June 7, 2024 • 42 mins
Jeff Piecoro talks Reds baseball with Drew and horse racing with Kenny McPeek.
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Speaker 4 (00:59):
Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by
Stockton Mortgage. Now Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, Matt Jones is somewhere in this wide wide world
on vacation for what is it ten weeks?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Ten weeks? What jobs can you get a ten week
vacatione oh? The radio host case?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah? So who do you have? A permanent host on Mondays?
Who is Maron Metcalf on Mondays? And Wednesday?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Hearts on Wednesdays Fridays we rotate and then Tuesdays and
Thursdays we're popping in random businesses around.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Uh so that's pretty cool. Where were you at yesterday
where you guys almost got beheaded by the I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
How that sounded on the air, but that was pretty intense.
We were later brewing inches.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
When Ryan Dove under the table started yelling earthquake. I
think that was kind of crazy. I'm like, wait a minute,
we don't have a fault line around here.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Yeah, Shan I both reminded him, like you're on the radio,
you can't report earthquake. People are going to think there's
an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, look, we're gonna talk to Kenny Mick Peak in
just a minute. But we've got a couple of people
online that are on the phone that have been holding forever.
So Shannon, who we who are we gonna take for?
Let's start with m all right, Emily, how are you?
I'm good? How are you all good? What can we
do for?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I was just calling. I had a quick comment. I
saw a lot of our new guys coming in on
the basketball team brought their golf clubs with them, and
I thought it would be super cool if Club Blue
did some kind of golf scramble.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
It's a great idea. And you're right.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
We've had at least three show up with their golf
clubs yesterday. Unless there's one more, we're one away from
a foursome on the team. It's uh hey, I will
happily play with them. But that's a great idea. Hopefully
somebody's listening that can make that happen.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wow, people are listening. Well, let's hope. So hey, I'll
tell you what I played it. Boom Trace, You know
you guys had your We have a scramble scrambling got
one coming up. That place is awesome. Love that golf course.
Get to golf, Yeah, you love it.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
A lot of people don't know this, but Travis Perry
are thanks ely, mister Kentucky basketball. He was a star
golfer in high school too. It was all region. I
think he was second in the region tournament and top
twenty in state two years. So he's not just bringing
him to collect dust in the corner. I bet you'll
see Travis Perry around town quite a bit when he
has the time.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know Brian Lane, right, the transfer of basketball coach. Yeah,
well he's the basketball coach, but he's a much better
golf coach at Tramsey. And I think his dad's taught
him a lot about basketball. I don't know who taught
him about golf, but his golf team is really good.
They are, but he doesn't both how tough would that be?
(03:41):
And the golf coach and he's a real yep. What
else does the dude do?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
The lanes and transy whatever job you go down. He
might be serving food at the transy cap. The lanes
are getting done.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
They are they can't wow. All right, we got another
caller who's up to Brad. Hey, Brad, what's going on on? Sid? Hey?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
How are you today?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Good? What we do for you?
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Well, let's see, I'm a graduate of UK, grew up
in Lansdowne and when I heard you were gonna be
on the show, and Coach Madison, I just had to
call in. First of all, I just want to say
the job that everybody's doing with Matt on vacation has
been amazing. I live in South Florida. I'm probably the
(04:27):
social media of UK guru with all you know, a
little older community down here, so I keep everybody informed
and I probably get ninety nine percent of my information
from ks R and Kentucky Athletics. But anyway, the baseball
team has just been phenomenal. Darren Hendrick, doub Williams, coach
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Madison MinJe on the team. We are so excited about
what's going to occur this weekend. And there's a big
contingency of BBN down here and we don't get the
TV coverage. We have to get most of our stuff
from radio. So hats off to everyone on that entire team.
Y'all are doing a great job. And I have a
favorite ask. I just had a reef and hip surgery.
(05:12):
It wasn't a walk in the park. My sister just
flew down from Lexington. She graduated from the UK, grew
up in Lanstone with me, and she's a big Tim
McGraw fan, and if the tickets are available and you
don't need anybody else to give them to, it'd be
a really nice thing to be able to give him
to her. That's basically what I had.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's up to Drew right here, Brad, So thanks, Beddie,
appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
I don't know about that. We'll come up with something.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Might have to tailor a question that she might be
the only one to answer, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, Shannon, you got any ideas there? I mean, we're
referding Kenny McPeak.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, well he's on, he's ready to go here. But well, yeah,
we'll hold on to those tickets if you want, till
the end of the show and we'll figure out a
way to give those away.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay, Yeah, there we go, all right, Shenon. Thanks. I
guess we got to go to this guy, right, Kenny,
Now it's.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Okay, busy man, I think we should.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He's just sitting around with his dog. His his daughter
is better known than Kenny is at the backside of racetracks,
Am I right or wrong? Kenny? Kenny goes to the Preakness.
They don't give him anything. They gave him a dog bed,
a personalized dog bed, and the dog had his own
(06:23):
media credential, Kenny.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
I wasn't. I wasn't coming. Lets the dog come. He
goes with me everywhere every morning. I mean I take
him whether it's to Keenland or Churchill or the farm,
or he rolls with me. He likes to go and
and we got he's been to the Triple Crown.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Now he's had his he has his own media credential.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
What's the dog's name, Sonny Y, like Sonny Collins.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
There you go, there you so look, you know McPeek.
Obviously he lives half the year, quarter of the year
in Louisville, half quarter of the year here. He's got
places all over, you know, because he got strings of
orses everywhere. Kenny. We think I'm pushing this. Kenny's pushing this.
Might do the why at the UK Louisville basketball game.
(07:14):
How about that that? I mean, here's a guy. He's
gonna work like Lexingtonian. Yes, but we're working on his
wife because Sherry is a Louisville girl. And I don't
know if you can have Red sitting right there with you, Kenny,
if you're gonna be the why.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
It's an intercollegiate marriage. She and I said on the
opposite opposite ends of the couch twice a year and
she wears her proud red cardinal and I wear my
UK blue. But yeah, we have fun.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We have fun with that and our and our.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
Kids actually struggled with it a little bit because they're
not sure what direction to go.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Whoever's who they like. Yeah, it's easy if you're the kid.
So hey, Kenny, look, you know, coming into a month ago,
you'd never won the Oaks and you never won the Derby,
and then in a forty eight hour span you're an
Oaks winner and a Derby winner. That had to be
the coolest feeling in the world, wasn't it.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Well, for sure, the game is so humbling and it's
so difficult. Of course, we know every time a horse
race goes off that there's going to be a multitude
losers before there's a winner, and for it all to
come together on the same weekend it was magical. I'm
still a little bit in all of it all. I'm
trying to try not to come off the cloud. And
(08:30):
it's been a lot of hard work of a lot
of really really diligent people have helped me get there,
whether it was staff or owners, and a lot of
lovely horses, and yeah, it's kind of a career career
day for sure, Kitty.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I was talking to Drew before we started and I said,
I've never seen you so confident as you were going in,
especially to the Oaks with Torpedo Anna. You told me
that she was the best filly you ever had, and
I said, there's no way. Swiss Skydiver obviously was the best,
and you said, no, this Philly can run, and she
proved it. And she's running again this afternoon. How's she
coming up to the race and not at Belmont, at Saratoga.
(09:07):
How's she liking it over there?
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Well, she's handled a great She's a really easy Philly
to be around, for the most part, ultra fast. You know,
some of the Phillies in the past, you think a
take charge lady who was undefeated at Keenland and Swiss
Gotdiver of course, all the things she accomplished. But this Philly,
this Philly, if everything goes right, she could eclipse those.
So we'll see. And this race is a little bit
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different this year. The Acorn has historically been at a
one turn mile at Belmont, which is a race I
probably would have skipped, but it's a mile and an
eighth two turns here at Saratoga, so it's the same circumference,
same tip, two turn race that we ran in the
Kentucky Oaks, and we wanted to keep her into that routine.
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I think you confuse horses if you switch it up.
So we're excited about today. I fully expect her to
win again.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Wow, Kenny. A lot of people don't understand. They think, well,
the race just moved from Belmont to Saratoga, so it's
you know, it's a race track, so why can't you
have a mile and a half Belmont Stakes at Saratoga.
They don't understand that different race tracks have, as you
just said, different circumferences, and you don't want a horse
running a three turned race, correct, which would be what
(10:20):
happens at Saratoga. Am I right in saying that if
it was a mile and.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
A half, well, if they ran a mile and a half,
they would have had to have run it from from
a break right practically into the turn, which would have
been a big disadvantage for horses that were that were
on the outside, and or they had to extend it
out to a mile and five eights which is probably
a little too far. So I think a mile on
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a quarters, Yeah, mile on a quarter is a good number.
I mean it's gonna be the same distance as the Travers,
and this race will more than likely see some runners
come out of this and go towards Trivers. So it's
exciting they know what they're doing up here.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
I think.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
I think the decisions they've made have been good.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Kenny, you're the only horse in the race. It's gonna
run in all three if I'm not mistaken, the Derby,
the Preakness, and now the Belmont tomorrow. How is Mystic
Dad coming along? And you know, you look at let's
look at sier Leone for instance, who got those weeks
off that your horse didn't. How's Mystic Dad coming in?
And what do you think about the fresh horse since
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heier Leone and some of the others you'll be up against.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Well, the key, the key is is he's been ultra
consistent in his eating habits and his training habits, and
he's a really easy horse to keep. If I felt
like that he was fatigued, I wouldn't run. And he
actually acts like he's stronger coming into this third leg. Wow,
than the first couple. So we're still confident and he's
he's taken us there. We haven't. We haven't pressed this
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at all. He's just a nice horse with a lot
of talent that that likes to run. And I think
that in this day and age, we don't run on
LASiS anymore, which I think is are really good thing.
I think the Triple Crown had a drought where we
didn't have any Triple Crown winners, but when you ran
on leasix at dehydrated horses, and I think it's brilliant
that the industry no longer allows it, because I don't
(12:11):
think it was necessary.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Kenny, I want to ask you a question off off
the subject for just a second, because you now have
a string that you like to run down in New Orleans.
And it just came out yesterday that Churchill Downs, who
owns the track there, is saying they may not run
to the risen star of the Louisiana earlier. The was
it the luck comet? Is that? How you say that one?
Because of the new medication policy? What do you think
(12:33):
of that? If that comes to fruition and they don't, well,
they'll sort all.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
That out, you know, they're not gonna They're not going
to change all that that that's that's probably just to
play the the Louisiana Horsemen's groups and and the rule
changes down there. I mean, the truth is that the
sport runs on little or no medication at this stage anyway,
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And and so I find it almost I don't know
if i'd use the word comical or not, but they
we don't run, we don't run on any medication anywhere hardly,
And and so they're really driving down the limits. It
would be like us taking an ibuprofen or a seat
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of menafit and then running the next day. And then
if you did that, you would be in violation of
a rule. Well, horses in particular, yeah, a lot of
them run hard, and they do need some attention, not
any different than people. As we get older, we have
joint issues. We don't move as quick as we used to.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
You know, I'm sixty one, and I know you're right
there too, Jeff. But you know, nothing works like he
used to. And and horses that run hard have issues.
And at the same time, it's a trainer's job to
be able to figure out what makes that horse appy
and and make them comfortable, and the use of drugs
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and racing is actually so minimal that that I think
we really sometimes if it's a little bit overdone. But look,
they're trying to do something positive. They're trying to align
the rules, and I would love to see Louisy in
a come in alignment as well as Texas in some
other states. And we need we need universal rules everywhere.
(14:25):
Can you imagine if the Reds and the Cleveland Indians
ran with different lengths of their baseline and that there
was no different rules in every city. That would be crazy.
And that's really what horse racing needs to address in
a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And I do want to ask you one more question
about the race coming up, because I'm on horse races Now,
which is a great app that you have, and I'm
looking at tomorrow's entries for the race and I see
a ten horse. Ripoli owns it. Todd Pletcher is the trainer.
I rad Ortiza. You got great connections here. It's run
two times in its life. It broke a maiden and
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then ran a none winners other than and one. It
hasn't even been an allowance company yet. Now it's running
in a classic and it's the second choice that shows
a little respect for Mystic Dan, doesn't it.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
I was a little surprised. You know, my colts make
four point one million against the best, and and and
you know, look they bet they bet on Chad Brown
and they bet on Todd Pletcher up here in New York.
And that's kind of typical. That horse has shown freaky talent,
but he hasn't been in deep water yet, and he's
gonna get deep water tomorrow. And and you know, look,
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there are those who believe he can handle it. So
I don't know. I mean, it's the morning line is
actually a guess. They don't really know what the morning
line is gonna end up laying out to be. All
I know is is that my horse is ultra consistent.
He's done it at a high level, and we're excited
to show him off again.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Cool Kenny, tell me a little bit about horse racing now.
But can people you know, can they get it? How
do they get it? It's something that you, I know,
have worked hard on for how many years have you
trying to get this going?
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Well for those out there, well for those out there
that have apps on their phones, everybody that's got an
Android or an iPhone. Write this down real quick. It's
called horses Now. We've actually shortened the name a bit.
So if you go on the iTunes or the app
stores horses Now, would you download it? What it does
(16:27):
is you can add your favorite tracks, horses, trainers, jockeys.
Let's say you want to follow myself, then no problem.
You just simply punch in my last name, click on
and then add. And then every time I run a horse,
you get alerts. You get alerts for the entries, alerts
for the fifteen minutes before we run, a minute to
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post the results in some cases the replays and the charts,
and so it keeps you engaged in the sport. We
also notification for industry news. It's a real simple app.
We've had a million downloads in two hundred and seventeen countries.
(17:08):
You know, I'm a proponent of the sport. I'm trying
to grow the sport. I love what I do. I
think that more people need to be engaged and understand
what we do. I modeled this app after the ESP
and score Center app specifically for horse racing. And yes,
I've invested not only ten years into it, but also
a lot of my own personal money, and I'm proud
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of it. And we're gonna keep trying to grow, you know,
the sport. I always believe you can't grow a sport
unless you show a sport. We're trying to show it, yep,
and we are growing it.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Horses now, Kenny, yep, horses now. Go to your app store,
download it. It's great. I get results, I got entries.
It's all right there, right at your fingertips, Buddy, I
appreciate it. Good Luck tomorrow. I wish I was back
there like I was in Baltimore, but this baseball team
is driving me crazy up here, so I'll be uh.
I'll be at the ballpark watching the race at the
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ballpark because the race is at six forty one in
the games at six o'clock.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
So I think that's great. The Cats are playing super
you know. Yep, I'll be screwing like crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Caddy.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Good luck brother, all right, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I wish you the best, Thanks Anny, good luck man
today and tomorrow all right, thanks man. Torpedo and are
running today and the Acorn Mystic Dan the winner of
the derby running tomorrow, so two big races. I would
you look, I'm not a guy that tells you like
you do with the DraftKings and stuff. Bet bet bet bet,
I bet on torpedo. Anna made a lot of money.
She is. She's a heck of a horse. Unfortunately, you're
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not gonna get the odds you got in the Kentucky
Oaks pay ten to ninety to win. You know, you
throw one hundred bucks on that. That's a nice little
return on your best but right there. But yeah, and
you had the exact I mean earth days it was awesome.
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I didn't put that together about the head to head tomorrow.
Do you throw that up on the screen, That would
be the right's there, But that'd be neat if during
the baseball get the.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We're gonna take a quick time out to watch the
Belmont Steaks here, Yeah, that would be cool. Look, we're
over time for a break, so we gotta we got
to hit to a big break here. Well, we come back.
Give us a call. The phone lines are open eight
five nine two eight h two two eight seven, give
us a chat, do it. I'll be back right after this.
Hey don't look now, Drew, but this is white snake
(19:29):
right right there. That's the Shannon the drummer for White
Snake is actually in the bar. I really, I really
think that's Rick. I think it's Rick Surratt's how he says,
I think that's him.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Get me an autograph.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
I'm not gonna say it's not.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It's it's a pretty looks just like now, if we
if we just had Tawny Katan come in here, then hey.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Ryan would turn his car around in Missouri and be
here in an hour.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
There you go. She could she could lay a rest
in east She could have come and sat on my
car or whatever it was and she laid on or whatever.
In that video anyway, Hey, you said that some people
had had had emailed you and stuff and wanted me
to tell a couple of Red stories that I yes,
that actually could tell.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Before the show asked we have our message board bored,
I was like, what do you all want to hear
from Jeff Pacor today? And a lot of Reds fans
want some behind the scenes if you were around the team.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well, here here's something that that the Stowe family. Bernie
Stowe was was the father, and Bernie was ran the
clubhouse forever and his son's run it now. His son
Ricky runs the Reds clubhouse. So Barry Larkin spent his
entire career as a Red. His last day the last
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game of the season, the day he retires and walks off.
So he he comes to Ricky before the game, you know,
and and I said, hey, rick, can you help me.
I've got some stuff I need to get out of,
you know, some boxes I need to get, you know,
out of my car. I got all my stuff, you know,
the cleats and everything else that did that. I gotta that.
I got to pack up and stuff. So Ricky walks
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outside with him and a bunch of the players who
are already out there with cameras and stuff. And uh
so rick walks outside and there's a brand new Mercedes
been it was a three hundred, the four door Mercedes.
And he walks up and he goes, oh, very new car.
And he goes no, and he throws three in the
keys and goes, thank you for the nineteen years of
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washing my jock and my socks and making sure I
looked great and got me anything. And I mean, that's
very Larkin. How about that?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I mean, how cool is that? I mean that now,
this was what twenty years ago, but that's still one
hundred thousand, probably one hundred years ago, how about that?
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Very generously?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So that that was pretty cool. So that that's kind
of a cool story. So I gotta give you one
about fit. You know what fantasy camp is, right, you've
paid five thousand dollars. You go out to Sarasota or
now it's Arizona, and you'd be red for a week, right.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I had the one here. So I work for basketball,
same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Okay, So I got to interview cow. There's a there's
a Reds game, and Col's at the game his first year,
first or second year, Greg Darbyshire, his son plays on
the played on the team last year. So Darbyshire did
a lot of stuff for Coluh. So they're sitting up
in the smokestacks up there, that's a little private room,
and so I have to go up and interview him
during the game. So I go up there, and so
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it's before the game to tell him, Ham, I'm gonna
come up in the fourth inning whatever, blah blah blah
blah blah. And he goes, what in the heck is
going on? Because there's one hundred and fifty guys on
the field in uniforms and well it's a fantasy camp day.
So they all had their jerseys on.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Yeah, and they dress exactly like you're on the team.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah. So it's like, you know, he goes, is this
like a you know, some kind of alumni thing. I said, no, man,
I said, I said, cow, you gotta do this. He
goes what you're talking about? So this is called fantasy camp.
These guys pay five thousand dollars to go out to Arizona.
They have the trainers there. The coaches are Jim Maloney,
Jack Billingham, you know, Sean you know all these play
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Aaron Harangu, Danny Graves. Those are your coaches. Corky Miller,
Tom Brownie. And he's just here with his mouth open.
He goes they pay five DIY said five guy. I said,
you could do that, UK, you could make a fortune,
like guys would pay you. Get Kenny Walker, Sam Booie,
you know those guys out there to help you. And
he was like, and Darbyshire's writing all this down right,
So he cost me because we're gonna do it. We're
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gonna do it. Good luck with that. Hey, it's bottom
of the ere. We got to take a break. I'll
come back finish that story. I'll tell you one more
and we come back. All right, perfect, all right? TJ.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
He'll make them pay now more.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
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Speaker 2 (23:41):
You know, the only thing wrong with doing it here
is we don't have speakers, so the people in here
can't hear, right it is. We're doing the show. And
that's actually pretty good because because Serato over there, I'm like, dude,
you know, doesn't even know. Yeah, he doesn't didn't even
hear this whiskey thief song over? Oh? Is this it?
Cherry Pott? That there? You go.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I don't want to I don't want to take the
the role of handing it out, but it feels like
good whiskey thief song that is.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I mean, yeah, sweet cherry pie.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Right there is.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, it is nice talking up here when everyone can hear.
A lot of times Matt will say things about what's
going on in the restaurant, and I'm thinking, I'm glad
this is not.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, like, man, we bought twenty dozen cases of chicken wings,
thinking this is gonna go over. They've been in there
for a week, you're.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Bringing up March Madness again, SEC tournament palettes of But like.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You, guys have to be happy with the change because
of that, because I think there's gonna a little more
emphasis on the SEC turn from a.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Business standpoint the last few years of not having a
posts at all.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
It can't get any worse than that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, all right, So anyway back to the story. So
I'll tell you about Fantasy Camp which was which is
really cool. So you know, you go out there for
a week, but so you have coaches, and my coaches
this year that I'm talking about was Tom Brownie and
Bobby Wine. Bobby Wine never played for the Reds. I
know he was the Philadelphia Phillies, but he and Doug
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Flynn were best friends and they started this, so that's
why Bobby Wine was there. So anyway, they're the coaches.
So if you have a game where the other team
scores six runs in an inning, the coach. Because every
team has a former pitcher Aaron Harang, guys like that,
the Danny Graves, you know that are there and they
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have to come in and pitch. So the great thing
about Fantasy Camp is we're done at about six o'clock
after your second game. You played doubleheaders seven innings, have
a game, eat lunch, have another game, sit in the
hot tub, cold tub, get rub because you're you know,
these are all over forty year old men, double hunters,
dying out there. So you get go usually go out
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to eat, come back, and there's sense big fire pits
at the hotel. Everybody sits around, smokes the scar, drinks
beer whatever. So Browning was notorious to sit out there
and eat, smokes, cigar and drink until two three in
the morning. Well, the game's at eight o'clock the next morning.
So he's our coach. He's sitting in the corner, sunglasses,
hat down, he's asleep. So our team stunk, and we're
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playing this team like thanks coach. They had a guy
that was like a minor league or he's stolen ninety.
I mean I can't even see it. You know, you're
like good luck. So uh, this team, it's like it's
just like it's like bugs bunny, you know, they're just
running around the bases. So they're like, dh, that's six runs.
Uh Browning and he's like he's in the car and
he's asleep, Browning and he looks up and he goes, dude,
(26:35):
you got to pitch. So I'm playing. This is when
I This was like my second year, so I was
a lot younger. I'm playing shortstop because the only reason
I'm playing short step at this point in the week,
I was the only one that could throw the ball
still from that side to first base, maybe on a
hot So so he gets up and he's like looking around.
He's left handed. Anybody got a left handed glove, So
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somebody from the other team like those of even left
handed glove. So this guy is has been partying until
two o'clock in the morning. It's now maybe nine the
next morning, sound asleep on the bench. He walks out
and he's just like making a circle with his arm,
and I'm looking. And then this guy coming up the
bat played in the miners. He played at some college
in Florida. He's hitting like seven hundred at camp right,
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and I'm like, uh oh, and and so I'm standing
there men like the second baseman is standing where and
I got the ball in my hand, had thought to
him and he and he kind of goes like this.
I go, uh, you need to toss or something. He goes, no,
I'm good. I go really goes yeah, I go really,
and he goes, yeah, this's gonna be three pitches, and
I'm like, you know, right, So he gets up there.
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In the first pitch he throws straight, you know, and
the guy swings and missus. Second pitch he throws like
a curveball, and literally the guy swings and misses it.
You could see his plane of his bat up here
and the catcher's like here catching it. And the third
pitch was the one that Tom had. It was I
don't know what he called his screwball because he's left handed,
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but it would bear in on landed batter, so it
would go that way. And he throws this pitch and
I'm sitting there at shortstop and I'm like, oh my god.
But his follow through. He throws the pitch and he
just doesn't even look he throws it, and as he
releases it, he just starts walking. Was like Larry Bird
hitting the shot and walking as he spit, or Tiger
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Woods when he hits the putt and walked it into
the hall. He walks back to that and I'm like,
I'm watching him instead of the ball, and I go,
what was that? He goes, that's something that nobody in
this camp can hit. And I'm like, Tom, what the
hell was that? He goes, That's that's how I won
one hundred and whatever games. And I'm like, oh my god.
So all these people out here who think they can hit,
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even a fifty year old former pitcher, don't do it.
You can't. You cannot do it. We were sorting the
batting cage. Like the batting cage, you go in there
and hit, and I'm I'm drawing a blank on this
guy's name. I've been trying to think of it. He
pitched for the mitst Pete Shurrick, so Shirk pitched for
the Reds. Too big guy, about six ' three but
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could throw hard. So we're in the cage and he's
lobbing and I go, hey, Pete, you know, and I'm hitting, okay,
you know, fouling them off, hitting the ball because they
want you to hit. I mean, it's like they're they're
trying to strike peeple out of Helly struck out Barry Bonch.
You really think it's going to do anything. He struck
out Jeffcorro, right, you know. So I go hey Pete.
He goes yeah, and I go, uh, can you heat
it up. So he goes, you sure, and I go yeah.
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He goes, okay, so you know you're in a cage.
They're only about fifty feet in the cage. So I
get ready. I go okay, and all I hear is
you know, the ball hits the back of the thing.
And I go, okay, I'm ready and he laughs and
I go, no, really do that again, right? So I
get ready again, and I mean, you don't even see.
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He wasn't even the size of an aspirin coming in
and it hits the back and I go, dude, how
hard was that? He goes maybe ninety ninety one? And
I'm like really, and he goes yeah, did. He goes,
what do you think it would be like bat against
the earldest Chapman who throws one hundred and four? And
I'm like, you couldn't. You couldn't see the ball. I mean,
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it would look like an aspirin. And when he literally
I have so much more appreciation for what a baseball player.
And it goes through once you do this because you
have to start your swing when literally when he's releasing
the ball, you have to start your motion of the
swing and then you gauge. The players look at the
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spin right spin spin handle. It looks like smoke going by.
But these guys' eyes are so good they can actually
see the spin if it's a fastball, if it's a
curveball of it, you know, and they adjust their swing
as the where his release point is and what the
ball does out of his hand. It's unbelievable. It is
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the hardest thing to do. You're hitting an object with
a bat, and you know, it's just it was. It
was pretty awesome. But Tom Browning was amazing and and
just the best storyteller and just the best guy. And
unfortunately we lost him last year, but man, he was.
It's pretty cool to get to know those guys. And
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it's a little different for me because I knew them
a lot because and I told all of them. I
told Joey Vado this, I told I told Austin Kurrns this,
Adam done all that. The big players came in. I said, look,
you're gonna get so sick of me because I'm in
five weeks of spring training. I fly on the plane
with you, I stay in the hotel with you, and
I'm here every single day every game. I said, you're
gonna get sick of me. But you know, to be
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around them that much, and so I get to see
stuff that nobody else. Here's a great, great story. What
was it maybe three o'clock in the morning, and you know,
you stay at really nice hotels. So we're at the
Galleria in Houston at a Weston, really nice Weston, and
the fire alarm was off and it was one of
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those that has that light in your room, you know
that's like yeah, And so you're putting your pillow over
your head, you know, and stuff, trying to sleep because
it's three o'clock in the morning, and it just keeps going,
and it just keeps going, and it just keeps because
usually they'll come on, you know, something, call your roof something.
So now I get up and I'm in Jim Schwortz
(32:25):
and t Shirt opened my door and I see like
Todd Frasier and I'm like and he's like, why not,
you know? And then I'm like, dude, I don't know.
And then all of a sudden, some guys go to
this is real, you gotta come down. Oh my god.
So now we're all going down to the lobbying and
here's there's Todd Fraser. Here's this guy, here's this guy,
here's this guy, here's this guy. And obviously the elevators
don't work, so into the lobby there are these big
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sweeping stairwell that comes down and down comes Evado. There's
probably ninety percent of the team there, and here comes Evado.
He's wearing you know, hey, your dad. Some dads, i'd say,
your dad used to wear pajamas, you know. They had
like it looked like almost like a business suit and
had three buttons in the pocket. Yeah. So here comes
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Joey and he's got like a royal blue silk three
buttons and the pants were like, uh, what do you
call him like shorts. They came down like to his
knee and they were cut, yeah, because they were like
cuff clam diggers or whatever. And here he comes, and
(33:30):
he just comes walking down the steps and the hall
team dudes are like no shirt, guys are in like
beat up jim shorts, sweats, shower shoes and here and
everybody's just sitting here looking at you. And I will
never forget the picture. Gosh, I'm losing my mind. I
can't think. But and uh, he was he was a
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little dude from Arizona never played in the minor leagues.
Remember he went straight from college at Arizona, Arizona State's
Right to the redst little blond headed guy. No, bron
was cool. Hell, and he comes prancing down this city.
He goes Jesus Mary Poppins and everybody's died laughing. But
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this is three It's three o'clock in the morning, So
things like that. Joey was cool. Joey, Joey was a
cool dude. No, you you have to understand when to
talk to these guys because this is their job. We
forget they're playing this game, but this is their job.
And Joey's like, hey, if I'm at my locker, I'll
answer any question you come up. But once I walk
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up on the field and Barry Bonds was the same way.
I never had a problem with Bonds. Everybody said Bonds
was an ass. I went to Dusty, I said, how
do I talk to Barry? He goes, well, he's probably
just getting ready to get here. Just go to his
locker and wait for him. So I went to his
locker and waited for him. He comes walking in. I'm
standing away from his locker and he knows. I'm standing
there like looking at him. I got my shooter with
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me and he looks. So he goes, do you need something?
And I get yeah, man, I said, Dusty told me.
He goes, oh, you talked to us. I said, hey, man,
I have to talk to Dusty every day. I'm part
of the bar carasking you blah blah blah buta and
he goes, oh, okay, cool, what do you need? I said,
I only need two questions. So I asked him two
questions and I go, hey, thank you. He goes, that's it.
I said, See that's I only need thirty seconds. Right,
(35:20):
it's a TV show. But all I need is one
little thirty second bite from him just to say, hey,
talk to Barry Bonds. Here's what he said about facing
Bronson Arroyo. Right, that's all. That's all you need. Most
of them are good guys. Most of them didn't care
for Homer Bailey, the one guy just did. He just
wasn't a good dude. I just didn't like him. But
other than that, mostly Jason LaRue Is. Those two guys
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didn't care for it. Bronson Oroo the best dude ever.
I mean, what a great guy. We gotta take a break.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
I can sit here and talk, knowing that when you're
they don't get too old or too drunk that you
think you can take advantage, They're still gonna get you
browning on no sleep.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That yeah, I just needed three. Yeah. Hey, it's eleven
forty six feet back with our final segment. Right after this,
stay with us, Please welcome back to our final segment
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Speaker 2 (36:51):
Dock to you, Jeff, Well, thank you. You know that's
a great commercial for Shady Rays. And it was so
long that I think we're done. We can't talk anymore,
can we? Could you cut that back to about a
fifteen or twenty second or there? Does it happen to me?
And then in a half I don't know, but the
Shady Rays are great now, I'm kidding they they look
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take that. I do. Look Corey Price, I know he
caught it and said, yeah, your buddy, dude is amazing.
I've never seen I don't know where he gets these pictures.
I can go online and not find him, and he's
got stuff. He his pictures of me from like eighth grade.
I didn't even know cameras existed back then.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
My birthdays next week, I'm already already have anxiety of
what he's.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Gonna pull up and how terrible and goofy I'm gonna
look from my childhood.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Dude, he looked great in that football helmet when I
put that on his head. I got to get another
one and make him wear that for games now.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
That's so cool. He gets to be helped and.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I know, Oh he's fantastic. He does a fantastic job.
For those of you who don't know, we have a
stats guy that sits between Tom and I and feeds
us stats that you know, because I'm not gonna look up,
when was the last time the Kentucky punter, you know,
punted the ball seventy one yards? Well, he get Paul
Calhoun nineteen eighty four. You should know, Jeff, you were
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there obviously, Yeah, against Indiana and Dada. But it's amazing
what he does. So we really do, but I do.
He's a great dude, and love to have him in
the boot. So Corey, if you're listening, kudos to everything
that you do. I do want to say one other
thing about the Reds and a story for you because
a lot of people the hate mail that this guy
(38:27):
got when he was there is amazing that it happened
in the two thousands. Dusty Baker, fantastic dude, man. I
call him my friend. I have his personal number, we
call I text him. He's a wonderful guy. He would
get hate mail in Cincinnati. So one day I go
into his office. There's a little box and there's letters
in there, and because I have to interview him every day,
(38:48):
like what's that, he goes grab one and I read it.
I was like, oh my god. It was like literally
nineteen fifties in Mississippi, you know, go home, kill you.
And I'm like, oh my god. But so we're in
San Francisco and we have an off day on a
Saturday because it was a national national game on the Fox. Right,
so he knows this, and we're in Arizona, I think
(39:10):
it was before, and he goes, hey, what are you
gonna do on your day off? And I said, oh,
I'm gonna go out to Alcatraz. You know the prison,
right And he goes, man, it's a prison, and I
go yeah, but you know it's He's you know, you
ever been to a prison before? I go yeahah, And
he goes, you're gonna walk in, They're gonna throw you
in a cell, They're gonna shut the door for like
a minute. And then you know, you could say I
was in prison at Alcatraz, right, sagas Nana come see me.
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So I don't think anything about it. So now it's
like Thursday, we get into we get into San Francisco.
The game's over, blah blah blah, and Rob Butcher because
he goes, Dusty wants to see in his office. And
I'm like, oh, damn, what did I say on the air.
Maybe I said something wrong. So I go in there
and I go, I go, uh, what's up Dusty? And
he goes, hey, who's out here with you? Because my
brother lived out there, my younger brother. It's my my
(39:55):
older brother right there, but my youngest brother is uh
living out there, and h I got yeah, my younger brother.
He goes, okay, having at the hotel at eight thirty
Saturday morning, it's okay. So my brother and his wife
come over at eight thirty and I go downstairs and
he goes, my buddy Scott or whatever the guy's name is,
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going to take care of you. It's okay. So I
walk downstairs and there's a limo and this guy standing goes, Jeff,
come on. So we get in a limo, right, lima
eight thirty in the morning. Can't in San Francisco. So
we go. We go across the Golden Gate Bridge. You
sit out there, you eat. It's a fabulous meal at
this and then we go up takes us all the
(40:38):
way up into wine country. We go to seven different
vineyards and then Olive Grove. Okay, so I'm on the
charter so I can bring all this home. So I
got like cases of wine from my pop and my
mom and stuff and oil and stuff. But we go
to all this stuff. We get back to the hotel
at nine o'clock at night. So I've been with this
guy for what twelve hours? Thirteen hours? Right, So my
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brother and I am like, dude, we got to give
this guy a big tip, you know, for twelve hours,
you know. So we reach in my pocket. He goes, oh, no, no,
Dusty took care I said, oh, I gotta give you.
So he goes, no, Dusty took care to So this dude,
so twelve hours in a limo, think of that. That
had to be a couple thousand dollars on a tip
going out country. Yet every place went to was free,
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didn't have to pay anything. Uh that's the kind of
wouldn't take anything for it. I went to Dusty Hay
Matt wouldn't take So I got him a bottle of
Maker's Mark that you know, it's especially dipped for on
the front of it, and I sat went to his
limo driver to him, but that's the kind of guy
Dusty Baker is. And I told him, I said, Man,
when he retired, I called him. I said, when you
go to Cooperstown, I'll be there. And uh, that's the
kind of guy. He was. Just just a super super
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guy man and one of my favorites. Brian Price another
guy that was really good there too.
Speaker 7 (41:51):
Loved it, but uh love hearing this course.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Yeah it was cool, it was fun, but this was.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
Fun man flies bah and he time you need me,
Let's go win some baseball games this week.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
You do it. It'll be a fun weekend, that's for sure.
And Torpedo anna today and the Acorn better again. Thanks Drew.
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Speaker 4 (00:59):
Welcome to Hour two of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by
Stockton Mortgage. Now Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, Matt Jones is somewhere in this wide wide world
on vacation for what is it ten weeks?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Ten weeks? What jobs can you get a ten week
vacatione oh? The radio host case?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah? So who do you have? A permanent host on Mondays?
Who is Maron Metcalf on Mondays? And Wednesday?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Hearts on Wednesdays Fridays we rotate and then Tuesdays and
Thursdays we're popping in random businesses around.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Uh so that's pretty cool. Where were you at yesterday
where you guys almost got beheaded by the I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
How that sounded on the air, but that was pretty intense.
We were later brewing inches.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
When Ryan Dove under the table started yelling earthquake. I
think that was kind of crazy. I'm like, wait a minute,
we don't have a fault line around here.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Yeah, Shan I both reminded him, like you're on the radio,
you can't report earthquake. People are going to think there's
an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, look, we're gonna talk to Kenny Mick Peak in
just a minute. But we've got a couple of people
online that are on the phone that have been holding forever.
So Shannon, who we who are we gonna take for?
Let's start with m all right, Emily, how are you?
I'm good? How are you all good? What can we
do for?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I was just calling. I had a quick comment. I
saw a lot of our new guys coming in on
the basketball team brought their golf clubs with them, and
I thought it would be super cool if Club Blue
did some kind of golf scramble.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
It's a great idea. And you're right.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
We've had at least three show up with their golf
clubs yesterday. Unless there's one more, we're one away from
a foursome on the team. It's uh hey, I will
happily play with them. But that's a great idea. Hopefully
somebody's listening that can make that happen.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Wow, people are listening. Well, let's hope. So hey, I'll
tell you what I played it. Boom Trace, You know
you guys had your We have a scramble scrambling got
one coming up. That place is awesome. Love that golf course.
Get to golf, Yeah, you love it.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
A lot of people don't know this, but Travis Perry
are thanks ely, mister Kentucky basketball. He was a star
golfer in high school too. It was all region. I
think he was second in the region tournament and top
twenty in state two years. So he's not just bringing
him to collect dust in the corner. I bet you'll
see Travis Perry around town quite a bit when he
has the time.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know Brian Lane, right, the transfer of basketball coach. Yeah,
well he's the basketball coach, but he's a much better
golf coach at Tramsey. And I think his dad's taught
him a lot about basketball. I don't know who taught
him about golf, but his golf team is really good.
They are, but he doesn't both how tough would that be?
(03:41):
And the golf coach and he's a real yep. What
else does the dude do?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
The lanes and transy whatever job you go down. He
might be serving food at the transy cap. The lanes
are getting done.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
They are they can't wow. All right, we got another
caller who's up to Brad. Hey, Brad, what's going on on? Sid? Hey?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
How are you today?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Good? What we do for you?
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Well, let's see, I'm a graduate of UK, grew up
in Lansdowne and when I heard you were gonna be
on the show, and Coach Madison, I just had to
call in. First of all, I just want to say
the job that everybody's doing with Matt on vacation has
been amazing. I live in South Florida. I'm probably the
(04:27):
social media of UK guru with all you know, a
little older community down here, so I keep everybody informed
and I probably get ninety nine percent of my information
from ks R and Kentucky Athletics. But anyway, the baseball
team has just been phenomenal. Darren Hendrick, doub Williams, coach
(04:51):
Madison MinJe on the team. We are so excited about
what's going to occur this weekend. And there's a big
contingency of BBN down here and we don't get the
TV coverage. We have to get most of our stuff
from radio. So hats off to everyone on that entire team.
Y'all are doing a great job. And I have a
favorite ask. I just had a reef and hip surgery.
(05:12):
It wasn't a walk in the park. My sister just
flew down from Lexington. She graduated from the UK, grew
up in Lanstone with me, and she's a big Tim
McGraw fan, and if the tickets are available and you
don't need anybody else to give them to, it'd be
a really nice thing to be able to give him
to her. That's basically what I had.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That's up to Drew right here, Brad, So thanks, Beddie,
appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
I don't know about that. We'll come up with something.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Might have to tailor a question that she might be
the only one to answer, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, Shannon, you got any ideas there? I mean, we're
referding Kenny McPeak.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, well he's on, he's ready to go here. But well, yeah,
we'll hold on to those tickets if you want, till
the end of the show and we'll figure out a
way to give those away.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Okay, Yeah, there we go, all right, Shenon. Thanks. I
guess we got to go to this guy, right, Kenny,
Now it's.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Okay, busy man, I think we should.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He's just sitting around with his dog. His his daughter
is better known than Kenny is at the backside of racetracks,
Am I right or wrong? Kenny? Kenny goes to the Preakness.
They don't give him anything. They gave him a dog bed,
a personalized dog bed, and the dog had his own
(06:23):
media credential, Kenny.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
I wasn't. I wasn't coming. Lets the dog come. He
goes with me everywhere every morning. I mean I take
him whether it's to Keenland or Churchill or the farm,
or he rolls with me. He likes to go and
and we got he's been to the Triple Crown.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Now he's had his he has his own media credential.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
What's the dog's name, Sonny Y, like Sonny Collins.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
There you go, there you so look, you know McPeek.
Obviously he lives half the year, quarter of the year
in Louisville, half quarter of the year here. He's got
places all over, you know, because he got strings of
orses everywhere. Kenny. We think I'm pushing this. Kenny's pushing this.
Might do the why at the UK Louisville basketball game.
(07:14):
How about that that? I mean, here's a guy. He's
gonna work like Lexingtonian. Yes, but we're working on his
wife because Sherry is a Louisville girl. And I don't
know if you can have Red sitting right there with you, Kenny,
if you're gonna be the why.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
It's an intercollegiate marriage. She and I said on the
opposite opposite ends of the couch twice a year and
she wears her proud red cardinal and I wear my
UK blue. But yeah, we have fun.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We have fun with that and our and our.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
Kids actually struggled with it a little bit because they're
not sure what direction to go.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Whoever's who they like. Yeah, it's easy if you're the kid.
So hey, Kenny, look, you know, coming into a month ago,
you'd never won the Oaks and you never won the Derby,
and then in a forty eight hour span you're an
Oaks winner and a Derby winner. That had to be
the coolest feeling in the world, wasn't it.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Well, for sure, the game is so humbling and it's
so difficult. Of course, we know every time a horse
race goes off that there's going to be a multitude
losers before there's a winner, and for it all to
come together on the same weekend it was magical. I'm
still a little bit in all of it all. I'm
trying to try not to come off the cloud. And
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it's been a lot of hard work of a lot
of really really diligent people have helped me get there,
whether it was staff or owners, and a lot of
lovely horses, and yeah, it's kind of a career career
day for sure, Kitty.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I was talking to Drew before we started and I said,
I've never seen you so confident as you were going in,
especially to the Oaks with Torpedo Anna. You told me
that she was the best filly you ever had, and
I said, there's no way. Swiss Skydiver obviously was the best,
and you said, no, this Philly can run, and she
proved it. And she's running again this afternoon. How's she
coming up to the race and not at Belmont, at Saratoga.
(09:07):
How's she liking it over there?
Speaker 9 (09:09):
Well, she's handled a great She's a really easy Philly
to be around, for the most part, ultra fast. You know,
some of the Phillies in the past, you think a
take charge lady who was undefeated at Keenland and Swiss
Gotdiver of course, all the things she accomplished. But this Philly,
this Philly, if everything goes right, she could eclipse those.
So we'll see. And this race is a little bit
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different this year. The Acorn has historically been at a
one turn mile at Belmont, which is a race I
probably would have skipped, but it's a mile and an
eighth two turns here at Saratoga, so it's the same circumference,
same tip, two turn race that we ran in the
Kentucky Oaks, and we wanted to keep her into that routine.
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I think you confuse horses if you switch it up.
So we're excited about today. I fully expect her to
win again.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Wow, Kenny. A lot of people don't understand. They think, well,
the race just moved from Belmont to Saratoga, so it's
you know, it's a race track, so why can't you
have a mile and a half Belmont Stakes at Saratoga.
They don't understand that different race tracks have, as you
just said, different circumferences, and you don't want a horse
running a three turned race, correct, which would be what
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happens at Saratoga. Am I right in saying that if
it was a mile and.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
A half, well, if they ran a mile and a half,
they would have had to have run it from from
a break right practically into the turn, which would have
been a big disadvantage for horses that were that were
on the outside, and or they had to extend it
out to a mile and five eights which is probably
a little too far. So I think a mile on
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a quarters, Yeah, mile on a quarter is a good number.
I mean it's gonna be the same distance as the Travers,
and this race will more than likely see some runners
come out of this and go towards Trivers. So it's
exciting they know what they're doing up here.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
I think.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
I think the decisions they've made have been good.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Kenny, you're the only horse in the race. It's gonna
run in all three if I'm not mistaken, the Derby,
the Preakness, and now the Belmont tomorrow. How is Mystic
Dad coming along? And you know, you look at let's
look at sier Leone for instance, who got those weeks
off that your horse didn't. How's Mystic Dad coming in?
And what do you think about the fresh horse since
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heier Leone and some of the others you'll be up against.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Well, the key, the key is is he's been ultra
consistent in his eating habits and his training habits, and
he's a really easy horse to keep. If I felt
like that he was fatigued, I wouldn't run. And he
actually acts like he's stronger coming into this third leg. Wow,
than the first couple. So we're still confident and he's
he's taken us there. We haven't. We haven't pressed this
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at all. He's just a nice horse with a lot
of talent that that likes to run. And I think
that in this day and age, we don't run on
LASiS anymore, which I think is are really good thing.
I think the Triple Crown had a drought where we
didn't have any Triple Crown winners, but when you ran
on leasix at dehydrated horses, and I think it's brilliant
that the industry no longer allows it, because I don't
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think it was necessary.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Kenny, I want to ask you a question off off
the subject for just a second, because you now have
a string that you like to run down in New Orleans.
And it just came out yesterday that Churchill Downs, who
owns the track there, is saying they may not run
to the risen star of the Louisiana earlier. The was
it the luck comet? Is that? How you say that one?
Because of the new medication policy? What do you think
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of that? If that comes to fruition and they don't, well,
they'll sort all.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
That out, you know, they're not gonna They're not going
to change all that that that's that's probably just to
play the the Louisiana Horsemen's groups and and the rule
changes down there. I mean, the truth is that the
sport runs on little or no medication at this stage anyway,
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And and so I find it almost I don't know
if i'd use the word comical or not, but they
we don't run, we don't run on any medication anywhere hardly,
And and so they're really driving down the limits. It
would be like us taking an ibuprofen or a seat
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of menafit and then running the next day. And then
if you did that, you would be in violation of
a rule. Well, horses in particular, yeah, a lot of
them run hard, and they do need some attention, not
any different than people. As we get older, we have
joint issues. We don't move as quick as we used to.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There.
Speaker 9 (13:43):
You know, I'm sixty one, and I know you're right
there too, Jeff. But you know, nothing works like he
used to. And and horses that run hard have issues.
And at the same time, it's a trainer's job to
be able to figure out what makes that horse appy
and and make them comfortable, and the use of drugs
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and racing is actually so minimal that that I think
we really sometimes if it's a little bit overdone. But look,
they're trying to do something positive. They're trying to align
the rules, and I would love to see Louisy in
a come in alignment as well as Texas in some
other states. And we need we need universal rules everywhere.
(14:25):
Can you imagine if the Reds and the Cleveland Indians
ran with different lengths of their baseline and that there
was no different rules in every city. That would be crazy.
And that's really what horse racing needs to address in
a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And I do want to ask you one more question
about the race coming up, because I'm on horse races Now,
which is a great app that you have, and I'm
looking at tomorrow's entries for the race and I see
a ten horse. Ripoli owns it. Todd Pletcher is the trainer.
I rad Ortiza. You got great connections here. It's run
two times in its life. It broke a maiden and
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then ran a none winners other than and one. It
hasn't even been an allowance company yet. Now it's running
in a classic and it's the second choice that shows
a little respect for Mystic Dan, doesn't it.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
I was a little surprised. You know, my colts make
four point one million against the best, and and and
you know, look they bet they bet on Chad Brown
and they bet on Todd Pletcher up here in New York.
And that's kind of typical. That horse has shown freaky talent,
but he hasn't been in deep water yet, and he's
gonna get deep water tomorrow. And and you know, look,
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there are those who believe he can handle it. So
I don't know. I mean, it's the morning line is
actually a guess. They don't really know what the morning
line is gonna end up laying out to be. All
I know is is that my horse is ultra consistent.
He's done it at a high level, and we're excited
to show him off again.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Cool Kenny, tell me a little bit about horse racing now.
But can people you know, can they get it? How
do they get it? It's something that you, I know,
have worked hard on for how many years have you
trying to get this going?
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Well for those out there, well for those out there
that have apps on their phones, everybody that's got an
Android or an iPhone. Write this down real quick. It's
called horses Now. We've actually shortened the name a bit.
So if you go on the iTunes or the app
stores horses Now, would you download it? What it does
(16:27):
is you can add your favorite tracks, horses, trainers, jockeys.
Let's say you want to follow myself, then no problem.
You just simply punch in my last name, click on
and then add. And then every time I run a horse,
you get alerts. You get alerts for the entries, alerts
for the fifteen minutes before we run, a minute to
(16:48):
post the results in some cases the replays and the charts,
and so it keeps you engaged in the sport. We
also notification for industry news. It's a real simple app.
We've had a million downloads in two hundred and seventeen countries.
(17:08):
You know, I'm a proponent of the sport. I'm trying
to grow the sport. I love what I do. I
think that more people need to be engaged and understand
what we do. I modeled this app after the ESP
and score Center app specifically for horse racing. And yes,
I've invested not only ten years into it, but also
a lot of my own personal money, and I'm proud
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of it. And we're gonna keep trying to grow, you know,
the sport. I always believe you can't grow a sport
unless you show a sport. We're trying to show it, yep,
and we are growing it.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Horses now, Kenny, yep, horses now. Go to your app store,
download it. It's great. I get results, I got entries.
It's all right there, right at your fingertips, Buddy, I
appreciate it. Good Luck tomorrow. I wish I was back
there like I was in Baltimore, but this baseball team
is driving me crazy up here, so I'll be uh.
I'll be at the ballpark watching the race at the
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ballpark because the race is at six forty one in
the games at six o'clock.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
So I think that's great. The Cats are playing super
you know. Yep, I'll be screwing like crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Caddy.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Good luck brother, all right, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I wish you the best, Thanks Anny, good luck man
today and tomorrow all right, thanks man. Torpedo and are
running today and the Acorn Mystic Dan the winner of
the derby running tomorrow, so two big races. I would
you look, I'm not a guy that tells you like
you do with the DraftKings and stuff. Bet bet bet bet,
I bet on torpedo. Anna made a lot of money.
She is. She's a heck of a horse. Unfortunately, you're
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not gonna get the odds you got in the Kentucky
Oaks pay ten to ninety to win. You know, you
throw one hundred bucks on that. That's a nice little
return on your best but right there. But yeah, and
you had the exact I mean earth days it was awesome.
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I didn't put that together about the head to head tomorrow.
Do you throw that up on the screen, That would
be the right's there, But that'd be neat if during
the baseball get the.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We're gonna take a quick time out to watch the
Belmont Steaks here, Yeah, that would be cool. Look, we're
over time for a break, so we gotta we got
to hit to a big break here. Well, we come back.
Give us a call. The phone lines are open eight
five nine two eight h two two eight seven, give
us a chat, do it. I'll be back right after this.
Hey don't look now, Drew, but this is white snake
(19:29):
right right there. That's the Shannon the drummer for White
Snake is actually in the bar. I really, I really
think that's Rick. I think it's Rick Surratt's how he says,
I think that's him.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Get me an autograph.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
I'm not gonna say it's not.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It's it's a pretty looks just like now, if we
if we just had Tawny Katan come in here, then hey.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Ryan would turn his car around in Missouri and be
here in an hour.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
There you go. She could she could lay a rest
in east She could have come and sat on my
car or whatever it was and she laid on or whatever.
In that video anyway, Hey, you said that some people
had had had emailed you and stuff and wanted me
to tell a couple of Red stories that I yes,
that actually could tell.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Before the show asked we have our message board bored,
I was like, what do you all want to hear
from Jeff Pacor today? And a lot of Reds fans
want some behind the scenes if you were around the team.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well, here here's something that that the Stowe family. Bernie
Stowe was was the father, and Bernie was ran the
clubhouse forever and his son's run it now. His son
Ricky runs the Reds clubhouse. So Barry Larkin spent his
entire career as a Red. His last day the last
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game of the season, the day he retires and walks off.
So he he comes to Ricky before the game, you know,
and and I said, hey, rick, can you help me.
I've got some stuff I need to get out of,
you know, some boxes I need to get, you know,
out of my car. I got all my stuff, you know,
the cleats and everything else that did that. I gotta that.
I got to pack up and stuff. So Ricky walks
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outside with him and a bunch of the players who
are already out there with cameras and stuff. And uh
so rick walks outside and there's a brand new Mercedes
been it was a three hundred, the four door Mercedes.
And he walks up and he goes, oh, very new car.
And he goes no, and he throws three in the
keys and goes, thank you for the nineteen years of
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washing my jock and my socks and making sure I
looked great and got me anything. And I mean, that's
very Larkin. How about that?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I mean, how cool is that? I mean that now,
this was what twenty years ago, but that's still one
hundred thousand, probably one hundred years ago, how about that?
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Very generously?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So that that was pretty cool. So that that's kind
of a cool story. So I gotta give you one
about fit. You know what fantasy camp is, right, you've
paid five thousand dollars. You go out to Sarasota or
now it's Arizona, and you'd be red for a week, right.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I had the one here. So I work for basketball,
same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Okay, So I got to interview cow. There's a there's
a Reds game, and Col's at the game his first year,
first or second year, Greg Darbyshire, his son plays on
the played on the team last year. So Darbyshire did
a lot of stuff for Coluh. So they're sitting up
in the smokestacks up there, that's a little private room,
and so I have to go up and interview him
during the game. So I go up there, and so
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it's before the game to tell him, Ham, I'm gonna
come up in the fourth inning whatever, blah blah blah
blah blah. And he goes, what in the heck is
going on? Because there's one hundred and fifty guys on
the field in uniforms and well it's a fantasy camp day.
So they all had their jerseys on.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Yeah, and they dress exactly like you're on the team.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah. So it's like, you know, he goes, is this
like a you know, some kind of alumni thing. I said, no, man,
I said, I said, cow, you gotta do this. He
goes what you're talking about? So this is called fantasy camp.
These guys pay five thousand dollars to go out to Arizona.
They have the trainers there. The coaches are Jim Maloney,
Jack Billingham, you know, Sean you know all these play
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Aaron Harangu, Danny Graves. Those are your coaches. Corky Miller,
Tom Brownie. And he's just here with his mouth open.
He goes they pay five DIY said five guy. I said,
you could do that, UK, you could make a fortune,
like guys would pay you. Get Kenny Walker, Sam Booie,
you know those guys out there to help you. And
he was like, and Darbyshire's writing all this down right,
So he cost me because we're gonna do it. We're
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gonna do it. Good luck with that. Hey, it's bottom
of the ere. We got to take a break. I'll
come back finish that story. I'll tell you one more
and we come back. All right, perfect, all right? TJ.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
He'll make them pay now more.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
You know, the only thing wrong with doing it here
is we don't have speakers, so the people in here
can't hear, right it is. We're doing the show. And
that's actually pretty good because because Serato over there, I'm like, dude,
you know, doesn't even know. Yeah, he doesn't didn't even
hear this whiskey thief song over? Oh? Is this it?
Cherry Pott? That there? You go.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I don't want to I don't want to take the
the role of handing it out, but it feels like
good whiskey thief song that is.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I mean, yeah, sweet cherry pie.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Right there is.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, it is nice talking up here when everyone can hear.
A lot of times Matt will say things about what's
going on in the restaurant, and I'm thinking, I'm glad
this is not.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, like, man, we bought twenty dozen cases of chicken wings,
thinking this is gonna go over. They've been in there
for a week, you're.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Bringing up March Madness again, SEC tournament palettes of But like.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
You, guys have to be happy with the change because
of that, because I think there's gonna a little more
emphasis on the SEC turn from a.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Business standpoint the last few years of not having a
posts at all.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
It can't get any worse than that.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, all right, So anyway back to the story. So
I'll tell you about Fantasy Camp which was which is
really cool. So you know, you go out there for
a week, but so you have coaches, and my coaches
this year that I'm talking about was Tom Brownie and
Bobby Wine. Bobby Wine never played for the Reds. I
know he was the Philadelphia Phillies, but he and Doug
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Flynn were best friends and they started this, so that's
why Bobby Wine was there. So anyway, they're the coaches.
So if you have a game where the other team
scores six runs in an inning, the coach. Because every
team has a former pitcher Aaron Harang, guys like that,
the Danny Graves, you know that are there and they
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have to come in and pitch. So the great thing
about Fantasy Camp is we're done at about six o'clock
after your second game. You played doubleheaders seven innings, have
a game, eat lunch, have another game, sit in the
hot tub, cold tub, get rub because you're you know,
these are all over forty year old men, double hunters,
dying out there. So you get go usually go out
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to eat, come back, and there's sense big fire pits
at the hotel. Everybody sits around, smokes the scar, drinks
beer whatever. So Browning was notorious to sit out there
and eat, smokes, cigar and drink until two three in
the morning. Well, the game's at eight o'clock the next morning.
So he's our coach. He's sitting in the corner, sunglasses,
hat down, he's asleep. So our team stunk, and we're
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playing this team like thanks coach. They had a guy
that was like a minor league or he's stolen ninety.
I mean I can't even see it. You know, you're
like good luck. So uh, this team, it's like it's
just like it's like bugs bunny, you know, they're just
running around the bases. So they're like, dh, that's six runs.
Uh Browning and he's like he's in the car and
he's asleep, Browning and he looks up and he goes, dude,
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you got to pitch. So I'm playing. This is when
I This was like my second year, so I was
a lot younger. I'm playing shortstop because the only reason
I'm playing short step at this point in the week,
I was the only one that could throw the ball
still from that side to first base, maybe on a
hot So so he gets up and he's like looking around.
He's left handed. Anybody got a left handed glove, So
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somebody from the other team like those of even left
handed glove. So this guy is has been partying until
two o'clock in the morning. It's now maybe nine the
next morning, sound asleep on the bench. He walks out
and he's just like making a circle with his arm,
and I'm looking. And then this guy coming up the
bat played in the miners. He played at some college
in Florida. He's hitting like seven hundred at camp right,
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and I'm like, uh oh, and and so I'm standing
there men like the second baseman is standing where and
I got the ball in my hand, had thought to
him and he and he kind of goes like this.
I go, uh, you need to toss or something. He goes, no,
I'm good. I go really goes yeah, I go really,
and he goes, yeah, this's gonna be three pitches, and
I'm like, you know, right, So he gets up there.
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In the first pitch he throws straight, you know, and
the guy swings and missus. Second pitch he throws like
a curveball, and literally the guy swings and misses it.
You could see his plane of his bat up here
and the catcher's like here catching it. And the third
pitch was the one that Tom had. It was I
don't know what he called his screwball because he's left handed,
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but it would bear in on landed batter, so it
would go that way. And he throws this pitch and
I'm sitting there at shortstop and I'm like, oh my god.
But his follow through. He throws the pitch and he
just doesn't even look he throws it, and as he
releases it, he just starts walking. Was like Larry Bird
hitting the shot and walking as he spit, or Tiger
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Woods when he hits the putt and walked it into
the hall. He walks back to that and I'm like,
I'm watching him instead of the ball, and I go,
what was that? He goes, that's something that nobody in
this camp can hit. And I'm like, Tom, what the
hell was that? He goes, That's that's how I won
one hundred and whatever games. And I'm like, oh my god.
So all these people out here who think they can hit,
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even a fifty year old former pitcher, don't do it.
You can't. You cannot do it. We were sorting the
batting cage. Like the batting cage, you go in there
and hit, and I'm I'm drawing a blank on this
guy's name. I've been trying to think of it. He
pitched for the mitst Pete Shurrick, so Shirk pitched for
the Reds. Too big guy, about six ' three but
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could throw hard. So we're in the cage and he's
lobbing and I go, hey, Pete, you know, and I'm hitting, okay,
you know, fouling them off, hitting the ball because they
want you to hit. I mean, it's like they're they're
trying to strike peeple out of Helly struck out Barry Bonch.
You really think it's going to do anything. He struck
out Jeffcorro, right, you know. So I go hey Pete.
He goes yeah, and I go, uh, can you heat
it up. So he goes, you sure, and I go yeah.
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He goes, okay, so you know you're in a cage.
They're only about fifty feet in the cage. So I
get ready. I go okay, and all I hear is
you know, the ball hits the back of the thing.
And I go, okay, I'm ready and he laughs and
I go, no, really do that again, right? So I
get ready again, and I mean, you don't even see.
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He wasn't even the size of an aspirin coming in
and it hits the back and I go, dude, how
hard was that? He goes maybe ninety ninety one? And
I'm like really, and he goes yeah, did. He goes,
what do you think it would be like bat against
the earldest Chapman who throws one hundred and four? And
I'm like, you couldn't. You couldn't see the ball. I mean,
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it would look like an aspirin. And when he literally
I have so much more appreciation for what a baseball player.
And it goes through once you do this because you
have to start your swing when literally when he's releasing
the ball, you have to start your motion of the
swing and then you gauge. The players look at the
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spin right spin spin handle. It looks like smoke going by.
But these guys' eyes are so good they can actually
see the spin if it's a fastball, if it's a
curveball of it, you know, and they adjust their swing
as the where his release point is and what the
ball does out of his hand. It's unbelievable. It is
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the hardest thing to do. You're hitting an object with
a bat, and you know, it's just it was. It
was pretty awesome. But Tom Browning was amazing and and
just the best storyteller and just the best guy. And
unfortunately we lost him last year, but man, he was.
It's pretty cool to get to know those guys. And
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it's a little different for me because I knew them
a lot because and I told all of them. I
told Joey Vado this, I told I told Austin Kurrns this,
Adam done all that. The big players came in. I said, look,
you're gonna get so sick of me because I'm in
five weeks of spring training. I fly on the plane
with you, I stay in the hotel with you, and
I'm here every single day every game. I said, you're
gonna get sick of me. But you know, to be
(31:43):
around them that much, and so I get to see
stuff that nobody else. Here's a great, great story. What
was it maybe three o'clock in the morning, and you know,
you stay at really nice hotels. So we're at the
Galleria in Houston at a Weston, really nice Weston, and
the fire alarm was off and it was one of
(32:05):
those that has that light in your room, you know
that's like yeah, And so you're putting your pillow over
your head, you know, and stuff, trying to sleep because
it's three o'clock in the morning, and it just keeps going,
and it just keeps going, and it just keeps because
usually they'll come on, you know, something, call your roof something.
So now I get up and I'm in Jim Schwortz
(32:25):
and t Shirt opened my door and I see like
Todd Frasier and I'm like and he's like, why not,
you know? And then I'm like, dude, I don't know.
And then all of a sudden, some guys go to
this is real, you gotta come down. Oh my god.
So now we're all going down to the lobbying and
here's there's Todd Fraser. Here's this guy, here's this guy,
here's this guy, here's this guy. And obviously the elevators
don't work, so into the lobby there are these big
(32:48):
sweeping stairwell that comes down and down comes Evado. There's
probably ninety percent of the team there, and here comes Evado.
He's wearing you know, hey, your dad. Some dads, i'd say,
your dad used to wear pajamas, you know. They had
like it looked like almost like a business suit and
had three buttons in the pocket. Yeah. So here comes
(33:10):
Joey and he's got like a royal blue silk three
buttons and the pants were like, uh, what do you
call him like shorts. They came down like to his
knee and they were cut, yeah, because they were like
cuff clam diggers or whatever. And here he comes, and
(33:30):
he just comes walking down the steps and the hall
team dudes are like no shirt, guys are in like
beat up jim shorts, sweats, shower shoes and here and
everybody's just sitting here looking at you. And I will
never forget the picture. Gosh, I'm losing my mind. I
can't think. But and uh, he was he was a
(33:54):
little dude from Arizona never played in the minor leagues.
Remember he went straight from college at Arizona, Arizona State's
Right to the redst little blond headed guy. No, bron
was cool. Hell, and he comes prancing down this city.
He goes Jesus Mary Poppins and everybody's died laughing. But
(34:17):
this is three It's three o'clock in the morning, So
things like that. Joey was cool. Joey, Joey was a
cool dude. No, you you have to understand when to
talk to these guys because this is their job. We
forget they're playing this game, but this is their job.
And Joey's like, hey, if I'm at my locker, I'll
answer any question you come up. But once I walk
(34:39):
up on the field and Barry Bonds was the same way.
I never had a problem with Bonds. Everybody said Bonds
was an ass. I went to Dusty, I said, how
do I talk to Barry? He goes, well, he's probably
just getting ready to get here. Just go to his
locker and wait for him. So I went to his
locker and waited for him. He comes walking in. I'm
standing away from his locker and he knows. I'm standing
there like looking at him. I got my shooter with
(34:59):
me and he looks. So he goes, do you need something?
And I get yeah, man, I said, Dusty told me.
He goes, oh, you talked to us. I said, hey, man,
I have to talk to Dusty every day. I'm part
of the bar carasking you blah blah blah buta and
he goes, oh, okay, cool, what do you need? I said,
I only need two questions. So I asked him two
questions and I go, hey, thank you. He goes, that's it.
I said, See that's I only need thirty seconds. Right,
(35:20):
it's a TV show. But all I need is one
little thirty second bite from him just to say, hey,
talk to Barry Bonds. Here's what he said about facing
Bronson Arroyo. Right, that's all. That's all you need. Most
of them are good guys. Most of them didn't care
for Homer Bailey, the one guy just did. He just
wasn't a good dude. I just didn't like him. But
other than that, mostly Jason LaRue Is. Those two guys
(35:43):
didn't care for it. Bronson Oroo the best dude ever.
I mean, what a great guy. We gotta take a break.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
I can sit here and talk, knowing that when you're
they don't get too old or too drunk that you
think you can take advantage, They're still gonna get you
browning on no sleep.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That yeah, I just needed three. Yeah. Hey, it's eleven
forty six feet back with our final segment. Right after this,
stay with us, Please welcome back to our final segment
here at KSR Bar and grill, starting to fill up
for lunch here, and you know it's pretty bright outside.
I wish I had some sunglasses, and I know you
(36:21):
got something to say about that. What do you got
for me today?
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Speaker 2 (36:51):
Dock to you, Jeff, Well, thank you. You know that's
a great commercial for Shady Rays. And it was so
long that I think we're done. We can't talk anymore,
can we? Could you cut that back to about a
fifteen or twenty second or there? Does it happen to me?
And then in a half I don't know, but the
Shady Rays are great now, I'm kidding they they look
good on you, good Kentucky company. Yes they are. We'll
(37:12):
take that. I do. Look Corey Price, I know he
caught it and said, yeah, your buddy, dude is amazing.
I've never seen I don't know where he gets these pictures.
I can go online and not find him, and he's
got stuff. He his pictures of me from like eighth grade.
I didn't even know cameras existed back then.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
My birthdays next week, I'm already already have anxiety of
what he's.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Gonna pull up and how terrible and goofy I'm gonna
look from my childhood.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Dude, he looked great in that football helmet when I
put that on his head. I got to get another
one and make him wear that for games now.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
That's so cool. He gets to be helped and.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I know, Oh he's fantastic. He does a fantastic job.
For those of you who don't know, we have a
stats guy that sits between Tom and I and feeds
us stats that you know, because I'm not gonna look up,
when was the last time the Kentucky punter, you know,
punted the ball seventy one yards? Well, he get Paul
Calhoun nineteen eighty four. You should know, Jeff, you were
(38:05):
there obviously, Yeah, against Indiana and Dada. But it's amazing
what he does. So we really do, but I do.
He's a great dude, and love to have him in
the boot. So Corey, if you're listening, kudos to everything
that you do. I do want to say one other
thing about the Reds and a story for you because
a lot of people the hate mail that this guy
(38:27):
got when he was there is amazing that it happened
in the two thousands. Dusty Baker, fantastic dude, man. I
call him my friend. I have his personal number, we
call I text him. He's a wonderful guy. He would
get hate mail in Cincinnati. So one day I go
into his office. There's a little box and there's letters
in there, and because I have to interview him every day,
(38:48):
like what's that, he goes grab one and I read it.
I was like, oh my god. It was like literally
nineteen fifties in Mississippi, you know, go home, kill you.
And I'm like, oh my god. But so we're in
San Francisco and we have an off day on a
Saturday because it was a national national game on the Fox. Right,
so he knows this, and we're in Arizona, I think
(39:10):
it was before, and he goes, hey, what are you
gonna do on your day off? And I said, oh,
I'm gonna go out to Alcatraz. You know the prison,
right And he goes, man, it's a prison, and I
go yeah, but you know it's He's you know, you
ever been to a prison before? I go yeahah, And
he goes, you're gonna walk in, They're gonna throw you
in a cell, They're gonna shut the door for like
a minute. And then you know, you could say I
was in prison at Alcatraz, right, sagas Nana come see me.
(39:34):
So I don't think anything about it. So now it's
like Thursday, we get into we get into San Francisco.
The game's over, blah blah blah, and Rob Butcher because
he goes, Dusty wants to see in his office. And
I'm like, oh, damn, what did I say on the air.
Maybe I said something wrong. So I go in there
and I go, I go, uh, what's up Dusty? And
he goes, hey, who's out here with you? Because my
brother lived out there, my younger brother. It's my my
(39:55):
older brother right there, but my youngest brother is uh
living out there, and h I got yeah, my younger brother.
He goes, okay, having at the hotel at eight thirty
Saturday morning, it's okay. So my brother and his wife
come over at eight thirty and I go downstairs and
he goes, my buddy Scott or whatever the guy's name is,
(40:16):
going to take care of you. It's okay. So I
walk downstairs and there's a limo and this guy standing goes, Jeff,
come on. So we get in a limo, right, lima
eight thirty in the morning. Can't in San Francisco. So
we go. We go across the Golden Gate Bridge. You
sit out there, you eat. It's a fabulous meal at
this and then we go up takes us all the
(40:38):
way up into wine country. We go to seven different
vineyards and then Olive Grove. Okay, so I'm on the
charter so I can bring all this home. So I
got like cases of wine from my pop and my
mom and stuff and oil and stuff. But we go
to all this stuff. We get back to the hotel
at nine o'clock at night. So I've been with this
guy for what twelve hours? Thirteen hours? Right, So my
(41:01):
brother and I am like, dude, we got to give
this guy a big tip, you know, for twelve hours,
you know. So we reach in my pocket. He goes, oh, no, no,
Dusty took care I said, oh, I gotta give you.
So he goes, no, Dusty took care to So this dude,
so twelve hours in a limo, think of that. That
had to be a couple thousand dollars on a tip
going out country. Yet every place went to was free,
(41:24):
didn't have to pay anything. Uh that's the kind of
wouldn't take anything for it. I went to Dusty Hay
Matt wouldn't take So I got him a bottle of
Maker's Mark that you know, it's especially dipped for on
the front of it, and I sat went to his
limo driver to him, but that's the kind of guy
Dusty Baker is. And I told him, I said, Man,
when he retired, I called him. I said, when you
go to Cooperstown, I'll be there. And uh, that's the
kind of guy. He was. Just just a super super
(41:46):
guy man and one of my favorites. Brian Price another
guy that was really good there too.
Speaker 7 (41:51):
Loved it, but uh love hearing this course.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Yeah it was cool, it was fun, but this was.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
Fun man flies bah and he time you need me,
Let's go win some baseball games this week.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
You do it. It'll be a fun weekend, that's for sure.
And Torpedo anna today and the Acorn better again. Thanks Drew.
H m hm
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