2025-07-29- KSR PRE-SHOW

Shannon The Dude and Billy Rutledge talk Mark Stoops, Lexington Legends "First Pitch" and your calls.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. It is the KSR Pre Show, Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
July twenty ninth.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Can't believe it. August is almost here. We'll be here Friday.
As a matter of fact, it is the KSR pre Show.
Shannon the Dude, Billy our Sports. Give us a call
on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line at eight five
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five sixty six five six. KSR Pre Show, as always,

(00:27):
is being brought to you by Italics Fine Italian Dining
in Lexington. It is uh gonna be a great day today, Billy,
because I'm going to be in Lexington a little bit
later on. But before we get to that, I got
to talk to you about your appearance on KSR yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Billy.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Don't touch my ball, Rutledge joining me today. You get
really upset when we were talking about people touching your
golf ball while you're playing.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
You don't like caddies going.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Up and giving you a better lie because you shot
one into the woods. It's very passionate about that. On
the show, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I like to think of myself as a PGA Tour professional.
I'm not wearing pants every time I go play golf,
but I am respecting the game and get Golf is
a game of honesty, Shannon. You can That's why you
get a lot of business done on the course.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
You can tell kind of who a person is if
they cheat at golf, if you know how they act.
And I just, you know, wanted to see what my
score was on one of the best courses in the country.
So when a caddy is moving my ball to make
it more favorable for me, I think many would say
thank you me, Shannon.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I'm saying, get the hell out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm not giving you a tip if you're gonna be
just moving my ball without even asking.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
When he moved your ball, did you go back and
move it to where you thought that it was No, okay,
you hit it.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Then you know I hit it. Did you go with
that guy?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
I was full in yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I did.
I did a what the heck?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Uh? And then he explained to us, Oh, we do
this for everybody. H but you know, maybe a heads
up before you soiled the integrity of my round.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
You and your integrity, integrity of the game, integrity. So
so did he move it again at any point later
on that day?

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Oh yeah, he did it all day.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
So even though you told him, man, apparently you really
got through to him.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
You yelled at the guy and then he goes, well,
I don't care who this guy is, I'm gonna keep
moving his ball anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Well, in the fairway, he was right. I mean I
needed the help.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
So at that course, it's it's just a lot of
waste area, so you're like in the sand constantly, and yeah,
you could spend all day out there.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
So I took the I took his help, but I
didn't like it. Shannon. You know, I'll say that on
the air, But I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Just trying to think of something that really doesn't matter
in life that I get that passionately upset about. The
only thing that really comes to mind is like gender
revill parties. I have really strong negative I get really
outraged when I see that somebody started a forest fire
because they wanted to, you know, send blue smoke up
into the air or pink smoke up into the air,

(02:49):
and they started to forest fire and burn people's houses down.
I get really upset when we talk about stuff like that.
But yeah, you were, You're very upset about.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
So I know.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I mean, I'm probably never going to go play a
round of golf with you unless it's put putt Billy,
but I will remember to never touch Billy's ball.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, you say it doesn't matter, I mean that rounds
four hundred dollars already five hundred dollars round, So I mean.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
You can put down whatever score you want to though,
man like, you're still playing it, you're still getting your
money's worth. I mean, if you want to put down
that you shot a sixty four, I mean you can
do that. Nobody else is keeping score but you.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
But you know, you know that that's a that's a
fake score, and you've got to live with yourself after that, Shannon.
But you're right, you do have the passion for gender
reveal parties, and they probably matter more than where my
golf ball lays, because, like you said, they're starting.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
No, please, yeah, they only matter to the people who
are having the baby. Nobody else really cares. Like everybody
else at your gender ruville party, unless it's grandma or
mom or dad or grandpa, nobody else really cares.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
They're just there for the free food. Maybe you know,
a beer, wine. You know.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
They are there for the party. They're not there because
they really care if it's a boy or a girl.
Only you care about that.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Let me update my kissr list here. I can't take
graduation photos of my son daughter in kindergarten or preschool.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Can't. That's Matt's thing, not mine.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Now, I said a compilation.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Okay, yeah, yeah, and then also, I can't enjoy finding
out the gender of my baby.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You can find out the gender of your baby.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm just saying, don't put somebody else's life at risk
just so we can find out if it's a boy
or a girl. That's all I'm saying. Have your gender
reval parties if you want to, Just don't bother me.
Oh one other one, remember put this one on the list.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Don't invite me to your dog's birthday party.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Don't do it. Don't.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I will not show up. I will not send a gift.
I'm not celebrating your dog's birthday. I'm happy that it
has another birthday. I'm happy that it's alive. I'm happy
that it brings you joy, but it does not bring
me joy. To go hang out with other dogs at
the and I like dogs, but I don't care that
it's your dog's birthday.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Okay, I've got the parameters now, dog birthday gender reveal
and preschool picks.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Make sure to stay.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Away to avoid being judged about the KSR guy. But
I do like the gender reveal. Come on, you gotta
love the gender reveal. When the guy's like hitting a
baseball and just whiffs, you know he's doing a soft pitch.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
He just completely misses, I mean, and.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Then you get the gender reveal as the ball hits
the ground instead of the bad So, I mean, there
are some good instances.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Come on, I think there would be nothing but swings
and misses if there were actually a batter in the
batter's box tonight when I throw my first pitch, because Billy,
I am bringing the smoke, I am bringing the heat
I have not I'm kind of also bringing the uh,
the Willie Kelly Stein approach to this whole thing, which,
by the way, if you don't know, have a touch
of baseball. Yeah, I haven't touched baseball since I'm doing

(05:32):
the first pitch tonight at the Legston Legends game.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
So get out there. Early.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I've got to be there at like six o'clock, so
I'm not exactly sure what time the first pitch will happen.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'm going to say maybe.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Six fifteen, maybe six thirty, But get out there if
you want to see my first pitch. I don't know
who the who they playing tonight. Is it Highland Heights?
Is that what it do is?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
I think doesn't know.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Doesn't matter regardless of yeah, regardless of who the Legston
Legends are playing tonight, it really doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
But I'll just say this, if they get into any trouble,
I'll be done in the bullpen. Just call on number seven,
get me lose. I'm good for at least two thirds.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Of an inning. I mean I can go out there
and you know, throw eight balls.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
They throw, they put position players out there and they
loop it out there like I'm playing softball back in
the street.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
So I mean it's a possibility. So this is this
is what.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Your third first pitch that you've thrown. Yep, because this
morning on the show thread on Twitter, you can see
Shannon the Dude's twenty sixteen first pitch. I tweeted that
at Billy r Sports at the bats game from the mound.
I'll give you credit, but a little low and a
little outside if you're a right handed batter and we
call that a ball.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, hang on now, if you watch go back and
review the tape and watch it closely. I'm looking in
and he calls one pitch and I'm wanting to throw
the fast ball. I'm wanting to throw the heater. But
he throws another. He calls another pitch. He called a
pitch out, and that's what I had to throw. You
gotta throw what the manager call.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
You gotta shake him off. I mean, this isn't I.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Tried to, but he was persistent. He's like, no, pitch out,
the ball outside. So that's what I did.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
So twenty sixteen at the bats game.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
You did it last year, right like you one much
more recently, and I can't remember.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
How did that go.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
It was a strike right down the middle of should
have said, this beautiful pitch you've ever seen in your life.
Research basically would have been the most unhittable first pitch ever,
aside from some of these worst pitches of all time.
For first pitches from celebrities that I tweeted out this morning,
I don't know if you saw that there's a compilation
of the five worst first pitches of all time, And

(07:30):
I think that no matter how bad or how poor,
you know, how poorly it may go tonight, it cannot
go as poorly as any of.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
These first pitches.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Doctor Fauci got up there in his mask during the
COVID era and basically threw one right into the dirt.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
There was a couple.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Remember fifty cent had a really bad one. Bababooie threw
a really bad one.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Is that Carly ray Jepson, Yes, the one right like
hits the dirt on the mound.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
Happen.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I mean she would have been better off kicking the
ball than trying to throw it to home plate.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
It is great to see professional ass fleets look so unathletic, right,
John Wick, By the way, remember John wall Taylor Luwan
like you're talking about. You know, you could be an
elite athlete and you know, break records, and then you
can still come out there and make a fool out
of yourself. So how are the nerves, Shannon, you go,

(08:18):
I'm not worried.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
About it all.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I know, I'm looking forward to it. I remember when
I first got the text. Hey will you come out
and throw a first pitch for the Lexton Legends game.
I was actually sitting on the beach enjoying a nice
cold beer, looking at the gulf, and I said, of course,
that sounds like a lot of fun, so let's do it.
And looking forward to doing that tonight. Yes, I will
be throwing from the rubber. I'm not going to be
throwing from the grass or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Better.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, that better.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
That better be the starting point for you. I just
can't believe the Legends asked you. Honestly, I mean, this
is my town, Shannon, your town, bats.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Guy, You're Florida guys in Kentucky through and through. I
was born and raised in the state of Kentucky. You're
a transplant from Florida. Quit trying to call Lexington your town.
It's not your town. I'm gonna tap a guy. I'm
gonna have to have a talk with the owner.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
You don't who it is.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
You don't even like sweet tea. You're not Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Let's talk, Allan, let's talk. You're right, I don't like
sweet tea. I hope they got unsweet tea in that
sweet I'll be in tonight. You can join us after
the first pitch. Are you're gonna go right back home?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Of course I'm gonna join you.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Okay, I'm really driving all the way from Louisville to
Lexington to throw it one first pitch and go back home.
That would be a shame of the dude move unless
it's really really bad, and I'm just so ashamed of
myself that I just know you.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Out of the stage exactly. I'll get that started, don't worry.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, but I've never been to a Legends game. This
is my first time there, so I'm really looking forward
to it. Have you been to any Legends games?

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like, Well, there'll be a first for me too, Okay,
Uh yeah, many a year's or many years ago. I
worked for the Hot Rods, so very familiar with minor
league baseball. Shannon the Dude and I bonded over dollar
beer night at bats games back in the day. So, uh,
Baseball's tough to watch on TV. But there's nothing like
being at the ballpark in minor league.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
You still have that.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
I mean, they have these wacky things to get you
in the in the building, but there's all He's nice
to have a have a dog and a beer and
just relax.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
And the only thing and the thing about a first
pitch is you never want to be remembered for your
first pitch because it's always bad.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Nobody.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's why I was telling Tom Leach on the on
the Leach Report, I said, you know, if anybody remembers
your first pitch, it's because it went really, really badly.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Nobody remembers a.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Good first pitch except for maybe, well, okay, I should
I should back charge Bush. George Bush. I do remember his,
and that was right after nine to eleven. I believe
it was at a Yankees game. He came out there
and had the bullet proof vest on. I think he
threw from the rubber too, didn't he. I think he
did so, and he's the baseball guy, and he threw

(10:37):
a perfect strike. And that is probably the only good
first pitch that I can remember in history. But if
you want to talk about bad ones, there's been plenty
of bad ones to talk about, but that was that
was the only one that was good that I actually remember.
I was like, what a badass moment. You know, our
country just got attacked. Our president goes out there, bullet
proof vest On throws a perfect strike right down the

(10:58):
and that could have gone badly if he'd have thrown
one of these you know babba booie first pitches, that
would have been really embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
But it was a very patriotic moment for this country.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I mean I was pretty young at the time, but
I still remember it, right, I still remember there obviously
nine to eleven, but you know, the country rallying around,
and then a lot happened after that, Shannon, but that
we did have that first pitch George was probably the
best part of his presidency, along with his now watch
me hit watch me hit this drive?

Speaker 2 (11:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
So that's yeah, exactly, all right. So there's your golf
and baseball talk for the day. Lexta Legends game tonight.
We will talk a little football now. Mark Stoops talked
to the media yesterday.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Billy.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
He was originally going to talk on Friday, but he
has this medical procedure scheduled or I guess he's gonna
have something done to his face and he doesn't want
to be on TV with the bandage on his face.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
He doesn't want to scare the kids. I get it.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
So he talked to the media yesterday, and you know
talk I think the main takeaway was on this revenue
sharing distribution among the programs, and he says that he
feels happy with the split and feels like it will
allow them to be competitive in recruiting moving forward. So,
you know, that was the Matt Norlander topic that we
have talked about the last couple of weeks, about how
the revenue share is going to be split among basketball

(12:12):
and football. But Mark Stoops seems to be really happy
if you listen to his comments yesterday.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, quick aside that Matt Norlander interview with Matt is
really good, some great tidbits in it, including at one
point he said he thinks Kentucky's spending over fifteen million
dollars for the roster this year, which is great. How
but Stoops, you know, I think the quote that he
had about this topic was he's excited to be on
equal playing ground with everybody, and that hasn't always been

(12:36):
in the case in years past. And he said he
wasn't throwing shade at anybody, but we can deduct that.
You know, over the years in the SEC there may
be some impermissible benefits to players given at one point
or another, but essentially Shannon and the revenue Sharing era,
everybody is on an equal playing ground until you decide
how much revenue that you're deciding to give to that program. Right,

(12:57):
And if what you're saying is like you said, and
what if what Matt Norlander is saying is true and
that forty five percent is going to basketball, then I'm
thinking essentially that Stoops is close to being on an
equal playing field, but not quite right. You're gonna see
the Texas A and M's. You're gonna see the Alabamas.
The Georgia give almost their entire budget to these fall

(13:19):
this football team. So while the sentiment is there, it
feels like Stoops in Kentucky will probably be a couple
mill behind behind the rest of the SEC. But nevertheless,
that's still a much smaller gap than it has been
in years past.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
So ultimately, college sports and the landscape has changed.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
But if you listen to Stoops's tone yesterday, he seemed motivated, optimistic,
maybe grateful ah ha, yeah is a word that he
would rather use instead of motivated. But you know, we'll
just have to wait and see. There was a lot
of bold claims from other assistants from the day. Did
you see what Bush Hampden said.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh, he was talking about the offensive line. He says,
the big blue wall is going to be back. I
would expect so if our offensive line coach got this
big raise as he did, he now even.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Has an assistants.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
If you have an assistant, I'm look all joking aside.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
I am expecting big things.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Because we'll talk about this a little bit later on maybe,
But you know when you when you put money into something,
when you invest money into a person, or an offensive line,
or what a team, whatever it may be, you expect results.
I think you know, when you put more money into
one thing versus another, you want to get the results.

(14:26):
You want to get your return on investment. And I
am expecting big things from the offensive line. And if
we don't get big things from the offensive line and
Calzada gets beaten up back there at QB, I think
that the old line coach, in particular Wolford, should get
a lot of heat for that. I think that you
got he's got to take the blame. Somebody's got to
take the blame, and I think that he's got a
huge responsibility.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
I would agree.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Here was Bush Shampdon's quote, the offensive line is going
to remind us of the great old lines we've had here.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
I mean, that's yea bold claim.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
And you know, while the quarterback position has to play better,
it hasn't played great over these last two or three years.
A lot of that is because of the big blue
wall and the offensive line not giving these guys to
do what they need to do. So it's a there's
a give and take there. There's a lot of guys
that I'm excited about this year, but you know, the
question market offensive line may define the season more than

(15:18):
any other position.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Group that we have at Kentucky Football.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Going back, well, i'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
We'll get into it because we're kind of late for
a break here, so we'll get into more of the
revenue sharing stuff. I also want to kind of go
back circle back to Friday's conversation on KSR. We were
talking about a comment that Nick Saban had made mentioning
should all football programs get the same amount, you know,
and kind of level the plane field in that aspect.
I want to hit on that a little bit since
we didn't get to talk about on the pre show yesterday.

(15:45):
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Welcome back. It is the KSR pre Show for Endo.
The show show Corey Price tells us that the Legends
are playing the High Point Rockers at six forty five
and both teams have two former UK players on the roster.
The Legends have Dustin Beggs and JT.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Riddle.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
The Rockers had been at Olenski and Justin Lewis, So
chance to come out and see some former Beatcats.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
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What's the over under on my first pitch being a strike?

(16:42):
Do we know no, Well, we don't have the odds
on that.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
I guess it wouldn't be an over under the odds though,
I mean, yeah, not an over under. I mean I
guess it would be plus odds because I doubt you
could do this striker ball, Yeah, like plus two fifty.
I mean it's it's close to fifty to fifty. But
I'm gonna say you throw it low in a way.
It mounts too far away, Shannon, I mean.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
It's too far away. It's sixty six inches. It hasn't moved.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Willie Collingston, I am touched to baseballs. It's the last
first pitch I did. You're gonna go out there, you
better warm up, let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, that's my approach. You know, I don't even own
a baseball anymore. I don't go on play catch in
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slash Audio. We were talking last Friday about some of

(17:40):
the revenue sharing and Nick Saban was, you know, mentioning,
is there a way that we could set it up
to where every football program essentially gets the same amount
of money to allocate to players?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
And I think that I'm kind of leaning.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
That way, like I would like it to be where
they all, like every football program spends the same amount
of money. That way, we kind of know that everybody
is on the same plane. Thought it kind of takes
it back to the way it was before in Il
when allegedly, you know, air quotes, nobody was making money.
I feel like now that players are making money. If
we have if everybody has the same amount of money

(18:17):
to distribute to players, I feel like it makes it
more fair versus you know, some schools spending more money
on football than others.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
So do you which which way would you lean?

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Would you like it to have it to where we
could take this twenty million and divide it up amongst
programs however we want to or would you like to
be like, Okay, let's say every program gets twelve, thirteen,
fourteen million, whatever the number is, and allocate it that way.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
That way, everybody has the same amount of money.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Well like a salary cap, right, Like, you're not going
to be able to go over that and you're going
to have to budget that every single year. I think
that would be probably my preferred method. But you know,
it would not be at the advantage of Kentucky or
would it, because if they were, if they did have
the same amount of money, then the basketball team could
still have the you know, a great roster because of

(19:08):
their tradition and his.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
That was kind of Nick Saban's thing with Alabama football.
It would make it easier for Bama because you know,
as it stands now, there's another program out there that
could go spend more money invested in their football program
and maybe outbid essentially some guys that Alabama would get
if the level, if the playing fieldber.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Level when everybody was getting the same amount of money.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
So I think your blue bloods ultimately in that case
went out because the money is all basically the same. Now,
it doesn't mean that you couldn't, I guess, give different
players more money though, right, yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Could make people like an emphasis. I guess you would
not be able to be the gold standard in basketball
and then also be able to give more money than
anybody else. And I feel like that's the situation Kentucky
funds himself in now. Right, If you're going to get
forty five percent of your revenue share to basketball, not
only is basketball a draw because of their history and
tro they're also going to be one of the schools
that can pay you the most too, So you're doubling

(20:04):
up there while the football team may suffer.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Now, if every football.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Program is paid the same, Nick Saban's Alabama is going
to succeed, but weill Kentucky's. I guess, like to your point,
it's going to be they're going to have to pay
specific guys more, and I guess they would be able
to do that since everybody has the same amount of money.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
But it's tough in football, man, when you've.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Got eighty ninety roster spots, right, like basketball is different.
I can get I can get seven eight guys that
I really need for a rotation pope upwards of you know,
twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen guys that might contribute, which is
maybe a little wild, but it's just tough. And I
related to stoops over these past few years because it
seems like, you know, a football coach is now having
to be this organizer, this, this.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Great salesman to show why you should come.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
And while coaches are recruiters, you know, dealing with the
dollars and cents isn't always been there forte.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
And now when you're you know, investing more money in
one program than others out there, I think again that
comes back with more or pressure to win.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Right.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Oh yeah, just what we were talking about last week,
but your return on investment. So you know, when you
hear that number of fifteen million for the basketball team
that they're spending this year, don't don't you think that
adds a little more pressure on Mark Pope to go
farther in the tournament and have more success, Like you
can't lose in the first round when you have fifteen
million dollars that you're throwing at your players.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, added pressure, right, I mean there's already a ton
of pressure if you're at Kentucky, it's just piling on, right,
because that number is so public that it's you know,
easy for fans to reach to it when looking for
to criticize somebody for poor performance. You know, if somebody
donated to an NIO collective and then a player doesn't
play well, do they feel you know, do they feel

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like they're not getting their money's worth?

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Right?

Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's it could be a slippery slope when the fans
are directly paying players in some instances. But you know,
that's just how things have changed and how we'll have
to adapt as a society with College Board.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
That's why I feel though, if everybody has the same
amount to allocate for each program, then you don't really
necessarily have that added pressure because we're all making the
same here.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, but as that capitalism, Shannon, sounds like socialist policies.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
Everybody gets the same.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, I mean not every player, but every every program
gets the same.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
I think it would bring an even playing field, kind
of like stoop saying. But like you said, blue Bloods.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Would have went out on the end eight nine, two
eighty seven. We had a couple of callers that fell off.
We'll get to you. Hang on, be patient, call us back.
We'll get you next break or next segment on the
pre show Welcome Back. It is the ksrpre show. Some
of the callers, Billy just want to talk to me
off the air. I just had like a two minute
conversation with the guy that called it. He just wanted
to talk off the air. We could do the show
on the ear, but no, they want to talk off

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the air.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
You're not doing enough right now. I just wanted to talk.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Any two eighty seven if you want to talk one
more thing. I guess about stoops My, you know, just
takeaways from his his press commerce yesterday.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
You know, they got over fifty new players.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
First of all, we could start with that this is
going to be a completely revamped roster we're looking at
this season. The guy was asking me during the break,
He's like, do you really think they're going to win
more than three games?

Speaker 2 (23:08):
I do.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
I do really think that there is a legitimate chance
this team could get the six wins.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Well, three's low. I mean we can get over three.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Ye, I think six could happen.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Six.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
I mean then you got to beat somebody that I
think you're probably not favored to beat when the game starts, right.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, But the thing that was, you know, a focal
point I think in the off season, and Stoop's kind
of hit on it yesterday was the disciplinary aspect of
the team. You know, there was a lot of talk
about this team not being disciplined last year. You get
the players at the concession stand. He said that that's
been a focal point in the offseason. That's something that
I feel like I need to hear as a fan

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that you know, we were making sure that we're bringing
in the right kind of guys, you know, the right
characters to be on this team. And he said the
only incident that they've had so far this offseason, one
freshman was late to one practice, and he said the
players handled it themselves. They handled it internally whatever that means,
which means I guess that he didn't have to step
in and say anything because the players took care of

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it for him. And that's I think that's a good
sign of locker room leadership. So that's that's a hopeful
sign moving into the season.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, let me try to read him in between the
lines here, because Stoops mentioned that the roster turnover that
you just mentioned was very needed, Like the fifty plus players,
they needed to get some guys out of the program
and build some different depth. And the one hundred percent
participation in the strength and conditioning program is great, that's
what you want to hear. But how bad was it
when you know, I guess they weren't getting a hundred participation?

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How bad was it when the roster last year needed
this much roster turnover? Like this, I think Stoops has
given us a glimpse into maybe how some of the
concerns and issues that they've had in years past, specifically
last year. And while he does want to move on
from it and talk about this next season, he can't
help but ask questions after what was a very disappointing
year last year. So it sounds like Stoops is was

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glad to get some guys out of the building.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Shannon, Yeah, I think a lot of guys were getting
preferential treatment, and I think to a degree, as a coach,
you can get away with that. But what you can't
get away with is just making practice optional for player
A but not for player B. You know, like things
like that. You have to draw a line somewhere. You
can't have guys just not showing up for practice. You
can't have guys just wandering off in the middle of

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the game going to accession stand to get a hot dog.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
I mean, that's a.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Little it's bush league right there. You don't expect that
from an SEC football team. And those are some of
the things that we had going on last year.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Well yeah, and last year the frustration, you know, I
think it boiled over when you had Stoops talk publicly
about Jamerion Wilcox not tying his shoes.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah right, it's another thing. Yeah, that's another good point.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's like something you probably handle internally, but it happened
probably so many times. You wonder why will Cox isn't
out there, Well, it's because we got to bench the
guy because he's not listening, right, And I think there
have been some headlines that it's been a quiet off
season for Wilcox, which is a good thing.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
So it seems like definitely some culture needed to change
over there.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
All right, we've been blabbing for thirty seven straight minutes.
Let's get a caller. Let's go to Eric. What's up, Eric?

Speaker 2 (26:02):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (26:03):
Hey? What's up?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Amen?

Speaker 5 (26:07):
For one, Jenner reveals for dog parties are stupid. Two,
I need you all's input on something, all right, So
I bleed blue. But I got a lot of family
members that I only like Kentucky basketball but Alabama football,
and I feel like I got to disown them during
a football season.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
What do you think they should be deported?

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Are the Yankee fans too?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, I guess they like the Yankees in baseball, the Lakers,
the Lakers in the NBA, So they're bandwagon Judas. Yeah, yeah,
I don't think I could associate myself with them, Eric,
I don't think that.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
I think you have to disown them.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
I don't think that they're if they had the last
name as you, I think they should be forced to
change their last name to something else.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
And I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
I wouldn't have them my family reunions anymore. Drinking out
of the punch bowl.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
Appreciate it, guys.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
All right, there you go so like.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
You just like winning, right, and you just can't stand
So you're.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Gonna look, if you like Kentucky basketball and Alabama football,
you're not even a real sports fan.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
You just like whoever's winning. That's it.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Now.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
As a kid, I get that, right, I mean, you
wanted to be on a team that was winning, but
you part of sports is going through the losses. Yeah,
it's going through the times when your your team is bad.
Like I'm a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan and you're like, oh, Billy,
you had your moment in twenty twenty. Well, from two
to twenty twenty, it was nothing but losses. Right, it
was historically bad. So you know it's and that makes

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the mountaintop that's much sweeter. And so you know what's
the saying, shan you be with me when I'm down,
you can be with me when I'm up, or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean, great quiz that the cool look.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
No, it's not the quote. I was looking for.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Help here again. Here, be with me when I'm down,
be with me when I'm up.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
If you're not there in my low moments, you can't
be there in my high moments. I don't know's there's
a parallel there, you know what I'm trying to get at,
But like you can't you know, you know who your
fake friends are when they should up when you get money, right,
when you get opportunity to try, your family members start
calling you because you had won that scratch off. Right,
It's different motivations when you have things like that.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
I'm trying to find the exact quote, but I actually
love your quote better.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
If you can't be with me when I'm down, you
can't be with me when I'm good.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Well that's right, yeah, I mean makes sense in a vacuum.
May not be the how about che.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
If you don't love me at my worst, then you
don't deserve me at my best.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
That's there. I think yours is better.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
It was rattling around in my brain and it just
came out a little different. Can't be with me at
my worst, you can't be with me at my best.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm going to take the conversation in a completely different direction.
Do you know, Billy, what the social media door kick
challenge is?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Do you know what this is?

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, it's a dumb social media trend, just like every
other social media trend, but it involved I guess it's
really popular, like amongst teens, and it involves teenagers going
around at night and going up to houses and kicking
the door as hard of they can and running off.
It's kind of like the Ding Dong ditch, but this
involves people, you know, guys, going up and kicking your

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door and then running off, which you know, it's one
thing to ring your doorbell. But if you are sitting
there at night and you hear somebody kick your door
as hard as they can, you probably think somebody's trying
to break into your house. Probably gonna scare the hell
out of you. Right, So, this is like a thing
that I saw on the news this morning. I wasn't
even aware of it, but apparently it's happening in Louisville
at night. Teenagers going around and just picking random houses,

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going up and kicking their door and then running off.
So if you hear somebody kick your door, it could
be somebody doing the.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Door kick challenge.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
That is really really stupid, really bold too.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
I mean, I mean we're getting to like tide pod
levels of stupidity with this trend. Because I mean, somebody
kicks my door, get ready for me to brandish a
weapon and open it, you know what I.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Mean, Like this before you even know what happened, right, Well.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
I mean maybe, I mean, who knows how close I
am to the door. But this, this is not a
good situation. I mean, well, you know the things that
happen in Minnesota when this guy's knocking on doors in
the middle of the night and killing or politicians. I
mean this is not the climate to be kicking doors.
So like ding dong ditch. At least you're knocking at
the door, right, at least it's just the doorbell. If

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you're kicking my door, you're putting him in, putting me
into a sense of like protection, right, like I need.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
I'm alert. I am going to do what I need
to do.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
I mean, if somebody is kicking your door as hard
as they can, I would think they would sound like
somebody's basically taking a break into your house. Yeah, so
it's going to put you on high alert. You know,
I could see a situation where somebody doesn't you know,
does go grab like a weapon or a whatever it
may be, and somebody ends up getting hurt from it.
But yeah, it's another stupid social media trend that's going on.

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So I just wanted to make you aware, Billy. I
know you don't live in Louisville, but you know, you know,
trends go. Next thing, you know, it's happening in a loble.
Next thing you know, they they're knocking on Billy our
sports door.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
No, we had somebody beating on our door at like
twelve thirty the other night. The fiance had to wake
me up, and she was like, somebody's at the door.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Somebody's at the door.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Who was it?

Speaker 4 (30:57):
I don't know. Door just kept it locked. I didn't
go in.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
They were I mean, they were beaten hard, like it was.
And then I looked out the window. There was like
four guys out there. So I was like, oh, yeah,
so I want to kept that door closed.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, the way that.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Like when there's something like as a stranger at the door,
Beta Billy is not going to go answer that door.
The fiance is getting up out of bed to go
into the door, Billy is not going to go get it.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Didn't even hear the door. I was. I was passed
out of sleep. I mean, Beta Billy's got to get
up for a morning radio show. Yeah, he's not up
at twelve thirty.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Here at nine o'clock.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
You know, I'm you know, I got the necessary what
I needed to protect the household, and luckily that it
didn't escalate to that.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Good.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
That's good. I got it.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
I got I want to take it in a completely
different direction for you. All Right, did you see the
w NBA player that lost her wig mid game and
a fan was ejected?

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Okay, what all right, I gotta hear this. Tell me,
tell me more. Okay, okay, Sunday So a player lost
her wig?

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Yeah, just look up on Twitter w NBA and wig
and you will see the video. But late in the
third quarter in a game on Sunday, a player lost
her wig as she was going past like a screen
and immediately like runs back to the locker room, has
to fix her wig. But like then, all of a sudden,
you see the players on the team get to get

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to the official and start pointing at somebody in the
crowd and they eject a fan for making fun of
the w NBA player who lost her wig mid game.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Wait now you get kicked out as a fan for
making fun of an opposing player?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Is that where we're at in sports?

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (32:29):
I mean, somebody lost their wig? How can you not
laugh at that? That's funny.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
There's been a lot of reports on this. I don't
know what the fans said. The only reports are they
ejected a fan after making fun of the player.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
This wig fell off?

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Really, don't we want people watching the NBA. We're trying
to kick people out. They're begging for people to watch it.
And then you get people who go. They laugh at
a player for losing their wig and you kick them out,
that's weak.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Come on, that's soft, man, it's soft. It's you know,
if Bill's self and I'm glad he's doing okay. He's
had some hard issues recent he was in the hospital.
But if his two pay fell off with his hair,
we would all be laughing at it. Everybody in the
first ten rows of that stadium would be pointing in
the laughing and making fun of Bills.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
And would we kick them out? No?

Speaker 4 (33:12):
No, it's.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
So did the player that lost the wig? Did she
come back? Or was she on the injury relutionion?

Speaker 4 (33:19):
The report?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
She came back in the fourth she like she was
like zero for two, did not play well after that,
And rightly so, I would be mortified if I was
somebody that wore a wig or a two pay.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
But if you wear a wig, don't you know that
that's that could possibly happen. Yes, we had that happen
in OVW one night. It was not part of the
show woman wearing a wig. It comes off, she gets
embarrassed and just runs off. Yeah, And like, if you
wear a wig and a competitive you know, any kind
of competition you have to understand there's a good chance

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that things going to come off.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
You got to be prepared for it.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
I would still be mortified, like it's still my secrets out. No,
you don't want to see that hairline. You don't want
to reveal that to anybody. But in football, hey is
in play. If somebody has dreadlocks, you can pull dreadlocks.
Somebody has long, sunshine flowing hair, like remember the Titans,
you can pull that if you get a hold of it.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
That's not a penalty.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
So I don't know what it is in the w
NBA or the NBA, but we've seen hair play a part.
We haven't seen fans ejected because they were laughing at
what they saw on the court.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
I can't stop watching this now, this on a loop. Yeah,
hair today, gone tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
There wasn't there a story about Andre Agacy, like we're
in his I think it was in his book that
he was playing in like a championship, but his hair
piece started to come apart and he intentionally lost. He
intentionally tanked the match so that he could get back

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to the locker room and fix his hair piece.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
I think I remember then after that he shaved it
like that.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
After that he decided, you know what, I'm just gonna
shave my head and let it go.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
And that's maybe that's how self conscious people are that
have a wig. But I don't know if it escalates
to a point where you need to eject people making
fun of that said wig.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
That goes on.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
But man, you're right about Andre Agassy in the wig
that he had.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
Man, that was that was a big one.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
I cannot stop watching.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
All right, I gotta take a break so I can
watch this some more. Right, twenty two eighty seven.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Final segment coming up from the ksrpre shio. This is
John Michael mctgommery. You're telling me tomorrow, Billy that John
Michael Montgomery's going to be in the studio with us
or with you guys.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
He will be on KSR tomorrow at I believe eleven am.
I am the person that has to get him from
the lobby so they on, all right, I'm in ready position,
ready to get John Michael Montgomery up and and here,
ready to go. I guess he's doing a show a
rep soon, so we're gonna have him on KSR.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Do you remember the group that made this song a
hit again after the song first came out.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
No, but I probably heard that before I heard John
Michael Montgomery singing, who who sang it?

Speaker 2 (35:55):
I believe it was all for one boy man awful one.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, I think I really released this song and it
was a big hit for them too.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
So uh.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Of course he has so many other great life of dance.
I think was another great one that he had Be
my Baby Tonight, A bunch of other ones.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
H the Auction song? Did he do the auction songs?

Speaker 4 (36:19):
I'm not sure about the auction I think that's him, right,
be my Baby. I've heard that one before.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
I think that's him.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Maybe he's got takes on Kentucky and n I l
or if he'll just talk country music the entire time.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
But here it does.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
I see it right here in the in the system,
that is John Michael Montgommery. So yeah, I looking forward
to having him in the studio tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Uh, let's go back to the phones eight five nine
twenty two eighty seven.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Keith is up next to Keith.

Speaker 6 (36:42):
Hey, guys, I stepped in the car there at the
end of the conversation with losing the hair, and if
you brought this up, I apologize. But the there's a
famous story about Andre Agassin.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, we just talked about.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
Losing the French open. He retired, that he had an injury,
he was losing his two pays.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, and then he came back with a shaved head
and it looks good too.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I think it looks better than what he had going on.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Anyway, you got to protect the ego.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
Well, it was it was the eighties, so we did
have big hair back then.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
That is true.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
That is true. Anything else, Keith, all right, appreciate it. Yeah,
some people can pull off the shaved head look like,
you know, I don't think I could. I'm not gonna.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
I'm not gonna have to pull the shaved head look off.
I hope. I'd probably go with.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
The Ryan Lemon route and get the plugs if I
had to before, I would get like a two pay.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Now, the hairline's looking fine.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Uh, it's you know, maybe a little gel or palmade
in the hair now and then would go a long way. Me.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
I'm never losing this hair, so don't ever say it ever.
You never know.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
I got a follow up on one of the stories
we talked about last week, Billy, you were talking about.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
The twelve year old in the little league.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yeah, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah, and New Jersey, the little leaguer who was suspended
for flipping his bat in a celebration because they said
that it was dangerous. After he hit like a walk
off home run, he celebrated, he flipped the back up
in the.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Air, little horse play.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, they suspended him and said he could not be
allowed to play in the championship game. Well, I got
a follow up to that and some good news. They
have reinstated him and he played in the championship game.
He hit another home run in this game, Billy, but
this time he politely laid the bat down in the
batter's box and rounded the basis.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
So a little update on your story from last week.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
A good ending.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
That was ridiculous that they were going to actually suspend
a little leaguer, especially for a championship game, because he
flipped his bat. It happens in the majors all the time.
That's where these kids are seeing it. They're emulating their heroes,
like let the players, let the kids leave the kids alone,
Let the.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Kids have some fun. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Yeah, This is when cameras are a good thing.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Right.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
These videos go viral and can show the stupidity of
people or umpires making a decision like to eject a
twelve year old for throwing his bat in the air.
That must have been the most sarcastic laying down of
a bat of all time, right, like maybe like looked
right at the yump made sure not to throw that
thing up in the air. Look, he's twelve years old.

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Horse play. That's such a stupid reason. So a happy
ending that him hit a home run? Do you know
if they won or not? Are they going to get one?

Speaker 4 (39:10):
They won, so they're going to represent New Jersey in
the Little League World Series.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
I believe that's right.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
Well that's my team.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Then, yeah, I'm pulling for that kid going to New
Jersey in Kentucky. Don't have his n don't have his
name written down here, but I'm pulling for him. The
other story I got from yesterday, Dion Sanders revealed that
he was battling a canter's bladder cancer.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
But it's it's been removed, so that's good.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
He's still planning on uh coaching Colorado this season, and uh,
I like that Dion has taken this, you know, potentially
life threatening situation and turned it into an endorsement.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Did you see this?

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Is it the porta potty?

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Well?

Speaker 1 (39:47):
No, he he has an endorsement now with Depends adult diapers.
And he even joked about it. He said, I depend
I depend on Depends. I like the Dion is keeping
keeping it light bite a very serious situation. We're glad
that Dion's going to be healthy enough it appears to
be able to coach this season for Colorado.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Glad he's doing okay.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
I mean I was prepared when they said him and
his medical staff were calling a press conference that this
may have been him stepping down from coaching. Uh, and
he has been such a character in college sports that
would be a shame. But I listened to some of
it and he was saying that he's going to have
a porta potty right on the sideline because he you know,
it can't be the same way and it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
A little different for him part of his intestine. And
just that's till they have the bladder.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I guess, like I said, it's from the report that
I read.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
I don't know how they do that. It's it's it's crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
But he was also rocking the cowboy hat and like
overalls that had gold on him. It was quite the
look from Dion, but that's we've come to expect that
from him.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
I was a big fan of Prime Time, especially when
he was with the Braves and the Falcons. Do you
know when he went to the Cowboys. I wasn't too
big of a fan of him then, being a package fan.
Do you know Dion's connection to Louisville though, as far
as like Louisville sports, there is a conne play for
the Bats, right do you know? Yes, he did, but
do you know like the historical aspect of that?

Speaker 3 (41:05):
No?

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Tell me he scored the first ever run at Slugger
Field as a Lobal bet.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
Oh, the first first ever first at first.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Ever run in Slugger Field, Deon Sanders.

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Speaker 2 (41:59):
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