WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.799 Chee Cheese could be making a comeback, and I can't 2 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:06.839 imagine if they do that, they're not going to be 3 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:10.119 back in Louisville. We had several locations here in Louisville. 4 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:14.199 At one point we had nine Applebee's. It's just strange. 5 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:18.559 Founded by a restaurant to yeah, what do you do, 6 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:24.519 I'm a restaurant, tough Marno McDermott and former Green Bay 7 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:26.600 Packers player Max McGee. 8 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.480 Oh that's right. 9 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.280 Nineteen seventy five, the first chee Cheese in it ballooned 10 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.679 to over two hundred restaurants nationwide. What was their downfall? 11 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.560 They sold it and then people you know how it is. 12 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.399 The people that started it have the passion for it, 13 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.799 they sell it and people start cutting people, you know, personnel, 14 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:52.240 cutting corners. So several ownership changes eventually led to the 15 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.240 Chang's closure in two thousand and four. Okay, so twenty 16 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:01.159 years ago. But the sun either Max mc kid or 17 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:04.959 Marno McDermott the restaurant to a restaurant I am a 18 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:08.560 I'm a restaurant and they both fight. 19 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:11.560 Uh. 20 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.040 Either one of these guys kids is saying we're bringing 21 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.680 it back. So I cannot wait because I'm for it. 22 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:21.200 I'm in, I'm in. And they had the big chee 23 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:26.239 cheese glasses, the big like uh looked like a chalice, doesn't. 24 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.840 Dwight still have a couple of cheese glasses behind his bar. 25 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.040 He bought them all. I broke one. 26 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:34.760 Yes, it was COVID and he was serving beer at 27 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:35.799 two in the afternoon. 28 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:42.040 David, you brought the beer, That's true. I didn't break anything, though. 29 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:43.159 I am. 30 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.120 I tend to do that, tend to break stuff. Yeah, 31 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:48.760 I take literally in a party till something gets broke. 32 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:54.359 All right, sad news, and then we'll go some more 33 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.640 happy news. Father of the toddler who accidentally shot herself 34 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.239 and killed herself released on house arrest. 35 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:02.280 Shocking. 36 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:08.039 He is a I'm not trying to persecute him because 37 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:09.520 he made a mistake. He was a felon with a 38 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.240 gun that made a huge mistake, and now his daughter's gone. 39 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:13.400 He needs to be in jail. 40 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:18.240 Felon, felons with guns seem to just get a pass. 41 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.800 Even if even if the last part didn't happen. He 42 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.919 should be in jail. You cannot have a gun. If 43 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:27.159 you do, you go to jail. 44 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:27.879 Yeah. 45 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.759 Now, if he was in jail, the daughter would still 46 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.800 be alive. Yeah, it's another discussion. You're like, dude, anybody 47 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:35.680 who lives around there, they have to have a gun. 48 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.479 That's another discussion. You're a felon with the gun. You 49 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:40.000 can't have it. If you get caught, you need to 50 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:42.719 go to jail. That's what the law says. And I 51 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.159 understand this man has lost his daughter and it's awful, 52 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:49.240 and he is from the quotes that I've read, he said, look, 53 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.840 it's my fault. I loaded it and put it under 54 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:57.360 the couch. So he's probably fighting that too, But still 55 00:02:57.599 --> 00:02:59.599 you gotta he's on a house arrest. 56 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:00.960 That's all they do in this town. 57 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.639 Why can't we go back see the judges. To me, 58 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:09.039 if a judge on their own, against sentencing recommendations, releases someone, 59 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:11.520 it's on them if they do something. Why can't we 60 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:14.120 get to the point where the judge has ten to 61 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:18.120 fifteen that's your window. If you want to give leniency, 62 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:21.240 you give ten years. You don't get to say, here's 63 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:25.560 your ankle bracelet. I was worried when I went to this. 64 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.560 Street crime event in Saint Matthew's where the Attorney General 65 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.120 and all the folks were there. It was the police 66 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:34.599 chief before she got fired or asked to leave what. 67 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:38.039 I can't even remember how it ended as to resign. 68 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:44.719 I think I brought up the Sayer Kentucky Act, and 69 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:47.560 they sort of looked off the whole, the whole their 70 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:49.400 eyes at you. They sort of kind of looked at 71 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:51.280 each other and they kind of looked at each other 72 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.000 and go, look, a lot of those laws are already 73 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:55.719 on the books, and it just doesn't work like that, 74 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:57.719 you know what I'm saying. Like she they said, yes, 75 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:00.599 those are that that's going to help us, But. 76 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.680 It's it's not until you enforce what you already have, 77 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:05.560 adding things to it isn't going to hell. 78 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:07.919 And the judge is going to drop the charge anyway. 79 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:08.360 I mean. 80 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.599 So that's my point. That shouldn't be allowed to happen. 81 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:14.360 That's right when someone is convicted. Yeah, there's a sentencing window. Yes, 82 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:17.920 leniency is the low end of the sentence, not freedom. No, 83 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.600 you don't get that. Why do we do a trial? 84 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:22.120 Why do we have sentence? 85 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:22.480 Hey? 86 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.319 Hey, butch just tell us what you want to do. 87 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.439 We don't need no stinking lawyers, right, just tell us 88 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:31.680 what you want to do. But judge Butch, it's a 89 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:36.040 sad story. Butch is busy. There's as it's a sad 90 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.600 story all the way around. This man has lost his 91 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:41.199 daughter and it's and he there's nothing good here. No 92 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.360 to his own to his own words, it's his fault. 93 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:47.560 That's that's what he said. I hope you can figure 94 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.360 it out, all right. So college football last night this. 95 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:56.639 I it's like, when are adults going to be in charge? Uh? 96 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.879 The committee says, so last night they'll though second to 97 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.199 last list came out, but here's what they said. Dave, 98 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.319 did you see this? The committee says, the teams that 99 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.759 are not in their championship games will not be moved 100 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:12.759 off their line. 101 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:18.079 Another reason not to have championship games. They're gonna keep 102 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:20.160 doing it because of the money. Of course, you could 103 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:22.879 lose your spot in the playoffs. So if you're okay, 104 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:25.480 let's go back to this. Remember back in the underdog's days, 105 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.879 we talked about seeding the NCAA basketball tournament and we said, 106 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:30.759 the first thing on their sheet that I've got right 107 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:33.199 here in my hand is make sure Duke is a 108 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:35.560 high seed and close to home, that is like, and 109 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.759 then fill the rest in yes, apparently with the playoff. 110 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.439 Alabama and Georgia are automatically in no matter what, doesn't 111 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.800 matter how many games you lose, how you play, right, Yeah, 112 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.399 that's apparently the case. So Indiana if they made the 113 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.839 championship game, which they have a good chance of losing, 114 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:53.800 then they'd be out. 115 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:54.240 Yeah. 116 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.480 Let me see where Ohio State was or is are 117 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:03.519 they sixth? That which is a joke? Okay, SMU is 118 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:07.399 at eight. South Carolina is at fourteen off the board, 119 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.560 a smooth would be seated third because they'll win the ACC. 120 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:15.480 This guy tweeting says, Ohio State losing to an awful 121 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.199 team for the second look for their second loss and 122 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:20.519 being sixth is criminal. 123 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:24.600 Alabama and Georgia haven't looked like Alabama and Georgia, but 124 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:28.000 they're automatically in. Ohio State's going to be automatically in 125 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:29.079 even with three losses. 126 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.439 Probably they need the brands. They have to have the brands, absolutely, 127 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:35.639 and the conference championships will never be given up. They're 128 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:37.959 gonna have to put them in with the with the 129 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.680 playoffs because how much money do you think that four 130 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.240 hour broadcast is worse to the conference? A lot of 131 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:49.720 them a lot of money. So they're not going to 132 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:52.480 get rid of that. But that was what they said 133 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.439 last night. The teams that aren't in their championship games 134 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.319 do not need to worry. You're not moving off your line. 135 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:01.120 I'm not saying that. 136 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.480 Alabama and Georgia aren't, you know, two of the top 137 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:04.639 fifteen teams in the country. 138 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:06.399 Of course they are. Of course they are. Yeah, they're 139 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:10.199 I mean they're. The problem with those teams now is 140 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:14.680 the transfer portal. They don't have three five stars. You know, 141 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.279 you know, the starting tight end goes down. Guess what, 142 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.879 you got another five star ready to go. This is 143 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.399 another sport where the regular season doesn't matter. It used 144 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.600 to be maybe if you lost the game really early 145 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.639 and he had a couple of quality opponents down the stretch, 146 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:29.639 you could play your way back into the BCS talk. 147 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:31.600 Now you can lose two or three games during the 148 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:34.240 regular season as long as you're the right brand and 149 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:37.759 you're still in. So the NBA regular season pretty much irrelevant. 150 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:38.800 Everybody gets in the playoffs. 151 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.519 NHL regular season irrelevant, College football regular season irrelevant, NFL 152 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:44.120 is getting there. 153 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:49.879 UFL basketball is turned into dating the hot bipolar lady. 154 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:53.639 They're good for a couple of games then awful injuries 155 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.480 have taken this team back a couple of steps. They 156 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:02.399 just got it handled last by an SEC team. Well, 157 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:05.000 they had three key pieces missing suddenly, and that they 158 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:05.800 didn't respond. 159 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:06.360 Well, get it. 160 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:09.120 Now they could play some defense. How many times did 161 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.160 that dude get to the rack? Just at will? 162 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.560 Just I mean in the shooting the three. It's going 163 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:14.560 to be feast or famine. 164 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.839 And by the way, this is the ACC SEC challenge. 165 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.360 I don't think the ACCS won a game. Yeah, I 166 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:22.959 think it's seven or eight. No again, I made I 167 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.240 made the SEC used to be a football conference. Now 168 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.920 it's kicking the a SECS button basketball too. I made 169 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:30.480 the Snyder remark, he's an SEC team. But what Here's 170 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:35.399 what happened. I can be uh snidy snide snidely snidely 171 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:41.320 snidely Perkins the third in the restaurant too, and both 172 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.840 SEC made a commitment. Because their TV football contract is 173 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:49.399 so insane, they can throw money around to the basketball programs. 174 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.919 So they went out and hired the best coaches in 175 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.960 the country and said, man, make our make our basketball 176 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.240 team good. I'm tired of lo the Kentucky uh. And 177 00:08:58.279 --> 00:08:59.000 that's what they did. 178 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:02.120 They hired great coaches and now top to bottom SEC 179 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:07.000 is pretty damn good in basketball. So I don't know. 180 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:10.759 Kentucky lost. Also, that makes me feel a little better. Oh, okay, 181 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.080 so the ACC did win a game. I forgot about 182 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.080 that one. I didn't see the final. Oh Clemson, Yeah 183 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.679 they Clemson beat them, Yeah, by a couple. They got 184 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:18.399 out physical. 185 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:21.919 But both teams are relying on the. 186 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:26.960 Three that will either you get on a hot streak 187 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:28.720 and you go all the way to the final four 188 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.799 and then peter out in the final four, or you're 189 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:34.919 out in the first round because you're just they're not falling. 190 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.120 In Louisville's first oh for eleven beyond the arc, they 191 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:38.720 were ugly. 192 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:40.679 By the way, this team is not getting in the 193 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:46.159 NCAL Bay Tournament again. It was a regular year, every 194 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:49.360 year in and out, annual event to go to the tournament. 195 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.240 And I can't even tell you the last time Louisville 196 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:53.360 was in the tournament. 197 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:55.799 I think the shorts were short. 198 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:56.120 No. 199 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.240 MAC went to the tournament and lost to Ricky Little 200 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:02.639 Ricky's Little Ricky, not Big Ricky in Minnesota. I think 201 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:11.399 that was the last NCAA game. Okay, too soon to 202 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:12.200 write them off. 203 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:15.759 Five two in al what's up? 204 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:20.320 Sixty seven vehicles seized from street racing. 205 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.200 Now that number hasn't gone up a bunch. No, so 206 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:27.840 they're listening. Apparently Apparently losing your wheels ain't a good thing. 207 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.240 Yeah, because they're using these flock cameras and everything else 208 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:32.679 to get your license. 209 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:34.799 And stop with us talk of squishing the cars. The 210 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:37.639 bank owns most of these. If you want to pay 211 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.559 for the car, then you can squish it. Yeah, and 212 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:44.080 I don't want taxpayer dollars paying fifty five thousand dollars 213 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:45.840 for a pickup truck, so you can squish it. 214 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.000 Sixty seven cars are in impoundment and they're saying, look, 215 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:52.919 that's they're not going to get out anytime soon. These 216 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:54.960 people have to pay these fines and they're like, I 217 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:56.919 ain't paying that, and they have to make car payments. 218 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.279 Johnny for the news, It looks like you have breaking news. 219 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:04.440 Hang on, Oh yeah, joke, just. 220 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:05.159 Getting here early. 221 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.720 You guys were talking about Louisville basketball a minute ago 222 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.480 and some of their atrocious shooting last night interesting status. 223 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:15.200 ESPN threw up a stat that they are number seven 224 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.000 in the nation and three pointers attempted during a game 225 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.679 among D one schools, but they are number three hundred 226 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:25.080 and seventeen in D one schools among three pointers being 227 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:30.080 actually made when the teams are there three hundred and 228 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:31.799 thirty something D one level teams. 229 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.360 I believe now Nick Cannon has way better riddes than that. 230 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.960 Somebody mentioned yesterday that the shooting percentages for some of 231 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.799 these kids have gone down, not up. So where is 232 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.919 that coaching or not? I think it's some discipline and 233 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:49.759 I'm old school. 234 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.840 I believe three touches before you shoot the before you 235 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:53.440 shoot the ball. 236 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:54.720 I gotta be honest. I was. 237 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.960 There was a time that I hated Rick Patino because 238 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:02.080 he would do things in press conference, is like, look 239 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.720 at a somebody would ask a question about defense, and 240 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:06.159 he would look at him, go, you don't have the 241 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:09.639 basketball acumen to even possibly understand what I'm doing. 242 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:13.120 And you and at the time you're just like what 243 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.480 a prick? Like what's your what's your deal? Right now? 244 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:21.039 I'm I'm I'm wishing for the complicated defense of Ricketino 245 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:24.720 to where we possibly couldn't understand, which in turn we 246 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:27.399 probably couldn't. I mean, it's five guys on a court, 247 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.000 but but did see, I can't stand when people do that. 248 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:32.559 I could PLoP Rick Patino in my chair right now 249 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:36.039 and say go do this for six hours today and 250 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:40.519 he couldn't. But he's intellectually capable of doing it if 251 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.240 he's trained, right, So don't don't tell me I can't 252 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.240 possibly do what you do, right, I didn't train to 253 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:51.399 do that. Yeah, but he he will not be a 254 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:56.600 success again because you know he plays chess, not checkers. Right, 255 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:59.080 he has to set the table to be perfect and 256 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:00.840 then he goes whin's the tampion, chipper goes to the 257 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:01.399 final four. 258 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:04.840 But he's not gonna be able to do that. Nil 259 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:07.759 and transfer portal rules. He can't get kids in and 260 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:10.759 have them for three years. No, he won't happen. 261 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:13.519 Anymore, not playing freshman year while a senior that sucks 262 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.000 is playing and sitting there and pouting. Andrea McGee, but 263 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.159 I got to tell you there are times when they 264 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.360 went from Manda man and flipped into his own or 265 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.720 back to it in one possession. And you're thinking, those 266 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:26.279 kids who have just been again, he drilled it into 267 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.120 their heads and they were miserable at practice. Right, But 268 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:32.399 that's and the kids knew it, and that only happens 269 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.519 with two or three years together, right, not instantly with 270 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:36.320 the portal too. 271 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:37.200 Bingo. 272 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.840 You can't run that defense with a new team, a 273 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:42.480 new set of guys on the floor. 274 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:44.840 He has a new backup quarterback coming in essentially, and 275 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.360 they're dumbing down the playbook. So what they can pick 276 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.159 up quickly, yes, and as the season goes at as 277 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.639 much as you possibly can, but you'll never get to 278 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:53.440 where you want to be, and. 279 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:55.440 You're going to see more and more teams just basically 280 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.679 play in street ball. It's just five individuals out there 281 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:59.960 like you'd see on a playground, and not any kind 282 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.200 of organized Okay, we're gonna run a half court trap 283 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.559 as they come back down, or you know, full court press. 284 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.360 It's just gonna be one on one, dribbled down, try 285 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:08.000 to shoot a three. 286 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:09.759 If not going to keep and keep in mind these 287 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:12.840 players that they're in contract years all the time. Some 288 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.679 guy gets this chance, some guy gets his chance, he 289 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:18.080 averages eighteen points a game out of nowhere. Then he's 290 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:22.639 like high, that's so true, so much. If I'm mak him, 291 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.360 I'm getting paid. That's why show me the money. Kid 292 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:29.080 is in a contract year. That's true. It's true for 293 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:30.320 football and basketball. 294 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:34.960 Nils turned it into that. It's crazy. Greg Ellian, how 295 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:35.279 are you? 296 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.159 I'm good, Tony, are you staying warm? 297 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:40.519 How funny you ask? 298 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.960 I know, I'm just I'm so sorry. 299 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.200 Yeah, it's okay, a rough sleep night last night. Just 300 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:50.159 pop an extra adderoll and we're good. 301 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:51.279 Okay. 302 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:56.879 So this is exciting stuff and you all are part 303 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:58.919 of it. This isn't somebody else coming in and do it. 304 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:00.399 You guys are kind of doing this. First of all, 305 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.559 explain to everybody what's happening to those parking lots or 306 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.159 what could happen to those parking lots next to Slugger Field. 307 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:12.600 Well, those parking lots are proposed to have a over 308 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:16.480 two hundred and fifty dollars million dollar development project built 309 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:17.799 on it that's. 310 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:18.840 Going to feature. 311 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:26.759 Residential office space, a boutique hotel, restaurants, retail And the 312 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.039 question I continually have gotten asked in the last twenty 313 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:32.440 four hours, what about parking? Well, actually, the designs I've 314 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.120 seen so far, and it's still really early in the 315 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:39.000 stages of this whole project called for at least two 316 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.000 parking garages that would actually provide more parking spaces than 317 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:46.639 that surface lot that's currently there, so that has obviously 318 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:52.240 been addressed. But as you said so eloquently, I kind 319 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:54.440 of feel that energy again that I felt twenty five 320 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.519 years ago when we were getting ready to open the 321 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.440 doors to Slugger Field about what we were bringing as 322 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:04.159 far as being a catalyst to downtown and future energy 323 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:06.120 and excitement, and it just kind of feels a little 324 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:09.279 bit that same way against a deja vu feeling as 325 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:14.720 this project. Yeah, hopefully it'll it'll get occur and take place, 326 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:15.919 which I think it will. 327 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:19.559 Now when they we create that hub or create that 328 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:24.960 bridge between Nulu and the waterfront and just become the 329 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:28.080 dynamic hub of really downtown again like it was in 330 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:28.960 two thousand. 331 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:31.120 Now when they built the soccer stadium. All of these 332 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.120 things were going to happen, It was going to connect, 333 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:36.080 and none of it happened. Why is this different, do 334 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:36.600 you think? 335 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:38.480 Well? 336 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:42.120 I mean our ownership group, Diamond Baseball Holdings that owns 337 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:50.759 the bats among other as you follow baseball, so and 338 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.840 you could possibly if things go well as far as 339 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:57.320 getting all the texts you know, crossed off and getting 340 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:01.720 everything approved, induction could start as early and I would 341 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.200 assume it would take probably eighteen to twenty four months 342 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.359 once the first shovel goes in the ground to have 343 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:12.319 project completed. But the excitement that it would create in downtown. 344 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.400 As you obviously know, downtown's been struggling to come back 345 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:18.880 since the pandemic, and I think it needs a push 346 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:21.680 like this, and our ownership group is willing to be 347 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.160 the catalyst to make that push happen. 348 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:26.119 So it's just it's. 349 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.319 Here's why it's gonna work. Because it's just east enough. 350 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:32.640 Remember we used to say that the farthest people would 351 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:37.400 go downtown is Stevie Ray's Blues Bar before Sluggerfield because 352 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.400 it was it felt like the still the Highlands, right, 353 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.319 So it's like, well it's not downtown, it's it's still 354 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.720 east Enough. So that's why I think it's going to work. 355 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:50.960 And I think we obviously we need more housing. It's ridiculous. 356 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:55.000 And then across the street, so you're going to do 357 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:57.400 that project, which is I'm telling you, I'm so excited 358 00:17:57.440 --> 00:17:59.960 about it. You can hear my voice across the street. 359 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:05.279 Angels Envy is going to take their parking lot and 360 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:08.039 they're going to double the size of their distillery. 361 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:10.759 Correct, I mean it is. 362 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:13.319 So if you guys are familiar, our listeners might be 363 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:16.920 familiar with the Battery, which is the entertainment district in 364 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.119 Atlanta right outside the Braves Ballpark, right, But this has 365 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:23.279 the same look and feel as the Battery in Atlanta, 366 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.440 and what it's done for that property is amazing. It's 367 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:31.400 just it's like, besides Braves Baseball is just so many 368 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:33.279 other things to do when you go down there. It 369 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.880 doesn't have to be baseball season. And that's the cool 370 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.400 thing about this project. It doesn't have to be spring 371 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:41.200 or summer when the bats are playing. It could be 372 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:42.799 the fall or winter, and there could be some really 373 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:45.559 fun and entertaining things that could be taking place around 374 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:48.400 that entire area. So again, it's going to create that 375 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:52.119 natural bridge from market from what's going on in New 376 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:53.799 lou Over to the waterfront. 377 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.960 And again you know Zanana Boluoville. 378 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:58.759 And I'm really excited and I can't wait to see 379 00:18:58.759 --> 00:18:59.920 this all start to take place. 380 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.799 Got a text from Bernard, the head Elf, and he 381 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.720 tells me that, let me see, Santa is going to 382 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:09.839 be at Sluggerfield. 383 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.039 Is that right, the real Santa? 384 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:13.000 Yeah? 385 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:17.559 And actually that's a great segue. Is We've got Breakfast 386 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.680 with Santa coming up this Saturday morning, and we've already 387 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.920 sold out one of the sessions, which is the ten 388 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.960 thirty to news session. We only have forty tickets level 389 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:31.039 for at the eight thirty to ten am session. It's 390 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:33.599 so cool because one our friends, it out Back, will 391 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.000 be catering this, so you'll get a delicious breakfast of pancakes, 392 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:42.440 scrambled eggs, bacon provided by obviously the great Steps at 393 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:45.119 out Back. But also it's going to take place in 394 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:47.960 our locker rooms. Otherwise none of our clubhouses, so you 395 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:50.319 get a unique opportunity for your family to go down 396 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:53.880 and experience Breakfast with Santa in such a unique space 397 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.519 as our locker rooms. So we'll have decorating of both 398 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:01.200 kick cookies and ornamous. Our team store will be open 399 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:05.279 for those interesting and special people on your Christmas list 400 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.880 that are baseball fans, you can do some Christmas shopping. 401 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:10.359