The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam November 4, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Bloom Daddy Experience. It's seven oh six on news Radio
eleven seventy. You know, I talk politics with Jimer Nacy,
former Congressman. Bloo Daddy showed political analyst Jip before we
get them the political aspect.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
How was that Steelers Colts game?

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Well, I got ADMD and it's interesting. I expected the
Colts to blow the Steelers out, and lo and behold,
the Stillers were able to beat the Colts. So anything
can happen in NFL on any given day. That's for sure.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
That is so true.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I mean the Colts, I think had the number one
offense coming into that game. The Steelers defense hasn't played
that well. But I'll tell you what, if you can
figure out the NFL, tell me, because I surely can't.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
I agree with you. And you know what. I went
to that game with a friend of mine and he said,
you know, we're probably going to be leading early this
will be a blowout, and little do we know it
was going to be the opposite what. I expected the
Colts to run all over the Steelers. I expected the
Colts to pass down the field at the tight end
is the number one tight end in the NFL. I
thought all that was going to happen and all of

(01:21):
a sudden boom. So you're right. Anything can happen any
day any team, except for the Browns. For some reason,
the Browns always seem.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
To do the same thing, which is lose, right, Yeah, yeah,
all right. Who's going to be the winners and losers
after tomorrow? I mean, how much should we read into
the results on Tuesday, Jim? A lot of local issues,
a lot of state issues, not a whole lot of
national issues. I mean, is this an early test on
Trump's presidency or no?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Well, unlike the NFL, I do think that some of
these races will be interesting. You've got the governor's race
in Virginia, You've got the governor's race in New Jersey.
Those are going to be big races, especially in Virginia.
We got to remember we have a Republican governor now there,
and it appears that we're going to end out at
least with the polling showing it's going to be a

(02:11):
Democrat governor. So I think this will be a tell
tale for both parties. And I said this today this
morning in a couple of social media posts, that whoever
wins and whoever loses is going to have to address
the positions they're in because it is a starting point
for the next election, which is a year from now.

(02:32):
And by the way, we have a shutdown, and both
parties are saying they're you know, they're playing the fingers
at each other. But I think tonight's also going to
dictate who's going to have to give in based on
how at least those two statewide elections go. And I
think those are going to be the key.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Okay, let's move over to the shutdown. I saw a
recent poll forty five percent blaming Trump and Republicans for
the shutdown, one third blaming Democrats. I mean, how much
are both parties prepared to lose your gym?

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, that's the key, because what it's really going to
come down to is we are now all talking about
the midterms, and even though you're out, this shutdown will
be part of the midterms. There's also a pull out
today bloom Daddy. I think CNN that shows that Trump's
approval rating is the lowest ever at thirty seven percent.
So you know, as I travel the state, as I

(03:24):
talk to, Republicans are saying, oh, Republicans are in great shape. Hold,
Trump's doing a great job. It's like I keep saying,
it's the independence they're going to make a decision, and
the independence of the ones that are not happy. So
this shutdown, I believe you're going to see a major
change and shift after tomorrow. You're going to see people
saying we better get this fixed. And it'll be whatever

(03:46):
party wins or loses, they're going to say, let's change
the momentum because this is not a good thing. And
it could be either. Like I say, if the Republicans
end up winning Virginia and New Jersey, which doesn't look
like are going to, but if they do, Democrats are
going to have to say, wait a minute, we got
a serious problem, a lot more problem than we think.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
When you take a look at where we are politically
right now, you know, regardless of what happens tomorrow, do
you feel the Republican Party is in a much much
better spot than the Democratic Party or do you feel
it's a little closer than maybe people think, Like I
think there's a wide gap right now, but that's just me.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well, look, the Democrats are at the lowest approval having
I think there are twenty six twenty seven percent. But
what people forget is Republicans are also at thirty four
or thirty five percent, So neither party is really liked.
And then we have this problem in the Republican Party
that seems to occur, and we got this anti semitic
discussion and what happened with Jade Vance's past week and

(04:49):
all these other things that you know. I was at
a function over the weekend of Republican function and they say,
we seem to want to damage ourselves, and it always happens.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
You just have to.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Be careful in politics because some of these issues really
do roll over into elections, even elections a year down
the road. Boom daddy. The only good thing is elections
really do are decided probably thirty to forty five days out.
So this is just a trend. It's a problem, but
it's something that either party better correct as they see

(05:21):
what happens in this election tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Hi Jim Joy talking to you.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Thank you so much, you as well, all right, Jim
or Nacy, former Congressman, Bloomdaddy Show political analyst.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Oh just there was a comment there that Reneesi said about,
you know, political parties are not liked currently. I think
the better way of stating that is politicians are currently
not liked in this country.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (05:48):
I mean, it doesn't matter what side of the aisle,
what color tie you where, you know, it's right now
the American people are sick of politicians. I mean the
shutdown is a priming. I forget my comment last week,
the comparison that I made, but at this point in time,
you know, every day we are seeing another live press

(06:12):
conference from Schumer or from Johnson, and they're falling on
deaf ears. It's falling on deaf ears because they're Okay,
they're not suffering. I'm sure they've got stress in their lives.
I'm not negating that. But the American people are suffering,
and and it's it's gotten ridiculously out of control. That's

(06:35):
why today election day is very, very important. Another thing
that Renecy mentioned in there is the poll that came
out yesterday released by CNN. I've said this for a
while I don't put a lot of faith or a

(06:56):
lot of opinions behind polls because it depends on number
one who conducts the polls. It depends on number two
where within this nation those polls are conducted. It also
depends upon what demographic of people are pulled and asked

(07:19):
in those polls. So all of that comes into play.

Speaker 7 (07:25):
A couple of things that I've heard over the last
couple weeks in my travels. Again, you know, my other job,
I have some talk radio on listening to different shows,
and I thought this early on, but then it kind
of just went out of my mind. But the reason
the government is still shut down today is because of

(07:46):
this election day. It would have probably been resolved a
long time ago had it not been election day coming out.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
So you think the Democrats have been so staunch about
renewing a bill that has been the same for how
long at this I mean, it was just elect it
was just voted on back in May, I believe.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
I mean, it's like it's like it's it's not very long.

Speaker 6 (08:09):
They want it. They want a dark cloud hanging over
this election. That's a great point.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
Yeah, And I mean that was one of the things
that I heard and I mean, like I said, I
thought of it at first, and then it was kind
of like, oh, that they're not going to go to
the election day. That's too far away. And then all
of a sudden as it got closer and I wasn't
thinking about it, but I did hear you know, then
I heard it. I was like it, like reignited that thought.
It makes sense, and so you'll probably by the end
of the week you'll see something resolved as far as

(08:35):
the shutdowns concerned. The other thing I heard, you know,
you know everybody's talking about Mandamie in New York.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:44):
The thing is him winning in New York really isn't
going to affect you know, the.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Country, the heart of the nation.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
He's going to drive business and everything else out of
New York if he gets elected. But the thing is,
what it is going to do is it's going to
set up And this is what I heard yesterday that
this this will now make AOC the front runner if
Mandamie wins, this will make AOC the front runner for
the twenty twenty eight Democratic presidency. So keep that in

(09:18):
mind because because that's the thought, you know that oh god,
you know, he's got that socialist attitude, or as the
President said on sixty Minutes, he's not a socialist, he's
a communist. But unfortunately there are people that are leaning
that way, and it's it's mostly the younger generation because

(09:39):
they don't know any better, and that's what they're being taught.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
And that goes back to the conversation we had on
politics on Leash last Wednesday. The younger generation are not
educated in history, in the history of our country and
in our government.

Speaker 7 (09:56):
And how things work, and all they see is all
it's going to be free, or student loans are gonna
be forgiven or this, And guess what. Nothing is free
in life.

Speaker 6 (10:05):
No no matter how much your parents have handed you
in life and all your participation trophy awards, nothing in
this world is free. Good God save us all. AOC
top of the ticket, yikes seven sixteen. You're listening to
the bloom Daddy Experience. Coming up, We're gonna have another
chance for you to win today, Sarah Evans here at

(10:25):
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(10:50):
The bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam here on news
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Speaker 7 (10:55):
I just realized something.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Uh oh what.

Speaker 7 (10:59):
At some point to ask I get to look here,
let me look real quick. I don't think at some
point in time I'm going to have to come in
here and load some Christmas music, some Christmas bumpers in ah.
I thought I saved some last year.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
We're knocking on the door there.

Speaker 7 (11:20):
Maybe I did, Yeah, I did.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
We're getting.

Speaker 7 (11:23):
These are all.

Speaker 6 (11:24):
Songs that we're getting close to that point. Oh yeah, Well,
speaking of that, we're officially it's officially fifty days till Christmas. Folks, there,
your countdown is on. We are at fifty days till Christmas. Yikes, yikes, yikes, hikes.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
We have a couple of them, and we're not.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
I am not ready for what's there's.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
One here called thumb thumb thumb.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
I'm glad you very cautiously said those.

Speaker 7 (11:54):
On, very deliberate, Yes.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
Very yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
No fum fum FuMB.

Speaker 6 (12:04):
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Speaker 7 (12:28):
You know, just since I was speaking about Christmas, printed
off this story today that there's a Mood Media survey
out there. Of US adults, only twenty percent believe that
retailers should wait until after Thanksgiving to begin holiday music,
decorations and sense in stores. It says that the Experimental

(12:50):
Media Company found that thirty three percent of the respondents
support early November holiday displays. So, in other words, like
do you want your like, I mean, I get it.
I get the stores because it is the shopping season,
right it is the shopping season right now.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
I mean, but we've kind of lost sight of the
purpose of Christmas. It's become so much about the dollar. Yeah, yeah,
it's taken away the magic. Magic, it's taken away the purpose.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
Twenty two percent except October starts. No, no, it's like
you can't go before Halloween.

Speaker 6 (13:25):
And listen, I'm so sorry. Thanksgiving has gotten the shaft
when it comes to the holidays, it has.

Speaker 7 (13:33):
There's really not I mean, what do you you just
buy some there's really nothing like to decorate other than
fall and you buy those little turkeys and you can
hang them on your door, stick them in your window
or I know.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
But it's almost like it's not even really talked about anymore.
It's almost just completely glazed over. Like a Christmas Ham.
You go straight into you go straight into Christmas and
you just forget the poor pilgrims and everything else.

Speaker 7 (13:59):
Does the it's the holiday ambiance, Does that influence your
shopping behavior? No, because it says about thirty two percent
claiming that it does not.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
No, it doesn't.

Speaker 7 (14:10):
I guess there's a point. Park University professor, her name
is Eline Luthor, and she told Katie Ka that retailers
are trying to get there first before each of their competitors,
and they're expanding the season from two months to four months.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
Four months.

Speaker 7 (14:27):
I mean, like, if you like, if you do, but
if you do, if you do a Christmas club to
you know, just put some money away. You normally don't
get that until October, right, so why put your stuff
out in September? Like mid October is about when you
get your Christmas club money.

Speaker 6 (14:42):
It's all about getting the dollar first.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
Well, I understand, I mean that's I mean like I mean,
I'm I'm I'm guilty because I went to that Washington
County that Christmas. I don't know what they call it.
It's got a name, but I don't know what the
big bizarre. Yeah, it's at the fair grounds. And I
mean I did my I did some Christmas shopping. I
spent six or han hundred bucks up there.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
So you gotta jump on me, that's for sure.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
And some of my stuff's already wrapped.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
You've got a major joke.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
If I could get if I if I could have
found boxes for a couple of things, if I had
the i'd have all. I'd have a lot more stuff wrapped.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Well, I was driving yesterday. I had to go to
Barnesville yesterday, and I was in Barnesville, and then when
I came back, I had to go to this other place,
all these back roads and stuff. Anyways, there's a house
in the Belmont Yeah, Belmont area totally decorated for Christmas.

Speaker 7 (15:32):
That's just insane.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Light up snowflakes. They got the inflatables in the front yard.
I mean they of course the inflatables weren't up because
it was the middle of the day. They got the whole,
the whole shebang ready to go. And my car is
covered in in those fall ladybug things and I had
the windows cracked. It's just like it. I don't know,

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but we are officially fifty days away from the big day.

Speaker 7 (16:00):
Has our Sisters station mixed ninety seven? Does that kick in?
That kicks in pretty soon?

Speaker 6 (16:05):
That kicks Yes? You're speaking of our twenty four to
seven Christmas music. Yeah, yeah, we are your official.

Speaker 7 (16:11):
Get the news out, the official home. You're ready to
jump right into the news.

Speaker 6 (16:17):
The official home for twenty four to seven Christmas music.
That is such a minus minus the Nailors games, minus
the Nailor's game and live broadcasts from the North Pole
by Santa and Missus Claus. That'll be happening about Saturdays too. Yeah,
we're the only ones to do that. It's an absolute
great treat for the little ones. That is one of
the most polarizing conversations with people Christmas music, and not

(16:42):
just because I work here at the radio station. I
hear people say they either can't get enough of it.

Speaker 7 (16:49):
That's blue Daddy who's an idiot or.

Speaker 6 (16:52):
Absolutely cannot stand it.

Speaker 7 (16:55):
That would be me who's a genius, and I'm.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
Kind of like in the middle. I can take it
in doses.

Speaker 7 (17:01):
Yeah, I mean, I just I can't. I don't like
it before Thanksgiving.

Speaker 6 (17:07):
Again it goes back and.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
My birthdays in December, so I really don't like it
until like my birthday.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
But again it goes back to if it's too much,
it takes away the special nest is that even a
word specialness?

Speaker 7 (17:20):
I know what you mean, but it takes away the feeling.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, just a reminder coming up, we're gonna
have another pair of tickets. Sarah Evans, stay tuned for
that seven twenty eight The bloom Daddy Experience here on
news Radio eleven seventy WWVA.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
You know, I don't know if it's getting older or
if things inevitably change, but I'm going to crossroads with
major league sports, which I never thought that I would
find myself in. And you may be at the same spot.
Just hear me out here. I literally have a hard
time watching the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NBA, college football,

(17:57):
even MMA. I've loved MMA for decades, almost can't watch anymore.
I'm gonna have to turn myself into a National Hockey
League fan.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
I either got to start rooting for the.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Penguins or you know, I've got a buddy we go
to Sabers games in Buffalo. I've got to find something
to watch and to root for, because I feel like
I'm lost as a fan right now. And this is
what I mean the NFL. You watch the NFL, what
do you see? Nothing but flags? Any run over ten

(18:30):
yards you can almost guarantee there's gonna be a flag.
Any punt return, kickoff return that's big, there's gonna be
a flag.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Roughing the passer. You've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
These are game changing penalties where guys are barely touching
the quarterback and they're getting called for roughing the passer.
Then I see a blatant roughing the passer and there's
no call. I want to see vertical passing. All we
get are bubble screens and tight end screens. I mean,
it's unwatchable to me. I have a hard time watching
the NFL. College football now that these guys are paid,

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they're about as unmotivated as pro guys are.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I don't like college football.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Now the transfer portal, you have free agency in college football.
It's just not as fun as he's anymore major league baseball.
I'll give you a prime example of why I can't
watch major league baseball. Bottom of eleventh inning, Blue Jay's
seventh game of the World Series, down by one run,
runners on first and third, one out, the slowest runner

(19:30):
in Major League baseball at the plate, Alejandro Kirk and
Josh Naylor are the two slowest runners from home to
first in Major League baseball.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
If you don't believe me, google it.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
You've got a runner at third with one out, ties
the game, Game seven of the World Series, that ties it.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
What do they let the slowest runner in Major League
Baseball do?

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Swing away? And you know what he did? Ground ball
to shortstop double play. Dodgers win the World Series. If
there was ever a chance to pull a safety squeeze,
which if you execute properly, is indefensible, it was that situation.
Yet they choose not to play fundamental baseball and they
have the slowest guy in Major League baseball swing away.

(20:19):
I can't watch it. I can't watch five pitchers a game.
I can't watch guys not pitch. They're all just trying
to throw one hundred and one miles an hour. I
can't watch hitters just care about exit v law and
home runs and not.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Care about striking out.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Major League Baseball to me is borderline unwatchable. Now let's
get to the NBA. Nothing but three pointers. The regular
season doesn't matter to anybody. Load management. Guys aren't playing
because well, too much of a workload on them.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
We don't want to get injured. And then you get
to the postseason and.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
They allow rugby to be played on a basketball court,
which takes away all the skill in finesse.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
What do I have left? Oh mmm? MMA? Used to
love MMA.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Now you've got a bunch of guys named Igor, Sergey
and nikolof who all they want to do is throw
you on the ground, wrestle around and get get a
rear naked choke on you, or try to break your
arm in an armbar. What happened to punching guys in
the face. What happened to Chuck Ledell, Tito Ortiz, I mean,
Connor McGregor. What happened to standing there and just saying

(21:30):
let's go and throwing bombs?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Now it's all just wrestling.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
I mean, the only thing more boring than watching wrestling
is soccer, and don't get me going there.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I've got NHL Professional cornhole or pickleball to watch, but
I'm gonna have to pick one because all the major
sports that I grew up on, all the major sports
that I loved, they're just about dead to me.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
What is you feel in my pain?

Speaker 7 (22:11):
I'm not really. I mean, first off, I will say this,
the NBA for me, these two sports are are totally
unwatchable for me. And that's the NBA. In the NFL,
and as far as the four major sports. When he
talks about, you know, the suicide squeeze and everything else
with the World Series and Alejandro Kirk being up and whatever,

(22:37):
I get it. You know, he he's a baseball purist,
and in reality, that's what you should do. But that's
not what they do in the major leagues anymore. I'm sorry,
They're not going to suicide squeeze. The other thing is
he says, oh he hits into a double play, it
was a broken bat. So if he doesn't break, his
bat doesn't get through. You see what I'm saying there?
There are so many ifs and what ifs, and if

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this would have happened or if that wouldn't happen. I mean,
you can't. You can't judge the World Series on a
broken bat double play to end the game. I'm sorry,
I mean, you just you can't. I think part of
the problem with major sports is the oversaturation in the

(23:22):
television market. It used to be that being able to
other than your local team, say that like it like
for us, the Pirates, for some of you, maybe it's
the Indians. For some of you, maybe it's the Reds.
But minus your local team, it's you can catch a

(23:45):
Major League Baseball game on just about every day without
having And I think it's I just think there's an
oversaturation of the product. Football. We've talked, We've talked about
it before Thursday night, Sunday, Monday night, Monday night. You know,
then you get into whence college football is ever now
they're playing on Saturdays.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
But then you also get into the European games where
they're at nine o'clock in the morning, and yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
Yeah, so, I mean, you know, there's there's just way
I think there's just way too much, you know, and
then you know, people don't watch the game for the
games anymore because they're all gambling. It's all about fantasy football.
It's all about betting on the game. It's this parlay.
It's that parlay all you know, this prop bet who's
scoring first? You know, just watch the game.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
Well, and if you listen to the announcers and you
watch a lot of the things that scroll lost along
the bottom of the screen, it's in regards to fantasy
football is and it's like.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
It's a billion dollar industry. Yeah, I get it, But
then you.

Speaker 6 (24:45):
You brought up the gambling thing, which was the point
I was going to make is it leaves a bad
taste in the mouth for a lot of just avid fans.
They don't want that dark cloud hanging over the sport
because it has opened up the door to a lot
of speculation, a lot of questions, and the questions in

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regards to the the honesty and integrity of the game.

Speaker 7 (25:14):
The questions have always been there, but now that you
can now that that everybody can bet on it, it's
been amplified.

Speaker 6 (25:21):
Well. And when you have a call and I'm using
football as an example, when you have a call that
drastically changes the outcome of a game and the momentum.
Immediately you go, Okay, fixed, whose pocket is that refic?
Because I've seen it. It's blatantly obvious. It was a
horrible call.

Speaker 7 (25:41):
So and I told you off air before we came
in this morning about how I was flipping on some
college basketball last night and I looked Kansas was playing
Green Bay and it was a blowout, and all of
a sudden, I flip on Auburn and Bethune Cookman and
I'm looking and thinking, Okay, this is going to be
a blowout, and it's a two point game with three
minutes ago, it goes into overtime. I mean, I sat

(26:02):
there and watched the first night of men's college basketball.
I'm into a game already at that. Bethune Cookman.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Okay, so Bethune Cookman. Yeah, I must say I've never
heard of Bethune Cookman.

Speaker 7 (26:15):
So I mean, but you're sitting there and you're going,
holy cow, this is a great game already, and here
you got possibly a huge upset in day one.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
And that's how a sports fans should feel. It should be.
This is a really good game. I can't turn it off.
It should not matter fantasy and all that. That's all
that should matter is the product out on the court
or the field.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
And you know what made me mad about last night
in college basketball, knowing that on the first Monday in
April it's gonna be over.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Oh God, don't rush time.

Speaker 7 (26:50):
I mean, but I mean, just you just sit there
because I mean, like, for me, college basketball is is,
it's your I mean, I love it. I mean, I
love college basketball. I love I love Major League baseball,
I love college baseball. You know, there's a lot of
things that I mean, like he's talking about MMA. I've
never been into MMA. I just never Like I can't

(27:11):
watch it. It's too I just it just it doesn't
do anything for me. Like I would rather watch a
great boxing match than than than an MMA fight.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
Yeah, I can't see people twisted and knees popped out
of place and now the blood No, not my not
my No.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
If it's like if I'm out and then it's the
big show and they've got it on or whatever, then
I mean I might watch a little bit of it,
but I'm not. I would never pay for an MMA fight.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
You're not paying one hundred and fifty dollars for pay
per view.

Speaker 7 (27:38):
It's like paying for professional wrestling. Like, are you an idiot?

Speaker 6 (27:44):
Hey, it's still going strong.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
I get it. It's popular and it's entertaining, but I
mean I'm not paying for it.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
Men soap opera, that's what it is.

Speaker 7 (27:53):
And women like it.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Well primarily men and little short.

Speaker 7 (27:59):
Kids. Ye, kids love it.

Speaker 6 (28:01):
Seven forty six. You know what we love. We love
having winners, and we're gonna have one of those a
little bit later in the show. We have another pair
of Sarah Evans that's coming up. And then don't forget
get your.

Speaker 7 (28:12):
Registration, Sarah Evans. But we're giving away the tickets. We're
not giving away Paris Sarah Evans. No, that means every twins. No, no,
she's been cloned.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Well you have the take that home with you. Seven
forty six. The bloom Daddy Experience samon Otis News Radio
eleven seventy WWVA two. Good Tuesday morning. Thank you for
popping in with us. The bloom Daddy Experience. Samon otis

(28:45):
here on news radio eleven seventy WWVA. Ah otis, let's
see here, let's hit on some local news. How's that sound.
I think it sounds pretty good. Okay, So out of
Ohio County human remains have been found buried on an
Ohio County property. They have and they have been identified

(29:08):
as those of a man reported missing out of the
Buckeye State, which, of course, for those who don't know,
it's Ohio. Andrew Downs was reported as missing from a
community near Columbus in July of the year twenty twenty one.
West Virginia officials received a report in twenty twenty three
that Downs had died and was buried here locally. Two

(29:33):
suspects are now each facing charges of concealment of a
deceased body. Also out of Wheeling, pet owners are urged
to plan ahead next time they visit a dog park
and Wheeling. That's because water service has been turned off
for the season at the Family Dog Parks at Tunnel
Green and at Garden Park. Both dog parks parks I'm

(29:57):
Sorry are still open until further notice. Marshall County authorities
are on the lookout for a stolen pickup truck. The
pickup truck is a Dodge Ram and it was reported
missing from the Washington Lands United Methodist Church parking lot
over the weekend. It belongs to a volunteer firefighter who

(30:18):
was responding to an emergency call. Anyone with information in
this case is asked to be asked to contact the police. Okay,
so somebody steals a truck not only from a church
parking lot, but it's also a volunteer firefighters truck who
is on response to an emergency call. Talk about three strikes.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
Talk about signing up for the Hell Express one way ticket.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
Yeah, that's that's pretty crappy. Wheeling city leaders will come
together this evening. A city council meeting is set to
begin at five point thirty. The agenda will include discussions
about two traffic rules and an update eight from of
course Mayor McGruder. More details can be found on line.

(31:06):
I'm sure can't promise, but I'm probably sure that the
December first closing of the homeless encampment will come up.
That was, of course. We had Mayor Recruiter on the
show last week. Great conversation with him about that and
what Wheeling is doing in regards to that situation and

(31:27):
the speculated influx of those coming from Steubenville as they
closed their shelters.

Speaker 7 (31:33):
Also, yeah, no, I was just gonna say, we're just
gonna I was just gonna move on to some sports. Yeah,
please do So last night, if you were listening on
our sister station, EGO and Oh seven, you heard that
the Penguins blew a third period lead and lost for
three to the Maple Leafs from Toronto. Ben Kendall netted
a pair of goals for the Pens as they squandered
here three nothing advantage. Pittsburgh has dropped back to back

(31:55):
games and they're gonna be hosting the Capitals on Thursday night.
And I don't know if you saw this or not,
but there is a Pirates player that is once again
up for a prestigious award. Paul Skeenes was named the
finalist for the National League Cy Young yesterday. It's a
second straight season that he's been nominated for the award,
and the winner will be announced next Wednesday. And then
there's some Browns news. I'm gonna let you take.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Coach Stefanski heard my criticism.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
I'm going to thank you for George, but go ahead, That's.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
What I'm telling myself.

Speaker 7 (32:26):
Anyways, he was listening the other day and he said, no,
I think I'm going to take Sam's.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
I think that woman knows what she's talking about. Yeah,
so of.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Course he'd be the only one that said that.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
Yeah, because I am that woman. The Brown's head coaches
once again, Uh done dueling doing the play calls. I've
said this all season long. Kevin Stefanski told the media
on Monday that offensive coordinator Tommy Reese will take over
play calling duties starting this week during the game against
the Jets. Cleveland is just two and six and coming

(32:58):
off a bye week where the decision was made. This
is now the second straight season Stefanski will relinquish the role.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
Why did you get why did you even take it back?

Speaker 5 (33:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
I don't know. There are certain things that just if
you weren't good at it the first time, why are
you doing it again?

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Well, and staying along the lines of sports, I wanted
to give a shout out to a woman on social media.
This is from California. Her name is tish Uh tish
Homan Tis. I'm not exactly shut Timen, possibly Gold's gym member,
posted a video I'm gonna call her my all Star
of the day of a man in the women's locker room.

(33:40):
She stood there, called him out to his face and
called out Gold's gym. The problem is her membership has
now been revoked.

Speaker 7 (33:51):
Of course, after she took a California.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
She took a stance and she objected to this man
in the woman's restroom and the things he said to
her about what the women in the locker room want
to look at, i e. What he has that they don't.
That's okay a beard no.

Speaker 8 (34:14):
Not a beard?

Speaker 3 (34:16):
No?

Speaker 7 (34:17):
No, come on. That was good.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
That was good. But it's okay for him to make
those disparaging comments. But it's not okay for a woman
to say to a chain gem, get the man out
of the woman's locker room. So Tish, thank you, just
a huge shout out, because we need more voices like

(34:41):
hers to make this change happen. Seven fifty eight. You're
listening to the blue Daddy Experience here on news radio
eleven seventy WWVA, z.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Number one Tuck show in the Ohio Valley. This is
the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His goal
in form, entertain, and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now news.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Radio eleven seventy It's the bloom Daddy Experience. Hey, it's
eighth six. Let's get this hour rolling you know, I
talked politics with Jim or Nacy, former Congressman Blue Daddy
Show political analyst Jim. Before we get into the political aspect,
how was that Steelers Colts game?

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Well, I got ADMD and it's interesting. I expected this
the Colts to blow the Steelers out, and lo and behold,
the Stellers were able to beat the Colts. So anything
can happen in NFL on any given day, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
That is so true.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I mean, the Colts I think had the number one
offense coming into that game. The Steelers defense hasn't played
that well. But I'll tell you what, if you can
figure out the NFL, tell me, because I surely can't.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
I agree with you. And you know what, I went
to that game with a friend of mine and he said,
you know, we're probably going to be leading our this
will be a blowout, and little do we know, it
was going to be the opposite.

Speaker 7 (36:05):
What.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
I expected the Colts to run all over the Steelers.
I expected the Colts to pass down the field at
the tight end is the number one tight end in
the NFL. I thought all that was going to happen,
and all of a sudden, boom, so You're right. Anything
can happen any day any team, except for the Browns.
For some reason, the Browns always seem.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
To do the same thing, which is lose. Right, Yeah, yeah,
all right. Who's going to be the winners and losers
after tomorrow? I mean, how much should we read into
the results on Tuesday, Jim? A lot of local issues,
a lot of state issues, not a whole lot of
national issues. I mean, is this an early test on
Trump's presidency or no?

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Well, unlike the NFL, I do think that some of
these races will be interesting. You've got the governor's race
in Virginia, You've got the governor's race in New Jersey.
Those are going to be big races, especially in Virginia.
We got to remember we have a Republican governor now there,
and it appears that we're going to end out, at
least with the polling showing it's going to be a

(37:05):
Democrat governor. So I think this will be a tael
tale for both parties. And I said this today this
morning in a couple of social media posts, is that
whoever wins and whoever loses is going to have to
address the positions they're in because it is a starting
point for the next election, which is a year from now.

(37:27):
And by the way, we have a shutdown and both
parties are saying they're you know, they're playing the fingers
at each other. But I think tonight's also going to
dictate who's going to have to give in based on
how at least those two statewide elections go, and I
think those are going to be the key.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Okay, let's move over to the shutdown. I saw a
recent poll forty five percent blaming Trump in Republicans for
the shutdown, one third blaming Democrats. I mean, how much
are both parties prepared to lose your Jim?

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Well, that's the key, because what it's really are going
to come down to is we are now all talking
about the midterms, and even though you're out, this shutdown
will be part of the midterms. There's also a pull
out today bloom Daddy, I think CNN that shows that
Trump's approval rating is the lowest ever at thirty seven percent. So,
you know, as I travel the state, as I talk

(38:19):
to Republicans, they're saying, Oh, Republicans are in great shape.
Old Trump's doing a great job. It's like I keep
saying it's the independence they're going to make a decision
and the independence of the ones that are not happy.
So this shutdown, I believe you're going to see a
major change and shift after tomorrow. You're going to see
people saying we better get this fixed. And it'll be

(38:41):
whatever party wins or loses, they're going to say, let's
change the momentum because this is not a good thing.
And it could be either. Like I say, if the
Republicans end up winning Virginia and New Jersey, which doesn't
look like they're going to, but if they do, Democrats
are going to have to say, wait a minute, we
got a serious problem, more problem than we think.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
When you take a look at where we are politically
right now, you know, regardless of what happens tomorrow, do
you feel the Republican Party is in a much much
better spot than the Democratic Party or do you feel
it's a little closer than maybe people think, Like I
think there's a wide gap right now, but that's just me.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Well, look, the Democrats are at the lowest approval having
I think there are at twenty six twenty seven percent.
But what people forget is Republicans are also at thirty
four or thirty five percent, So neither party is really liked.
And then we have this problem in the Republican Party
that seems to occur, and we got this anti Semitic
discussion and what happened with Jade Vance's past week and

(39:43):
all these other things that you know. I was at
a function over the weekend of Republican function and they say,
we seem to want to damage ourselves, and it always happens.
You just have to be careful in politics because some
of these issues really do roll over into elections, even
elections a year down the road. Boom Daddy. The only

(40:04):
good thing is elections really do are decided probably thirty
to forty five days out. So this is just a trend.
It's a problem, but it's something that either party better
correct as they see what happens in this election tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (40:20):
Hi, Jim Joy talking to you.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
You as well.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
All right, Jim Ornacy, former congressman, Bloom Daddy Show political analyst.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
I want to hit on something here. We just got
an email from longtime listener Randy made a really really
great point to that conversation. Jimer Nacy mentioned the recent
CNN poll. He pointed out how convenient the timing of
the release of that poll Monday, the week of the election.

(40:51):
And I agree with him. I one hundred percent agree
with him. It's amazing how conveniently that was released. So
really good point there, Randy, and discussing the whole Pole situation.
Listen it I don't put a lot of credence behind
these polls because CNN can release one yesterday, Fox News
can release one tomorrow, Newsmax can release one today. It

(41:14):
all depends on who, where, what time of day, want
demographic that they pull the tells you the direction it's
going to go. I mean, that's that's what we have
going on right here. But today it is election day. Absolutely,
it's election day. So locally there's a couple pretty contested

(41:35):
races going on. Of course we've told you about the
trustee race in Richland Township, but also mayor studient The
race for mayor of Studentville is up there as a
top race, along with mayor of Shady Side. So there
are some pretty large races happening here across the Ohio Valley.
So go out and vote. Go out and vote, folks,

(41:55):
even if you think, eh, it's not a presidential election,
it's not for the or. All elections matter. All elections matter,
So go out and vote and take your I D.
Because in the state of Ohio you still have to

(42:15):
have your ID to vote. Folks. We're not California, period.
We're not California. But Randy, thank you for that point.
It was a really good point on the conversation with
Jim or Nacy in regards to the CNN Poul It's
amazing how conveniently conveniently things happen to make it into

(42:37):
the press. Huh huh.

Speaker 7 (42:41):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (42:41):
I thought you're gonna say something. I just turn on
your mic. No, okay, eight thirteen.

Speaker 7 (42:45):
I's just gonna say, we get your chance to win
coming up. Oh yeah, four A Paris Evans tickets and whatever.
The Christmas Show on December five. And what are we
doing tomorrow, Sarah Evans tickets. I don't know. Freedom, well,
we got both of them going on tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
Free lunch delivered by us on Friday, Curtis of our
friends at River City. For that, all you have to
do is email Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name, phone
number and company. It's eight fourteen when we get back.
We're talking hockey, folks. But we're talking new a new
team here in the Ohio Valley is hitting the ice.

(43:23):
The bloom Daddy Experience SAM and Otis News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA eight nineteen. Welcome back the bloom Daddy Experience
Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. So I
tas before the break, they're gonna be talking hockey. Listen, folks,

(43:44):
we're talking a little bit of different hockey. Otis and
I we talk penguins, you know, because they're on our
sister station, Eagle one oh seven five. But listen, we
have a new local team. So please welcome to studio
Sidney HoTT along with sister Tory Baugo and your chain.
You're current champions, right Hi? Yeah, we are champions of

(44:04):
the Lady Lightning Birds. Yes.

Speaker 9 (44:06):
Uh, we previously played with the Wheeling Lightning Birds, who
are the current ECWHL champions winners from last season.

Speaker 6 (44:13):
We didn't we don't always get a lot of champions
in the studios. Wanted to throw that in there, but
we're not talking the Lightning Birds. We're talking new team,
the Tri State Thunder. Okay, so give us a breakdown,
ladies of how did this come to be what league
of this all of the kind of details on the

(44:35):
on the league and the team. So whoever wants to
go first? Yeah, sure.

Speaker 9 (44:40):
So, as you mentioned, we were formerly members of the
Wheeling Lightning Birds. We've been involved with Wheeling hockey our
whole lives. We grew up in Waha. We played high
school hockey for the Lindsley Boys varsity team Sunday and
I did. We went off played college hockey and we've
since we've become adults and moved back to the area,
we have been involved with hockey here and we and

(45:00):
trying to really grow the sport, which I think everyone
has probably seen a huge increase in hockey in the area,
and especially in women's hockey, and so we have seen
just surprising demand me for women's hockey. I think women's
sports are growing all across the country. And so this
season we created a new team here in Wheeling called

(45:20):
the Tri State Thunder and we are playing in the POWHA,
which is the Pennsylvania Ohio Women's Hockey Association and it
is a team of a league of eight teams. It
is a sea level league, which is a step up
The Lightning Birds are d level team, So we're more
like a sister team to Lightning Birds. We're bringing something

(45:42):
new here, totally different league, totally different competition. In a
Sea level team has players who have a little bit
more experience maybe playing hockey than other levels, and so
we have a roster that we're really excited about. Everyone's
from the local community. We have players who have won
a c h A National Championships, who've played a c

(46:03):
ch A hockey. We have players who have played NC
double A hockey at schools like Ohio State and Adrian
and Amhurst. And then we also even have a couple
of players who have some professional experience. We have someone
on our team who played professionally in Europe. There's also
been in the league a former Olympian. So we are
really excited about the level of women's hockey that we're

(46:24):
going to showcase.

Speaker 6 (46:25):
So you said there's eight teams in the league. How
many Where are they? Where are they located besides here
and Wheeling, So we it's a pretty far stretch, which
is really cool for us.

Speaker 10 (46:36):
We have Saint Louis, Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Let's see if
I can do them all. Us who we play out
of Wheeling. Who am I forgetting Louisville, Yes, Louisville. Yeah, yeah,
one more, but I'm yeah.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
You said it's Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania team.

Speaker 9 (46:58):
No, they're used to be, and so bringing that back.

Speaker 6 (47:01):
Oh okay, yeah, okay. Now we mentioned the Lightning Birds
and you said it's a step up. So for fans,
where are the games going to be held here locally?

Speaker 9 (47:11):
Yeah, so we are having a host weekend here November
fifteenth and sixteenth. That's your only chance to see our
team in the area and they will be played across
West Banco and Wheeling Park.

Speaker 6 (47:23):
And you mentioned, you know, women's sports, women's hockey. What
you guys have done, not only with the Lightning Birds,
but now with the Tri State Thunder, you've shown us,
you know, you've created a spotlight on women's hockey that
I think has been needed for quite a while. Why
did you decide personally to sort of do this undertaking

(47:46):
We love hockey.

Speaker 10 (47:47):
We've played hockey our whole lives, and I think we
did this in college as well. Actually, we won a
national championship and then we took a year off and
we decided to start another team.

Speaker 6 (47:59):
So we started team.

Speaker 10 (48:00):
Then when we both moved home, we had the Lightning Birds,
and like Toy said, there's just been a great reaction
and a need. And we knew a lot of girls
we grew up with. We knew a lot of women
that didn't have anywhere to play besides pick up because
of the skill level, and so there was just this

(48:21):
group that we kind of wondered if we could get
together to play at this higher level, and we had
a great response. So I think we just oh.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
They're fun. I've been to a couple Lightning Birds game
and they were an absolute blast.

Speaker 7 (48:34):
Just out of curiosity. Your league, so is it a
professional league? So another can somebody that's in college play
in your league and then go back and play college?
I mean, like they're not going to be penalized or
anything like that.

Speaker 9 (48:45):
No, those players would be welcome to play with us.
We have a couple subs on our roster who are
college students as well, currently playing I think up with
arm you, but often for them it's a little harder
with their schedule, but they are definitely welcome on the
team as well and in the league.

Speaker 6 (48:59):
Well, ladies, you'll be happy to hear. I have a
bunch of friends texting me saying I'm interested. I can't
wait to go to a game. Let's get a girls
group together and go to the game. So that's fantastic
right there. There's a group of women that want to
go see the games. And this has got to affect
young young women and little girls. Have you seen growth

(49:20):
in conversation and the younger, the younger females that talk
to you and say, hey, how do I do this?
How do I get involved?

Speaker 7 (49:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (49:26):
Absolutely so. We both went to high school with Rachel
Walter Adams, who started the local WAHA Women's league about
four years ago now. And since even that league has started,
we have heard directly from WAHA that they think that
games here, the women's games here, have increased youth sign up.

Speaker 6 (49:47):
And it's gonna be what's the word I'm looking for,
it's got to like be fill you with warmth to
know that you're you're making a difference for young women
in sports period, doesn't matter matter what the sport, just
that you're making a difference for those who do want
to go to the game. It's open to the public.
Correct on the fifteenth and sixteenth.

Speaker 10 (50:08):
Yes, it is totally free admission, so you can bring
however many people you want if you have a group,
and we'll have a schedule on our Facebook, on our
Instagram of where each game is held since it's between
both of the ranks, but yeah, it's totally accessible and
open to everybody.

Speaker 6 (50:26):
You mentioned both ranks, so we're talking.

Speaker 10 (50:28):
Wheeling Park and West Bank.

Speaker 6 (50:29):
Okay, so both locations.

Speaker 9 (50:31):
Yeah, yeah, And this league is a tournament style league,
which is why we only play at home once. But
it means that we're hosting other teams here to play
other games as well, So you could come out if
you can't happen to make it our game or you
want to see more, you could watch other teams such
as Cleveland and Dayton will be playing each other here
and Wheeling as well.

Speaker 7 (50:45):
Do you guys have sponsors or do you is it
all out of pocket?

Speaker 9 (50:49):
We do have some sponsors. We are still open to
sponsorships this season if anyone is interested.

Speaker 7 (50:53):
You can never turn it down.

Speaker 9 (50:58):
You know, it is a huge buried entry for even
children trying to play hockey, women trying to play hockey.
Hockey's expensive. It's you know, not like other sports where
you need specialized equipment, you need ice time, So it
is a lot of people's restriction playing. So we are
grateful for anyone who would like to contribute in that way.
And you can find that information on our Facebook page.

Speaker 6 (51:18):
And I'll share it too, because you know, we we're here.
That's part of our show. We're all about the community.
We're all about sharing and getting people, you know, information
out there for them. So I'm so glad that you
guys came in.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Again.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
Remind everybody the home games are when.

Speaker 10 (51:33):
The home games are November fifteenth and sixteenth, and they
will be and the whole weekend will be split between
Wheeling Park and West Banco, I mean, and.

Speaker 7 (51:41):
All eight teams from the league will be there.

Speaker 9 (51:43):
No, we will be hosting three teams. We'll be hosting Cleveland,
Dayton and Columbus.

Speaker 6 (51:48):
And it's competitive. Yes, you know a lot of times
girls sports kind of gets Oh it's girls, it's girls basketball,
it's girls soccer. It's just as competitive. Like I said,
I've been to games and you girls, I mean women,
I'm so or I shouldn't say great. You know, fly
around that rink an your age there are girls yeah,
ha ha, you're not afraid to check one another. I mean,

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it is competitive. In a great time.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (52:11):
No, it's fast paced and it's physical, and like I said,
we've have some some players on our roster and across
the league with who have played really high level hockey before,
so it's gonna be fun to see. I do want
to mention if you can't make it out to see
us November fifteen and sixteenth, you can follow us the
season on Facebook. Okay, but also this upcoming weekend, the
Wheeling Lightning Birds have their home opening weekend Saturday, I

(52:34):
believe at four four at Westbanco. So if you think, yeah,
if you can't make it our games, definitely check them out.

Speaker 6 (52:39):
I'll put it on our Facebook page, the Tri State
Thunder Women's Hockey.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
You know, I don't know if it's getting older or
if things inevitably change, but I'm going to crossroads with
major league sports, which I never thought that I would
find myself in. And you may be at the same spot.
Just hear me out here. I literally have a hard time.
I'm watching the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NBA college football,

(53:05):
even MMA. I've loved MMA for decades, almost can't watch anymore.
I'm gonna have to turn myself into a national Hockey
League fan, I either got to start rooting for the
Penguins or you know, I've got a buddy that we
go to Sabers games in Buffalo. I've got to find
something to watch and to root for, because I feel

(53:29):
like I'm lost as a fan right now. And this
is what I mean the NFL. You watch the NFL,
what do you see? Nothing but flags? Any run over
ten yards you can almost guarantee there's going to be
a flag. Any punt return, kickoff return that's big, there's
going to be a flag.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Roughing the passer. You've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
These are game changing penalties where guys are barely touching
the quarterback and they're getting called for roughing the passer.
Then I see a blatant roughing the passer and there's
no call. I want to see vertical passing. All we
get are bubble screens and tight end screens. I mean,
it's unwatchable to me. I have a hard time watching

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the NFL. College football, now that these guys are paid,
they're about as unmotivated as pro guys are.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
I don't like college football.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Now the transfer portal, you have free agency in college football,
it's just not as fun as anymore.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Major League baseball.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
I'll give you a prime example of why I can't
watch major league baseball.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Bottom of the eleventh.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Inning, Blue Jay's seventh game of the World Series, down
by one run, runners on first and third, one out,
the slowest runner in Major League baseball at the plate,
Alejandro Kirk and Josh Naylor are the two slowest runners
from home to first in Major League baseball. If you
don't believe me, google it. You've got a runner at

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third with one out ties the game, Game seven of
the World Series.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
That ties it.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
So they let the slowest runner in Major League baseball
do swing away, and you know what he did, ground
ball to shortstop double play.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Dodgers win the World Series.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
If there was ever a chance to pull a safety squeeze,
which if you execute properly, is indefensible, it was that situation.
Yet they choose not to play fundamental baseball, and they
have the slowest guy in Major League baseball swing away.
I can't watch it. I can't watch five pitchers a game.

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I can't watch guys not pitch. They're all just trying
to throw one hundred and one miles an hour. I
can't watch hitters just care about exit VLA on home
runs and not care about striking out. Major League Baseball
to me is borderline unwatchable. Now let's get to the NBA.
Nothing but three pointers the regular season doesn't matter to anybody.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Load management.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Guys aren't playing because well, too much of a workload
on them.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
We don't want to get injured. And then you get
to the.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
Post and they allow rugby to be played on a
basketball court, which takes away all the skill in finesse?

Speaker 3 (56:07):
What do I have left? Oh? MMA, MMA, you used
to love MMA.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Now you've got a bunch of guys named Igor, Sergey
and nikolof who all they want to do is throw
you on the ground, wrestle around and get a rear
naked choke on you, or try to break your arm
in an armbar.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
What happened to punching.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Guys in the face? What happened to Chuck Ledell, Tito Ortiz?
I mean, Connor McGregor, what happened to standing there and
just saying let's go and throwing bombs?

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Now it's all just wrestling.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
I mean, the only thing more boring than watching wrestling
is soccer.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
And don't get me going there. So I don't know.
I've got NHL Professional cornhole.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Or pickleball to watch, but I'm gonna have to pick
one because all the major sports that I grew up on,
all the major sports that I loved, they're just about
dead to me.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Otis you feeling my pain?

Speaker 7 (57:19):
No, I'm not. You know, I think some people get
too picky and some people want to live in the past,
you know. I mean, I can remember when the Ohio
Valley Greyhounds were at their peak, you know, late nineties,
early two thousands. And a friend of mine who is

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considerably older, you know, I mean, was in the military
in the late sixties, so Vietnam era person didn't have
any interest in the Greyhounds, and he was like, Oh,
they need to bring the iron in back outdoor for
bah blah blah blah. And I was like, but why

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can't you just accept the success and what's going on
now that you can't live everything in the past. And
bloom Daddy is living in the past. The game, the
games are all changing. The the atmosphere around the games
have changed because of number one, too much TV exposure

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and the gambling. And I think that that is a.

Speaker 6 (58:30):
Those are two major factors.

Speaker 7 (58:31):
Absolutely, And he's calling wrestling, not not pro wrestling, but
like high school college wrestling. If he's calling that boring,
he's not paying it. He doesn't know the first thing
about wrestling. I wrestled one year. I was terrible. I
will be the first person to admit I could not wrestle.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
I just had an image of you in a singlet
Oh Lord.

Speaker 7 (58:53):
Six I think it was fifth or sixth grade, and
I said, never again. And there was a reason because
I sucked.

Speaker 6 (59:01):
There's amazing skill to that. I don't understand it.

Speaker 7 (59:04):
But but I mean, you know, when I when I
was in high school, I kept the clock for for
the for the high school wrestling matches, and it gave
me a new appreciation of the sport. And I mean,
I can remember uh actually coming to the Wheeling It
was the Wheeling Civic Center at the time, West Banco
Arena and WVU Navy, and I believe it was Pitt

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had a try match here and I took my nephew,
who my nephew, my cousin who wrestled at the time,
and and it was it was. It was phenomenal. But anyway,
I agree with him on the NBA. I agree with
him on the NFL. I haven't watched I haven't watched
the NBA. I haven't watched the NFL since probably before
COVID and I haven't watched the NBA other than if

(59:52):
I was with somebody and it was on. And sometimes
I'll flip over, like if the Knicks are playing, I'll
look to see if Duce McBride you played the BVU
or out. Yeah, I just just to see if they
were playing. If they're not playing, I don't watch the game.

Speaker 6 (01:00:08):
Well, I think, I mean me personally. From college football
to where we are with the NFL, we site has
been lost on the sport on many different levels. There
is the cultural campaigns that have now been pushed into

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sports that I don't want anything to do with. That's
not why I tune into sports. I don't want some
sort of political message. I don't want some sort of
cultural message. I don't want a message. You know what
I want. I want hard hitting football, That's what I want.
And once that started, and then the kneeling for the
national anthem, I didn't like that either. And and then

(01:00:54):
you then take in what they have done with l
NIL money in college football in college sports. All sports
has gotten to the point where it's about the dollar.
It's about the dollar, whether we're talking TV contracts or
we're talking streaming contracts, we're talking player contracts, college and

(01:01:19):
everything it and gambling, all of it. It all goes
back to money. So I think it hurts the integrity
of the sport. I think it really truly does. And
then you take in the transfer portal in college football.
It puts the power in the hands and the control

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in the hands of the players. It takes the control
out of the hands of the coaches. The coaches have
lost the ability to build a long term, three or
four year program of players because the threat is always
hanging over the heads of the coaches that they're going
to leave if they don't get the money that they want.

(01:02:02):
And I think that hurts the integrity of the game.
So there's so many different things that have happened, and
again I'm speaking primarily football, but there's so many things
that have added to a little bit of the negativity
that now surrounds sports that it is making a lot
of the die hard sports fans lose interest. It really

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have don't lose interest in us though, because we're gonna
have your chance to win coming up. We've got a
pair tickets to Sarah Evans here at the Capitol Theater
a December fifth, so we're gonna have that coming up
very shortly. And then of course your lunch free lunch
Curtis of you our friends at River City. Just email
Sam at iHeartMedia dot com, name, phone number and company

(01:02:48):
and that's your registration for free lunch. You're listening to
the bloom Ditty Experience here on news Radio eleven seventy
WWVA eight fifty one. Welcome back to glim Daddy Experienced
Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. You know

(01:03:10):
what I just thought of?

Speaker 7 (01:03:11):
Uh, you thought you need a new car?

Speaker 6 (01:03:15):
Well, I could use a new car. I think I
know a guy that can help us with that. There's
a shiny new vehicle out front of the Capitol here
this morning. Courtesy of Kevin Cook at Straw Automotive. Good morning, Kevin.

Speaker 8 (01:03:25):
Okay, how y'all doing this morning? A Chuck Baker and
you know everybody over at Elmgrove Dodge, They finally, finally, finally,
I was able to put Otis in another new view.

Speaker 7 (01:03:40):
Well, I'm just waiting on my running boards and my
gas card.

Speaker 8 (01:03:44):
I understand, you know, Sam, he actually did something, believe
it or not, he did something thoughtful.

Speaker 7 (01:03:51):
He did.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
Yeah, I know, I can.

Speaker 8 (01:03:54):
I can hear the surprise and your voice as well.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
He actually picked his new vehicle up and brought us
his trade in because he did not want to put
too many miles on his trade because it might affect
the value of it. He was actually thinking of us first.

Speaker 8 (01:04:13):
That's what I read.

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
All.

Speaker 8 (01:04:14):
Isn't that sweet?

Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
Almost?

Speaker 6 (01:04:16):
I thought maybe you were going to say he brought
you lunch.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Oh no, let's not go overboard.

Speaker 7 (01:04:23):
He got to buy me lunch. This is true.

Speaker 8 (01:04:27):
I probably should probably, But right now I'm looking for,
you know, like a peptoup bizmo or something to sell
on my stomach down.

Speaker 7 (01:04:35):
Hey, I've already I already have already personalized the door entries,
have you now, Yeah, so I'll send you a picture.

Speaker 8 (01:04:44):
Okay, But yeah, Sam kind of uped up my stomach
this morning, mentioned otis and a singling, you know, wrestling.
That just kind of did it for me for the
rest of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
That's an image you cannot scrub out of your three.

Speaker 7 (01:04:59):
I will want to say this, I do not even
remember wearing a singlet. That's a time I think I've
blocked it out of my own mind.

Speaker 8 (01:05:07):
I would think so, I would think so, But you
don't have the block eyed and the deals that we
have right now. Hey, you know, the beginning of every month,
we go in and we look at all the vehicles
that we traded four last bus and you know, we
have almost four hundred pre own vehicles out there, probably
over ten million dollars worth of previously owned cars and trucks,

(01:05:28):
just anything you're looking for. And the team has gone
through in the last two days and they have aggressively
placed everything that is in inventory, especially what we call
aged inventory, something that's been with us more than thirty days. Okay,
see anything over thirty days right now. If you're looking

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for the absolutely incredible outstanding deals on prem vehicles, we
put bonuses on those for salespeople. What we're trying to
do is reduce. We are now reducing our inventory and
get it as low as we possibly can by the
end of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
So we got about.

Speaker 8 (01:06:06):
Sixty days to really be really get that inventory down,
and we're doing everything we can. We're just putting together
every deal possible.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
So.

Speaker 8 (01:06:15):
Use car buyers, get out there today while go to
drivestop dot com. See if we've got what you're looking for.
Reach out and we will make it happen for them.

Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
And there's a really nice Jeep out there, soft top
and it's uh. You're going to get the remainder of
the factory warranty plus the ever drive.

Speaker 8 (01:06:32):
That's true, you'll get every drive on that. We stand
behind those vehicles to less than seven years old, have
less than seventy five thousand miles. We will literally stand
behind them forever. Engine transmission to drive, chain warranty and
protection for all our customers. And you get a celebrity
vehicle if you buy that particular train that.

Speaker 7 (01:06:51):
We're talking about them. I didn't know Jeep mate celebrities.

Speaker 8 (01:06:54):
Oh but it's yours.

Speaker 7 (01:06:56):
Oh your vehicle. I guess it all depends on who
you ask.

Speaker 8 (01:07:01):
That's probably true as well.

Speaker 7 (01:07:03):
God wow, I'll be up for lunch, guys.

Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
I'm headed the mountaineer, headed to the number two on
the dealer in the sight, just left number one on
the dealer.

Speaker 6 (01:07:13):
So number one and number two need a crown. You
need a crown.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
Crown might not be a bad idea between those two.

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 8 (01:07:28):
That is a great idea.

Speaker 7 (01:07:30):
There you go, all right, all right, you do the same. Okay,
there he goes out the window.

Speaker 6 (01:07:38):
That's what was getting for Christmas, a personalized crown.

Speaker 7 (01:07:43):
No, you can get it for him. I'm not paying
for it. Those things cost they're expensive. I can get
him at TIERA.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
Oh, I'm sure he'd love that. I'm sure he'd love that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
I think I still have access to him. I'd have
to look in the catalog through your Yeah, I mean
I still get these catalogs from my old trophy business. Okay,
they still send them to me.

Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
I was, I was, like like a costume, like joking.

Speaker 7 (01:08:10):
No, I just know because sometimes i'll older plaques because
I make I take old license plates and I cut
them and then I put spell out things and sometimes
I'll put them on just to put them on a
on a on a plaque. So it's kind of like
a little hobby.

Speaker 6 (01:08:25):
I was talking earlier. I mentioned how Thanksgiving seems to
get the shaft nowadays, which, by the way, I thought
of something since we're talking Christmas. You know what that
brings back something that you adore? When I get to
write out.

Speaker 7 (01:08:42):
They don't even start your elf voice, my elf voice. No,
I would like to choke you when that happens.

Speaker 6 (01:08:51):
You love it, you absolutely love it. Okay, But speaking
of Thanksgiving, we think Thanksgiving? What's the dessert you think?
Just right off the top of your head?

Speaker 7 (01:08:59):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
We now Oreos is getting involved. So you know you
think pumpkin pie, You might think cheesecake, maybe even apple pie,
of course all American apple pie, don't we usually think Oreos. Well,
they're combining, They're they're doing a Christmas cookie tin with
six different flavors Oreos is okay, so it's gonna be
a pumpkin pie flavor Caramel apple, I mean yeah, caramel apple, cranberry,

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sweet potato, and turkey and stuffing. These are all new
area flavors for Thanksgiving, along with creamed corn.

Speaker 7 (01:09:35):
Who get that cookie with and put it with the
corn ice cream from Kirks.

Speaker 6 (01:09:39):
Well, okay, that might work, Okay, Nope, no, no, no,
all right, we have it your pair of tickets. Sarah
Evans one eight hundred six to four eleven seventy one
eight hundred sixty two four eleven seventy I'm gonna go
with uh collar number sixteen. This morning, collar number sixteen.
We have your pair only here Sarah Evans, December fifth,

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Here at the Capitol Theater. It's your chance to win.
Caller number sixteen, one hundred sixty four eleven seventy. Have
a great Tuesday. We had a great Monday. We're gonna
have another great Tuesday. We'll talk to you tomorrow