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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy birthday to this man right here. Bring in the thunder,
mister Alex van Halen. He turns seventy two years old today.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Much much older than Greg golliad.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Really Greg, you know, as a man in your forties,
I got a birthday this next Monday. I'll be sixty five.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That is a lie, that's just a fly.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
They dropped me off at Cardinals Stadium when I was
twenty four. Yes, and then here we are forty one
years later.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
So you qualify to walk the bases senior day.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That thing's getting really big.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It is lots of big deals going on with the bats.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
First of all, I want to talk about these seats.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I think these seats are the coolest.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Thing when it comes to a sporting event, and by
anytime it's all you can eat or drink.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's a win for me anyway.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
But I want to talk about the seat, their luxury, like.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Your theater style seats, like you're still in a movie theater.
Talk about these seats and we're sitting closer to the
batter than the picture is right the batter, so side's
a great view and a unique angle. You're gonna hear
some things. Maybe if you're sitting fifteen twelve, you know whatever,
how many rows back you may not hear. But like
you said, we also provided all you can eat, all
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you can drink, beer and wine buffet. With it, we'll
take care of your parking all for one price, so
you could almost except for having to bring your license,
you could leave your wallet at home. Yeah, because we'll
take care of all of it.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Waitress comes.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, you've got a weight service. So if you don't
like what we have in the buffet, you can pay
to have our help. Go get your order from the
concession stands, because you'll have a QR code right there
on your seat.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I'm gonna say you're I don't know how many feet
to the catcher, but when you hear that eighty five
mile an hour boom into the glove, I don't care
who's sitting with you. My daughter's never seen a baseball
game or a life.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
She had a.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Ball in these seats.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Did you know my first pitch when I throw it out,
it sounded.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Exactly like that, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But enough about that.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Let's face.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Seats are called the on deck seat. On deck. You'd
like to learn more about him, just go to our
website at bats baseball dot com. They are getting used
quite a bit, and uh so some of the days
are already sold out. So but again they're called the
on deck seats. Take advantage of them.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Nobody does promotions quite like the Bats. And I think
one of the biggest is coming up tomorrow nights one.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
People have been looking forward to this and.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
By the way, participating in this already, and we're talking
about the Denny Crumb bibblehead.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
This is a big deal and you can still get these.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, we need to make something clear because a lot
of folks thought that all you got to do, like
a traditional bibblehead giveaway is show up in the first
you know, threty thousand people get one as they walk in. No,
you have to purchase the special Denny Crumb ticket package
for tomorrow night's game, which will guarantee you a bibblehead,
or be one of our Bats season ticket holders, which
could be anything from full season all the way down
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to like our five game plan. Those folks will obviously
get their bibblehead guaranteed to them. So again, tomorrow night,
we still have some bibbleheads left that can be purchased
as part of this ticket plan for tomorrow night's.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Game batspaceball dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Gates opens and when gates open Tomorrow night at six
o'clock from six to six thirty, we're gonna have over
fifteen former UFL basketball players who played for Coach Crumb.
We're gonna be on hand down in front of the
kids playground area in the right field corner signing autographs
for half an hour.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Okay, hang on, you're bearing the lead also because they'll
be in like a semi circle around Susan as they
she's the first pitch.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That Susan Sweeney Crumb, the wife of Denny Coach Crumb,
and she's gonna throw out a first pitch Tomorrow night
with the players around her on the field prior to
the start of the game. Tomorrow night is Boy Scout Night,
number one of the year, so we're gonna have a
lot of scouts in the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
We got a big fireworks show with Burke Accounting playing
for Tomorrow night after the game, so there's a lot
going on Tomorrow night besides the iHeartMedia game time happy
Hour with three dollars canned Miller and Coors Light. As
soon as the gates opening six o'clock up until last call,
and six dollars. Margarita's from number one to key.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Number one the Quila Baby Friday nights. But let's not
as over tonight because tonight's going to be a big
night too.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You're back in Thursday in game time, six thirty five.
The Bats have won their last three games, so the
team's playing pretty well, even though we're trying to supplement
their reds as they're starting to go through some injury
bugs right now, and we'll see if we can keep
their roster healthy in Cincinnati. It's gonna be frustrated. It's
only May.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, dipping in wait is the anything on Masters Night?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, No Friday Nights. Friday Night, Friday Night, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Masher's Night is Saturday Night when the team will play
as the Louisville Mashers, which has become one of our
more popular nights. Folks love to see the guys run
out there in the teal Masher jerseys and and plays
the Mashers. Of course, every Master game that we have
will have bourbon tasting going on with our friends from
Evan Williams and a big fireworks show after the game.
Saturday Night, thanks to our friends over at Black Diamond
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Pest Control. But prior to that, right before the fireworks,
we have probably the most popular NBA halftime act that
will be on hand doing their entire NBA halftime show,
and that's Christian and Scooby. It's the act where the
gentleman is the hand balancing gymnast and he has his
Chihuahua dog with him on his feet while he's doing
all his stunts on the field. So it's really cool
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to watch. And that's all Saturday night and then Sunday,
of course Sunday's Mother's Day. Yes, so you got to
bring mom to the ballpark. The first five hundred moms
will get carnations as they've come in thanks to NaNs
and Craft Floorist. They will open the gates on Sunday
at a special time of eleven thirty. That's because we're
offering a special Mother's Day brunch ticket package where you
can bring mom to the ballpark. We'll have a special
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Mother's Day brunch all arranged for and for more information
on that, go to bats baseball dot com. You can
buy that ticket pack.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Times bunch and then first.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
First Pitches at one five after the game's over. Besides
our normal kids run the bases, moms can come down
on the outfield and play catch with their family. Everybody
a soft baseball to play catch with, and they'll have
the logo of our partner that day write implement on it.
It's a really attractive pink soft baseball that they can
take home with him as a keepsake of the day.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Perfect.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Okay, that's that's an unbelievable weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
By the way, weather going to cooperate.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I think, yeah, looks fabulous. I got to get through
today with the scattered showers that we're dealing with today
in this evening, but for Friday through Sunday, it looks
like the forecast is gonna be tremendous.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We got Mayor Greenberg on tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
And one of the questions I Will is going to
toss out what I think is as much as you changed,
as the field chained downtown, you don't get the Young
Center without Slugger, you don't get the museums without Slugger.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It started everything.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You don't get new you don't get any of it.
It all started there.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Why because we all were there, we know what was happening,
and when that happened. I think this new initiative where
that parking lot to the if you're facing the river
to the right, will be condos and restaurants. And you're
building this and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
What we're calling for.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's an entertainment district.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Okay, okay, but it's like a three. It's it's uh,
where are we with that?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, I mean all you had to do is notice
who was the guest of the mayor at this past
derby was Pat Battle and Peter Froynd are basically our
executives from Diamond Baseball Holdings that owns the Bats. So
the project is moving forward. I think the first thing
you'll see will probably be construction of the two parking garages.
It'll be built, which will provide actually more parking than
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you currently have with the surface lot that we have
there between us and the Interstate sixty five, because obviously
you want to get parking built. So as a construction
then gets underway for the other parts of the project,
parking has already been taken care of, so you still
have a place to park for the ball games.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I don't think people understand what hell it's going to
transform that well, you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
The fact that Slugger was the reason that people then
started to come back down town starting in two thousand.
It looks like this project is again going to be
the reason that we can start getting people to come
back downtown again and enjoy not only the project outside
our door, but it'll be the bridge that'll connect New
lou to the waterfront, which will be the Slugger Field
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sports entertainment.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, if you go back twenty five years, I mean,
anybody agree there's truth to that that the Bats, Slugger
Field that's the anchor to downtown see were first. But
when you all decided, hey, we're gonna move, we're gonna
move away from old Cardinal Stadium and we're gonna build
our own stadiums downtown and nothing's going on down this.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Thing, did people say you're crazy?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Or did they?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Interesting thing is most people don't remember. It was a
couple options on the table at that time. It was
stay at Cardinal Stadium, renovate the stadium, make it a
dual baseball stadium because you emergency Lovelle football was moving out. Yeah,
to go play at their current Cardinal stadium, right, and
make it a dual baseball Amphitheater or the other two options. Actually,
and people don't remember this, the other option besides going
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to where we're currently located, is going down close to
where the Kentucky Lottery is tenth and eleventh Street.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
No way.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So we decided and settled upon where we're currently located,
and to be at the intersection of two major interstates
right sixty four and sixty five. As people are driving
in and out of our state and leaving going to
Indiana or coming through going to Lexington or over to
Evansville or Lewis to see that beautiful ballpark each time,
and we as livillions, we see it every day. I
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think we just kind of take it for granted. Yes,
but especially last year when we had the bananas here,
seventy percent of our crowd for all the banana games
were from out of town who have never been to
Slugger Field right, and to hear their comments about how
awesome the facility is, which kind of opened my eyes
a little bit because I'm thinking, yeah, we probably do
take it for grant because we see it every day,
whereas they don't. They go this is basically a major
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league ballpark.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I'm sorry, but you incorporated the facade.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What was there before, it was all brick. You kept
the front.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
We kept the front and just built the curved baseball
stadium into it, which really makes it such a unique
feature of the ballpark. Right, And that obviously has led
to a lot of the buildings that have been constructed
around us in the neighborhood also have mimicked that same look.
Look at angels Envy, right. No, absolutely went the same
exact sport facades and stuff that we have.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And you mentioned, yeah, you do good desensitized lack of
a better term. I guess you get used to see
because I pass it every day. Tone, I'll tell you
what I don't where. It's still impressive to me. If
I'm leaving an event downtown or leaving a concert. We're
not a concert. It's a bad example. If I'm leaving
an event downtown, I'm driving by and it's a night
game and those lights are on, it still hits me.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Man, Well, it takes you back. It's a little bit
like Field of dreams. Yeah, It's just there's something magical
about a baseball stadiument or lights on, especially this time
of year when the weather's warm. It takes you back
to your childhood. And that's why I feel so blessed
to be the president of the team and just to
oversee what goes on there. Uh, I don't really feel
like I have a job. I'm more of a caretaker. Uh,
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just trying to make sure the professional baseball thrives in
our community. And I feel so blessed to have a position.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I have you ever think about writing a book on
all that because you were there from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, I've got some stories that probably would be pretty interesting.
Some folks kid red Bird days of being around a
Ray Smith and the people and Dale always our GM
who was awesome and.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Idea guy, the idea man, Yeah he was.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Whose vision was is it to move downtown?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh it was Abramson wanted people downtown.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's in the Elmer family and our ownership group. Yeah,
it was the best thing and it was a great decision.
It's great for the city. And so that's why we're
so excited about this new project that we'll be getting
under way here pretty soon. It's really going to I
think give it the city a shot in the arm.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
We're excited about it, man, I can't wait for it.
And you're actually working with the soccer guys, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, and we enjoy our relationship with them. They got
a beautiful stadium and I think eventually in the near future,
who knows, in the next ten to fifteen years, there'll
be some really cool de balance between the two stadiums.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah. Okay, so this weekend is busy again. Mother's Day
is really intriguing because if you haven't figured out what
you're doing for Mother's Day brunch, you're not getting Yeah,
we got you covered.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
And before I go, I do want to remind folks.
Next homestand we come back home, we have our first
Military Appreciation Day coming up on the Friday night. As
we go into a Memorial Day weekend, we're all military
and their families, retired or current, getting free on that
Friday night, beautiful Saturday night of that weekend, it is
our Halloween night. So mom's dads, let's get those kids,
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get their costumes out for Halloween. Come to the ballpark
dressed in costume. We're gonna have trick or treating going
on before the game around our concourse with probably fifteen
to twenty of our partners manning tables handing out candy.
Should be a fun night with fireworks to follow. So
that's coming up at the end of the month of May.
So go to the Bat's website at bats baseball dot
com to buy tickets for that next home stand.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Bats baseball dot com. That's what he said.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I bought tickets while walking up, So you can do
that and just go boo boo. It's it's you can
do the last second to side.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Shop and our team store online.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yes, and and quarter zips quarter.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Zips, Tony Venetti signature Quartersip. Get over our newly renovated
team store. We passed the stadium to pull in and
buy the s that and I live in Saint Matthew
so it's like what Trinity people do to Eastern people.
They keep us.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Under their know your place.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Jeff Zone does the same thing to me.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
But I love living in Saint Matthew's because I'll hear
the boom boom boom boom when at a certain time
of night, and I'll go, oh, bats yeah, batla yeah,
the fireworks, fireworks.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Bats baseball dot Com. Greg Galliet, good shit, it's great
to see you.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Bouddy yep, all right, I will say vision first, eye
care the glasses.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'm wearing.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Now are Vision Firstiecare dot com. Go get an appointment,
go through the I call it the car wash because
they you walk in, you get your name called, they
do the MRI I of your eyeballs, and then you
the mriall and then the doctor will tell you here's
your prescription. And then you walk around the corner. There's
five people standing there and they're like, we're gonna We're
gonna get fourteen hundred frames right there, and you get
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to pick the one that matches your face and makes
you look good. I have transitions, which is the readers
in the blow and then the ones that help me
see things about fifteen or twenty feet away. I never
take them off. I've had these over a year, and
I used to lose my readers every day. Whether you're
six months old or sixty years old. Vision firstiicare dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Arono's Pizza Baby, nothing more Louisville than Louisville pizza. How
about this next time you order Baronel's pizza, say, you
know what do mine Dano's style?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
What is Dano Styles?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Where they take that beautiful Dano's red pepper cheeseening and
they sprinkle it onto your pizza. I'm telling you it
takes it up a notch. Maybe you don't like pizza,
try sandwiches, salads, pastas.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Wings, you name it.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You're gonna love the menu at your neighborhood Baronel's Pizza,
dine in, carry out or delivery.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, it's that good.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
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Speaker 3 (14:34):
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Speaker 1 (14:36):
On QMF.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You want to say the.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Stp oh boy. They only been doing that for thirty years.
Good for you.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Here's a classic noise from the fluid boy Q the
hit the post Ready.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
On q m F, we started the day with the
train derail and they whoever does the cleanup on that?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It was not bad.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I guess you could say a trained derail and go
that wasn't that, man, It's a trained derail in the
middle of lagrange. So they got that fixed and back
on the track right away. Before we even got into
our first break on the show, we're still watching John Alden,
our producer is He has a television screen dedicated to
the smoke pipe.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He is also dressed up as the Pope and he
has a tiny little chimney next to him.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, nobody needs to enter my studio without genuflecting.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Nobody does it like John Alden. He gets he goes
the extra mile on everything.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, it's a big day though for Catholics one point
five billion Catholics. Uh, not a lot of problems in
any airport across the nation with the rollout of the
real ID, which has been one of the worst ideas
in American government initiatives ever ever, to make everyone in
America get this thing for one location the airport. So
(16:00):
if you have other identification like a passport, you are
good to go. And if you don't have it, it's
just going to take longer to get through because they're
going to want to scrutinize you or whatever they're going
to do. So if you have a valid driver's license,
not saying you're gonna get on a plane, but I'm
pretty sure you're gonna get on a plane. They're just
gonna make you do more stuff. Kenny G.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I think Dwight was more happy to do the Kenny
G interview than anything.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yes, that's been the highlight of my morning talking to
my buddy kinch Yes, Ken and g together that that's
what's close friends called them kins.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yep, and our close friend dar Isaacs has his event
on Saturday at the Fairgrounds, eleven different adoption agencies for dogs.
They'll have over two hundred dogs there. They adopted one
hundred and sixty last year in four hours. It was crazy.
They'll do it again at the Fairground, so just whip
on in there.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's a free event.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
They'll have eleven different agencies again from the right side,
left side. Just keep walking and you'll spot the dog
that you want. Make sure your whole family's there so
they can help pick it out. Greg Elliet. This weekend
is going to be.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Huge, huge, huge.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
With the Denny Crumb thing Friday night. If you want
to get a bobblehead, it's not just show up, you
gotta go to bats baseball dot com. A bunch of
the former players are going to be there, including Susan
is his wife, and she's gonna throw out the first
pitch and then the Mashers play Saturday nights.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Susan Swinny Cuck.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Susan Season, Susan Crumb. Yeah that's fine, Crumb, Yes, Susan
Swinny Crumb.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yes, has a mean knuckleball.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I'm sure she can dances like John Auduen during reeling
in the years.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Yes, and we had Martina Narva Talova no Warner. She
is the nine one one dispatcher that took the call
on the day after derby at nine o'clock in the
morning with a guy dangling from a truck on the side, which,
by the way, made national news two nights in a row.
They had the video and all that, and then everyone
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went in and got that guy from the cab. Uh,
let's go with our buddy Marty book from Earl Books,
Carriage forward to Talk Sports and of course the derby
is in the books. And uh, and Marty, we had
a discussion with your with your buddy Bob Baffert on
whether he he did handle the week as well as
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you can handle it. I mean, he really kind of
came out of that looking good.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Well, I mean, what are you gonna do at this point?
So yeah, I mean, if you get out of jail,
you don't come out and act like who you really
are for the reason that you went to jail. But he, uh,
you know, he seemed remorseful to me. You know, it's
My thing with him goes back a long time ago
with him and things he said to my dad out
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of del Mard, what a man he didn't even know
back when he was at his cockiness. And like everybody
in the world, sometimes you get knocked down a bag
and so maybe just maybe become more humanized.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I love it all right, man. So that's in the books.
How well we did not bother you Derby Week? Because
if people don't know, Marty is a Churchill Downs guy.
He goes down there every day. How did the betting
go for you?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
I had a great week. I really did not well
on the Derby, but other than that, I had a
great week. There's there's a lot of people complaining about
too many favors, too many second or third choices. Here's
the thing about Derby Week, in Derby Day, especially Oaks
and Derby. When you've got big pools like that, it
changes the payouts. You can have a two to one
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with a three to one exact that are on a
Thursday in June might pay eighteen dollars, Okay, Derby Day
is gonna pay forty four right. It's just because the
pools are so big that if you can just it
doesn't matter what you hit, you know, if you could
just keep it within whatever, and you always gotta stay
within your budget or whatever. But yeah, you know I
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didn't love money on the week, and I spent a
lot of money doing other stuff as you might imagine.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah, I want to I had an exact a box
on Thursday that was three dollars and forty four cents.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Did I lose money? I didn't lose money.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Did I lose money? On the I bet four dollars?
It was exact a box, two horses, four.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Dollars I have, like you had that one to nine
or whatever?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I know you probably know what race it was.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
I do. It was either one to five or one
to nine horse at one and see you know what
Marty did for that race?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What did Marty do?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Wit? And got a beer because I knew that horse
could have win so well.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I had lost, yes, yes, I had lost a couple
in a row, and I said I need something in
the positive. I need the green, I need the letters
to be green instead of red. And so I bet
it and when it came up, I said, three dollars
and forty four cents is what I won. I was like,
oh boy, that's there. It is right there, but it's
in the books. Churchill downs again. They keep doing it.
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And it was one hundred and forty seven thousand people
in that place on Derby Day and it did not
stop raining.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I was out there.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
It started the night before and just rained all day
long and people didn't care.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
They went out. It's something about the Derby.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Marty Well, you know, there's so many people come from
some so far away and different things like that, but
there's something about the Derby. It's just how it is
a long time ago, an off track as a handicapper.
He used to bug me anymore, if you know it.
What was getting us in trouble through the week. There's
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there's most of the rain every afternoon. Well, if you're
doing a say a pick five, which means you got
to hit the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, all right,
and you can pick multiple horses in each sequence depends
on how much you want to spend. Well, if you
got a turn for a race of the ninth and
you don't know if it's going to be storming by
then that makes it kind of difficult to do those
multi you know, multi race things or whatever. But the
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weather Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday it really held off. It
rained just a little bit Thursday early, but that was it.
Now Friday and Saturday, you know, things got a little
more bep.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Well, we were talking to Greg galli ed earlier and
the impact on on slugger Field because we were all.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was on the radio then and and I.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Knew how a few people people I used to make
the there's a bar, there's a blues bar called Stevie
Ray's Blues Bar on East Market and yeah, and I
used to say, no one went past Stevie Ray's Blues
Bar downtown on a Thursday, Friday Saturday night. No one
went down there past that mark until Slugger Field and
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the impact of that place and baseball, I mean having
the Reds, you know, and there, and their injuries are happening,
so we're getting a lot of their players come down.
It's just a fun time to head down to slugger Field.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I know you do that.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yes, I love baseball, you know. Uh, it's one of
the things I left. I always laughed about. But since
my dad passed away three years ago, and my dad
just loved baseball. He played a little bit in college
and whenever somebody said to my mom, well the good
thing is you don't have to watch baseball anymore, and
she goes, what are you talking about. I've been watching
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baseball with that man for seventy years. I'm gonna keep
watching baseball, and she, you know, and my whole family.
I watched the Reds last night and they won five
to four. I know nobody watches it, and I know
it's not cool anymore. They do keep getting a lot
of injuries and you are going to see. I love
slugger field man. I mean, that's a fun place for
anything that's professional sport. There's nothing cheap, folks, there's nothing cheap,
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but that is as inexpensive as it's gonna get for
a professional game. That's fun and they make it fun
between endings stuff. I mean, the things for kids. There's
so much family stuff at that place. It's just you know,
I love taking my granddaughter over there when I can,
or anything like that. It's just a it's a neat
little place, all right.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I appreciate those sentiments, especially with your dad and your mom.
That's really special stuff. That's why we do what we
do and why We love you Marty and your family
because we're family with you also, But I need you
to so I don't know how much you could. You've
been with Ford so long. I think what people are
interested right now in is okay. I remember before COVID
(24:16):
and then COVID hit, and everyone's car was now twenty
percent worth twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
More than it was the days before.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Now moving forward, when are we looking at new cars
becoming more expensive because of the tariffs and that happening?
What is Ford telling you about prices?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Here's what's going on right now. If you order something
from today forward on certain it's just on the stuff
made in Mexico right now, which is the Broncos, Sport,
the Machy and the Mavericks, it's only like twelve pernente.
And that's when I say only it's big money. It's
twelve pernerd dollars. But the stuff that you hear people
say that this is gonna go up eight thousand dollars
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and ten thousand dollars and stuff like that, it's not
really what's happening, okay. And if you order on employee
pricing right now, you're still gonna get the employee pricing
on the order. So you're gonna negate that by having
the employee pricing from that increase. But the thing is
of what's on people's lots, and that's that's kind of
what matters right now. They have extended the employee pricing
until July fourth, Okay, so that is big news. I
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can tell you all the local Ford dealers had had
great months last month. All of us did because of
the inventory that we have, and everybody can buy an
employee price. Now I can tell you that the tariffs
are what the tariffs are. So what we gonna do?
I mean, it's just we could say, well, the boy,
this sucks and just go sit on the sideline and cry,
or we just pull our sleeves up and say let's
(25:46):
get through this. And that's what we're gonna have to do, all.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Right, the employee pricing. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I don't want to just speak too much out of
turn here, But there are other dealers and other other
people that are like, that's not fair giving you're giving
people me and Dwight and John and work on the
show the price that people that work at the Ford
plant and all that the same price that seems a
little insane right now.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Well, I'll tell you, and I've talked to many employees
Ford employee, Ford factory workers, and I pretty much flip
them around pretty quick. Now, some you know a certain
person a certain person. But for a Ford vehicle to
be put on the road is a benefit to everybody
that's associated with Ford Motor Company. It's a benefit to
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all of us. The more we sell, the more they
get to make. You know, it's just it's a it's
a trickle theory. That is a fact that my success
is their success. Their success is my success. And it's
just that same way with within any business. Within our dealership,
if the service department does well, the sales does well.
You know, it's it's the same thing. And for Ford
(26:56):
to move product, it's good for the factory worker. It's
it seems like they've lost a benefit, but actually they're
gaining a benefit because they're going to be selling more
cars and.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
It benefits us that are buying buying these f one
fifties and explorers and escapes and all that. And you
and I have talked about this for twenty years and
it's simple stuff. When you make a good truck or
a car, they'll buy them. When you make a bad
truck or a car, they don't buy them. And right
now they're selling off the lot like crazy. So if
you want the real deal, which is employee pricing, go
(27:26):
to a carriage forward dot com or stop by Lewis
and Clark Parkway. You can go talk baseball with Marty
book right now if you want.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And then uh, absolute, look at a car. Look at
a car.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
If you want family owned and operated Marty, We love you, buddy,
go to Carriageforward dot com. Employee pricing happening right now.
To everybody over at the lot, we said, Hi.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Okay, I will do it. Love you guys, Love you, Matt.
See buddy, there you go. That's from his mouth.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
And he's been dealing with Ford and he's been he's
won so many awards with the Forward company that he
can those of these meetings and they tell them the
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thanks for your buddy Gunny coming into their nine year
anniversary and you are the preacher on it.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yes, I officiated their wedding and then I was also
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Speaker 3 (29:18):
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Speaker 2 (29:19):
You're still stupid they constipated. Hey, John, Tomorrow's Friday.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
It is Friday, stupid, that's right, But you get extra
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Speaker 3 (29:33):
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Speaker 3 (29:37):
I get all the overnight.
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Duties on the weekend, guarantee it.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
We'll step up, baby, step up and do it, man John,
if you didn't know, just had a baby. Daisy born
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How much you weigh now?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Now five pounds and a half ounce? She's growing. What's
your middle name? Grace?
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For Dwight Witten, John Alden in the news department, this
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seconds to tell you what's going on with the news.
No Pope yet, I bet you we have one before tomorrow.
Back with Buck and Clay Clay and Buck on News
Radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
We'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I love you, Ma,
Happy birthday to this man right here. Bring in the thunder,
mister Alex van Halen. He turns seventy two years old today.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Much much older than Greg golliad.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Really Greg, you know, as a man in your forties,
I got a birthday this next Monday. I'll be sixty five.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That is a lie, that's just a fly.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
They dropped me off at Cardinals Stadium when I was
twenty four. Yes, and then here we are forty one
years later.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
So you qualify to walk the bases senior day.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That thing's getting really big.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It is lots of big deals going on with the bats.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
First of all, I want to talk about these seats.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I think these seats are the coolest.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Thing when it comes to a sporting event, and by
anytime it's all you can eat or drink.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's a win for me anyway.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
But I want to talk about the seat, their luxury, like.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Your theater style seats, like you're still in a movie theater.
Talk about these seats and we're sitting closer to the
batter than the picture is right the batter, so side's
a great view and a unique angle. You're gonna hear
some things. Maybe if you're sitting fifteen twelve, you know whatever,
how many rows back you may not hear. But like
you said, we also provided all you can eat, all
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you can drink, beer and wine buffet. With it, we'll
take care of your parking all for one price, so
you could almost except for having to bring your license,
you could leave your wallet at home. Yeah, because we'll
take care of all of it.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Waitress comes.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, you've got a weight service. So if you don't
like what we have in the buffet, you can pay
to have our help. Go get your order from the
concession stands, because you'll have a QR code right there
on your seat.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I'm gonna say you're I don't know how many feet
to the catcher, but when you hear that eighty five
mile an hour boom into the glove, I don't care
who's sitting with you. My daughter's never seen a baseball
game or a life.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
She had a.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Ball in these seats.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Did you know my first pitch when I throw it out,
it sounded.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Exactly like that, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But enough about that.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Let's face.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Seats are called the on deck seat. On deck. You'd
like to learn more about him, just go to our
website at bats baseball dot com. They are getting used
quite a bit, and uh so some of the days
are already sold out. So but again they're called the
on deck seats. Take advantage of them.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Nobody does promotions quite like the Bats. And I think
one of the biggest is coming up tomorrow nights one.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
People have been looking forward to this and.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
By the way, participating in this already, and we're talking
about the Denny Crumb bibblehead.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
This is a big deal and you can still get these.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, we need to make something clear because a lot
of folks thought that all you got to do, like
a traditional bibblehead giveaway is show up in the first
you know, threty thousand people get one as they walk in. No,
you have to purchase the special Denny Crumb ticket package
for tomorrow night's game, which will guarantee you a bibblehead,
or be one of our Bats season ticket holders, which
could be anything from full season all the way down
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to like our five game plan. Those folks will obviously
get their bibblehead guaranteed to them. So again, tomorrow night,
we still have some bibbleheads left that can be purchased
as part of this ticket plan for tomorrow night's.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Game batspaceball dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Gates opens and when gates open Tomorrow night at six
o'clock from six to six thirty, we're gonna have over
fifteen former UFL basketball players who played for Coach Crumb.
We're gonna be on hand down in front of the
kids playground area in the right field corner signing autographs
for half an hour.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Okay, hang on, you're bearing the lead also because they'll
be in like a semi circle around Susan as they
she's the first pitch.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That Susan Sweeney Crumb, the wife of Denny Coach Crumb,
and she's gonna throw out a first pitch Tomorrow night
with the players around her on the field prior to
the start of the game. Tomorrow night is Boy Scout Night,
number one of the year, so we're gonna have a
lot of scouts in the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
We got a big fireworks show with Burke Accounting playing
for Tomorrow night after the game, so there's a lot
going on Tomorrow night besides the iHeartMedia game time happy
Hour with three dollars canned Miller and Coors Light. As
soon as the gates opening six o'clock up until last call,
and six dollars. Margarita's from number one to key.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Number one the Quila Baby Friday nights. But let's not
as over tonight because tonight's going to be a big
night too.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You're back in Thursday in game time, six thirty five.
The Bats have won their last three games, so the
team's playing pretty well, even though we're trying to supplement
their reds as they're starting to go through some injury
bugs right now, and we'll see if we can keep
their roster healthy in Cincinnati. It's gonna be frustrated. It's
only May.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, dipping in wait is the anything on Masters Night?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, No Friday Nights. Friday Night, Friday Night, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Masher's Night is Saturday Night when the team will play
as the Louisville Mashers, which has become one of our
more popular nights. Folks love to see the guys run
out there in the teal Masher jerseys and and plays
the Mashers. Of course, every Master game that we have
will have bourbon tasting going on with our friends from
Evan Williams and a big fireworks show after the game.
Saturday Night, thanks to our friends over at Black Diamond
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Pest Control. But prior to that, right before the fireworks,
we have probably the most popular NBA halftime act that
will be on hand doing their entire NBA halftime show,
and that's Christian and Scooby. It's the act where the
gentleman is the hand balancing gymnast and he has his
Chihuahua dog with him on his feet while he's doing
all his stunts on the field. So it's really cool
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to watch. And that's all Saturday night and then Sunday,
of course Sunday's Mother's Day. Yes, so you got to
bring mom to the ballpark. The first five hundred moms
will get carnations as they've come in thanks to NaNs
and Craft Floorist. They will open the gates on Sunday
at a special time of eleven thirty. That's because we're
offering a special Mother's Day brunch ticket package where you
can bring mom to the ballpark. We'll have a special
(05:30):
Mother's Day brunch all arranged for and for more information
on that, go to bats baseball dot com. You can
buy that ticket pack.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Times bunch and then first.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
First Pitches at one five after the game's over. Besides
our normal kids run the bases, moms can come down
on the outfield and play catch with their family. Everybody
a soft baseball to play catch with, and they'll have
the logo of our partner that day write implement on it.
It's a really attractive pink soft baseball that they can
take home with him as a keepsake of the day.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Perfect.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Okay, that's that's an unbelievable weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
By the way, weather going to cooperate.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I think, yeah, looks fabulous. I got to get through
today with the scattered showers that we're dealing with today
in this evening, but for Friday through Sunday, it looks
like the forecast is gonna be tremendous.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We got Mayor Greenberg on tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
And one of the questions I Will is going to
toss out what I think is as much as you changed,
as the field chained downtown, you don't get the Young
Center without Slugger, you don't get the museums without Slugger.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It started everything.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You don't get new you don't get any of it.
It all started there.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Why because we all were there, we know what was happening,
and when that happened. I think this new initiative where
that parking lot to the if you're facing the river
to the right, will be condos and restaurants. And you're
building this and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
What we're calling for.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's an entertainment district.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Okay, okay, but it's like a three. It's it's uh,
where are we with that?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, I mean all you had to do is notice
who was the guest of the mayor at this past
derby was Pat Battle and Peter Froynd are basically our
executives from Diamond Baseball Holdings that owns the Bats. So
the project is moving forward. I think the first thing
you'll see will probably be construction of the two parking garages.
It'll be built, which will provide actually more parking than
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you currently have with the surface lot that we have
there between us and the Interstate sixty five, because obviously
you want to get parking built. So as a construction
then gets underway for the other parts of the project,
parking has already been taken care of, so you still
have a place to park for the ball games.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I don't think people understand what hell it's going to
transform that well, you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
The fact that Slugger was the reason that people then
started to come back down town starting in two thousand.
It looks like this project is again going to be
the reason that we can start getting people to come
back downtown again and enjoy not only the project outside
our door, but it'll be the bridge that'll connect New
lou to the waterfront, which will be the Slugger Field
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sports entertainment.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, if you go back twenty five years, I mean,
anybody agree there's truth to that that the Bats, Slugger
Field that's the anchor to downtown see were first. But
when you all decided, hey, we're gonna move, we're gonna
move away from old Cardinal Stadium and we're gonna build
our own stadiums downtown and nothing's going on down this.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Thing, did people say you're crazy?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Or did they?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Interesting thing is most people don't remember. It was a
couple options on the table at that time. It was
stay at Cardinal Stadium, renovate the stadium, make it a
dual baseball stadium because you emergency Lovelle football was moving out. Yeah,
to go play at their current Cardinal stadium, right, and
make it a dual baseball Amphitheater or the other two options. Actually,
and people don't remember this, the other option besides going
(08:38):
to where we're currently located, is going down close to
where the Kentucky Lottery is tenth and eleventh Street.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
No way.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So we decided and settled upon where we're currently located,
and to be at the intersection of two major interstates
right sixty four and sixty five. As people are driving
in and out of our state and leaving going to
Indiana or coming through going to Lexington or over to
Evansville or Lewis to see that beautiful ballpark each time,
and we as livillions, we see it every day. I
(09:05):
think we just kind of take it for granted. Yes,
but especially last year when we had the bananas here,
seventy percent of our crowd for all the banana games
were from out of town who have never been to
Slugger Field right, and to hear their comments about how
awesome the facility is, which kind of opened my eyes
a little bit because I'm thinking, yeah, we probably do
take it for grant because we see it every day,
whereas they don't. They go this is basically a major
(09:25):
league ballpark.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I'm sorry, but you incorporated the facade.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What was there before, it was all brick. You kept
the front.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
We kept the front and just built the curved baseball
stadium into it, which really makes it such a unique
feature of the ballpark. Right, And that obviously has led
to a lot of the buildings that have been constructed
around us in the neighborhood also have mimicked that same look.
Look at angels Envy, right. No, absolutely went the same
exact sport facades and stuff that we have.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And you mentioned, yeah, you do good desensitized lack of
a better term. I guess you get used to see
because I pass it every day. Tone, I'll tell you
what I don't where. It's still impressive to me. If
I'm leaving an event downtown or leaving a concert. We're
not a concert. It's a bad example. If I'm leaving
an event downtown, I'm driving by and it's a night
game and those lights are on, it still hits me.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Man, Well, it takes you back. It's a little bit
like Field of dreams. Yeah, It's just there's something magical
about a baseball stadiument or lights on, especially this time
of year when the weather's warm. It takes you back
to your childhood. And that's why I feel so blessed
to be the president of the team and just to
oversee what goes on there. Uh, I don't really feel
like I have a job. I'm more of a caretaker. Uh,
(10:36):
just trying to make sure the professional baseball thrives in
our community. And I feel so blessed to have a position.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I have you ever think about writing a book on
all that because you were there from the beginning.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, I've got some stories that probably would be pretty interesting.
Some folks kid red Bird days of being around a
Ray Smith and the people and Dale always our GM
who was awesome and.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Idea guy, the idea man, Yeah he was.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Whose vision was is it to move downtown?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh it was Abramson wanted people downtown.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It's in the Elmer family and our ownership group. Yeah,
it was the best thing and it was a great decision.
It's great for the city. And so that's why we're
so excited about this new project that we'll be getting
under way here pretty soon. It's really going to I
think give it the city a shot in the arm.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
We're excited about it, man, I can't wait for it.
And you're actually working with the soccer guys, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, and we enjoy our relationship with them. They got
a beautiful stadium and I think eventually in the near future,
who knows, in the next ten to fifteen years, there'll
be some really cool de balance between the two stadiums.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah. Okay, so this weekend is busy again. Mother's Day
is really intriguing because if you haven't figured out what
you're doing for Mother's Day brunch, you're not getting Yeah,
we got you covered.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
And before I go, I do want to remind folks.
Next homestand we come back home, we have our first
Military Appreciation Day coming up on the Friday night. As
we go into a Memorial Day weekend, we're all military
and their families, retired or current, getting free on that
Friday night, beautiful Saturday night of that weekend, it is
our Halloween night. So mom's dads, let's get those kids,
(12:02):
get their costumes out for Halloween. Come to the ballpark
dressed in costume. We're gonna have trick or treating going
on before the game around our concourse with probably fifteen
to twenty of our partners manning tables handing out candy.
Should be a fun night with fireworks to follow. So
that's coming up at the end of the month of May.
So go to the Bat's website at bats baseball dot
com to buy tickets for that next home stand.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Bats baseball dot com. That's what he said.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I bought tickets while walking up, So you can do
that and just go boo boo. It's it's you can
do the last second to side.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Shop and our team store online.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yes, and and quarter zips quarter.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Zips, Tony Venetti signature Quartersip. Get over our newly renovated
team store. We passed the stadium to pull in and
buy the s that and I live in Saint Matthew
so it's like what Trinity people do to Eastern people.
They keep us.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Under their know your place.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Jeff Zone does the same thing to me.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
But I love living in Saint Matthew's because I'll hear
the boom boom boom boom when at a certain time
of night, and I'll go, oh, bats yeah, batla yeah,
the fireworks, fireworks.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Bats baseball dot Com. Greg Galliet, good shit, it's great
to see you.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
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five people standing there and they're like, we're gonna We're
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Speaker 1 (13:54):
Arono's Pizza Baby, nothing more Louisville than Louisville pizza. How
about this next time you order Baronel's pizza, say, you
know what do mine Dano's style?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
What is Dano Styles?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Where they take that beautiful Dano's red pepper cheeseening and
they sprinkle it onto your pizza. I'm telling you it
takes it up a notch. Maybe you don't like pizza,
try sandwiches, salads, pastas.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Wings, you name it.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You're gonna love the menu at your neighborhood Baronel's Pizza,
dine in, carry out or delivery.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, it's that good.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Back after this on NewsRadio eight forty w h a
s action pack show Today, SUH got a little ways
to go?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
You know, why do you want to come out? Play this?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
On QMF.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You want to say the.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Stp oh boy. They only been doing that for thirty years.
Good for you.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Here's a classic noise from the fluid boy Q the
hit the post Ready.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
On q m F, we started the day with the
train derail and they whoever does the cleanup on that?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It was not bad.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I guess you could say a trained derail and go
that wasn't that, man, It's a trained derail in the
middle of lagrange. So they got that fixed and back
on the track right away. Before we even got into
our first break on the show, we're still watching John Alden,
our producer is He has a television screen dedicated to
the smoke pipe.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He is also dressed up as the Pope and he
has a tiny little chimney next to him.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, nobody needs to enter my studio without genuflecting.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Nobody does it like John Alden. He gets he goes
the extra mile on everything.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, it's a big day though for Catholics one point
five billion Catholics. Uh, not a lot of problems in
any airport across the nation with the rollout of the
real ID, which has been one of the worst ideas
in American government initiatives ever ever, to make everyone in
America get this thing for one location the airport. So
(16:00):
if you have other identification like a passport, you are
good to go. And if you don't have it, it's
just going to take longer to get through because they're
going to want to scrutinize you or whatever they're going
to do. So if you have a valid driver's license,
not saying you're gonna get on a plane, but I'm
pretty sure you're gonna get on a plane. They're just
gonna make you do more stuff. Kenny G.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I think Dwight was more happy to do the Kenny
G interview than anything.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yes, that's been the highlight of my morning talking to
my buddy kinch Yes, Ken and g together that that's
what's close friends called them kins.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yep, and our close friend dar Isaacs has his event
on Saturday at the Fairgrounds, eleven different adoption agencies for dogs.
They'll have over two hundred dogs there. They adopted one
hundred and sixty last year in four hours. It was crazy.
They'll do it again at the Fairground, so just whip
on in there.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's a free event.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
They'll have eleven different agencies again from the right side,
left side. Just keep walking and you'll spot the dog
that you want. Make sure your whole family's there so
they can help pick it out. Greg Elliet. This weekend
is going to be.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Huge, huge, huge.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
With the Denny Crumb thing Friday night. If you want
to get a bobblehead, it's not just show up, you
gotta go to bats baseball dot com. A bunch of
the former players are going to be there, including Susan
is his wife, and she's gonna throw out the first
pitch and then the Mashers play Saturday nights.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Susan Swinny Cuck.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Susan Season, Susan Crumb. Yeah that's fine, Crumb, Yes, Susan
Swinny Crumb.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yes, has a mean knuckleball.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I'm sure she can dances like John Auduen during reeling
in the years.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Yes, and we had Martina Narva Talova no Warner. She
is the nine one one dispatcher that took the call
on the day after derby at nine o'clock in the
morning with a guy dangling from a truck on the side, which,
by the way, made national news two nights in a row.
They had the video and all that, and then everyone
(17:58):
went in and got that guy from the cab. Uh,
let's go with our buddy Marty book from Earl Books,
Carriage forward to Talk Sports and of course the derby
is in the books. And uh, and Marty, we had
a discussion with your with your buddy Bob Baffert on
whether he he did handle the week as well as
(18:21):
you can handle it. I mean, he really kind of
came out of that looking good.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Well, I mean, what are you gonna do at this point?
So yeah, I mean, if you get out of jail,
you don't come out and act like who you really
are for the reason that you went to jail. But he, uh,
you know, he seemed remorseful to me. You know, it's
My thing with him goes back a long time ago
with him and things he said to my dad out
(18:49):
of del Mard, what a man he didn't even know
back when he was at his cockiness. And like everybody
in the world, sometimes you get knocked down a bag
and so maybe just maybe become more humanized.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I love it all right, man. So that's in the books.
How well we did not bother you Derby Week? Because
if people don't know, Marty is a Churchill Downs guy.
He goes down there every day. How did the betting
go for you?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
I had a great week. I really did not well
on the Derby, but other than that, I had a
great week. There's there's a lot of people complaining about
too many favors, too many second or third choices. Here's
the thing about Derby Week, in Derby Day, especially Oaks
and Derby. When you've got big pools like that, it
changes the payouts. You can have a two to one
(19:37):
with a three to one exact that are on a
Thursday in June might pay eighteen dollars, Okay, Derby Day
is gonna pay forty four right. It's just because the
pools are so big that if you can just it
doesn't matter what you hit, you know, if you could
just keep it within whatever, and you always gotta stay
within your budget or whatever. But yeah, you know I
(19:59):
didn't love money on the week, and I spent a
lot of money doing other stuff as you might imagine.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah, I want to I had an exact a box
on Thursday that was three dollars and forty four cents.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Did I lose money? I didn't lose money.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Did I lose money? On the I bet four dollars?
It was exact a box, two horses, four.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Dollars I have, like you had that one to nine
or whatever?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I know you probably know what race it was.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
I do. It was either one to five or one
to nine horse at one and see you know what
Marty did for that race?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What did Marty do?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Wit? And got a beer because I knew that horse
could have win so well.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I had lost, yes, yes, I had lost a couple
in a row, and I said I need something in
the positive. I need the green, I need the letters
to be green instead of red. And so I bet
it and when it came up, I said, three dollars
and forty four cents is what I won. I was like,
oh boy, that's there. It is right there, but it's
in the books. Churchill downs again. They keep doing it.
(21:02):
And it was one hundred and forty seven thousand people
in that place on Derby Day and it did not
stop raining.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I was out there.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
It started the night before and just rained all day
long and people didn't care.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
They went out. It's something about the Derby.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Marty Well, you know, there's so many people come from
some so far away and different things like that, but
there's something about the Derby. It's just how it is
a long time ago, an off track as a handicapper.
He used to bug me anymore, if you know it.
What was getting us in trouble through the week. There's
(21:36):
there's most of the rain every afternoon. Well, if you're
doing a say a pick five, which means you got
to hit the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, all right,
and you can pick multiple horses in each sequence depends
on how much you want to spend. Well, if you
got a turn for a race of the ninth and
you don't know if it's going to be storming by
then that makes it kind of difficult to do those
multi you know, multi race things or whatever. But the
(22:00):
weather Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday it really held off. It
rained just a little bit Thursday early, but that was it.
Now Friday and Saturday, you know, things got a little
more bep.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Well, we were talking to Greg galli ed earlier and
the impact on on slugger Field because we were all.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was on the radio then and and I.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Knew how a few people people I used to make
the there's a bar, there's a blues bar called Stevie
Ray's Blues Bar on East Market and yeah, and I
used to say, no one went past Stevie Ray's Blues
Bar downtown on a Thursday, Friday Saturday night. No one
went down there past that mark until Slugger Field and
(22:37):
the impact of that place and baseball, I mean having
the Reds, you know, and there, and their injuries are happening,
so we're getting a lot of their players come down.
It's just a fun time to head down to slugger Field.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I know you do that.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yes, I love baseball, you know. Uh, it's one of
the things I left. I always laughed about. But since
my dad passed away three years ago, and my dad
just loved baseball. He played a little bit in college
and whenever somebody said to my mom, well the good
thing is you don't have to watch baseball anymore, and
she goes, what are you talking about. I've been watching
(23:13):
baseball with that man for seventy years. I'm gonna keep
watching baseball, and she, you know, and my whole family.
I watched the Reds last night and they won five
to four. I know nobody watches it, and I know
it's not cool anymore. They do keep getting a lot
of injuries and you are going to see. I love
slugger field man. I mean, that's a fun place for
anything that's professional sport. There's nothing cheap, folks, there's nothing cheap,
(23:37):
but that is as inexpensive as it's gonna get for
a professional game. That's fun and they make it fun
between endings stuff. I mean, the things for kids. There's
so much family stuff at that place. It's just you know,
I love taking my granddaughter over there when I can,
or anything like that. It's just a it's a neat
little place, all right.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I appreciate those sentiments, especially with your dad and your mom.
That's really special stuff. That's why we do what we
do and why We love you Marty and your family
because we're family with you also, But I need you
to so I don't know how much you could. You've
been with Ford so long. I think what people are
interested right now in is okay. I remember before COVID
(24:16):
and then COVID hit, and everyone's car was now twenty
percent worth twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
More than it was the days before.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Now moving forward, when are we looking at new cars
becoming more expensive because of the tariffs and that happening?
What is Ford telling you about prices?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Here's what's going on right now. If you order something
from today forward on certain it's just on the stuff
made in Mexico right now, which is the Broncos, Sport,
the Machy and the Mavericks, it's only like twelve pernente.
And that's when I say only it's big money. It's
twelve pernerd dollars. But the stuff that you hear people
say that this is gonna go up eight thousand dollars
(25:01):
and ten thousand dollars and stuff like that, it's not
really what's happening, okay. And if you order on employee
pricing right now, you're still gonna get the employee pricing
on the order. So you're gonna negate that by having
the employee pricing from that increase. But the thing is
of what's on people's lots, and that's that's kind of
what matters right now. They have extended the employee pricing
until July fourth, Okay, so that is big news. I
(25:26):
can tell you all the local Ford dealers had had
great months last month. All of us did because of
the inventory that we have, and everybody can buy an
employee price. Now I can tell you that the tariffs
are what the tariffs are. So what we gonna do?
I mean, it's just we could say, well, the boy,
this sucks and just go sit on the sideline and cry,
or we just pull our sleeves up and say let's
(25:46):
get through this. And that's what we're gonna have to do, all.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Right, the employee pricing. I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I don't want to just speak too much out of
turn here, But there are other dealers and other other
people that are like, that's not fair giving you're giving
people me and Dwight and John and work on the
show the price that people that work at the Ford
plant and all that the same price that seems a
little insane right now.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Well, I'll tell you, and I've talked to many employees
Ford employee, Ford factory workers, and I pretty much flip
them around pretty quick. Now, some you know a certain
person a certain person. But for a Ford vehicle to
be put on the road is a benefit to everybody
that's associated with Ford Motor Company. It's a benefit to
(26:34):
all of us. The more we sell, the more they
get to make. You know, it's just it's a it's
a trickle theory. That is a fact that my success
is their success. Their success is my success. And it's
just that same way with within any business. Within our dealership,
if the service department does well, the sales does well.
You know, it's it's the same thing. And for Ford
(26:56):
to move product, it's good for the factory worker. It's
it seems like they've lost a benefit, but actually they're
gaining a benefit because they're going to be selling more
cars and.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
It benefits us that are buying buying these f one
fifties and explorers and escapes and all that. And you
and I have talked about this for twenty years and
it's simple stuff. When you make a good truck or
a car, they'll buy them. When you make a bad
truck or a car, they don't buy them. And right
now they're selling off the lot like crazy. So if
you want the real deal, which is employee pricing, go
(27:26):
to a carriage forward dot com or stop by Lewis
and Clark Parkway. You can go talk baseball with Marty
book right now if you want.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And then uh, absolute, look at a car. Look at
a car.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
If you want family owned and operated Marty, We love you, buddy,
go to Carriageforward dot com. Employee pricing happening right now.
To everybody over at the lot, we said, Hi.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Okay, I will do it. Love you guys, Love you, Matt.
See buddy, there you go. That's from his mouth.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
And he's been dealing with Ford and he's been he's
won so many awards with the Forward company that he
can those of these meetings and they tell them the
real deal, like here's what's going on with the industry.
So I felt like we need to touch on that
because people are all kind of freaking out about prices
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after this, we'll take a short break. It's Tony and
Dwight Show on news Radio eight forty whas. What a
day man, Hey, thanks for your buddy Gunny books. Yeah,
(29:07):
thanks for your buddy Gunny coming into their nine year
anniversary and you are the preacher on it.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yes, I officiated their wedding and then I was also
on hands for the constipation of the.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Marriage later that night.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You're still stupid they constipated. Hey, John, Tomorrow's Friday.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
It is Friday, stupid, that's right, But you get extra
time with your baby and some sleep time this week.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I cannot wait one thing.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
We did last week, and I don't know how many
weeks this will end up happening.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I get all the overnight.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Duties on the weekend, guarantee it.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
We'll step up, baby, step up and do it, man John,
if you didn't know, just had a baby. Daisy born
three pounds three ounces. How much you want fifteen fifteen ounces?
How much you weigh now?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Now five pounds and a half ounce? She's growing. What's
your middle name? Grace?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Great name?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What a great name?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
All right?
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Speaker 6 (30:44):
You all right.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
For Dwight Witten, John Alden in the news department, this
is going to be back in just a couple of
seconds to tell you what's going on with the news.
No Pope yet, I bet you we have one before tomorrow.
Back with Buck and Clay Clay and Buck on News
Radio eight forty WHS.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
We'll see you later.
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I love you, Ma,
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