Sunday Morning Sports Talk - January 25, 2026 - Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk presented by
the lead troop Boards Radio Network on six point thirty
w LAP Well.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Come in Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I am
Anthony White, along with the usual suspects, Jack Pilgrim and
Larry Vaught in this winter storm edition of Sunday Morning
Sports Talk, typically coming to you from Kark's Main Street
Market studios in downtown lex And to Kentucky. And this

(00:31):
program is being recorded and Karks May Street Market Studios
in downtown Lesti, Kentucky. But we are not there, None
of us is there. But who is there? Bol Robinson
and everybody who's paying attention to this show and watches
this show in the regular We get nice comments every

(00:52):
now and not the stuff you see on Twitter x
for some people upset, but there are people who enjoy
the show. And this show is made possible by Bo Robinson,
the older brother of Lacy Robinson. So let me preface
it with that. But Ball, how long have you been downtown?
Just so the people to know we're on the air
with them, because you sacrifice the tad bit.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
If I can get you, I don't know if I
can get your audio with you, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Hello, Good morning, Anthony, Good morning, Jack, Good morning, Larry,
Good morning, all right, very good. Now, how long have
I been a downtown since ten thirty yesterday morning? Because
they came down for the ballgame and I was able
to get a hotel room. I was a little concerned
that there might not be any hotel rooms available, but

(01:39):
I was able to get in and got checked in,
hunker down and just kind of going back and forth
between the hotel and the station, been on Coff. There's
anything I needed to do around here, and it's been
other than the weather, it has been somewhat uneventful around here.
I know Anthony and I kind of checked in with
each other last night. Larry and I checked in with
each other. We just assumed Jack with it's going to

(02:00):
be okay, and then everything was going to be all
systems go this morning, and just in case I was
not able to get in, That's why I made the
decision to stay downtown. And we're probably the only game
in town on the air live with everybody, So we
do appreciate everybody tuning into Sunday Morning Sports Talk with
Anthony Whitejack Pilgrim, and Larry Vought as for conditions outside round. Now,

(02:22):
excuse me, slick. That kind of jostled my speech a
little bit because I failed this morning. Oh no, taking pictures.
It is a solid sheet of ice everywhere downtown where
the snow has been plowed up onto the sides of
the road. Main Street was somewhat kind of clear this morning,
but the sidewalks have iced over. And I was taking

(02:43):
pictures and my legs went one way and my body
shifted another, and there I was laying on my back
in the middle of city Center, and Anthony and I
were just thinking of worst case scenarios that I could
have been ran over by a plow or got back up,
came back into the studio. I'm okay, and we are
on the air for this morning.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
That is somebody that puts their body on the line
for this production like that. That's somebody that that is
hard and passion and soul. That that's a team player
right there. So we appreciate your sacrifices.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
But thank you, Mark Pope. I still have eligibility.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Hold on boat, But I don't know how how sorry
I may feel for you, because I'm assuming Jeff Ruby's
is on the house for you. So it's that's well, no,
there's there's a couple of restaurants over there where you are.
But I'm assuming unlimited Jeff Rubies for you while you
downtown bringing us the news and entertainment that no, probably
most people don't have the opportunity.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
For Actually, it's pretty much unlimited turkey sandwich is peanut
butter and jelly potato chips, a light one. You know,
I've packed up and I'm ready to stay down here
for a few days if I need to.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Jack Pilgrim, I'm cautious about this. I know we pulled
out a tough one. It was rough down the stretch
with the Cats, our lady Cats. I wish I don't know.
I think we should have called the game off that wait,
see if we couldn't get Tiani back so we can
kind of be a full string. You know, we're we're

(04:09):
down almost ten points a game and we're giving up
an extra ten, so we like a twenty point swing
without her in the lineup. No disrespect to anybody else
in the lineup. That's not what I'm concerned about. I'm
concerned about. I asked you, I'm stitious a little bit.
I'm a little bit concerned about waking up this morning.
I mind dropping from the Midwest. Snow is snow, ice,

(04:31):
sleep whatever. There's no big deal to me. I mean,
we just deal with it. But it is dangerous, so
stay off the rose if you are not on the roads,
and not get on the roads.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
But Jack Pilgrim, I woke up.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Underwhelmed by Mother Nature this morning because everybody was in
the grocery stores buying up everything. Everybody was, you know,
just purchasing up everything. And I woke up this morning
and was like, well, I didn't need to do anything
differently then last week, just because it's cold outside. But
the ice conditions, a lot of people aren't prepared for.
Your cars not made for those things. But Jack Pilgrim

(05:05):
miles underwhelmed by this weather storm we're had, or a quote.
I got fingers in the air with the quotes. I
was a little underwhelmed, man, I was too.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
I so for just so you guys know where I am,
get the lay of the land.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
You know, we are over at the in laws, at.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
My wife's parents' house because they have a backup generator.
They have you know, kind of extended space down in
the basement for us to kind of stretch out and
all that. We don't have a generated at our house
in Shelbyville's we were like, hey, you know, we can
kind of turn this into a little snowcation. Over at
the in laws. They have you know, a hot tub
and kind of you know, sledding hills and all that

(05:47):
stuff for Billy and all that. So we were like, oh,
this is this is a perfect opportunity for us to
you know, explore the weather and kind of hunker down
a little bit. So we actually last night, after putting
the kids down, Katie and I got in the hot
tub and it was like, you know, I'm I'm I'm
only seeing like an inch of snow right now. It

(06:09):
was cold, and it was like sleeping on us while
we were in the hot tub. It was it was
a it was cool experience in real time, but we
were kind of like, man, it's not off to the
booming start. We kind of thought that this was supposed
to be. And then to go to bed and then
wake up this morning and look outside and it's like
three four inches maybe it's like huh, I was you know,

(06:30):
they were talking a big game upward of two feet
of snow and I just want to experience a foot
of snow like I just I want to.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
I want to know what it feels like.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
I want to send Billy outside and have it go
up to his belly button, like I think that would
be awesome. And you know, as you said, you don't
want to tempt Mother Nature, you don't want to test
her patience.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
But I you know, we got a lot of ground
to make up if we're going to.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Hit some of these these snow predictions, because we're sitting
we're sitting at four and they were talking upward of
twenty inches for some meteorologists, So we got we got
some ground to make up.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Larry Vault, if.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't know if you believe in karma, I don't
know if you believe in battling Mother Nature. Before we
came on air, we talked about I don't know if
I really want to challenge Mother Nature. But you know,
Jack's a little young go getter and but bow me
and bowed the same age, so we kind of you
know what, Mother Nature. I'm not going to tell you

(07:30):
the gesture that was given to it. Because everybody changed
their life for this moment and we woke up. You
may feel a little different you've been around a little longer.
You may not want to be a part of this show.
Maybe we can call you back at ten thirty. So
because Jack, I did not expect Jack to go to come.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Full fledged forget forget mother Nature.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
But Larry Vauda, I'm glad you're saying, and I'm glad
you own air with us, But how did you you
think Chris Bailey and those guys are are spot on?
We just just wait to hold my beer type deal?
Or what did you wake up to thinking? Well, I
did a lot of preparation for this.

Speaker 7 (08:15):
Yeah, Hey, it's not over yet. It's not over yet.
That's still that change of all that icing and losing power,
that's a that's a big deal. I'm not disappointed at all.
I've still got electricity this morning, because there are no
backup plans for generators or woodstoves or anything here for me.
So I'm not.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm not certain I can hear Larry. I'm not certain
if his own air. Are we just not on the
same street.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'm here both, I'm here, Larry, I can hear you?

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Just find Anthony? Are you able to hear Larry?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Not at all? Here?

Speaker 4 (08:51):
I thought everything was going really good, And I thought
to myself, Mother Nature and old man Winter will not
stop Sunday Morning sports talk only technical glitches like last
week in and look what has happened.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, this is what we do have.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Larry finish his thoughts on Mother Nature, and you take
us to a break.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Let's do that work on a break, all right, Hang on, Larry,
go ahead, and I'll finish up with you here in
this segment.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
Okay, Well, I'm not disappointed at all that we all
still have electricity and all this morning, and knowing that
there's still a good chance for more freezing rain and
ice to be coming. I'm not going to be messing
around and telling Mother Nature that I'm disappointed. I'm very,
very satisfied that everything is no worse than it is,

(09:37):
and there's still a lot of sleet and ice predictions
out there for today. So I'm just keeping my fingers
crossed in every half hour that I've still got power
at my house. I'm happy because these guys might be
too young to remember what seventeen years ago, how bad
it was when we were without power, or some of

(09:59):
the storms like back in nineteen seventy seven put everything
shut down for right weeks because of the amount of
snow that we had. And also, no, I'm not disappointed
at all, and I think there's still what a change.
We get more snow and stuff to come, and this
ice still is worrying me a lot. So I'm not

(10:19):
disappointed at all.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
If you look at the state of Kentucky, it's almost
as if we're getting more snow to the north of
us Fayette County and then below and in Madison County,
southern Kentucky, eastern Kentucky it's going to be more freezing
rain and ice. We're kind of in a mix of
everything right now. And the last I looked there was
about I want to say, twenty thousand customers in southern

(10:43):
Kentucky without power right now. We're going to update that
throughout the morning, keep you updated on all the conditions
throughout the state of Kentucky. And here in downtown Lexington,
Number Robinson with Anthony White, Jack Pilgrim and Larry vo
and you are listening to Sunday Morning Sports Talk here
on six point thirty eight WLAP.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
This is Stockyards Bank Sunday Mornings Sports Talk presented by
the Lead Troop bar Its Radio Network on six thirty
w LAP.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday one in Sports Talk. I'm
Anthony right along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vaught down
and it's cars, mainStreet, Market Studios, bo Is. The rest
of us are at home trying to hunker down and
stay safe. But Stockyards Bank has been and is your

(11:32):
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We're talking about the winter weather storms and I think
the worst is still yet to come, so don't get
don't be like Jack and I and I'm not certain
how Larrer Bow feels, but stay safe if anything, stay safe,

(11:57):
stay off the roads. You never know how via My
dad and my granddad are both retired mechanics so well,
both of them are no longer with us, but they
were mechanics and they do explain when you're driving the vehicle,
it's not always you. You have to worry about his
conditions and the other drivers and everybody have some work
in harmony to stay off the roads.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
And we will be giving you updates along to the show.
It's going on. But we did have two huge games.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Larry Vaught before we get back to men's basketball, did
you think it was advantageous for Kenny Brooks and the wildcast.
I understand this was unpresidented times, but to change the
women's basketball game to Saturday, I just know as a player,
for me to change the game, if I'm preparing on
Sunday afternoon twelve o'clock, your body is on a certain scale.

(12:48):
And then they automatically, all of a sudden just moved
the game up and you got to perform, and you
know we're shorthanded. There's a lot of other things going on.
I don't know if there's any other way around it.
I don't know how you felt about the women's game
and change, and the fact that we came out.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
On the wrong wind of the wrong end of the win.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Colin Larry Vaught, that even made me feel a little
bit worse about the game change.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
Well, I don't think Kentucky had any choice about changing.
I think it was probably something the Southeastern Conference did
so that they knew they would be able to get
the game in.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
And it was just.

Speaker 7 (13:22):
As hard for Georgia because it also played on Thursday night.
It had it had to travel, So yeah, not ideal,
but I think the only way they were gonna be
able to play the game was to change the date.
And the Kentucky Women they just have bigger problems than
that right now because they've lost four out of six.
With Tiany Key out, the defense it's just not as good.

(13:44):
They've got no inside help for Clare Strack. Teams are
really concentrating on her or as Kenny Brooks said after
the game at Tennessee, they're modeling her in his in
his mind, and there's nobody there to help her. But
her duction has really gone down with Tianni Key out
because she's not getting any really uncontested shots. She never

(14:07):
gets anything easy right now at all, So her shooting
percentage is way down. And again their defense is not
as good because they're relied on shot blockers and Tianni
was one of their best shot balkers and they don't
have that, and they're playing starters thirty seven thirty eight
minutes and they are just worn down. And Kenny Brooks,

(14:28):
I mean, I always remember coaches say that everybody has death,
you just have to use it. I think Kenny's just
going to have to maybe not quite be as stubborn.
I think he's going to have to find a way
to use some of these players on his bench a
little bit more so his starters.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Just we're out at the end of games, Larry, I'm
going to jump in here. We're still having some technical
issues between Anthony hearing you, I can hear you just
find so I'm going to kind of be the go
between Anthony and Jack. I'll kind of point it to you.
Larry and I talked about this late last night. Was
the fact that you've got team members averaging thirty seven

(15:03):
minutes a game on the UK women's basketball team. I'm
trying to do like fifty thousand things here right now,
and that's quite a bit of concern. And yeah, Kenny
Brooks is definitely going to have to use that bench.
What's your mindset? Where things started off so well for
Kenny Brooks and now we're on this skid of losing
three games in a row, and.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Jack, I don't know how you feel. My thing.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
The team was so promising, the way it was put together,
with the height of Hassett, Key and Strack, just the
height of those women alone, and they all can play
inside outside, they can play outside of the lane.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Then I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
I had no idea that Morgan would be that good,
Like I had no idea and obid Like I said,
there was not a weak spot and you and I
was fine with those girls playing thirty seven, thirty eight,
thirty nine minutes because they all brought it all day long.
And now we're digging deep into the bench. The height
is no longer there. As I stated earlier, we are

(16:00):
defensively giving up an extra nine points a game. We're
losing ten points a game, probably from Tianni getting put backs,
getting extra opportunities, or you know, just even getting rebounds
to stop the other team from getting a second chance points.
And it's just how promising this season look. And Tony,

(16:20):
you know it is doing. It's playing Superman. I'm still optimistic.
I'm extremely optimistic Jack that hopefully. I talked to Larry
earlier this week. He wasn't undermistic, but he wasn't very
optimistic that we could get Tianni back this season. But
he's some of the verbiage he used, I guess that

(16:41):
he got back from the coaching staff was kind of
like it. It did not make me happy, but just
the way this season could have went, and it still
can't go that way. But I just don't think you
can replace Tianni and get what she gave you. And
you know, still and it's just rough to go from
Final four aspirations championship possibly be aspirations to you know,

(17:05):
losing games in SEC, just scrapping the stamp and partner
SEC And yeah, I don't know, you may feel differently.
I just felt like, if we could have put this
game on the back burner and made it up, maybe
we get uh, maybe we get Key back and we
can possibly be at full string. But where we are now,
I think we're gonna be good enough to make our

(17:25):
fan base happy. But the aspirations I had with that lineup,
the way they started off the season before Tianni went down,
I thought we had championship goals.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah, in Kenny Brooks said yesterday that there's optimist optimism
that she could be back sooner rather than later. Like
his exact phrasing was, if we would have played this
game tomorrow, there was a possibility, no guarantees. Obviously we
were hoping to get her some practice time yesterday, So
whether that mean you know, he was being hyperbolic about
it literally being this game versus now or the next

(18:00):
couple or whatever.

Speaker 6 (18:02):
You'd rather be in.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
This position than, you know, than where we all kind
of thought when she went down for the first time.
So I think they desperately need her back. They desperately
need a regroove. Is the first three game losing streak
under Kenny Brooks and just you kind of just see
that it's all kind of piling up on itself and
they just need, you know, a nice little feel good win.

(18:25):
They need a like, Okay, let's get the bad taste out.
I mean it's very I mean comparable to what happened
with the Kentucky men's team, where the losses kind of
started piling up and the pessimism started piling up, and
you just need something to go right to be able
to get back on the right track and turn it
into what it has has right now. So Kenny Brooks,

(18:48):
as much advice as he appeared to be giving Mark
Pope earlier in the season when things are going poorly
for Mark Pope, I think the roles are reverse right now,
where he could Kenny could learn a little bit from
Mark Pope's second half come back.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
That is, Jack Pilgrim will continue to show after this year.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on news
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Speaker 1 (19:07):
This is Stockyards Bank Sunday Mornings Sports Talk, presented by
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Speaker 2 (19:17):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony White,
along with Larry Vault and Jack Pilgrim, Bo Robinson as well.
Coming to you from Clark's Main Street Market Studios. This
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Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yesterday things changed around.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
We're under weather Watch weather emergency actually, but the girl's
game was changed to yesterday. The women's game was changed yesterday,
and our men pulled off interesting game. Jack Pilgrim, it
was ugly, but I've been saying it for weeks, Larry
and Jack, I've been saying it for weeks. I don't

(19:57):
think at this point that Mark Pope playing Jedi mind tricks,
but he is doing whatever he's he's mixing, mixing things
together to see how they work out.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
And the lineups are changing.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
You know, Jasper comes in, you know, thrust us ahead,
and it's just odd how this team at certain times
play well together or just and we played better defense yesterday,
and you know, they mucked things up at as long
as we come out on the W side of the column,
I'm fine with it, Jack Pergman, I don't I don't
know Larry. I thought a couple weeks ago Larry didn't

(20:34):
like the ugly wins. He he really didn't like the
ugly wins. He wanted everything to be pretty as long
as you win. But yesterday was ugly. A lot of
Chandler played well, JJ played are well. I'm gonna start
calling the Jasper JJ because I don't want to call
him nephew because people may think.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
I'm being impartial, which I am.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
But uh yeah, So there's a lot of things that
had to come together for us to pull off win
it down the stretch. It was ugly. Free throws came
and it came into the file in time. But I
don't know, Jack. I think Mark knows what he's doing.
Mark Pope knows what he's doing.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's almost like they'd been trying to
tell us that from the beginning and we wouldn't listen.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
But yeah, it was the it was the Jasper.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Johnson Show early, just like we all expected. Good things
happen when Jasper plays more minutes and he gets some
shots up and he can he can turn four four
point deficits into four point leads, just like we all like.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
And then after.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
Halftime, it was the otega O Way Show leading to
Colin Chandler bringing ice in his veins just to you know,
sticking with the theme of the weather and the snowstorm,
ice storm, it was. It was Colin Chandler's storm there
at the very end, hitting the hitting the dagger to
put him up six with a minute to go, and uh,
fortunately ended for the Cats. So yeah, this team just

(21:52):
it needed, like we talked about with Kenny Brooks, he
just needed something to go right and needed it needed
some type.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Of momentum to flip, you know, starting.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Nine and six oh and two in the sec. I mean,
they were talking pretty seriously about this team not making
the tournament and they've they've turned that into five game
winning streak and looking.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
You know, winning in different ways.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
It hasn't just been one guy taking the game over
and living and dying by him. It's been everybody stepping
up in different ways and overcoming injury and certain guys
stepping up as a result of those injuries. It's it's
exactly what you want to see in a team building
an NCAA tournament identity because you never know what March
madis is going to throw your way. I mean that

(22:33):
that is a tournament where the weirdest of all weird
things happen and you need to just learn how to
adapt and and and show some resolve.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
And that's exactly what this team's doing.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
They're winning in funky ways and uh, you know not,
maybe we haven't seen the prettiest of wins quite yet.
Hopefully that comes sooner rather than later. I'd love for
it to be Tuesday night in Nashville. I'd that'd be
sure would be fun. Or give give it to me
Arkansas and Fayetteville a week a week from yesterday.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
I certainly love that.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
But they're learning how to win, coming together toward the
end of games, where that was kind of a big
time struggle earlier in the season. So yeah, I'm loving
this team's growth.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Anthony and Larry I don't know, have you When I
say ugly Larry Ball, I mean both teams shoot under
forty in the thirties, it was it was for us,
it was ugly basketball. I guess for them, they're trying
their hard as they're trying to put the ball in
the bucket.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
They're not just hoping.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
I mean, these guys are almost professional, trained professionals that
are putting the ball in the bucket. But both teams
shooting under under forty percent in the mid to low
thirties at certain points. That is that something you've seen
here before, just because we typically get elite athletes and
leade basketball players at the University of Kentucky.

Speaker 7 (23:52):
Well, I'll put it this way. When the Kentucky women's
team lost to Tennessee shot poorly, turned the ball over
and all and soda tennis, and the game is fairly
low scoring. And Kenny Brooks said had scept women's basketball
about fifteen years and he wouldn't have paid. So he
he talks about ugly and knows what ugly is. But

(24:13):
Mark usually still tries to be a little bit more
optimistic about what he's seeing. But you're right, Uh, there
are no there are no bad wins. And Kentucky did
get a win, and that's certainly what you want to
do when you start the game. But but Jack is
just looking forward right now. How the remaining regular season games.
If the odds were set for each of those games

(24:36):
right now, I'm guessing Kentucky might be favored in two
the eleven or off base on that.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
Now you're correct, two quad two games left on the schedule.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
You might be able to get one of the you know,
the Florida at home or something.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
You know, one of the home games.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
You usually get a three point bump or whatever on
your home turf.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
But yeah, it's it's I saying it's gonna be easy.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
They definitely got through the like the first three of
this little five game winning streak, those were you know,
tough wins, gritty wins, and then you just needed to
take care of business in these two home matchups like that.
They were quad two quad three games. Just survive in advance,
get you know, keep the streak alive, and then regroup,

(25:24):
you know, spend the rest of this weekend, hunker down,
playing video games, enjoying the snowstorm, whatever you got to
do to get a nice little mental reset, and then
it's it is all hands on deck Monday forward so we.

Speaker 6 (25:37):
Can get you know, focus on beating Vandy.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
I tell you, I'm very glad that we saw Vandy
win yesterday because they were on a three game losing streak,
and I did not want to see those commodoores. I
don't care what their record says. They are a dangerous team.
I did not want to see them coming in on
a four game losing streak potent, you know, Kentucky.

Speaker 6 (25:56):
Trying to make it five.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
So I think you got them in a nice little
position where they they got a feel good win, So
it would absolutely kill them with a fifth straight loss.
And then Arkansas seems to be steamrolling a little bit.
It would be very nice to, uh, you know, take
some wind out of their sales a little bit, if
if you could return the favor after how things unfolded
at Reparena last year. So let's see if we can

(26:18):
turn this into a seven game winning street.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah he's smeared, and I can see Anthony talking. Was
that old James Brown song talking loud and saying nothing?

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:33):
And I was, hey, yeah, my wrinkles above my notement.
I was fashionate about what I said, so.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
I can tell you the cameras there.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
I agree. I got to bring that same passion.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
But no, I said, I would have loved to have
played against Ohio State and football while I was in college,
because I despised Ohio State. Like I mean, I told
my story plenty of times. I do not like away.
I would like to play against Ohio State. But Travis
Perry coming back, I'm kind of curious for you all.
For you guys, because I know Jack well, you both

(27:04):
covered a lot of high school basketball. You know, the
leading scorer in the history of Kentucky high school basketball
comes back. What side of of the fan base were
you on, Larry Vault yesterday with Travis coming back to
town and air ball in his first his first three,
and then that was the first side of the game, right,

(27:24):
So I don't know if coach set it up that
way to get him hyped up, because what if you
would have hit it? What were you said, Larry or
what was the young Kobe has said? Because you I.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Would a second gratulations Travis because I've known him since
he was in the seventh grade. When I first did
my first story about Travis, and I didn't understand the
booing of Travis bow and I talked about that a
little bit last night. I didn't quite understand why people
would have been booing him the way that they did.
I was hoping he'd scored twenty five points Kentucky win

(27:55):
the game. I mean, I liked Travis a lot. He
made the decision that he thought was best for him.
I think that anybody that thinks, wow, why didn't he
stay in Kentucky where you look and see, he just
wouldn't have been probably playing very much, and he's got
to play more at Ole Miss. He'd been playing pretty
well until yesterday, and he didn't go too well for
him yesterday. But I was hoping he would do well

(28:17):
because I think he's a terrific young man, the all
time leading scorer in the state of Kentucky on the
state championship team. Here, mister basketball here did come to
Kentucky and tried it for a year with Mark Pope.
Got thrust into some tough situations last year. But I
was hoping he would would play well and that help
he plays well the rest of the season.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Myself and Jack, I'm with Larry, I think and tell
me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Jack.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I think Mark Pope would probably have wanted Perry to
have a good game, you know, to not beating me.
But I want you to have a good game. That's
kind of how I think, and I don't you made
no different than I I know, and I've heard Jack,
but he's sent to fan. Those of the fans said
they were booing just to distract him. I don't think

(29:03):
they were. I don't think they were heartfelt boolls. I
think they were booing to distract him just so Kentucky
could get to win. But I do think Mark Pope
would have probably been like Larry Vault, like I won't
I want Travis to play well, I don't want you
to beat.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
It was a one point game there in the second half.
They were in no business to be setting up a
feel good homecoming opportunity where he could go be any
better than he was, because that could have led to
Kentucky losing the basketball game. And at the end of
the day, I can love him, I can hate him,
and I do love Travis.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
I love his family.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
You know they I know where they come from, and
and and his story is one that you know there
are there will be books there, there are books written
about them already. Uh, Kentucky is in the business and
winning that basketball game and whatever it took to get
any type of advantage booing him, making him feel uncomfortable
because the last thing that you wanted is you said
in your in your scenario that you said, Anthony.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
He goes and hits that first shot.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
He starts feeling himself a little bit and starts kind
of Oh, this is Lion County Travis Perry on his
you know, in his run to the state championship where
he's dropping forty plus points like that could have been
a scenario that Kentucky could not have afforded yesterday if
they wanted to win the game.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
So I.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
Think Travis is he's he is. He got a massive
pay bump to go to Ole Miss. He is playing
a lot more than he would have for this, this
Kentucky team. He's starting for an SEC basketball program. He's
doing just fine. He's he's a big kid. He's, you know,
been a competitor his entire life. He's been booed, he's
gone upposing gyms. He I think he understands. I mean,

(30:40):
big Z got booed last year. Big Z's like the
most harmless human being on the face of the Like
this fan base made a billboard for him about his
eligibility and then booed him into oblivion.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
When he returned to Reparina. So it's nothing personal.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
With this fan base.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
It is a year either with us or against us,
And yesterday he was against us. And there will be
a day that he'll come back and he'll be welcome
with open arms. But it was not going to be
Saturday against ole Miss. So I love the kid. I
wish his performance would have been a little bit better,
but not for not if it meant that Kentucky was

(31:15):
going to lose that basketball game?

Speaker 7 (31:17):
Did why not boo?

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Ever?

Speaker 7 (31:18):
Ole Miss player w Boo just tramps.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Well because he is no longer part of the family.
He at least in the short term.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
He had the He wore the jersey and voluntarily gave
it up to be a part of an SEC competitor,
and other players on Ole Miss did not have that same.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Opportunity to like they bought.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
They booed Lamar Wilkerson very similar situation when Indiana came
to town. They booed him because he could have been
a part of the family and and helped Kentucky win
basketball games, but he decided to turn that opportunity down
to go help another school. So if you're if you're
not with us, you're against us. So Lamar Wilkerson got
booed the same way Travis Pero. I don't think it's personal.

(32:01):
I think it's a hey, you made your bed, now
you must lay in it.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
I will say this, and then we have to go
to break I will say this. I'm with Larry Vault
kind of for years, well not for years. I did
a high school broadcast on Kyle Bolan before he went
to Louisville, and I beat him up. I beat that
young man up, and I should not have, but I
was broadcasting as a Kentucky alum, University of Kentucky alum,

(32:30):
and I just didn't like the fact he was going
to Lover.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
I did this. Well, I never really knew J. T.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Haskins because he was a lot young, well quite a
bit younger than me, and I was not in town
when he went to Louisville. Come to find out, these
guys wanted to go to Kentucky. They just didn't go
to Kentucky. It was not there. They didn't choose not
to go to Kentucky. It was kind of a meeting
of minds and they didn't come to Kentucky. And I
felt terrible because and that's how I feel about Travis,

(32:57):
and I think Jack what Larry was saying was Travis
probably should not There's no real If I'm Travis's dad,
you don't stay here like you're not gonna be the
eighth man. Let me go somewhere where you can play.
It was not true. I don't think it was Travis's
decision to leave.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Now.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
He could have took less money than everybody else on
the highest paid roster in college, or he can go
somewhere where he can be a starter in playball.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Or you can stay here and say, you know what.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
I'm from this state, I'm gonna be I'm gonna come
off the bench and be the eighth man whenever. If
we get up enough, then I'll get to play. So
the booing, again, I think, was to distract him. If
people do believe that Travis turned his back on us,
if I was his parent, No, you go where you

(33:43):
can play, son, You don't come stay here to be
a seventh or eighth man on the roster that you
don't have to be. I'm Anthony White and this is
Stockyards Bank, so him when it's sports saw on news
radio six thirty WL, this.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Is Stockyards Bank, Sunday Morning Sports Talk presented by the
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Welcome Back.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yards based Sunny went to sports talking Anthony White along
with Jack Pillgrim, Larry Valt, and Bow Robinson.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
And it's funny.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
I came back here because us doing the show not
face to face, and we're all on video screens except
for Jack Pergrim. I don't know what he's hiding over there.
It's kind of like Larry Vaught and Needs at the
Outback Bowl stories.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
But Bow rises animations.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Behind the screen. Is it's funny, but you know what else?
I can't say. It's funny, but we're trying to keep
you up, guys up to date on the weather out here,
I think across the state, so it's not really just
locally in central Kentucky, across the state.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Stay home. We did make.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Fun of how much snow and Jack and I talked
about how much snow there was. The ice is the
problem and there's almost a half an inch of ice
covering everything. But Larry Vaught, you said there's people covering
the winter storm that have interesting names, and I don't
believe you, So I need you to run that by

(35:11):
me one more time.

Speaker 7 (35:12):
Well, if I was watching correctly on WLAX. I thought
they had a young lady out slipping and sliding on
the ice, trying to give morning updates today that had
the name of Ellen Ice, I think, so I thought
that's what they reported. Did it looked like her name
was Ellen Ice. Having that time to check or anything

(35:33):
to make sure, but anyway, she was slipping and sliding
and she was trying to give her reports. And it
may not look that slick out there, but man, look
at that ice that they were trying to walk on
pretty scary. So I think I've been in the house
the last forty three hours. I guess I'm going to
extend that streak a little longer today.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, we could.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Find out for one cheaster that knows what that ice
is doing from bowl, because both guys, you're keyster feeling.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
Keister's a little sore when I hit the sidewalk this
morning a couple of hours ago outside of City Center.
But the latest Lexington update is that we are to
be expecting one to two inches more of snow and
possibly a tenth of an inch to a quarter of
an inch of ice on top of that snow as

(36:22):
well freezing grain and ice accumulation will make travel very dangerous.
Do what Larry Vault tells, just stay home and stay
off the roads. And if you absolutely need to be
on the road for emergency situations emergency reasons, please just
slow down, take it easy because it is very very
dangerous out there currently.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
And if you add, and I'm with Bowl as well,
emergency situations or any needs you have reached out to
emergency first responders. I know people that work for the
state that have to go to work. They have these
equipment that will get you up and down the But
the less people on the road, the less opportunity to
have to bang in to somebody else.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
We will be back after this.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
You're listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday morning sports talk on
news radio six thirty WLAP.