Speaker 1: And where are we going here?
Speaker 2: Anything you have a chance against us?
Speaker 1: Mister cowboy gay? What do you like to do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Play chess?
Speaker 3: Screw well, there's play chip. They give off the Jonathan
Speaker 3: Taylor Chuck Cunning its way, welcome the goal line.
Speaker 4: These are there?
Speaker 1: Put down.
Speaker 4: Dye?
Speaker 3: Why Jonathan Taylor? Where finds corn?
Speaker 5: Here's haliber into the front court?
Speaker 1: Mishandled it?
Speaker 3: Mcgins a shot?
Speaker 1: Has it?
Speaker 3: John? I have never been bedroom to be on the
Speaker 3: air with you here in Indianapolis, a place where so
Speaker 3: many of my dreams have come true.
Speaker 1: The ride with JMV on ninety three five and one
Speaker 1: seven five.
Speaker 3: Welcome in on a busy Wednesday. We're on the road
Speaker 3: tomorrow these Speedway City Garage Hauler parade for Nescar Main Street,
Speaker 3: and we've got coffee, we've got beer, and we've got celebration,
Speaker 3: just celebration of the hanging out coming up tomorrow. More
Speaker 3: on that and just a little bit Fever coming up
Speaker 3: later off tonight. That tiptime is at eight final game
Speaker 3: before the All Star break. It is the Fever and
Speaker 3: Connecticut Sun seven point thirty right here, and it's Tidrow.
Speaker 3: Tid Row's got you covered here seven thirty All Star Break.
Speaker 3: Shortly thereafter. Scott Agnes is going to join me a
Speaker 3: little bit later on from Fieldhouse Files. I haven't really
Speaker 3: paid too much attention whether or not Sophie Cuttingham, for example,
Speaker 3: is going to be active during All Star Weekend. I
Speaker 3: don't even know where it is. Frankly, I don't care.
Speaker 3: But if you don't have Sophie Cunningham a part of
Speaker 3: something on All Star Weekend, not necessarily on the All
Speaker 3: Star team, I'm not suggesting that, but if you don't
Speaker 3: have a part of something, what in the hell are
Speaker 3: you doing? What in the hell are you doing? She could,
Speaker 3: at the very least get out there and shoot some threes.
Speaker 3: By god, I'm gonna tell you that, and you'll probably
Speaker 3: get a little bit more notoriety. You know when we
Speaker 3: say all the time that often the decision makers of
Speaker 3: the WNBA, or sometimes that of the FEVER can't get
Speaker 3: out of their own way. These are reasons why we
Speaker 3: bring that up. These are reasons why I'm not suggesting
Speaker 3: you make this into a farce, but just get it going.
Speaker 3: I don't think as of yesterday, I haven't seen as
Speaker 3: of today if anything has changed but as of yesterday,
Speaker 3: Kelsey Mitchell wasn't a part of it. Sophie Cunningham wasn't
Speaker 3: a part of the three point shooting competition. Weird. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm sure it probably looks well. The raw numbers bear
Speaker 3: out like this. So you have one of the MVP
Speaker 3: candidates and then you have the MVP of everybody's interest
Speaker 3: got to be a part of it. You got to
Speaker 3: be a part of it. I love this. This is
Speaker 3: one of my favorite stories of the day. SEC Commissioner
Speaker 3: Greg Sank reiterated that his conference leaders have had conversations
Speaker 3: about self governance, but told the ESPN the idea of
Speaker 3: the SEC creating its own rules is quote not new,
Speaker 3: and it's not a breakaway from the NCAA. I'm sorry
Speaker 3: all and I mean, all of this comes down till
Speaker 3: last year. I love that IU has started all this.
Speaker 3: Everything is just fine when you're able to dictate terms,
Speaker 3: and then the terms that you dictate it ends up
Speaker 3: turning into championships. And then the moment all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: oh wait a minute, now, what's this. Once upon a time,
Speaker 3: Indiana the football team, right the program, It was like
Speaker 3: the little engine that could. Hey, it's great we're gonna
Speaker 3: climb that hill. We're gonna make some waves. We're gonna
Speaker 3: play tough on a Saturday afternoon against a good Big
Speaker 3: ten team. They used to be terrible and now they're
Speaker 3: kind of good. It used to be such a cute story.
Speaker 3: I love it. You win a national title and it's
Speaker 3: no longer cute. Nobody loves it anymore except people around here.
Speaker 3: You have Nick Saban and you know, wanting political and
Speaker 3: that's the last thing you should want. The political leaders
Speaker 3: can't keep track of their own crap, so sure as
Speaker 3: hell they're not going to be able to do anything
Speaker 3: with sports. None of them played sports. How are you
Speaker 3: going to do that? I concentrate on this stuff. Concentrate
Speaker 3: on my guys that are going out there buying a
Speaker 3: box of cheese. It's and you don't have to pay
Speaker 3: five point fifty for them. Concentrate on that. That'd be great.
Speaker 3: There's your concentration. I don't need. I don't need a
Speaker 3: politicians veering away from their target job. Well, here's what
Speaker 3: we have to We have to figure out this sports
Speaker 3: thing right here. Because all of us played in the
Speaker 3: seventh grade. Yeah, and then we kept stats in high school.
Speaker 3: Come on. But no, I love this. Everything was just
Speaker 3: when your league was dominant, when there was no question
Speaker 3: about the dominance of the SEC, everything is fun, and
Speaker 3: now everything is foo bar. It's hilarious. I love it.
Speaker 3: Greg Sanke is such a whiner. That league is such
Speaker 3: a whining league. And I love the fact that you
Speaker 3: saw IU in this football program a year ago, cut
Speaker 3: right through the middle of it, especially doing what they
Speaker 3: did to Alabama and the Rose Bowl. There's nothing better
Speaker 3: than that. That may have been my favorite game. I
Speaker 3: mean hell, I went down to Miami and I watched
Speaker 3: them beat the Hurricanes on their home field. And people
Speaker 3: still want to argue that, well, that wasn't an impressive run.
Speaker 3: It was down teams and they had an easy schedule.
Speaker 3: They had to play the national title game on the
Speaker 3: home field of their competition. Dumb nuts and nothing easy
Speaker 3: about it. They got done exactly what they had to
Speaker 3: get done. And you're gonna say, well, this wouldn't happen,
Speaker 3: This wouldn't happen right now without James nil the transfer portal,
Speaker 3: where would we be. I got news for you. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff with all of us right now
Speaker 3: that's going on, and it wouldn't happen without something else
Speaker 3: evolving or taking shape or happening itself. But guess what
Speaker 3: we have to do. We have to deal with it. Hey,
Speaker 3: I wish, I wish I was still on an AM signal, James.
Speaker 3: They told me I shouldn't be. And then what's this?
Speaker 3: Nuts is Downtown sitting on top of it trying to
Speaker 3: sell it like that albatross of a building? Good luck?
Speaker 3: What is that? Thirty five million dollars for that building?
Speaker 3: That's what I think I heard last Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: that's very reasonable in pricing, very reasonable price tag.
Speaker 4: You just love ragging on that building, man, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Like ragging on Pat Walsh a lot more than the building.
Speaker 3: Be honest with you and listen. I understand like Jeff
Speaker 3: Smolly and he started the genre and I have thanked
Speaker 3: him many times for that, but we all know how
Speaker 3: that ended, so I don't have to celebrate that part
Speaker 3: of it. I think that's fair and I just try
Speaker 3: to be fair. But seriously, we all have to evolve
Speaker 3: in situations. Do you think I like to act like
Speaker 3: I'm twelve years old and do videos every single hour?
Speaker 3: I don't, but that's a part of it. It's evolving,
Speaker 3: and I would still think the way things have taken
Speaker 3: shape today, the way things take shape in college athletics.
Speaker 3: I mean really for me, I'm an Indiana State grad.
Speaker 3: That's the mid majors are the ones that gets grued
Speaker 3: because they go out and find the talent that everybody
Speaker 3: else will looks and then they work with it. They cultivated,
Speaker 3: and as quickly as humanly possible, once that talent gets
Speaker 3: an offer, they get the hell out of dodge. They're done.
Speaker 3: That's where it's difficult. Yeah, I'll tell you what, Greg
Speaker 3: Sanchie stand up for Indian State University. You make dork now, seriously,
Speaker 3: I love it. I absolutely love the whining because nobody cared.
Speaker 3: Nobody cared when everything was stacked in their direction. Nobody cared.
Speaker 3: You know what they can hold true to for the
Speaker 3: Michigans and the Ohio states of the world. What you
Speaker 3: do is you evolve in the situation in which you're in.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I ever felt going back to
Speaker 3: I remember once upon a time I was quoted. I
Speaker 3: was quoted at a drunken pool party in Green County
Speaker 3: by saying, yeah, you know what I think. This is
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. I'm gonna start taking I'm gonna start taking
Speaker 3: some responsibilities off of my plate, and you know, you
Speaker 3: kind of let others. But again, the circumstances dictated me
Speaker 3: taking the bull by the horns instead. And all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, Man, it is it is work. It is work.
Speaker 3: It is work. Six days a week, I work. I
Speaker 3: never thought back in twenty fifteen, I was going to
Speaker 3: be working six days a week. And I know a
Speaker 3: lot of you work six days a week as well.
Speaker 3: And I'm not working a jackcamer by any stretch of
Speaker 3: the imagination. I'm a tremendous woos and a lot of
Speaker 3: people out there listening. They're on the farm fields, they're
Speaker 3: working their ass off. I come in here in the
Speaker 3: ac rocking this Oornsburg shirt from nineteen seventy eight and
Speaker 3: yap for three hours. That's nothing. But I never thought
Speaker 3: that I would be doing this as hard as I'm
Speaker 3: doing this at the age of fifty six. Why because
Speaker 3: the climate dictates me working as hard. Because you look
Speaker 3: at the landscape that is offered out there. Everybody that
Speaker 3: now is taking the opportunity as they should to provide
Speaker 3: those with open ears and open minds content. They're doing
Speaker 3: it you can go to Best Buy and set yourself
Speaker 3: off of the studio and you're off and running. So
Speaker 3: you have to continue to work. You just do that
Speaker 3: is never going to stop. And it almost seems like
Speaker 3: the sec in this case is not about wanting to
Speaker 3: continue to work. It's oh, we liked it. Really when
Speaker 3: the chips are stacked in our favor. You know, what
Speaker 3: is this little Indiana thing going on here? Well it's nil.
Speaker 3: Where's Nick Saban? Can he go to Capitol Hill and
Speaker 3: whine about stuff too, But we can all sit here
Speaker 3: and gripe about it the entire time. But here's my choice.
Speaker 3: I choose to think it's absolutely hilarious. Because you have
Speaker 3: IU football that is the defending national champion, and they've
Speaker 3: got the college football hierarchy, the history, the blue bloods
Speaker 3: as I've talked about before, they got them all twisted.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful, all twisted just because of that, because of
Speaker 3: a coach that had ideas, and because you have a
Speaker 3: new set of rules that the institution and the program
Speaker 3: take full advantage of. Man, that's exactly what everybody else
Speaker 3: in the world is doing right now. Seriously, it's a
Speaker 3: beautiful thing. I don't normally want to sit here and
Speaker 3: like just rag on the sec the entire time. But
Speaker 3: it's fun. Tell what, get Kirby smart, get down to
Speaker 3: business here. You got one of the biggest cheating crooks
Speaker 3: in the world now coaching in LA. He's been all
Speaker 3: over the map. You guys don't care all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you care about something, don't care. All you care about
Speaker 3: is winning. I love that IU football took everybody's lunch
Speaker 3: money last year because I you football had their lunch
Speaker 3: money taken for the better part of for decades plus,
Speaker 3: or at least until I was a help. Even before
Speaker 3: I was born, everybody was taking their lunch money. Now
Speaker 3: IU does it? Now you does it? We we can't
Speaker 3: live with this. We're going to break away. It's not
Speaker 3: breaking away, it's absolutely what it is. Breaking away. It's
Speaker 3: like Lebron James trying to tell us he's not chasing
Speaker 3: a ring. There is nothing that is more defining of
Speaker 3: ring chasing than Lebron James ring chasing and hype embracing.
Speaker 3: That's what he's doing. Give me some and I want
Speaker 3: to ring. Give me some more love. I haven't had
Speaker 3: enough love yet. Can you give me some love? Hey? Rich,
Speaker 3: Rich Paul, can you go on every show imaginable now
Speaker 3: and give me some love. It's not about ring chase
Speaker 3: at one percent about ring chasing. You're trying to leave
Speaker 3: no doubt in the comparison of all time against Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3: I want to leave no doubt because people are always
Speaker 3: going to have doubt always and I love this. Uh
Speaker 3: thankees opening comments going back earlier this week with the
Speaker 3: sec in mind quote, American culture expects March madness to happen,
Speaker 3: he said, they expect the Cinderella story. There's no bigger
Speaker 3: Cinderella story in the world than in two years doing
Speaker 3: what IU football has done and then doing doing your
Speaker 3: big time program of the process. That's beautiful. He didn't
Speaker 3: bring this up, but others do. When he talk about
Speaker 3: IU and their path to a national title. Well, you know,
Speaker 3: the regular season was so easy. They navigated the regular
Speaker 3: they were unbeaten, navigated the regular season, wiggled out of
Speaker 3: situations that other teams, I don't care how good you are,
Speaker 3: would not have wiggled out of. Given the circumstances, you
Speaker 3: had to win on the road in Eugene, Oregon and
Speaker 3: then had to beat that same Oregon Duck team again
Speaker 3: Alabama the Rose Bowl, which was hilarious, and again you
Speaker 3: had to beat your competition on its home field. And
Speaker 3: by the way, too, there was no semblance of it
Speaker 3: being the Miami Hurricanes home field because South Florida was
Speaker 3: packed full of incredibly rabid IU fans. I was there
Speaker 3: and I saw it. Couldn't believe it. Everywhere you want
Speaker 3: was like Bloomington, South Florida is awesome. I love it.
Speaker 3: This is exactly if this is the world in which
Speaker 3: we're going to live and college athletics, man, I would
Speaker 3: suggest that I you continue to feast. Others that are
Speaker 3: taking advantage of this continue to feast, and the old
Speaker 3: blue bloods are gonna whine. Wow, we got that to discuss.
Speaker 3: If you guys like at two three nine ten seventy
Speaker 3: three one seven two nine ten seventy that is on
Speaker 3: the text line today. Uh, that just stuck out to me.
Speaker 3: This does too, James. Have you heard me say this?
Speaker 3: Before I played high school baseball, I played softball. Now
Speaker 3: I was a catcher, so there was zero way I
Speaker 3: was going out there without this. I always felt one
Speaker 3: of the greatest inventions of my lifetime in terms of
Speaker 3: athletic equipment was the jockstrap with a pouch in front,
Speaker 3: kind of like a kangaroo jockstrap. I love that because, yeah,
Speaker 3: I hit you know, a cup, and you slide that
Speaker 3: right down in that pouch. It is Oh it's savvy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because I go back to the day where
Speaker 3: I had to like wear underwear and then some tie
Speaker 3: the jockstrap over the day's view is not comfortable. And
Speaker 3: because I didn't have it, really there was not a
Speaker 3: lot to hold anything. Then my cup was sliding down
Speaker 3: my leg like if I ever made contact with the
Speaker 3: ball and put it in play. I'm running first base
Speaker 3: and headway. Hold on a second, I got to slow down.
Speaker 3: My cup is around my ankles right now, we're dangling
Speaker 3: down there. But the invention of it, and I don't
Speaker 3: know if they still I have not. Honestly, I'm not
Speaker 3: rocking jockstraps too often anymore. I probably should to be honest.
Speaker 4: With you, not rocking one right now?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't play softball or baseball anymore. But my
Speaker 3: point is I never ever stepped on a diamond, seriously
Speaker 3: without wearing a cup. Ever. Does anybody out there agree
Speaker 3: with me on this? Any dude out there, any dude
Speaker 3: out there agree with me. Have you ever stepped or not?
Speaker 3: Have you ever gone on a diamond and you've had
Speaker 3: this thought in mind. I'm never going on a baseball diamond,
Speaker 3: a softball diamond without rock and a cup.
Speaker 4: I'm an agreement.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See the Oakland A's player that fouled the ball off
Speaker 3: his sack I did. That should really tell the entire world.
Speaker 3: Why in the world am I out here without a cup?
Speaker 3: I'm assuming he was not wearing a cup, right, Well,
Speaker 3: I mean you ruptured your testicle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, unless you know, the impact was so
Speaker 4: great that it, you know, shock waves or something. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 3: Foul the ball off his sack, that's brutal.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming he wasn't wearing protective equipment.
Speaker 3: I think that. I think that most cups nowadays are
Speaker 3: made solidly, so I think even a major league level
Speaker 3: baseball player, if you foul that off your you're junk,
Speaker 3: that it wouldn't be as bad as a ruptured testicle. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't even say that without pain.
Speaker 4: I never understood why people would not wear a cup.
Speaker 4: I mean when I played recreit like rec football, back
Speaker 4: when I was younger, like you, know, middle school era,
Speaker 4: we definitely had people who chose not to go onto
Speaker 4: the field wearing a cup, and I never understood it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a cup wear I'm not like rolling around
Speaker 3: like well, I don't know I should even say that.
Speaker 3: I mean, no, better not. You know, I think when
Speaker 3: you have to stop and think about it for a moment,
Speaker 3: you probably shouldn't say it. But yeah, I've never really
Speaker 3: understood that. And what's funny about it is, I think
Speaker 3: most people in baseball, I think there's a higher percentage
Speaker 3: that don't wear cups. Here, let's text Tucker Barnhart and
Speaker 3: see the percentage of cup wearing major League baseball players.
Speaker 3: Ask him that that.
Speaker 4: Would just be insanity to me. I mean with how
Speaker 4: no way, with how fast people are pitching, and with
Speaker 4: how fast those balls come off the bat. No, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: And also you have to also consider who you are,
Speaker 3: because it is more than likely that a hard hit
Speaker 3: ball is probably gonna find your crotch. It's just way
Speaker 3: that it is. Are you a lucky person, unlucky person,
Speaker 3: it's probably gonna find you. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Knowing me, my luck wid would run out pretty quick.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely brutal. Right there, that was tough. I love it. James,
Speaker 3: Please remind Jamie there's such a thing as too much
Speaker 3: horn talk with a fella should be aware of it.
Speaker 3: Horn talk, horn talk. No, no, no, no, no, uh
Speaker 3: uh no, there's not. This is sports, and this is
Speaker 3: something that is really important that I've always said this.
Speaker 3: Never ever go on a baseball diamond of any kind
Speaker 3: when you're going to participate without rocking a cup. It's
Speaker 3: not doesn't help you, It doesn't slow you down. I
Speaker 3: shouldn't say, doesn't hinder you from running. Agreed. I don't
Speaker 3: care what grade you're in.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm an agreement.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's weird how people universally do not agree with that
Speaker 3: particular statement, but it is absolutely true. All right, busy
Speaker 3: show today, we have tickets once again. You guys have
Speaker 3: been all over the tickets and we have tickets once
Speaker 3: again for Garth Brooks. Four shows in all, James, it
Speaker 3: has been incredibly exciting, has it not?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: It has been. I mean what was it yesterday? Seventy
Speaker 4: plus almost eighty people texted in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Garth Brooks tickets coming up a little bit
Speaker 3: later on. I should mention too, the Speedway City Garage
Speaker 3: that is tomorrow it will be as I talked about
Speaker 3: this yesterday as well, absolutely outstanding. The Speedway City Garage,
Speaker 3: Founder's Grounds Coffee and pax Verum brewing a variety of
Speaker 3: beers and including a very light beer for me right there,
Speaker 3: very low in calories, just steps away from the world's
Speaker 3: greatest racetrack. And then tomorrow they have the NASCAR Hauler
Speaker 3: Parade going down in Speedway Main Street. I have not
Speaker 3: been there. I don't want to give a shout out
Speaker 3: to Jeff Matthews who has invited us to be there.
Speaker 3: Now it says Monday through Thursday six thirty to eight,
Speaker 3: Friday six thirty until ten. I'm assuming tomorrow is going
Speaker 3: to open up early for me at three o'clock.
Speaker 4: I would assume, because.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a Thursday of doing some drinking,
Speaker 3: and you guys all got to join me the Speedway
Speaker 3: City Garage tomorrow. I want to give a shout out.
Speaker 3: I am a tremendous fan and I like him a
Speaker 3: great deal. I make fun of this often, which goes
Speaker 3: to show you just how mature I am. But our
Speaker 3: good friend, the baseball coach at Southport, he is the
Speaker 3: open upperar the Southport Field House and sometimes you have
Speaker 3: to play into crappy auxiliary gym, but so be it.
Speaker 3: He opens the door so we can play pickup. James
Speaker 3: Boyd plays caleble play. Others have played with us too.
Speaker 3: Here from the station. But he is involved in big
Speaker 3: league whiffle ball. It is professional whiffleball, true story. His
Speaker 3: team is the Green Apples. Now when he is unable
Speaker 3: to open up the gym for pickup, I call it
Speaker 3: whiffle blank and make fun of it a little bit.
Speaker 3: But the Star has a story on him and Brendan
Speaker 3: Doudas again, the Southport baseball head coach is one of
Speaker 3: the best dudes out there. Let me say once again,
Speaker 3: as I stated in a next message last hour, Perry
Speaker 3: Township Schools and Southport, certainly you are incredibly fortunate to
Speaker 3: have Brendan Dudas as a part of it. Educator, coach, player,
Speaker 3: weekly Jim Opener Upper. He's just a great dude, and
Speaker 3: there is a story about him in the Indianapolis Star.
Speaker 3: I think A Gillespie has the story. Big League wiffle
Speaker 3: turns kids game at the big Time show and indie
Speaker 3: players are at the heart of it. The New York
Speaker 3: Green Apples James and they actually get in front of
Speaker 3: three hundred people at inside. Now I make fun of
Speaker 3: it all the time because I think if you even
Speaker 3: are able to make contact that you should be given
Speaker 3: a hit because these guys rarely make contact. Have you
Speaker 3: ever seen these guys throw a wolf? I mean it
Speaker 3: is all over the place. Yeah, you have to watch it.
Speaker 3: Sometime seems like a rarity when contact is made, but
Speaker 3: it is pretty awesome nonetheless. So just thun on that
Speaker 3: with our good friend Brendan Dudas of Southport High School.
Speaker 3: He is a tremendous dude. That is a tremendous story. Also,
Speaker 3: if you're asking the b one oh five point seven
Speaker 3: comedy night that's going to go down in mad Hatter,
Speaker 3: it is officially sold out. It took all of two
Speaker 3: days to sell that thing out. That's incredible, all of
Speaker 3: two days. Matt Hatter and Greenwood. That is the Saturday
Speaker 3: before the Colts open up against Baltimore. But it's me
Speaker 3: Shawn Copeland, I think Annie and Nick Jordan who does afternoons.
Speaker 3: We're doing comedy and a lot of you have asked
Speaker 3: about it. I got asked to do it because of
Speaker 3: the JMV takeover and I am down and it is
Speaker 3: officially sold out. It's pretty awesome, and they're trying now,
Speaker 3: I think, to get us to do another one. But
Speaker 3: now hopefully you got your tickets and maybe I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe there might be one or two level. I believe
Speaker 3: it's officially sold out. B one oh five point seven
Speaker 3: dot com is where you go to find that out.
Speaker 3: All right, Garth Brooks, tickets we got for you. James
Speaker 3: is over there, I'm John right here, Kevin bow on
Speaker 3: top of the four o'clock cower, Scott Agnes, he will
Speaker 3: go with us, coming up in the five o'clock cower.
Speaker 3: We'll talk Fever all star break. We'll talk Pacers off
Speaker 3: season officially right now, Tyrese Halliburton married officially tying not
Speaker 3: we got that and more for you, and again the
Speaker 3: downplay of the Pacers because of a nineteen win season
Speaker 3: or because a complete lack of belief, unlike the organization
Speaker 3: in this core group. Fever in the Sun later off
Speaker 3: the night tipto, I made a clock seven thirty ten rows,
Speaker 3: got you covered right here, don't go anywhere. And of
Speaker 3: course Breakyard four hundred week in on the inbound ninety
Speaker 3: three five and one oh seven five The Fan. Let's
Speaker 3: get You Weather, updated courtesy of Fox fifty nine.
Speaker 1: The Ride with JMV ninety three five and one oh
Speaker 1: seven five the Fan.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the show Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, where we
Speaker 3: don't give a fat crab where Lebron James ends up
Speaker 3: not a fat crap, James. I absolutely love this song,
Speaker 3: do you?
Speaker 4: It's a good one.
Speaker 3: You like the clash?
Speaker 4: This is honestly probably the only song I can name
Speaker 4: off the top of my head, but I like this song.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: The album is called Combat Rock and it is an
Speaker 3: awesome early eighties album. Oh, now you've got to crank
Speaker 3: it up here, just keep it rolling forrest on this Wednesday, James.
Speaker 4: So this is eighties? I thought it was seventies.
Speaker 3: So did anybody ever get the lyrics wrong? Around? Anybody
Speaker 3: to this song? Well, locked the cat box?
Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't know that was the thing.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of misheard and misidentified lyrics that
Speaker 3: are roaming around out there all time. I mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 3: Blinded by the light wrapped up like a douche. Most
Speaker 3: people believe that to be the lyric. It is repped
Speaker 3: up like a deuce, which is like car oh, not
Speaker 3: wrapped up like a douche.
Speaker 4: Wrapped up like a deuce is still kind of funny, though.
Speaker 3: Wrapped up black the douche. I you know, you ever
Speaker 3: think that, I think that, you ever think about maybe
Speaker 3: we should have gone with wrapped up like a douche.
Speaker 3: But you get really that both out of the really
Speaker 3: get the best out of both.
Speaker 1: I think right there.
Speaker 4: I mean, would they have been able to I don't
Speaker 4: know what year this was.
Speaker 3: But seventy eight, seventy seven to seventy eight meant for man.
Speaker 4: That probably would have the parental advisory or something back then.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't have man.
Speaker 3: Nobody cared back then. It was just well for yeah,
Speaker 3: free for all. Basically, let's put it on there, because
Speaker 3: remember that was a point in time when people used
Speaker 3: to play albums backwards and think that there were satanic
Speaker 3: verses involved. What was it the people were so stupid?
Speaker 4: Was the theme song from Mister Ed? Wasn't that one
Speaker 4: of them?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Anything Ozzy Osbourne ever came out with, Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was all pointed in that particular direction, all right. I
Speaker 3: asked this question regarding Major League Baseball players currently the
Speaker 3: percentage rocking cups when they run out onto the field.
Speaker 3: We got an answer, Tucker Barnhart, former major leaguer. Less
Speaker 3: than half, oh no, less than half, major League baseball
Speaker 3: players wear a protective cup. I can't fathom that, can't
Speaker 3: fathom that. Surely there's never a catcher not to wear one.
Speaker 3: You're not that stupid, are you?
Speaker 4: I would hope not. My goodness, just sounds like a
Speaker 4: roll of the dice every time you step out on
Speaker 4: the field.
Speaker 3: According to Tucker Barnhart, less than half of major League
Speaker 3: baseball players wear a protective cup. Thus, when you foil
Speaker 3: the ball off your sack, you're probably going to have
Speaker 3: a ruptured testicle.
Speaker 4: Now, did Tucker wear a protective cup?
Speaker 3: I didn't ask him that, but I can and I can't.
Speaker 3: May It was a catcher, so I can't imagine he.
Speaker 4: Didn't, I'd hope, so I hope he did.
Speaker 3: And even when he pitched, he pitched I think a
Speaker 3: couple of times, So maybe played in the field a
Speaker 3: couple of times. I'm assuming every single you just do
Speaker 3: reds and Mariners coming up later off tonight, all right,
Speaker 3: I should say this afternoon. Sorry about that. Three forty
Speaker 3: in fact, coming up in a couple of minutes get
Speaker 3: away day from most of these teams, especially those on
Speaker 3: the road on this particular Wednesday. So yeah, the Reds
Speaker 3: and Mariners out in Seattle are just about ready to
Speaker 3: get things officially underway if you're paying attention. Last night,
Speaker 3: Cubs eleven two over the Tigers. I guess making up
Speaker 3: for the night before. The Cardinals did not a five
Speaker 3: to one loser on the road against the Angels, and
Speaker 3: the Reds a four to two winner. Chase Burns has
Speaker 3: been absolutely outstanding. Now He's about ready to exhaust his
Speaker 3: innings limit, I guess with the Reds of the season,
Speaker 3: but twelve and one two point four to two earned
Speaker 3: around average if there has been a bright spot in
Speaker 3: the season. I'm assuming that there are a couple of
Speaker 3: bright spots there, but Burns would probably be at the
Speaker 3: top of that list. Burns probably along with with Stewart,
Speaker 3: I know if Stewart's average has dropped, but I think
Speaker 3: everybody's still happy with that. Ellie two to eighty hit
Speaker 3: another home run yesterday. The rest of it can kind
Speaker 3: of just eat it. Rest of it kind of stinks.
Speaker 3: Casey brings this up too, by the way, James, and
Speaker 3: this is Casey Simpson's musical knowledge. Springsteen's original lyric on
Speaker 3: Blinded by the Light was cut cut loose like a deuce.
Speaker 3: I have no idea why Man for Man changed it
Speaker 3: to revd up like a douche. That is a good
Speaker 3: call by Casey Simpson right there, Springsteen original, It's a
Speaker 3: good call. John Stewart said, Yeah, that song was originally
Speaker 3: written by Bruce Springsteen, most commonly, however, referenced in Man
Speaker 3: from Man of the song blinded by the Light. True story,
Speaker 3: though classic Jay Bays from Brandon fourth grade in a
Speaker 3: double rounding. First, my cup falls out of my pant
Speaker 3: leg and I'm safe at second. Then I have to
Speaker 3: walk back and get it. How embarrassing. Now we all
Speaker 3: have gone through it for the protection. I completely understand why.
Speaker 3: Makes perfectly good sense. It really does. Yeah, the whole
Speaker 3: all star thing with no invite, whether it's else Mitchell
Speaker 3: shooting threes or Sophie Cunningham shooting threes, I think they
Speaker 3: had what four players over the forty percent mark shooting threes.
Speaker 3: That whole thing is kind of weird. We'll get to
Speaker 3: that with Scott Agnes coming up at the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: Tucker Barnhart says, always the only guarantees are catchers. It's
Speaker 3: probably closer to a third where them that might even
Speaker 3: be high. The only guarantee would be cutcher or catchers
Speaker 3: wearing them. That.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's at least something.
Speaker 3: That was ruptured. Testical, I don't even like saying that.
Speaker 3: That's tough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is a very uncomfortable words.
Speaker 3: Incredibly uncomfortable. Damvy completely agree regarding what you said about
Speaker 3: Greg Sankee. Oh now everybody's up in arms. Everything is
Speaker 3: wrong with everything now when again, the chips are not
Speaker 3: stacked in your favor. And listen, there's nothing like guy
Speaker 3: you went out there and said, hey, you know what
Speaker 3: if we do this. They just saw the landscape of
Speaker 3: college athletics, in particular football and then took advantage of it.
Speaker 3: And I will also argue this, while you take advantage
Speaker 3: of it, you also still have to select players that
Speaker 3: will get the job done for you. And you can
Speaker 3: call that cost efficient players that get the job done
Speaker 3: for you. That's how it ultimately works, That's how you
Speaker 3: end up winning a national championship. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: I always bring up this Brad Stevens quote when he
Speaker 3: was the head coach of the Butler Bulldogs. Everybody has
Speaker 3: to be pushing in the same direction to get those
Speaker 3: elite level, high level results. Well, everybody at Eye in
Speaker 3: the football program. They were finally pushing in that same direction,
Speaker 3: and I mean everybody. And when you were allowed to
Speaker 3: go out and do now what you're allowed to go
Speaker 3: out and do playing by the rules because those are
Speaker 3: the rules. When in the past it was drastically different,
Speaker 3: and then the SEC teams would always take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: It's kind of funny, but no, we're on the same
Speaker 3: page with that. And the whole Nick Saban stuff's got
Speaker 3: to drive you nuts, doesn't it. Now everything is wrong. Listen.
Speaker 3: Maybe if we were someplace else, we wouldn't like it.
Speaker 3: And I said this yesterday regarding Kaitlin Clark. If you
Speaker 3: were outside this market and you're a fan of another
Speaker 3: WNBA team, you may not like Kaitlin Clark. But around
Speaker 3: here people have allegiance and allegiance to AU football and
Speaker 3: allegiance to the WNBA's Indiana Fever, and you're going to
Speaker 3: embrace that. But it was incredibly savvy. You can't take
Speaker 3: anything away from Scott Dolson and I U for doing
Speaker 3: what they did. It just seems like that everybody else
Speaker 3: certainly was more comfortable in them being the ultimate laughingstock
Speaker 3: of college football than the college football kinks. That's ultimate
Speaker 3: payback too. Essentially, that is the ultimate payback that you
Speaker 3: are giving for being the dormat, not just for decades,
Speaker 3: but the doormat absolutely forever, or at least until last year.
Speaker 3: JMV YouTube Yadi Air Molina Catcher Saint Louis ruptured testicle.
Speaker 3: Maybe he wore a cup. I'm assuming some of you
Speaker 3: could probably throw it hard enough to break a cup,
Speaker 3: but I mean, really, you just essentially have to be
Speaker 3: just standing there all spread ego and let somebody throw
Speaker 3: it right at you. I also don't think he was
Speaker 3: doing that.
Speaker 4: I don't think so either, And I also don't really
Speaker 4: want to imagine a scenario in which that happens.
Speaker 3: Maybe there was a little compromise situationally speaking, right there,
Speaker 3: and he had maybe an overflow and overlap. I want
Speaker 3: to think about that either. Thanks for bringing it up,
Speaker 3: Jay JMV. Talking about sack protection. During a one hundred
Speaker 3: meter race my fellow runners, oh Man Sack popped out
Speaker 3: of the middle of the race. He evidently forgot the
Speaker 3: basic protection that's happened before, though probably multiple times tight
Speaker 3: though in baseball. As I mentioned too, the greatest invention
Speaker 3: of my time playing baseball was that because before that
Speaker 3: there was no little pouch there. When they invented that pouch,
Speaker 3: I believe it was bike. Bike was the jockstrap maker
Speaker 3: back then. Bike they made shorts. I'm assuming they're still
Speaker 3: a manufacturer of athletic gear.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm not two versed on Mike.
Speaker 3: You never want any bike, You never wore any bike gear.
Speaker 3: Who out there? Let me see a show of hands
Speaker 3: who were bike gear? Most coaches baseball basketball in the day,
Speaker 3: in my era, were extremely tight bike shorts and they
Speaker 3: had they had buttons in the front so you could
Speaker 3: essentially it was comfortable in wearing them if you had
Speaker 3: a belly that hung over. So a lot of the
Speaker 3: coaches had bellies that hung over, so it was almost
Speaker 3: like they were wearing a girdle of sorts, belly hungover.
Speaker 4: Thrilling first hour, so far.
Speaker 3: Bike shorts sports manufacturer Bow on top of the hour,
Speaker 3: Scott Agnes is a good joy that kicking up at
Speaker 3: the five o'clock. How where somebody's gonna win goth Brooks tickets.
Speaker 3: A little bit later on too, I should mention me
Speaker 3: and Tyler Reddick that is coming up on Saturday morning
Speaker 3: nine until eleven the speedway or check that I'm sorry
Speaker 3: near the Speedway, but Crawfordsville Road, the Kroger location. We
Speaker 3: shall be there with Outlaw light Beer. Have you heard
Speaker 3: about it? Outlaw light Beer? And evidently somebody told me
Speaker 3: you can get like a case of thirty for maybe
Speaker 3: sixteen seventeen bucks. So Paradise Dave Watson is going to
Speaker 3: be rotten with Outlaw light Beer this weekend. I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna buy it all for everybody.
Speaker 4: He's gonna have a surplus there.
Speaker 3: Surplus of Outlaw light Beer nine until eleven with Tyler
Speaker 3: Reddick last check second and the point standing Sprickyard four
Speaker 3: hundred this weekend, that is the Kroger location on Crawfordsville Road,
Speaker 3: and then shortly thereafter an hour later, Greg Rakestraw and
Speaker 3: I noon until one thirty a little Saturday NASCAR weekend
Speaker 3: Brickyard four hundred weekend primer for you. About ninety minutes
Speaker 3: or so, Tucker Barnhart tells me, by the way, well,
Speaker 3: won't tie a bow on the cup. Here, they make
Speaker 3: a bulletproof cup, that's what i'd get. I'd go with
Speaker 3: the bulletproof.
Speaker 4: A bulletproof yeah, yeah, I don't blame you seriously.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you want, I would just go all
Speaker 3: the way with it, all right. The family need protection.
Speaker 3: Don't take you to protect the family. I would go
Speaker 3: with the bulletproof cup. Plus, I just want to say, hey,
Speaker 3: you know my cup's bulletproof. That'd be cool. It's what
Speaker 3: to make Hey, no bs right here. That's coming from
Speaker 3: a former Major leaguer. Bow on top of the ourl
Speaker 3: are you and me on the other side? If your
Speaker 3: on hold, I'll get to If you're not, you want
Speaker 3: to get there, that'd be fantastic. Ninety three to five,
Speaker 3: one oh seven five The fans hit tight.
Speaker 6: The ride with JMV. It's called sex panther by Odeon.
Speaker 6: It's illegal in nine countries. It's quite pungent. Stings the nostrils.
Speaker 1: Ninety three to five and one oh seven five the fan.
Speaker 3: All of this celebration of crappy arrowheads stadium my entire life.
Speaker 3: There's a butt set to come to an end. The
Speaker 3: Chiefs unveiled today the first renderings for their new stadium
Speaker 3: in Kansas, not even in Kansas City, Missouri. It is
Speaker 3: scheduled to open James for the NFL's twenty thirty one season,
Speaker 3: So Kansas City, Kansas three mill fully enclosed domage. Remember
Speaker 3: when everybody used to say, you guys playing a dome,
Speaker 3: You guys playing with a roof, that's not real football. Okay,
Speaker 3: shut up, Mama's family. You guys are going to be
Speaker 3: under a dome too. I don't know. Might go still
Speaker 3: be here in twenty thirty one, though, that's I'm skeptical
Speaker 3: about that you'll still be here? Well, I mean I
Speaker 3: think it's a flip of a coin at this point.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's only what four and a half years
Speaker 4: away at this point, is it really? I mean, we're
Speaker 4: halfway through twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: You see.
Speaker 3: Maybe, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 4: They'll still be here now? Am I crazy?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 4: Because I feel like every one of these new stadiums nowadays, though,
Speaker 4: kind of looks the exact same they do other than
Speaker 4: the I like the Bill's new stadium, but all of these,
Speaker 4: like indoor stadiums.
Speaker 3: They all kind of look at the exact same that
Speaker 3: Nashville won too. Nashville is coming up. Yep, so fully
Speaker 3: enclosed dome, a ceiling of translucent I can't announce whatever.
Speaker 3: These panels are tetra Flora, theen Linge.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's the SOFI Stadium.
Speaker 3: Look, yeah, don't give me these big words. I'm Green County,
Speaker 3: Get over it. The new stadium's design also pays homage
Speaker 3: to Arrowhead Stadium, the Chief's longtime home venue in Missouri. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you can't do that though if it's indoors, you know,
Speaker 3: and all this too. It's for the luxury and the
Speaker 3: suites and the money and the money making. But it's
Speaker 3: also you know, Kansas City's going to end up now
Speaker 3: getting a super Bowl. That's what this is all about.
Speaker 4: Well, and they can bring in Taylor Swift and all
Speaker 4: the big bands during the winter months and have them
Speaker 4: play there.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, exactly. Final fours will be there. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: they had When was the can you look this up?
Speaker 3: That was the last final four? This is like a
Speaker 3: crossover conversation brought to you by Love hitting it in
Speaker 3: with Jay Querry and I was the last Final four
Speaker 3: in Kansas City? Was that Kemper Arena? Was that nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty eight in Kemper Arena. Was that Danny Manning and
Speaker 3: the Miracles.
Speaker 4: That was nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Eighty eight Kemper Arena arena. Yeah, oh, how it has changed,
Speaker 3: kimp Arena dump. Oh, how that's changed.
Speaker 4: I think it's the it's called the High V Arena now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, well I think that's the one that when
Speaker 3: they have the Big twelve Basketball Championship, it had that
Speaker 3: gray floor and everybody was sliding around like they were
Speaker 3: playing on ice.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: Or playing in the West Gym as Sooner Grove with
Speaker 3: the floor being dirty, one of the two sliding around everywhere.
Speaker 3: I will say, the artist renderings of this do look
Speaker 3: kind of cool.
Speaker 4: They look cool, but I still think I mean, it's
Speaker 4: a big corporate stadium. They all kind of look the same.
Speaker 4: They're all kind of cookie cutter at.
Speaker 3: This So I mentioned this. You think I must still
Speaker 3: be alive in twenty thirty one, I believe.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: You think I'll still be alive when they build another
Speaker 3: stadium here. Well, they ever build another stadium here. And
Speaker 3: before you say they'll never build another stadium here, I.
Speaker 4: Mean Lucas Oil is almost twenty years old at this point.
Speaker 4: So it could happen the next to.
Speaker 3: Be with us when there's a new stadium built.
Speaker 4: Oh, you'll still be with us. You'll still be on
Speaker 4: the air, You'll still be probably working six days a week.
Speaker 3: Put it right over there. I'll mass have by bottleworks. Yes,
Speaker 3: so you guys are suggesting I'll still be I hope
Speaker 3: I am still with you as long as they have
Speaker 3: my faculties and stuff. If I'm all discombobulated, and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: one of these days, it's gonna happen sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3: Just like this break, quick break, we'll come back top
Speaker 3: of the hour. Kevin Bowen's got agnes over an hour away.
Speaker 3: Goth Brooks tickets as well, Stay right there. Ninety three
Speaker 3: five one seven five.
Speaker 1: The Ride with JMV.
Speaker 7: Are you kidding? You think I'd joined his crummy snabbatorium?
Speaker 1: But his whole place sucks. That's right, it sucks. Ninety
Speaker 1: three five and one oh seven five The Fan.
Speaker 3: So those of you that are asking me this shirt
Speaker 3: that I'm rocking, right here, it says my hometown of
Speaker 3: Owensburg nineteen seventy eight. Right here James nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 3: original seventy eight. Wow, these letters are ironed on. That's
Speaker 3: a good that's in good condition seventy eight. I look
Speaker 3: like with the blue and the yellow, I kind of
Speaker 3: look like Fred Dryer sitting here from a Hunter.
Speaker 4: I honestly thought you were wearing a retro pacer shirt
Speaker 4: when you walked in.
Speaker 3: I was thinking Rams like the old Fred Ryer. Fred
Speaker 3: Dryer used to be on the Rams and then he
Speaker 3: ended up getting an acting career and he was most
Speaker 3: noted as playing Hunter in the nineteen eighties, I think
Speaker 3: early nineties. Was Stephanie Kramer his co star and Hunter.
Speaker 3: She was kind of smoked tacular James Stephanie Kramer co
Speaker 3: starring with Fred Dreyer and Hunter. What year was this
Speaker 3: film the was it maybe eighty six through ninety one? Hunter?
Speaker 3: I bet you could find the theme song of Hunter too.
Speaker 3: Oh it's a series, yeah, NBC series. It was Stephanie Kramer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: here's Stephanie Kramer. She played a hooker once undercover hooker
Speaker 3: Johnny Approved. It was Johnny Approved? Riptide? Was it Riptide?
Speaker 3: Remington Steel and Hunter on Tuesday Nights? Riptide?
Speaker 4: Riptide?
Speaker 3: Riptide was a good show? Or was it? I'm sorry?
Speaker 3: Was it a team? Riptide and then Hunter, but I
Speaker 3: was going with the Fred Dryer. Look right here, Fred
Speaker 3: Dryer was a badass. Fred Dryer was the television version
Speaker 3: of Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood, remember all the Dirty Harry
Speaker 3: films throughout. Oh yeah, yeah he was. He was essentially
Speaker 3: the Dirty Harry, the Clint Eastwood but on TV, the TV.
Speaker 4: Version, So that just kind of a cold badass the whole.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah he was. Yeah. Yeah, he wasn't putting up
Speaker 3: with any crap, that's for sure. And he's a former
Speaker 3: La Ram Fred Dryer. So no, this shirt goes all
Speaker 3: the way back to nineteen seventy eight Owensburg Founder's Day.
Speaker 3: We had a festival oddly enough in early August, and
Speaker 3: the reason why it ultimately was James and then they
Speaker 3: just don't do it anymore because there's not enough people
Speaker 3: to back it up. But the reason why it was
Speaker 3: moved is because when the Brickyard started in the mid nineties,
Speaker 3: what nineteen ninety four, all of the Oordsburg Town Rednecks
Speaker 3: would go to the Brickyard race and all the old
Speaker 3: people would be there by themselves. It was a combination
Speaker 3: of the Brickyard and because it was ninety five and
Speaker 3: if you're ninety five years old out in the ninety
Speaker 3: five degree heat. That was not a great combination. So
Speaker 3: and then they ended up moving it. I think they
Speaker 3: moved into September and now it's gone. I was in
Speaker 3: that parade, I bet no less than six seven times.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, starring starting.
Speaker 3: Riding my motorcycle.
Speaker 4: Oh he had a whole motorcycle.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing to do in the parade the Founder's
Speaker 3: Day Parade in Orangsburg, Indiana, in Green County. My favorite
Speaker 3: thing to do well was it was too because the
Speaker 3: horses would be in front of us and on their
Speaker 3: floats and they would poop, and then I would get
Speaker 3: my motorcycle on, spin out and spin poop all over
Speaker 3: the motorcycle riders behind me.
Speaker 4: That does sound like a very youth thing, that is,
Speaker 4: right me? Yeah? How old were you.
Speaker 3: By the way, Oh I was eight and seventy eight,
Speaker 3: So I probably did that up until I was fourteen,
Speaker 3: maybe something like that, and then I was done.
Speaker 4: It's probably way less cute when you were fourteen.
Speaker 3: When fourteen I probably got my ass whip probably, but no, seriously,
Speaker 3: Owensburg Founder's Day and for those of you asking, this
Speaker 3: is a nineteen seventy eight original right here. Actually, I
Speaker 3: believe this belonged to my dad. Right here, one of
Speaker 3: the few things that I have that belonged to my dad.
Speaker 3: I think this was was it right here on the
Speaker 3: Andy Moore Auto Motive Group potline. He's been waiting for
Speaker 3: a while. He's allowing me to reminisce. He's from the
Speaker 3: Morning Show along with James Boyd and Mark Dyton. When
Speaker 3: Dyton's not on vacation. Kevin Bowen is with us. Hello, Kevin,
Speaker 3: how are you buddy?
Speaker 2: I'm I'm with James. I thought it was like eight
Speaker 2: pacers throwback when I first saw you earlier today, give
Speaker 2: me that one more time. What you're rocking?
Speaker 3: I am rocking an Oorinsburg shirt. Oorinsburg, Indiana. That's my hometown.
Speaker 3: And this was created for the nineteen seventy eight Founder's
Speaker 3: Day and Founder's Day started in nineteen seventy six and
Speaker 3: I think went through maybe I think it ended the
Speaker 3: last five or so years, but it was always in
Speaker 3: early August, keV. And it always came around. It was
Speaker 3: the precursor to knowing that was time to go back
Speaker 3: to school. We had two festivals where I'm from that
Speaker 3: basically told you when they were done it was time
Speaker 3: to go back to school. And that was Founder's Day
Speaker 3: in my hometown of Owensburg and something called Old Settlers,
Speaker 3: which is still going on in odin Indiana right now.
Speaker 3: Once you got clear of that, then basically you had
Speaker 3: a week or two before you went back to school.
Speaker 3: That was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I thought I thought it looked pretty cool.
Speaker 2: So I'm glad there's some sentimental behind them.
Speaker 3: You spin out a motorcycle, tire and horsepoop like I
Speaker 3: used to all the time, and sew sew it on
Speaker 3: dudes behind you, boy boy, I can't have Yeah. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you were doing, but you missed Outboddy,
Speaker 3: you missed out. Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I look back at my existence. I don't know how
Speaker 3: I didn't have my ass whip like every week. Seriously,
Speaker 3: I have no idea none.
Speaker 2: Hey, you've survived this long. You survive your basketball weeknights
Speaker 2: and weekends and no dust ups there, So you're good
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 3: Boys love it, don't they? Your pods POD's love it
Speaker 3: in the morning, and they they enjoy they are You
Speaker 3: can count on them to show up every time and
Speaker 3: that's more than half the battle right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I mean James especially, I feel like
Speaker 2: it's found a you know, a big time group with
Speaker 2: you guys and enjoyed it. I think it sounds like
Speaker 2: Caleb has been and they tedition as well. So yeah,
Speaker 2: they I love hearing about it. Frankly, and James Jameson
Speaker 2: is a little sore this morning actually, which he yeah,
Speaker 2: don't doesn't say.
Speaker 3: That he rolled his ankle last night too. Yeah, James
Speaker 3: James put on a headband last night, and after he
Speaker 3: put on that headband, it went one of five. I
Speaker 3: told him to lose the headband. He was one of
Speaker 3: five rocking the headband that wasn't working.
Speaker 2: Was that a was that a different look for him
Speaker 2: as the So he's usually not a headband guy.
Speaker 3: He's not a headband guy at all, and when he
Speaker 3: put that headband on, he went one of five. See everything,
Speaker 3: everything that I do is a reason behind failures. So
Speaker 3: when I I'm out there, I start with my shirt
Speaker 3: tucked in. But the moment I missed my first shot,
Speaker 3: the shirt comes out. Because that's the reason why. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit tight, you know, I'm not getting
Speaker 3: full extension because I'm tucked in right here. The shirt
Speaker 3: comes out on my first miss, so I thought. I
Speaker 3: told him. I said, man, you gotta lose that headband.
Speaker 3: You're one of five right now.
Speaker 2: You're the high school basketball coach that rocks the jacket.
Speaker 2: And then the first time he's mad, he's throwing the
Speaker 2: jacket and he hits the shav kids behind the bench.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about you. I am incredibly superstitious,
Speaker 3: and it is weird. It's almost like that I kind
Speaker 3: of pick and choose my superstition. But I if I'm
Speaker 3: thinking about it in the moment, I am one superstitious,
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 2: I am really not, which is kind of surprising because
Speaker 2: I think, like my wife would certainly say, like, I'm
Speaker 2: a pretty routine oriented person like me too. I like
Speaker 2: structure and things like that too. But yeah, when it
Speaker 2: comes to sports superstitions, I'm just not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not that person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I've always been. I don't step on
Speaker 3: a crack on the sidewalk. I don't walk under a ladder. Seriously,
Speaker 3: two weeks ago, a black cat crossed my path and
Speaker 3: I stopped turned around the other direction. It's weird. You
Speaker 3: and really, I have to be thinking about it at
Speaker 3: the moment, but I like, I'm sure there are some
Speaker 3: moments where I'm not thinking about it and I let
Speaker 3: it go by. But yeah, I just I always want
Speaker 3: to keep the odds in my favor. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: I always want to keep whatever odds they are, like
Speaker 3: the universal, the stratospheric odds. I want to try to
Speaker 3: keep them in my favor. So I think, whatever I
Speaker 3: can do to be proactive about that, then I'll do it.
Speaker 2: What's your free throw routine?
Speaker 3: I uh, dribble bend, dribble bend, dribble ben shoot three.
Speaker 2: Where it's three dribbles where you put in your hand
Speaker 2: in your hand somewhere ball.
Speaker 3: No, Well, I find the nail on the floor, So
Speaker 3: I I center cut the goal with the nail on
Speaker 3: the floor. My right foot goes there, left foot further out,
Speaker 3: and I dribble bend, dribble bend, dribble bend, and then
Speaker 3: make sure that I'm using a lot of my legs
Speaker 3: when I get into the free throw and then let
Speaker 3: it go like that. So and it's funny, like I
Speaker 3: grew up in the the era in which everybody was
Speaker 3: being Steve Alford. So everybody you know, did their soccer
Speaker 3: routine and all that and then shot it. But mine
Speaker 3: was a little bit different. And I had a coach
Speaker 3: in Bedford, Indiana back when even before Steve Alford that
Speaker 3: taught me how to do that. Taught me to center
Speaker 3: cut and there wasn't a nail on the floor at
Speaker 3: the time. You just kind of had the center cut
Speaker 3: it yourself. But center cut the goal with your right
Speaker 3: foot and then make sure you utilized a lot of
Speaker 3: your lower body in it. And thus I shot ninety
Speaker 3: two percent in my senior season. It's all it worked.
Speaker 3: You it were wow, say no more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a I'm a two dribble spin to
Speaker 2: find the air the air hole and then put the
Speaker 2: palm on the air hole and shoot it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just I just make sure that your rotation, the
Speaker 3: rotation with the seams of the ball is right. That's
Speaker 3: I don't look for the air hole or you know,
Speaker 3: any of the words or letters or anything. Just kind
Speaker 3: of get my right hand on that. But no, everybody,
Speaker 3: I'm assuming he has a routine, right, Is there a
Speaker 3: best routine out there? You think? Is there ever been
Speaker 3: a routine free throw shooting that that you thought was
Speaker 3: was cooler. But to be cool, you have to work.
Speaker 3: You have to have results. But to be cool and
Speaker 3: have results, I remember when.
Speaker 2: I was younger, Bracey Wright would do the like a
Speaker 2: couple feet behind the free throw line like he would,
Speaker 2: you know, he would shoot it a couple of steps
Speaker 2: behind the foul line, which you occasionally will see. And
Speaker 2: you know, Brasy right was. I mean, he was a
Speaker 2: pretty good he was, So I remember like when he
Speaker 2: did that, I was kind of like, oh boy, is
Speaker 2: this something here? I feel like I did Reggie. Reggie
Speaker 2: would do a bunch of dribbles right and then a
Speaker 2: big old spend. But you know, he had such a
Speaker 2: such a funky release really, But yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 2: it's funny. Like I'm not superstitious, but then here I
Speaker 2: am talking about like a free throw routine. But I
Speaker 2: feel like people can tinker with a free throw like
Speaker 2: a whole whole lot.
Speaker 3: So hey, keV, I think everybody has a little bit
Speaker 3: of superstition that they abide by, even if they don't
Speaker 3: proclaim it. You don't have to be one percent superstitious,
Speaker 3: but I think everybody has a superstition or two that again,
Speaker 3: they adhere to or abide by in a case or two.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just one, but I think most people do
Speaker 3: have that.
Speaker 2: Are you a fan watcher superstition like reds? Are you
Speaker 2: like a, hey, is this ending at worked here? Am
Speaker 2: I staying here?
Speaker 6: Or no?
Speaker 3: Let me tell you this and this is the reason why,
Speaker 3: Like like when when Mike Preston the Pacers don't send
Speaker 3: players my direction, it really pisses me off, right, you
Speaker 3: know this to be true? And I talked about it
Speaker 3: all the time for every game that I was at home.
Speaker 3: So these were all road games, and I w with
Speaker 3: Tommy s Tom Sutton of coaches to most of the
Speaker 3: home games, but every game I was at home, sat
Speaker 3: in the same spot the entire time, and it more
Speaker 3: times than not led to you know what ultimately was
Speaker 3: a win. Now, obviously we saw how that ended in
Speaker 3: Game seven with Halliburton's injury and what that did to
Speaker 3: last year. But yeah, I was. I was all in
Speaker 3: it for the squad, I was all in it for
Speaker 3: the organization. I was all in it for the fan
Speaker 3: base around here. I do abide by rules when it
Speaker 3: comes to that, and I did it with the Pacers
Speaker 3: the year before last as well in the postseason.
Speaker 2: Look at this, I would not have pegged you been
Speaker 2: the nth degree superstitioner. You know you, you know you're
Speaker 2: a little wawless in my eyes.
Speaker 3: So I've got a screw loose, There's no question about that.
Speaker 2: Yeahs as good as the sun rises from the east tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I can have told you, Yeah, I do. I do
Speaker 3: have a bit of a screw loose. But no, it's
Speaker 3: just weird. Sometimes it's just you abide by the superstition
Speaker 3: because it's easy to do, you just thinking about in
Speaker 3: a moment. But there are a lot of them in
Speaker 3: which I certainly do. Kevin Bowen and the Fan Morning Show,
Speaker 3: he James Boyd and Mark Dykon and Kev's on the
Speaker 3: Andy Moro at the Motive Coup pot line. I did
Speaker 3: have this thought for you as we get close to
Speaker 3: the start next week of camp, and I know you
Speaker 3: guys in the Morning Show are going to be out
Speaker 3: there a great deal, and so will Jake. I'm curious.
Speaker 3: Let's just say, for example, and this is not what
Speaker 3: a lot of people want to hear, but let's just say,
Speaker 3: the inevitable negativity happens and things don't work out for
Speaker 3: this team. Is this a situation where Chris Ballard and
Speaker 3: company go? Is it everybody in a reset? Or does
Speaker 3: Shane Stiken at all? You think in a situation like
Speaker 3: that deserve to continue coaching the team. And I know
Speaker 3: a lot of it may come down to what we
Speaker 3: see the sea, but just take it from a circumstance
Speaker 3: of what we have wittn this so far. Would you
Speaker 3: keep the head coach and then everybody else you reset?
Speaker 2: It's a great, great question. It's one I'd try to
Speaker 2: throw carly ersa Gordon's way a little bit. I guess
Speaker 2: might even been over a year ago at this point,
Speaker 2: and she didn't really take it in any sort of direction,
Speaker 2: you know, because I do think when you're handing out
Speaker 2: individual grades to Ballard and psych in, I do think
Speaker 2: there are different grades. I think some of that is
Speaker 2: purely sample sized. Like to me, the longer you are
Speaker 2: at any job, especially a GMO football team, I just
Speaker 2: think it's it's more of a critical evaluation. It's more
Speaker 2: of a in tenth grade, so you know, nine years
Speaker 2: to three years to me is really different. Having said that,
Speaker 2: I'm just such a believer that once you clean house,
Speaker 2: you have to clean house, which I don't know you
Speaker 2: could change psych and would would you know, James ivers
Speaker 2: Susnis earlier this week.
Speaker 4: If stike In.
Speaker 2: And Ballard got fired tomorrow, or let's just say January,
Speaker 2: I'd venture to guess Sichen would have many more head
Speaker 2: coaching interview opportunities in Ballad would have GM interview opportunities.
Speaker 2: So I do think league wide, you know, Psychen is
Speaker 2: probably viewed a little bit more in a positive light.
Speaker 2: But again, I think it'll make me choose. I would
Speaker 2: start over, But again, Carly's decision and how she views that,
Speaker 2: I'd be really curious. It just seems like any arranged marriage,
Speaker 2: it's just tough. I know there are examples. I think
Speaker 2: San Francisco might be one of the very few that
Speaker 2: have worked. There's just not many that have really worked,
Speaker 2: especially in present day NFL.
Speaker 3: You have to let your chief decision maker dictate terms,
Speaker 3: don't you? In this case? Is that what we're both?
Speaker 3: I think we're both I think agreeing on this from
Speaker 3: I don't know if you can be halfway in and
Speaker 3: halfway out in this case. I think if things don't
Speaker 3: work out the way that they want, then it's a
Speaker 3: natural total reset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be what I would do. But you know, again,
Speaker 2: Carly is I mean, she she's a bit of an unknown,
Speaker 2: you know character really in all of this, you know,
Speaker 2: is there any sort of hesitancy about not wanting to
Speaker 2: do you know, two searches in an offseason. Granted, your
Speaker 2: GM would probably lead a lot of that head coaching search,
Speaker 2: and the head coaching search I think can take a
Speaker 2: little bit longer, just naturally. And you know, really when
Speaker 2: you look at Shane Segand's tenure, you know what he's
Speaker 2: brought to the table offensive mind, you know, for the
Speaker 2: most part, that's worked out really well. I get the
Speaker 2: quarterback has you know, had issues, but you know it
Speaker 2: really just the Richardson issue. I think the other quarterbacks
Speaker 2: that have played, you know, Daniel Jones, Carter Minshew, you know,
Speaker 2: those guys have actually played pretty good football based off
Speaker 2: their career, you know, back of their baseball card, if
Speaker 2: you will. But defense and winning games ugly, you know,
Speaker 2: that's been an issue. They don't beat enough good teams,
Speaker 2: you know, that's been in issue. So you know, he
Speaker 2: would have to take some strides I think in some
Speaker 2: of those areas I think for you to you know,
Speaker 2: bring back one of the two. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: I am I am probably more in the camp of
Speaker 2: you just clean, slate it up and fresh blood and
Speaker 2: like no other.
Speaker 3: So Kevin Bowen fan morning show. He James Boyd, Mark
Speaker 3: Dyke in weekday mornings here seven until ten am. He's
Speaker 3: on Andy Moore on the Motorcrow potline. Have you noticed
Speaker 3: any at all similarities between carly Ors Gordon and her
Speaker 3: leadership in that of her late father with the Colts?
Speaker 2: I mean, I hate to cop out, but I think
Speaker 2: we are too early. Like when I think about the
Speaker 2: last fourteen months, you know, what are the big decisions
Speaker 2: she you know, and one decision that I don't think
Speaker 2: your dad would have done that she has done is
Speaker 2: take training camp away from Grand Park. You know, organizationally,
Speaker 2: they didn't really do much in free agency this year.
Speaker 2: You know, the draft was pretty status quo. So again,
Speaker 2: I don't think there was necessarily like big moves there.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously head coach and GM she decided to retain.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe her dad's a little bit quicker to that,
Speaker 2: but granted, you know, I think a lot of Peel's eyes.
Speaker 2: You know, her dad had a pretty long leash with
Speaker 2: Chris bauerd.
Speaker 1: To begin with there.
Speaker 2: So I think we're a little early in that, and
Speaker 2: you know, maybe she hasn't been as front facing as
Speaker 2: her dad, which I think was to be expected, and
Speaker 2: we'll see how that plays out. Like, you know, does
Speaker 2: she talk at training camp? She didn't last year. You know,
Speaker 2: her dad usually did talk at training camp. You know,
Speaker 2: is that something she's going to do. She didn't talk
Speaker 2: during the draft. Her dad did talk to her in
Speaker 2: the draft. You know. Again, I think these are all
Speaker 2: like things we probably expected, but I think those are
Speaker 2: just some items that I'm curious about. And then you know,
Speaker 2: if when she needs to make a decision GM head
Speaker 2: coach wise, you know, I think that will be you know,
Speaker 2: the first really really big moves for her organization for
Speaker 2: ten year and just kind of establish a little bit
Speaker 2: of precedent.
Speaker 3: Hey, keV in closing here, would we like Katelyn Clark
Speaker 3: if she were a part of somebody else's organization.
Speaker 1: That's a good question.
Speaker 2: Probably not, you know, I mean, probably too much of
Speaker 2: the you know, whining demonstrative behavior. I think that's probably
Speaker 2: the biggest negative that people viewing opposing athletes more so
Speaker 2: than you know, maybe basketball peers would be like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: have you watched her you know pass? Have you watched her,
Speaker 2: you know, quarterback the game? Have you watched how far
Speaker 2: she can shoot threes? You know, maybe some honestly, someone
Speaker 2: like you probably would have a little bit more of
Speaker 2: an appreciation. But I just I hear it from so
Speaker 2: many Pacer fans. For example, I don't like said player
Speaker 2: on another team because they whine, bitch, moan, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And really she does a lot of that, and clearly
Speaker 2: or technical fouls kind of.
Speaker 4: Back that up there.
Speaker 2: So plus, I think there's always an element of competition
Speaker 2: of like, you know, you're always going to view one
Speaker 2: of the best just in a little bit of a
Speaker 2: competitive light of like, you know, they have to go
Speaker 2: above and beyond to kind of prove it to me.
Speaker 2: I think Lebron is an example of that. And you know,
Speaker 2: obviously he you know, being such a big rival, being
Speaker 2: such a big you know outst to the Pacers throughout
Speaker 2: you know, Cleveland day's and Miami days, you know, that
Speaker 2: probably adds to it a little bit here. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think if you maybe appreciate the game of basketball
Speaker 2: and what she brings and how unique of a talent
Speaker 2: she is, then yes, you can. But I think the
Speaker 2: first thing most fan bases go towards is, you know,
Speaker 2: how do you act? And I think that would rub
Speaker 2: people the wrong way if you weren't cheering for you.
Speaker 3: Know, keV. Her most most active, rabid, high level fans,
Speaker 3: I think heard her a great deal. They're so incredibly stupid.
Speaker 3: When is it did the nerds of our world turn
Speaker 3: into like John Wooden juniors of basketball? The Kaitlin Clark
Speaker 3: thing and that phenomenon started that all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you get all these dorcs that think they know something
Speaker 3: about basketball that are satisfied when you're shooting a step
Speaker 3: back from thirty feet and you're one of ten, Like
Speaker 3: that's great and you want to see more of that.
Speaker 3: I think some of her biggest fans hurt her in
Speaker 3: terms of things because they're so stupid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just a lot of toxic nature with the
Speaker 2: groupiness to her and then against her, you know, frankly,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's both sides of it. But I
Speaker 2: do think, you know, part of her. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: going to use the word cults. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's the best word to use, but it does cheater
Speaker 2: on you.
Speaker 3: I think jackass. Yeah, you can go jackass if you want,
Speaker 3: because there are a lot of jackasses.
Speaker 1: This is like too much.
Speaker 2: I mean, some of the stuff I can't imagine what
Speaker 2: you know, Stephanie White deals with, you know how I
Speaker 2: see it on social media. I mean, I'm sure the
Speaker 2: crazies take it even a step further than that. Oh yeah, which, yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously there's just absolute zero place for that whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absorb more technicals for okay here, So that's
Speaker 3: that's that's when you got My goodness, what kind of
Speaker 3: jackass are you? That's what you're dealing with right there.
Speaker 3: I guess there's some good and bad because they're rabid fans,
Speaker 3: they're always going to be there, but they're so stupid
Speaker 3: they're a detriment in the process. So kind of a
Speaker 3: weird set of circumstances. You doing okay, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm ready to uh get it back going here,
Speaker 2: you know, big time here starting next week. So yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a relaxing final week and then.
Speaker 3: Here we go camp. I'm only up there like once
Speaker 3: or twice. That's too bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I assume joint days for you to the joint
Speaker 2: practice those final a couple of days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, joint days. That sounds good. JMV. Joint days.
Speaker 2: Four John underneath them there in the northwest.
Speaker 3: Part of the Friends do it, Buddy. Good to hear
Speaker 3: from you, paum My best of the fam. Tell Brad Bowen.
Speaker 3: I said, hello, it's been too damn long.
Speaker 2: We'll do you know you are one of his favorites,
Speaker 2: so I will relay that message.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Brad Bowen. Thanks, keV se John quick break,
Speaker 3: We'll come back, James. We have a weather update right here,
Speaker 3: right now. Courtesy of Fox fifty nine.
Speaker 1: The Ride with JMV. Foky. This is not nom this
Speaker 1: is bowling. There are rules A ninety three five and
Speaker 1: one oh seven five the fan.
Speaker 3: Bowen's got the morning show, he and James Boyd and
Speaker 3: when Dyton's not on vacation, but god, he's running stuff
Speaker 3: here vacation, Dyton, my name is John. Thank you for
Speaker 3: joining us. Fever and the Sun. The Sun stink. The
Speaker 3: Fever have zero business making this a competitive venture. Later
Speaker 3: on the night and you're going to say, well they
Speaker 3: did against Seattle last Friday, Well, Seattle's played better recently.
Speaker 3: The Sun just gonna stink. Do not make it a
Speaker 3: competitive venture. Agnes will join us at the top of
Speaker 3: the hour. For those of you that didn't know, how
Speaker 3: many times has Agnes been on? Once or twice? Now, James,
Speaker 3: do you know since I had to apologize for being
Speaker 3: a jackass?
Speaker 4: Oh to Scott Agnes, Yeah, we've had him once, at
Speaker 4: least once, maybe twice. I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 3: Not only was I a jackass, I was a jackass
Speaker 3: for sixteen years.
Speaker 4: Sixteen years, it's however long you had been on the
Speaker 4: air up until the first nineteen years.
Speaker 3: I just I am such a grudge O. I am
Speaker 3: trying my damnedest to grow out of that. One of
Speaker 3: these days, I'm gonna be all grown up for all
Speaker 3: of you, trying like sixteen years. It goes back to
Speaker 3: Kravitz and Eddie. I think I felt the same way
Speaker 3: about Kent Sterling for a while too, and I'm I'm
Speaker 3: not It's not that bad anymore.
Speaker 4: You're mellowing out in your old age.
Speaker 3: I am. Yeah, I'm my own version of THC sitting
Speaker 3: right here in this chair. Much change my name from
Speaker 3: JMV to THC.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm sure our bosses would absolutely love that.
Speaker 3: I sure they only approve they like about this much
Speaker 3: of what I do in general, So yeah, that would
Speaker 3: not help. Uh dam Vy, you actually have matured a
Speaker 3: bit in these last ten years since I've known you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Jim McKinnon, Silver, California. I can't see it
Speaker 3: some around. I think I think both James Boyd and
Speaker 3: then Caleb played basketball with me. I think they both
Speaker 3: believe I'm completely nuts.
Speaker 4: I need to see some footage of you playing basketball.
Speaker 4: I need to see what's going on here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just depends on the mood, but I will
Speaker 3: say this, I don't I don't really get into it often.
Speaker 3: I get into it with Rick cherry Pick and Clark
Speaker 3: because he's the biggest cherry picker of all time, and
Speaker 3: I just I can't deal with run your ass down
Speaker 3: the floor. I don't care if it's a pickup game
Speaker 3: or run your ass down the floor. I said the
Speaker 3: same thing about the fever two weeks ago. You're in
Speaker 3: LA playing the Sparks. I have to sit there in
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter and watch you guys half ass it
Speaker 3: down the floor on the defensive end. I don't want
Speaker 3: to see that. Nobody out there really likes defense. I
Speaker 3: get it. I know it's talked about defense wins championships. Great, Well,
Speaker 3: you know what, if you don't score, you're not winning
Speaker 3: anything either. But yet I don't care whatever pickup game
Speaker 3: you're playing in, Like these dudes asked me to play
Speaker 3: in a shout out. They are great guys that are playing.
Speaker 3: But I think for the first time in the arc.
Speaker 3: The arc is down near me, near Bargersville, Greenwood, that
Speaker 3: area right there off of one thirty five, and Johnny Marlin,
Speaker 3: the Marlin Academy runs it. So I don't know if
Speaker 3: you guys know who this dude is. Chris just pointed
Speaker 3: this out. I can't make it tonight because I played
Speaker 3: way too late last night. But he and a group
Speaker 3: of dudes are playing. And uh, there's a guy named
Speaker 3: Young Mantis. You ever heard of the Young Mantis. He
Speaker 3: was on barstool and he's from around here. They said
Speaker 3: he's gonna be around. I would yell at him too
Speaker 3: if he cherry picked. I can't stand cherry that's awful.
Speaker 3: Run the floor, run the floor. And if I don't
Speaker 3: run the floor, then I don't look. I don't look
Speaker 3: for the past coming back at me. If I just
Speaker 3: stay stationary down the corner and half ass everything. You
Speaker 3: know who through the past to the cherry picker last night,
Speaker 3: who did Caleb? Oh wow, Caleb Zuver.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to get on him about that.
Speaker 3: Through the pass to the cherry picker, bad shout out.
Speaker 3: The Young Mantis is going down there and playing later
Speaker 3: on tonight with the guys. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 3: met him, but rumor has it he's good dude. He's
Speaker 3: the dude that did the videos. Patrick Beverly. I know
Speaker 3: everybody around here loves Patrick Beverly. I think Patrick Beverley
Speaker 3: shot a video with him one and said quote that
Speaker 3: boy Bent.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: When you google Young Mantis and Pat Bev, the first
Speaker 4: thing that comes up is Pat Beverly reacts to my
Speaker 4: quote deformed body.
Speaker 3: I think he said that boy bent Man, Thank you, Chris.
Speaker 3: Those are good dudes down there. I do, at some
Speaker 3: point want to play in the arc. It is a
Speaker 3: new place, and it's something that the south side of
Speaker 3: this case, the far south side, have needed a while.
Speaker 3: Midwest Sports Park no longer has basketball. You know, the
Speaker 3: h well, the Issa whatever that was over there has
Speaker 3: been long gone now, so they needed a facility like
Speaker 3: they have at Graham Park, or like they have with
Speaker 3: the Pacer Center up in Westfield. So good for the
Speaker 3: South Side and good for Johnny and the Marlin family
Speaker 3: and the Marlin Academy. I know my friends. Max Landis
Speaker 3: is a part of that down there too, one of
Speaker 3: the new head coach and a friend of mine going
Speaker 3: all the way back to Orangsburg and Green County and
Speaker 3: Eastern Green. Mike Burris is the new head coach at
Speaker 3: Perry Meridian, who, by the way, is going to do
Speaker 3: an outstanding job. Good friends, much like I am with
Speaker 3: Dusty may the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks. Connected
Speaker 3: beyond belief, but even beyond the whole connection there. He's
Speaker 3: hardcore about basketball and you're not going to be able
Speaker 3: to jack around and get away with stuff. And I'm
Speaker 3: talking about players and parents, and that's a part of
Speaker 3: it too. The parents oftentimes can be a bigger pain
Speaker 3: of the ass than the players. And you've got to
Speaker 3: find that dynamic there where your coach either doesn't have
Speaker 3: to or deals with that out in front. Michael do that,
Speaker 3: Michae will do that. But I have to get to
Speaker 3: the arc sometime. I just don't think it's going to
Speaker 3: be coming up later on tonight. Scott Agnes will join
Speaker 3: us coming up at the top of the hour. I
Speaker 3: mentioned the fever from the Sun coming up later off
Speaker 3: the night. That tiptime is at eight o'clock seven thirty
Speaker 3: with Tidrow. Your coverage right here ninety three five and
Speaker 3: one oh seven five. The fan Greg Zankee, who is
Speaker 3: the commissioner of the SEC, was whining earlier today, actually
Speaker 3: earlier this week, and we talked about that earlier on
Speaker 3: the show. That's pretty funny. Uh. The chiefs renderings of
Speaker 3: their new coverage, their new stadium. I will say, with
Speaker 3: these Pablo Picasso classics ride here, what is this place
Speaker 3: called Mannica? It looks pretty awesome. So the stadium will
Speaker 3: evidently hold seventy k so that's seventy thousand fans, and
Speaker 3: will be built with the intention of amplifying crowd noise.
Speaker 3: Remember when the Colts played and everybody I thought the
Speaker 3: Colts were piping in crowd noise. So this is going
Speaker 3: to amplify crowd noise.
Speaker 4: Now just amplify.
Speaker 3: Back then, man, we just cranked it. I went back
Speaker 3: in the back bill polling gave me the high sign.
Speaker 3: I went back in the back and cranked up their
Speaker 3: Craco car stereo speakers to ten.
Speaker 4: Before you were climbing the roof of Lucas.
Speaker 3: Oil Man, I was taking it up. I was cranking
Speaker 3: it up so all those jackasses in Pittsburgh would cry
Speaker 3: about it. Remember when they used to have the Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: Post Gazette and they all whined about it. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: just cranked it up to ten. Bill Poleon gave me
Speaker 3: the highst He goes, hey, Jam. We get back there,
Speaker 3: right behind the toilets and the old RCA dome, there
Speaker 3: was right there the Craco car stereo boom, collective voices
Speaker 3: generating what they say here James two point two deciples
Speaker 3: in Seattle, which evidently broke the record. I don't even
Speaker 3: know what record that was. Uh, that's what they're here, amplification.
Speaker 4: Trying to break a record, and to break the.
Speaker 3: Record, great break. We'll come back. I mentioned Agnes top
Speaker 3: of the hour. Garth Brooks tickets coming up a little
Speaker 3: bit later on too. On the road tomorrow Speedway City Garage.
Speaker 3: If you guys been there before, I've heard nothing but
Speaker 3: how outstanding this place is. Coffee, beer, Nascar, Hauler Parade,
Speaker 3: Main Street, Speedway. You don't need RSVP, just show us
Speaker 3: up and we'll have a good time. I promise you
Speaker 3: that tomorrow Speedway City Garage. We started three ninety three five,
Speaker 3: one oh seven five The Fan, The Ride with JMV.
Speaker 3: He's my best friend, he's my pal, he's my homeboy,
Speaker 3: my rotten soldier, he's my sweet cheese, my good time.
Speaker 1: Boy, Nutty. Three to five and one oh seven five
Speaker 1: the Fan, good song, James, thank you, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: Scott Agnes coming up at the top of the hour,
Speaker 3: whatever weekend of B one oh five point seven that's
Speaker 3: coming up on Saturday, the All Request Saturday Night JMV Takeover.
Speaker 3: So with B one oh five point seven we are
Speaker 3: having a comedy show. They asked me to be a
Speaker 3: part of it, as I guess now I'm officially on
Speaker 3: the staff of B one oh five point seven with
Speaker 3: the incredible All Request Saturday Night JAMV Takeover, which, by
Speaker 3: the way, man, if you guys aren't working upstairs on
Speaker 3: trying to get this across the state and then across
Speaker 3: the country, come on now, easy makes money, takes one
Speaker 3: person to do it. Seems like perfect James for what
Speaker 3: we do. It's almost like you're even half asked in it,
Speaker 3: and you're really not perfect for what we're doing, buddy,
Speaker 3: is it not? It is perfect, But we're having a
Speaker 3: comedy show. They said, hey, you're being part of a
Speaker 3: comedy show, and I said, I'm down with it. That's cool.
Speaker 3: Matt hat Her in Greenwood coming up on September the twelfth.
Speaker 3: That is the day before the Colts open up against Baltimore,
Speaker 3: which is convenient, although it's at six o'clock normally I'm
Speaker 3: doing the jam V takeover. I'm going to move that
Speaker 3: to September the eleventh on a Friday, and we'll do
Speaker 3: the JAMV takeover and then me and Sean Copeland and
Speaker 3: Nick Jordan and Annie will do a comedy night. A
Speaker 3: comedy night at Mad hat Her in Greenwood, which evidently,
Speaker 3: after two days of being opened to buy tickets, is
Speaker 3: completely sold out. So that's awesome and hopefully a lot
Speaker 3: of you got tickets for it. But that is again
Speaker 3: coming up on September the twelfth. That's a Saturday night
Speaker 3: Matt hat Her in Greenwood. It should be a blast.
Speaker 3: I I've done this now twice. I did it with
Speaker 3: Scott Long twice, once at the Old School Crackers in
Speaker 3: Broad Ripple and another time and the Egyptian Room Ato Mira.
Speaker 3: And I will tell you as I told James yesterday,
Speaker 3: I can be a bit vulgar. I know that doesn't
Speaker 3: surprise you, but a bit vulgar. But it's all for
Speaker 3: the sake of fun and enjoyment. So if I get
Speaker 3: out there and do like five minutes on my junk,
Speaker 3: don't be surprised. It may happen. I have not put
Speaker 3: anything together yet, but it is on the inbound.
Speaker 4: I mean, we did a whole forty five today on.
Speaker 3: We did on jocks and cups and pouches and everything. True,
Speaker 3: So I'm ready. The other thing about it, the last
Speaker 3: two times I did it was completely off the top
Speaker 3: of my head. I just went out there and went
Speaker 3: with it. The one the one routine I did James,
Speaker 3: I did the challenge Flag of Life. It's like when
Speaker 3: you were walking down the street and you see this
Speaker 3: dorky ass dude with this hot chick and I'm throwing
Speaker 3: a challenge flag.
Speaker 4: Going what the challenge Flag of Life?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like you know in the NF throwing a challenge.
Speaker 3: I don't know about this call right.
Speaker 4: Here eat an official review.
Speaker 3: I needed an official review on why this chick wants
Speaker 3: to walk with this dork? And it worked out good.
Speaker 4: You just walked down the street and throw flags at people.
Speaker 3: And I also did it. This has probably been done
Speaker 3: before I did. I did worthless superheroes, and at the
Speaker 3: top of the list was Aquaman.
Speaker 4: Oh, like, real superhero. You weren't just making a more
Speaker 4: worthless superheroes.
Speaker 3: I did Aquaman. And then what was the name of
Speaker 3: the Native American that like grew really big?
Speaker 4: Oh? Hold on, Heichi for something.
Speaker 3: And then you know, I did wintlerit whatever. That guy's
Speaker 3: name was schnitzel Brink. Remember the little guy that you
Speaker 3: got him to say his name backwards? He was a villain.
Speaker 3: He said his name backwards and he disappeared. I have
Speaker 3: no idea snitzel Prink or something like that. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: cuss really, but it sounds like stinzil prick but also
Speaker 3: a patche chief apatche che the of that one. What
Speaker 3: like Aquaman always stayed in the hall of justice? What
Speaker 3: the hell could he ever do? If you had to
Speaker 3: clean the fish tank or fix the toilet, then he
Speaker 3: was good but otherwise he was useless. So that was
Speaker 3: that was one that I did.
Speaker 1: Is it back in the day?
Speaker 4: Is it, mister m x y z pt l K.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about this about a month ago. Mitzel
Speaker 3: Prick or whatever his name is.
Speaker 4: I don't think it was that one.
Speaker 3: I think it was exactly that.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty I don't know if he's I think he's
Speaker 4: a super villain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a villain. Okay, he's worthless villain. You just
Speaker 3: and he always like walked right into saying his name
Speaker 3: backwards and he disappeared into a different universe. Dumb ass.
Speaker 4: I'm impressed by your comic book knowledge right now.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I do have a little bit of nerd in me,
Speaker 4: just a little bit.
Speaker 3: I do JMV. If the Colts go nine to eight
Speaker 3: to miss the postseason because the defense sucks, no pass rush,
Speaker 3: no backers, but score twenty nine a game, I can
Speaker 3: see Steichen coming back, zich and Jones back, Ballard gone.
Speaker 3: So I asked this question if Kevin Bowen last how
Speaker 3: you guys can pass this around amongst yourselves right here?
Speaker 3: Is there a scenario where you believe that head coach
Speaker 3: days general manager and a lot of others go on
Speaker 3: the upcoming season with the Colts. Just a thought, quick break,
Speaker 3: we'll come back with that. Scott Dagnus Fieldhouse files Top
Speaker 3: of the Hour Fever Sun. Later on tonight, off season
Speaker 3: with the Paces and more. Scott joins us next the
Speaker 3: Ride with JMV. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm
Speaker 3: not normal.
Speaker 1: Ninety three to five and one oh seven five the.
Speaker 3: Fans Speedway Citing Garage tomorrow the NASCAR Haller Parade. Me
Speaker 3: and call beer is a awesome proposition. You guys need
Speaker 3: to join me out there. I mean all of you,
Speaker 3: not just a couple of you, not just a handful
Speaker 3: of you. I mean all of you. Tomorrow Speedway City
Speaker 3: Garage Me. Jeff Matthews, Well hang out together with you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Dan Wetzel's finally going to show up tomorrow too, right
Speaker 3: like he forgot yesterday. I thought, man, I was so
Speaker 3: concerned that man. I wonder if he got caught up
Speaker 3: in the firings at ESPN. And I'm glad he still
Speaker 3: has a gig, but his ass just forgot. Well done,
Speaker 3: well done. Wetzel's going to be on here tomorrow. I
Speaker 3: did before I get to Scott Ada doesn't want to
Speaker 3: mention this three years ago yesterday, I believe, but basically
Speaker 3: three years ago, and I think about this all the time,
Speaker 3: we lost our good friend Ron Sexton Donnie Baker. And
Speaker 3: you know, one of the reasons why there's a lot
Speaker 3: of Donnie Baker stuff the past twenty four hours or
Speaker 3: so that you're going to find in social media, especially
Speaker 3: on Facebook, and that's just part of of what I'm
Speaker 3: going to remember Ron. Ron was such a longtime good
Speaker 3: friend of mine, you know, going all the way back
Speaker 3: to Fall Creek Road, back when he used to work
Speaker 3: with the Colts, even back further when he was on
Speaker 3: you know My Indie TV twenty three. He got started
Speaker 3: with Mark Patrick while Mark was at WISCH TV Channel eight.
Speaker 3: A tremendous baseball fan that that ultimately was so good
Speaker 3: at comedy there was really no holding him back and
Speaker 3: he became as hilarious of a dude and a stand
Speaker 3: up show as you're going to find anywhere. And a
Speaker 3: testimonial to that is just sit back and watch some
Speaker 3: of these videos that you can end up seeing now,
Speaker 3: especially more prevalent, you know, on the anniversary of his
Speaker 3: passing on social media. He was just an absolute genius,
Speaker 3: but even more than that, he was a great friend
Speaker 3: and I miss him. Three years later, it is still
Speaker 3: hard to comprehend that Ron is no longer with us,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to give a shout to the friends
Speaker 3: and the family of Ron. On a daylight today we
Speaker 3: are thinking about him and how much we miss him,
Speaker 3: and how much better we were when he was a
Speaker 3: part of our lives. Still here, being funny, just being Ron.
Speaker 3: I miss that. We missed that a great deal. So
Speaker 3: thinking about you, friends and family of our friend Rod Sexton.
Speaker 3: Meantime of the Anymore Automotive Group potline. He is from
Speaker 3: Fieldhouse Files. Scott Agnes joins us today. Good afternoon, Scott.
Speaker 3: How are you hello? John? Doing well?
Speaker 5: Getting ready for a WNBA All Star break?
Speaker 3: Here is Sophie Cunningham. Is Are there people that actually
Speaker 3: dislike her out there? Is she as polarizing as this
Speaker 3: ESPN dot com article would explain her to be?
Speaker 7: Definitely polarizing because she leaves no room for doubt. She
Speaker 7: always says exactly how she feels, and that's something, as
Speaker 7: you know, being in the media, we appreciate. There's no sugarcoating.
Speaker 7: If you ask a question, She's going to give you
Speaker 7: a direct and straightforward answer, and so yeah, definitely, I
Speaker 7: think some don't necessarily like all the things that she
Speaker 7: has to say and the way in which I think
Speaker 7: also to the joy than the fun and the sassiness
Speaker 7: that she plays with. That's one of the things she
Speaker 7: was telling me over the weekend at her camp up
Speaker 7: in Carmel. Is it's okay to play with an edge.
Speaker 7: It's okay to be a boss out on the court.
Speaker 7: That was what she was trying to instill, among many
Speaker 7: things into these young girls.
Speaker 3: She does her game back up her popularity or does
Speaker 3: her popularity off the floor? Is it more overwhelming than
Speaker 3: her performance on the floor. Is that fair to ask?
Speaker 7: I think so, And it's kind of a hard to measure,
Speaker 7: but I would say, originally, probably, John, it was the popularity,
Speaker 7: and now it's the game. She is having a really
Speaker 7: really strong season, right I really settled into her role
Speaker 7: originally started then came off the bench, and that, quite frankly,
Speaker 7: is where they need her because they need some scoring,
Speaker 7: some energy, some juice, quite frankly, off the bench in
Speaker 7: addition to her three point shooting. So as much as
Speaker 7: it would be great for her in the league and
Speaker 7: this team for her to be in the three point shootout,
Speaker 7: make no miss.
Speaker 5: She deserves it.
Speaker 7: She's a top five three point shooter in the league
Speaker 7: this year, just as Lexi Hall was last year when
Speaker 7: she was included.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny about and we'll get to that point
Speaker 3: of the lack of All Star invitation, All Star weekend invitation,
Speaker 3: three point shooting competition in just a second, which is
Speaker 3: absolutely asinine. But did the Fever know what they were
Speaker 3: getting in her, what they have in her right now
Speaker 3: when they brought her in?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7: I think she's delivering right now, John, exactly what they
Speaker 7: had hoped for, some energy, some three point shooting. She
Speaker 7: would space the floor, she could attack, she could play
Speaker 7: within the flow of the offense. I think this year
Speaker 7: now she's starting to deliver upon exactly why they acquired
Speaker 7: her via trade last year.
Speaker 3: Scott agneson Fieldhouse Files, he saw the Anymore Automotive Group hotline.
Speaker 3: So Kelsey Mitchell, NAH three point shooting competition. Sophie Cunningham
Speaker 3: NAH three point shooting competition. Listen to the very least
Speaker 3: you have to have Sophie Cunningham a part of something,
Speaker 3: don't it. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 7: Doesn't make sense that there's no Fever player represented. And
Speaker 7: I get maybe Kaitlin did not want to do it
Speaker 7: and prioritize her rest and recovery, and the same probably
Speaker 7: quite frankly goes for Sabrina and Escue. You're defending champion.
Speaker 7: I think that's more detrimental to the three point contest.
Speaker 7: I love the fact, even though I didn't like the
Speaker 7: dynamic this past year in the NBA John of Damian
Speaker 7: Lillard not playing a game at all but still participating
Speaker 7: in the three point contest. What I liked about it
Speaker 7: is he wanted it, and we don't see that much
Speaker 7: anymore with these all star games, the Pro Bowl, whatever
Speaker 7: it is. And so I think it would be a
Speaker 7: real miss for the league if you don't have the
Speaker 7: most pop somebody from the most popular team represented on
Speaker 7: the Friday night. Remember, this is the only team that's
Speaker 7: at every game on national TV.
Speaker 5: They are the it team.
Speaker 7: Somebody should be out there, whether it's Clark or somebody else.
Speaker 3: The numbers, this seems like that they're breaking records every
Speaker 3: time they're on a national broadcast like that too, So
Speaker 3: it would stand re that maybe you'd utilize it more
Speaker 3: and put that under more of a focus than what
Speaker 3: the WNBA ultimately does.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it does take two sides here to tango.
Speaker 7: What we do know if Cunningham's told us over the weekend, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I haven't heard from anybody, but I would take full
Speaker 7: advantage of that opportunity. So we do know her willingness
Speaker 7: unclear just yet of Mitchell even Boston, although her attempts
Speaker 7: are down a little bit, but she's had a tremendous
Speaker 7: year shooting from beyond the arc, and that was the
Speaker 7: one thing that was pushed on by the coaching staff.
Speaker 7: I remember Stephanie Whine in training camp, what do you
Speaker 7: want to see from Boston here in year four? The
Speaker 7: only thing she specified is I wanted to willingly take threes.
Speaker 7: Confidently she started to do that. She too could deserve it.
Speaker 7: And sometimes they like to mix in bigs and make
Speaker 7: sure it's not just a guard three point shooting contest.
Speaker 7: Maybe you could have included her with that. She's going
Speaker 7: to be out there anyway for the All Star Game,
Speaker 7: and a lot of times with these john they like
Speaker 7: to already include people that will be playing in the
Speaker 7: game anyway. So it's easy for someone like Clark, Boston
Speaker 7: or Mitchell. But also keep in mind here there's a
Speaker 7: higher price too, so there's a more significant number associated
Speaker 7: with those being included. This is all part of that
Speaker 7: new collective bargaining agreement. Anyone that participates in it gets
Speaker 7: ten thousand dollars, the winner gets twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: So Scott six technicals for Caitlin Clark, we all know
Speaker 3: the situation. You get to eight, you get suspended. So
Speaker 3: the likelihood at least timing why she's going to get
Speaker 3: at that point again at some point in this season.
Speaker 3: Is she taking all of this? A couple of days
Speaker 3: ago in her response to the Q and A, you
Speaker 3: guys are lobbing or I should say, you know, James
Speaker 3: bo what I think was the ask or the question
Speaker 3: here that she was being asked. Is she taking this
Speaker 3: too lightly?
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 7: I think she recognizes what makes her great and it's
Speaker 7: her competitive edge, it's her being fiery. I think we
Speaker 7: have seen her in certain games where she knows needs
Speaker 7: to tone it back or just can't make an episode
Speaker 7: necesscessarily with the officiating. Here's what I think it comes
Speaker 7: down to for her more than anything is she's got
Speaker 7: to stand her ground for her health's sake. I think
Speaker 7: she's begun to take some of the lack of calls
Speaker 7: and the reason she is arguing as a direct shot
Speaker 7: at her health and her availability. I don't think this
Speaker 7: is trying to be confrontational or maybe like the rest
Speaker 7: of the league, everybody trying to get more consistently.
Speaker 5: The times that.
Speaker 7: She's went down and then got up furious, it's been
Speaker 7: times that, look, she had a quad bruise, or she
Speaker 7: didn't finish the Phoenix game because of more pain in
Speaker 7: her lower back, quad, all that areas, so it's all connected.
Speaker 7: I think that's why we're seeing her be a little
Speaker 7: bit more fiery, and I wouldn't expect that for that
Speaker 7: to change, because if it's costing her games, it's costing
Speaker 7: everybody well.
Speaker 3: And she can't with this though cost her teammates, the organization,
Speaker 3: the fan base games. It can't come to that. And
Speaker 3: while I agree with what you're saying about the lack
Speaker 3: of calls, you and I both know this. Everybody knows
Speaker 3: this by now. The WNBA officials suck and it's not
Speaker 3: like all of a sudden they're going to be transformed
Speaker 3: into being adequate officials. So you yourself and your game
Speaker 3: you have to adapt to that. And a part of
Speaker 3: that adapting to it is making sure you don't compromise
Speaker 3: your situation, meaning you're playing time with your teammates at
Speaker 3: any point in the season that's non injury related. I
Speaker 3: think that that would be incredibly detrimental. Thus, I think
Speaker 3: you don't have to tone down your enthusiasm for the game,
Speaker 3: but you just have to understand, Scott, from my angle,
Speaker 3: what you're dealing with these officials, and that's that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think that's totally fair. And I also
Speaker 7: think she understands her importance to this franchise and her
Speaker 7: availability night in and night out. Yet at the same time,
Speaker 7: I think they're trying to prove this greater issue. I
Speaker 7: think we've seen some progress in the number of calls
Speaker 7: and some progress in the freedom of movement, but clearly,
Speaker 7: as you stated, I mean, there's still a long waiste
Speaker 7: to go, and for those that are just jumping in,
Speaker 7: you know, the last couple of years, this has been
Speaker 7: an issue the entirety of the WNBA. It's just now
Speaker 7: a gigantic spotlight because as you referenced earlier. More and
Speaker 7: more of these games are getting incredible viewers. I mean,
Speaker 7: their game against the Liberty over this past weekend became
Speaker 7: the second most watched WNBA game in history at over
Speaker 7: two and a half million, against two of the top
Speaker 7: teams in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 3: Scott Agnes of Fieldhouse files he is on the Andy
Speaker 3: Moore Automotive Group potline. It is certainly an interesting idea.
Speaker 3: It's funny. I asked Kevin Bowen this guy a little
Speaker 3: bit earlier. It's sometimes the most rabbid fans of Kaitlin
Speaker 3: Clark out there, I think are detrimental to Kaitlin Clark
Speaker 3: because they're so rabbid. They they're stupid, they're ignorant about stuff,
Speaker 3: and the constant bashing of the head coach, for example,
Speaker 3: for not absorbing the technicals is just ridiculous. And I
Speaker 3: think sometimes that that rabid, cult like fan base of
Speaker 3: Caitlin Clark is detrimental to her overall view and cast,
Speaker 3: not on the floor, but just in general terms to
Speaker 3: her image.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we've felt a lot of that in
Speaker 7: the last couple of months especially, and everybody's willing to
Speaker 7: jump in on that conversation. What I haven't liked, John
Speaker 7: is the fact that the number of former players that
Speaker 7: haven't stood up for that haven't gone to bat for
Speaker 7: her and discussing what she's experiencing the realities face like.
Speaker 7: As much as we talk about the other players involved,
Speaker 7: I think it's remarkable how at what age twenty four,
Speaker 7: all that think about the negativity we see. Imagine what
Speaker 7: her Twitter feed has to home. Her Instagram has.
Speaker 5: To be like.
Speaker 7: I think that's why she mostly remains off of it. Instagram.
Speaker 7: She's certainly on and leaves some of the hilarious, wittiest
Speaker 7: remarks in the comments section, but outside of that, I mean,
Speaker 7: several individuals, including Stephanie White, have just deleted social media altogether.
Speaker 7: That's not a healthy way to live in general, right,
Speaker 7: if we have to totally get rid of it. So,
Speaker 7: I think you have the rabid fan base where someone
Speaker 7: can do no wrong. You have the fan base that's
Speaker 7: entirely jealous or wants others to get attention, and then
Speaker 7: you also have the outliers that just have no interest
Speaker 7: in what's going on but want to make themselves hurt
Speaker 7: and be part of the conversation and try to capitalize
Speaker 7: on this movement.
Speaker 3: Scott Agnes with us, what's your expectation for this team
Speaker 3: coming up after the All Star Break? There have been moments,
Speaker 3: and maybe the last two games would be those particular
Speaker 3: moments where you're thinking, maybe they catch a little bit
Speaker 3: of fire and live up to those high level of
Speaker 3: expectations we had we expecting to see that coming up
Speaker 3: after the All Star Break from this group.
Speaker 7: I think so it does feel like some things in
Speaker 7: different ways are starting to click. They still have some
Speaker 7: of those lulls, right They'll get up by seven after
Speaker 7: one and then held to twelve points in the second
Speaker 7: quarter and trail by six at halftime. It's more often
Speaker 7: than not, it's seemingly those middle two quarters, it seems like,
Speaker 7: and then they have to ratchet things up to get
Speaker 7: back in the game, and then it's really a toss
Speaker 7: up late to go. But the fact that, I mean,
Speaker 7: there's so many we sometimes talk about all those negatives,
Speaker 7: there's so many positives to it. I mean, the fact
Speaker 7: that Kelsey Mitchell is on an incredible tear right now,
Speaker 7: twenty plus points in ten straight games, and it comes
Speaker 7: so easily to her. I think the fact when a
Speaker 7: Leah Boston what she's been able to produce in her
Speaker 7: time out there. There's certain things we still need to
Speaker 7: see more of. I want to see more from Lexi Hall,
Speaker 7: especially in that starting position. Same goes with Motnique Billings.
Speaker 7: You need more out of that three and four spot.
Speaker 7: But what Cunningham has been able to do to the bench,
Speaker 7: Ty Harrison spot moments, even Mikayla Timpson. I like some
Speaker 7: of that that they've been seeing because we know what
Speaker 7: they've been able to do and we'll be able to
Speaker 7: do at the top. It's those secondary pieces, those you know,
Speaker 7: the role players here that really have to buy in
Speaker 7: and lean into that specific role that will be able
Speaker 7: to help carry them into the postseason.
Speaker 5: We've seen that in the w We've seen that into
Speaker 5: the NBA.
Speaker 7: It's less about top, top heavy talent, right, It's more
Speaker 7: about having the depth to sustain through injuries, adversity, suspensions, whatever.
Speaker 3: Scott agnes with us before I let you go. That
Speaker 3: is also a quality we believe that the Pacers have.
Speaker 3: And we've seen the off season moves and we saw
Speaker 3: the nineteen wins last year. They were compromised obviously heavily
Speaker 3: with injury, as we all know, right, now, but you
Speaker 3: look around the landscape of the NBA those nationally that
Speaker 3: cover it, there is a lot of outer side out
Speaker 3: of mind given coming up in twenty six and twenty
Speaker 3: seven for their belief in this Pacer team. Is this
Speaker 3: something that just comes naturally because of the season they
Speaker 3: have or have people? Are people just not dialed in
Speaker 3: with the belief like the Pacers are in this core
Speaker 3: group and the bounce back to where they were before
Speaker 3: the Halliburton injury in Game seven last year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, great question. I think it's a number of things.
Speaker 7: First of all, it's just Indiana being overlooked, as they
Speaker 7: always are, and I would argue John, this franchise has
Speaker 7: always been better when that's the case, when they are
Speaker 7: thought to be playing from behind, backs against the wall,
Speaker 7: if you want to use that overused cliche there, this
Speaker 7: team's always been better in that way. Secondly, we don't
Speaker 7: know what Tyre's Halliburton looks like and when he is
Speaker 7: the fulcrum, when he is the key piece of this
Speaker 7: Indiana team and the way in which they play and
Speaker 7: the way in which they were built, that is a
Speaker 7: significant question mark, both because of the Achilles and the
Speaker 7: way in which the shingles directly infected him. And then
Speaker 7: the fact that they really didn't make much changes, and
Speaker 7: so it tends to be more obvious and more interesting
Speaker 7: to some of these especially national shows, right to discuss
Speaker 7: this is the landmark change. What's the most significant move
Speaker 7: of the offseason. Well, bringing in Kelly Oubray junior is
Speaker 7: not going to move the needle. So I'm not surprised
Speaker 7: that something like that has not been part of that conversation.
Speaker 7: The Pacers moves was Halliburtons, Zubots and now they lean
Speaker 7: very much so on their continuity.
Speaker 3: Hey, Scott, before I let you go, and if you
Speaker 3: don't want to answer, that's okay. It's a little bit personal.
Speaker 3: But are you have the fever? The Pacers kind of
Speaker 3: changed up their pace on the way you're able to
Speaker 3: cover the team. Has that changed at all?
Speaker 5: What do you mean by pace?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean what their decision that was stupid. Yeah, entirely.
Speaker 7: I have no access day to day to fever practices,
Speaker 7: fever game.
Speaker 3: What can I rest for? What can I do to
Speaker 3: help that out? Is there anything I can do?
Speaker 7: I'm not sure I've tried to. If you can initiate
Speaker 7: any conversations to bring in.
Speaker 3: Because No, I think you do a really good job,
Speaker 3: and I think this is all pretty much bull crap.
Speaker 7: My biggest challenge in all this, John is all I've
Speaker 7: asked is just to have a conversation. Let's get in
Speaker 7: the room, be grown ups and discuss and let me
Speaker 7: hear their side, let them hear mine. And we just
Speaker 7: haven't gotten to that point. Get my coverage goes on.
Speaker 7: I was out there in Las Vegas, I will be
Speaker 7: in Chicago for WNBA All Stars.
Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you this, I think you do
Speaker 3: a fantastic job. And I think that in this era
Speaker 3: of Scott, for this team, this organization, I don't think
Speaker 3: you can push people that are young, enthusiastic and have
Speaker 3: a purpose in doing this like you, And even if
Speaker 3: you're old like me, I don't think you can push.
Speaker 3: You can't afford to push anybody away. And I just
Speaker 3: kind of wondered if there's anything we can do around
Speaker 3: here because we have you. I mean, hell, you're online
Speaker 3: three times a week around here as well. I just
Speaker 3: kind of wonder if there's anything that we can we
Speaker 3: can do to help. No.
Speaker 7: I do appreciate that it's a remarkable a number of
Speaker 7: business people I saw out and pacers have no issue
Speaker 7: with them. It's just one or two people that you
Speaker 7: know are clearly blocking the way and do not want
Speaker 7: me around and do not understand the justification. They're all
Speaker 7: coverage here is good coverage. Courage people to see or
Speaker 7: you know, and read the stuff I'm producing on a
Speaker 7: daily basis.
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you want that around? Well, we'll help any
Speaker 3: way we can, because I know that I'm speaking for
Speaker 3: everybody here. We appreciate your content on the shows pal
Speaker 3: we do, and especially me after sixteen years of jack assery.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it very much. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Nah, you're all good. I appreciate your your concerns there.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, and I didn't want to bring it up.
Speaker 3: If you didn't want to go there, you didn't have
Speaker 3: to go there. But I just thought, man, if there's
Speaker 3: any way, because we use you so much, if we
Speaker 3: can help, we absolutely would. Scott again, thank you, and
Speaker 3: we'll direct people to field House files to see your content.
Speaker 3: Whether you're active being able down to field House or not,
Speaker 3: it does not matter. We'll push people there for you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You got Scott Agnes right there. At Fieldhouse Files on
Speaker 3: the Andy Moore Automotive Group pile line man, James, I
Speaker 3: better not do it. Huh, go ahead and move on.
Speaker 3: I just don't know what to ask because it's been
Speaker 3: a minute and it's so stupid. James says, break. We'll
Speaker 3: break right here by the way. We got to go
Speaker 3: early goth Brooks tickets before I bail right now, Weather Updates.
Speaker 3: Got to see a Fox with the nine James.
Speaker 1: The ride with JMV.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell's in there.
Speaker 1: It's weird and pissed off whatever it is. Ninety three
Speaker 1: to five and one oh seven five the Fan. Not
Speaker 1: just yet, but we're getting closer.
Speaker 3: Garth tickets one, two, not three, but four shows coming
Speaker 3: up at August James, not quite yet, are we No,
Speaker 3: we're not yet to start.
Speaker 4: But now that you said the words, I'm waiting for
Speaker 4: people to start calling.
Speaker 3: What do you think would be an interesting number? I'm
Speaker 3: gonna throw around a number. Total. We've gone sixty. I
Speaker 3: think the past couple of days, I think we can
Speaker 3: go higher.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I mean I think yesterday we got close
Speaker 4: to eighty people.
Speaker 3: All right, Tim, that is coming up in a second.
Speaker 3: I sit tight for that Red Sox fifteenth consecutive when
Speaker 3: that is matching a club record longest wins streak and
Speaker 3: team history eighty years ago. That goes back to nineteen
Speaker 3: forty six and their American League championship team led by
Speaker 3: future Hall of Famer Ted Williams. They're fifteenth straight win
Speaker 3: earlier this afternoon. You know what's funny about that, they
Speaker 3: are still six games back in the al east of
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay, fifteen consecutive wins. Red's five to three, top
Speaker 3: of seven over the Mariners. That is in Seattle, Cardinals Angels,
Speaker 3: top of six, no score in that contest. Cubs and
Speaker 3: Tigers later off to night. I believe that is an
Speaker 3: ESPN game for your Cubs fan. I mean, hell, I
Speaker 3: didn't even know ESPN still had games and stuff on. Well,
Speaker 3: they lay everybody off and not have games anymore. You know,
Speaker 3: it's it's so weird. Other than live action, it is
Speaker 3: few and far between for me on ESPN.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I so much still loved the time when they
Speaker 3: used to have Denise Austin and what's her name from Hawaii,
Speaker 3: Keana Tom doing aerobics, log rolling all that stuff in
Speaker 3: the afternoon. Yeah, all this like yelling at one another
Speaker 3: back and forth, can smooth it and get the hell
Speaker 3: out of here. I think that sucks.
Speaker 4: Not a fan of the hot take machines.
Speaker 3: No, the hot take machines can can stick it truly
Speaker 3: so outside of live action, I don't even know when
Speaker 3: the hell I watch True True Story. It's Big Nige
Speaker 3: right there from Hammer and Nigel in the hall. Quick
Speaker 3: break will come back Garth Brooks on the other side,
Speaker 3: You guys get ready for that live and I'm counting
Speaker 3: on you guys to all show up in Speedway tomorrow
Speaker 3: when and where and why and the level of fun
Speaker 3: we're going to have is going to be massive. Can
Speaker 3: you guys take it on a Thursday? Sure? You can't
Speaker 3: tell you all about that? And more and give somebody
Speaker 3: a chance to win Garth tickets next.
Speaker 1: The Ride with JMV.
Speaker 3: But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not.
Speaker 1: Normal ninety three five and one oh seven five The
Speaker 1: Fan Not Here.
Speaker 3: We Go seventy seven zero on the text line of
Speaker 3: three one seven, two, three nine ten seventy is going
Speaker 3: to go see Garth Brooks on US four shows at
Speaker 3: All gamebridge Field House coming up in August. Tickets available now,
Speaker 3: but you can win them right here, number seventy seven zero.
Speaker 3: I want to see those texts coming in, and I
Speaker 3: mean fast and furiously here and faster than this. This
Speaker 3: is almost a half assed effort so far, James, we
Speaker 3: can have it. If the host is never going to
Speaker 3: give you a half assed effort there zero, you should
Speaker 3: give me one. Let's go number seven seven zero. Everybody
Speaker 3: has a chance, go get it. Garth Brooks four shows.
Speaker 3: Tickets available number seventy three, one, seven, two thirty nine,
Speaker 3: ten seventy This show tomorrow, everybody, you guys gonna show
Speaker 3: up Speedway City Garage coming up tomorrow, Speedway City Garage.
Speaker 3: The hauler parade is going to take place because we're
Speaker 3: going to be on Main Street. But we got coffee
Speaker 3: coffee served up Founders Grounds Coffee and pax Verim Brewing
Speaker 3: has us tomorrow too. We've got coffee and beer for everybody.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to see you guys Speedway City Garage
Speaker 3: that is coming up tomorrow. My Fanks to Scott Agnes,
Speaker 3: Fieldhouse Files, Kevin Bowen Fan Morning Show seven until ten am.
Speaker 3: Right here, James Boy to Martin knighton on the Fan
Speaker 3: weekday mornings James, great job out of you. Thank you
Speaker 3: all for listening being a part of the show. I
Speaker 3: have so much fun with you. Can I imagine spending
Speaker 3: time without you. Speedway sitting garage at three tomorrow, let's
Speaker 3: all get together and have ourselves a party. It starts
Speaker 3: at three Main Street and Speedway tomorrow. Ninety three five
Speaker 3: and one oh seven five of fan have a great night.