KSR - 2024-06-07- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: June 7, 2024

Jeff Piecoro talks Reds baseball with Drew and horse racing with Kenny McPeek.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We have Myron Metcalf on Mondays. And Wednesdays? Tom Harts on Wednesdays. Fridays we rotate. And then Tuesdays and Thursdays we're popping in random businesses around Central Kentucky. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Where were you at yesterday where you guys almost got beheaded by the? That was wild.

I don't know how that sounded on the air, but that was pretty intense. We were at A-Vetter Brewing in Winchester. When Ryan dove under the table started yelling earthquake, I think that was kind of crazy. I'm like, wait a minute, we don't have a fault lying around here. Yeah. Shane and I both reminded him. Like, you're on the radio. You can't report earthquake.

People are going to think there's an earthquake. Well, look, we're going to talk to Kenny McPeak in just a minute, but we've got a couple of people online or on the phone that have been holding forever. So, Shannon, who are we going to take first year? Let's start with Emily. All right, Emily, how are you? I'm good. How are you all?

Good. What can we do for you? I was just calling. I had a quick comment. I saw a lot of our new guys coming in on the basketball team brought their golf clubs with them. And I thought it would be super cool if Club Blue did some kind of golf scramble. It's a great idea. And you're right.

We've had at least three show up with their golf clubs. Yesterday was Travis Perry and Colin Chandler. Unless there's one more, we're one away from a foursome on the team. Hey, I will happily play with them. But that's a great idea. Hopefully someone's listening that can make that happen. Wow. We appreciate the call.

The right people are listening. Well, let's hope so. Hey, I'll tell you what, I played at Boone Trace Golf Club. You know, you guys had your, we have a scramble there. Got one coming up. That place is awesome. Love it out there. I love that golf course.

Yeah, I don't get to golf. Yeah, there you go. I love it. A lot of people don't know this, but Travis Perry are. Thanks, Emily. Mr. Kentucky basketball. He was a star golfer in high school, too. It was all region.

I think he was second in the region tournament, and top 20 didn't state two years. So he's not just bringing them to collect dust in the corner. I bet you'll see Travis Perry around town quite a bit when he has the time. You know Brian Lane, right? Of course. Basketball coach? Yeah. Well, he's the basketball coach, but he's a much better golf coach at Trancy.

And I think his dad's taught him a lot about basketball. I don't know who taught him about golf, but his golf team is really good. They are. But he does a boat. How tough would that be? He's not getting a 10-week vacation. And the golf coach. And good at both.

And he's a realtor. Yep. What else does the dude do? The lanes and transi, whatever job, you go down there, he might be serving food at the TransiCafee. Whatever they need, the lanes are getting it done. They are. They can. Wow, all right.

We got another caller. Who's up next, Janet? Let's go to Brad. Hey, Brad, what's going on, son? Hey, guys, how are you today? Good. What we do for you? Well, let's see.

I'm a graduate of U.K., grew up in Lansdown. And when I heard you were going to be on the show and Coach Madison, I just had to call in. First of all, I just want to say the job that everybody's doing with Matt on vacation has been amazing. I live in South Florida. I'm probably the social media of UK guru with a little older community down here. So I keep everybody informed, and I probably get 99% of my information from KSR and Kentucky Athletics. But anyway, the...

The baseball team has just been phenomenal. Darren Hendrick, Dub Williams, Coach Madison, Mingeon, the team. We are so excited about what's going to occur this weekend. And there's a big contingency of BBN down here. And we don't get the TV coverage. We have to get most of our stuff from radio. So hats off to everyone on that entire team. You all are doing a great job.

And I have a favor to ask. I just had a recent hip surgery. It wasn't a walk in the park. My sister just flew down from Lexington. She graduated from the U.K., grew up in Landstone with me. And she's a big Tim McGraw fan. And if the tickets are available and you don't have anybody else to give them to, it'd be a really nice thing to be able to give them to her.

That's basically what I had. Keep up a great job. That's up to Drew right here, Bradson. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it. I don't know about that. We'll come up with something. Might have to tailor a question that she might be the only one to answer, you know.

Yeah. Shannon, you got any ideas there? I mean You're referring to Kenny McPeak, why don't you? Yeah, well, he's on. He's ready to go here. But, yeah, we'll hold on to those tickets if you want until the end of the show and we'll figure out a way to give those away.

Okay. Yeah. There we go. All right, Shannon, thanks. I guess we've got to go to this guy, right? Kenny? Yeah. It's a busy man.

I think we should do. He's just sitting around with his dog. His dog is better known than Kenny is at the backside of racetracks. Am I right or wrong, Kenny? Am I right? He's pretty popular dog. You know. Kenny goes to the prequeness.

They don't give him anything. They gave him a dog bed, a personalized dog bed. And the dog had his own media credential. Kenny, am I lying? I interviewed his dog. I told him I wasn't coming unless the dog could come. He goes with me everywhere every morning. I mean, I take him whether it's to Keenland or Churchill or the farm.

He rolls with me. He likes to go. And he's been to the Triple Crown now. He's had his, he has his own media credential. What's the dog's name? Sunny, S-O-N-N-Y, like Sunny Collins. There you go. There you.

So, look, you know, McPeak, obviously he lives half the year, quarter of the year in Louisville, half quarter of the year here. He's got places all over, you know, because he's got strings of horses everywhere. Kenny, we think I'm pushing this, Kenny's pushing this, might do the why at the UK Louisville basketball game. How about that? I like that. I mean, here's a guy. He's going to wear Blue, right? Lexingtonian. Yes, but we're working on his wife because Sherry is a Louisville girl. And I don't know if you can have Red sitting right there with you, Kenny, if you're going to be the Y. It's an intercollegiate marriage. She and I sit on opposite, opposite ends of the couch twice a year,

and she wears her proud red cardinal, and I wear my UK Blue. But yeah, we have fun. We have fun with that. And our kids actually struggle with it a little bit because they're not sure what direction to go. Whoever's who they like. It's easy if you're the kid. Hey, Kenny, look, you know, coming into a month ago, you'd never won the Oaks and you'd never won the Derby. And then in a 48-hour span, you're an Oaks winner and a Derby winner. That had to be the coolest feeling in the world, wasn't it? Well, for sure. The game is so humbling and it's so difficult. Of course, we know every time a horse race goes off that there's going to be a multitude of losers before there's a winner.

And for it all to come together on the same weekend was magical. I'm still a little bit in all of it all. I'm trying to not to come off the cloud. And it's been a lot of hard work. A lot of really diligent people have helped me get there, whether it was staff or owners and a lot of lovely horses. And, yeah, it's kind of a career. day for sure. Kenny, I was talking to Drew before we started, and I said, I've never seen you so confident

as you were going in, especially to the Oaks with Torpedo Anna. You told me that she was the best Philly you ever had, and I said, there's no way. Swiss skydiver, obviously, was the best. And you said, no, this Philly can run. And she proved it, and she's running again this afternoon. How is she coming up to the race? And not at Belmont, but at Saratoga. How is she liking it over there?

Well, she's handled a grade. She's a really easy Philly to be around for the most part Ultra fast you know some of the Phillies in the past You think a take charge lady who was undefeated in Keenland and Swiss Goddiver of course all the things she accomplished but this Philly this Philly if everything goes right She could eclipse those so we'll see and this race is a little bit different this year The acorn has historically been at a one-turn mile at Belmont which is a race I probably would have skipped But it's a mile in an eighth two turns here at Cerecorn

Saratoga. So it's the same circumference, same two-turn race that we ran in the Kentucky Oaks, and we wanted to keep her into that routine. I think you confuse horses if you switch it up. So we're excited about today. I fully expected her to win again. Wow. Kenny, a lot of people don't understand. They think, well, the race just moved from Belmont to Saratoga, so it's a race track. So why can't you have a mile and a half Belmont stakes at Saratoga? They don't understand that different racetracks have, as you just said, different circumferences, and you don't want a horse running a three-turn race, correct? Which would be what happens at Saratoga.

Am I right in saying that if it was a mile and a half? Well, if they ran a mile and a half, they would have had to have run it from a break right practically into the turn, which would have been a big disadvantage for horses that were on the outside. Or they had to extend it out to a mile in five-eighths. which is probably a little too far. So I think a mile and a quarter is a good number. I mean, it's going to be the same distance as the Travers, and this race will more than likely see some runners come out of this

and go towards Travers. So it's exciting. They know what they're doing up here. I think the decisions they've made have been good. Kenny, you're the only horse in the race that's going to run in all three, if I'm not mistaken, the Derby, the Preakness, and now the Belmont tomorrow. How is Mystic Dan coming along?

And you look at, let's look at Sierra Leone, for instance, who got those weeks off that your horse didn't. How's Mystic Dan coming in? And what do you think about the fresh horse in Sierra Leone and some of the others you'll be up against? Well, the key is he's been ultra-consistent in his eating habits and his training habits. And he's a really easy horse to keep.

If I felt like that he was fatigued, I wouldn't run. And he actually acts like he's stronger coming into this third leg than the first couple. So we're still confident, and he's taking us there. We haven't pressed this at all. He's just a nice horse with a lot of talent that likes to run. And I think in this day and age, we don't run on LASICs anymore, which I think is a really good thing. I think the Triple Crown had a drought where we didn't have any Triple Crown winners. But when you ran on LASICs, the dehydrated horses, and I think it's brilliant that the

industry no longer allows it because I don't think it was necessary. Kenny, I want to ask you a question off the subject for just a second because you now have a string that you like to run down in New Orleans. And it just came out yesterday that Churchill Downs, who owns the track there is saying they may not run the risen star of the Louisiana Dernley or the, was it the Lachamette? Is that how you say that one? Because of the new medication policy, what do you think of that if that comes to fruition and they don't?

well they'll sort all that out you know they're not going to they're not going to change all that that that's that's probably just a play um the the Louisiana horsemen's groups um and and the rule changes down there i mean the truth is is the sport runs on little or no medication at this stage anyway and so i find it um almost um i don't know if i'd use the word comical or not, but they, we don't run, we don't run on any medication anywhere hardly. And, and so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the horses, horses in particular, yeah, a lot of them run hard and they do need some, and then, need some attention not only different than people as we get older we have joint issues we

we don't move as quick as we used to there i'm 61 and i know you're right there too jeff but you know nothing works like he used to and um and horses that run hard have issues and and at the same time it's a trainer's job to be able to to figure out what what makes that horse happy and and make them comfortable and the use of drugs in racing is actually so minimal that I think we really sometimes it's a little bit overdone but look they're trying to do something positive they're trying to align the rules and I would love to see Louisiana come in alignment as well as Texas in some other states and we need we need universal rules everywhere can you imagine if the Reds and the Cleveland

Indians ran with different lengths of their baseline and that there was no different rules in every city that would be crazy and that's really what horse racing needs to address in a lot of ways. All right, I do want to ask you one more question about the race coming up because I'm on horse races now, which is a great app that you have. And I'm looking at tomorrow's entries for the race. And I see a 10 horse. Rapoli owns it.

Todd Pletcher is the trainer. I rad Ortiz. You got great connections here. It's run two times in its life. It broke a maiden and then ran a non-winners other than. And one, it hasn't even been an allowance company yet. now it's running in a classic and it's the second choice. That shows a little respect for Mystic Dan, doesn't it?

I was a little surprised. You know, my cult's made $4.1 million against the best. And, you know, look, they bet on Chad Brown and they bet on Todd Pletcher up here in New York, and that's kind of typical. That horse has shown freaky talent, but he hasn't been in deep water yet. And he's going to get deep water tomorrow. And, you know, look, there are those that believe he can handle it. So I don't know.

I mean, it's the morning line is actually a guess. They don't really know what the morning line's going to end up laying out to be. All I know is is that my horse is ultra-consistent. He's done it at a high level. And we're excited to show him off again. Cool. Kenny, tell me a little bit about horse racing now. But can people, you know, can they get it?

How do they get it? It's something that you, I know, have worked hard on for. How many years have you've been trying to get this going? Well, for those out there, well, for those out there that have apps on their phones, everybody that's got an Android or an iPhone, write this down real quick. It's called Horses Now. We've actually shortened the name a bit. So if you go on the iTunes or the app stores Horses Now, would you download it? What it does is you can add your favorite tracks, horses, trainers, jockeys.

Let's say you want to follow myself, then no problem. You just simply punch in my last name, click on, and then add. And then every time I run a horse, you get alerts. You get alerts for the entries, alerts for the 15 minutes before we run, a minute to post, the results. In some cases, the replays and the charts. And so it keeps you engaged in the sport. We also notifications for industry news. It's a real simple app.

We've had a million downloads in 217 countries. You know, I'm a proponent of the sport. I'm trying to grow the sport. I love what I do. I think that more people need to be engaged and understand what we do. I modeled this app after the ESP and Score Center app specifically for horse racing. And yes, I've invested not only 10 years into it, but also a lot of my own personal money. And I'm proud of it.

and we're going to keep trying to grow. You know, the sport, I always believe you can't grow a sport unless you show a sport. We're trying to show it, and we are growing it. Horses now. Kenny, yep, horses now. Go to your app store, download it. It's great. I get results.

I got entries. It's all right there right at your fingertips. Buddy, I appreciate it. Good luck tomorrow. I wish I was back there like I was in Baltimore, but this baseball team is driving me crazy up here. So I'll be at the ballpark watching the race at the

ballpark because the race is at 6.41 and the game's at 6 o'clock. I think that's great. The cats are playing super, you know? Yep, I'll be screaming like crazy. Kenny, good luck, brother. All right, thanks for having me on. I wish you the best. Thanks, Annie. Good luck,

man. Today and tomorrow. Thanks, man. Thorpeedo Anna running today in the Acorn. Mystic Dan, the winner of the Derby. running tomorrow. So two big races. I would, you look, I'm not a guy that tells you like you do with the draft kings and stuff, bet, bet, bet, bet. I bet on torpedo, Anna made a lot of money. She is, she's a heck of a horse.

Unfortunately, you're not going to get the odds you got in the Kentucky Oaks, paid 10 and 90 to win. You know, you throw 100 bucks on that. That's a nice little return on your investment right there. But, yeah, and you had the exact. I mean, it was awesome. That's awesome. I didn't put that together about the head-to-head tomorrow.

Maybe they'd throw that up on the screen. the race. I don't know what the rights there, but that'd be neat. If during the baseball, we could get the race for a second. We're going to take a quick time out to watch the Belmont stakes here. Yeah, that would be cool. Look, we're over time for a break. So we got to hit to a big break here. When we come back, give us a call.

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Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Learn the Hardway and listen now. What's up, guys? This is Clever Taylor the 4th. And on my podcast, The Cliverts Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker, this linebacker walks up to me. He goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What? Quarterback on office blue with 42. Hey, Brett, my mama want you to weigh better. What?

Where's she at? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clippers show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, don't look now, Drew. This is White Snake, right? Yeah. The, Shannon, the drummer. for White Snake is actually in the bar.

Oh, really? I really think that's Rick. I think it's Rick Sarat's how you say. I think that's him. Get me an autograph. I'm not going to say it's not. It's a pretty good doppelage. It looks like he, doesn't he?

Yeah. Looks just like he. Now, if we just had Tony Katan come in here, then, hey. Ryan would turn his car around in Missouri and be here in an hour. There you go. She could lay a rest in peace. She could have come and sat on my car or whatever. it was that she laid on or whatever in that video.

Anyway, hey, you said that some people had emailed you and stuff and wanted me to tell a couple of Red stories that I could tell? Before the show asked, we have our message board case board. I was like, what do you all want to hear from Jeff Piccora today? And a lot of Reds fans want some behind the scenes to be around the team for so long. Here's something that the Stowe family, Bernie Stowe was the father. And Bernie was, ran the clubhouse forever. and his sons run it now.

His son, Ricky, runs the Reds Clubhouse. So Barry Larkin spent his entire career as a Red. His last day, the last game of the season, the day he retires and walks off. So he comes to Ricky before the game, you know, and he says, hey, Rick, can you help me? I got some stuff I need to get out of, you know, some boxes I need to get out of my car because I got all my stuff, you know, cleats and everything else. that I got to pack up and stuff. So Ricky walks outside with him,

and a bunch of the players were already out there with cameras and stuff. And so Rick walks outside, and there's a brand new Mercedes bin. It was a 300 S-E, the four-door Mercedes. And he walks out, and he goes, ooh, very new car, and he goes, no. And he throws three in the keys and goes, thank you for the 19 years of washing my jock and my socks

and making sure I looked great and got me anything. And, I mean, that's Barry Larkin. How about that? I mean, how cool is that? I mean, that, now this was, what, 20 years ago, but that's still $100,000 car probably 100 years ago. How about that? Very generous.

So that was pretty cool. So that's kind of a cool story. So I got to give you one about, you know, what fantasy camp is, right? You pay $5,000. You go out to Sarasota or now it's Arizona, and you'd be read for a week, right? Cal had the one here, so a lot of feel familiar with it. for basketball. Same thing.

Okay, so I got to interview Cal. There's a Reds game, and Cal's at the game. His first year, first or second year, Greg Darbyshire, his son played on the team last year. So Darby Shire did a lot of stuff for Cal. So they're sitting up in the smokestacks up there. That's a little private room. And so I have to go up and interview him during the game. So I go up there, and so it's before the game to tell him, hey, I'm going to come up in the fourth inning, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And he goes, what in the heck is going on? there's 150 guys on the field in uniforms. And, well, it's the fantasy camp day. So they all have their jerseys on. Yeah. And they dress exactly like they're on the team. Yeah. So it's like, you know, he goes, it's just like a, you know, some kind of alumni thing.

I said, no, man. I said, I said, I said, cow, you got to do this. And he goes, what are you talking about? I said, this is called fantasy camp. These guys pay $5,000 to go out to Arizona. They have the trainers there. The coaches are Jim Maloney, Jack Billingham, you know, Sean. You know, all these play Aaron Harang, Danny Graves.

Those are your coaches, Corkie Miller, Tom Browning. And he's just here with his mouth open. He goes, they pay five that. I said five that. I said, you could do that at UK. You could make a fortune. Like, guys would pay, you get Kenny Walker, Sam, Bowie, you know, those guys out there to help you. And he was like, a derby shires right in all this down, right?

So he calls me because we're going to do it. We're going to do it. Good luck with that. Hey, it's bottom of the hour. We've got to take a break. I'll come back, finish that story and tell you one more when we come back, all right? Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened.

That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athletes themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context and ask the questions everybody wants answered. SportsSlice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them. Listen to Sports Slice on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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because you find it important to be a good person while you hear on earth? Are you a good person because you're afraid? Because that's two different intentions, bro. Absolutely. And that's two different levels of trust. I want you to just really be a good person. Join me, Kear Gaines, is we have real conversations about healing, growth, fatherhood, pressure, and purpose on my new podcast,

learn the hard way. Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Learn the Hardway and listen now. What's up, guys? This is Clever Taylor the Fourth. And on my podcast, The Cliverts Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee.

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Listen to the Clippers show on the I-Hart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Perfect. All right. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

You know, the only thing wrong with doing it here is we don't have speakers. So the people in here can't hear, right? Yeah. And that's actually pretty good because Serrat over there. I'm like, dude, you know. Don't even know. Yeah, he doesn't. He didn't even hear this whiskey.

thief song of the day. Oh, is this it? Should be. Cherry pie? Are you good with that? There you go. I don't want to take the role of handing it out, but it feels like good whiskey thief song.

That is. That is. I mean, yeah. Sweet cherry pie, right? Yeah, it is nice talking up here when not everyone can hear you. A lot of times Matt will say things about what's going on in the restaurant, and I'm thinking I'm glad this is not. Going out.

Yeah. Like, man, we bought 20 dozen cases of chicken wings thinking this is going to go over. They've been in there for a week. Are you bringing up March Madness again? Yeah, the SEC tournament. Pallets of Bud Light. You guys have to be happy with the change because of that, because I think there's going to be a little more emphasis on the SEC tournament.

Well, from a business standpoint, the last few years of not having a postseason at all, it can't get any worse than that. Yeah. All right. So, anyway, back to the story. So I'll tell you about fantasy camp, which is really cool. So, you know, you go out there for a week. But so you have coaches.

and my coaches this year that I'm talking about was Tom Browning and Bobby Wine. Bobby Wine never played for the Reds. I know he was Philadelphia Phillies, but he and Doug Flynn were best friends, and they started this. So that's why Bobby Wine was here. So anyway, there are the coaches. So if you have a game where the other team scores six runs in an inning, the coach, because every team has a former pitcher,

Aaron Harang, guys like that, the Danny Graves, you know, that are there, and they have to come in and pitch. So the great thing about Fantasy Camp is we're done at about 6 o'clock after your second game. You play double-headers, seven innings. Have a game, eat lunch, have another game, sit in the hot tub, cold tub, get rub. Because these are all over 40-year-old men. Double-hutter's. Dying out there.

So then you usually go out to eat, come back, and there's these big fire pits at the hotel. Everybody sits around. Smok's a scar. drinks, beer, whatever. So Browning was notorious to sit out there and eat smoke cigars and drink until two, three in the morning. Well, the game's at 8 o'clock the next morning. So he's our coach. He's sitting in the corner, sunglasses, hat down, he's asleep. So our team stunk. And we're playing this team like, thanks, coach. They had a guy that was like a minor league or he's stolen 90. I mean, I can't even see it. You know, you're like, good luck. So this team, it's like, it's just like, it's like

Bugs Bunny. You know, they're just running around the bases. So they're like, that six runs, Browning. And he's like, he's in the car, he's asleep. Browning. And he looks up and he goes, dude, you got a pitch. So I'm playing, this is when I, this is like my second year.

So I was a lot younger. I'm playing shortstop because the only reason I'm playing shortstop at this point in the week, I was the only one that could throw the ball still from that side to first base, maybe on a hop. So he gets up and he's like looking around. He's left-handed. anybody got a left-handed glove. So somebody from the other team, like,

throws him a left-handed glove. So this guy has been party until 2 o'clock in the morning. It's now maybe nine the next morning. Sound asleep on the bench. He walks out, and he's just, like, making a circle with his arm. And I'm looking, and then this guy coming up to bat played in the minors, he played at some college in Florida. He's hitting, like, 700 at camp, right?

And I'm like, uh-oh. And so I'm standing there, me in, like, the second basement. standing and I got the ball and I had to throw it to him and he kind of goes like this I go you need to toss or something he goes no I'm good I go really goes yeah I go really and he goes yeah this is going to be three pitches and I'm like you know right so he gets up there in the first pitch he throws straight you know and the guy swings and misses second pitch he throws like a curveball and literally the guy swings and misses it you could see his plane of his bat up here and the catcher's like here catching it

and the third pitch was the one that Tom had it was I don't know what he called his screwball because he's left-handed but it would bear in on left-handed batter so it would go that way and he throws this pitch and I'm sitting there at showstop I'm like oh my God but his follow-through he throws the pitch and he just doesn't even look he throws it and as he releases it he just starts walking

it was like Larry Bird hitting the shot and walk off the turnaround and he's walking as he's walking as he spit, or Tiger Woods when he hits the putt and walked it into the hole. He walks back to the, I'm like, I'm watching him instead of the ball. And I go, what was that? He goes, that's something that nobody in this camp can hit. And I'm like, Tom, what the hell was that? He goes, that's how I won 100 and whatever games.

And I'm like, oh, my God. So all these people out here who think they can hit even a 50-year-old former pitcher, don't do it. You can't. You cannot do it. We were, so we're in the batting cage. Like the batting cage, you go in here and hit, and I'm drawing a blank on this guy's name. I've been trying to think of it.

He pitched for the Mitz. Pete Shirk. So Shirk pitched for the Reds, too. Big guy, about 6-3, but could throw hard. So we're in the cage, and he's lobbing in. And I go, hey, Pete, you know, and I'm hitting okay, you know, fouling them off, hitting the ball. Because they want you to hit. I mean, it's like they're trying to strike people out.

Hell, they struck out Barry Bond. You really think it's going to do anything? He struck out Jeff McCorough, right? You know, so I go, hey, Pete. And I go, yeah, and I go, can you heat it up some? He goes, you sure? And I go, yeah. He goes, okay.

So, you know, you're in a cage. They're only about 50 feet in the cage. So I get ready. I go, okay, and all I hear is, fom is, you know, the ball hits the back of the thing. And I go, okay, I'm ready. And he laughs. And I go, no, really, do that again. Right?

So I get ready again, fom. And I mean, you don't even see. It wasn't even the size of an aspirin coming in, and it hits the back. And I go, dude, how hard was that? He goes, maybe 90, 91. And I'm like, really? And he goes, yeah, dude, he goes, what do you think it would be like bat against or oldest Chapman who throws 104?

And I'm like, you couldn't see the ball. I mean, it would look like an aspirin. And when he literally, I have so much more appreciation for what a baseball player it goes through once you do this because you have to start your swing when literally when he's releasing the ball

you have to start your motion of the swing and then you gauge the players look at the spin spin hell it looks like smoke going by but these guys' eyes are so good they can actually see the spin if it's a fast ball if it's a curve ball of it you know and they adjust

their swing as where his release point is and what the ball does out of his hand. It's unbelievable. It is the hardest thing to do. You're hitting a round object with a bat, and, you know, it's just, it was pretty awesome. But Tom Browning was amazing and just the best storyteller and just the best guy. And unfortunately, we lost him last year, but man, he was, it's pretty cool to get to know those guys. And it's a little different for me because I knew them a lot because

And I told all of them. I told Joey Vado this. I told Austin Curns this, Adam Dunn. All the big players came in. I said, look, you're going to get so sick of me because I'm in five weeks of spring training. I fly on the plane with you. I stay in the hotel with you. And I'm here every single day.

Every game. I say, you're going to get sick of me. But, you know, to be around them that much. And so I get to see stuff that nobody else. Here's a great story. what was it maybe 3 o'clock in the morning and you know you stay at really nice hotels so we're at the Galleria in Houston

at a Weston, a really nice Weston and the fire alarm was off and it was one of those that has that light in your room you know that's like there's no missing it yeah and so you're putting your pillow over your head you know and stuff trying to sleep because it's 3 o'clock in the morning and it just keeps going

and it just keeps going and it just keeps because usually they'll come on You know, something, call your roof, something. So now I get up and I'm in Jim shorts and T-Short's, open my door, and I see like Todd Frazier, and I'm like, and he's like, what, that? You know, and then I'm like, dude, I don't know. And then all of a sudden some guy's going to, this is real, you got to come down. Oh, my God.

So now we're all going down to the lobby, and here's, there's Todd Frazier, here's this guy, here's this guy, here's this guy, here's this guy, here's this guy. And obviously, the elevators don't work. So into the lobby, there are these big sweeping stairwell that comes down, and down comes Votto. There's probably 90% of the team there, and here comes Votto. He's wearing... You know, hey, your dad,

some dads, I'd say your dad used to wear pajamas. You know, they had like... It looked like almost like a business suit. They had like three buttons and a pocket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here comes Joey, and he's got like a royal blue silk. Three buttons,

and the pants were like, what do you call him like shorts they came down like to his knee and they were cuff caprice yeah because they were like cuff clam diggers or whatever and here he comes and he just comes walking down the steps and the whole team dudes are like

no shirt guys are in like beat up gym shorts sweats shower shoes and here and everybody's just sitting here looking at and I will never forget the pitcher gosh I'm losing by mind I can't think.

Did you start naming pitchers? And he was a little dude from Arizona, never played in the minor leagues. Remember, he went straight from college at Arizona, Arizona State, straight to the Reds. A little blonde-headed guy. Bronson or Roy? No, no, no, no, Bronson was cool as hell. Just trying to name any of his picture. He goes, and he comes prancing down the stage.

He goes, Jesus, Mary Poppins. And everybody's died laughing. But this is, you know, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. So things like that. Joey was cool. Joey was a cool dude. You have to understand when to talk to these guys because this is their job.

We forget they're playing this game, but this is their job. Very competitive. And Joey's like, hey, if I'm at my locker, I'll answer any question. But once I walk up on the field, and Barry Bonds was the same way. I never had a problem with Bonds. Everybody said Bonds was an ass. I went to Dusty. I said, how do I talk to Barry?

He goes, well, he's probably just getting ready to get here, just go to his locker and wait for him. So I went to his locker and waited for him. He comes walking in. I'm standing away from his locker, and he knows I'm standing there, like, looking at him. I got my shooter with me. And he looks over and he goes, do you need something? And I go, yeah, man, I said, Dusty told me, he goes, oh, you talk to Doug.

I said, hey, man, I have to talk to Dusty every day. I'm part of the broadcast. He, blah, blah, blah. He goes, oh, okay, cool. What do you need? I said, I only need two questions. So I ask him two questions, and I go, hey, thank you. He goes, that's it.

I said, see, that's, I only need 30 seconds, right? It's a TV show, but all I need is one little 30-second bite from him just to say, hey, Dr. Barry Bonds, here's what he said about facing Bronson and Royal, right? That's all. It's all you need. Most of them are good guys. Most of them. Didn't care for Homer Bailey.

One guy just, he just wasn't a good dude. I just didn't like him. But other than that, mostly Jason LaRue was known. Those two guys didn't care for it. Bronson O'Roe, the best dude ever. I mean, what a great guy. We got to take a break. I can sit here and talk about stuff like this.

I like knowing that when you're, they don't get too old or too drunk that you think you can take advantage of that. They're still going to get you. Browning on no sleep and just needed three pitches. Yeah, hey, it's 1146. We back with our final segment right after this. Stay with us, please. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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Good Kentucky company. Yes, they are. We'll take that. Look, Cory Price. I know he caught him. Yeah, your buddy. Dude is amazing. I've never seen.

I don't know where he gets these pictures. I can go online and not. I can go online and not find him, and he's got stuff. He has pictures of me from like eighth grade. I didn't even know cameras existed back then. My birthdays next week, I'm already, you're scared. You're scared. Of what he's going to pull up and how terrible and goofy I'm going to look from my childhood.

Dude, he looked great in that football helmet. When I put that on his head, I got to get another one and make him wear that for games now. That's so cool he gets to be in the booth with you all. He loves it. And I know, oh, he's fantastic. He does a fantastic job. But for those of you who don't know, we have a stats guy that sits between Tom and I and feeds us stats. Because I'm not going to look up almost the last time Kentucky punter, you know, pun at a ball 71 yards.

Well, he got Paul Calhoun, 1984. You should know, Jeff, you were there. Obviously, yeah, against Indiana. But it's amazing what he does. So we really do. But I do, he's a great dude. And I love to have him in the booth. So, Corey, if you're listening, kudos to every.

everything that you do. I do want to say one other thing about the Reds and a story for you. Because a lot of people, the hate mail that this guy got when he was there is amazing that it happened in the 2000s. Dusty Baker. Fantastic dude, man. I call him my friend. I have his personal number. We call. I text him. He's a wonderful guy. He would get hate mail in Cincinnati. So one day I go into his office and there's a little box and there's letters in there because I have to interview him. every day. I go, what's that? He goes, grab one. And I read it. I was like, oh, my God. It was like literally 1950s in Mississippi. You know, go home and kill you. And I'm like, oh, my God. But so we're in San Francisco, and we have an off day on a Saturday because it was a national game on Fox, right?

So he knows this, and we're in Arizona, I think it was, before. And he goes, hey, what are you going to do on your day off? And I said, oh, I'm going to go out to Alcatraz, you know, the president, right? And he goes, man, it's a prison and I go yeah but you know it's a he's you know you've been to a prison before I go yeah and he goes you're going to walk in they're going to throw you in a cell they're going to shut the door for like a minute and you know you could say I was in prison in alcatraz right so he goes nah no no no come see me so I don't think anything about it so now it's like Thursday we get into we get into San Francisco the game's over blah blah blah and rob and somebody goes Dusty wants to see in his office and I'm like oh damn what did I say on the air

maybe I said something wrong. So I go in and I go, I go, what's up, Dusty? And he goes, hey, who's out here with you? Because my brother lived out there. My younger brother, it's my older brother. But my youngest brother is living out there. And I go, yeah, my younger brother. He goes, okay, having at the hotel 8.30 Saturday morning.

It's okay. So my brother and his wife come over at 8.30. And I go downstairs. And he goes, my buddy, Scott or whatever, the guy's name is going to take care of you. That's okay. So I walked downstairs and there's a limo and this guy standing goes, Jeff, come on. So we get in the limo, right? Lema, 8.30 in the morning, Kent, in San Francisco. So we go, we go across the Golden Gate Bridge.

You sit out there, you eat. It's a fabulous meal at this, and then we go up, takes us all the way up into wine country. We go to seven different vineyards and an olive grove. Okay, so I'm on the charter. So I can bring all this home. So I got like cases and wine for my pop and my mom and stuff and oil and stuff. But we go to all this stuff. We get back to the hotel at 9 o'clock at night.

So I've been with this guy for what, 12 hours, 13 hours, right? So my brother and I am like, dude, we got to give this guy a big tip. You know, we're going to be 12 hours, you know. So we reach in my pocket. He goes, oh, no, no, Dusty took care of it. I said, oh, now I got to give you say. He goes, no, Dusty took care. Got the tip too.

So this dude, so 12 hours. the limo. Think of that. That had to be a couple thousand dollars. San Francisco. Going out to the wine country. Yeah, every place went to was free. He didn't have to pay anything. That's the kind of, wouldn't take anything for it. I went to Dusty Hayman. Wouldn't take, so I got him a bottle of makers mark that, you know, it's a specially dipped for on the front of it. And I sat went to his limo driver to him to him. But that's the kind of guy, Dusty Baker is. And I told him, I said, man, when he retired, I called him. I said, when you go to Cooperstown, I'll be there. And

that's the kind of guy he was. Just a super, super guy, man. And one of my favorites, Brian Price, another guy that was really good there, too. Loved it. I know our Reds fans love hearing those stories. Yeah, it was cool. It was fun. This was fun, man. We'll do it again some fast. Flas by. Anytime you need me. Let's go win some baseball games this weekend. Let's do it. It'll be a fun weekend, that's for sure. And Thorpeedo Anna, today, and the acorn. Better again. Thanks, Drew. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite on Humor Me with Robert Smygel and Friends.

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