Speaker 1: Welcome back to EVE Sports Radio. June the third, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. It's a beautiful day and it is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: another god given day.
Speaker 2: Make sure you use it to the best of your ability.
Speaker 2: That's all that I can say.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. Of course, this is EVE
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Speaker 1: seventy nine hundred Sports Talk seven ninety KRD. We've got Shannon,
Speaker 1: best producer in the country behind the glass. We've got
Speaker 1: my younger son, Anthony. E's on the other line. Anthony,
Speaker 1: how are you.
Speaker 3: No, I'm uping at it this morning.
Speaker 2: How are you hey?
Speaker 1: I'm up and downtown and added Anthony. It is next
Speaker 1: week will be US Open Golf Week at oak Mind.
Speaker 1: This week is Simmons College of Kentucky's week. Before Anthony,
Speaker 1: I got people coming in to play practice rounds on
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday. People are trying to get ready to
Speaker 1: win the Simmons College eleventh Annual Golf Outing at Bicksbury
Speaker 1: Country Club.
Speaker 2: I'm just preparing. I'm with the greens keeper.
Speaker 1: I'm making sure that the grounds are taken care of,
Speaker 1: the golf pro making sure the shop's ready for all
Speaker 1: the people that are going to be coming in so Anthony,
Speaker 1: it is, without a doubt a busy week. I'm dropping
Speaker 1: off bags. I've got to take David Stanley his bag.
Speaker 1: Teammate of mine at Ballard Martin dunbar his bag well,
Speaker 1: and I can't say that I lived off his dresser.
Speaker 1: He used to work parties. He would bar tend parties
Speaker 1: when we were in college, and he would drink as
Speaker 1: much of the alcohol as he served, so he'd come
Speaker 1: back a little tipsy, Anthony, and he'd put that money
Speaker 1: on that he had gotten from all the tips on
Speaker 1: the dresser.
Speaker 2: And then I used to tip.
Speaker 1: Him as I took it and went to master since
Speaker 1: an eight anthy and that's a true rob, that boy
Speaker 1: every weekend. But anyway, I've got his bag to drop off.
Speaker 1: So we're just getting things done. Banners made for Norton
Speaker 1: health Care. We're just doing things. Just the last little
Speaker 1: touches we're putting.
Speaker 2: On the golf outing. So we're just getting ready, that's all.
Speaker 2: So it's good.
Speaker 1: And I've been here early yesterday and today, and it'll
Speaker 1: be an early week. It's like Derby week for us.
Speaker 1: All week. We've got people coming in to pick up
Speaker 1: their bags. And it's just exciting time, guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have teams that pay two thousand dollars to play
Speaker 1: my golf outing. Eleven years ago, we were at four
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a team, one hundred dollars a player. We're
Speaker 1: at two thousand dollars a team, five hundred dollars a player.
Speaker 1: And the same people that helped me eleven years ago
Speaker 1: are the same companies that are helping me today.
Speaker 2: I do think tomorrow I will give you.
Speaker 1: All the rundown of all the companies that have sponsored
Speaker 1: me for forever. Of course, you know Junior Bridgeman, Billy Harmon, Farmer, Cardinals,
Speaker 1: Harmon's construction. Most people don't know Billy Harmon like they
Speaker 1: do Junior Bridgeman. But I'll speak about Billy Moore tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So anything, that's all that I'm doing here. I'm downtown
Speaker 1: and just getting ready.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: So what we have on the dock at Anthony, I mean, well,
Speaker 1: hold up, hold up, Anthony, wait a minute, I gotta
Speaker 1: slow down. Yesterday I went to go and see my
Speaker 1: one and only, the one and only. He is a tank,
Speaker 1: mister Kybby Harrison. I wouldn't sell Cobby yesterday and spent
Speaker 1: some time with Kybby and we had great conversation. Kyby
Speaker 1: is struggling, you all. He's got a few issues hard around,
Speaker 1: he's got fluid around the lungs. He's got issues with
Speaker 1: his kidneys.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Cobby's got some issues. He's a tough man, though. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you that, and I want you all to
Speaker 1: pray for it without a doubt, always uplifting. I called
Speaker 1: Coach Beard when I was in the room and we
Speaker 1: all just chuckled and had a ball. I mean, we
Speaker 1: had a legitimate ball, talked about the old days, all
Speaker 1: the things we had done wrong. If you all can
Speaker 1: only hear the real stories, Anthony, people would pay if
Speaker 1: I could get Butcher and Cobby and myself to tell
Speaker 1: you all the stories we tell each other that we did.
Speaker 1: Y' all know about when I used to take the
Speaker 1: sodas out of the soda machine at Ballad. That is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent the truth, Anthony. I told Pat Crawford
Speaker 1: to just paddle me as hard and as long as
Speaker 1: he wanted to. Just don't call Frank Eaves, period point blank.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were all bad, Anthony. I've told you
Speaker 1: that I mean, but if you all could have heard
Speaker 1: some of the stories that copy and butch oh, gosh,
Speaker 1: you all you would die. But I saw him so
Speaker 1: spending a lot of quality time, had a good time,
Speaker 1: and he will not be able to make my golf out.
Speaker 2: Not that he's so sick that he's about to do.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that. No.
Speaker 1: Copy's fine, but he's just struggling with a few things
Speaker 1: that they've got to get straight.
Speaker 2: So he's just.
Speaker 1: Going through that everybody knows about. And he lost his leg.
Speaker 1: They could not get it to heel, So we understand
Speaker 1: that piece. But he's fine with that. He's way over
Speaker 1: that that he's not even worried about that anymore.
Speaker 2: So he just got to work through a few issues.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to make sure that everybody knew that
Speaker 1: I took peck should a covey and we had a
Speaker 1: great time. So you know, anyway, we're both looking for
Speaker 1: Lee Wagner. We're gonna take him out. If you see
Speaker 1: Lee Wagner telling him that kyby Harerison that Jerry's are
Speaker 1: looking for you, Lee knows Leno's lisays, we're always looking.
Speaker 2: For him, and we are the owner of Wagner's restaurant.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's what I had to get off my
Speaker 1: chest before we got started. So what do you got
Speaker 1: news wise, Anthony? What do you have going on? Sports wise?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a couple of things going on obviously,
Speaker 3: I know, getting big and deep into the baseball setment
Speaker 3: obviously even for the NCAA Men's Basket in NCAA Men's Baseball,
Speaker 3: and then also our high school obviously you know, our
Speaker 3: UK Healthcare is presented the twenty twenty five Clark's Popping
Speaker 3: Shop Baseball State Tournament. Obviously, we do got a couple
Speaker 3: of local teams in there. We got Trinity. They'll be
Speaker 3: facing off on their first round June fifth, that'll be
Speaker 3: playing Mead County. Trindy did finish off a season the
Speaker 3: number two seeds, that a thirty four and three record.
Speaker 3: Phenomenal season.
Speaker 2: That Trinity. They're pretty good. They're the dark side. Everyone
Speaker 2: knows they're the dark side.
Speaker 1: I'm not changing, but Rick Arnold has done a great
Speaker 1: job with that team. He's the head coach at Trinity,
Speaker 1: and I mean, congratulations to the young people. They put
Speaker 1: in a lot of time, just like you did it
Speaker 1: Ballard and I did it Ballard.
Speaker 2: I mean, it means a lot high school sports, Anthony.
Speaker 1: I tell people, if you ask me to remember a game,
Speaker 1: I remember the championship game of UCLA, of course, But
Speaker 1: if you ask me the games, I remember Ballard High School,
Speaker 1: Male High School, Bobby Turner, Daryl Griffith, Anderson we call
Speaker 1: him Red, but Michael Anderson, I mean Mac. I was
Speaker 1: scared of Mac. I just I know the team, Tyrone,
Speaker 1: I know them. I'll never forget them, Anthony. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget that game at Fern Creek High School. We upset
Speaker 1: them my sophomore season to go to the state I mean,
Speaker 1: they were the best team in the country ever.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget the game and l T and Daryl Griffith.
Speaker 1: Jeff lampshot an eighteen foot bank shot, Anthony, not jump shot.
Speaker 1: He was trying to use the backboard. Daryl Griffith caught
Speaker 1: the ball and floated out of bounds with it. I'm
Speaker 1: not exaggerating, it's this fact ant.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget those things, like who are we playing against?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Jesus my goodness, Anthony. I'll just never forget the high
Speaker 1: school days. Those are the best days. Being frightened to
Speaker 1: go to practice, Anthony because I knew Richard Schmidt and
Speaker 1: Donna Sara were going to run the dog stout out
Speaker 1: of us.
Speaker 2: Anthony.
Speaker 1: I used to be frightened as a young seventh, eighth,
Speaker 1: and ninth grader to get in shape, to be in
Speaker 1: real condition by the tenth and eleventh and Rodney McCrae
Speaker 1: will be back on with us right now. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you I never lost the sprint at Louisville. Let me
Speaker 1: say that again. I wasn't the best player, not even close,
Speaker 1: but I never lost the sprint. And Wiley Brown was
Speaker 1: second every time. No one ever beat him. That's Tony Branch,
Speaker 1: It's all Roger Bergman, that's Griff Anthony. The thing I
Speaker 1: learned at Ballad when I went to Louisville, it just
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna happen. I wasn't gonna lose, not a sprint,
Speaker 1: and didn't even though Wiley Brown used to run while
Speaker 1: he'd be right behind me. You know, I'm on I
Speaker 1: can't tell you all what Wiley would say, few choice words,
Speaker 1: but I'm on your you know what he is. I said,
Speaker 1: I got you, and that used to back pedal at
Speaker 1: Ballad High School when we were run our eights and
Speaker 1: the people don't know. And eight is eight linths of
Speaker 1: the basketball floor. Down is one back is two down
Speaker 1: his three. It's four trips total, Anthony. Now is how
Speaker 1: I used to try to lower the time I'd.
Speaker 2: Back pedal half the way.
Speaker 1: Just being honest with you, That's how far I had
Speaker 1: gone mentally from the seventh and eighth grade when I
Speaker 1: was frightened of the end of practice, to my tenth, eleventh,
Speaker 1: and twelfth grade to where conditioning was nothing but a
Speaker 1: frame of mind. That's why high school sports is the best.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you all, that's when the growth truly happened.
Speaker 2: So wait, Trinity, congratulations for Cardinal. What about PRP.
Speaker 1: We can't leave out PRP, Pleasure Rich Park, Anthony. They
Speaker 1: got a heritage in high school baseball. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: what's going on with PRP.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, they're down there. They're gonna be in our
Speaker 3: bottom half of that bracket down there. It'll be the
Speaker 3: very bottom sitting at the number thirteen. Team finished off
Speaker 3: in the stable to twenty six and six record. They'll
Speaker 3: be playing their first game on June sixth at five
Speaker 3: pm and they'll be playing Corgan, who finished off twenty
Speaker 3: and seventeen on the season, so I'd say a fairly
Speaker 3: easy matchup. I think they have. Honestly, they have one
Speaker 3: of the easiest matchups in the first round when it
Speaker 3: comes to rankings and standings.
Speaker 2: So's if that means anything.
Speaker 1: And after college baseball, we know rankings and stanteeds don't matter.
Speaker 3: Rankings doesn't mean anything good on paper unless you go
Speaker 3: out there and lose, and it doesn't matter at all.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, Anthony, we've got University of Texas San Antonio
Speaker 1: won the Austin Region.
Speaker 2: Let me say this to you all again.
Speaker 1: People have probably never heard of University of Texas, San Antonio.
Speaker 2: I know they've never been I just know that I have, Anthony.
Speaker 1: But I've been in the college business all my life, Anthony,
Speaker 1: they won the Austin Region.
Speaker 2: They just let you know that Texas went home your school. Crazy.
Speaker 2: What happened this year in college athletics? Crazy?
Speaker 1: But yes, congratulations Brad Burns, great coach at PRP. I
Speaker 1: love what they do at Pleasure Ridge Park. We had
Speaker 1: a Simmons College High school game day there. They support Anthony.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, what day did you say that was?
Speaker 2: Again? That's going to be five pm on June sixth, Friday.
Speaker 1: I guarantee the place was PRP follows Anthony. The place
Speaker 1: will be packed. They will pack it out. That's the
Speaker 1: thing I love about Pleasure Ridge Park. They support their kids.
Speaker 1: PRP will pack it out. So we've got a lot
Speaker 1: going on. I'll be watching it could be a Trinity
Speaker 1: Pleasure Ridge Park final. Let's I'm pulling for that. I
Speaker 1: just like to see the city Louisville dominate. I know
Speaker 1: I'm prejudiced, so what call my lawyer, But I'd love
Speaker 1: to see that matchup Anthey of those two teams, but
Speaker 1: Johnson Central Spencer County, good matchup Anthony or Kraken County
Speaker 1: against Lyon decent South Warren against Highlands.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Anything about their baseball programs, but congratulations to those teams.
Speaker 1: And Taylor County Sars. They're Harrison County Wolford. So congratulations
Speaker 1: to all the teams that have gotten into the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Kentucky High School Baseball Sweet sixteen Anthony.
Speaker 2: Same way for basketball, Anthony.
Speaker 1: Those kids and the parents and their friends are excited
Speaker 1: about these games. So we've got seven to seventeen but
Speaker 1: can you believe we're gonna get to break that? We've
Speaker 1: got the Super Regional here in Louisville. Everybody knows that
Speaker 1: I'm a straight shooter. I am Anthony. When I think
Speaker 1: there's an issue, I call it out. I spoke about
Speaker 1: coach McDonald two weeks ago talking about name its and
Speaker 1: likeness not having enough. But I have to give his
Speaker 1: team credit. They went to Vanderbilt and beat Vanderbilt, No.
Speaker 2: One team in the country. They did it. I can't
Speaker 2: believe again.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's the luck of the gods. Things
Speaker 1: fall proper. I thought, I said, okay, they got Bandy,
Speaker 1: Louisville knew that they were gonna have to beat Bandy
Speaker 1: twice to get out of there. And then here comes
Speaker 1: Right State, Anthony and pops Vanderbilt.
Speaker 2: I mean anything is going.
Speaker 1: Everything that can happen in college athletics baseball wise, has
Speaker 1: been happening.
Speaker 2: So I mean a perfect storm for Louisville.
Speaker 1: Louisville plays Right State again, takes care of business, and
Speaker 1: now they're hosting the Super Regional.
Speaker 2: Anthony.
Speaker 1: Southern Mississippi is another perennial great baseball team play in Miami.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows at Southern Miss. So the miss is coming out. Nope,
Speaker 1: Miami defeats of Anthony five to four, which means Louisville
Speaker 1: host Miami now in the Super Regional, which three game
Speaker 1: series Anthony June sixth through ninth. Guys, this weekend, there'll
Speaker 1: be a lot going on at Jim Patterson Stadium, a
Speaker 1: lot going on. So congratulations to McDonald and the players
Speaker 1: who worked very hard this year.
Speaker 2: They were really strung.
Speaker 1: Anthony Bellaman defeated Louisville at the end of the year Bellaman,
Speaker 1: so the players have turned it around. You got to
Speaker 1: give the coaching sta have credit. Congratulations to Louisville and
Speaker 1: they'll be hosting a Super Regional. So we'll talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more about baseball when we come back out
Speaker 1: of the breakout. We're already at seven nineteen almost seven
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you in a minute. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: Eves Sports Radio seven twenty three Anthony.
Speaker 1: Before I throw it to you and we get back
Speaker 1: to college baseball, I want to I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure I confirmed this. I got this yesterday, but I
Speaker 1: was waiting for one of my producers. Yes, I got
Speaker 1: producers guys to confirm this for me. But I've got
Speaker 1: really sad news. A gentleman I've known for a long time,
Speaker 1: but Travis Ford's dad, Eddie Ford, passed away over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Guys at eighty one, Anthony, you don't even know it,
Speaker 1: but when you played here your senior year in Louisville
Speaker 1: during the summer, it was the eighty Ford Event. He
Speaker 1: had a sanctioned NCAA basketball summer event that he held
Speaker 1: for years, Anthony. All my years at Louisville and North
Speaker 1: Carolina A and T, I would come and watch the
Speaker 1: players come to his tournament like you did to play.
Speaker 1: And honestly, when I was at A and T, he
Speaker 1: knew I was on a small budget. Eddie used to
Speaker 1: give us the package, which was like two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars at the time, guys, a's seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Any like I told you, AE was about money up.
Speaker 1: I would call Eddie before I got there. Eddie would
Speaker 1: wave me in and hand me a packet. I never
Speaker 1: had to purchase one. He was a really, really good guy.
Speaker 1: Butch Beard the same way, he knew our budgets, but
Speaker 1: he wanted us to do well. He never made us
Speaker 1: purchase the packet to get into his event. And the
Speaker 1: packet would have all the names, the addresses of all
Speaker 1: the players, Anthony, all the contact information, all the things
Speaker 1: that you need. Ed would give it to us every
Speaker 1: year for free. So huge loss, guys, I mean, really
Speaker 1: good for young people. And of course you all know
Speaker 1: about Travis and what Travis has done in the basketball business.
Speaker 1: It's turned out to be a tremendous coach and a
Speaker 1: really good friend of mine. So I just wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that we put that out you. Big loss
Speaker 1: for Big Blue wild Cat Nation, no question again. Let's
Speaker 1: send a prayer to the family and just no life
Speaker 1: well lived. You talk about touch thousands of lives, I
Speaker 1: mean that I've touched hundreds of lives, Anthony. Eddie's touched
Speaker 1: thousands of lives through his tournament. People knowing who he is, parents,
Speaker 1: everyone talking to him, wanting them to help him, help
Speaker 1: them get contacts with college coaches, which he could do.
Speaker 1: Caught me numerous times on players Eddie Ford called me
Speaker 1: on a young man, Anthony. You remember he named Demetrius
Speaker 1: Guams went to school here in Louisville while he signed
Speaker 1: and ant was a really good player, ended up transferring
Speaker 1: to Georgetown and had a tremendous career. But Eddie caught
Speaker 1: me on him, so big loss. Big loss. Just wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure we got that out. Now, what's going on, Anthony,
Speaker 1: Let's go through the super regional. Let everybody know what's
Speaker 1: transpiring in college baseball before we get into some basketball
Speaker 1: and some other familiar things.
Speaker 2: Golf.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk about golf. What's going on
Speaker 1: in the superregionals? Give us who advanced?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously we do have all the teams that
Speaker 3: advanced one out of their regions. We had a lot
Speaker 3: of upsets. First year in a long time were I
Speaker 3: think six of the twelve favorite teams that were SUPERB
Speaker 3: favorites lost. Obviously, you know, Vanderbrooks one, Texas is another.
Speaker 2: Ole.
Speaker 3: Miss got bounced out last night. Southern Miss lost in
Speaker 3: Miami last night. There's numerous teams out there. So baseball
Speaker 3: this year has been way more of a toss up
Speaker 3: than anything, even even on the women's softball side. You
Speaker 3: know they're they're in their championship. Texas Tech is taken
Speaker 3: on Oklahoma, which I did. Remember I talked about there's
Speaker 3: a there's a young lady, and I wish I would
Speaker 3: have pulled her name up. But she is the starting
Speaker 3: pitcher for Texas Tech. She transferred from Stanford. Best woman
Speaker 3: softball pitcher probably in softball history. I'm gonna be completely honest.
Speaker 3: She's got right now. She's at Texas Tech right now,
Speaker 3: currently on a like a one point two million dollar
Speaker 3: n ILD for softball, which is absurd by far. Oh, Jeff.
Speaker 3: She's an African American lady too. She's phenomenal. She's an
Speaker 3: excellent student too. Getting into Stanford is not an easy
Speaker 3: task for those you don't know about college sports. Getting
Speaker 3: into Stanford is almost like getting in the IVY League
Speaker 3: at this point. But they did beat Oklahoma. Obviously, everyone knows.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma has won the entire softball championships six years in a.
Speaker 2: Row in a row. They're the real deal. Golly, they're
Speaker 2: the real deal. Golly. Oklahoma's girls are really good.
Speaker 3: They knocked them off last night on a walk off
Speaker 3: last night to take that first game against Oklahoma. So
Speaker 3: hopefully we might see an upset. I'm hoping we see
Speaker 3: an upset because.
Speaker 2: College softball Malahoma's ruled the roost, that's for sure. They
Speaker 2: have ruled the roost.
Speaker 1: I got cha, But lot, what do you think about
Speaker 1: Louisville super Regional? No one would have thought, Anthony, I
Speaker 1: was critical of coach mcgonald and honestly about the pay,
Speaker 1: and they had not advanced the last three years.
Speaker 2: They have not, And no one would have thought that
Speaker 2: they would be hosting a super Regional. And we too,
Speaker 2: no one. No one would have thought this.
Speaker 1: First, he thought they'd beat Vanderbilt, and they got them
Speaker 1: once and it was like, Okay, they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: get them again.
Speaker 2: No one would have expected that. But the Wright State
Speaker 2: takes care of that issue.
Speaker 1: And then Southern Mississippi goes out and loses it home
Speaker 1: to Miami and Florida. So it guys, Louisville has a
Speaker 1: chance to advance to the College World Series.
Speaker 2: They really do.
Speaker 1: I would have just lets you know what I know
Speaker 1: about baseball. I would have never picked it. But again,
Speaker 1: just like when I threw out criticism, I got it
Speaker 1: throw out praise. So we'll see, Anthony, We'll have to
Speaker 1: wait and see college. It has been crazy, I got said.
Speaker 3: And now the sixteen teams that we do have in it.
Speaker 3: Five of them are from the ACC.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, let's we'll give everybody number three, Arkansas, number four,
Speaker 1: all give it to them, give them, give them the
Speaker 1: teams that advanced.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, obviously we have those two as well.
Speaker 3: And then we have number five Arkansas as well, who
Speaker 3: won the Chapel Hill Region. You have number sixty to LSU.
Speaker 3: They won their Baton Rouge Regional. Number eight Oregon State
Speaker 3: on the Corbalis Regional. Number nine, Florida State won their
Speaker 3: tayle Hafsee Regional. In the thirteen position. Coastal Carolina won
Speaker 3: the Conway Regional, which is always a good team. Number
Speaker 3: fourteen Tennessee won the Knoxville Region, and then number fifteen
Speaker 3: UCLA won the Los Angeles Regions. The teams that are
Speaker 3: outside of this are all the unranked teams that won
Speaker 3: in their upsets further regions. So Arizona won the Eugene
Speaker 3: Regional organ Eugene Regional, Duke won the Athens Regional, and
Speaker 3: obviously we know Louisville won the Nashville Regional because Vanderbilt
Speaker 3: got upset twice in back to back games. Miami won
Speaker 3: the Hadesburg regionals. Well obviously beating Southern Miss. Last night,
Speaker 3: Murray Murray State, which is a big one, won the
Speaker 3: Oxford Regional beating Old Miss. And the thing is the
Speaker 3: Old Miss almost came back and won again. They almost
Speaker 3: pulled to West Virginia and Kentucky. They were up twelve
Speaker 3: to three at one point. The game ended at twelve
Speaker 3: to eleven.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, Yes, Ken, Greg, you know what we left Murray
Speaker 1: State out Anthony, I did, you didn't. And when I
Speaker 1: had Georgia on on Monday, and I did not say
Speaker 1: we had four teams. I said we had three. And
Speaker 1: Murray State has won. They're advancing. There are just so
Speaker 1: many University of Texas, San Antonio advancing. I mean West Virginia, Anthony.
Speaker 1: West Virginia was a good team. Kentucky had them, I
Speaker 1: mean had them. Goll that Kentucky had them. I think
Speaker 1: Kentucky they called me MANSI own call for me to pitch.
Speaker 1: You know, Kentucky scored sixteen runs against Clemson Anthony, twelve
Speaker 1: runs against West Virginia twenty eight runs and didn't win
Speaker 1: the region. Think about that they scored, I mean they did.
Speaker 1: All they could do is for crossing home plate. But golly,
Speaker 1: they're pitching. Just let them down, I mean beat they
Speaker 1: beat the breaks off Clemson sixteen to four, and then
Speaker 1: thirteen twelve loss West Virginia. So West Virginia, you earned it,
Speaker 1: you came from behind, you had to. So we'll watch
Speaker 1: and see what happened. So we've got sixteen teams, Anthony,
Speaker 1: working for the eight teams to go to Charles swap
Speaker 1: Field in Omaha, Nebraska. So exciting times, Anthony, good times.
Speaker 1: But now Louisville they always will. They'll pack the place, Anthony,
Speaker 1: Jim Patterson Stadium will be packed. If I just wasn't
Speaker 1: so busy, I'm gonna go out, Anthony, Not true.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go out and watch one of the
Speaker 2: Louisville baseball games. I have to.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get out there and watch one of
Speaker 1: the three. Hopefully Louisville can win the first two and
Speaker 1: end the series. But I'm going to try to get
Speaker 1: out to one of the first two games. So congratulations
Speaker 1: to University of Louisville, also coach McDonald, and a chance
Speaker 1: to advance to the College World Series, I mean, a
Speaker 1: true chance, Anthony, to advance. So anyway, Aunt, we're at
Speaker 1: seven thirty two, when we come back. We've got to
Speaker 1: talk about PGA next week.
Speaker 2: Guys. I just want you all to know Oakmind Country
Speaker 2: Club Anthony's outside.
Speaker 1: Of Pittsburgh is the toughest US Open, of course, I
Speaker 1: think there is. And I've got some words from Roy
Speaker 1: McElroy and a few other players that have gone out
Speaker 1: to play it the week before. Rory said, some hos frightening.
Speaker 1: They're so hard, so hard. Anthony can't wait to talk
Speaker 1: to you all about it after the break. See sports
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Speaker 2: The war with the pillow. That's all so Anthony.
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Speaker 1: he saved me a ton of money. I'm not kidding
Speaker 1: people a ton of money on my home and car insurance,
Speaker 1: so I appreciate that. But I want to thank him
Speaker 1: for coming on in the sports radio and we'll be
Speaker 1: talking to him personally throughout the weeks. Secondly, yeah, I
Speaker 1: did Anthony my tie in my launderrow. Anthony, you see,
Speaker 1: the grout's gone, the town's breaking. So John Carney's gonna
Speaker 1: come in. Thank God. He's got great Louisville Cardinal employees
Speaker 1: because he's a wildcat. But as soon as the golf
Speaker 1: outing's over, he'll be coming in and we might have
Speaker 1: to tie him up. That's all because he loves to
Speaker 1: do commercials talking about his cat's beating my cards, so
Speaker 1: we'll have to discuss that. But John will be coming in.
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Speaker 2: They're quality people.
Speaker 1: Now, the Orioles, you gotta watch out because I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get in shape and you just keep putting the
Speaker 1: pounds on me.
Speaker 2: Anthony.
Speaker 1: The River Road, the Orioles, the spot's crazy. It's packed
Speaker 1: every time. It's unbelievable. It's just unbelievable the amount of
Speaker 1: people that are there. So here's the deal, though, Anne,
Speaker 1: we got a lot, but we've got to get to
Speaker 1: the golf our sport, which you know, you and I
Speaker 1: will be going to go to Panama City, Panama. We're
Speaker 1: both taking our clubs. I'm gonna bust you and Frank
Speaker 1: as you know. But what do you think about this
Speaker 1: us open Anthony and I. Honestly, Scotty is doing tigrest
Speaker 1: kind of things right now. Anthony, he's dominated the last
Speaker 1: three years. The question I have for you is this
Speaker 1: is God he dominating because a lot of the good
Speaker 1: players left and went to the live tour that used
Speaker 1: to be hungry for the money, They went to the
Speaker 1: live tour, took the money. Dustin Johnson, he should play
Speaker 1: with me. Can't play anymore. He used to be really good.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Brooks Koepka, Anthony, people are frightened of
Speaker 1: him in majors. They don't even care about Brooks anymore.
Speaker 1: When they took the money. Guys, they're not the same.
Speaker 1: So we're always calling out athletes. We're always calling out
Speaker 1: the basketball. Football players get paid huge money and they
Speaker 1: don't perform and don't produce. I'm not giving golf a
Speaker 1: break this year, Anthony. The guys that went to the
Speaker 1: Live Tour, other than d Chambeau, that kid just loves playing.
Speaker 1: He's the only one that is representing the way that
Speaker 1: he did before the Live Tour, before he took that
Speaker 1: guaranteed money. He's the only one playing up when it
Speaker 1: comes to the majors, playing to his ability. The rest,
Speaker 1: we all know, everyone that follows golf knows. I'm telling
Speaker 1: the truth. The rest took the money and can't play anymore,
Speaker 1: period point blank. They cannot. They cannot compete. They're not
Speaker 1: winning the championships.
Speaker 2: Like they used to.
Speaker 1: I mean, Brooks Kepta, I was scared of Brooks myself.
Speaker 1: That boy would just grind you out. He's lucky if
Speaker 1: he makes it cut. So, Andy, what do you think
Speaker 1: does Scotty get it done at Oak Mind? The most
Speaker 1: played US Open has been at the Oak Mind, Anthony,
Speaker 1: just so you'll know it, they've hosted the most US
Speaker 1: Opens and it's the toughest site.
Speaker 3: What do you think, I mean, it's harder than I it. Obviously,
Speaker 3: he's he's the one of the noble favorites. He's one
Speaker 3: of the most victories on tour this year by far.
Speaker 3: He did it again last year. It's kind of hard
Speaker 3: to go against him. Obviously, you have full of people
Speaker 3: that you will always kind of pick to kind of
Speaker 3: compete up against them in that close spectrum. But you know,
Speaker 3: if I had money and I'm putting it on somebody
Speaker 3: right now, it would still probably be Scotty Shuffler. It's
Speaker 3: just so.
Speaker 2: No Rory. You wouldn't give Rory McElroy a shot at all.
Speaker 2: You don't like him at all.
Speaker 3: But if I'm putting my money on there, I'm still
Speaker 3: going with Scottie right now.
Speaker 2: It's just okay, it's.
Speaker 3: Hard not to. There's other guys. You know, you got
Speaker 3: guys a JT up there that always being there pretty.
Speaker 2: Close and men's top two hundred. Justin Thomas is back.
Speaker 3: Jordan Speed has competed in a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of events.
Speaker 1: Can't get it do anymore. He's struggling, Anthony. He can't
Speaker 1: get it done anymore.
Speaker 3: Well, you said that about JT, and he bounced back.
Speaker 1: JT has bounced back. I didn't say he was going
Speaker 1: to win a major. I was just glad to see
Speaker 1: he's won a tournament, he's back ranked. I'm not I
Speaker 1: would not pick JT to win next week. No, I
Speaker 1: would not. I'm just glad to see he's doing well.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, his dad Harmony landing, But I wouldn't
Speaker 1: pick him to win next week. He doesn't hit it
Speaker 1: straight enough, Anthony. Those faariraways are so tight and the
Speaker 1: rough is so high, Anthony, if you hit it in
Speaker 1: the rough, most pro golfers advanced that they don't care.
Speaker 1: Uh uh, they'll be chipping out to the fairway, Anthony.
Speaker 1: Not Oakmont. I mean Roy McElroy played yesterday or two
Speaker 1: days ago, Anthony. He said it was straight, frightening some
Speaker 1: of the holes. He says seven is going to be
Speaker 1: a good score on par four's on some of the holes, Anthony, sevens.
Speaker 2: He's the best.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on now, this thing is gonna be
Speaker 1: Carnage next week. I can't Anthony. The US Open. It's
Speaker 1: supposed to make the pro golfers look like you and I.
Speaker 1: That's the challenge. It's supposed to be the hardest, unfair. Yes,
Speaker 1: I want them to look like I. Look, I got
Speaker 1: no problem with it. But if I had to pick Anthony,
Speaker 1: if I had to choose, of course, last year d
Speaker 1: Chambeau is a winner, Rison, Scottie Rory, I like Colin
Speaker 1: mull Cowell. Golly after that, it's hard. This course is
Speaker 1: so hard. Just Rose always plays well. Anthony, he just
Speaker 1: doesn't get it done. He's been out there a long time.
Speaker 1: He's really good, but for some reason he folds in
Speaker 1: the finals.
Speaker 2: But I like him. It could be his year.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Those would be my top Oh golly, I love to
Speaker 1: see Tony fen Now. It just doesn't put well enough.
Speaker 1: Jordan Speith is struggling. Anthony.
Speaker 2: It's just a very hard sport to be consistent in.
Speaker 1: And that's why we have to take our head off
Speaker 1: to Scottie Scheffler because he's had a three year run
Speaker 1: Anthony where he's looked really, really good, and it's amazing
Speaker 1: with all the foot movement that he does.
Speaker 2: But he is as consistent, and if he gets a
Speaker 2: lead on Saturday or Sunday, he's almost Tiger and Jack Nicholas.
Speaker 1: Like, he's not giving it up, Anthony, I mean, someone's
Speaker 1: got to legitimately beat him because he's not gonna give
Speaker 1: it to you.
Speaker 2: He'll think his way around the course.
Speaker 1: He'll hit three woods, he'll hit irons off tees, He'll
Speaker 1: do what he has to do to win when a
Speaker 1: lot of golfers are still drive for showing. Hopefully Hopefully
Speaker 1: Putford Doe. The guys that win know how to manage courses.
Speaker 1: And Scotty thinks his way around just like Tiger did,
Speaker 1: just like Jack did. Jack's the greatest of all time,
Speaker 1: not close Tiger second, But I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Xandra Shoffley, Anthony, that little kid's got a chance. He's
Speaker 1: a little pit bull. He's got a chance. So I
Speaker 1: like him also, so I can't wait. Golf is a
Speaker 1: very If you've never played, you should try to play it.
Speaker 1: Play nine holes. It takes too long to play eighteen, Anthony.
Speaker 1: We both know that. I can't remember when I've played
Speaker 1: eighteen holes, Anthony. It just takes too long, but I
Speaker 1: love playing nine holes. So anyway, and we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to break seven forty four. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this matchup with ok C and the
Speaker 1: Indianapolist Pacers.
Speaker 2: Is the Sports Radio. We'll talk to you all after
Speaker 2: the break.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sports Radio, seven fifty June the third,
Speaker 1: Unbelievable June third, twenty twenty five. So, Anthony, yes, I
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Speaker 2: So Anthony, look.
Speaker 1: Thursday, first game, Oka see huge favorites. I mean, Anthony,
Speaker 1: not even close. The largest lopside ever in NBA Finals
Speaker 1: is this one. I thought I would have said the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks in twenty eleven when they upset Lebron James's
Speaker 1: Miami Heat with Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade. But this
Speaker 1: one is even more lopsided than that. Don't forget Chris
Speaker 1: carl Rick. Carlisle was the coach of the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven when they upset the Miami Heat. Can
Speaker 1: he do it again with the Pacers? Can they upset Okay?
Speaker 3: See, I'm not sold on it. I don't know. It's
Speaker 3: just Okaye is tough. They're a tough team to be
Speaker 3: very tough.
Speaker 2: I mean, is it doable?
Speaker 3: Of course, nothing's impossible when it comes in sports. But
Speaker 3: just going off of what I've seen throughout the playoffs,
Speaker 3: ok he's scoring Their bench depth, their defensive abilities to
Speaker 3: be able to switch and guard multiple matchups is gonna
Speaker 3: make it difficult. Tyre's Halliburton has shown a lot of
Speaker 3: people that they called him underrated is not as underrated
Speaker 3: as he thinks. But the one thing, the one full
Speaker 3: I will say about Halliburton is inconsistency. And I think
Speaker 3: that's what's gonna kill him in the playoffs. Either he'll
Speaker 3: come out there and give you thirty fifteen and fifteen,
Speaker 3: or go out there in games like he did in
Speaker 3: Game four and he'll give you two for seven on shots,
Speaker 3: eight points, six assists and four turnovers and thirty two
Speaker 3: minutes of game playing. You can't have that from one
Speaker 3: of your better players, you know. Obviously there's a reason
Speaker 3: why he didn't get Eastern Conference MVP and they gave
Speaker 3: it to Siaka because he.
Speaker 2: Was more consistent.
Speaker 3: It's not that his performances were that much better. If
Speaker 3: you go off for performances Tyre's about Halliburton had two
Speaker 3: or three that were way better.
Speaker 1: Than the exactly you're right, two three, two better games
Speaker 1: he did, but consistently continue you're right.
Speaker 3: Now, and that's just I think that's just what's gonna
Speaker 3: get him because you know there's gonna be matchups that
Speaker 3: are gonna be difficult for them. On defense. Obviously, Andrew
Speaker 3: Nimhart did a good job on Dalen Brunston, but also
Speaker 3: in a couple of those games, three or four of them,
Speaker 3: Andrew Nimharp was a liability on defense until they switched
Speaker 3: his matchup. Tyre's Halliburton is a defensive liability. I hate
Speaker 3: to say it. He's six six, one hundred and seventy pounds.
Speaker 3: He can't guard Sja, he can't guard Jayden Williams.
Speaker 2: Not very many people can.
Speaker 3: Yes, and those matchups are and those matchups are gonna
Speaker 3: be harder than the matchups with the necks of Josh
Speaker 3: Hart and Mike hill Bridges. Just being completely honest, they're
Speaker 3: a lot harder matchups than those two.
Speaker 2: That's when yes, I love and.
Speaker 3: I hate to say it. I think Miles Turner played
Speaker 3: great basketball, but at the same time, I don't think
Speaker 3: his physicality is going to be able to compete that
Speaker 3: well with Hartenstein. Hartenstein isn't skilled, but he's more physical
Speaker 3: and that's what gets them. There's the reason why mister
Speaker 3: Robinson was such an impact in games three, four, and five.
Speaker 3: Because he went out there and just went to the
Speaker 3: offensive boards and Miles Turner couldn't get a rebound.
Speaker 1: Yes, I didn't know Males Turner had been in the
Speaker 1: league ten years. Anthony had surprised me. Yeah, he's got
Speaker 1: old man body. He doesn't want to give it up anymore.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want the physicality really bothers him. He's a scorer.
Speaker 1: He's a picking pop three point shooter. He's like the
Speaker 1: old Sam Perkins with old Dallas Mavericks and the old
Speaker 1: North Carolina player.
Speaker 2: He just wants to pick and pop and be soft.
Speaker 2: And you're right.
Speaker 1: And when the Knicks got physical, they shot it till
Speaker 1: they scored it and still lost the series.
Speaker 2: That's what I want people to understand. The Knicks shot
Speaker 2: it until they.
Speaker 1: Scored it and still lost the series. Guys, the Knicks,
Speaker 1: you have to give him a lot of credit for
Speaker 1: playing hard. They weren't really skilled. Karnthy Towns is skilled.
Speaker 1: You got me, Anthony, and he was starting to get
Speaker 1: more physical towards the end. Brunson, you just have to
Speaker 1: love his grit. You have to love his grit. But Anthony,
Speaker 1: you're talking about Brunson or Shake Gilders Alexander. There's no comparison, guys, period,
Speaker 1: point blank. And I don't know who Indiana's gonna put
Speaker 1: on shake guild is to stop him, but they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to find a way. I'm gonna give Rick Carlile
Speaker 1: a lot of credit, though, Anthony, You're gonna see different things.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see them picking up full You're gonna see
Speaker 1: them taking the ball out of Shay's hands. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see them blitzing, picking rolls. You're gonna see them be
Speaker 1: coached to try to help the mismatches, because you're right.
Speaker 1: If you match up player for player pound for pound,
Speaker 1: the Pacers have no chance, absolutely no chance to win
Speaker 1: this cert series.
Speaker 2: None. But it's a team sport.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Denny Crumb was the best at matchups, putting you in position.
Speaker 1: People don't know. That's why college coaches. Please start pressing again.
Speaker 1: Rick Patino, great job, Denny Crumb, same thing, John Wooden,
Speaker 1: same thing, because they understood pressing sometimes is just to
Speaker 1: take your opponent out of what they do in practice.
Speaker 2: Explain this to you all again.
Speaker 1: If you're the better team, Anthony and I let you
Speaker 1: do what you do every day in practice. My chances
Speaker 1: of winning are slim. So what I try to make
Speaker 1: you do is make you uncomfortable. People don't press. They
Speaker 1: don't practice press breaks. They don't practice every time the
Speaker 1: ball is taken out of bounds, making sure they clear
Speaker 1: the backboard, enter the ball. The guy receiving the ball
Speaker 1: doesn't practice every day inward pivoting, facing the defense.
Speaker 2: They don't practice those things.
Speaker 1: So a lot of times teams get up just to
Speaker 1: take you out of your normal rhythm. The Pacers will
Speaker 1: be doing that. I guarantee you, and so you all
Speaker 1: will know. You can buy blue nose bleed tickets for
Speaker 1: Game three in Indianapolis. They're going from seven hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty six dollars nose bleed. Excuse me, you all, to
Speaker 1: one fifty dollars. I'm talking about nose bleed. Anthony.
Speaker 2: I told Larry, no thanks, I'd rather watch it on TV.
Speaker 2: Didn't do that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Anthony, we're done. Congratulations to the Louisville baseball team,
Speaker 1: super Regional.
Speaker 2: We'll be talking about them.
Speaker 1: Of course, we've got the NBA Playoffs which starts on Thursday.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that tomorrow, and we'll get to all
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Speaker 1: love you, love everybody for listening. You'll take care. I
Speaker 1: hope to be back with you. God willing tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,