1: didn't play much second base at Illinois State. And as
Speaker 1: you well know, because you played all over the infield,
Speaker 1: everything has its challenges.
Speaker 2: Yes they do. But if you can play short stop,
Speaker 2: you can play second. Yeah, not necessarily the other way around. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but when you play short that you know you've got
Speaker 2: a good enough arm to play second base, which makes
Speaker 2: your arm look really good. So I just yeah, And
Speaker 2: it's fun talking to them, and it's fun watching them. Guys.
Speaker 2: You know how excited I get sometimes in the booth.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I would get frustrated. Yesterday the winds so
Speaker 2: bad and I know we do SEC plus and and
Speaker 2: you're not talking a little bit. Are we supposed to
Speaker 2: be pro UK or not pro UK? Well, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm pro UK.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that, you know. And that kind of bubbled
Speaker 1: to the surface on SATURDA during the doubleheader, and then tonight,
Speaker 1: of course they played the Cardinals. Speaking of being pro UK,
Speaker 1: there will be Kentucky fans there whether they're permitting at
Speaker 1: the U of L game. And we talked before we
Speaker 1: went in the air. But last year's game when Ryan
Speaker 1: Nicholson got to go deep in his hometown. But last
Speaker 1: year's team, while it did have some new faces, like
Speaker 1: Ryan who had played it at UC the year before.
Speaker 1: It had guys like Grant Smith in his second year
Speaker 1: of the program, Amelian Petrie in his third year, guys
Speaker 1: Nolan McCarthy, a veteran, Ryan Walshman, guys who had played
Speaker 1: multiple years in the UK and know they knew all
Speaker 1: about the U of L rival And trust me, it's
Speaker 1: the same in baseball. Maybe ain't stronger than it is
Speaker 1: in football. I don't know about basketball, but and football
Speaker 1: they're banging into each other. I know basketball there's a
Speaker 1: lot of trash talk, but there sure is in baseball,
Speaker 1: and they'll hear it from the stands tonight. Those fans
Speaker 1: in that ballpark over U of L are right on
Speaker 1: top of them. So if they don't know already, they're
Speaker 1: gonna learn real quickly, aren't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they really are. And you're right about the the
Speaker 2: rivalry right there and baseball. If folks had not been
Speaker 2: to a college baseball game, they have to realize or
Speaker 2: maybe understand, there's more mouthing and yelling and screaming going
Speaker 2: on than probably any other sport, from dugout to dugouts.
Speaker 2: To have the umpires on the field to the fans,
Speaker 2: I mean that is a mouth he sports these days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. And in fact, during the Old
Speaker 1: Miss series, the played umpire won. I don't remember which
Speaker 1: game they all ran together. There were so many extra innings,
Speaker 1: but at one point when the play umpire had to
Speaker 1: walk over and tell each dugout to zip it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're yelling at him or each other.
Speaker 1: And then there was some bad blood right after the
Speaker 1: game where the Old Miss reliever who struck out the
Speaker 1: last Kentucky batter made some gestures toward the Kentucky dugout
Speaker 1: and the Wildcats came out of the dugout and Devin
Speaker 1: Burks wanted a piece of that guy, you know, the
Speaker 1: fifth year senior. So it What is it about baseball, Doug,
Speaker 1: where things can get chippy. You're not banging into each other,
Speaker 1: you're not tackling each other.
Speaker 2: Well, I think probably, you know, when you're banging into
Speaker 2: each other, you can settle it out there by just
Speaker 2: banging into each other. But when you can't throw inside
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff, and you kind of
Speaker 2: start your mouth and it's it's always been a little
Speaker 2: bit of mouthing. I think it's probably more so now
Speaker 2: because of the gyrations that guys go through after they
Speaker 2: get a basehead or a home run. Everybody's got every
Speaker 2: little sigma. Well, I love what Mickey Mantle says when
Speaker 2: they asked he met when he hit a home run
Speaker 2: while he just lowered his head and ran around the basis,
Speaker 2: he said, I've already embarrassed the picture enough. I don't
Speaker 2: need to do it while I'm running around the basins.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: And I think baseball it is classy, and I think
Speaker 2: we've lost a lot of that class in our game. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with the celebrations in the dugout, but as
Speaker 1: long as it's in the dugout. Although that rubbed a
Speaker 1: lot of teams the wrong way last year with Kentucky,
Speaker 1: to the point where coaches and players both many public comments.
Speaker 1: They were kind of shielded comments, but you knew what
Speaker 1: they were talking about. But before I let you go,
Speaker 1: one thing we saw, and it was in the middle
Speaker 1: of a tight game. Was in the middle of the
Speaker 1: third game, the Saturday game, the rubber match. Mike Bianco,
Speaker 1: who's is as cool a guy as there is when
Speaker 1: it comes to, you know, just chatting talking baseball with him.
Speaker 1: The old miss coach got himself thrown out of the
Speaker 1: game arguing balls and strikes. I can't remember, Doug, the
Speaker 1: last time we have seen that happen in a UK
Speaker 1: baseball game. Uh. And you know, reviews have taken a
Speaker 1: lot of the the the arguing out of the game.
Speaker 1: But he came out of that dugout looking to protect
Speaker 1: his picture. He knew he was gonna get run, didn't.
Speaker 2: He Absolutely he did. And and sometimes, uh, you gotta
Speaker 2: feel because he's a former player, right, and there's got
Speaker 2: to be a chance or a time that he wants
Speaker 2: to let off some steam. And Joe Torrey told me
Speaker 2: that once when he went from playing the manager and
Speaker 2: he said, you know, somebody got to start a five.
Speaker 2: I got to get out on the field and do something,
Speaker 2: because you can't let that out when you're in a manager.
Speaker 2: When you're a player, you can run it out, you
Speaker 2: can mount it out, you can have all kinds of
Speaker 2: ways to get rid of some of that pinched up
Speaker 2: pressure that's going on with you and some of that energy.
Speaker 2: When you're a manager today, with all the replays and stuff,
Speaker 2: it doesn't give them the opportunity to do that. So
Speaker 2: I'm saying he had in mind. I need a good
Speaker 2: little I got to get my blood going a little bit.
Speaker 2: So let's just we're in pretty good shape. We're tired.
Speaker 2: If maybe if I get out of here somebody I'll
Speaker 2: do something.
Speaker 1: Good well, and sadly for the Wildcats, that's the way
Speaker 1: it worked out, although as Doug mentioned, Kentucky had every opportunity,
Speaker 1: just couldn't quite push it across. But the Wildcats get
Speaker 1: another shot tonight against Ule l and then it's back
Speaker 1: on the road for Kentucky and every schedule is brutal. Actually,
Speaker 1: the Wildcats are home this year.
Speaker 2: We got them Friday night.
Speaker 1: With the Texas Longhorns, and then the SEC networks got
Speaker 1: him on Saturday and Sunday. So yeah, we'll be looking
Speaker 1: forward to calling it that one. For the first time.
Speaker 1: You and I have work games in Texas when we
Speaker 1: work minor league games, but this is the first time
Speaker 1: the Longhorns are coming coming to election and thank you, brother,
Speaker 1: and I see oh man, I am too. We'll see
Speaker 1: it at the ballpark, right Pardner. That's going to do
Speaker 1: it for now. Stay tuned now for Kentucky baseball, the
Speaker 1: Wildcats and the Louisville Cardinals. Darren Heddricks pre game is next.
Speaker 1: That said good night from the garage in Lexington.
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