June 5, 2024 • 42 mins
Tom Hart talks with UK Baseball Coach Nick Mingione. Also the latest in UK sports news, and oddly-shaped shrubbery.
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Speaker 5 (01:05):
Ryan and Drew In and Mario on Lexington and Shannon
and Louisville. So we get ready to start our number two, Ryan,
who cuts your hair?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I have the same lady who's cut my hair for
like twenty five years. Michelle Collins is my hairdresser here
in Lexington.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
You should you should feel really lucky to have somebody
who's done that for that long.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Because she does a great job.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Well, she's consistent. Let's just say that she's with you.
She's consistent. I lost the lady who cut my hair.
I was with her for like nine years.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
And then she.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Are we losing? Well we'll Drew and I'll pick it
back up. And Shannon, you your magic again. With Tom,
I mean.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Like it's showing that he's on there. He's just on
the phone. Now we're losing his connection through his phone.
So this is not the on zip app the phone connection.
Speaker 8 (02:06):
Is this the best of episode? You guys think maybe
fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I think this is a perfect one.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
This is a show that makes me want to pull
my hair out instead of worrying about a haircut.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well we can we can chat a little bit while
you uh where you get that talk?
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Are we supposed to be hearing that.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, he's not on, like so I.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Wonder if he thinks he's talking, he probably thinks that
he is talking.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
He is talking, He probably thinks that he's on and
he's not because we can't hear him.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, we give any thumbs down. I'll call back all right, well, Drew,
you and I will. I want to a story I
do want to say because it's happening tonight. Okay, the
high school state baseball tournament starts tomorrow, but there's a
team coming in tonight to Chaos Bar and Grill for
a team meal to where we we jump on board
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with these teams. When you come to Chaos Bar and Grill,
we're on board that you're our team. It's LaRue County.
So if you remember LaRue can we were just there
in LaRue County to help their fundraising efforts to raise
money for a new track and a new football stadium. Well,
their baseball team, listen to this. Going into the tournament,
(03:11):
from what I understand, lost ten games in a row,
ten in a row. Going to the tournament. They're made
up of nothing but freshmen and sophomores, and they won
the region tournament to go to the state baseball tournament.
And apparently when the coach was talking to Monique, our
manager here setting up the team meal, they were both
in tears. The coach was crying, Monique was crying. Everybody
(03:34):
was crying. So LaRue County, you know, Casey Clark.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
Yeah, we enjoyed our trip to LaRue right before the
SEC tournament. Did a little fundraiser at their football stage.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
You know they say you.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
Gotta be hot going in the postseason. They were just resting.
They just resting up. They didn't need those ten games.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
They were good. They were just waiting for it. No matter.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So, ladies, gentlemen, without further ado, we have reconnected with
our good friend Thomas Hart in the atl Hello Tom
further ado.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
There's plenty of du there's like, in fact, double it up.
There's been dodoo. The technology has been straight doodoo so far. Today. Okay,
I gave you guys an assignment to jump on my
Instagram story Tommy H t O M M I E
H forty four and scroll through and see the picture.
(04:19):
Do you think they know I'm on my walk last night?
And obviously there are some shrubs that had been recently
landscaped and I don't quite know how to explain it
on a radio show. Ryan, I'm going to put it reluctantly.
I'm going to give you the opportunity to maybe my
(04:42):
first and last show by offering Ryan this responsibility. How
would you describe the shape? And yeah, how would you
describe the shape of the shrubs that were that were
landscaped in a certain way.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There's only one way to describe it is a guy's junk.
That's exactly what it looks like.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Let's just say, you know, back in the nineties, Kentucky
had a certain logo with a certain tongue. Yes, that
was shaped like a certain something. Yes, the bushes are
in the same shape as the wildcat tongue on.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The nar There's no doubt. And whoever that balance, they
had to know what they were doing. That wasn't an accident.
I think they had to know what they were doing.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
So if you've seen it, you know what we're talking about.
Tommy h forty four on Instagram and you can scroll
through and you'll see it. Here's what happens. So if
you're the homeowner and you walk out and you go, bro,
what'd you do? But do you think the landscaper was
mad at them and was like, this is the last
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time I'm working this house. It'll pay me well enough.
I'm mad at this dude. They're gonna have to live
with it. Drew in what scenario if assuming that the
homeowner is a righteous family, and what.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
That happened, see the moment I saw it. I see
this as like a next level vandalism. You can't live
in this house and want that, like, I don't think
there's a scenario where someone says I want to look
out my window and see that I want people to
drive by my house and associate that with me. So
I see this as an attack by an angry neighbor.
This looks like a wealthy form of vandalism. He's like,
(06:24):
you know what, I'm gonna pay a company to go
shrub your bushes to look like what Ryan described. So
I see this as a form of attack within the neighborhood,
not as someone requested this, because I just cannot think
of a scenario where you would want your landscaping to
look like that.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
If you, Shannon, if you pay somebody for a service
and they do that, yeah, do you walk out like
you do? You pay them. I mean they mowed the lawn, right,
they probably picked up all the leaves. They did everything
else I would assume properly. What do you say to
the guy when you walk out the hand of a
check or to venmo, I.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Think I say you're fired.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I think this is one or two.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
One of two scenarios happened here.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Either the one you mentioned they're a disgruntled landscaper who
was angry at the owner for whatever reason, or maybe
b these people are like trying to put off some
sort of symbolism.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Maybe these are swingers or something that live there, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Like a subtle sign to the neighbors, like hey, if
you're down, if you know, you know, come on over,
type of thing, like the upside down pineapple. This is
just their form of maybe advertising their lifestyle to everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
So one of those two scenarios.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
It is not a pineapple and it's definitely not upside down.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, it's coming out of the ground.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Will you keep us updated, like at Christmas? Will there
be lights? Will this get decorated? Like I want to
know if it's seasonal maybe some cobwebs.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I think we all agree though somebody did it on purpose.
I don't think that was an accident. Somebody purposely shaped
them that way.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You don't think that maybe they were going on the
sheep and they hired somebody didn't have a ton of experience,
and like, hey, can you trim the hollies out front,
just you know, trim them up on the side and
make them look good. I'd like them to be uniform.
And the guy was like, I've never done this before.
I usually just pushed them ower. But I guess I'll try.
I mean, that's possible, right, that it's just somebody who
(08:16):
didn't know what they were doing.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Well, what if it's like this situation because like you know,
the higher up you go, it's longer. What if the
person was just short and couldn't reach the top so
they from their high down and it was a complete accident.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
How tall? How tall are those shrubs? Uh?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I was really nervous taking a picture as I walked
by the house last night, like cause they were home
when I took the picture, and I didn't I didn't
want them. I didn't want to come across as any
creepier than their shrubs are. But I really wanted to
get the shot. But I would guess, Yeah, they're you know,
taller than me by a couple of feet. They probably
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eight feet tall.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, Shannon may have nailed it. Then that may have
been as high as they could reach with their little owner.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That's a really unfortunate mistake.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
I think by taking the I think by you taking
the picture, they're waiting looking out their window, hoping someone notices.
And now you're on their radar. And I'd be just
watching my house. I'd be watching my walks. You might
have new friends you didn't know you had before that walk.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
You think it was a trap.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
A walker to notice what they had done. And this
is their window.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Hey, we saw you take a picture of those bushes.
You think of them?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Let me tell you what. I walked a lot faster
home once I got the picture. I was like, I
got to get out of this part of the neighborhood
so I can.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Talk about it on radio. I want to keep this lakey.
I want to make a whole bit about it.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yeah, I gotta bring something that Ryan could relate to.
Like when I walked, when I saw those Ryan's name
just popped in me. This is this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (09:58):
You don't have a Facebook group, you can ask like,
what's the next door app?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
You get?
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Is it one of those communities where you can just
throw out there, Hey, what's up with this?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
It's a fair question. I'm not on the next door app?
This is It was a very long walk. It's not
actually my neighborhood. It's like the neighborhood adjacent. So I
don't go down there that often. But I think maybe
I should keep swinging by there and see if they
make a wing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, you should keep swinging.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I would the second I saw that, I'd be like,
I would just lop them off or cut them down,
like I'm sorry, it's gotta go. Like if you get
a really bad haircut, like sometimes like your kids try
to cut their own hair, you gotta shave your head. Sorry,
we got to take it all off. I cannot have
those in front of my house.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Yeah, tell tell the wife they got struck by lightning.
They're gone dug them up the moment I saw that.
Can't have that outside.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You just keep this updated throughout the summer for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Well do if you get a bad haircut, you still
do you still tip? Do you still you go back
to that same person? You going the same rhinds are
doing the same person forever, Shannon. How about you, like,
if you get a bad haircut, you roll the dice
again and go back and Okay, maybe they'll be better.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Funny you bring this up. Just got one a couple
of weeks ago. Uh, they gave me what looked like
the dumb and dumber haircut. But it wasn't my normal person,
right it was. It was one of those situations to
where I go in to my normal person to get
a haircut and they go, oh, she's on vacation for
two weeks. And now I go, I can't just go
around looking like a you know.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Like a bomb.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
So I got to go get a haircut.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
I go to one of these places where you can
get a ten dollars haircut and you get what you
pay for, right, So no, I'm not going back to
that person.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So you look like you look like a shrub. You
came out of there looking like a shrub.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Yes, yeah, he's been getting hit with a lot of
a lot of mean people on the internet when that
picture went out. We're mad at what people were saying
about Shannon's haircut.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, bullies, Okay, I could take it. I'm a big boy.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
It's not polite. That's a gamble. It's a gamble. Anytime
you go in there, right, you're going to don't know?
Did you hear about the picture for the Oakland A's
He was a three years ago made ninety nine dollars
a bets on baseball. It cost him eight one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh man from goodness wow, thirty one year old pitcher
was having his best season now well, actually he suspended
for a year and will forego most of his seven
hundred and forty thousand dollars salary, and all he won
was ninety nine dollars on the bets that he made.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
He made ten bets on MLB games for a total
of ninety nine dollars. Jared Diamond of Wall Street General
wrote an article about it. There's been a couple of
guys that went down. There was another minor leaguer who
bet a ton and didn't win any games, but he
was in the Pirates organization and a bunch of parlays
involving the Pirates. He bet over eight eighty seven thousand
(12:46):
dollars on it, so he's been banned for life. There's
a one two, three, four guys have been suspended at
least one year for betting. Shohe Otani was cleared. They
hammered the his interpreter. But this just happened, you know,
yesterday or the day before.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
Did you see the dude yesterday? He his last game,
I guess his last weekend. Moments after his last game,
he tweeted goodbye college baseball, Hello DraftKings, like minutes after
the game ended, so it was clear he was moving
on from his college career into the gambling world.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Well, we already had the gamely Candle of Iowa, right,
which was a total overreach. But I'm just worried. Man,
you lose me again?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah we did for like, yeah, a couple of sais
who we got you?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Though? You got me.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
The technology is a gamble. This is a gamble, and
I just crapped out again. And now I feel like
we're like one news cycle away from some really bad
stories involving college kids. The pro pro dum should know better, Like,
if you're playing baseball, it is explicitly stayed at every
clubhouse you walk into, no matter what form, you cannot
(14:00):
gamble on baseball, right, there's some leeway and gray areas
and other sports, but you can't gamble on baseball. And
it's even tighter for college athletes. And I just think
with the proliferation of everything that we deal with that
you're gonna have something big going down and you're gonna
lose big, major players and lose their eligibility.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, like you said, they know going in, man, you
can't bet on your sport. They know that. So if
they're going, if they're like Matt always says, there can't
be a punishment. If you don't break a rule, or
you can't break a rule, there's got to be a
punishment something like that.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Pishment isn't break a rule, you can't have a punishment
something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
So this dude is breaking the rules, so he's got
to have a punishment. I mean, I think he probably
he knew. You know, it's not like a secret like
they're going to surprise him. Well, you can't bet on baseball.
They knew that.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
John Say Porter got banned from the NBA. That's uh,
Michael Porter's little brother, right, And they just arrested his
co conspira in Brooklyn. And and now that guy's going
to jail for taking the under on the John Taystup
when he took himself out of the game. And and
that came about because Dante Porter himself, according to the reports,
was a gambler and owed a ton of money. And
(15:15):
that's why they have the rule in place. Right, That's
where the original baseball rule came across. Is if you
owe somebody a ton of money because you're a bad gambler,
then they're gonna have your over barrel and they're going
to try to find ways to use your information or
use your skill to then win that money back.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
And that's that's wise, man. Everything's got to be on
the up and up. I mean, Shannon, could you imagine
a sport where the outcome was already decided or impacted
by those, you know, those participants to say, I'm gonna
let you win, like I don't know, wrestling or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa? What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:53):
You're not You're not saying the four letter F word, right,
You're not saying fake.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Now okay, all right, you're saying free to turn that.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Sure, do you ever go do you ever go against
the script? You're like, you know what, forget this? So
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna be shore.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
That's what's call going going into business, going into business
for yourself. And yes, that does happen sometimes never happened
to me, but it has happened to some other people.
You get hit with a little slive, stiff right hand,
all of a sudden you start throwing some live rounds.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, that happens.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
It gets it gets a little little little too real
sometimes in there, and then you go.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Out of business. Uh due, do you have a do
you have a library? Do you need to do at
this point?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
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Tomorrow?
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Finally found us some basketball. That was a long break.
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Yeah, long break for basketball.
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All right, we'll be back in a moment. You're listening
to KSR. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Tom Hart
hosting in Atlanta. I guess every Wednesday throughout the course
of this summer we've got Ryan and Drew and Lexington. Ryn,
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you got something to talk about?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
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I was aware?
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And you too, hold on, right, Can anybody be a
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Speaker 5 (19:16):
There you go, that's really good. You guys have some
treats over there.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Food. What do you got?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
What is in that bag?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Mario?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
He said us. Oh, it's like fudge. Oh my god, Wow,
like really good fudge from all right, I let you.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Guys stop your face with fudge. We got some callers
on the line.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Stanning, we do.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Let's talk to Scott.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
What's up, Scott?
Speaker 11 (19:40):
Yes, I was wanting to comment on what y'all we're
doing on Monday with Myron and talking about uh, cheering
or not for Callip Perry. Yeah, I don't think one
thing we was proud up. Uh and not that you
(20:03):
know he didn't get compensated for it, but he actually
saved University of forty three Mariason dollars leaving. And also
he did raise a whole lot of money for people
in this state. So uh uh, I would applaud for him.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Scott, thanks for the call. I appreciate I got there.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
I got one more thanks for I think uh, I
might be wrong, but I think Oregon States former head
basketball coach was uh Michelle Obama's brothers.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
That's right now that Scott appreciate your history lessons all right?
I think thanks for the call. Uh. I think Arkansas
fans already learning about John all the Perry's human side
in terms of using his platform to help. They had
some was it two weeks ago, they had some tornadoes
come through, and he already, you know, kind of got
off on the right fletch, just like he did with
(21:13):
all the every time he helped when there was a
natural disaster in Kentucky.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
And I thought that was amazing, and we just lost him,
lost Tom, We lost Tom too.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well what Tom saying, though, He's right. That's when Cal
Perry is absolutely at his best, I mean his very best,
when it comes through the philanthropy work that he's done
here with tornadoes, floods, whatever it is, he he steps
up and he did the same thing in Arkansas.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Yeah, no surprising that he did that there, and even
people that wanted Cal gone here. I was one that
thought it was time to go. No One is saying
he's a bad person to help the state. I mean,
we're all very aware of what a good job and
things he did from end to end. In Kentucky, Tom
is doing something on the zoom. Does that mean he's there?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He was ding dance. He was dancing, but I don't
know if he can hear us. No, I don't think
he still can't hear us.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
There he goes, that was my I can't hear you dance.
I wanted to get your attention to understand that i'd
been cut off and I couldn't hear you. How's the fudge?
Did you dig into it?
Speaker 8 (22:14):
And those?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
It ever too early to try fudge?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Mario kind of confiscated it. He has He not shared anything.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
He pronounced that name though, Ryan, it's a it's a
shop downtown, but I want to get his pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's dollhouse, dollhouse, fus dall, who's dah, who's dall? Who's fudge?
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Whatever you want? He's the one I mentioned.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
He was serving fudge and Joe was singing in his
shop and he couldn't get it turned off.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Yes, so he made a note for Kentucky Joe on there.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I'm not I don't usually use the word fair or unfair,
but in this case, well, how is it fair that
I'm doing the heavy lifting on this show and you
guys are the ones gefted the sweets? Like, what's the
deal with that?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You know what I'm hearing? Drew? Why that's what I'm hearing?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Tom, We've been doing the heavy lifting on this show
for years, so this is no, it's not just you.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
There's nothing more annoying than a grown man doing the
crying sound. You know, we would never do that, Nick Menjio,
We're gonna talk with the Kentucky baseball coach about the
super regional coming up next. KSR continues after this.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
TJ Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
He'll make them pay.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio present it by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio with a huge weekend
on campus at Kentucky prop Park. Please be joined by
Kentucky baseball coach Nick Minjeeong coach. How we feeling today.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
June Kentucky feeling good? Feeling good today?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well you should feel good, if for no other reason,
then I've been your bad luck charm because I've called
each of the two supers, the one in Louisville and
the one last year at LSU, and you guys didn't
make it out. So now that I'm not going to
be there, I will not be present, So I'm out
of the way for Kentucky to make its first trip
to Omaha. And I will start our discussion today with
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the same question I asked you when we're in Louisville
years ago, and we're in Baton Rouge last year. If
if this team is able to pull this off and
get to Omaha for the first time in the history
of this program, who do you think would feel most
outside of the current players and coaching staff, who in
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the history of the program would feel most rewarded by that.
Speaker 12 (24:42):
Start with our athletic corrector, Mitch Barnhart. I'll start with him,
the guy that just continue to invest in our program.
You know this, Tom, but we have a beautiful facility
and there's a guy that had a vision for.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
This, put it in a whole new location, invested a
lot of time, effort.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
Energy resources to build something like Kentucky Proud Park for
a moment like this. And then the next person I
would go to is Keith Modising. I've just spent the
morning with these land and our coaching staff and a
Bible study for eight straight years once a week.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And it's a guy that has invested.
Speaker 12 (25:24):
Twenty five years of his life into our baseball program.
So those are the first two people that have come
to my mind.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I love it. Your team, the program as a whole
has such great positive energy, and I feel like that's
a direct reflection of not just your coaching style but
your personality. But to some at some point, the players
have to that has to be authentic with them. They
have to take that on themselves. How did this team's
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personality grow over the last couple of years.
Speaker 13 (25:58):
I'm glad you said that, because it's taken a couple
of years, and you know, back in twenty two, I
just keep going back to that year. How you know
we lose our Friday and Saturday starters. And I often
use the example of you know, when you lose a
Friday guy or a starter, it's much like driving down
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the road and you're having a flat tire. You're like, man,
I don't I hate this, but you got to pull
over and you've gotta change your tire. Right, and you
know it's gonna take you twenty thirty forty minutes. Tom guy,
like yourself, I'm sure you could probably do it.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
In like seven or eight.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
All right, Like cover me if I take.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
It, it's gonna take me thirty minutes, right, whatever. Well,
then we lost our Saturday starter.
Speaker 13 (26:43):
Well, now that's like having two flat tires at the
same time. You're sitting there, and while you're sitting there,
the rest of the league it's just moving along and they're.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Going down the highway.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
So that was a hard year.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
I thought that team we had a regionable caliber team. Well,
by the time we got the that year, you remember
we make it late run. We were the twelve seed
in the SEC tournament. No twelve seed has ever.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
Won a game.
Speaker 13 (27:07):
We win, we make it to what we were in
the final four, and we were one win short.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
With all of that that happened. So we had some
guys in our current team now.
Speaker 13 (27:17):
That have been through that, and in twenty two, we
just changed at the end of the year the way
we were approaching our offense, the way we approached the
game of baseball. We just started with attacking and being
aggressive on every level. And that's carried over to last
year and then this year.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
So we have a core.
Speaker 13 (27:34):
Group of people that have been there and done that,
and the players have taken it over themselves. And I
just remember being at Southern Illinois last year and making
Ryan haking Out our dugout captain and turned the reins
over to him and he started running our dugout And
I never had to go to any individual player about anything.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
If there was.
Speaker 13 (27:54):
Something going on that we didn't like, I'm would go
straight to Ryan hagen Out and he would fix it.
And he's done a great job. And the player that
bought in and building block of our team. Sure they
have fun, Tom, but it does start with and I
don't want people to lose this how competitive they are.
If they don't compete, we will hold them accountable, and
they compete at a high level, but then they also
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have fun while they do it.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
But I'm not interested.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
In having fun.
Speaker 13 (28:18):
If we're not competing, that will not happen.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
So don't lose.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Sight of I tell people all the time how.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Competitive they are. They're uber competitive.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Well, I think first of all, having a player led
team is the most efficient way you can manage a team. Right,
Like you said, you just take that off of your
plate and let the players lead themselves. But from a
fun and lose standpoint, it's a baseball season is a
long season, man, and so to avoid, you know, the
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stress of Okay, we're two wins from om all, I
think that's incredibly important. Now you get an opponent coming
in here from Morgan State that is a national ranked opponent,
and they had a good year in the Pac twelve.
They're used to having success in the postseason. We talked
to Wes Clementsum the first half of the show about
some of their talent. They're number one guys, got velocity,
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will hit ninety seven. You've seen that in the SEC.
I feel like you've seen all of Oregon State's strengths
in the teams you've already faced over the course of
the season. Not saying you face them, obviously you haven't.
But how does this league, which had a record eleven
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in the tournament, how does that help prepare you for
the postseason?
Speaker 13 (29:38):
It absolutely has, and you're right tom Now, obviously they're
a team that we have in faced, but when you
go through an SEC weekend, you know this it is
an absolute dogfight, and it is an absolute emotional, mentally, physically,
it is a full on battle, a battle, and the
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the goal coming out of every weekend is to win
the series.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
That is the goal.
Speaker 13 (30:05):
So man, that means, you know, for us this year,
we've lost a Friday game, we've lost the first game
of the series, and we've.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
Had to win the next two.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
And we've done that.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
We've won the first game, lost the second.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
You gotta win the third one.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
So having been in a league where you are required
for ten.
Speaker 13 (30:25):
S great weeks to perform at the highest level, and
the second you take your eyes the prize and the
road and the thing, the next thing in front of you,
the second you try to sit there and you chill
out and you try to catch your breath. Uh, you're
getting passed by. And it is happens quick.
Speaker 12 (30:46):
The margin of victory and you know this, tom is
so small, it's so small. And you come out of
those weekends and you go, hey, listen, if we didn't
make this play right here, we would have lost that game,
which means we would have lost the series. Hey, if
we didn't get this hit right here, we would have
lost that game, which means we.
Speaker 10 (31:04):
Would have got swept.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Hey, if we would have done.
Speaker 13 (31:07):
Display, or we would have made display, we would have swept,
or we got swept.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
We are two plays away.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
Instead, we win the series, but we are two plays
away from getting swept.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
That's how close and how small.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
The margin victory is.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
And you know this, Don, Super Regionals is no different.
But our league has put us in that position to
where we hit for ten straight weeks. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I was in Stillwater this weekend and Florida knocked off
Oklahoma State based on one catch and center field with
the bases loaded. Florida made the play, Oklahoma State didn't.
Florida plays on. I don't want to hijack the entire
interview because I know Ryan and Drew are at chaos
ball right now, and Ryan is a huge baseball guy,
so on him, get him involved too, Ryan, you want
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to jump in with coaching min jail.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, coach man, it's good to have you back on.
We missed the motivation Mondays, where be a fountain, not
a drain, and the water water softens the potato but
hardens the egg. We miss those days for sure.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
Well, I've missed having you on. Thanks for having me
on now.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
The fans this past weekend were in saying coach, I
mean they set through the end of the game Saturday,
set through the rain at the end of the game,
and then they stood in line Sunday for like an
hour and a half in the rain as they had
to rant before it got started. That shows you, I think,
how baseball crazy this town has become over your team.
Speaker 13 (32:32):
Yeah, and we're very appreciative and we're thankful Ryan, because
this has not been something that has just happened overnight.
It's been a lot of time, effort, energy on a
lot of people.
Speaker 10 (32:43):
And I will say this about the Big Blue Nations.
When they have a.
Speaker 12 (32:47):
Team, whether it's the field, a court, it doesn't matter where.
When they have a team that genuinely loves each other
and they want to compete and do.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
Everything they can to help Kentucky win, they appreciate that.
And this fan base has realized that.
Speaker 13 (33:09):
About our teams the last couple of years is about Hey, listen,
they love competing at the highest level. They want to
win for Kentucky, and they're very unselfish. So that means
if the third basemin's back.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
We're gonna bond.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
That means if we have to steal a base, we're
gonna do it.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
If it means we got to hit a home run,
we're gonna do it. And if that means we've got to.
Speaker 13 (33:29):
Intentionally walk their best player to try to get somebody out,
to let somebody else beat us, like they're gonna do it,
and they're gonna do everything they can to make the pitch.
And this fan base has done that. And you know,
we have this saying in our program. You know we've
been hit by over one hundred pitches. Right, we say
we don't move, like we do not move in the
batter's box Like that is like a mantra of ours.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Like we don't move.
Speaker 13 (33:53):
Well, you know who else hasn't moved is our fans.
Speaker 10 (33:55):
They've sat there.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
In the pouring rain.
Speaker 13 (33:58):
They just let the water just poured down on them
for an hour and a half the other day and
they're not.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Losing their seat open.
Speaker 12 (34:05):
And we came out and competed really hard for them
and gave them like much our players gave them an experience.
And that's what we're all about, is giving our players
and our fans an experience they'll never forget, and we'll
never forget them sitting there wearing it and being the
way they were for our guys.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
We're thankful.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Hey, Nick Drew here, I'm still drying off from the weekend.
That was a lot of fun. But I noticed on Sunday.
On Sunday night, you said this one feels different. I
was ready for a dog pile. You didn't dog pile.
You're coming back home next weekend instead of being on
the move. Now that it's three days later, does it
still feel a little different internally as you're heading to
another shot at the Supers.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Yeah, that is.
Speaker 12 (34:45):
Because you know, to Tom's point and he's been with us,
and Tom just thank you for not being there this weekend.
Just you know, this time, you know, seventeen and last year,
you're backing up, we're getting ready to load up or
you know, trying to figure out our plans and when
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we're going to show up to each you know, different venue.
And now we're we're at home and our guys are doing.
Speaker 13 (35:12):
The early work on the field and they're preparing and
they're sleeping in their own beds, and you know, so, yeah,
it does feel different.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
And you know, I've always.
Speaker 13 (35:20):
Said this and you guys know this, but it helps
when you have a group of guys that have been
there and done that, and we have enough guys off
of last year's team that have been in this position.
So for them, yeah, there was no dog pile. They
knew what it felt like last year being in Baton
Rouge and losing and not being able to make it
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and it being two wins from Baseball's version of the
Promised Land, and so they want something different and bigger,
and they helped make it feel that way.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Nick, I should know this, so I apologize. But you've
been to Omaha as an assistant, correct.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
I have.
Speaker 13 (36:01):
Yeah, when thirteen we played in the National Championship and
we lost the UCLA and the finals, it's like I've
gotten to the spot time where it's like I want
all this for the guys.
Speaker 10 (36:11):
I went to the ANYI.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
World Series four different times.
Speaker 10 (36:13):
I've been there.
Speaker 13 (36:14):
I've played for the National Championship twice and lost. My
wife she's hardcore. She was like in thirteen when we lost,
that was the second time I lost in the finals.
The other time was when I was at Embury Riddle
and she looked at me and she's like, are you
ever gonna win one?
Speaker 10 (36:29):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 13 (36:31):
She's like, you know you're over too, and I'm like, oh,
so yeah, I've been there and it's just did a
spot now time where I want this for all the
players and the staff and the Big Blue Nation because
they've never been they've never been well.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
I just, you know, as someone who worked that event
for a few years, knowing what it is, I can't.
I want it for the fans too, because I see
Big Blue Nation absolutely taking over Omaha. We know how
well they travel for everything, and I think it would
be amazing And we could talk about it again next
week when I'm back in this chair. On Wednesday, before
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we let you go, the start times did not do
you any favors. You don't have to say that, but
I will, especially the late start on Sunday. But your
crowd support has been so incredibly important to this team.
Howard ticket sales looking for this weekend, we're still trying
to push some on Sunday.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
I haven't heard. I haven't gotten the update.
Speaker 13 (37:29):
I know we've had a ton, but I appreciate you
bringing that up because this gives me an opportunity. Tom,
And you're really good at this. You just threw me
an alley of you and I'm just like going reverse
dunk on you.
Speaker 10 (37:40):
On this one. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
But I've been here for eight years, and I.
Speaker 10 (37:47):
Think people know this about me.
Speaker 13 (37:49):
I love and support the other programs as much as
my own right, and they caused the big Glue Nation.
And my favorite hashtag is we are UK. And anytime
I tweet out anything or about any other sport or anything,
I always put we are UK because we are the
University of Kentucky and we are one. And I've been
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here for eight years, and I've sat in Rep. Aerna
and Tom, you've been in there at nine o'clock at
night on a Tuesday and you looked up and there's
twenty four thousand people there. Twenty four You've been there.
You've been there, you've seen it. You've been in our
football stadium. We've had over fifty thousand people. So look
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a nine o'clock start. I'm really not concerned one did,
because I've seen what our fan base has done.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
They've done it for basketball.
Speaker 13 (38:40):
Oh and by the way, in twenty seventeen, we won
our first ever regional championship and that game did not
finish till after one o'clock in the morning. The game
did not start till after nine o'clock after a lightning
storm on a Monday night, and the fans were there,
So I actually, I'm not concerned, and I know they'll.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
Come because that's what they do.
Speaker 13 (39:05):
They support our programs and as well as anybody. I mean,
and it doesn't matter if it's a midweek or a
Sunday night. There's no school, so I know the kids
and where they're going to.
Speaker 10 (39:15):
Want to be.
Speaker 13 (39:16):
And this is what my message to the Big Blue
Nation would be, like, Hey, I know the kids got
to go to bed. I got a nine year old,
But we're interested in not giving reeves our sun things.
We're more concerned about giving them experiences. And a kid
at eleven or twelve o'clock at night will remember that
baseball game more than they would staring at the back
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of their eyeballs in a bed on a.
Speaker 10 (39:40):
Random Sunday June night. So Big Blue Nation, let's.
Speaker 13 (39:43):
Give our guys and an experience that they will never forget.
And they will not forget that. So I'm coming the judges.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
The judges give you a ten on the dunk Nick, congratulats.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Here's the thing, and we'll let you go in just
a moment. Here's the thing, and you talk about basketball
on Tuesday night, this is the opportunity. Imagine being in
a basketball game at rupp Arena and you win the game,
when you're going to the final four, Imagine being at
Kroger Field and you win the game, and you're going
to the national championship. Like, there is nothing bigger on
(40:20):
the line than what will be on the line Sunday
night and Saturday too. So hey, you know I'm a
huge fan. Congratulations on the regional win. Uh. I can't
wait to see you guys perform this weekend and best
of luck.
Speaker 13 (40:33):
Hey Tom, I do want to give you some credit
on something I do.
Speaker 10 (40:36):
I have the fans to hear this, all right.
Speaker 13 (40:38):
So we sat at Baton Rouge and I don't know
if you remember telling me this, but you love the SEC.
You do an unbelievable job for this conference, and I
know you know that, and all the fans know that.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
We know that.
Speaker 13 (40:49):
That's why you're hosting today. And I said, hey, Tom,
I believe that feedback is the breakfast the champions.
Speaker 10 (40:56):
Here's my quote, Ryan Lemons.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
There it is motivaast the champions.
Speaker 13 (41:01):
Yes, all right, real quick, Tom, I said Hey, tell
me something I can do better.
Speaker 10 (41:05):
You said, Nick, you're a little baked.
Speaker 13 (41:06):
Sometimes tell more stories about your players individually and talk
about them and give people something to grab onto.
Speaker 10 (41:13):
So you know what I've done.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
I've tried to do that nice.
Speaker 13 (41:15):
So thank you for making me better and I think
it's helped than the fans are showing up.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
So thank you, Tom, you made me better.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Oh you're the best. You're the best. Thanks you and
the congratulations. We got to go to break good luck
this weekend. We'll put a ball on this show and
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and now he's styling his team, and other TV guys
have told me they're like, oh, yeah, we had a
We had a meeting with Coach before our series and
he said, well, Tom told me I should be doing this.
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That's awesome. I know people are going to show up
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Speaker 5 (01:05):
Ryan and Drew In and Mario on Lexington and Shannon
and Louisville. So we get ready to start our number two, Ryan,
who cuts your hair?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I have the same lady who's cut my hair for
like twenty five years. Michelle Collins is my hairdresser here
in Lexington.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
You should you should feel really lucky to have somebody
who's done that for that long.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Because she does a great job.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Well, she's consistent. Let's just say that she's with you.
She's consistent. I lost the lady who cut my hair.
I was with her for like nine years.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
And then she.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Are we losing? Well we'll Drew and I'll pick it
back up. And Shannon, you your magic again. With Tom,
I mean.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Like it's showing that he's on there. He's just on
the phone. Now we're losing his connection through his phone.
So this is not the on zip app the phone connection.
Speaker 8 (02:06):
Is this the best of episode? You guys think maybe
fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I think this is a perfect one.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
This is a show that makes me want to pull
my hair out instead of worrying about a haircut.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well we can we can chat a little bit while
you uh where you get that talk?
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Are we supposed to be hearing that.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, he's not on, like so I.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Wonder if he thinks he's talking, he probably thinks that
he is talking.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
He is talking, He probably thinks that he's on and
he's not because we can't hear him.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, we give any thumbs down. I'll call back all right, well, Drew,
you and I will. I want to a story I
do want to say because it's happening tonight. Okay, the
high school state baseball tournament starts tomorrow, but there's a
team coming in tonight to Chaos Bar and Grill for
a team meal to where we we jump on board
(02:50):
with these teams. When you come to Chaos Bar and Grill,
we're on board that you're our team. It's LaRue County.
So if you remember LaRue can we were just there
in LaRue County to help their fundraising efforts to raise
money for a new track and a new football stadium. Well,
their baseball team, listen to this. Going into the tournament,
(03:11):
from what I understand, lost ten games in a row,
ten in a row. Going to the tournament. They're made
up of nothing but freshmen and sophomores, and they won
the region tournament to go to the state baseball tournament.
And apparently when the coach was talking to Monique, our
manager here setting up the team meal, they were both
in tears. The coach was crying, Monique was crying. Everybody
(03:34):
was crying. So LaRue County, you know, Casey Clark.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
Yeah, we enjoyed our trip to LaRue right before the
SEC tournament. Did a little fundraiser at their football stage.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
You know they say you.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
Gotta be hot going in the postseason. They were just resting.
They just resting up. They didn't need those ten games.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
They were good. They were just waiting for it. No matter.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So, ladies, gentlemen, without further ado, we have reconnected with
our good friend Thomas Hart in the atl Hello Tom
further ado.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
There's plenty of du there's like, in fact, double it up.
There's been dodoo. The technology has been straight doodoo so far. Today. Okay,
I gave you guys an assignment to jump on my
Instagram story Tommy H t O M M I E
H forty four and scroll through and see the picture.
(04:19):
Do you think they know I'm on my walk last night?
And obviously there are some shrubs that had been recently
landscaped and I don't quite know how to explain it
on a radio show. Ryan, I'm going to put it reluctantly.
I'm going to give you the opportunity to maybe my
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first and last show by offering Ryan this responsibility. How
would you describe the shape? And yeah, how would you
describe the shape of the shrubs that were that were
landscaped in a certain way.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There's only one way to describe it is a guy's junk.
That's exactly what it looks like.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Let's just say, you know, back in the nineties, Kentucky
had a certain logo with a certain tongue. Yes, that
was shaped like a certain something. Yes, the bushes are
in the same shape as the wildcat tongue on.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The nar There's no doubt. And whoever that balance, they
had to know what they were doing. That wasn't an accident.
I think they had to know what they were doing.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
So if you've seen it, you know what we're talking about.
Tommy h forty four on Instagram and you can scroll
through and you'll see it. Here's what happens. So if
you're the homeowner and you walk out and you go, bro,
what'd you do? But do you think the landscaper was
mad at them and was like, this is the last
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time I'm working this house. It'll pay me well enough.
I'm mad at this dude. They're gonna have to live
with it. Drew in what scenario if assuming that the
homeowner is a righteous family, and what.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
That happened, see the moment I saw it. I see
this as like a next level vandalism. You can't live
in this house and want that, like, I don't think
there's a scenario where someone says I want to look
out my window and see that I want people to
drive by my house and associate that with me. So
I see this as an attack by an angry neighbor.
This looks like a wealthy form of vandalism. He's like,
(06:24):
you know what, I'm gonna pay a company to go
shrub your bushes to look like what Ryan described. So
I see this as a form of attack within the neighborhood,
not as someone requested this, because I just cannot think
of a scenario where you would want your landscaping to
look like that.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
If you, Shannon, if you pay somebody for a service
and they do that, yeah, do you walk out like
you do? You pay them. I mean they mowed the lawn, right,
they probably picked up all the leaves. They did everything
else I would assume properly. What do you say to
the guy when you walk out the hand of a
check or to venmo, I.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Think I say you're fired.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I think this is one or two.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
One of two scenarios happened here.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Either the one you mentioned they're a disgruntled landscaper who
was angry at the owner for whatever reason, or maybe
b these people are like trying to put off some
sort of symbolism.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Maybe these are swingers or something that live there, you know.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Like a subtle sign to the neighbors, like hey, if
you're down, if you know, you know, come on over,
type of thing, like the upside down pineapple. This is
just their form of maybe advertising their lifestyle to everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
So one of those two scenarios.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
It is not a pineapple and it's definitely not upside down.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, it's coming out of the ground.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Will you keep us updated, like at Christmas? Will there
be lights? Will this get decorated? Like I want to
know if it's seasonal maybe some cobwebs.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I think we all agree though somebody did it on purpose.
I don't think that was an accident. Somebody purposely shaped
them that way.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You don't think that maybe they were going on the
sheep and they hired somebody didn't have a ton of experience,
and like, hey, can you trim the hollies out front,
just you know, trim them up on the side and
make them look good. I'd like them to be uniform.
And the guy was like, I've never done this before.
I usually just pushed them ower. But I guess I'll try.
I mean, that's possible, right, that it's just somebody who
(08:16):
didn't know what they were doing.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Well, what if it's like this situation because like you know,
the higher up you go, it's longer. What if the
person was just short and couldn't reach the top so
they from their high down and it was a complete accident.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
How tall? How tall are those shrubs? Uh?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I was really nervous taking a picture as I walked
by the house last night, like cause they were home
when I took the picture, and I didn't I didn't
want them. I didn't want to come across as any
creepier than their shrubs are. But I really wanted to
get the shot. But I would guess, Yeah, they're you know,
taller than me by a couple of feet. They probably
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eight feet tall.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, Shannon may have nailed it. Then that may have
been as high as they could reach with their little owner.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That's a really unfortunate mistake.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
I think by taking the I think by you taking
the picture, they're waiting looking out their window, hoping someone notices.
And now you're on their radar. And I'd be just
watching my house. I'd be watching my walks. You might
have new friends you didn't know you had before that walk.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
You think it was a trap.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
A walker to notice what they had done. And this
is their window.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Hey, we saw you take a picture of those bushes.
You think of them?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Let me tell you what. I walked a lot faster
home once I got the picture. I was like, I
got to get out of this part of the neighborhood
so I can.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Talk about it on radio. I want to keep this lakey.
I want to make a whole bit about it.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yeah, I gotta bring something that Ryan could relate to.
Like when I walked, when I saw those Ryan's name
just popped in me. This is this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (09:58):
You don't have a Facebook group, you can ask like,
what's the next door app?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
You get?
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Is it one of those communities where you can just
throw out there, Hey, what's up with this?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
It's a fair question. I'm not on the next door app?
This is It was a very long walk. It's not
actually my neighborhood. It's like the neighborhood adjacent. So I
don't go down there that often. But I think maybe
I should keep swinging by there and see if they
make a wing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, you should keep swinging.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I would the second I saw that, I'd be like,
I would just lop them off or cut them down,
like I'm sorry, it's gotta go. Like if you get
a really bad haircut, like sometimes like your kids try
to cut their own hair, you gotta shave your head. Sorry,
we got to take it all off. I cannot have
those in front of my house.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Yeah, tell tell the wife they got struck by lightning.
They're gone dug them up the moment I saw that.
Can't have that outside.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You just keep this updated throughout the summer for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Well do if you get a bad haircut, you still
do you still tip? Do you still you go back
to that same person? You going the same rhinds are
doing the same person forever, Shannon. How about you, like,
if you get a bad haircut, you roll the dice
again and go back and Okay, maybe they'll be better.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Funny you bring this up. Just got one a couple
of weeks ago. Uh, they gave me what looked like
the dumb and dumber haircut. But it wasn't my normal person,
right it was. It was one of those situations to
where I go in to my normal person to get
a haircut and they go, oh, she's on vacation for
two weeks. And now I go, I can't just go
around looking like a you know.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Like a bomb.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
So I got to go get a haircut.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
I go to one of these places where you can
get a ten dollars haircut and you get what you
pay for, right, So no, I'm not going back to
that person.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So you look like you look like a shrub. You
came out of there looking like a shrub.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
Yes, yeah, he's been getting hit with a lot of
a lot of mean people on the internet when that
picture went out. We're mad at what people were saying
about Shannon's haircut.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, bullies, Okay, I could take it. I'm a big boy.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
It's not polite. That's a gamble. It's a gamble. Anytime
you go in there, right, you're going to don't know?
Did you hear about the picture for the Oakland A's
He was a three years ago made ninety nine dollars
a bets on baseball. It cost him eight one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Oh man from goodness wow, thirty one year old pitcher
was having his best season now well, actually he suspended
for a year and will forego most of his seven
hundred and forty thousand dollars salary, and all he won
was ninety nine dollars on the bets that he made.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
He made ten bets on MLB games for a total
of ninety nine dollars. Jared Diamond of Wall Street General
wrote an article about it. There's been a couple of
guys that went down. There was another minor leaguer who
bet a ton and didn't win any games, but he
was in the Pirates organization and a bunch of parlays
involving the Pirates. He bet over eight eighty seven thousand
(12:46):
dollars on it, so he's been banned for life. There's
a one two, three, four guys have been suspended at
least one year for betting. Shohe Otani was cleared. They
hammered the his interpreter. But this just happened, you know,
yesterday or the day before.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
Did you see the dude yesterday? He his last game,
I guess his last weekend. Moments after his last game,
he tweeted goodbye college baseball, Hello DraftKings, like minutes after
the game ended, so it was clear he was moving
on from his college career into the gambling world.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Well, we already had the gamely Candle of Iowa, right,
which was a total overreach. But I'm just worried. Man,
you lose me again?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah we did for like, yeah, a couple of sais
who we got you?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Though? You got me.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
The technology is a gamble. This is a gamble, and
I just crapped out again. And now I feel like
we're like one news cycle away from some really bad
stories involving college kids. The pro pro dum should know better, Like,
if you're playing baseball, it is explicitly stayed at every
clubhouse you walk into, no matter what form, you cannot
(14:00):
gamble on baseball, right, there's some leeway and gray areas
and other sports, but you can't gamble on baseball. And
it's even tighter for college athletes. And I just think
with the proliferation of everything that we deal with that
you're gonna have something big going down and you're gonna
lose big, major players and lose their eligibility.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Well, like you said, they know going in, man, you
can't bet on your sport. They know that. So if
they're going, if they're like Matt always says, there can't
be a punishment. If you don't break a rule, or
you can't break a rule, there's got to be a
punishment something like that.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Pishment isn't break a rule, you can't have a punishment
something like that.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
So this dude is breaking the rules, so he's got
to have a punishment. I mean, I think he probably
he knew. You know, it's not like a secret like
they're going to surprise him. Well, you can't bet on baseball.
They knew that.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
John Say Porter got banned from the NBA. That's uh,
Michael Porter's little brother, right, And they just arrested his
co conspira in Brooklyn. And and now that guy's going
to jail for taking the under on the John Taystup
when he took himself out of the game. And and
that came about because Dante Porter himself, according to the reports,
was a gambler and owed a ton of money. And
(15:15):
that's why they have the rule in place. Right, That's
where the original baseball rule came across. Is if you
owe somebody a ton of money because you're a bad gambler,
then they're gonna have your over barrel and they're going
to try to find ways to use your information or
use your skill to then win that money back.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
And that's that's wise, man. Everything's got to be on
the up and up. I mean, Shannon, could you imagine
a sport where the outcome was already decided or impacted
by those, you know, those participants to say, I'm gonna
let you win, like I don't know, wrestling or something
like that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa? What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:53):
You're not You're not saying the four letter F word, right,
You're not saying fake.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Now okay, all right, you're saying free to turn that.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Sure, do you ever go do you ever go against
the script? You're like, you know what, forget this? So
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna be shore.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
That's what's call going going into business, going into business
for yourself. And yes, that does happen sometimes never happened
to me, but it has happened to some other people.
You get hit with a little slive, stiff right hand,
all of a sudden you start throwing some live rounds.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, that happens.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
It gets it gets a little little little too real
sometimes in there, and then you go.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Out of business. Uh due, do you have a do
you have a library? Do you need to do at
this point?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
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Right, we got Thursday? What is that tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Tomorrow?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Finally found us some basketball. That was a long break.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, long break for basketball.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I was speaking of breaks. So take one, and then
at the bottom of the eye we'll have Nick Van Giona.
We'll talk a little Kentucky baseball getting ready for the
Super Regional. How about that we should do that? Huh good?
All right, we'll be back in a moment. You're listening
to KSR. Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Tom Hart
hosting in Atlanta. I guess every Wednesday throughout the course
of this summer we've got Ryan and Drew and Lexington. Ryn,
(18:14):
you got something to talk about?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
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Speaker 3 (18:26):
Did you think he's gonna say no?
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I was aware?
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And you too, hold on, right, Can anybody be a
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Speaker 5 (19:16):
There you go, that's really good. You guys have some
treats over there.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Food. What do you got?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
What is in that bag?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Mario?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
He said us. Oh, it's like fudge. Oh my god, Wow,
like really good fudge from all right, I let you.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Guys stop your face with fudge. We got some callers
on the line.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Stanning, we do.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Let's talk to Scott.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
What's up, Scott?
Speaker 11 (19:40):
Yes, I was wanting to comment on what y'all we're
doing on Monday with Myron and talking about uh, cheering
or not for Callip Perry. Yeah, I don't think one
thing we was proud up. Uh and not that you
(20:03):
know he didn't get compensated for it, but he actually
saved University of forty three Mariason dollars leaving. And also
he did raise a whole lot of money for people
in this state. So uh uh, I would applaud for him.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Scott, thanks for the call. I appreciate I got there.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
I got one more thanks for I think uh, I
might be wrong, but I think Oregon States former head
basketball coach was uh Michelle Obama's brothers.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
That's right now that Scott appreciate your history lessons all right?
I think thanks for the call. Uh. I think Arkansas
fans already learning about John all the Perry's human side
in terms of using his platform to help. They had
some was it two weeks ago, they had some tornadoes
come through, and he already, you know, kind of got
off on the right fletch, just like he did with
(21:13):
all the every time he helped when there was a
natural disaster in Kentucky.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
And I thought that was amazing, and we just lost him,
lost Tom, We lost Tom too.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well what Tom saying, though, He's right. That's when Cal
Perry is absolutely at his best, I mean his very best,
when it comes through the philanthropy work that he's done
here with tornadoes, floods, whatever it is, he he steps
up and he did the same thing in Arkansas.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Yeah, no surprising that he did that there, and even
people that wanted Cal gone here. I was one that
thought it was time to go. No One is saying
he's a bad person to help the state. I mean,
we're all very aware of what a good job and
things he did from end to end. In Kentucky, Tom
is doing something on the zoom. Does that mean he's there?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He was ding dance. He was dancing, but I don't
know if he can hear us. No, I don't think
he still can't hear us.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
There he goes, that was my I can't hear you dance.
I wanted to get your attention to understand that i'd
been cut off and I couldn't hear you. How's the fudge?
Did you dig into it?
Speaker 8 (22:14):
And those?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
It ever too early to try fudge?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Mario kind of confiscated it. He has He not shared anything.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
He pronounced that name though, Ryan, it's a it's a
shop downtown, but I want to get his pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's dollhouse, dollhouse, fus dall, who's dah, who's dall? Who's fudge?
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Whatever you want? He's the one I mentioned.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
He was serving fudge and Joe was singing in his
shop and he couldn't get it turned off.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Yes, so he made a note for Kentucky Joe on there.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I'm not I don't usually use the word fair or unfair,
but in this case, well, how is it fair that
I'm doing the heavy lifting on this show and you
guys are the ones gefted the sweets? Like, what's the
deal with that?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You know what I'm hearing? Drew? Why that's what I'm hearing?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Tom, We've been doing the heavy lifting on this show
for years, so this is no, it's not just you.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
There's nothing more annoying than a grown man doing the
crying sound. You know, we would never do that, Nick Menjio,
We're gonna talk with the Kentucky baseball coach about the
super regional coming up next. KSR continues after this.
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Speaker 5 (23:33):
Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio with a huge weekend
on campus at Kentucky prop Park. Please be joined by
Kentucky baseball coach Nick Minjeeong coach. How we feeling today.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
June Kentucky feeling good? Feeling good today?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Well you should feel good, if for no other reason,
then I've been your bad luck charm because I've called
each of the two supers, the one in Louisville and
the one last year at LSU, and you guys didn't
make it out. So now that I'm not going to
be there, I will not be present, So I'm out
of the way for Kentucky to make its first trip
to Omaha. And I will start our discussion today with
(24:17):
the same question I asked you when we're in Louisville
years ago, and we're in Baton Rouge last year. If
if this team is able to pull this off and
get to Omaha for the first time in the history
of this program, who do you think would feel most
outside of the current players and coaching staff, who in
(24:37):
the history of the program would feel most rewarded by that.
Speaker 12 (24:42):
Start with our athletic corrector, Mitch Barnhart. I'll start with him,
the guy that just continue to invest in our program.
You know this, Tom, but we have a beautiful facility
and there's a guy that had a vision for.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
This, put it in a whole new location, invested a
lot of time, effort.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
Energy resources to build something like Kentucky Proud Park for
a moment like this. And then the next person I
would go to is Keith Modising. I've just spent the
morning with these land and our coaching staff and a
Bible study for eight straight years once a week.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And it's a guy that has invested.
Speaker 12 (25:24):
Twenty five years of his life into our baseball program.
So those are the first two people that have come
to my mind.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I love it. Your team, the program as a whole
has such great positive energy, and I feel like that's
a direct reflection of not just your coaching style but
your personality. But to some at some point, the players
have to that has to be authentic with them. They
have to take that on themselves. How did this team's
(25:53):
personality grow over the last couple of years.
Speaker 13 (25:58):
I'm glad you said that, because it's taken a couple
of years, and you know, back in twenty two, I
just keep going back to that year. How you know
we lose our Friday and Saturday starters. And I often
use the example of you know, when you lose a
Friday guy or a starter, it's much like driving down
(26:19):
the road and you're having a flat tire. You're like, man,
I don't I hate this, but you got to pull
over and you've gotta change your tire. Right, and you
know it's gonna take you twenty thirty forty minutes. Tom guy,
like yourself, I'm sure you could probably do it.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
In like seven or eight.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
All right, Like cover me if I take.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
It, it's gonna take me thirty minutes, right, whatever. Well,
then we lost our Saturday starter.
Speaker 13 (26:43):
Well, now that's like having two flat tires at the
same time. You're sitting there, and while you're sitting there,
the rest of the league it's just moving along and they're.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Going down the highway.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
So that was a hard year.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
I thought that team we had a regionable caliber team. Well,
by the time we got the that year, you remember
we make it late run. We were the twelve seed
in the SEC tournament. No twelve seed has ever.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
Won a game.
Speaker 13 (27:07):
We win, we make it to what we were in
the final four, and we were one win short.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
With all of that that happened. So we had some
guys in our current team now.
Speaker 13 (27:17):
That have been through that, and in twenty two, we
just changed at the end of the year the way
we were approaching our offense, the way we approached the
game of baseball. We just started with attacking and being
aggressive on every level. And that's carried over to last
year and then this year.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
So we have a core.
Speaker 13 (27:34):
Group of people that have been there and done that,
and the players have taken it over themselves. And I
just remember being at Southern Illinois last year and making
Ryan haking Out our dugout captain and turned the reins
over to him and he started running our dugout And
I never had to go to any individual player about anything.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
If there was.
Speaker 13 (27:54):
Something going on that we didn't like, I'm would go
straight to Ryan hagen Out and he would fix it.
And he's done a great job. And the player that
bought in and building block of our team. Sure they
have fun, Tom, but it does start with and I
don't want people to lose this how competitive they are.
If they don't compete, we will hold them accountable, and
they compete at a high level, but then they also
(28:15):
have fun while they do it.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
But I'm not interested.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
In having fun.
Speaker 13 (28:18):
If we're not competing, that will not happen.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
So don't lose.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
Sight of I tell people all the time how.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Competitive they are. They're uber competitive.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Well, I think first of all, having a player led
team is the most efficient way you can manage a team. Right,
Like you said, you just take that off of your
plate and let the players lead themselves. But from a
fun and lose standpoint, it's a baseball season is a
long season, man, and so to avoid, you know, the
(28:50):
stress of Okay, we're two wins from om all, I
think that's incredibly important. Now you get an opponent coming
in here from Morgan State that is a national ranked opponent,
and they had a good year in the Pac twelve.
They're used to having success in the postseason. We talked
to Wes Clementsum the first half of the show about
some of their talent. They're number one guys, got velocity,
(29:13):
will hit ninety seven. You've seen that in the SEC.
I feel like you've seen all of Oregon State's strengths
in the teams you've already faced over the course of
the season. Not saying you face them, obviously you haven't.
But how does this league, which had a record eleven
(29:34):
in the tournament, how does that help prepare you for
the postseason?
Speaker 13 (29:38):
It absolutely has, and you're right tom Now, obviously they're
a team that we have in faced, but when you
go through an SEC weekend, you know this it is
an absolute dogfight, and it is an absolute emotional, mentally, physically,
it is a full on battle, a battle, and the
(30:00):
the goal coming out of every weekend is to win
the series.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
That is the goal.
Speaker 13 (30:05):
So man, that means, you know, for us this year,
we've lost a Friday game, we've lost the first game
of the series, and we've.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
Had to win the next two.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
And we've done that.
Speaker 13 (30:14):
We've won the first game, lost the second.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
You gotta win the third one.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
So having been in a league where you are required
for ten.
Speaker 13 (30:25):
S great weeks to perform at the highest level, and
the second you take your eyes the prize and the
road and the thing, the next thing in front of you,
the second you try to sit there and you chill
out and you try to catch your breath. Uh, you're
getting passed by. And it is happens quick.
Speaker 12 (30:46):
The margin of victory and you know this, tom is
so small, it's so small. And you come out of
those weekends and you go, hey, listen, if we didn't
make this play right here, we would have lost that game,
which means we would have lost the series. Hey, if
we didn't get this hit right here, we would have
lost that game, which means we.
Speaker 10 (31:04):
Would have got swept.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Hey, if we would have done.
Speaker 13 (31:07):
Display, or we would have made display, we would have swept,
or we got swept.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
We are two plays away.
Speaker 13 (31:14):
Instead, we win the series, but we are two plays
away from getting swept.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
That's how close and how small.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
The margin victory is.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
And you know this, Don, Super Regionals is no different.
But our league has put us in that position to
where we hit for ten straight weeks. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
I was in Stillwater this weekend and Florida knocked off
Oklahoma State based on one catch and center field with
the bases loaded. Florida made the play, Oklahoma State didn't.
Florida plays on. I don't want to hijack the entire
interview because I know Ryan and Drew are at chaos
ball right now, and Ryan is a huge baseball guy,
so on him, get him involved too, Ryan, you want
(31:52):
to jump in with coaching min jail.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, coach man, it's good to have you back on.
We missed the motivation Mondays, where be a fountain, not
a drain, and the water water softens the potato but
hardens the egg. We miss those days for sure.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
Well, I've missed having you on. Thanks for having me
on now.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
The fans this past weekend were in saying coach, I
mean they set through the end of the game Saturday,
set through the rain at the end of the game,
and then they stood in line Sunday for like an
hour and a half in the rain as they had
to rant before it got started. That shows you, I think,
how baseball crazy this town has become over your team.
Speaker 13 (32:32):
Yeah, and we're very appreciative and we're thankful Ryan, because
this has not been something that has just happened overnight.
It's been a lot of time, effort, energy on a
lot of people.
Speaker 10 (32:43):
And I will say this about the Big Blue Nations.
When they have a.
Speaker 12 (32:47):
Team, whether it's the field, a court, it doesn't matter where.
When they have a team that genuinely loves each other
and they want to compete and do.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
Everything they can to help Kentucky win, they appreciate that.
And this fan base has realized that.
Speaker 13 (33:09):
About our teams the last couple of years is about Hey, listen,
they love competing at the highest level. They want to
win for Kentucky, and they're very unselfish. So that means
if the third basemin's back.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
We're gonna bond.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
That means if we have to steal a base, we're
gonna do it.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
If it means we got to hit a home run,
we're gonna do it. And if that means we've got to.
Speaker 13 (33:29):
Intentionally walk their best player to try to get somebody out,
to let somebody else beat us, like they're gonna do it,
and they're gonna do everything they can to make the pitch.
And this fan base has done that. And you know,
we have this saying in our program. You know we've
been hit by over one hundred pitches. Right, we say
we don't move, like we do not move in the
batter's box Like that is like a mantra of ours.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Like we don't move.
Speaker 13 (33:53):
Well, you know who else hasn't moved is our fans.
Speaker 10 (33:55):
They've sat there.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
In the pouring rain.
Speaker 13 (33:58):
They just let the water just poured down on them
for an hour and a half the other day and
they're not.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Losing their seat open.
Speaker 12 (34:05):
And we came out and competed really hard for them
and gave them like much our players gave them an experience.
And that's what we're all about, is giving our players
and our fans an experience they'll never forget, and we'll
never forget them sitting there wearing it and being the
way they were for our guys.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
We're thankful.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Hey, Nick Drew here, I'm still drying off from the weekend.
That was a lot of fun. But I noticed on Sunday.
On Sunday night, you said this one feels different. I
was ready for a dog pile. You didn't dog pile.
You're coming back home next weekend instead of being on
the move. Now that it's three days later, does it
still feel a little different internally as you're heading to
another shot at the Supers.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Yeah, that is.
Speaker 12 (34:45):
Because you know, to Tom's point and he's been with us,
and Tom just thank you for not being there this weekend.
Just you know, this time, you know, seventeen and last year,
you're backing up, we're getting ready to load up or
you know, trying to figure out our plans and when
(35:06):
we're going to show up to each you know, different venue.
And now we're we're at home and our guys are doing.
Speaker 13 (35:12):
The early work on the field and they're preparing and
they're sleeping in their own beds, and you know, so, yeah,
it does feel different.
Speaker 10 (35:19):
And you know, I've always.
Speaker 13 (35:20):
Said this and you guys know this, but it helps
when you have a group of guys that have been
there and done that, and we have enough guys off
of last year's team that have been in this position.
So for them, yeah, there was no dog pile. They
knew what it felt like last year being in Baton
Rouge and losing and not being able to make it
(35:42):
and it being two wins from Baseball's version of the
Promised Land, and so they want something different and bigger,
and they helped make it feel that way.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Nick, I should know this, so I apologize. But you've
been to Omaha as an assistant, correct.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
I have.
Speaker 13 (36:01):
Yeah, when thirteen we played in the National Championship and
we lost the UCLA and the finals, it's like I've
gotten to the spot time where it's like I want
all this for the guys.
Speaker 10 (36:11):
I went to the ANYI.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
World Series four different times.
Speaker 10 (36:13):
I've been there.
Speaker 13 (36:14):
I've played for the National Championship twice and lost. My
wife she's hardcore. She was like in thirteen when we lost,
that was the second time I lost in the finals.
The other time was when I was at Embury Riddle
and she looked at me and she's like, are you
ever gonna win one?
Speaker 10 (36:29):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 13 (36:31):
She's like, you know you're over too, and I'm like, oh,
so yeah, I've been there and it's just did a
spot now time where I want this for all the
players and the staff and the Big Blue Nation because
they've never been they've never been well.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
I just, you know, as someone who worked that event
for a few years, knowing what it is, I can't.
I want it for the fans too, because I see
Big Blue Nation absolutely taking over Omaha. We know how
well they travel for everything, and I think it would
be amazing And we could talk about it again next
week when I'm back in this chair. On Wednesday, before
(37:08):
we let you go, the start times did not do
you any favors. You don't have to say that, but
I will, especially the late start on Sunday. But your
crowd support has been so incredibly important to this team.
Howard ticket sales looking for this weekend, we're still trying
to push some on Sunday.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
I haven't heard. I haven't gotten the update.
Speaker 13 (37:29):
I know we've had a ton, but I appreciate you
bringing that up because this gives me an opportunity. Tom,
And you're really good at this. You just threw me
an alley of you and I'm just like going reverse
dunk on you.
Speaker 10 (37:40):
On this one. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
But I've been here for eight years, and I.
Speaker 10 (37:47):
Think people know this about me.
Speaker 13 (37:49):
I love and support the other programs as much as
my own right, and they caused the big Glue Nation.
And my favorite hashtag is we are UK. And anytime
I tweet out anything or about any other sport or anything,
I always put we are UK because we are the
University of Kentucky and we are one. And I've been
(38:10):
here for eight years, and I've sat in Rep. Aerna
and Tom, you've been in there at nine o'clock at
night on a Tuesday and you looked up and there's
twenty four thousand people there. Twenty four You've been there.
You've been there, you've seen it. You've been in our
football stadium. We've had over fifty thousand people. So look
(38:32):
a nine o'clock start. I'm really not concerned one did,
because I've seen what our fan base has done.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
They've done it for basketball.
Speaker 13 (38:40):
Oh and by the way, in twenty seventeen, we won
our first ever regional championship and that game did not
finish till after one o'clock in the morning. The game
did not start till after nine o'clock after a lightning
storm on a Monday night, and the fans were there,
So I actually, I'm not concerned, and I know they'll.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
Come because that's what they do.
Speaker 13 (39:05):
They support our programs and as well as anybody. I mean,
and it doesn't matter if it's a midweek or a
Sunday night. There's no school, so I know the kids
and where they're going to.
Speaker 10 (39:15):
Want to be.
Speaker 13 (39:16):
And this is what my message to the Big Blue
Nation would be, like, Hey, I know the kids got
to go to bed. I got a nine year old,
But we're interested in not giving reeves our sun things.
We're more concerned about giving them experiences. And a kid
at eleven or twelve o'clock at night will remember that
baseball game more than they would staring at the back
(39:38):
of their eyeballs in a bed on a.
Speaker 10 (39:40):
Random Sunday June night. So Big Blue Nation, let's.
Speaker 13 (39:43):
Give our guys and an experience that they will never forget.
And they will not forget that. So I'm coming the judges.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
The judges give you a ten on the dunk Nick, congratulats.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Here's the thing, and we'll let you go in just
a moment. Here's the thing, and you talk about basketball
on Tuesday night, this is the opportunity. Imagine being in
a basketball game at rupp Arena and you win the game,
when you're going to the final four, Imagine being at
Kroger Field and you win the game, and you're going
to the national championship. Like, there is nothing bigger on
(40:20):
the line than what will be on the line Sunday
night and Saturday too. So hey, you know I'm a
huge fan. Congratulations on the regional win. Uh. I can't
wait to see you guys perform this weekend and best
of luck.
Speaker 13 (40:33):
Hey Tom, I do want to give you some credit
on something I do.
Speaker 10 (40:36):
I have the fans to hear this, all right.
Speaker 13 (40:38):
So we sat at Baton Rouge and I don't know
if you remember telling me this, but you love the SEC.
You do an unbelievable job for this conference, and I
know you know that, and all the fans know that.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
We know that.
Speaker 13 (40:49):
That's why you're hosting today. And I said, hey, Tom,
I believe that feedback is the breakfast the champions.
Speaker 10 (40:56):
Here's my quote, Ryan Lemons.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
There it is motivaast the champions.
Speaker 13 (41:01):
Yes, all right, real quick, Tom, I said Hey, tell
me something I can do better.
Speaker 10 (41:05):
You said, Nick, you're a little baked.
Speaker 13 (41:06):
Sometimes tell more stories about your players individually and talk
about them and give people something to grab onto.
Speaker 10 (41:13):
So you know what I've done.
Speaker 6 (41:14):
I've tried to do that nice.
Speaker 13 (41:15):
So thank you for making me better and I think
it's helped than the fans are showing up.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
So thank you, Tom, you made me better.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Oh you're the best. You're the best. Thanks you and
the congratulations. We got to go to break good luck
this weekend. We'll put a ball on this show and
get ready for whatever is happening tomorrow. Right after this,
you're listening to Kentucky Sports Radio. Kentucky Sports Radio wraps
up our number two. Shannon tell us about Shady Rays.
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Speaker 5 (42:00):
I got a lake trip coming up. This summer. I
need some shady rays we've got. How awesome is Minji?
I mean that dude is great, like this relentless positive energy,
and we had that we had that conversation about rouge
and now he's styling his team, and other TV guys
have told me they're like, oh, yeah, we had a
We had a meeting with Coach before our series and
he said, well, Tom told me I should be doing this.
(42:20):
That's awesome. I know people are going to show up
for that game, this, that entire series this weekend. That's
going to be great. Uh, Fellas, we should do it
again next Wednesday. Huh true, absolutely.
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I have a great Wednesday, everybody. Six six and a
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