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Neil Price deserves a lot more pictures on Google than this after his work tonight. While Kentucky will scramble to find players with any energy left tomorrow following a 21 inning baseball game, Neil Price might be the one who needs the most relief. Neil Price went 21 innings of radio commentary for the UK IMG network tonight, calling the longest baseball game in the history of the SEC. Price essentially called 2+ baseball games. Even more impressive? Anyone who was keeping up with the Kentucky/Kent State game was listening to him. The game was not televised anywhere. Neil Price was the one uniting all of us around our radios tonight. My hat goes off to Price, who had me glued to the radio on a Friday night listening to a baseball game. I don’t even like baseball.
- The big news of the day/night belongs to the Kentucky baseball team who opened up regional play in Gary, Indiana earlier this evening. When I say earlier this evening, I mean way earlier this evening. The game started at 4:00 p.m. The game ended at 10:37 p.m. In fact, I had enough time to listen to the entire first 9 innings, go watch a 2 hour movie in the theatre, and then listen to 5 more innings in my car after the movie. Unfortunately for Kentucky they came up on the short end of one of the craziest baseball games in recent memory, dropping the game 7-6. Kentucky used every single one of their position players in the marathon contest. Kentucky used A.J. Reed as a relief pitcher. He went 9 innings. Kentucky used the support of Big Blue Nation, who according to Twitter, rallied around the team — especially as the game continued on into the late evening. All of that just wasn’t enough for the Cats though. The loss was exceptionally painful for Kentucky as they utilized nearly every player on their roster. The heart-breaking loss for the Wildcats luckily does not eliminate them from the regional competition, but it will likely put them in a tough position to bounce back in approximately 17 hours in a must-win game.
- If you want to see what a 21 inning baseball game looks like in the form of a box score…
(h/t @pennington_jl)
- By the way, Purdue and Valpo still have to play their opening round game tonight. They sat around waiting for the Kentucky/Kent State game to end for hours. Adding even more salt to the wound for the fans of the second game? Apparently the announcer let them know just moments after the conclusion of the Kentucky game that they would have to leave and re-enter, purchasing tickets for the Valpo/Purdue game. Ouch. NCAA, no one likes you.
- For those who have been keeping an eye on the Capital One Cup standings, don’t forget that Kentucky’s first step in staying alive in the race for the top spot rests on the shoulders of this Kentucky baseball team advancing. They will have a tough road moving forward, facing a must-win game tomorrow with a depleted bullpen in order to advance out of Gary, Indiana. This Kentucky baseball team has been resilient most of the season though. Hopefully they can rise to the occasion with their backs against the wall.
- Beyond the 21 innings of Kentucky baseball played by Kentucky tonight, the rest of the news around Kentucky athletics was fairly slow. Early this morning we learned officially that Kentucky will be playing in South Bend for the SEC/Big East Challenge against Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish are excited about the chance to bring the Wildcats into their (thanks to the KSR radio show) apparently recently renovated arena. Kentucky fans on the other hand? Well, the news didn’t seem to stir up much of a reaction. Notre Dame is not the most exciting of the potential Big East opponents, but the rumor has been floating around about Notre Dame being the opponent for a while now. Not included in the SEC/Big East Challenge at all? Louisville. Included but not happy about it? Apparently Syracuse. They have to travel to Arkansas. And we know that Syracuse, more so than perhaps any other program in college basketball, hates to leave their home arena.
- With the announcement of the Notre Dame game, the 2012-2013 non-conference schedule seems to be just about completed. A few people Oscar Combs seems to still be holding out hope that Kentucky and Indiana will reach an agreement for a neutral site game next season. I’m not one to argue with Oscar Combs, so I’ll just say once again that the non-conference schedule seems to be just about completed.
- If you are craving basketball news and stories, some of the Kentucky players will be arriving on campus next week. Prepare yourselves to see the guys at various food locations in downtown Lexington. Also, prepare yourselves to hear stories of pick-up game legends and Ryan Harrow’s 3-point shooting and dunking ability. It’s coming folks. Just hang in there for another week or so.
- Once again, the Tony Trocha news is non-existent. Oh, and in case you weren’t aware… Chris Walker is in the 2013 recruiting class.
- Our man Demarcus Cousins reminded us of that sense of humor we’ve missed since he left Lexington… Zing?
That’s it for now…stay tuned tomorrow for some Saturday morning links.
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June 1st, 2012 at 11:40 pm
So much for all of the whining about us not hosting a regional…not sure if it is better to just stay irrelevent, or act like you got something just to choke it away…
But really, it’s just freakin baseball…
June 2nd, 2012 at 12:14 am
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June 2nd, 2012 at 12:49 am
Kudo’s to the UK baseball team, and the announcers.
If you didn’t enjoy listening to this ball game, then you aren’t a UK Baseball fan. Come on… they had a reliever go 9 innings. Great game… I only regret that my wife and I were supposed to leave to go out to dinner @ 7pm after the UK game was over, and after 20 innings and it being 10pm, I finally agreed to go to dinner. The ball game ended in the 21st inning. Gutsy game for the Wildcats. Come back strong next game.
June 2nd, 2012 at 1:15 am
Great game? They lost … so that kinda negates the aura around it. Team is done … actually I’d say both Kent State & UK are done. It’s sad that we can never build on any success we have. It’d be nice to have some postseason success in a sport other than basketball
June 2nd, 2012 at 1:18 am
Won’t we need to win 4 in a row?
June 2nd, 2012 at 1:33 am
We will need a miracle haha!
June 2nd, 2012 at 2:00 am
NCAA make those baseball fans pay! Make them pay bigtime!
They should know better than to watch college baseball. Gez! They should all pay double!
Just joking.
June 2nd, 2012 at 6:11 am
As if being in Gary, IN at 10:37 p.m. wasn’t bad enough.
June 2nd, 2012 at 7:48 am
This may not be a popular opinion, but let me get this straight. We gave up a HOME game with Indiana for a ROAD game with Notre Dame? Not getting into the Indiana crap, just wondering how the fans won in this? A chance to pay them back IN RUPP,for the way they treated our fans last year……….Don’t understand this one,way to go Cal, you showed them.
June 2nd, 2012 at 7:57 am
Its baseball, people. Who cares? How many of you actually made it to a game this year? I loved all the bitch’n and moan’n a week ago – for what? We lost to f’n Kent State. Bring on football, oh wait…
June 2nd, 2012 at 7:58 am
#9. The ND game is part of the big east -sec challenge. Would have played it regardless.
June 2nd, 2012 at 7:59 am
#9 – wrong. Education and information are your friends.
June 2nd, 2012 at 8:09 am
#12, please inform me. Did we not have a home game coming up this year with Indiana? I am serious, I have been away(sickness in the family). I don’t know what happened, just reading all the crap from the hoosiers of us being scared and how cal ran. Don’t believe that, but would like to know what really caused the home game next year to go away. Was there a contract for the game? If not, I appoligise, as I said, haven’t been around for a while.
June 2nd, 2012 at 8:17 am
Neil Price has a great baseball announcer voice and we really enjoyed listening to him call the game last night, even if it didn’t go our way.
June 2nd, 2012 at 8:21 am
#13 – If you haven’t been around for a while, then why are you calling out Cal and getting your info from iu sources? All you had to do is read this site for 1 minute and there would be some reference to “the deal.” Again, don’t call out Cal or UK till you know facts.
June 2nd, 2012 at 8:24 am
IU wanted home and home, UK wanted neutral sites. Neither would give. Some say because the IU fans were a little rambunctious this year and the series may need a cooling off from campuses. Also Cal doesn’t want to be locked in a contract over 2 years. My take is that Cal and UK are on the top of college bball and can schedule whoever he wants. He wants to play other big programs on big stages to get the UK “brand” out there and play in final four like arenas.
June 2nd, 2012 at 8:26 am
Actually not my take. It’s Cal’s take
June 2nd, 2012 at 9:57 am
#16 I believe they are now doing the same thing with the UC/XU game.
June 2nd, 2012 at 12:51 pm
16) I was under the impression that money was a big factor in this (ie don’t get paid very much for playing in that little crap gym rather than a neutral site stadium).
Anyway, who cares about IU. If they’re good enough, then they can play us again in the tournament for all the chips and lose by 10.
June 2nd, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Thanks for the info #16,appreciate the info…..#15, kiss my ass jerk, I read more than “1 minute” and couldn’t find info other than what indiana fans were saying on this site. Unlike you, I don’t think Cal invented Ky basketball, sorry asshole.
June 2nd, 2012 at 7:57 pm
#20 Stan, or should I call you ‘troll.’
There is no way that you read this site and saw more info from iu fans than UK fans or Matt or anyone else for that matter on the iu/UK basketball game situation. Oh and, buddy, don’t let your mouth (fingers) write a check yer azz can’t cash!
June 3rd, 2012 at 12:15 am
21, money is in the bank.