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Query & Company

Live From The State Fair! Greg Rakestraw Fills In! Colts, Fever, and College Football Discussion!

Query & Company

93.5 & 107.5 The Fan

Sports

3.1759 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

(00:00-26:24) – Query & Company opens on a Wednesday with Greg Rakestraw filling in for Jake Query at the Indiana State Fair with producer Eddie Garrison back in studio discussing last night’s frustrating loss for the Indiana Fever to the Dallas Wings. Rake also comments on the quarterback competition for the Colts and shares who he believes will be quarterbacking the team in week one against the Miami Dolphins.   

(26:24-36:54) – Jerry Palm from CBS Sports joins Greg Rakestraw to discuss what he’s up to now, revisit the days when it was just him and Joe Lunardi as the bracketologists for college basketball, admits that he is happy that the NCAA isn’t expanding the tournament right now, and comments on what he will be watching in the early weeks of the college football season as it pertains to the College Football Playoff.

(36:54-44:42) – The Indiana Standardbred Association’s director, Tony Renz, joins Greg Rakestraw at the Indiana State Fair to discuss the history of horse racing at the fairgrounds, the family orientation behind horse racing, and lists the different places that they race at.

(44:42-1:09:23) – The second hour of Query & Company at the Indiana State Fair with Greg Rakestraw answering a question from a listener on which quarterback gives the Indianapolis Colts a better chance at making the playoffs and his thoughts on the Pacers not being on the Christmas Day schedule. Also, Rake starts previewing the start of the high school football season!

(1:09:23-1:20:46) – Indiana Fever radio play-by-play broadcaster, John Nolan, joins Greg Rakestraw to recap last night’s loss to the Dallas Wings, agrees with Rake that you must take the games without Caitlin Clark still with a grain of salt, weighs on when Caitlin Clark could return to game action for the Fever, agrees with Rake that he does feel like Indiana has the ability to be one of the best teams in the league when Clark returns, and comments on living in Indianapolis now.

(1:20:46-1:28:48) – The second hour of the program concludes with Jessica Barnes, Assistant Executive Director of the Indiana Standardbred Association, joins Greg Rakestraw at the fair to go over the events coming later today on the track, how she got involved in horse racing, and all the various facilities they use across the state.

(1:27:49-1:50:50) – Bob Haney, Indy RBI Director of Operations, joins Greg Rakestraw to explain what RBI Baseball is, shares which parks they are playing at across the state and what school districts are a part of it, takes Rake through all the different teams that they had to face in order to get to the RBI World Series last week in Florida, recaps the experience for the kids being able to compete against some of the best baseball players across the state, and promotes how people can become involved in Indy RBI.  

(1:50:50-2:07:18) – Jamie Macomber from the Midwest Standardbred Association is our final guest on the show with Greg Rakestraw at the state fair to discuss the upcoming horse sale at the Indiana State Fair in October, explains the difference between training a thoroughbred and standardbred horses, and how racing at the Indiana State Fair benefits the horses. Indy Eleven backup goalie Reice Charles-Cook stops by to recap his first experience at the Indiana State Fair, shares what fair food that he has tried, and receives some tips from Rake on where he needs to go before he leaves the fairgrounds.

(2:07:18-2:11:31) – Today’s show closes out with Greg Rakestraw recapping the show, sharing what we learned in the break about Reice Charles-Cook, and teases JMV about having his chances to work on his play-by-play duties this week.

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0:00.0

Today it's just the company. There is no query. Now, I did not realize that Jake was such a Chicago

0:08.2

White Sox fan. I don't think he is, but he seemingly has this tradition where he goes to a

0:15.7

White Sox day game every year. And frankly, that is my kind of tradition you know because it's kind of

0:23.2

like when Kevin Bowen and I and by the way my name is Greg Rakeshraw hello how are you

0:27.1

and you can hear there's activity in the background I'll tell you where we are it's not far from

0:32.0

where I live frankly and it's a place that I know well and I'll get there in a second but kids

0:36.5

one story at a time even if the voices in my head are having a full-blown conversation as we speak.

0:43.3

You know, anybody can go to see the two first place teams play.

0:48.3

I'm a much bigger fan of watching the last place team play because you know why you get all kind of room to spread out

0:54.6

nice and comfortable viewing whatever you are doing so jake who literally lives within walking

1:01.3

distance of the indiana state fairgrounds where we are right now instead of being here at the grandstand

1:07.5

with uh standard bread racing taking place literally as we speak.

1:12.8

He is heading to the south side to watch the Chicago White Sox's Little Day.

1:16.0

Baseball, I said.

1:17.2

Tell Colson Montgomery, I said hello.

1:20.2

So you are stuck with me as your substitute teacher between now and 3 o'clock.

1:25.0

And there is something that is something of a running joke or a little

1:29.3

inside baseball here. When you have a fill-in host that isn't used to talking in 15 and 20-minute

1:36.3

story arcs and sometimes by themselves on a regular basis the way that they used to be, what do you do?

1:42.6

You load up the show with guests,

1:44.4

which is exactly what I am doing today.

1:47.3

Now, part of it is because of the reason we are here,

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