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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Eve's Sports Radio. Thursday, August fourteenth, twenty
twenty five. Beautiful day outside, tragic day yesterday will get
into that, but a beautiful day today. Try to put
a smile on someone's face. This is Eve Sports Radio.
Phone numbers five zero, two, five seven, one seventy nine
hundred sports Talk seven ninety. Even though I can talk
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about anything, I want to own my show so but
supposed to be sports Talk seven ninety and it is
ninety nine percent of the time. I've got my younger
son on the other line. You know, we've got Shannon,
the best in the business behind the glass, and I
do want. I know a lot of people get a
little lockjob and conversation gets serious, people get nervous. I
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understand that that's kind of the way of the world.
But we're gonna throw it to Anthony early on in
the show so that he can get some of the
national sports news out of the way, and then we're
gonna go to real adult talk again with Like I
told you all yesterday, I mean every word I said today,
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I mean it even more. I told you all last
week that just wait, we're gonna hear issues around our
high schools, elementary schools, and we're gonna hear parenting and
people speaking to the police like the police did it.
I told you all, I said, just wait, I told
you all that. So it's gonna be real. Talk again.
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It is what it is. She can't handle it. Turn
it off. You need to listen. But I understand if
you don't want to. I do understand. Some people just
want sports to talk to get away. I understand that.
But that's just not me. So, Anthony, how are you.
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm gonna go ahead let everyone know about the national news.
That looks like by the sounds of this, you're gonna
be running for president.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So no, I'm not. That's the last thing I want.
But I'm gonna tell the truth. Politician, Anthony. And when
you turn into a politician, you have to lie. Es
why It's just not for me. It just seems that's
the way a politician they lie.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You can do that you be standing on something different
other than and then lying, and I know you will.
You wouldn't be able to lie even if you tried,
because you're not that I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Not getting There's no doubt the Anthony. That's why my
dad told me to stop. I told everyone, Anthony, who
ate the last piece of cake? We're all lined up, Carrie, Larry,
my two sisters who are deceased, friend Donna, myself. There's
one person with crumbs around his mouth sitting over there
looking like I don't know who did it. My dad said,
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you're the world's worst criminal. That's all Anthy. But anyway,
let's get to the national news. That tickles me, Anthony,
I had crumbs all over my mouth. Everybody's laughing, my
dad's laughing. So we had a policy at our house, Anthony,
you didn't have to go through that because I told
your mom, no matter what, we have to have desserts.
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That's all I mean. I'm my food got That's how
I measure if you have money or not, not how
large your house is. I mean cars you have. But
if you've got dessert, Anthony, you know you've got it
going on. My dad said, the last piece of cake
pie that mother baked, he had that they were his
period point like we all knew it. But Anthony, you
know that little one that was me, that thing was
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calling me Anthony. I had that was bad. But anyway,
what do we have for national news? Anthony?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We got a ton, so obviously I know. One of
the first things that we have up that people will
don't if you haven't noticed about the Celtics that got
sold to the Chisten Group and a six point one
billion dollar deal that just happened over the last couple
of days. And the funny thing is the Celtics got
sold and also the Portland trail Basers got sold as well,
I think Monday or tuesdays, So the Carolina Hurricanes owner
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actually bought the Portland trail Bersers for four point one
billion dollars as well. So two NBA teams have been
sold within this week, one for four point one six
point one which are huge numbers. But it's funny to
see how one team is a third more worse than
another team in the same market. He shows you the
big price difference to certain teams. Trailblazers are a great team.
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Sometimes they used to.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Be really good.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That it is kind of they're kind of in a
rebuilding and real rebuilding phase.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I agree they haven't been they used to be really good, right,
got a great fan base, Anthony, I mean Portland packs
their place out. But you're right, the market is drastically
different than the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They got Damian Lillard back, though.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes they do well. He's got a city year letting
recover from that Achilles tear, and then we'll watch to
see how he does. And I'm glad to see that
Damien is a quality guy. Anthony Junior Bridgmond told me
directly that Damien was a class act, period point blank,
one of his favorite players. So I'm glad to see
that he's got opportunities to finish career where he started it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's true. Everybody likes Dame Dalla. I just wish it
was a couple of inches taller. You probably have a
probably realistically, there's a lot of players that are in
that same boat. I always say the same thing about
Alan Everson. If he wasn't sixty tall, you probably have
a championship ring too. But you know, just the way
life works. Sometimes some guys are six ten, some guys
are six to one like me, And you know, it's
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just the way the ball.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
The ball rolls exactly it happens. God gifted ability. I
told people, we always said, but Tom Brady, he wasn't mobile.
Tom Brady, he couldn't do that. Tom Brak and that
boys six foot five rocket arm intelligence, hell could read defenses. No,
everyone does have that. That's why. No, I don't care
how hard you work. We could not be tom Brady.
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You're just people don't get that piece anthing. For some reason,
someone has told all these kids, if you work hard,
yes you can be good, but you can't beat Tom Brady.
That's all there is to it. Everybody can't beat tom Brady.
That's all there is. But continue, What else do we have?
I did like I did see that the boss is
Celtic six billion. I want people to know we didn't
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say billion, said billion. Golly, the sports business is boom.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I wish it was six million. And we've been taking
loans out buying the Celtics of the season.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh, you're so right. How to put a bit in?
I guarantee you. Oh boy can't. We can't take the
clock back anthon the eye wish but you can't. So
what else do we have? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We're also we gonna talk about your favorite team and
America's team. I won't say America's America's owner, but you
know they've been an America's team for a long time. We're
talking about Jerry Jones and a little bit more sensitive topic.
So I'm gonna give benefit of a doubt on this one
because it's a little bit different outside of football. This
has to do with his stage four melanoma that he's
been dealing with over the last couple of years. So
Stole Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said that he has dealt
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with stage four melanoma in that an experimental trial drug
saved his life. In the fifth episode of his Netflix
documentary America's Team, The Gambler and His Cowboys that debuts
next week, Jones, who's eighty two years old, he talked
about undergoing cancer treatments at M D Anderson and Hugh. However,
he didn't reveal diss details on the treatment and what
it was for. Jerry Jones stated that I was saved
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by fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle
drug called PD one therapy. Jones told the Dallas Morning
News on Tuesday, I went into trials for that PD
one and has been one of the best, one of
the greatest medicines I know. Have to have no to oh,
it's one of the greatest medicines.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
He said.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He now has no tumors, so that is a brand
new drum. I don't know if it's going to be
hitting the street any soon or you know, you gotta
have you know, two comments in the bank account and
be able to access it. So who knows.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I have no idea about those experimental drugs. But I
am happy to hear that. For Jerry Jones, I mean
the Cowboys he has built, I mean a franchise that
will go down in the ages. I just don't like
his running of it, his selection of coaches and players.
But as you talk about a businessman, there's no doubt
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he's the best in the business period, no doubt about that.
Now that is me pick players and put them together.
But as a business if you've never gone to that
Cowboys stadium, you need to go to it. I'm guys,
I'm telling you you can eat off the bathroom floor.
I was there carry your uncle during the final four,
the first final year, Anthony years back, and it was
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just magnificent, incredible. So I'm just glad to hear that
he's doing well.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
No, one hundred percent, and so hopefully you know Jones
is still around. He can get the Cowboys back on tracks,
you know, because it's not looking too hot for you.
But you know, we'll say the Cowboys for another day.
And we started talking about these read something funny, I
say something funny, something that I actually noticed that I
saw a post was talking about the Commanders, how well
they did last year with Jaden Daniels, and somebody was
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kind to give them a little bit slack. I saw
a little little backlash I saw on social media because
it showed the teams that he played last year and
who their starting quarterbacks were, and the starting quarterbacks I
think was all of them were in the last half
of the NFL when it came to rating and ranking.
I think when the quarterbacks he had lost to last
year he actually lost a Cooper Rush, but the quarterbacks
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he beat all their teams were I think around five
hundred or under five hundred. Because using like Daniel Daniel
Jones mac Jones, he like quarterbacks here was beaten, giants,
beat Yeah, some of the worst teams. So people says,
he said, well, for a rookie quarterback quarterback match up
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of who you're going against teams, he had the perfect
schedule and perfect slate across the board of who he
was matched up again, which obviously not his fault by
any means. I don't know why you see him blame
a quarterback who got drafted to a he make the schedule,
but he I will say rookie year, he played phenomenal.
And obviously, yes, I think his competition was a little
bit lower up the quarterbacks that he played. He wasn't played.
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He never played against the Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahons,
Joe Burrow. I don't think he played against any against
any of those quarterbacks top four, top five in the NFL,
and even the ones that were right behind him in
those front runner positions. But we'll save that day.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Football get a chance. I'm a Daniels fan, though, but
he'll get his chance.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He will, and and first college football game is one
week away from today. I can't wait from August twenty first. No,
for all my baseball fans out there, I'm tired of
watching baseball because I just hate it. I'm sorry too.
It's too boring for me to watch on TV. I
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can go watch in person, but I can't watch on
TV to save my life. So thank god football is
around the corner.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We're talking about football.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Since we're talking about football, we're talking about the Louisville
football odds to win the twenty twenty five ACC Championship,
with which another topic of conversations. Right now, they're sitting
in that third spot of plus them fifty. They're actually
above SMU, who's at plus nine hundred. When it comes
to odds of casinos, when we're talking about Vegas, Vegas,
we're talking about here, Clemson is minus one ten. So there,
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you always want to be minus minus means you have
better odds. So Clemson is minus one ten. We got
Miami at plus four hundred, Louisville at plus seven fifty,
an SMU at plus nine hundred, and then you got
Georgia Tech coming in above Florida State at plus twelve
hundred in Florida State at plus twenty five hundred for
the top five front runners to win the ACC Championship. Now,
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I do love Louislle. I know, I want to say
I'm surprised, but I am a little bit, honestly as
weird as just gonna sound. That's then you had a
phenomenal season last year and they recruit well for them
to be behind Louisville, I just I wonder why I'm
saying this because I'm just not sold on the quarterback,
and you know, I just.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm not going loss.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I've seen highlights before and just the portal makes it
hard to really know about a quarterback because they bounce
around so much. In some cases, it's not even having
anything to.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Do with skill.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It has to do with opportunity and money now, and
it's more so money than any anything else. Carson Beck
was the darting quarterbacks on a front running championship on
a front running championship team every year to go down
to Miami to a team that might not even win
the ACC and it's all because of money. And that's
just kind of how it's working.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I'm gonna say this. Louisville has been very fortunate in
coach Brown that they've had two quarterbacks, Jack Plumber and
Tyler Shuck that are in the NFL. That's unusual, Anthony.
So for Cardinal fans to think that the third in
a row is gonna do the same thing and have
the phenomenon here the other two ads is not as
easy as it seems. So that's all that I'm saying.
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It's not as easy Cardinal fans as it seems. We're
gonna have to give Tyler Shuck and Jack Plumber some
some credit Anthony because they're playing well in their NFL quarterbacks.
So we have to wait and see. Milmos has it prependacy,
prepentacy to turn that ball over. Anthony throws it away,
So we have to wait and see. We're a have
to wait and see. We're at eighteen. We're gonna get
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the break when we come back. You well, I just
again I want everyone to understand yesterday I stand behind
my words. Coach Gruden said things that needed to get
him barred from the NFL forever period. And opportunities aren't
supposed to just be given. I don't care what anyone says.
They have to be earned. He wasn't fired because they
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were leaked. He was fired because of the content of
what was in the leak. All that he is proving.
So why I took back my statement on Schidor Sander's
NFL not racism it's not true, is that there are
other people that said the same sort of things, communicated
not verbally to each other but through email and texts
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that lasts forever. We're adults, we know that. So that's
what he's winning on, not that he didn't say those things.
He did. He's winning on that. There are other people.
Why did you only leak mine? So, guys, it's not
a good reflection at all on the NFL. When we
come back from break. I told you all last week
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that just wait and we were going to hear parents
saying things about the school system, the police department that
again they should be superman with s's on their chest
if you listen to the public. But the public has
a lot to do with the problem. This is EVE
Sports Radio. I'll talk to you after the break. Welcome
back to Eve's Sports Radio. Let's catch you right this
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Shen and I like that intro, But welcome back to
the show. Phone numbers five zero, two, five seven, seventy
nine hundred. Great job of the nast and news Anthony. Again,
I told you all last week and we're going to
get into this, but first and foremost, everyone makes mistakes.
I told you all, I took sodas out of the
MASDA machine at Ballard High School. I was probably fourteen
fifteen years old, got me shall I got in corporate
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punishment for that. If Pat Proxford would have told my dad,
the principal Ballad, I would have he would have killed me.
But I took my three licks from Pat Crawford and
moved on and stopped taking the sodas out of the
of the machine. But drastic difference between that and a
fifteen year old are charged after shooting shots near a
bus stop, untenthed chestnut. So can we all come together
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with this statement, Miners and guns, no such thing. You
put a gun in your hand and you shoot it.
You're an adult and you get treated like one. That's
first and foremost, point blank, no maturing, No I made
a mistake. You put a gun in your hand and
you fire that gun at people, Then bottom line is
you're an adult and you get treated that way. That's
first thing. Second thing for we've got great judges. Judge
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Green's done a fantastic job. But when people have shown
you that they have an issue, there are no shot
probation five months and out, black, white, green, yellow, I
don't care what you are, you stay your turn. That
second thing, period, point blank. We have to take it
out of the control of sometimes people's opinion if they
are convicted and proven. When we have pictures of people
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firing guns and we know who they are, well, now
you don't get out. You do your time. You're a
big boy the minute you put that firearm in your pocket,
your pants, your hands, your big boy, big girl. You
must live by the consequences. Second, I told you all
when school started, school should be the safest place, point blank.
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And I'm not going to kill you all with that.
That's my old pet peeve, point blank. But I'm gonna
leave it alone that it should be the safest place
in the community, which means the community has to be involved. Yesterday,
I told you all you have to do is just listen.
I told you all last week all we had to
do is listen to the television, and we would hear
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statements from the community at either Superintendent Brian Yearwood or
Chief of Police Paul Humphrey or Mayor Craig Greenberg. We'd
hear directed at them. All I'm saying to the community
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and to the woman that was talking during the press
confis the police didn't shoot the lady. Doctor Eearwood didn't either.
Paul Humphrey, chief of Police didn't either. Craig Greenberg didn't either.
So I told you I just listened to the television.
I was listening. I was listening yesterday. I was pissed
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yesterday and pissed today because it seems like we I
told you we parenting don't want to get it. So
this was sell on television. I'm trying to figure out
what you're going to do, as mpd HM. Yesterday on television,
two episodes with the police with African Americans. One was
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a police officer telling a young lady to do something,
directions she wouldn't do it. They end up getting a
little altercation. He puts her on the ground, and I
heard the whole black community going crazy, and look what happened.
Look what happened, Look what happened. The very next clip,
Black community is that we have a woman speaking to
the police chief on what he's going to do. So
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Paul Humphrey, he's better than I am. He said. His
words were, we have a problem with enforcement and pre enforcement. Guys.
You can't hire a policeman right now. First thing, we
won't pay them. That's first thing. Every group. If I
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said raised taxes to play the police, the Blacks would
go crazy, the whites would go crazy, his patents who
would go crazy, Asians would go crazy, and the whole
community would go crazy. But nobody would take the job.
That's just the true. I mean, you know it's just
the truth. But you know it. Sometimes we can't handle it.
So let me just talk to you where the problem is.
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Why do we have people shooting people as they're walking
away from putting their child on the bus is the issue. Yes,
I hate that the police officer that had been parked
there the last four or five days from the last shooting,
which was by a fifteen year older Okay, didn't kill anyone,
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but firearm and bullets were flying. Bullets have one purpose,
kill people, that's all. There's no other purpose. Guns have
one purpose. They facilitate harming something or someone. One purpose.
So now that we're going to have a meeting at
nine am at Village West, it will be aired on television.
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Ever we want to be able to watch it. Until
the communities take responsibility for the action for people in
the community. I don't know how it gets fixed. I
was born in Beacha Terrace. So before everybody says you
don't know, stop stop, Yes I do. I was born
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in Beacha Terras. I grew up in Newburgh BeForever moved
to Prospect. My friends were in Beach Terrace, Curtis Jeffries,
my high school teammate, Washington d C. Then extremely well
for himself, lived in Beacha Terrace. When he went to ballot.
I used to drop him off Martin Dumber and I
pick him up. I told you he was the first
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person to have the danishes and put butter on it.
He said, I'm going to show you and Martin how
to fix this up. I'll never forget it. We had
chocolate Milton Danishes and it was unbelievable. Unbelievable. But the community.
The question should have been to Paul Humphrey, Chief of police,
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how can we help you police us? That's the question,
not the other way around. We're gonna talking about parking tickets,
traffic tickets, illegal stops, we're talking about firearms being shot
around high school. The question should be at nine am today,
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how do we help you? We can't hire enough police
officers and they know it can't aire enough. Just just
the facts, nobody wants that job. I don't know. Paulfrey
went to school with my daughter LeeAnne. Just being honest
with you, guys, I know most people. I'm kind of
old and I know those people. Anthony. He went to
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school with Lee Ane Mitchell, your older sister. Bottom line,
he's trying to do the best job that he can
do community. But until we the community say that we
are going to help, it's not what he's going to do,
it's what we're going to do as a community. So guys,
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the set ready, I hate it. I gotta give it
to you straight. I told you all this was coming.
I set watching television, both clips back to back. You
all on on. Everyone listening knows I'm telling them the truth.
There was a young lady, the police officer, and they're
grabbing her by her hair. She went down. I heard
the Urban le president talked about no one should be
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treated that way and be a police officer. Then that's
all I can say, Hey, take the job. We always
are critiqued. Take the job. Do they have to do
it correctly? Yep? Do they have to follow the law yep?
When they don't, Should there be an issue, yes, there
should be. But bottom line is take the job. Last
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tidbit so everybody can understand because last year a woman
called into my show everybody's frightening. Now. I don't know why,
maybe because I got chanting the dude the best wrestler
I don't know, but she said, Jerry, don't say we
have bad kids. Said okay, one question, why is it
that the State Fair opens today? I've been, I've gone.
I loved it. I love getting that whipped pineapple ice cream.
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Everybody's got a favorite at the state Fair. Why is
it if we don't have bad kids, that you cannot
if you're eighteen in under go in, if you're not
accompanied by a parent. Just answer the question. The facts
are staring us in the face. I'm just tired of
everybody not telling the truth. I mean, who my goodness,
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So you can't go to the State Fair unaccompanied because
you don't know how to act. We know that we've
seen what is transpired. So now the state Fair? Is
it the state's fair fault that they have to say
under eighteen? We're checking id's don't show up at the
fair without you id complaining. I didn't know. Listen to
the news. You can't get in if you don't have
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parenting or somebody that they can say should be your
guardian because you don't have to act. But we don't
have any Our kids aren't the problem than you know?
Come on, guys, it's time for us to have real conversations,
but I don't know why it seems like I washed
rents and repeat. I knew this statement was coming. I
told you on last week this statement was coming. The
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statement came. The lady's statement should be, how can we
help you police our community. This is the Sports Radio
seven thirty four. I'm going to break. I got a
clip about Little League Baseball that you're not gonna believe
when you listen to it, and I'd like to have
conversation about it after the break. Take me away, Shannon.
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Welcome back to you Sports Radio seven thirty seven. I've
got a crazy interesting clip I want you to listen
to about Little League World Series and what's transpiring in
again the madness with the parents. Shannon, play it for me.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I already think the youth sports has gone completely off
the rails. Then you have been keeping up with the
lit League World Series. Now, I already knew things were
messed up when I learned about this kid. His name
is and at eleven years old, he and his parents
went on NBC News to talk about getting Tommy John.
Then last year I saw a viral video of a
different kid who showed up to his game dripped out
in every accessory known to mankind. This year I learned
that some bats go for six hundred dollars. We have
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travel teams who ride in team branded charter buses, and
a few middle schoolers assigned nil deals. All of that
leads us to this year as the League World Series.
Now the final tourney the win Williamsport hasn't even started yet,
but we're already two scandals deep in the regionals. The
first required legal action. What you're seeing here is Marko Rocco,
a twelve year old from New Jersey who got his
pitch and went deep to center. He celebrated with the
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monster batflip, but the fun ended there. He was promptly
ejected from the game and given a one game suspension.
His parents had none of it, though, they filed an
emergency temporary restraining order so he'd be able to play
in the next game. After a judge ruled in his favor,
Marco was reinstated. That's not all though. In the Southwestern
region we were treated to Oklahoma sign stealing scandal. Umpires
had to intervene twice in this game to stop the
runner in second base from signaling the pitch. Now the
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reason we're seeing stories like these play out is because
American parents now spend forty billion dollar dollars per year
in youth sports. For reference, that is roughly the same
size as the entire video game market. That is not normal.
When these parents were twelve years old, people didn't even
think of youth sports as a market. Leagus were nonprofit
and most equipment was handed down. Fast forward and we've
got ten year old flying cross country for tournaments. The
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sad part here is seventy percent of these kids will
quit sports by the age of thirteen because the fund
has been sucked out. Something that was supposed to be
about neighborhood pride and competition has been twisted into a
forty billion dollar industry that caters more to the parent
and the kids are paying the final price. I'm fremichol
Smith and that's my take.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Guys. Again, parenting not much of it. So I have
a person that son went and came up through the program.
I played Major League baseball in MISSOSPPI State, played professional baseball.
Landing knows a lot about this, and Landing, welcome to
need Sports Radio. How are you Landed? How are you there?
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You go? We'll get blanding there you go.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, good, Jerry. I hope all you all were well
this morning. And uh, I love to come on your
own and laugh and cut up and have fun. But
this is a this is something that really hits at
by heartstring about this little league stuff and this travel
ball stuff, and this is very serious. And uh, Jerry,
that tape you just played was awesome and the guy
that was commentating it is absolutely spot on. I have
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a seventh grade grandson and a fifth grade grandson that's
right in the middle of it, and it is just
in Santa Day, Jerry. What I'm seeing with these families nowadays?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Uh, how did they? How did they get there? Did
the Of course we know with AAU basketball that the
shoe companies have done a great job of suckering parents
to spend their last time trying to send kids around
where college coaches can watch them because they think that's
the way to a college scholarship. How did this little
baseball arrived?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Well, what's happened, Jerry? You know for years and years
and years when you would turn on the Little League
World Series. The way that works is Little League baseball
around the country has different specific areas that each little
league has like perimeters where all the kids lived to
where they would play under one recreational league, and then
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at the end of that, at the end of that
their regular season, they would form an all star team
of the best ten or twelve kids and that would
participate in All Stars to try to get to Williamsport. Well,
now that's all changed, because now what's happened the kids.
There's many, many of these parents, Jerry that are pulling
that have already done away with the recreational leagues in
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this country, which is very sad. And the reason it's
said is that that was a very inexpensive way for
a kid to get introduced to the game of baseball.
And now what has happened is this travel ball stuff.
You've got, say, for instance, a group of two dads
that are pretty well off financially that will call and
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literally recruit kids, you know, I'm talking Jerry eight to
nine years old now, and they will form one travel
ball team. And what's going on now, You've got a
lot of people out here that will band together and
they are leasing these ballparks that used to be these
little league centers and they're turning them into these weekend
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travel ball tournaments and they're making a barrel of money
on it, and it's it's Jerry, it's insanity. We was
at a fall ball or a summer ball travel ball
game this pass, I don't know, a month or so ago,
where my grandson got to play. And they were charging
eighteen dollars ahead to get in Jerry to this baseball
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game just to get in summertime, and could buy a
weekend pass for thirty dollars per person, and that's every man, woman, child.
There was no discount for grandparents or seniors. There was
no discount for youth. That's the price. And once you
get in, the concessions have literally become inflated like a
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college game. And also it's a carnival atmosphere. You got
people selling risk bands, you've got people selling batting bucks.
So we went, Jerry, we went to one Saturday, spent
a whole day there. I spent one hundred dollars Jerry
at a little league game tournament at day one hundred bucks.
And there are families out here that are going in
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hawk to do this and it breaks my heart because
they're not kidding when they say travel ball. You know
there are organizations on the internet, like for instance, Gulfport, Mississippi,
where my kids play out of Jerry. They've got a
thirty million dollar complex down there that is unbelievable for
a little week it's little league, if you can believe this.
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They got a lot of sunning from the federal government
to build this center and all that because of the
area it's in. And they've turned it into me making machine.
And you got people, You've got teams coming from Texas, Florida,
all over the places. And these parents Jerry have bought
into this that it's their way to college for exposure,
and they're getting ripped off. They're absolutely stealing money from
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these parents most of these weekends Jerry. For a family
to travel all the time is over one thousand dollars now,
and that doesn't include the kid's equipment. And did you know,
less than seven percent of all these kids Jerry, which
is maybe one kid on every travel ball team, is
going to get any sniff of any type of college
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from a Division III to a Division one. So the
best thing, if the parents were smart, they would take
that money and invest it, go on your local bank
and start a money market account of some kind and
invest that money for your child's college because this travel
ball is an atrocity. It's an absolute rip off. Jerry.
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There's only you know, one kid per team that's going
to benefit from doing this.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Here's the deal blending. I appreciate it, but here's what
the problem is. Blended. The sporting good business, the shoe companies, jerseys,
the apparel have developed the attitude with the parents that
their way to form to fame and fortune is through
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athletics and sports. So they have built a pride factor
with parents to spend the last dime trying to promote
thinking that they're promoting their sons or daughters when they're not.
And again it comes back to which is in show Tires.
Show has been about parenting and the lack of that
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and the ability to educate themselves on when to say
no is the problem. And then the kids, just like
the gentlemen said in the article, get caught in the mix.
We've heard about all the Travel League teams. What happens
to them? You find out at eight team, where are
they at twenty five? They've done stories on it. It's
a nightmare because they've made these things too big. There
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is something it's too big too soon. That is a fact.
They need to be playing in their backyard with whiffleballs
and improved through high school to college so that they
can handle this. But what happens is that everyone now
is rushing to stardom six seven eight. Who's going to
get rated? First? Eleven year older? Where is your son rated?
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Where is he being rated? Have you take him where
he can get rated? Is the problem? So Bland, appreciate
for you call. You got to get a good day.
S forty six, Thank you some forty six guys. We
really need to take a step back on the athletic
piece and how we look at this E Sports Radio,
I talk to you in a minute. Welcome to the
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sports Radio seven fifty. Yes, it is show's blown by today.
It was a difficult day. I know for a lot
of people that were listening. Some people do not want
to hear difficult subjects. They don't and that is another
form of lack of discipline and immaturity. One of the
great things about coaching is that they bring things to
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you at a young age that you have to be
able to handle. You have to be able to take in,
you have to handle the criticism, You have to calculate it,
compute it, and then make it improve you. That's why
coaching was so big. It helped not Now it's a
race to start them. Truly, coaches are frightenings to anything
to the kids because the parents are sitting there hovering, waiting,
(34:37):
I mean waiting. You ruin Johnny's chance at a baseball
career or Jerry's's chance at a basketball career. I told
you all my eighth grade year. I'm on the JV team.
I'm not playing. I just practice with them. I have
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potential coaching. Donnie Sad gets upset with the JV team.
I wasn't playing, guys, I was just a guy sitting
up on the stands. I was going to be good enough,
but I wasn't then. So he disciplined the team. We're running,
doing push ups, jumping jacks, all the above. He says.
The first guy that drops on one of the push ups,
if we had run for twenty thirty minutes, and I'm
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gonna cut you. And of course jer Eves drops. Couldn't
do push ups at the time. My body had not matured.
My mind wasn't ready to push through either. I was tired.
I had nothing to do with it, so more than
just a fysical aspect, which I could have done. I
mentally wasn't ready, so I dropped. Of course, he sends
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me out. I don't care. I find out the story later.
Richard spid who's the head coach, says to him the
do you know you just cut coach? Sayer said he'll
be back again. Frank Eves did not run into ballot
screaming and yelling at Donnie Sawyer at all, nor Richard's.
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He never met with them ever. Listen to me, he
never met with them ever. I went home to my
dad what happened? He said, I got you. He says,
we'll go back tomorrow. He goes back. You walk in,
He tells Kote Siller He'll do whatever you ask of him.
That's all, won't you? I said, yep? He walks out.
That was the end of it. Jerry Eves turns into
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Jerry Eves. Okay, was Donna Saider's smart and right? Who knows?
Did it work out as it did? Jerry's played the NBA.
But did my dad go into there renting and Raven know?
He walked in? Exact words is he'll do what you
ask of him? Give another opportunity and walked out. That's all.
So that's the story. Well, we don't have those parents anymore.
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What we have are the injunctions. If they're rules, Listen here, people,
If you don't like the rules, let's change the rules,
that's all. And there should be a fair way to
do that. Shouldn't be a rig system. Everything's rigged today.
Everything's rigged today. We know that our politicians have built this.
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It's crazy as can be and it's the worst time
we've ever had an American We all know that. And
it's been years of this coming years. I'm not talking four, eight, twelve, sixteen.
I'm talk about years of this, and we're here now.
We must all come together and make fair rules for
everyone that everyone must be to bide by. And when
those things are written and put in place, they must
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be followed for everybody, everybody. No judges coming in saying
I'm gonna intervene. If there is a rule, no bat flips.
There are no backflips. I don't care who says it.
If the rule is written and you agree to play
under this criteria on this team, then they should inform
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everyone now and the parents of the rules, and everyone
should have to follow them. Leads, the community be guys
because it has rules. That's why African Americans were able
to do well in a very hard time in the
forties fifty six. He's got a very hard time. Don't
lie to itself, very hard time. I mean, I have
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my friends. I love talking to him and always. Bluegrass
Houty is now sold. It's out Bluegrass HOUTI. The commercials
will be pulled, but they're personal friends of mine. I've
known them and I've known her vine for god leave
forty plus years. But when her vine got started and
got into the car business, my dad could not let
again let me just just the facts. My dad couldn't
(38:35):
start where her vine started. Don't lie, don't say bootstraps
work hard. It was not. The doors were not open.
Just the facts. So we have to understand that. And
when we're going through, when we put rules in place
that are fair for everybody, then everyone must live by
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these rules, must compete through these rules. The parents should
have to by them. So the young man who flipped
the bat, if it's in the rules that you cannot
flip the bat, he shouldn't have played, period point blank.
He should have suspended the team rules must be followed
today at nine am downtown Village West. I'm hoping that
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when everyone comes together in the community, that the community says,
how can we help you? Help us? That's the only
way it's going to happen. It can't be us against
them and always think we're going to change something. It
just can't. It just can't. It is what it is.
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As an athlet director at Simmons College, guys, I have
my coaches now, and Coach Beard was doing the women's
program and I was doing the men. There were no
assistant coaches. There were no paid assistant coaches. Coach Beard
came here, made five thousand dollars. So I am my
coaches now, I need assistant coaches. I understand everybody. Once more.
I have to win. And I tell them new, no
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such thing. That's not what we're here for. That's not
the purpose of Simmons College of Kentucky. So let's find
out what our true purpose is, communities and let's help
the police help us is the sports radio God willing.
I'll be back tomorrow. Bye bye.
Welcome back to Eve's Sports Radio. Thursday, August fourteenth, twenty
twenty five. Beautiful day outside, tragic day yesterday will get
into that, but a beautiful day today. Try to put
a smile on someone's face. This is Eve Sports Radio.
Phone numbers five zero, two, five seven, one seventy nine
hundred sports Talk seven ninety. Even though I can talk
(00:24):
about anything, I want to own my show so but
supposed to be sports Talk seven ninety and it is
ninety nine percent of the time. I've got my younger
son on the other line. You know, we've got Shannon,
the best in the business behind the glass, and I
do want. I know a lot of people get a
little lockjob and conversation gets serious, people get nervous. I
(00:44):
understand that that's kind of the way of the world.
But we're gonna throw it to Anthony early on in
the show so that he can get some of the
national sports news out of the way, and then we're
gonna go to real adult talk again with Like I
told you all yesterday, I mean every word I said today,
(01:05):
I mean it even more. I told you all last
week that just wait, we're gonna hear issues around our
high schools, elementary schools, and we're gonna hear parenting and
people speaking to the police like the police did it.
I told you all, I said, just wait, I told
you all that. So it's gonna be real. Talk again.
(01:25):
It is what it is. She can't handle it. Turn
it off. You need to listen. But I understand if
you don't want to. I do understand. Some people just
want sports to talk to get away. I understand that.
But that's just not me. So, Anthony, how are you.
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I'm gonna go ahead let everyone know about the national news.
That looks like by the sounds of this, you're gonna
be running for president.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So no, I'm not. That's the last thing I want.
But I'm gonna tell the truth. Politician, Anthony. And when
you turn into a politician, you have to lie. Es
why It's just not for me. It just seems that's
the way a politician they lie.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You can do that you be standing on something different
other than and then lying, and I know you will.
You wouldn't be able to lie even if you tried,
because you're not that I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Not getting There's no doubt the Anthony. That's why my
dad told me to stop. I told everyone, Anthony, who
ate the last piece of cake? We're all lined up, Carrie, Larry,
my two sisters who are deceased, friend Donna, myself. There's
one person with crumbs around his mouth sitting over there
looking like I don't know who did it. My dad said,
(02:38):
you're the world's worst criminal. That's all Anthy. But anyway,
let's get to the national news. That tickles me, Anthony,
I had crumbs all over my mouth. Everybody's laughing, my
dad's laughing. So we had a policy at our house, Anthony,
you didn't have to go through that because I told
your mom, no matter what, we have to have desserts.
(02:58):
That's all I mean. I'm my food got That's how
I measure if you have money or not, not how
large your house is. I mean cars you have. But
if you've got dessert, Anthony, you know you've got it
going on. My dad said, the last piece of cake
pie that mother baked, he had that they were his
period point like we all knew it. But Anthony, you
know that little one that was me, that thing was
(03:19):
calling me Anthony. I had that was bad. But anyway,
what do we have for national news? Anthony?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We got a ton, so obviously I know. One of
the first things that we have up that people will
don't if you haven't noticed about the Celtics that got
sold to the Chisten Group and a six point one
billion dollar deal that just happened over the last couple
of days. And the funny thing is the Celtics got
sold and also the Portland trail Basers got sold as well,
I think Monday or tuesdays, So the Carolina Hurricanes owner
(03:51):
actually bought the Portland trail Bersers for four point one
billion dollars as well. So two NBA teams have been
sold within this week, one for four point one six
point one which are huge numbers. But it's funny to
see how one team is a third more worse than
another team in the same market. He shows you the
big price difference to certain teams. Trailblazers are a great team.
(04:14):
Sometimes they used to.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Be really good.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That it is kind of they're kind of in a
rebuilding and real rebuilding phase.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I agree they haven't been they used to be really good, right,
got a great fan base, Anthony, I mean Portland packs
their place out. But you're right, the market is drastically
different than the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They got Damian Lillard back, though.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes they do well. He's got a city year letting
recover from that Achilles tear, and then we'll watch to
see how he does. And I'm glad to see that
Damien is a quality guy. Anthony Junior Bridgmond told me
directly that Damien was a class act, period point blank,
one of his favorite players. So I'm glad to see
that he's got opportunities to finish career where he started it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's true. Everybody likes Dame Dalla. I just wish it
was a couple of inches taller. You probably have a
probably realistically, there's a lot of players that are in
that same boat. I always say the same thing about
Alan Everson. If he wasn't sixty tall, you probably have
a championship ring too. But you know, just the way
life works. Sometimes some guys are six ten, some guys
are six to one like me, And you know, it's
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just the way the ball.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
The ball rolls exactly it happens. God gifted ability. I
told people, we always said, but Tom Brady, he wasn't mobile.
Tom Brady, he couldn't do that. Tom Brak and that
boys six foot five rocket arm intelligence, hell could read defenses. No,
everyone does have that. That's why. No, I don't care
how hard you work. We could not be tom Brady.
(05:38):
You're just people don't get that piece anthing. For some reason,
someone has told all these kids, if you work hard,
yes you can be good, but you can't beat Tom Brady.
That's all there is to it. Everybody can't beat tom Brady.
That's all there is. But continue, What else do we have?
I did like I did see that the boss is
Celtic six billion. I want people to know we didn't
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say billion, said billion. Golly, the sports business is boom.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I wish it was six million. And we've been taking
loans out buying the Celtics of the season.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh, you're so right. How to put a bit in?
I guarantee you. Oh boy can't. We can't take the
clock back anthon the eye wish but you can't. So
what else do we have? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We're also we gonna talk about your favorite team and
America's team. I won't say America's America's owner, but you
know they've been an America's team for a long time. We're
talking about Jerry Jones and a little bit more sensitive topic.
So I'm gonna give benefit of a doubt on this one
because it's a little bit different outside of football. This
has to do with his stage four melanoma that he's
been dealing with over the last couple of years. So
Stole Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said that he has dealt
(06:45):
with stage four melanoma in that an experimental trial drug
saved his life. In the fifth episode of his Netflix
documentary America's Team, The Gambler and His Cowboys that debuts
next week, Jones, who's eighty two years old, he talked
about undergoing cancer treatments at M D Anderson and Hugh. However,
he didn't reveal diss details on the treatment and what
it was for. Jerry Jones stated that I was saved
(07:06):
by fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle
drug called PD one therapy. Jones told the Dallas Morning
News on Tuesday, I went into trials for that PD
one and has been one of the best, one of
the greatest medicines I know. Have to have no to oh,
it's one of the greatest medicines.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
He said.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He now has no tumors, so that is a brand
new drum. I don't know if it's going to be
hitting the street any soon or you know, you gotta
have you know, two comments in the bank account and
be able to access it. So who knows.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I have no idea about those experimental drugs. But I
am happy to hear that. For Jerry Jones, I mean
the Cowboys he has built, I mean a franchise that
will go down in the ages. I just don't like
his running of it, his selection of coaches and players.
But as you talk about a businessman, there's no doubt
(07:55):
he's the best in the business period, no doubt about that.
Now that is me pick players and put them together.
But as a business if you've never gone to that
Cowboys stadium, you need to go to it. I'm guys,
I'm telling you you can eat off the bathroom floor.
I was there carry your uncle during the final four,
the first final year, Anthony years back, and it was
(08:17):
just magnificent, incredible. So I'm just glad to hear that
he's doing well.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
No, one hundred percent, and so hopefully you know Jones
is still around. He can get the Cowboys back on tracks,
you know, because it's not looking too hot for you.
But you know, we'll say the Cowboys for another day.
And we started talking about these read something funny, I
say something funny, something that I actually noticed that I
saw a post was talking about the Commanders, how well
they did last year with Jaden Daniels, and somebody was
(08:48):
kind to give them a little bit slack. I saw
a little little backlash I saw on social media because
it showed the teams that he played last year and
who their starting quarterbacks were, and the starting quarterbacks I
think was all of them were in the last half
of the NFL when it came to rating and ranking.
I think when the quarterbacks he had lost to last
year he actually lost a Cooper Rush, but the quarterbacks
(09:10):
he beat all their teams were I think around five
hundred or under five hundred. Because using like Daniel Daniel
Jones mac Jones, he like quarterbacks here was beaten, giants,
beat Yeah, some of the worst teams. So people says,
he said, well, for a rookie quarterback quarterback match up
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of who you're going against teams, he had the perfect
schedule and perfect slate across the board of who he
was matched up again, which obviously not his fault by
any means. I don't know why you see him blame
a quarterback who got drafted to a he make the schedule,
but he I will say rookie year, he played phenomenal.
And obviously, yes, I think his competition was a little
bit lower up the quarterbacks that he played. He wasn't played.
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He never played against the Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahons,
Joe Burrow. I don't think he played against any against
any of those quarterbacks top four, top five in the NFL,
and even the ones that were right behind him in
those front runner positions. But we'll save that day.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Football get a chance. I'm a Daniels fan, though, but
he'll get his chance.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He will, and and first college football game is one
week away from today. I can't wait from August twenty first. No,
for all my baseball fans out there, I'm tired of
watching baseball because I just hate it. I'm sorry too.
It's too boring for me to watch on TV. I
(10:33):
can go watch in person, but I can't watch on
TV to save my life. So thank god football is
around the corner.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We're talking about football.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Since we're talking about football, we're talking about the Louisville
football odds to win the twenty twenty five ACC Championship,
with which another topic of conversations. Right now, they're sitting
in that third spot of plus them fifty. They're actually
above SMU, who's at plus nine hundred. When it comes
to odds of casinos, when we're talking about Vegas, Vegas,
we're talking about here, Clemson is minus one ten. So there,
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you always want to be minus minus means you have
better odds. So Clemson is minus one ten. We got
Miami at plus four hundred, Louisville at plus seven fifty,
an SMU at plus nine hundred, and then you got
Georgia Tech coming in above Florida State at plus twelve
hundred in Florida State at plus twenty five hundred for
the top five front runners to win the ACC Championship. Now,
(11:26):
I do love Louislle. I know, I want to say
I'm surprised, but I am a little bit, honestly as
weird as just gonna sound. That's then you had a
phenomenal season last year and they recruit well for them
to be behind Louisville, I just I wonder why I'm
saying this because I'm just not sold on the quarterback,
and you know, I just.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm not going loss.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I've seen highlights before and just the portal makes it
hard to really know about a quarterback because they bounce
around so much. In some cases, it's not even having
anything to.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Do with skill.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
It has to do with opportunity and money now, and
it's more so money than any anything else. Carson Beck
was the darting quarterbacks on a front running championship on
a front running championship team every year to go down
to Miami to a team that might not even win
the ACC and it's all because of money. And that's
just kind of how it's working.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I'm gonna say this. Louisville has been very fortunate in
coach Brown that they've had two quarterbacks, Jack Plumber and
Tyler Shuck that are in the NFL. That's unusual, Anthony.
So for Cardinal fans to think that the third in
a row is gonna do the same thing and have
the phenomenon here the other two ads is not as
easy as it seems. So that's all that I'm saying.
(12:37):
It's not as easy Cardinal fans as it seems. We're
gonna have to give Tyler Shuck and Jack Plumber some
some credit Anthony because they're playing well in their NFL quarterbacks.
So we have to wait and see. Milmos has it prependacy,
prepentacy to turn that ball over. Anthony throws it away,
So we have to wait and see. We're a have
to wait and see. We're at eighteen. We're gonna get
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the break when we come back. You well, I just
again I want everyone to understand yesterday I stand behind
my words. Coach Gruden said things that needed to get
him barred from the NFL forever period. And opportunities aren't
supposed to just be given. I don't care what anyone says.
They have to be earned. He wasn't fired because they
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were leaked. He was fired because of the content of
what was in the leak. All that he is proving.
So why I took back my statement on Schidor Sander's
NFL not racism it's not true, is that there are
other people that said the same sort of things, communicated
not verbally to each other but through email and texts
(13:41):
that lasts forever. We're adults, we know that. So that's
what he's winning on, not that he didn't say those things.
He did. He's winning on that. There are other people.
Why did you only leak mine? So, guys, it's not
a good reflection at all on the NFL. When we
come back from break. I told you all last week
(14:03):
that just wait and we were going to hear parents
saying things about the school system, the police department that
again they should be superman with s's on their chest
if you listen to the public. But the public has
a lot to do with the problem. This is EVE
Sports Radio. I'll talk to you after the break. Welcome
back to Eve's Sports Radio. Let's catch you right this
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Shen and I like that intro, But welcome back to
the show. Phone numbers five zero, two, five seven, seventy
nine hundred. Great job of the nast and news Anthony. Again,
I told you all last week and we're going to
get into this, but first and foremost, everyone makes mistakes.
I told you all, I took sodas out of the
MASDA machine at Ballard High School. I was probably fourteen
fifteen years old, got me shall I got in corporate
(14:49):
punishment for that. If Pat Proxford would have told my dad,
the principal Ballad, I would have he would have killed me.
But I took my three licks from Pat Crawford and
moved on and stopped taking the sodas out of the
of the machine. But drastic difference between that and a
fifteen year old are charged after shooting shots near a
bus stop, untenthed chestnut. So can we all come together
(15:14):
with this statement, Miners and guns, no such thing. You
put a gun in your hand and you shoot it.
You're an adult and you get treated like one. That's
first and foremost, point blank, no maturing, No I made
a mistake. You put a gun in your hand and
you fire that gun at people, Then bottom line is
you're an adult and you get treated that way. That's
first thing. Second thing for we've got great judges. Judge
(15:40):
Green's done a fantastic job. But when people have shown
you that they have an issue, there are no shot
probation five months and out, black, white, green, yellow, I
don't care what you are, you stay your turn. That
second thing, period, point blank. We have to take it
out of the control of sometimes people's opinion if they
are convicted and proven. When we have pictures of people
(16:02):
firing guns and we know who they are, well, now
you don't get out. You do your time. You're a
big boy the minute you put that firearm in your pocket,
your pants, your hands, your big boy, big girl. You
must live by the consequences. Second, I told you all
when school started, school should be the safest place, point blank.
(16:24):
And I'm not going to kill you all with that.
That's my old pet peeve, point blank. But I'm gonna
leave it alone that it should be the safest place
in the community, which means the community has to be involved. Yesterday,
I told you all you have to do is just listen.
I told you all last week all we had to
do is listen to the television, and we would hear
(16:46):
statements from the community at either Superintendent Brian Yearwood or
Chief of Police Paul Humphrey or Mayor Craig Greenberg. We'd
hear directed at them. All I'm saying to the community
(17:07):
and to the woman that was talking during the press
confis the police didn't shoot the lady. Doctor Eearwood didn't either.
Paul Humphrey, chief of Police didn't either. Craig Greenberg didn't either.
So I told you I just listened to the television.
I was listening. I was listening yesterday. I was pissed
(17:28):
yesterday and pissed today because it seems like we I
told you we parenting don't want to get it. So
this was sell on television. I'm trying to figure out
what you're going to do, as mpd HM. Yesterday on television,
two episodes with the police with African Americans. One was
(17:52):
a police officer telling a young lady to do something,
directions she wouldn't do it. They end up getting a
little altercation. He puts her on the ground, and I
heard the whole black community going crazy, and look what happened.
Look what happened, Look what happened. The very next clip,
Black community is that we have a woman speaking to
the police chief on what he's going to do. So
(18:17):
Paul Humphrey, he's better than I am. He said. His
words were, we have a problem with enforcement and pre enforcement. Guys.
You can't hire a policeman right now. First thing, we
won't pay them. That's first thing. Every group. If I
(18:39):
said raised taxes to play the police, the Blacks would
go crazy, the whites would go crazy, his patents who
would go crazy, Asians would go crazy, and the whole
community would go crazy. But nobody would take the job.
That's just the true. I mean, you know it's just
the truth. But you know it. Sometimes we can't handle it.
So let me just talk to you where the problem is.
(19:04):
Why do we have people shooting people as they're walking
away from putting their child on the bus is the issue. Yes,
I hate that the police officer that had been parked
there the last four or five days from the last shooting,
which was by a fifteen year older Okay, didn't kill anyone,
(19:28):
but firearm and bullets were flying. Bullets have one purpose,
kill people, that's all. There's no other purpose. Guns have
one purpose. They facilitate harming something or someone. One purpose.
So now that we're going to have a meeting at
nine am at Village West, it will be aired on television.
(19:51):
Ever we want to be able to watch it. Until
the communities take responsibility for the action for people in
the community. I don't know how it gets fixed. I
was born in Beacha Terrace. So before everybody says you
don't know, stop stop, Yes I do. I was born
(20:12):
in Beacha Terras. I grew up in Newburgh BeForever moved
to Prospect. My friends were in Beach Terrace, Curtis Jeffries,
my high school teammate, Washington d C. Then extremely well
for himself, lived in Beacha Terrace. When he went to ballot.
I used to drop him off Martin Dumber and I
pick him up. I told you he was the first
(20:34):
person to have the danishes and put butter on it.
He said, I'm going to show you and Martin how
to fix this up. I'll never forget it. We had
chocolate Milton Danishes and it was unbelievable. Unbelievable. But the community.
The question should have been to Paul Humphrey, Chief of police,
(20:55):
how can we help you police us? That's the question,
not the other way around. We're gonna talking about parking tickets,
traffic tickets, illegal stops, we're talking about firearms being shot
around high school. The question should be at nine am today,
(21:17):
how do we help you? We can't hire enough police
officers and they know it can't aire enough. Just just
the facts, nobody wants that job. I don't know. Paulfrey
went to school with my daughter LeeAnne. Just being honest
with you, guys, I know most people. I'm kind of
old and I know those people. Anthony. He went to
(21:38):
school with Lee Ane Mitchell, your older sister. Bottom line,
he's trying to do the best job that he can
do community. But until we the community say that we
are going to help, it's not what he's going to do,
it's what we're going to do as a community. So guys,
(22:02):
the set ready, I hate it. I gotta give it
to you straight. I told you all this was coming.
I set watching television, both clips back to back. You
all on on. Everyone listening knows I'm telling them the truth.
There was a young lady, the police officer, and they're
grabbing her by her hair. She went down. I heard
the Urban le president talked about no one should be
(22:24):
treated that way and be a police officer. Then that's
all I can say, Hey, take the job. We always
are critiqued. Take the job. Do they have to do
it correctly? Yep? Do they have to follow the law yep?
When they don't, Should there be an issue, yes, there
should be. But bottom line is take the job. Last
(22:46):
tidbit so everybody can understand because last year a woman
called into my show everybody's frightening. Now. I don't know why,
maybe because I got chanting the dude the best wrestler
I don't know, but she said, Jerry, don't say we
have bad kids. Said okay, one question, why is it
that the State Fair opens today? I've been, I've gone.
I loved it. I love getting that whipped pineapple ice cream.
(23:09):
Everybody's got a favorite at the state Fair. Why is
it if we don't have bad kids, that you cannot
if you're eighteen in under go in, if you're not
accompanied by a parent. Just answer the question. The facts
are staring us in the face. I'm just tired of
everybody not telling the truth. I mean, who my goodness,
(23:30):
So you can't go to the State Fair unaccompanied because
you don't know how to act. We know that we've
seen what is transpired. So now the state Fair? Is
it the state's fair fault that they have to say
under eighteen? We're checking id's don't show up at the
fair without you id complaining. I didn't know. Listen to
the news. You can't get in if you don't have
(23:53):
parenting or somebody that they can say should be your
guardian because you don't have to act. But we don't
have any Our kids aren't the problem than you know?
Come on, guys, it's time for us to have real conversations,
but I don't know why it seems like I washed
rents and repeat. I knew this statement was coming. I
told you on last week this statement was coming. The
(24:15):
statement came. The lady's statement should be, how can we
help you police our community. This is the Sports Radio
seven thirty four. I'm going to break. I got a
clip about Little League Baseball that you're not gonna believe
when you listen to it, and I'd like to have
conversation about it after the break. Take me away, Shannon.
(24:37):
Welcome back to you Sports Radio seven thirty seven. I've
got a crazy interesting clip I want you to listen
to about Little League World Series and what's transpiring in
again the madness with the parents. Shannon, play it for me.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I already think the youth sports has gone completely off
the rails. Then you have been keeping up with the
lit League World Series. Now, I already knew things were
messed up when I learned about this kid. His name
is and at eleven years old, he and his parents
went on NBC News to talk about getting Tommy John.
Then last year I saw a viral video of a
different kid who showed up to his game dripped out
in every accessory known to mankind. This year I learned
that some bats go for six hundred dollars. We have
(25:13):
travel teams who ride in team branded charter buses, and
a few middle schoolers assigned nil deals. All of that
leads us to this year as the League World Series.
Now the final tourney the win Williamsport hasn't even started yet,
but we're already two scandals deep in the regionals. The
first required legal action. What you're seeing here is Marko Rocco,
a twelve year old from New Jersey who got his
pitch and went deep to center. He celebrated with the
(25:33):
monster batflip, but the fun ended there. He was promptly
ejected from the game and given a one game suspension.
His parents had none of it, though, they filed an
emergency temporary restraining order so he'd be able to play
in the next game. After a judge ruled in his favor,
Marco was reinstated. That's not all though. In the Southwestern
region we were treated to Oklahoma sign stealing scandal. Umpires
had to intervene twice in this game to stop the
runner in second base from signaling the pitch. Now the
(25:55):
reason we're seeing stories like these play out is because
American parents now spend forty billion dollar dollars per year
in youth sports. For reference, that is roughly the same
size as the entire video game market. That is not normal.
When these parents were twelve years old, people didn't even
think of youth sports as a market. Leagus were nonprofit
and most equipment was handed down. Fast forward and we've
got ten year old flying cross country for tournaments. The
(26:15):
sad part here is seventy percent of these kids will
quit sports by the age of thirteen because the fund
has been sucked out. Something that was supposed to be
about neighborhood pride and competition has been twisted into a
forty billion dollar industry that caters more to the parent
and the kids are paying the final price. I'm fremichol
Smith and that's my take.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Guys. Again, parenting not much of it. So I have
a person that son went and came up through the program.
I played Major League baseball in MISSOSPPI State, played professional baseball.
Landing knows a lot about this, and Landing, welcome to
need Sports Radio. How are you Landed? How are you there?
(27:01):
You go? We'll get blanding there you go.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, good, Jerry. I hope all you all were well
this morning. And uh, I love to come on your
own and laugh and cut up and have fun. But
this is a this is something that really hits at
by heartstring about this little league stuff and this travel
ball stuff, and this is very serious. And uh, Jerry,
that tape you just played was awesome and the guy
that was commentating it is absolutely spot on. I have
(27:29):
a seventh grade grandson and a fifth grade grandson that's
right in the middle of it, and it is just
in Santa Day, Jerry. What I'm seeing with these families nowadays?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Uh, how did they? How did they get there? Did
the Of course we know with AAU basketball that the
shoe companies have done a great job of suckering parents
to spend their last time trying to send kids around
where college coaches can watch them because they think that's
the way to a college scholarship. How did this little
baseball arrived?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Well, what's happened, Jerry? You know for years and years
and years when you would turn on the Little League
World Series. The way that works is Little League baseball
around the country has different specific areas that each little
league has like perimeters where all the kids lived to
where they would play under one recreational league, and then
(28:24):
at the end of that, at the end of that
their regular season, they would form an all star team
of the best ten or twelve kids and that would
participate in All Stars to try to get to Williamsport. Well,
now that's all changed, because now what's happened the kids.
There's many, many of these parents, Jerry that are pulling
that have already done away with the recreational leagues in
(28:46):
this country, which is very sad. And the reason it's
said is that that was a very inexpensive way for
a kid to get introduced to the game of baseball.
And now what has happened is this travel ball stuff.
You've got, say, for instance, a group of two dads
that are pretty well off financially that will call and
(29:08):
literally recruit kids, you know, I'm talking Jerry eight to
nine years old now, and they will form one travel
ball team. And what's going on now, You've got a
lot of people out here that will band together and
they are leasing these ballparks that used to be these
little league centers and they're turning them into these weekend
(29:30):
travel ball tournaments and they're making a barrel of money
on it, and it's it's Jerry, it's insanity. We was
at a fall ball or a summer ball travel ball
game this pass, I don't know, a month or so ago,
where my grandson got to play. And they were charging
eighteen dollars ahead to get in Jerry to this baseball
(29:50):
game just to get in summertime, and could buy a
weekend pass for thirty dollars per person, and that's every man, woman, child.
There was no discount for grandparents or seniors. There was
no discount for youth. That's the price. And once you
get in, the concessions have literally become inflated like a
(30:12):
college game. And also it's a carnival atmosphere. You got
people selling risk bands, you've got people selling batting bucks.
So we went, Jerry, we went to one Saturday, spent
a whole day there. I spent one hundred dollars Jerry
at a little league game tournament at day one hundred bucks.
And there are families out here that are going in
(30:32):
hawk to do this and it breaks my heart because
they're not kidding when they say travel ball. You know
there are organizations on the internet, like for instance, Gulfport, Mississippi,
where my kids play out of Jerry. They've got a
thirty million dollar complex down there that is unbelievable for
a little week it's little league, if you can believe this.
(30:53):
They got a lot of sunning from the federal government
to build this center and all that because of the
area it's in. And they've turned it into me making machine.
And you got people, You've got teams coming from Texas, Florida,
all over the places. And these parents Jerry have bought
into this that it's their way to college for exposure,
and they're getting ripped off. They're absolutely stealing money from
(31:16):
these parents most of these weekends Jerry. For a family
to travel all the time is over one thousand dollars now,
and that doesn't include the kid's equipment. And did you know,
less than seven percent of all these kids Jerry, which
is maybe one kid on every travel ball team, is
going to get any sniff of any type of college
(31:37):
from a Division III to a Division one. So the
best thing, if the parents were smart, they would take
that money and invest it, go on your local bank
and start a money market account of some kind and
invest that money for your child's college because this travel
ball is an atrocity. It's an absolute rip off. Jerry.
(31:58):
There's only you know, one kid per team that's going
to benefit from doing this.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Here's the deal blending. I appreciate it, but here's what
the problem is. Blended. The sporting good business, the shoe companies, jerseys,
the apparel have developed the attitude with the parents that
their way to form to fame and fortune is through
(32:24):
athletics and sports. So they have built a pride factor
with parents to spend the last dime trying to promote
thinking that they're promoting their sons or daughters when they're not.
And again it comes back to which is in show Tires.
Show has been about parenting and the lack of that
(32:45):
and the ability to educate themselves on when to say
no is the problem. And then the kids, just like
the gentlemen said in the article, get caught in the mix.
We've heard about all the Travel League teams. What happens
to them? You find out at eight team, where are
they at twenty five? They've done stories on it. It's
a nightmare because they've made these things too big. There
(33:07):
is something it's too big too soon. That is a fact.
They need to be playing in their backyard with whiffleballs
and improved through high school to college so that they
can handle this. But what happens is that everyone now
is rushing to stardom six seven eight. Who's going to
get rated? First? Eleven year older? Where is your son rated?
(33:28):
Where is he being rated? Have you take him where
he can get rated? Is the problem? So Bland, appreciate
for you call. You got to get a good day.
S forty six, Thank you some forty six guys. We
really need to take a step back on the athletic
piece and how we look at this E Sports Radio,
I talk to you in a minute. Welcome to the
(33:49):
sports Radio seven fifty. Yes, it is show's blown by today.
It was a difficult day. I know for a lot
of people that were listening. Some people do not want
to hear difficult subjects. They don't and that is another
form of lack of discipline and immaturity. One of the
great things about coaching is that they bring things to
(34:14):
you at a young age that you have to be
able to handle. You have to be able to take in,
you have to handle the criticism, You have to calculate it,
compute it, and then make it improve you. That's why
coaching was so big. It helped not Now it's a
race to start them. Truly, coaches are frightenings to anything
to the kids because the parents are sitting there hovering, waiting,
(34:37):
I mean waiting. You ruin Johnny's chance at a baseball
career or Jerry's's chance at a basketball career. I told
you all my eighth grade year. I'm on the JV team.
I'm not playing. I just practice with them. I have
(34:57):
potential coaching. Donnie Sad gets upset with the JV team.
I wasn't playing, guys, I was just a guy sitting
up on the stands. I was going to be good enough,
but I wasn't then. So he disciplined the team. We're running,
doing push ups, jumping jacks, all the above. He says.
The first guy that drops on one of the push ups,
if we had run for twenty thirty minutes, and I'm
(35:18):
gonna cut you. And of course jer Eves drops. Couldn't
do push ups at the time. My body had not matured.
My mind wasn't ready to push through either. I was tired.
I had nothing to do with it, so more than
just a fysical aspect, which I could have done. I
mentally wasn't ready, so I dropped. Of course, he sends
(35:39):
me out. I don't care. I find out the story later.
Richard spid who's the head coach, says to him the
do you know you just cut coach? Sayer said he'll
be back again. Frank Eves did not run into ballot
screaming and yelling at Donnie Sawyer at all, nor Richard's.
(36:00):
He never met with them ever. Listen to me, he
never met with them ever. I went home to my
dad what happened? He said, I got you. He says,
we'll go back tomorrow. He goes back. You walk in,
He tells Kote Siller He'll do whatever you ask of him.
That's all, won't you? I said, yep? He walks out.
That was the end of it. Jerry Eves turns into
(36:21):
Jerry Eves. Okay, was Donna Saider's smart and right? Who knows?
Did it work out as it did? Jerry's played the NBA.
But did my dad go into there renting and Raven know?
He walked in? Exact words is he'll do what you
ask of him? Give another opportunity and walked out. That's all.
So that's the story. Well, we don't have those parents anymore.
(36:47):
What we have are the injunctions. If they're rules, Listen here, people,
If you don't like the rules, let's change the rules,
that's all. And there should be a fair way to
do that. Shouldn't be a rig system. Everything's rigged today.
Everything's rigged today. We know that our politicians have built this.
(37:08):
It's crazy as can be and it's the worst time
we've ever had an American We all know that. And
it's been years of this coming years. I'm not talking four, eight, twelve, sixteen.
I'm talk about years of this, and we're here now.
We must all come together and make fair rules for
everyone that everyone must be to bide by. And when
those things are written and put in place, they must
(37:30):
be followed for everybody, everybody. No judges coming in saying
I'm gonna intervene. If there is a rule, no bat flips.
There are no backflips. I don't care who says it.
If the rule is written and you agree to play
under this criteria on this team, then they should inform
(37:53):
everyone now and the parents of the rules, and everyone
should have to follow them. Leads, the community be guys
because it has rules. That's why African Americans were able
to do well in a very hard time in the
forties fifty six. He's got a very hard time. Don't
lie to itself, very hard time. I mean, I have
(38:14):
my friends. I love talking to him and always. Bluegrass
Houty is now sold. It's out Bluegrass HOUTI. The commercials
will be pulled, but they're personal friends of mine. I've
known them and I've known her vine for god leave
forty plus years. But when her vine got started and
got into the car business, my dad could not let
again let me just just the facts. My dad couldn't
(38:35):
start where her vine started. Don't lie, don't say bootstraps
work hard. It was not. The doors were not open.
Just the facts. So we have to understand that. And
when we're going through, when we put rules in place
that are fair for everybody, then everyone must live by
(38:56):
these rules, must compete through these rules. The parents should
have to by them. So the young man who flipped
the bat, if it's in the rules that you cannot
flip the bat, he shouldn't have played, period point blank.
He should have suspended the team rules must be followed
today at nine am downtown Village West. I'm hoping that
(39:19):
when everyone comes together in the community, that the community says,
how can we help you? Help us? That's the only
way it's going to happen. It can't be us against
them and always think we're going to change something. It
just can't. It just can't. It is what it is.
(39:40):
As an athlet director at Simmons College, guys, I have
my coaches now, and Coach Beard was doing the women's
program and I was doing the men. There were no
assistant coaches. There were no paid assistant coaches. Coach Beard
came here, made five thousand dollars. So I am my
coaches now, I need assistant coaches. I understand everybody. Once more.
I have to win. And I tell them new, no
(40:01):
such thing. That's not what we're here for. That's not
the purpose of Simmons College of Kentucky. So let's find
out what our true purpose is, communities and let's help
the police help us is the sports radio God willing.
I'll be back tomorrow. Bye bye.
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