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Speaker 2: Holy crap, I don't know who the hell we think
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Speaker 3: Get off our show, idiots. The kids are playing a
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Speaker 4: They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're really not.
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee?
Speaker 2: Well not quite Nick Coffee. One more day with the
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Speaker 2: afternoon Underdog is gonna take you out the rest of
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Speaker 5: Hey, welcome in. We're gonna take you on this ride home.
Speaker 5: Pretty crazy weather out there. I started to see some
Speaker 5: severe thunderstorm watches and warnings, and as we continue on
Speaker 5: in this muggy, humid summer. Now big news if you're
Speaker 5: like me. As soon as I get off here, I'm
Speaker 5: heading over to Lynn Family Stadium to take in lu
Speaker 5: City tonight.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be necessarily worried about it, but
Speaker 2: go a little bit further south. You know down in
Speaker 2: Bullock County Breckinridge County there might be a little something
Speaker 2: going on there, so we'll keep you posted right here
Speaker 2: at Sports Talk seven ninety. Should there be anything that
Speaker 2: you need to know, John Alden, good afternoon, till you,
Speaker 2: my friend, Good afternoon.
Speaker 3: It did look a little spooky driving into day.
Speaker 5: I meant to ask you because I've been in these
Speaker 5: four walls here this afternoon. I didn't get a chance
Speaker 5: to see anything out there. I just saw some of
Speaker 5: the weather, noticing the watches and warnings that were out there,
Speaker 5: so I looked pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a little bit at least I had
Speaker 1: a little bit of rain driving in, but it was
Speaker 1: one of those things that once you got through it,
Speaker 1: that was kind of it. But like you said, there
Speaker 1: could be some more stuff later this evening and I'm
Speaker 1: out in Bullet County, so okay effect me tonight.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, Now it looked like at least when I
Speaker 5: checked the weather app because going to see I rocked
Speaker 5: Frankfurt take on lou City tonight, looks like we're gonna
Speaker 5: be okay for the match. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: But again, keep with us at iHeart level. We'll keep
Speaker 5: you out today. Man, do we have a lot to
Speaker 5: unpack this afternoon. We've got it. Spent a crazy day
Speaker 5: at the Olympics. I've had them on all day. Lots
Speaker 5: of stuff going on there. Spoiler alert if you want
Speaker 5: to tune out.
Speaker 2: For a little bit, go ahead.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of people are primetime in gymnastics tonight.
Speaker 5: We're going to talk about that. The US men's volleyball
Speaker 5: team got a five set victory over Germany, but big
Speaker 5: start the USA rugby. The women shock Australia to win bronze.
Speaker 5: What they're calling I don't even know if I can
Speaker 5: say this right. Nadala Crez. They're combining Carlos Alcarez and
Speaker 5: Rafe on the doll because they're playing now and so
Speaker 5: they're making some noise in doubles.
Speaker 2: So we've got that to talk about obviously.
Speaker 5: And if you've been living under a rock, we're going
Speaker 5: to talk about TVT the fallout from TBT. The Reds
Speaker 5: are active in the trade deadline. We've got a lot
Speaker 5: going on in minor league baseball and college football. We
Speaker 5: got preseason honors going out to the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Speaker 5: and the Louisville Cardinals as they get ready to open
Speaker 5: camp training camp rolling along for the Bengals. Fans are
Speaker 5: breathing a sigh of relieve. We'll talk about why that
Speaker 5: was as well. So a lot of them moving parts there, John,
Speaker 5: as we were talking about on the show this morning,
Speaker 5: and that is.
Speaker 2: When we flipped this calendar. Tomorrow's the last day of July.
Speaker 2: When we flipped this calendar and go to August, dude,
Speaker 2: and once the Olympics are over, it's game on. I
Speaker 2: mean we're getting there. It is game on for sports, dude.
Speaker 5: But yeah, big story last night and it's been the
Speaker 5: a story talked about all day. That of course, was
Speaker 5: talking about the thriller that was TBT last night, and
Speaker 5: I'll at John fan to tell you about it.
Speaker 4: From FS one, what's so with harolinum trying to break
Speaker 4: the hearts of Louisville fans? Plus attacks, catch it shootings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that wasn't it.
Speaker 5: Andrew Harrison dropped that three pointer to send La Familia
Speaker 5: the uklum. They hit the target score seventy to what
Speaker 5: you talked about yesterday, John. Where you end the games,
Speaker 5: of course, is with the net scoring. They're gonna go
Speaker 5: on the beat.
Speaker 2: They beat the bill seventy to sixty one, but it
Speaker 2: was what happened afterwards that has everybody's attention.
Speaker 4: We've got some extra curriculars on the floor here now,
Speaker 4: two teams going after it. Not surprising they got police
Speaker 4: here on the floor. You knew it would be personal.
Speaker 4: Leave it to a Harrison to knock down the game winner.
Speaker 4: And now pensions are rising here and now this is
Speaker 4: a scene you do not want.
Speaker 5: Nobody wanted it, and you had police on the floor
Speaker 5: and John, when we met twenty four hours ago, we
Speaker 5: were just raving at what a great matchup this was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when we were talking about how this is kind
Speaker 1: of a precursor to the renewal of the Louisville versus
Speaker 1: Kentucky basketball rivalry, it's kind of been. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say it's been non existing because the games were
Speaker 1: played with Kenny Payne and John Caliperry, but those are
Speaker 1: some of the least exciting games you've ever seen. And really,
Speaker 1: with the terrible seasons that Louisville had as a whole,
Speaker 1: there was just not a lot on the line. And
Speaker 1: getting to have this matchup in July is something that
Speaker 1: the fans, the alumni, everybody he's been super excited about,
Speaker 1: and things were chippy pretty much throughout the entire game.
Speaker 1: And to see everything come to a head the way
Speaker 1: that it did once La Familia got the victory, it
Speaker 1: was it was definitely, I want to say, it was
Speaker 1: surprising in the fact that I didn't really expect it
Speaker 1: to really get to that level. I did expect some chippiness,
Speaker 1: as I'm sure a lot of people fans of this
Speaker 1: rivalry might have thought as well. But to see it
Speaker 1: escalate the way that it did, it was, that was
Speaker 1: something that was something else well.
Speaker 5: And here's how it According to Nate Custina, who led
Speaker 5: a lot familiar with twenty two points last night, he
Speaker 5: was directly involved with it, and here's how he said.
Speaker 3: It all went down.
Speaker 6: Emotions ran high. It's what this game does to people.
Speaker 6: It had been great chatter the whole game, nothing crazy,
Speaker 6: nothing personal, and then it got personal. Obviously ELL's down
Speaker 6: versus L's up. It's what this game is. He was
Speaker 6: just like, don't do L's down in here. I was
Speaker 6: just like, all right, like ELL's down always, and then
Speaker 6: he walked away and then stepped at me. Whatever my
Speaker 6: back was turned and then you know, and then he
Speaker 6: spit in my face. Mister owaku, I'm gonna leave it
Speaker 6: at that. Nothing crazy spit at me. That's on him,
Speaker 6: of course.
Speaker 5: So he's talking about his chinhuanu on a walk who
Speaker 5: says he accuses him of spitting at him. And I
Speaker 5: know people on social media have been calling for some
Speaker 5: sort of evidence that that actually happened. I don't think
Speaker 5: and I don't have a dog in this fight because
Speaker 5: you know, I know there's there's Kentucky haters out there.
Speaker 2: And I know there's Louisville haters out there. I don't
Speaker 2: have a dog in this fight. I'm just strictly impartial
Speaker 2: because we cover both of them here at iHeart Louisville.
Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody's gonna have it.
Speaker 5: But I don't think Cistina is going to make that
Speaker 5: allegation if that didn't happen. I don't think you're going
Speaker 5: to see though that sort of escalation unless there's legitimacy
Speaker 5: to it. I'm gonna tell you what it was though.
Speaker 5: It was embarrassing. It was embarrassing on both sides. It
Speaker 5: was embarrassing for the TBT. It was because I'm gonna
Speaker 5: tell you, and I heard from folks who live out
Speaker 5: of town. Who I mean, if you live here in Louisville,
Speaker 5: you totally get it right. People Louisville fans hate the
Speaker 5: l's down, just like in Texas and Oklahoma they hate
Speaker 5: the horns down. That gets you going, it gets under
Speaker 5: your skin. But I'm gonna tell you that the look
Speaker 5: it had because let me just be totally honest with you,
Speaker 5: people outside of the cities that are still alive in
Speaker 5: the TVT do not care about the TVT are not
Speaker 5: watching it.
Speaker 2: They're they're just not.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's not it's It's like, why would you
Speaker 5: watch a soccer match going on the West Coast between
Speaker 5: you know, you see College of this choice versus you
Speaker 5: see College of that choice, you wouldn't watch it, but
Speaker 5: folks out west would watch that.
Speaker 2: So, but what folks are seeing now.
Speaker 5: Is an embarrassing melee at the end of the game
Speaker 5: because someone spit in someone's face.
Speaker 2: Allegedly what are we twelve? And that's what fans are
Speaker 2: hearing and there's no evidence for it. I mean, we
Speaker 2: now spitting in people's faces. So what is that say
Speaker 2: about the environment?
Speaker 5: And then I'm sure, John, you've seen the social media
Speaker 5: videos of the fans. I think Nick retweeted the fans
Speaker 5: that were flipping the crowd off and using a few
Speaker 5: I guess well oiled language. Yes, and that's what the
Speaker 5: rest of America is seeing. Because it's bad enough you've
Speaker 5: got to fight that stereotype here in Kentucky already, but
Speaker 5: now that's what the rest of the nation sees. So
Speaker 5: you took And that's why I'm glad you said what
Speaker 5: you said, John, because you took what yesterday was an
Speaker 5: absolute just a titanic setup to have a lot of fun,
Speaker 5: and within a matter of seconds you turn it into
Speaker 5: probably one of the most embarrassing moments in sports for
Speaker 5: this area, in an area that prides itself on basketball.
Speaker 5: You know, people here don't like it when they say, hey,
Speaker 5: you got tobacco road, but this is Kentucky, which I
Speaker 5: totally get, by the way, because I think one of
Speaker 5: the first things I think of when I hear Kentucky
Speaker 5: before I moved here some twenty almost thirty years ago,
Speaker 5: was I thought about basketball.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 5: I remember growing up in the days and I hear
Speaker 5: in al Maguire and NBC Sports and seeing the dark
Speaker 5: backdrop of Freedom Hall and seeing the red Louisville on
Speaker 5: the court and Denny Crum on NBC Sports. That's what
Speaker 5: I thought of when I heard Kentucky, because I hadn't
Speaker 5: never been to the state before, and that's what I
Speaker 5: thought of.
Speaker 2: But within.
Speaker 5: Within just a matter of seconds, we have now taken that.
Speaker 5: And now let me back up, this too will pass. Okay,
Speaker 5: It's not like Kentucky's forever going to be tarnished by this.
Speaker 5: I don't want that to be insinuated here. I totally
Speaker 5: get that.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good things happening in this state
Speaker 2: that you know, we've got too, as John, as we
Speaker 2: talked about yesterday, we got two great coaches coming into
Speaker 2: the mix. Now that when this rivalry it's back to
Speaker 2: the regular basketball. I think we're gonna have something special here.
Speaker 2: I think this is I mean, you always you're gonna
Speaker 2: have the rivalry. You need the rivalry. And look, Gible fans,
Speaker 2: I know the l's down gets under your skin. Let
Speaker 2: it go, Let it go. I was telling Tony today
Speaker 2: on the show. Remember Will Clark when he worked here, Yes,
Speaker 2: he would get hate mail and he got a couple
Speaker 2: of emails one time, and you know he would tell me,
Speaker 2: I just can't stop reading that I kiss, I said, Willie.
Speaker 2: When you get hate mail, dude, take the email, read
Speaker 2: it if you want. I don't ever read them. I
Speaker 2: just I can tell right away by the subject like
Speaker 2: what they are. I just delete them, I.
Speaker 5: Said, But then immediately go to your recycle bent and
Speaker 5: delete it out of there. Otherwise you'll keep It's like
Speaker 5: when you lose a tooth and you keep putting your
Speaker 5: tongue in where that tooth is missing.
Speaker 2: You'll keep doing that. Mobile fans, You're just gonna have
Speaker 2: to learn to deal with the L's down. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know what else to tell you. It's not
Speaker 2: going away. And the more you let it get under
Speaker 2: your skin, the more some cats some and I want
Speaker 2: to say some, because there are good cat fans out there,
Speaker 2: just like there's good and bad fans. Everywhere there's good,
Speaker 2: there's good UO of L fans, there's bad U of
Speaker 2: L fans. But until you learn to let the L's
Speaker 2: down thing go, they're going to continue to put that
Speaker 2: in your face.
Speaker 5: And I've had to deal with that. I've I've been
Speaker 5: to the Michigan Ohio State game. I traveled to the
Speaker 5: belly of the Beast, and I've sat in Columbus amongst
Speaker 5: those fans. Now, I wasn't stupid enough to wear Michigan
Speaker 5: gear because you're just it's just a miserable experience.
Speaker 1: Oh, I want to ask you about that skut. So
Speaker 1: you go to Ohio Stadium for the big game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're not wearing Michigan gear. But I'm assuming you're
Speaker 1: wearing something neutral. Is that kind of just yeah? I
Speaker 1: just I just put on clothes. I just I feel like,
Speaker 1: do people still assume that you might just be a
Speaker 1: Michigan fan in disguise or maybe just a casual person.
Speaker 1: You're not at the Michigan and Ohio State game by accident.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're either wearing Ohio State gear or
Speaker 1: you're trying to not look like you're a Michigan fan,
Speaker 1: one of the two.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: No, And you bring up a great point.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you how that all went down and
Speaker 5: the reason why I went two years. Because we know
Speaker 5: somebody who works through Huntington Mortgage. They're a big sea
Speaker 5: bus business and good good friends of ours, just really
Speaker 5: good friends He's like, look, I got tickets from Michigan
Speaker 5: Ohio State or you're a Michigan guy, you want to.
Speaker 2: Come down watch the game? So of course I do.
Speaker 5: So I got down there, and I've done Michigan Ohio
Speaker 5: State before, and it's just it's it's ugly.
Speaker 2: It's I'm going to a Bengals game one time wearing
Speaker 2: a Michigan jersey and couldn't enjoy the Bengals game.
Speaker 5: So so what I did was is that go. And
Speaker 5: what was really funny about this. I snuck a flaskin
Speaker 5: and I had some makers and there was a guy
Speaker 5: sitting next to me, and he goes, what you got there?
Speaker 5: And I said, got a little makers. He goes, where
Speaker 5: are you from?
Speaker 2: I sai, I'm from Kentucky, live in Louisville. You would
Speaker 2: you like something?
Speaker 6: Go?
Speaker 7: Sure.
Speaker 5: So we sat there and we shared my Flaska Makers
Speaker 5: and he's just carrying on about dropping f bombs about
Speaker 5: Michigan and going on and on and on and on,
Speaker 5: and I'm just kind of like, okay, all right. But
Speaker 5: because I wasn't adorned all in Michigan gear one, I
Speaker 5: didn't have to deal with whatever it was he wanted
Speaker 5: to say. The equivalent to L's down. But I also
Speaker 5: could sit and enjoy the game. Ohio State won the
Speaker 5: game far and square. It was well played by Ohio State.
Speaker 5: But to me, that game was more of the It
Speaker 5: was more the experience of Michigan and Ohio State. I
Speaker 5: wasn't fixated in the wind. It would have been nice
Speaker 5: for Michigan to win. I guess call me crazy, but
Speaker 5: I sort of respect that rivalry in the tradition, and
Speaker 5: I wanted to take that in while I was there
Speaker 5: because I've seen the game so many years on TV.
Speaker 2: Would I've liked to have seen it in nan Arbor?
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I still haven't seen a Michigan Ohio State game
Speaker 5: in nan Arbor.
Speaker 2: Would I'd liked to have seen it there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: But Plus, my buddy from Huntington Mortgage was nice enough
Speaker 5: to offer tickets. I wasn't gonna embarrass him, and so
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go and relax and enjoying.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I did. I had a great experience. This
Speaker 2: guy was so nice. I have the heart to tell
Speaker 2: him I was a Michigan fan. It sounds like getting
Speaker 2: ready to leave.
Speaker 5: So when I watched what happened last night, and I
Speaker 5: don't want to paint everyone at that game with that brush.
Speaker 5: By the way, I'm sure it was a few select
Speaker 5: fans where it got going. What started It sounds like
Speaker 5: it started between Sustina and and Waku and then before
Speaker 5: that and started to interrupt, but there was no it's okay,
Speaker 5: go ahead. The beginning of the chippiness. Really where you
Speaker 5: first saw some player interaction was with Chris Jones, and
Speaker 5: I don't think I don't know remember if it was
Speaker 5: with Sustina, I don't think it was. I don't remember
Speaker 5: Chris Jones put his face into somebody's chest. At that
Speaker 5: point you had a double technical and that was early
Speaker 5: on in the game.
Speaker 2: Okay, because I didn't see it. I had to get
Speaker 2: to bag.
Speaker 1: There was kind of the dirty The dirty play began
Speaker 1: pretty early on.
Speaker 3: And I don't know.
Speaker 1: If it's all this is just because these guys, they
Speaker 1: they know what it's like to you're part of this rivalry,
Speaker 1: but they're so far removed from it that maybe just
Speaker 1: the nerves are a little bit different. I don't want
Speaker 1: to assume anything about any of these players and how
Speaker 1: they may have been feeling going into the game, but
Speaker 1: when you're in that kind of environment, and all of
Speaker 1: this is based on nostalgia, as we've talked about yesterday
Speaker 1: and even the weeks doing this knowing that this.
Speaker 3: Matchup could happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes maybe the motions get the best of these guys,
Speaker 1: especially when you're not used to playing them this anymore.
Speaker 3: It's been so long you don't have this like professionally.
Speaker 1: You may have some rivalries, but it's not at all
Speaker 1: the same thing that you get at the collegiate level.
Speaker 1: And so when you're around these rabid fan bases once
Speaker 1: again for the first time and who knows how many
Speaker 1: years for some of these guys, it doesn't surprise me
Speaker 1: that some of these guys let the emotions get the
Speaker 1: best of them. It doesn't excuse it, yeah, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me that it happened.
Speaker 2: And what do you think, I mean, how many exploratives
Speaker 2: do you think we're being hurled from the crowd from
Speaker 2: both sides, and.
Speaker 1: That just probably way too many. And it just goes
Speaker 1: to show again what we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 3: The fans want this back.
Speaker 1: They wanted to know, and I know you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to control yourself, but there hasn't been a
Speaker 1: truly exciting moment for between the Louisville and Kentucky basketball
Speaker 1: rivalry and quite some time that this was kind of
Speaker 1: their fix for it. And I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't know how to handle themselves and that's a shame.
Speaker 2: Great point, but that point, but.
Speaker 3: That's that's where we're at right now.
Speaker 2: John, you bring up an awesome point, and that's why,
Speaker 2: because that's my question.
Speaker 5: And I hate because I'm going to Lowi City game tonight.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be on with Tony tomorrow morning. I
Speaker 5: just can't cooperate and then try to get up and
Speaker 5: go in in the morning. But doctor Charles Pemberton, he's
Speaker 5: our our licensed clinical psychologist that comes on with with
Speaker 5: Tony every couple of weeks. They're going to talk about
Speaker 5: sports fandom. So that's that's my question. We all want
Speaker 5: the rivalries we do. I love the rivalry rivalry with
Speaker 5: Ohio State, especially that it's good again. I don't expect
Speaker 5: to win every year, But what is it about this craziness,
Speaker 5: this this belonging, this this need for identity, And John,
Speaker 5: I think you and I have been there. You know,
Speaker 5: you have Saturday afternoons where your team goes out and
Speaker 5: they they lose a game, and you're.
Speaker 2: Not exactly in a chipper mood.
Speaker 5: I mean you're not going home and kicking the dog
Speaker 5: or anything, but you're not in a chipper mood. And
Speaker 5: then you go and then and then there's times where
Speaker 5: your team does win that game and you're on cloud nine.
Speaker 5: I mean, nobody can do any wrong around you. And
Speaker 5: doctor Pemberton's going to join Tony tomorrow to talk about
Speaker 5: why we function that way?
Speaker 2: Why is that? Why?
Speaker 5: Why is it that it's easy for me to say, hey,
Speaker 5: Louis fan, let the L's down thing go, But when
Speaker 5: emotions are running this high, like you just mentioned, and
Speaker 5: you throw that in there, and I'm sure Texas fan
Speaker 5: we probably said the same thing when they see the
Speaker 5: horns down.
Speaker 2: But why do we do that? Why? What drives that train? Now?
Speaker 5: I'd like to say since being in the media, I've
Speaker 5: been able to kind of, I don't know, soften the
Speaker 5: edges a little bit when it comes to stuff like that,
Speaker 5: because I'm able to be a little bit more objective.
Speaker 5: My son is a big yo l fan, and but
Speaker 5: yet and I'm kind of quase impartial again just because
Speaker 5: I you know, I'm in the media. So when UK
Speaker 5: was having their success at at baseball, I was trying
Speaker 5: to bring that up to my son and trying to
Speaker 5: talk about some of the guys that played UK baseball.
Speaker 5: And I could tell my son was just he was
Speaker 5: being nice, but he didn't want to He didn't want
Speaker 5: a part of that because UOL had been so good
Speaker 5: at baseball for so long. And so now suddenly UK's
Speaker 5: going to the College World Series and u of L's
Speaker 5: at home, and I could tell my son had a
Speaker 5: real problem with that. And then you throw in to
Speaker 5: your point, John on top of that, because now I
Speaker 5: did feel this with Michigan Ohio State. When you constantly
Speaker 5: lose the rivalry game and it's year after year, you
Speaker 5: just feel like your gut punched, you.
Speaker 2: Know, you're just kind of like damn.
Speaker 5: And so finally Michigan got that off their back over
Speaker 5: the last couple years of Ohio State. But part of
Speaker 5: me gets where ul Fan is, but also the human
Speaker 5: side of me goes, Okay, when the eel's down starts
Speaker 5: getting thrown around, maybe it's time I gotta I gotta
Speaker 5: come back from the ledge a little bit.
Speaker 2: Now I've had to do that after a couple of games.
Speaker 5: I mean there's times where I've just had to turn
Speaker 5: the TV off. As funny as my son used to
Speaker 5: tell me all the time to be like, because I'd
Speaker 5: be watching Michigan Ohio State and you can tell right
Speaker 5: away where that game was going.
Speaker 2: He's like, where are you turning off? Game's not over? Well,
Speaker 2: then he's got ul on we can time. I'm like,
Speaker 2: why you turn the game off? Game's not over? But
Speaker 2: but why live in that way? If you know the
Speaker 2: game is over, why subject yourself to that?
Speaker 1: You have to remove yourself from the situation, right and
Speaker 1: that that may sound juvenile, but then I'll tell you
Speaker 1: it's not, because there are so many games when I
Speaker 1: growing up being an Indiana fan being upset about whatever
Speaker 1: the result may be, the mental anguish if you are
Speaker 1: a true fan of a team, of just sitting there
Speaker 1: and forcing yourself to suffer through it, yeah, that could
Speaker 1: There could be I guess maybe some honor with that
Speaker 1: if that's something you want to wear a badge ass.
Speaker 1: But in regards to being able to be healthy mentally
Speaker 1: with it but still enjoy your team, what I've learned
Speaker 1: from what works for me is you have to either
Speaker 1: turn off the TV. If you're at the game and
Speaker 1: you know the game is over, you've got to get
Speaker 1: up out of your seat and leave. And again, people
Speaker 1: may say you're a fake fan or not a true
Speaker 1: fan for doing that, but I'm here to tell you
Speaker 1: I think it's it's just a way to take care
Speaker 1: of yourself.
Speaker 2: It is, it is, And you're right, John, I've had
Speaker 2: to do that at games I've went to. Now, you
Speaker 2: got to get up. I don't necessarily sometimes I don't leave.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just get up and walk away, do something else,
Speaker 1: go to the concession of standing, go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Right. And I'm saying too, you know, And I'm sure
Speaker 2: and this is believe me.
Speaker 5: I'm all for beer sales of the game. I'm all
Speaker 5: for beer and alcohol. I'm so glad colleges are selling
Speaker 5: beer and alcoholic games. But I guarantee a lot of
Speaker 5: that last night came out of beer and alcohol too.
Speaker 5: I mean it was that was probably a well oiled
Speaker 5: crowd at the end. So it won't be the last
Speaker 5: time that we see this. And it's not just with
Speaker 5: Kentucky and Louisville. We're going to see this at other games.
Speaker 5: In fact, I was watching that specially with Ryan.
Speaker 2: Reynolds to Welcome to Wrexham where they talk about Rexm
Speaker 2: in soccer, they do a whole segment devoted to hooliganism,
Speaker 2: and that's a whole other stratosphere. If you want to
Speaker 2: get into that, I mean, you start getting into soccer hooliganism,
Speaker 2: which is a culture. By the way, that makes what
Speaker 2: happened at Freedom Hall last night looked like Ropper Room.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's so so. I don't want to act
Speaker 2: like the world is ending because of what happened last night.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying it was. It was embarrassing on a
Speaker 5: number of levels for both both people. Hopefully everybody's learned
Speaker 5: from this. I'm sure if the players could.
Speaker 2: Take it back, if we could rewind and go back
Speaker 2: in time, folks would would do it differently. But it
Speaker 2: is a rivalry, nothing wrong.
Speaker 5: I don't hear me out the rivalry or hear me
Speaker 5: out the rivalry is awesome and John and I think
Speaker 5: you're right. It's I think fans are excited that it's
Speaker 5: going to come back. I think it's going to come
Speaker 5: back between both schools. It needs to come back. We
Speaker 5: need to put that game back on during the break
Speaker 5: none of this. Get this Kentucky Louisville game off a
Speaker 5: weeknight game, because one of the things I used to
Speaker 5: love doing when I first moved here was we as
Speaker 5: an entire family would go out and watch the game,
Speaker 5: Like we would make it a point to go out
Speaker 5: to watch the game because we like being with.
Speaker 2: The crowd and the fans. And then it just started
Speaker 2: getting real ugly.
Speaker 5: It's like, over the last five ten years, it just
Speaker 5: wasn't fun anymore, and fans were getting nasty with each
Speaker 5: other in bars and they were getting nasty, and even restaurants,
Speaker 5: they were getting nasty with each other.
Speaker 2: So we just quit doing it.
Speaker 5: But now I want to go back to that, and
Speaker 5: I'm hoping that we all learned our lesson and we
Speaker 5: can somehow get back to that point. We got two
Speaker 5: great coaches coming in for Kentucky and Louisville, and let's
Speaker 5: bring Indiana into the mix, and let's get that thing
Speaker 5: going to throw coach d in there with Bellerman. Let's
Speaker 5: have some fun, because yeah, basketball in these parts, that's
Speaker 5: what it's about. And we're getting ready to come up
Speaker 5: by all right, let's take a quick break. A lot
Speaker 5: to unpack today. Great show today, John Alden is with you.
Speaker 5: I'm Scott Fitzgerald. We're gonna take you all way up
Speaker 5: ttil six o'clock and then I'm gonna have at Lynn
Speaker 5: Family Stadium and watch me some good footy tonight. So
Speaker 5: we'll talk about that and more coming back on Sports
Speaker 5: Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Very nice.
Speaker 3: Who do we have here?
Speaker 2: Mister Alden got a little green Day? Oh nice? I
Speaker 2: didn't recognize that as being green Day.
Speaker 1: This is a newer song from their latest record. I
Speaker 1: believe it's called Dilemma. Pretty catchy time. I like, guess
Speaker 1: reminds you of their older style tunes. I wanna say
Speaker 1: a little bit heavier though, which is nice. That's what
Speaker 1: I like.
Speaker 5: Wow, good stuff, John Alden playing the tunes for us
Speaker 5: here on this thirtieth day of July. So we get
Speaker 5: ready to flip the calendar. Active weather out there today,
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Speaker 2: Louisville and Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: We'll keep an eye on that weather for you. The
Speaker 2: lightning show woke me up last night. It wasn't the
Speaker 2: thunder it was the lightning that got me as I
Speaker 2: was getting ready get up and come in the station.
Speaker 2: So we're in that pattern where we're gonna have We're
Speaker 2: just gonna have this kind of weather.
Speaker 5: It's it's summertime, right. Keeping an eye on the Olympics
Speaker 5: as well. Lots of high drama unfolding there. As you heard,
Speaker 5: the USA women's rugby team shocked Australia. I just reposted
Speaker 5: on my x feed some of the highlights from that match.
Speaker 5: They win bronze, and of course the big news I
Speaker 5: can tell you because iheart's telling you some own biles
Speaker 5: in Team USA reclaimed the US women's Olympic team title,
Speaker 5: the US totaling a one to seventy one point ninety six,
Speaker 5: well clear of the silver medalist. Italy won sixty five
Speaker 5: point four nine four. Brazil wins the bronze, a historic
Speaker 5: first with a final score of one sixty four to
Speaker 5: forty four ninety seven. It's the fourth US win in
Speaker 5: the event, having taken titles in Atlanta in nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 5: London twenty twelve, Rio in twenty sixteen. And as I'm
Speaker 5: watching now, we got tea, we got Olympic basketball on right,
Speaker 5: now it is Germany up on Brazil twenty six to seventeen.
Speaker 2: This in the.
Speaker 5: Second quarter, team USA winning on the pitch today they
Speaker 5: beat a guy I always say it wrong.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I always have a hard time saying it. But they
Speaker 5: went over Guinea or Guinea, however you want to say it,
Speaker 5: three nil.
Speaker 2: Speaking of as soon as we leave here, I am
Speaker 2: heading out and I'm gonna go down to Lynn Family Stadium.
Speaker 2: Big night tonight for the boys in Purple, that is untracked. Frankfurt,
Speaker 2: out of Germany's Bundesliga, will take part. Dino top Moler
Speaker 2: is the Frankfurt head coach and he admits he's impressed
Speaker 2: well with the facilities here in Louisbow.
Speaker 8: It's impressive, but I mean if you compare to Germany,
Speaker 8: I think it's the same. Also in the second division
Speaker 8: they have also top facilities. But like I said before,
Speaker 8: it's amazing here and I think the coach here and
Speaker 8: also the team, they have a very good opportunities here
Speaker 8: to train.
Speaker 5: And so for a guy like Wilson Harris, one of
Speaker 5: the top scores in the USL, what does he expect
Speaker 5: of the match tonight?
Speaker 7: I mean, we're gonna compete like any any other day.
Speaker 7: I think we compete during training, we compete during friendlies,
Speaker 7: and we compete during the weekend. So I'm looking forward
Speaker 7: to it. It's gonna be awesome playing with some of
Speaker 7: those players, and well, I'm sure, I'm sure we'll distribute
Speaker 7: minutes just to save some legs. But yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 7: be a good day.
Speaker 2: It should you bet, Wilson John. Have you been to
Speaker 2: any of the friendlies yet that they played the international friendlies?
Speaker 1: I have not, but I know that they've played a
Speaker 1: different German team over the past couple of years. I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty cool, especially when you have a team
Speaker 1: coming from the Bundesliga at the top of the German
Speaker 1: the German the hierarchy of soccer, if you will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and for.
Speaker 1: Them to be complimentary of the facilities and that type
Speaker 1: of stuff. Now, some of that may be some gamesman ship,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, I'm sure they mean what
Speaker 1: they say, and it's exciting to have them in town.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 5: I went to the Mexican Friendly last year, and I'm
Speaker 5: an international kind of guy. I lived overseas for years
Speaker 5: and I was just wanting I was still single at
Speaker 5: the time, so I was never home on the weekends.
Speaker 5: I would always get up and travel and I love traveling,
Speaker 5: and especially when it came to Europe.
Speaker 2: I love different cultures.
Speaker 5: I wholeheartedly believe that Anthony Bourdain is my spirit animal.
Speaker 5: And it's just I just love when you can mix
Speaker 5: international in with with the regular.
Speaker 2: It's nice to have that feel.
Speaker 5: And when you get somebody like like Introcked Frankfurt coming
Speaker 5: in and plus they're giving it. I think they're plastic
Speaker 5: they' but they're giving away beer steins today.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I take that.
Speaker 2: But it's just it's an exciting time.
Speaker 5: And right now it's exciting because lou City is a
Speaker 5: point up on the Charleston Battery in the USL for
Speaker 5: the best record in the conference, and they have forty
Speaker 5: four points. Charleston has forty three. And now you couple
Speaker 5: that with the Olympics, and I mean, it's it's pretty special.
Speaker 5: And if you're sitting around tonight and you're thinking, hey,
Speaker 5: what do we do? I just checked the weather app
Speaker 5: looks like we're gonna be okay to get this match
Speaker 5: in tonight.
Speaker 2: And if you're sitting around going, eh, what do you
Speaker 2: want to do? Give it a shot. Come down, take
Speaker 2: a look part, take of it. You know you'll be
Speaker 2: able to catch some of this, Like you said, some
Speaker 2: these folks coming out of the Bundesliga.
Speaker 5: Robin Cook a member of this team as well. If
Speaker 5: you watch the UEFA Euro this year, he played for
Speaker 5: team Germany. Mario Gutsi is coming in. He scored the
Speaker 5: World Cup winning goal for Germany in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot to keep an eye on. So
Speaker 2: come on down. If you just go get yourself some dinner.
Speaker 2: You got time. What is it you run out there?
Speaker 2: You got plenty of time.
Speaker 3: From taking some libations.
Speaker 1: I mean, Germany isn't known for the beer, right, So
Speaker 1: I come out and have a couple of drinks. You know,
Speaker 1: be responsible about it, but you know, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 5: Of course, come on out and enjoy and get yourself
Speaker 5: in that Olympic mode. You know, the Olympics are only
Speaker 5: here for a couple of weeks. So and now I
Speaker 5: remember John, I think last week talked you were a
Speaker 5: big soccer guy, right, Yes.
Speaker 3: So I played in high school. I wasn't great per.
Speaker 1: Se we actually fun fact, so last week I played
Speaker 1: in my annual high school's alumni soccer game, which is
Speaker 1: kind of cool to reconnect with some guys I played
Speaker 1: with in high school. And it was a good match
Speaker 1: with play me one or not one. We drew three
Speaker 1: to three, and you know, it's fun. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people don't necessarily appreciate or I
Speaker 1: want to say appreciate, but they don't understand soccer or
Speaker 1: like soccer as much around here.
Speaker 3: But it's fun.
Speaker 1: I enjoy it and I enjoy watching as much as
Speaker 1: I did play in it. And lu City puts on
Speaker 1: a good product. And I know it's not what you
Speaker 1: get with, you know, the Premier League or even at
Speaker 1: the upper level here in the United States is the
Speaker 1: major league soccer. But to have this team be around
Speaker 1: for ten years and never do worse in the postseason
Speaker 1: than make the Eastern Conference finals, that definitely shows or
Speaker 1: semi finals.
Speaker 3: Excuse me.
Speaker 1: That just goes to show what we've invested here with this,
Speaker 1: with this franchise, and I'm glad to see it thriving
Speaker 1: the way that it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, to your point, John, it's a great observation. I
Speaker 5: think Louisville is a soccer town. I think it's here.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's like we talked about last segment, is
Speaker 5: basketball always will be basketball, the basketball and horses. But
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you right now, you don't get a
Speaker 5: facility like Lynn Family State. If you look at some
Speaker 5: of these other clubs, all these other places they play
Speaker 5: now Detroit, they just got to prove for.
Speaker 2: A new stadium.
Speaker 5: Are playing right now in a high school stadium that
Speaker 5: Franklin Deleanor.
Speaker 2: Roosevelt dedicated in Detroit.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, you look at some of these places
Speaker 5: they play, Hartford, Miami plays.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is that Miami plays. And
Speaker 2: a lot of people don't think they're gonna be They
Speaker 2: only have eight points in the league. They don't a
Speaker 2: lot of people don't think they're gonna be around.
Speaker 5: But to see the money that's invested here, And as
Speaker 5: we were mentioning yesterday, when the FIFA World Cup comes in,
Speaker 5: Louisville's gonna be one of the cities where you know,
Speaker 5: teams camp out in, where they're gonna call home.
Speaker 2: It's going to be their home base if they choose.
Speaker 5: There's a bunch of cities out there, and then the
Speaker 5: teams come over and they just choose which one they'd
Speaker 5: like to to reside in but because the facilities and
Speaker 5: as you heard, you know, Top Moler talk about how
Speaker 5: these facilities equate that with those in Germany. It's impressive
Speaker 5: because I mean, I'm sure when they come over, when
Speaker 5: they come over state side, they're probably going it's kind
Speaker 5: of like what we did when when we try to
Speaker 5: get football going over there with the the NFL Europe
Speaker 5: or the World League, and it was it kind of was.
Speaker 2: It was there, but it wasn't really there, and so
Speaker 2: you come over.
Speaker 5: So I think tonight, folks, if we can get this
Speaker 5: rain to push through, maybe cool things off.
Speaker 2: But you know, again, it's July, right.
Speaker 5: So come on out. I'll be out there. I'm looking
Speaker 5: forward to it. Stand up in the end zones and
Speaker 5: have a good time. So that's just one of the
Speaker 5: many things that are going on, just one of the
Speaker 5: many things we're talking about here. Of course we're talking
Speaker 5: about TBT, we're talking about baseball too.
Speaker 2: The Louisville Bats are out of town.
Speaker 5: They had a disastrous trip to Toledo there in Scranton
Speaker 5: tonight to take on the rail Riders. They'd come into
Speaker 5: that pretty much in the running for the iOS second
Speaker 5: half title. There now six games back after being swept
Speaker 5: by the mud Hens.
Speaker 2: Are you a big baseball guy, John.
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 1: So again I was talking about people who don't appreciate soccer,
Speaker 1: so I can appreciate what baseball is and you know,
Speaker 1: being America's pastime, that type of a thing. But for me,
Speaker 1: it's just never. It's never, I guess wetted the whistle
Speaker 1: that it does. That's some other sports do for me, sure,
Speaker 1: and I can enjoy a baseball game now and again,
Speaker 1: but I don't really have a team that I follow.
Speaker 1: A lot of people around here are Reds fans. Obviously
Speaker 1: we have the Bats, the Triple A affiliate here in town,
Speaker 1: but it's.
Speaker 3: Tough to I think what it's always been for me. Scott,
Speaker 3: and I think.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this before. Yeah, at least I've mentioned
Speaker 1: it to you before, whether it be on the show
Speaker 1: we're in passing, but the amount of games that there
Speaker 1: are in Major League Baseball, and I'd say the same
Speaker 1: thing about the NBA as well, I just think it's
Speaker 1: way too much. And again that's a personal preference. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that I don't speak for the majority of people
Speaker 1: when I say that, but I find it hard to
Speaker 1: get into leagues and teams when there's so many games played,
Speaker 1: and it feels like that there may be isn't as
Speaker 1: much on the line an individual game as there is
Speaker 1: for the entirety of the season.
Speaker 3: And I know I'm kind of digging into the weeds.
Speaker 1: Of this a little bit, but that's just what's always
Speaker 1: bothered me about Major League Baseball, and I mean even
Speaker 1: really with the NBA as well. I feel like there's
Speaker 1: just an oversaturation of the product.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think what you're bringing up is a great point,
Speaker 5: and I think you echo what a lot of people think.
Speaker 5: That This is what I love about sports and what
Speaker 5: I love most and why I've kept such an open
Speaker 5: mind when it comes to sports because sports means so
Speaker 5: many different things to so many different people.
Speaker 2: And to your point, you know, I see people that
Speaker 2: go to some sports and I'm like, how do you
Speaker 2: sit and watch this? But then some people say to me,
Speaker 2: how do you sit and watch what you watch? For example,
Speaker 2: when I lived in San Diego, is down the street
Speaker 2: from the old Qualcom Wellcombe Stadium so Friday. In fact,
Speaker 2: my younger brother, who he and I shared an apartment
Speaker 2: in San Diego, he's a pilot for American. Now he's
Speaker 2: actually here in louisvillevernight. He's going to join us here
Speaker 2: when he comes to stand down at the Brown Hotel
Speaker 2: before he flies out tomorrow, he's gonna come and join us.
Speaker 2: We used to go to the Padres games on a
Speaker 2: Friday night.
Speaker 5: Now for me, the ballpark is almost a religious experience.
Speaker 5: It's not necessarily I like the game. I love the
Speaker 5: sound of the game.
Speaker 2: In fact, did you know that the bats sometimes will
Speaker 2: run a game without an organ or announcer or anybody?
Speaker 3: Really, I did not know that.
Speaker 5: Because people want to come and enjoy baseball in its
Speaker 5: purest form. So I would go to the ballpark. I
Speaker 5: would knock off work on a Friday. At the time,
Speaker 5: this was before we had phones and stuff like the
Speaker 5: way we don't. We had them, but we didn't use
Speaker 5: them the way we use them now. I'd grab a newspaper,
Speaker 5: I'd sit at the ballpark, grab a beer, just sit
Speaker 5: unwind after work, taking the sights, the sounds, the smells
Speaker 5: of the ballpark. That's why I always it always used
Speaker 5: to crack me up when I saw like families would
Speaker 5: come in and you know, you see these families and
Speaker 5: when they have young kids, and you know, the dad
Speaker 5: looks like a packing mule, you know, walking across the
Speaker 5: tundra to the beach with all the beach toys and everything.
Speaker 5: You see these families come into the ballpark with these kids,
Speaker 5: and the moms and the dads would be like scrambling
Speaker 5: to get the sunscreen on. Settle down, you just get
Speaker 5: settled in. They'd want to get up and go get
Speaker 5: something to eat. You could do anything, but it felt
Speaker 5: like enjoy yourself. I would come to the ballpark, open
Speaker 5: up the paper, have my beer, have my bag of peanuts,
Speaker 5: read the paper, look up at the game, see some
Speaker 5: of it, look down, read the paper, look back up
Speaker 5: at the game, and really just kind of enjoy the
Speaker 5: It was relaxing to me, is what it was.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's where the term America's pastime
Speaker 1: comes from. Yeah, because it's just you're you're there. Not
Speaker 1: that you don't enjoy the game, because I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: you know, there's noons of people who do. But if
Speaker 1: you're just if you just want to take in the
Speaker 1: atmosphere per se, that's a whole other experience in and
Speaker 1: of itself.
Speaker 5: And right, and what I would do is and I
Speaker 5: and I love that people still do this. I would
Speaker 5: keep score on the scorecard, even though you have this
Speaker 5: million dollar scoreboard and all these jumbo draws that have
Speaker 5: every stat you can imagine, I would still be writing
Speaker 5: it out on the scoreboard, and so and then and
Speaker 5: then what would happen is is I would purposely stay
Speaker 5: away from the ballpark on Saturday night because that was
Speaker 5: like beach towel giveaway. That was like whatever giveaway night.
Speaker 5: So nothing against families coming to the ballpark. They need
Speaker 5: to come to the ballpark. I don't want to poo
Speaker 5: poo that. Don't hear what I'm saying here.
Speaker 2: But when you're somebody like me who's kind of a
Speaker 2: baseball purist, who could almost go to the ballpark by
Speaker 2: myself and just be comfortable, you just have all these
Speaker 2: families racing around, and like I was talking about, and
Speaker 2: they're there for the free stuff.
Speaker 1: That's all the there for becomes a tourist attraction of sorts, bingo.
Speaker 5: And so I would stay away on Saturday night and
Speaker 5: that it was nice as I go back down on
Speaker 5: Sunday afternoon. And when you live in San Diego, you
Speaker 5: go to a Sunday afternoon baseball game. Dude, it's nice
Speaker 5: and there were some hot days, but it was nice
Speaker 5: and in the midst usually Sunday afternoons. I would buy
Speaker 5: like a I would buy a ticket right next to
Speaker 5: the bullpen, and I would take my camera down there
Speaker 5: with me, And that's where I got pictures like the
Speaker 5: greats John Smoltz, every time the Braves came to town, sit
Speaker 5: right on the bullpen.
Speaker 2: I got some great pictures of John Smoltz. You know.
Speaker 2: But then some people say the same thing when, like
Speaker 2: when I go to a Louisville basketball game, and we
Speaker 2: usually sit up top because we just can't afford to
Speaker 2: sit downstairs. You see people that come into the game.
Speaker 2: You could tell the there because they love basketball. I
Speaker 2: see it all the time at Bellerman games, Dude. I'll
Speaker 2: go to a Bellerman.
Speaker 5: Game and I'll see someone up at a Freedom Hall
Speaker 5: and they're sitting in the upper deck and they're sitting
Speaker 5: way away from everybody else, but they're watching that game.
Speaker 2: And I see them at the um Center, and I
Speaker 2: think that is too cool that fans love the game
Speaker 2: of basketball so much that that they want to go
Speaker 2: see it live. They don't need the greatest seats they
Speaker 2: can go down, they can sit down there and appreciate
Speaker 2: the game. And you know, I think sometimes one gets
Speaker 2: lost in I guess in modern day media, et cetera.
Speaker 2: You know, you go to a place like Cardinals Stadium
Speaker 2: in the flight deck upstairs, which is really cool by
Speaker 2: the way that fans can stand up and have live
Speaker 2: It's a party deck, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: But in this day and age where it feels like
Speaker 2: these stadiums are being built as entertainment complexes. I mean,
Speaker 2: look at Allegiance Stadium and then Churchill Downs. They have
Speaker 2: that same sort of nightclub kind of seating, like Churchill
Speaker 2: Downs has it down on the on the track there,
Speaker 2: or Allegiance Stadium has that as well. You're seeing more
Speaker 2: and more of these football stadiums with the boxes built
Speaker 2: on field level. There's still folks that go to these
Speaker 2: games that go because they just want to sit and
Speaker 2: enjoy a game and watch a game, and they don't
Speaker 2: necessarily have a bunch of people around them. And then
Speaker 2: and then ultimately, dude, you got ballpark food. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, what a culture that is.
Speaker 3: Dude.
Speaker 2: I mean, I go to a Padres game and have
Speaker 2: me a Rubio's Fish Taco Those were amazing. But you
Speaker 2: go through and now the ballpark food has just gone
Speaker 2: off the chain.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's tell you you keep talking loose city.
Speaker 1: Lynn Family Stadium has some of the best session stand
Speaker 1: food that you could ask for. Yellow expensive, and that's
Speaker 1: the same with any ballpark. Yeah, but it's it's definitely
Speaker 1: you have a big variety at Lynn Family Stadium for sure.
Speaker 5: Well that and they bring in I just now got
Speaker 5: to ten twenty browing, and everybody knows me, knows me.
Speaker 5: I'm a beer snob and I just went to ten
Speaker 5: twenty for the first time just a few months ago.
Speaker 2: But I had been drinking their beer when I go
Speaker 2: to Lynn Family Stadium because I gotta pale. It's just
Speaker 2: to die for them. An IPA guy.
Speaker 5: But what I love, how Lind to your point, what
Speaker 5: I love what Lynn Family Stadium did, and you're seeing
Speaker 5: more and more of Thisten stadiums, is that section right
Speaker 5: behind where folks stand in the end zone, big long bar. Okay,
Speaker 5: rarely do I have to wait at Lynn Family Stadium
Speaker 5: to buy a beer.
Speaker 2: That is a plus.
Speaker 5: I mean I know that if I'm watching a match,
Speaker 5: I can get up and in all fairness, though soccer
Speaker 5: is not like most sports. Like in basebail, everybody gets
Speaker 5: up at the end of an inning. Football everybody gets
Speaker 5: up at the end of a quarter. But it's designed
Speaker 5: in a way where I'm not standing in a long
Speaker 5: line to try to get something to eat. Now, I'm
Speaker 5: not saying there are lines there, but I can walk
Speaker 5: up and grab the beer that I want, et cetera.
Speaker 5: So in this day and age, sports is all about entertainment. Though,
Speaker 5: it's all about entertainment. It's how you entertain your guests.
Speaker 5: You gotta keep them fed, You got to keep them
Speaker 5: you gotta quench that thirst. And you gotta sell souvenirs too.
Speaker 5: That's what it's all about. So I get it all right, Hey, listen,
Speaker 5: we're gonna take a break when we come back. We're
Speaker 5: just rolling on here.
Speaker 2: In the first hour plenty to talk about NFL training
Speaker 2: camps are in full speed, Bengals fans getting some good
Speaker 2: news as well. So we'll talk about how the NFL
Speaker 2: is doing and take a look because first preseason games
Speaker 2: a week from Saturday, I believe it or not. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm Scott Fitzgerald, He's John Olden, we're back after this
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 5: All right, now I want to run out of the tunnel. Now,
Speaker 5: I want to runt of the tunnel. Let's go, let's
Speaker 5: make this happen. Getting excited for the match tonight. I'm
Speaker 5: Scott Fitzgeril, He's John Alden.
Speaker 2: As soon as we knock off here in a couple hours,
Speaker 2: I've been head of Lynn Family Stadium watching me a
Speaker 2: little footy action. Hey, we're just getting go. We've got
Speaker 2: a couple hours to go.
Speaker 5: When we come back, we'll talk a little NFL and
Speaker 5: college football. Some preseason honors being handed out. Training camps
Speaker 5: opening up a lot of teams breathing a sigh of
Speaker 5: relief because it is that time where you know you
Speaker 5: want to go, and you want to go in camp,
Speaker 5: but you don't want to go too hard that you
Speaker 5: cause an injury that can put you out. So some
Speaker 5: teams are already getting scares at camps. We'll talk about those,
Speaker 5: non non I'm looking it's up, dude, I'm looking at
Speaker 5: some of these menu items. Bad time to be doing that.
Speaker 5: Four o'clock's my hungry time. Man, It's right before dinner,
Speaker 5: and so bad time to be looking at some of these.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to this, Oh afternoon munchies, Yes, that's what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, dude. We'll talk about some of these foods
Speaker 2: that are available at these ballparks, some of these creative
Speaker 2: recipes that people come up with. How cool is that
Speaker 2: to be the guy or gal at a stadium that
Speaker 2: gets to come up with different foods that people can eat.
Speaker 2: You get to try throws, throw whatever up against the
Speaker 2: wall and see if it with sticks.
Speaker 5: There's some good stuff out there if you go to ballparks.
Speaker 5: We'll have some fun with that. Talk about more. We're
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