May 7, 2025 • 42 mins
Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon take your calls and talk NBA Playoffs, AI, Joe Creason Park and more.
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Now here's Matt Jones welcome back.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio.
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If I'm nine two eight oh, twenty two eighty seven,
ask anything Wednesday, get on in and get your questions.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
We had one right for the break that we will do.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
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So come on by.
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Speaker 5 (01:44):
We'd love to see you.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Don't forget that we're out here even when Kentucky games
are are are not going on?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
What person rites Matt?
Speaker 6 (01:52):
With all this going on, don't you think the Vatican
has to at least give a call to Billy Donovan
to see if he's interested.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
We thought that.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
I think you all both undersold that. I thought that
was a really good line. Shannon, you didn't get a.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Chuck out of you.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You didn't like that line.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Sorry, I get the joke.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
I thought it was great. Whoever eight five, nine, three
two one, that's a good joke. I don't care that
they didn't give you a good lie like.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I wanted. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
I was laughing.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
I want Ryan to laugh as much as he does
when Shannon just says give me Peter.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Like that fakes.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Ryan laughed so much harder than a well crafted joke
about Billy Donnovan.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Can I tell you during the break he said that
line three more times off the air exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I'm dealing with a child like that's what he giggles
at the entire the entire time. It was not, by
the way, Mark Grayce that got the game winning hit.
It was Luis Gonzales. So he gave us a fact,
Shandon was not a correct.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Fact, right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
He said it with confidence, though, so I believed him
that confidence.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
He did say with confidence, And because he said it
with confidence.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm in Boston.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
You you completely believed it? What person rights? Matt?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Do we have any update on the lottery winner from Georgetown?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I haven't seen any.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Drew, have you seen an update as he's even out
of the the Pokey in Florida?
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Uh No, I mean, there's the fake story going around that.
Uh we we debunked yesterday or the day before about
him blowing his money already, but I haven't seen an
update about it. If he's if he's free, or what's
going on.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
That's ah, that's a that's a good question. We'll see
if anybody has an update. I did get an update
on the park meeting last night. There were hundreds of
people at the meeting. No one showed up in favor
of the of the pickleballs in his court. Everyone was against.
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So I don't know what that means. I mean, I
saw that the mayor, Craig Greenberg, put out a video
today explaining its benefits.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You do wonder, though, Channon, you're a Louisvillion.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
If you get a three hundred to zero community meeting,
you do wonder what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
There are people arguing, though, Hey, this park.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Where we're gonna put the pickleball and the tennis was
being unused. It was a parking lot and a dilapidated
tennis facility. Why wouldn't you want to update it with
an updated facility. I don't know enough about it to
say either way, But with hundreds of people showed out
and no one was in favor of it, according to Brian,
(04:39):
the intern who went to the event, then Shannon, I
don't I don't know if that's a good sign for it.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
No nobody wants it is what it sounds like to me.
It was the number one story on the local news
this morning, and people out there chanting, we or keep
Joe Creesan channing, keep Joe Kreesan.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
That's what they were changing. How did they go keep
Joe creesing.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Keep Joe keep Yeah, we'll just keep going.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Who is, by the way, who is Joe crees Does
anyone know?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
I actually googled that while you all were talking, and
it says he was a journalist who wrote for the Courier.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Journal and they named a park after him.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
According to uh wikipedia dot com, that would be like.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
What Rick Bositch Park in uh, Brian intern park Joe
Sanka Park.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Uh it's so they named it after just a guy
that right wrote for the Courier.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
And uh oh what it's never mind said something about
w h a S. It said, did he die playing
tennis with a w h a S Radio personality? I'm
reading this all on the fly.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Wait a second, he died.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
I'll read it out loud so I get this right,
Wikipedia dot com. Creasing continued writing and working until his death,
which occurred while playing tennis with w h a S
radio personality Milton Mets real way.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
To honor him that park, maybe it's yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
He also started the movement to make the Kentucky Coffee
Tree the first official state tree of Kentucky?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Is that is that? Our is that our state tree
is the Kentucky Coffee Tree?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I think it is?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
So this dude, when did he die? Drew, because I've
never heard of this person? When did he die?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Nineteen seventy four? Okay, so he was born in Benon, Kentucky.
Shout out Marshall County.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Born in Marshall County, lived in Louisville, worked as a journalist,
played tent and was playing tennis when he passed away.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
He was enough popular enough that they named a park
after him.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
And how ironic, Shannon that the Fight over is a
tennis facility?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, Joe Creesan, do you think he would really want
pickleball though?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I mean that's a four.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh No, he's a true tennis player.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
No, he's if he's a true tennis player, then he
would be aghast at the fact that there's a pickleball,
but it's a pickleball slash tennis.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
With See, this is where we need Ai Joe Creesan
to ask him or are you okay to get your
blessing from beyond the grave to put pickleball?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I really like that's another thing.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
What if people did that where they used the AI
version to try to enhance their argument.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Like what if he's on there going yeah, I'm perfectly
fine with you making a pickleball.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Course, that's a really interesting point. It would be hard
to argue with Ai Joe Creases, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, he's like, I died here. My death does not
in my park.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You're trying to your chanting keep.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Me yeah here, I am interesting.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
I really like the second sentence of his bio. It
says he was born in ben Kentucky, which he called
the only town in Kentucky where I was born.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I was born like sounds like a funny guy. It
said that was like what he claimed about.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Even got in quotations. It's the second sentence in his bio.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Kentucky which is the only town that I was born.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yep. Only town in Kentucky where I was born.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
That's amazing what you can see why he was such
a great journalist. Right, let's give you the facts in
the sentence. That is funny.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Well, anyway, so they had the meeting. Apparently there's another
meeting later this week. It feels like the momentum is
against keeping Joe. No, it's for keeping Joe Cresan. We'll
see whether or not it ends up happening. I'm now
fascinated by the fact he died playing tennis with Milton
Metz in the I wonder was it in the park?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
That's why they named the park after him.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
So that's why they named the park after him.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's awesome remembering a guy that has been kind of
over fifty years died or fift years ago. Brandy's name
back up, and we.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Know, by the way, do we know he did he
die in the park where they named it after him
or no? Yep? Yep, So it wasn't named after him
at the time. So did they name it after him
because he died there?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
M hmm according to uh the internet that I'm reading here,
don have a heart attack.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
So Shannon would you like to die somewhere so that
they named a park.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
After where you died?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Like?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
They could change like if you died during Larger than Life,
it would be starting called Shannon the Dude in Life
or something. Would you want that?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, we could change the name, like you know, from
the Godfather to Shannon the Dudes.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
You know, that's exactly the same. That's exactly the same
level of honor.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I think.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
All right, So this this also says there's a sign
in Benton that says ben in Kentucky the only town
Joe Creesan was born in.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
There to stop it, that is not a town. That
there's not a town it says, that's what it says.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
The people Benton, Kentucky have to confirm that there is
not a sign in Bitton, Kentucky that says the only
town Joe Creeson was born.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
According to the Marshall County Daily. I trust it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
He must have been a big reporter for the Curer.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Why would that have been a sentence they would make
a sign out of it? Was that like a famous
sentence that he ended up saying it?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
And soon as Drew read that, that's the first thing that's.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
True, but I thought it was like he said it
as a joke. I didn't think it would be something
the town would put on the outside of the town.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Must have been a big I mean it was the
second sentence in his bio. He must have said it
a lot really stuck.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Well, now I want to keep Joe creasing because I
want I want disguised memory to live, especially not.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
To be replaced by pickleball, which is so stupid. All right.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
The guy that asked earlier, what do you think is hard?
Coach K said what's harder building a program or maintaining
a program? I was thinking during the break rhyme. I
think it depends on the sport. And again, football, building
the program is the hardest because it takes a long time.
It may take less time now because of the portal,
but it still takes time. And maintaining a program maybe
(11:00):
a little easier because you have depth, et cetera. I
think in basketball maintaining is the hardest because when you had,
like just look at what happened to Florida, right, when
you have success as a team, individuals are especially in
the portal nil Era almost certainly going to want to
go then benefit somewhere else and it becomes harder to
(11:23):
keep it together.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Same thing happened here with Cal.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I mean, as the years went on, more and more
guys came, they obviously had their individual goals and desires.
So I can see what coach k saying, especially in
the college basketball context, of why maintaining would be harder.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know, the question is really good because like Cal
obviously built the program up, and then we've seen Tubby
job Cal after ten, twelve, thirteen years, it is harder
to maintain that program you built. But the Carra asked
about Stoops. Stoops did such a great job building the
UK program. Now he seems to be struggling kind of maintain.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
But it has been a slow drop, meaning it's not
like it just fell off the face of the earth.
I think he has.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Dropped it in part because they let things slip.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I think one of the things that's hard in any
level of success is can you maintain the motivation that
built your success. Like when you're especially driven to succeed
and you have that success, it is hard to continue
to every day keep grinding. And if you listen to
people that do things that require that, I've heard Howard
(12:34):
Stern talk about this, David Letterman talk about this. When
you're doing something that's daily, to continue to put in
the effort and the desire to keep it at the
level you want is hard. I'm sure that's true about sports.
You have to kind of bring it every day. You
can't sit there and take stuff off. And I'm not
saying Mark Stoops took stuff off, but I do think
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in the last couple of years, I personally have questioned
he's still grinding at that level that maybe Drew he
did when he first got here, And we're gonna find
out this year when they get on the field.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
And when you're building, you can kind of catch lighting
in a bottle and have a great season and get
it built, but then you got to be able to
maintain that. It's why a lean maintaining might be a
little more difficult, kind of depending on circumstances. But when
you're building it, it's a good year or two can
really really take you to another level, but then you
got to work really hard to stay at that level too.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Success can either be like a drug that you just
have to keep going for to keep feeling, or it
can be something that becomes like a play cater that
you're just like I've had it and you just enjoy
the fruits of it and let things slip. And I
think you have to be very careful not to do that.
And I think both of these coaches we've talked about
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had that happen a little bit, and you know, now
they've got to go back to the mentality that they
had when they started.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Who's up next, Tristan, Tristan, go ahead, Tristan, Hey, Matt.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Made it back safely. I just have a quick question
that I can hang up and listen. Do you think
that Mark Pope is a kind of trying to copy
what Florida did this year with so many versatile big men.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Well, I don't know if he's copying Florida, but there's
no doubt he's gotten a lot of versatal players who
can switch and play every position. This this roster, to
me and I appreciate the call, is exactly what Mark
Pope wants. I just think I'm a little surprised he
doesn't have a little more shooting. But he maybe he
thinks Ryan that these dudes are gonna all they're better
(14:41):
shooters than we realize. But the switching every position, everybody
being able to dribble, everybody being able to handle the ball.
That is very consistent with what he wants. It's how
the Warriors plays, how most NBA teams play. Now, I
think that's exactly what he wants.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I think you're right. I think most of our worries
are that is there enough shooting there? But if Otega
takes a step up and shooting Aberdeen low, if these
three guys kind of step up and become better shooters,
maybe the combination of everybody on to kind of overshadow
that need for one drop dead shooter guy.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
You know, we get like watch these teams.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
When you watch these teams in the playoffs and the NBA,
they're succeeding. It is always it is fascinating to me
to watch how almost all these teams have dudes who
can just handle the ball, step out. They are It's
positionless basketball, that phrase, it's kind of how it is.
Watch watch these teams, Watch all the teams left in
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the playoffs. Everyone on their team can shoot, dribble, pass,
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very back Tucky Sports Radio two and a half. So
this is why I like this show. I mean, there's
many reasons I like it. But here's one of the reasons,
because you learn things you wouldn't have known either way.
(16:52):
All right, So I guess mister Creesan died in nineteen
seventy four. He was a journalist here and I would
you know, oh, even though I'm kind of peripherally in
that field, would have I don't know that I ever
had heard his name, But now after everyone riding me,
I'm fascinated by his cot multiple people Ryan saying to me, Matt,
(17:15):
you would have loved this guy. He was your kind
of writer. He would write a column featured around the state,
which would tell stories of small town people. He would
tell stories about towns across Kentucky. They were often funny,
and he looked at the state of Kentucky as a
humorist who also loved the place. That sounds like my
(17:37):
kind of guy, right.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Sound like a perfect guy that would fit in on
this show. Talking about Kentucky and Kentucky towns, Kentucky people.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
He said he wrote a book called Joe Creesan's Kentucky
Shadon where he went to every county in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
If you know somebody who did.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
That, Yeah, like a modern day Joe Creesan, Matt Jones.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
So I gotta find Joe Creesan's Kentucky if anybody has
that book.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It's awesome, this whole pickleball fight on a pickleball. We've
learned something that we A man has been forgotten over time.
Died fifty years ago.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
They have a creasing lecture series at Kentucky, the University
of Kentucky Drew that is named after him. You maybe
even did you go to a crease in lecture at
some point?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I did not, But if I had known all of this,
I would have made a point to Corey Price sent
us that he was voted the most popular was it
student Ryan at UK when he was there? The most
popular guy on campus?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Whip did that?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That would have been what like nineteen forty? Yeah, Corey
Price tweeted out name most popular man at UK in
the class of nineteen forty.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
See what an interesting thing, and that he was named
at the park was named after him because he died
in the park while playing tennis.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So there you go, who history listening today?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
There it is text machine seven seven two seventh seventy
four five five two five four asked anything Wednesday before
we get back to it. The real ID starts today, Shannon,
chaos coming to the airports.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Have we heard anything? Is it chaos out there?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I'm sure that it is.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I haven't seen any reports, but I'm sure that there's
a long, long line.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Just to get through.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And if you don't have your idea, you have to
like fill out a form which takes forever.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
So I'm sure there's a long line for that.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
That's just to fill it out in person. Apparently you
can't do it before. Yep, So I do wonder what
the nation's airports are like today. The real ID starts today.
We've been talking about this. Apparently it was passed in
two thousand and three by Congress, and then it took
you know, years to get it to where states were
ready for it, and then we in Kentucky pushed it
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off until I think twenty nineteen or twenty twenty, and
then we've had a couple of years to do it,
and a lot of people, myself included, have not. So,
I mean, I can report live from the airport tomorrow,
but Shannon, today, I haven't heard if it's if it's
bad or not out there.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, I would want be anywhere near an airport for
like at least the next couple of months, just until
they get this all sorted out.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Yeah, well, hopefully they'll have a thing. It's clear the
Newark stuff continues to be wild. The stories about what
happened when those two minutes went off the air I
mean the planes, they lost contact with the planes, They
had no way to communicate with them, They had no
way to know where they were. Scare the planes had
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no ways to let no like communicate with the thing.
They were just sort of flying around in circles. And
I guess there's a protocol for when that happens. They
basically tell you to maintain your line, and that's what
planes did and then it came back on. But Drew,
can you imagine the panic in those ninety seconds or
two minutes because you don't know if it's gonna be
like that for a long time or not, you know.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
And you can that's not something you can play around with.
These slightest error can lead to a horrible, horrible, horrible tragedy.
They just got to get this fixed. I we were
talking about to bring the AA in earlier. Maybe you
can bring it into help a little bit with humans
around it. But this is an absolutely disastrous situation. It's
gonna affect a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
April like thirtieth or whatever was when it happened. So
if you were flying in or around Newark those days,
say an extra prayer tonight of thank you. Who's up next, Jeremy, Jeremy,
go ahead, Jeremy.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Hey, guys, I was just checking.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
Has anybody watched the last season out of Righteous Gemstones
and what did you think about it? I think Sunday
was the last ever episode, and for me, it just
kind of fizzled out, didn't in anything like our spoilers.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I watched the first couple of episodes of the season.
I still got to catch up on it, Drew, Ryan,
have you finished it? Either one of you yet?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
I need to see I think I'm two behind. I've
seen most of the season. I've enjoyed the season, but
I haven't seen the finale that he's talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Ryan, have you seen it? I know you love the
show too.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I've only missed the finale. I haven't seen the finale yet.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
And do you like the season so far?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's probably my least favor rid of the four seasons,
for sure. It just seems to not be as crazy funny.
It's kind of well, I don't want to spoil anything, but.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
It's I agree, I mean I don't. I don't think
there's anything like the other three seasons. Yeah, well I'm
kind of disappointed.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Well, I appreciate the call. I will.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I'll check it out. I do love that show. I
have seen the baby Billy stuff everywhere. But but I
don't a.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Lot of baby Billy this season.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
A lot about all of them.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Other parts I don't want to see.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, there are parts of him that you probably would
rather not see. But they've they throw it right at you.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
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Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
People are telling me the airport lines are pretty normal.
So people are saying they think that they've not even
started shinning like it.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Wow. So I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
You know, it was part of the federal bill that
they moved all this to regional offices, which is why
this all happened.
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But you know, I don't know. I don't have one.
So I hope my passport. I hope I don't lose it.
That's my key worry.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Kentucky has three new football players Ryan in the last
twenty four hours.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, two offensive linemen.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Yeah, an offensive lineman from James Madison, an offensive lineman
from some worst states ball state, and then a wide
receiver from SMU.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I know nothing about any.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Of these guys, no clue whether or not they're good.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
So what do we make of these three new players?
Positive sign? Negative sign? Who knows sign.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Respectfully to the three of them? It's kind of man,
these are depth pieces. They've barely recorded any stats or
much playing time at their first stops, so this looks
like they're just filling out the roster. You know, have
second third and who know, practice squad. I don't know
that any of these three editions will have much of
an impact, good or bad next year. It seems they're
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just trying to to get the team built.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
How do you even end up with a player Ryan
who was a like depth piece at James Madison?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Like, how does that even happen that you end up
with him on the team.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Maybe it's the coaching connection with maybe with Vance or
Mark may know either some kind of connection or made
it a parent connection. Maybe they were recruiting amount of
high school.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I think Drew's right. I think these are just you
needed some depth in the receiver room, So you bring
another receiver. You need some depth in the old line room,
bring another old lineman. I think they're just trying to
maybe replentish some guys that left the team the program.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
The receiver was a top recruit. I think you started Oregon,
but he had one catch all year last year. I mean,
it's maybe you turn him into something on down the road.
But it seems like these are guys they're adding to
the roster just to be able to have practices.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Okay, so I shouldn't care one way or the other,
that's what you're saying about this group.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
I don't think we'll see any of these guys playing
on the field next year. Maybe on down the road,
but these seem like guys you're talking about on the ditch.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Basketball. Duke basketball signed a new transfer and I looked
at him, Drew, and it was a transfer from Rice,
and I thought, oh, he must have been good if
Duke wants him.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
He averaged one point five points a game at Rice,
And you go, how does that kid end up at Duke?
A kid who didn't even really play for Rice, that
you wonder. I just it's amazing to me that that happens.
I mean, even the kid we got as our thirteenth
man at least average six and a half points at Miami,
but wow, you averaged one point five points at Rice.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
How do you end up at Duke?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Yeah, his name's if he too. I like the name,
if he kind of and if he if he add
to them. But I don't know Duke's roster that well.
But you know it could be the same you see
him a football. I mean, you know, schools aren't targeting
high school as much. You don't have a lot of
incoming freshmen as you as you used to before the
portal area, So it might be just like we got
to have somebody to put away on the end of
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the bench that's not demanding a lot of money or
playing time.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Shannon, a bad decision at least for the sport, even
if it's a good decision for the horse. They decide
not to run Sovereignty in the Preakness, you know, I mean, look,
I don't know the horse's health. I get it if
you're worried about it, But to me, I know they're
purists out there that say you can't change the schedule
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the Triple Crown because it is what it is.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
It is what it's been.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
You cannot have a triple Crown where the Derby winner
voluntarily skips the Preakness.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Just be caut if you do.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
And somebody that knows more than horse racing about me,
more about horse racing than me, can tell me which
is right. But you either, like have to say, being
in the Derby, it's contingent you do the Preakness unless
your horse is heard, or.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
You need to push the Preakness back.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I'm with you because you and I'm fine with pushing
the Preakness back, and everybody goes, well, it was supposed
to be hard to win the triple Crown. Okay, fine,
it is supposed to be hard, but you know what
times change.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
We can't have.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
It to where one of the three marquee races of
the year doesn't have any horses that were in the Derby.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
You just can't do that.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I'm a very very casual fan. I would watch the
Preakness if Sovereignty were running at it. Now that he's
not running at it, I really have no interest in
watching it at all. But what we're talking about here
is load management for horses.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Now I'm okay with it if that's what it takes,
because these horses like if you need to give them
more time.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
But would you agree if that's gonna happen, you got
to change the.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Races, change with church change the date. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I mean the more important thing is for me that
the Derby winner runs in the race.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yes, the Diverntye and Journalism Ryan, who were the two
best horses by far in that race. If they were
gonna do it again at the Preakness, wouldn't you watch
it to see?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
The sport needs it? Had this huge ratings day on
the Kentucky Derby, one hundred and forty thousand people there
at Churchill Downs. Now they're gonna not have that signature
moment of sovereignty maybe win in the Preakness, and the
sport needs it. So I've heard this argument for thirty years.
Just move the weakness one week back, move to Belmont
one week back.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, can you move them back?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
You get horse racing a longer stretch life, right, So
you go one week back to the Preakness and then
one maybe even two weeks back to the Belmont. A
five week sport becomes a seven or eight week sport
and you can maybe actually give rivalries. I mean, Ryan,
you remember when I was a kid, you had that
Sunday silence, easygoer, right? They raced in all three races.
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I think they were one to two in all three races.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
You don't even with triple crown winners, like who is
American Pharaoh's rival?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Does anybody remember?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
I mean who knows, right, because they don't race in
all of them. But if you made it to where
journalism and sovereignty got to go against each other again,
I think you could even have it to where, even
if journalism won drew, you might watch the third one
to see who breaks the time.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
But you can't.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
But you can't do it if you make it to
where physically it hurts the horses and they don't want
to do it.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
And I'm like Shannon and probably thousands of others, I
won't even consider watching the Preakness. Maybe if I'm home
and I'm scrolling through channels, but I would have made
a point to be in front of the TV knowing
that there's a chance for a horse running for the
Triple Crown. But it's just gonna absolutely destroy the Preakness's ratings.
They apparently they're.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
All gonna race in the Belmont. But at that point, Shannon,
people won't.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Care the prenous So they've got to find a way
to make it work.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
They have to. It's there. I know they are traditionalists
will be.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Like, oh, it's not what we did with Seattle Sleugh
and what we did with mantal War. Well you know what,
So what times change, it's what will be best for
a sport. Clearly, at its peak, horse racing can still
captivate America. It does it every year at the Derby.
Why not make it to where it captivates America a
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couple of other times?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Right, you just had the largest ratings for the Derby,
and how long you could take that momentum and carry
it into the next race.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
But now I don't think he mightna care.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
No moment I don't even know who's in the previous
There might be like there might not be one horse
in the Pregnus that was even in the.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Derby, So who cares? But that's that's that's obviously not
the decision of the powers that that that be. Who's
up next?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Bob and Jamestown.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Bob and Jamestown A five nine two eight oh, twenty
two eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Matt Joe Creesan was a legend in Kentucky. He like
you were talking about, he got all around the state
and like I say, he was a really personal guy.
And then back when Barry being a zone in the.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Courier Journal and they were winning.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
All those bulletzerprizes. That's what probably one of the keys
to it.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Anyway. Yeah, I think Shannon I might be interested in
as in his phone goes. Imagine it's like it's a
it's like the one time he might be saying something
that I'm past. Okay, go ahead, try again.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
Okay, Uh, this is a question from Major League Baseball.
Did you know there was an umpire clothing requirement? And
did you know that require one of those requirements umpire clothing.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Requirement. What is the requirement? What's the requirement?
Speaker 8 (32:26):
Bob?
Speaker 9 (32:28):
They have to wear black underwear in case of a
wardrobe malfunction, when their pants split. They want black underwear,
all right, So, first of.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
All, how you did not know that?
Speaker 6 (32:42):
How do you know, Bob, the color of the underwear
of umpires.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
That's the Major League Baseball sets those standards for their clothing.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Color.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
I knew Joe. I knew Joe not saw legendary red
players talked.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
About his underwear. You were like, Joe, what color underwear
do you wear?
Speaker 9 (33:10):
No? No, Joe wasn't an umpire, He was a So.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
You and Joe not at all sat around and talk
about No.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
No, but that was just a little side show the
big show Maya. Anyway, did you know what this unusually
cold weather we're experiencing right now?
Speaker 5 (33:29):
You get one, you get one ridiculous fact today. All right,
I appreciate the call. You know that's true, We think
that's true. Let's start with this. You think that's true, Drew.
Do you think it's true that umpires have to wear
black underwear?
Speaker 7 (33:45):
It's true, But I have a question. Don't umpires wear
gray pants? Why wouldn't they wear gray underwear if it's
for if you're splitting your pants, you don't want it
to stand.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
You said it's true, like you know it's true, or you're.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Just a s I looked it up as he was
talking because I didn't believe him.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You know, it had to happen, and I'm split their
pants and his white skivvies were showing through these pants es.
So they made this move to everybody had to wear
black unwear.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
What I don't.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Understand, Shannon, is what makes him call and say that,
I don't know what.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
What what makes it's he woke up this morning.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Bob is like a fortune cookie that comes out with
the worst facts, and every day he just decides what's
gonna come out today.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
How about we talk about umpires underwear?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Not not any because he starts with Joe Creesan, which
at least is on topic, and then we end.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
With that, Well, he did teach me something today. I
didn't know that the umpires had to wear black underwear.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
I forget somebody.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Somebody's pointing out this is ask anything Wednesday. So but
although he didn't ask anything.
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The fact he just came. He just came with the fact.
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So people are riding about the triple Crown thing. One
person says, Matt, you don't mess with the Triple Crown races.
(36:30):
If the w horse can't go, that's the way it is.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Yeah, but you can.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
That can't be the worst reason to do anything in life.
The worst reason is, well, that's the way it is.
And the second worst reason is because that's always the
way we've done it. Like, that's the stupidest thing to do.
You have to adjust to the realities of the world.
And if the reality is these horse trainers are not
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gonna run the derby winner and the previous then you
gotta adjust the reality. You can't just go eh, not
team like, that's dumb. You're just smacking yourself in the
face as an industry. If you do that, you're just
being dumb. You can't sit there and say, let's going
backwards in time is never a good reason to do anything.
So and I'm being told Ryan that it wasn't even
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always the case that these were the dates of the races.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
They got changed once. So if they were changing the past.
Why can't they be changed again.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's best for the sport, There's no doubt about it.
I think horses are just getting soft these days. They're
like our young teenagers.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
But that's a stupid like you're saying it as a joke.
But there's people that believe what you're saying. There are
people that believe, oh, we're pampering these horses. Well, you
know why we're pampering these horses because they were dying
a few years ago. And let's be real, you want
to kill the sport. Have more horses died, Drew like,
that's that'll kill the sport. That'll make it to where
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government's banned is if we keep doing that. So we
just have to adjust to the realities of the world, right.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
Yeah, And I still haven't heard a good case for
why it has to be two weeks and three weeks.
I mean pampering the horses. That doesn't really I don't really.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
What is the good case, like Shandon, what's the good
case for two weeks?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (38:12):
You mean the case like to push it back?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
No, the case to keep it? What is the case
to why that's a stupid reason to do it?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
But I mean that's the reason.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
But it's a stupid reason.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Okay, it could be.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Stupid, but I'm telling you that's the reason they haven't
changed it because well, I mean.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
If it's not a better reason than that, then it's stupid.
I mean, tradition matters, it matters to me like I
but it's not the only reason to do anything. And
so imagine if the Preakness was Memorial Day weekend. Okay,
why would wouldn't that be a huge event? Memorial Yes,
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it was to have the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend
be the Preakness, And then what if you did the
Belmont around the fourth of July. You have now in
corporate raided these races into Americana, haven't you.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Why wouldn't you do that?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
We're making a horse racing great again.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah. And if Trump wants to ride the ponies at
the beginning, didn't.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Landing whatever, Who cares. I don't know if he can
fit on the horse or not, but if he can,
it would be if you did the Preakness at Memorial
Day and the Belmont on the fourth of July, it
could become you could make those races like the Derby
Is where everybody was a part of family gatherings. Isn't
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that better than now when two weeks after the Derby disease,
wuln't even know, Like no one knows anyway.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I'm just doing it out to know what we're talking about.
It isn't like the Indianapolis five hundred Memorial Day weekend.
Maybe it will run.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
But that's on Sunday. So the race, the Preakness on Saturday.
How about that?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Yeap, it would work.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I never knew you had such strong horse racing thoughts.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
I don't. I just I just I hate when people's
reason for something is.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Well, that's the way we've always done it, because you know,
the sport is not the same, Like it's not as
good as it used to be. It's not as big,
So maybe we should change things and not just do
it because it's how.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
But that's why I want the UK have a game
on a Saturday, because it's the way we always did it.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
But we didn't even always do it like that. We've
played it at different times.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
I mean, I think it'd be better for it to
be on a Saturday for many reasons, But the answer
is not just because it's how we've always done it.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
It's just because it would be better for the fans.
Who's neck, Adam, Adam go ahead at him?
Speaker 11 (40:37):
So I had to laugh out loud. And when you
were talking about the parks and just the thought of
them naming that little park next to your house the
rich Mosicks Park would be hilarious.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Or what if I fall down on that park? Will
you get them to name it the Matt Jones Parky
Drew Drew if I were to fall on that.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Park, bust at your butt? I think that's close enough.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
I've gotten hurt in that part before, so yeah, I
think that probably should be right.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
But go ahead.
Speaker 11 (41:03):
Had a comment on question my comment talking about yesterday's topic.
I would absolutely love to hear KA would love for
call a game, and they will, Actually, they'll if you
put in, like I want to hear K would call
the last final seconds of the twenty twelve National Championship.
They'll print out or they'll give you a dialogue and
(41:25):
a transcript of what he would say, like in his
voice like that.
Speaker 9 (41:29):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
Yeah, see, I'd love to hear it if they ever
get the point where they can do it. I guess
they're worried about there being a you know a name
image likeness of using the sound. But yeah, I mean
I appreciate the call. I had a lot of people
write me and they would agree. What agree? I agree
with him that they want to hear it. What was
the thing you just sent me? Drew about what happened
in court? What was that about?
Speaker 7 (41:52):
A guy in Arizona got killed four years ago in
a road ragees and someone murdered him. But in court
this week they used an AI video of him to
talk to the man who murdered him. He said, he
said to Gabriel, the man who shot me, it's a
shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances.
In another life, we probably could have been friends. But
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they played a video in court of what they thought,
what AI thought he would have said. I think they
used other videos of him, maybe some other stuff he
has out there, and they came up with that and
played it for the man who murdered him.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
Wow. I can't believe the judge allowed that.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
This story even says that the judge UH thought positively
of it. Didn't really go into detail what that meant,
but it said had a positive response.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
That's I'm really surprised. Yeah, I have to think about
that one in court.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
Wow. Well with that mind blowing incident.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
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We thought that.
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I think you all both undersold that. I thought that
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Chuck out of you.
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You didn't like that line.
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Sorry, I get the joke.
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I wanted. I don't know.
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I was laughing.
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Like that fakes.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Ryan laughed so much harder than a well crafted joke
about Billy Donnovan.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Can I tell you during the break he said that
line three more times off the air exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I'm dealing with a child like that's what he giggles
at the entire the entire time. It was not, by
the way, Mark Grayce that got the game winning hit.
It was Luis Gonzales. So he gave us a fact,
Shandon was not a correct.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Fact, right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
He said it with confidence, though, so I believed him
that confidence.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
He did say with confidence, And because he said it
with confidence.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I'm in Boston.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
You you completely believed it? What person rights? Matt?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Do we have any update on the lottery winner from Georgetown?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I haven't seen any.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Drew, have you seen an update as he's even out
of the the Pokey in Florida?
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Uh No, I mean, there's the fake story going around that.
Uh we we debunked yesterday or the day before about
him blowing his money already, but I haven't seen an
update about it. If he's if he's free, or what's
going on.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
That's ah, that's a that's a good question. We'll see
if anybody has an update. I did get an update
on the park meeting last night. There were hundreds of
people at the meeting. No one showed up in favor
of the of the pickleballs in his court. Everyone was against.
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So I don't know what that means. I mean, I
saw that the mayor, Craig Greenberg, put out a video
today explaining its benefits.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You do wonder, though, Channon, you're a Louisvillion.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
If you get a three hundred to zero community meeting,
you do wonder what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
There are people arguing, though, Hey, this park.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Where we're gonna put the pickleball and the tennis was
being unused. It was a parking lot and a dilapidated
tennis facility. Why wouldn't you want to update it with
an updated facility. I don't know enough about it to
say either way, But with hundreds of people showed out
and no one was in favor of it, according to Brian,
(04:39):
the intern who went to the event, then Shannon, I
don't I don't know if that's a good sign for it.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
No nobody wants it is what it sounds like to me.
It was the number one story on the local news
this morning, and people out there chanting, we or keep
Joe Creesan channing, keep Joe Kreesan.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
That's what they were changing. How did they go keep
Joe creesing.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Keep Joe keep Yeah, we'll just keep going.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Who is, by the way, who is Joe crees Does
anyone know?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
I actually googled that while you all were talking, and
it says he was a journalist who wrote for the Courier.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Journal and they named a park after him.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
According to uh wikipedia dot com, that would be like.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
What Rick Bositch Park in uh, Brian intern park Joe
Sanka Park.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Uh it's so they named it after just a guy
that right wrote for the Courier.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
And uh oh what it's never mind said something about
w h a S. It said, did he die playing
tennis with a w h a S Radio personality? I'm
reading this all on the fly.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Wait a second, he died.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
I'll read it out loud so I get this right,
Wikipedia dot com. Creasing continued writing and working until his death,
which occurred while playing tennis with w h a S
radio personality Milton Mets real way.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
To honor him that park, maybe it's yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
He also started the movement to make the Kentucky Coffee
Tree the first official state tree of Kentucky?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Is that is that? Our is that our state tree
is the Kentucky Coffee Tree?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I think it is?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
So this dude, when did he die? Drew, because I've
never heard of this person? When did he die?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Nineteen seventy four? Okay, so he was born in Benon, Kentucky.
Shout out Marshall County.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Born in Marshall County, lived in Louisville, worked as a journalist,
played tent and was playing tennis when he passed away.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
He was enough popular enough that they named a park
after him.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
And how ironic, Shannon that the Fight over is a
tennis facility?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, Joe Creesan, do you think he would really want
pickleball though?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I mean that's a four.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Oh No, he's a true tennis player.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
No, he's if he's a true tennis player, then he
would be aghast at the fact that there's a pickleball,
but it's a pickleball slash tennis.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
With See, this is where we need Ai Joe Creesan
to ask him or are you okay to get your
blessing from beyond the grave to put pickleball?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I really like that's another thing.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
What if people did that where they used the AI
version to try to enhance their argument.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Like what if he's on there going yeah, I'm perfectly
fine with you making a pickleball.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Course, that's a really interesting point. It would be hard
to argue with Ai Joe Creases, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, he's like, I died here. My death does not
in my park.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You're trying to your chanting keep.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Me yeah here, I am interesting.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
I really like the second sentence of his bio. It
says he was born in ben Kentucky, which he called
the only town in Kentucky where I was born.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I was born like sounds like a funny guy. It
said that was like what he claimed about.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Even got in quotations. It's the second sentence in his bio.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Kentucky which is the only town that I was born.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yep. Only town in Kentucky where I was born.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
That's amazing what you can see why he was such
a great journalist. Right, let's give you the facts in
the sentence. That is funny.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Well, anyway, so they had the meeting. Apparently there's another
meeting later this week. It feels like the momentum is
against keeping Joe. No, it's for keeping Joe Cresan. We'll
see whether or not it ends up happening. I'm now
fascinated by the fact he died playing tennis with Milton
Metz in the I wonder was it in the park?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
That's why they named the park after him.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
So that's why they named the park after him.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's awesome remembering a guy that has been kind of
over fifty years died or fift years ago. Brandy's name
back up, and we.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Know, by the way, do we know he did he
die in the park where they named it after him
or no? Yep? Yep, So it wasn't named after him
at the time. So did they name it after him
because he died there?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
M hmm according to uh the internet that I'm reading here,
don have a heart attack.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
So Shannon would you like to die somewhere so that
they named a park.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
After where you died?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Like?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Right?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
They could change like if you died during Larger than Life,
it would be starting called Shannon the Dude in Life
or something. Would you want that?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, we could change the name, like you know, from
the Godfather to Shannon the Dudes.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
You know, that's exactly the same. That's exactly the same
level of honor.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I think.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
All right, So this this also says there's a sign
in Benton that says ben in Kentucky the only town
Joe Creesan was born in.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
There to stop it, that is not a town. That
there's not a town it says, that's what it says.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
The people Benton, Kentucky have to confirm that there is
not a sign in Bitton, Kentucky that says the only
town Joe Creeson was born.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
According to the Marshall County Daily. I trust it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
He must have been a big reporter for the Curer.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Why would that have been a sentence they would make
a sign out of it? Was that like a famous
sentence that he ended up saying it?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
And soon as Drew read that, that's the first thing that's.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
True, but I thought it was like he said it
as a joke. I didn't think it would be something
the town would put on the outside of the town.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Must have been a big I mean it was the
second sentence in his bio. He must have said it
a lot really stuck.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Well, now I want to keep Joe creasing because I
want I want disguised memory to live, especially not.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
To be replaced by pickleball, which is so stupid. All right.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
The guy that asked earlier, what do you think is hard?
Coach K said what's harder building a program or maintaining
a program? I was thinking during the break rhyme. I
think it depends on the sport. And again, football, building
the program is the hardest because it takes a long time.
It may take less time now because of the portal,
but it still takes time. And maintaining a program maybe
(11:00):
a little easier because you have depth, et cetera. I
think in basketball maintaining is the hardest because when you had,
like just look at what happened to Florida, right, when
you have success as a team, individuals are especially in
the portal nil Era almost certainly going to want to
go then benefit somewhere else and it becomes harder to
(11:23):
keep it together.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Same thing happened here with Cal.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
I mean, as the years went on, more and more
guys came, they obviously had their individual goals and desires.
So I can see what coach k saying, especially in
the college basketball context, of why maintaining would be harder.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know, the question is really good because like Cal
obviously built the program up, and then we've seen Tubby
job Cal after ten, twelve, thirteen years, it is harder
to maintain that program you built. But the Carra asked
about Stoops. Stoops did such a great job building the
UK program. Now he seems to be struggling kind of maintain.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
But it has been a slow drop, meaning it's not
like it just fell off the face of the earth.
I think he has.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Dropped it in part because they let things slip.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I think one of the things that's hard in any
level of success is can you maintain the motivation that
built your success. Like when you're especially driven to succeed
and you have that success, it is hard to continue
to every day keep grinding. And if you listen to
people that do things that require that, I've heard Howard
(12:34):
Stern talk about this, David Letterman talk about this. When
you're doing something that's daily, to continue to put in
the effort and the desire to keep it at the
level you want is hard. I'm sure that's true about sports.
You have to kind of bring it every day. You
can't sit there and take stuff off. And I'm not
saying Mark Stoops took stuff off, but I do think
(12:57):
in the last couple of years, I personally have questioned
he's still grinding at that level that maybe Drew he
did when he first got here, And we're gonna find
out this year when they get on the field.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
And when you're building, you can kind of catch lighting
in a bottle and have a great season and get
it built, but then you got to be able to
maintain that. It's why a lean maintaining might be a
little more difficult, kind of depending on circumstances. But when
you're building it, it's a good year or two can
really really take you to another level, but then you
got to work really hard to stay at that level too.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Success can either be like a drug that you just
have to keep going for to keep feeling, or it
can be something that becomes like a play cater that
you're just like I've had it and you just enjoy
the fruits of it and let things slip. And I
think you have to be very careful not to do that.
And I think both of these coaches we've talked about
(13:51):
had that happen a little bit, and you know, now
they've got to go back to the mentality that they
had when they started.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Who's up next, Tristan, Tristan, go ahead, Tristan, Hey, Matt.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Made it back safely. I just have a quick question
that I can hang up and listen. Do you think
that Mark Pope is a kind of trying to copy
what Florida did this year with so many versatile big men.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Well, I don't know if he's copying Florida, but there's
no doubt he's gotten a lot of versatal players who
can switch and play every position. This this roster, to
me and I appreciate the call, is exactly what Mark
Pope wants. I just think I'm a little surprised he
doesn't have a little more shooting. But he maybe he
thinks Ryan that these dudes are gonna all they're better
(14:41):
shooters than we realize. But the switching every position, everybody
being able to dribble, everybody being able to handle the ball.
That is very consistent with what he wants. It's how
the Warriors plays, how most NBA teams play. Now, I
think that's exactly what he wants.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I think you're right. I think most of our worries
are that is there enough shooting there? But if Otega
takes a step up and shooting Aberdeen low, if these
three guys kind of step up and become better shooters,
maybe the combination of everybody on to kind of overshadow
that need for one drop dead shooter guy.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
You know, we get like watch these teams.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
When you watch these teams in the playoffs and the NBA,
they're succeeding. It is always it is fascinating to me
to watch how almost all these teams have dudes who
can just handle the ball, step out. They are It's
positionless basketball, that phrase, it's kind of how it is.
Watch watch these teams, Watch all the teams left in
(15:36):
the playoffs. Everyone on their team can shoot, dribble, pass,
all of them, even the biggest, lankiest, they all can
do it. And I think that's what Kentucky is gonna
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very back Tucky Sports Radio two and a half. So
this is why I like this show. I mean, there's
many reasons I like it. But here's one of the reasons,
because you learn things you wouldn't have known either way.
(16:52):
All right, So I guess mister Creesan died in nineteen
seventy four. He was a journalist here and I would
you know, oh, even though I'm kind of peripherally in
that field, would have I don't know that I ever
had heard his name, But now after everyone riding me,
I'm fascinated by his cot multiple people Ryan saying to me, Matt,
(17:15):
you would have loved this guy. He was your kind
of writer. He would write a column featured around the state,
which would tell stories of small town people. He would
tell stories about towns across Kentucky. They were often funny,
and he looked at the state of Kentucky as a
humorist who also loved the place. That sounds like my
(17:37):
kind of guy, right.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Sound like a perfect guy that would fit in on
this show. Talking about Kentucky and Kentucky towns, Kentucky people.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
He said he wrote a book called Joe Creesan's Kentucky
Shadon where he went to every county in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
If you know somebody who did.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
That, Yeah, like a modern day Joe Creesan, Matt Jones.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
So I gotta find Joe Creesan's Kentucky if anybody has
that book.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It's awesome, this whole pickleball fight on a pickleball. We've
learned something that we A man has been forgotten over time.
Died fifty years ago.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
They have a creasing lecture series at Kentucky, the University
of Kentucky Drew that is named after him. You maybe
even did you go to a crease in lecture at
some point?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I did not, But if I had known all of this,
I would have made a point to Corey Price sent
us that he was voted the most popular was it
student Ryan at UK when he was there? The most
popular guy on campus?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Whip did that?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That would have been what like nineteen forty? Yeah, Corey
Price tweeted out name most popular man at UK in
the class of nineteen forty.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
See what an interesting thing, and that he was named
at the park was named after him because he died
in the park while playing tennis.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
So there you go, who history listening today?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
There it is text machine seven seven two seventh seventy
four five five two five four asked anything Wednesday before
we get back to it. The real ID starts today, Shannon,
chaos coming to the airports.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Have we heard anything? Is it chaos out there?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I'm sure that it is.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I haven't seen any reports, but I'm sure that there's
a long, long line.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Just to get through.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And if you don't have your idea, you have to
like fill out a form which takes forever.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
So I'm sure there's a long line for that.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
That's just to fill it out in person. Apparently you
can't do it before. Yep, So I do wonder what
the nation's airports are like today. The real ID starts today.
We've been talking about this. Apparently it was passed in
two thousand and three by Congress, and then it took
you know, years to get it to where states were
ready for it, and then we in Kentucky pushed it
(19:41):
off until I think twenty nineteen or twenty twenty, and
then we've had a couple of years to do it,
and a lot of people, myself included, have not. So,
I mean, I can report live from the airport tomorrow,
but Shannon, today, I haven't heard if it's if it's
bad or not out there.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, I would want be anywhere near an airport for
like at least the next couple of months, just until
they get this all sorted out.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Yeah, well, hopefully they'll have a thing. It's clear the
Newark stuff continues to be wild. The stories about what
happened when those two minutes went off the air I
mean the planes, they lost contact with the planes, They
had no way to communicate with them, They had no
way to know where they were. Scare the planes had
(20:27):
no ways to let no like communicate with the thing.
They were just sort of flying around in circles. And
I guess there's a protocol for when that happens. They
basically tell you to maintain your line, and that's what
planes did and then it came back on. But Drew,
can you imagine the panic in those ninety seconds or
two minutes because you don't know if it's gonna be
like that for a long time or not, you know.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
And you can that's not something you can play around with.
These slightest error can lead to a horrible, horrible, horrible tragedy.
They just got to get this fixed. I we were
talking about to bring the AA in earlier. Maybe you
can bring it into help a little bit with humans
around it. But this is an absolutely disastrous situation. It's
gonna affect a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
April like thirtieth or whatever was when it happened. So
if you were flying in or around Newark those days,
say an extra prayer tonight of thank you. Who's up next, Jeremy, Jeremy,
go ahead, Jeremy.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Hey, guys, I was just checking.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
Has anybody watched the last season out of Righteous Gemstones
and what did you think about it? I think Sunday
was the last ever episode, and for me, it just
kind of fizzled out, didn't in anything like our spoilers.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I watched the first couple of episodes of the season.
I still got to catch up on it, Drew, Ryan,
have you finished it? Either one of you yet?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
I need to see I think I'm two behind. I've
seen most of the season. I've enjoyed the season, but
I haven't seen the finale that he's talking about.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Ryan, have you seen it? I know you love the
show too.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I've only missed the finale. I haven't seen the finale yet.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
And do you like the season so far?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's probably my least favor rid of the four seasons,
for sure. It just seems to not be as crazy funny.
It's kind of well, I don't want to spoil anything, but.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
It's I agree, I mean I don't. I don't think
there's anything like the other three seasons. Yeah, well I'm
kind of disappointed.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Well, I appreciate the call. I will.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I'll check it out. I do love that show. I
have seen the baby Billy stuff everywhere. But but I
don't a.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Lot of baby Billy this season.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
A lot about all of them.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Other parts I don't want to see.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
You.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, there are parts of him that you probably would
rather not see. But they've they throw it right at you.
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Speaker 6 (23:40):
People are telling me the airport lines are pretty normal.
So people are saying they think that they've not even
started shinning like it.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Wow. So I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
You know, it was part of the federal bill that
they moved all this to regional offices, which is why
this all happened.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
But you know, I don't know. I don't have one.
So I hope my passport. I hope I don't lose it.
That's my key worry.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Kentucky has three new football players Ryan in the last
twenty four hours.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, two offensive linemen.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Yeah, an offensive lineman from James Madison, an offensive lineman
from some worst states ball state, and then a wide
receiver from SMU.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I know nothing about any.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Of these guys, no clue whether or not they're good.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
So what do we make of these three new players?
Positive sign? Negative sign? Who knows sign.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Respectfully to the three of them? It's kind of man,
these are depth pieces. They've barely recorded any stats or
much playing time at their first stops, so this looks
like they're just filling out the roster. You know, have
second third and who know, practice squad. I don't know
that any of these three editions will have much of
an impact, good or bad next year. It seems they're
(24:59):
just trying to to get the team built.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
How do you even end up with a player Ryan
who was a like depth piece at James Madison?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Like, how does that even happen that you end up
with him on the team.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Maybe it's the coaching connection with maybe with Vance or
Mark may know either some kind of connection or made
it a parent connection. Maybe they were recruiting amount of
high school.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I think Drew's right. I think these are just you
needed some depth in the receiver room, So you bring
another receiver. You need some depth in the old line room,
bring another old lineman. I think they're just trying to
maybe replentish some guys that left the team the program.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
The receiver was a top recruit. I think you started Oregon,
but he had one catch all year last year. I mean,
it's maybe you turn him into something on down the road.
But it seems like these are guys they're adding to
the roster just to be able to have practices.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Okay, so I shouldn't care one way or the other,
that's what you're saying about this group.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
I don't think we'll see any of these guys playing
on the field next year. Maybe on down the road,
but these seem like guys you're talking about on the ditch.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Basketball. Duke basketball signed a new transfer and I looked
at him, Drew, and it was a transfer from Rice,
and I thought, oh, he must have been good if
Duke wants him.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
He averaged one point five points a game at Rice,
And you go, how does that kid end up at Duke?
A kid who didn't even really play for Rice, that
you wonder. I just it's amazing to me that that happens.
I mean, even the kid we got as our thirteenth
man at least average six and a half points at Miami,
but wow, you averaged one point five points at Rice.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
How do you end up at Duke?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Yeah, his name's if he too. I like the name,
if he kind of and if he if he add
to them. But I don't know Duke's roster that well.
But you know it could be the same you see
him a football. I mean, you know, schools aren't targeting
high school as much. You don't have a lot of
incoming freshmen as you as you used to before the
portal area, So it might be just like we got
to have somebody to put away on the end of
(26:51):
the bench that's not demanding a lot of money or
playing time.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Shannon, a bad decision at least for the sport, even
if it's a good decision for the horse. They decide
not to run Sovereignty in the Preakness, you know, I mean, look,
I don't know the horse's health. I get it if
you're worried about it, But to me, I know they're
purists out there that say you can't change the schedule
(27:18):
the Triple Crown because it is what it is.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
It is what it's been.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
You cannot have a triple Crown where the Derby winner
voluntarily skips the Preakness.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Just be caut if you do.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
And somebody that knows more than horse racing about me,
more about horse racing than me, can tell me which
is right. But you either, like have to say, being
in the Derby, it's contingent you do the Preakness unless
your horse is heard, or.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
You need to push the Preakness back.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I'm with you because you and I'm fine with pushing
the Preakness back, and everybody goes, well, it was supposed
to be hard to win the triple Crown. Okay, fine,
it is supposed to be hard, but you know what
times change.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
We can't have.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
It to where one of the three marquee races of
the year doesn't have any horses that were in the Derby.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
You just can't do that.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I'm a very very casual fan. I would watch the
Preakness if Sovereignty were running at it. Now that he's
not running at it, I really have no interest in
watching it at all. But what we're talking about here
is load management for horses.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Now I'm okay with it if that's what it takes,
because these horses like if you need to give them
more time.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
But would you agree if that's gonna happen, you got
to change the.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Races, change with church change the date. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
I mean the more important thing is for me that
the Derby winner runs in the race.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yes, the Diverntye and Journalism Ryan, who were the two
best horses by far in that race. If they were
gonna do it again at the Preakness, wouldn't you watch
it to see?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
The sport needs it? Had this huge ratings day on
the Kentucky Derby, one hundred and forty thousand people there
at Churchill Downs. Now they're gonna not have that signature
moment of sovereignty maybe win in the Preakness, and the
sport needs it. So I've heard this argument for thirty years.
Just move the weakness one week back, move to Belmont
one week back.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, can you move them back?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
You get horse racing a longer stretch life, right, So
you go one week back to the Preakness and then
one maybe even two weeks back to the Belmont. A
five week sport becomes a seven or eight week sport
and you can maybe actually give rivalries. I mean, Ryan,
you remember when I was a kid, you had that
Sunday silence, easygoer, right? They raced in all three races.
(29:31):
I think they were one to two in all three races.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
You don't even with triple crown winners, like who is
American Pharaoh's rival?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Does anybody remember?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
I mean who knows, right, because they don't race in
all of them. But if you made it to where
journalism and sovereignty got to go against each other again,
I think you could even have it to where, even
if journalism won drew, you might watch the third one
to see who breaks the time.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
But you can't.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
But you can't do it if you make it to
where physically it hurts the horses and they don't want
to do it.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
And I'm like Shannon and probably thousands of others, I
won't even consider watching the Preakness. Maybe if I'm home
and I'm scrolling through channels, but I would have made
a point to be in front of the TV knowing
that there's a chance for a horse running for the
Triple Crown. But it's just gonna absolutely destroy the Preakness's ratings.
They apparently they're.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
All gonna race in the Belmont. But at that point, Shannon,
people won't.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Care the prenous So they've got to find a way
to make it work.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
They have to. It's there. I know they are traditionalists
will be.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Like, oh, it's not what we did with Seattle Sleugh
and what we did with mantal War. Well you know what,
So what times change, it's what will be best for
a sport. Clearly, at its peak, horse racing can still
captivate America. It does it every year at the Derby.
Why not make it to where it captivates America a
(30:59):
couple of other times?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Right, you just had the largest ratings for the Derby,
and how long you could take that momentum and carry
it into the next race.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
But now I don't think he mightna care.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
No moment I don't even know who's in the previous
There might be like there might not be one horse
in the Pregnus that was even in the.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Derby, So who cares? But that's that's that's obviously not
the decision of the powers that that that be. Who's
up next?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Bob and Jamestown.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Bob and Jamestown A five nine two eight oh, twenty
two eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Matt Joe Creesan was a legend in Kentucky. He like
you were talking about, he got all around the state
and like I say, he was a really personal guy.
And then back when Barry being a zone in the.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Courier Journal and they were winning.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
All those bulletzerprizes. That's what probably one of the keys
to it.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Anyway. Yeah, I think Shannon I might be interested in
as in his phone goes. Imagine it's like it's a
it's like the one time he might be saying something
that I'm past. Okay, go ahead, try again.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
Okay, Uh, this is a question from Major League Baseball.
Did you know there was an umpire clothing requirement? And
did you know that require one of those requirements umpire clothing.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Requirement. What is the requirement? What's the requirement?
Speaker 8 (32:26):
Bob?
Speaker 9 (32:28):
They have to wear black underwear in case of a
wardrobe malfunction, when their pants split. They want black underwear,
all right, So, first of.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
All, how you did not know that?
Speaker 6 (32:42):
How do you know, Bob, the color of the underwear
of umpires.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
That's the Major League Baseball sets those standards for their clothing.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Color.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
I knew Joe. I knew Joe not saw legendary red
players talked.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
About his underwear. You were like, Joe, what color underwear
do you wear?
Speaker 9 (33:10):
No? No, Joe wasn't an umpire, He was a So.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
You and Joe not at all sat around and talk
about No.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
No, but that was just a little side show the
big show Maya. Anyway, did you know what this unusually
cold weather we're experiencing right now?
Speaker 5 (33:29):
You get one, you get one ridiculous fact today. All right,
I appreciate the call. You know that's true, We think
that's true. Let's start with this. You think that's true, Drew.
Do you think it's true that umpires have to wear
black underwear?
Speaker 7 (33:45):
It's true, But I have a question. Don't umpires wear
gray pants? Why wouldn't they wear gray underwear if it's
for if you're splitting your pants, you don't want it
to stand.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
You said it's true, like you know it's true, or you're.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Just a s I looked it up as he was
talking because I didn't believe him.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You know, it had to happen, and I'm split their
pants and his white skivvies were showing through these pants es.
So they made this move to everybody had to wear
black unwear.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
What I don't.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Understand, Shannon, is what makes him call and say that,
I don't know what.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
What what makes it's he woke up this morning.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Bob is like a fortune cookie that comes out with
the worst facts, and every day he just decides what's
gonna come out today.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
How about we talk about umpires underwear?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Not not any because he starts with Joe Creesan, which
at least is on topic, and then we end.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
With that, Well, he did teach me something today. I
didn't know that the umpires had to wear black underwear.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
I forget somebody.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Somebody's pointing out this is ask anything Wednesday. So but
although he didn't ask anything.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
The fact he just came. He just came with the fact.
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by the way, had been amazing. Did you see the
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the road team road. The road team is five and zero,
including three games where the team was down twenty and
came back and won Indiana. I can't remember what the
stat was the Pacers. There was some stat that said
(35:12):
in the playoffs teams that are down eight with a
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So people are riding about the triple Crown thing. One
person says, Matt, you don't mess with the Triple Crown races.
(36:30):
If the w horse can't go, that's the way it is.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Yeah, but you can.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
That can't be the worst reason to do anything in life.
The worst reason is, well, that's the way it is.
And the second worst reason is because that's always the
way we've done it. Like, that's the stupidest thing to do.
You have to adjust to the realities of the world.
And if the reality is these horse trainers are not
(36:54):
gonna run the derby winner and the previous then you
gotta adjust the reality. You can't just go eh, not
team like, that's dumb. You're just smacking yourself in the
face as an industry. If you do that, you're just
being dumb. You can't sit there and say, let's going
backwards in time is never a good reason to do anything.
So and I'm being told Ryan that it wasn't even
(37:17):
always the case that these were the dates of the races.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
They got changed once. So if they were changing the past.
Why can't they be changed again.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's best for the sport, There's no doubt about it.
I think horses are just getting soft these days. They're
like our young teenagers.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
But that's a stupid like you're saying it as a joke.
But there's people that believe what you're saying. There are
people that believe, oh, we're pampering these horses. Well, you
know why we're pampering these horses because they were dying
a few years ago. And let's be real, you want
to kill the sport. Have more horses died, Drew like,
that's that'll kill the sport. That'll make it to where
(37:52):
government's banned is if we keep doing that. So we
just have to adjust to the realities of the world, right.
Speaker 7 (38:00):
Yeah, And I still haven't heard a good case for
why it has to be two weeks and three weeks.
I mean pampering the horses. That doesn't really I don't really.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
What is the good case, like Shandon, what's the good
case for two weeks?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (38:12):
You mean the case like to push it back?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
No, the case to keep it? What is the case
to why that's a stupid reason to do it?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
But I mean that's the reason.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
But it's a stupid reason.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Okay, it could be.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Stupid, but I'm telling you that's the reason they haven't
changed it because well, I mean.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
If it's not a better reason than that, then it's stupid.
I mean, tradition matters, it matters to me like I
but it's not the only reason to do anything. And
so imagine if the Preakness was Memorial Day weekend. Okay,
why would wouldn't that be a huge event? Memorial Yes,
(38:49):
it was to have the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend
be the Preakness, And then what if you did the
Belmont around the fourth of July. You have now in
corporate raided these races into Americana, haven't you.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Why wouldn't you do that?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
We're making a horse racing great again.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah. And if Trump wants to ride the ponies at
the beginning, didn't.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Landing whatever, Who cares. I don't know if he can
fit on the horse or not, but if he can,
it would be if you did the Preakness at Memorial
Day and the Belmont on the fourth of July, it
could become you could make those races like the Derby
Is where everybody was a part of family gatherings. Isn't
(39:33):
that better than now when two weeks after the Derby disease,
wuln't even know, Like no one knows anyway.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I'm just doing it out to know what we're talking about.
It isn't like the Indianapolis five hundred Memorial Day weekend.
Maybe it will run.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
But that's on Sunday. So the race, the Preakness on Saturday.
How about that?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Yeap, it would work.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I never knew you had such strong horse racing thoughts.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
I don't. I just I just I hate when people's
reason for something is.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Well, that's the way we've always done it, because you know,
the sport is not the same, Like it's not as
good as it used to be. It's not as big,
So maybe we should change things and not just do
it because it's how.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
But that's why I want the UK have a game
on a Saturday, because it's the way we always did it.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
But we didn't even always do it like that. We've
played it at different times.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
I mean, I think it'd be better for it to
be on a Saturday for many reasons, But the answer
is not just because it's how we've always done it.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
It's just because it would be better for the fans.
Who's neck, Adam, Adam go ahead at him?
Speaker 11 (40:37):
So I had to laugh out loud. And when you
were talking about the parks and just the thought of
them naming that little park next to your house the
rich Mosicks Park would be hilarious.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
Or what if I fall down on that park? Will
you get them to name it the Matt Jones Parky
Drew Drew if I were to fall on that.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Park, bust at your butt? I think that's close enough.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
I've gotten hurt in that part before, so yeah, I
think that probably should be right.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
But go ahead.
Speaker 11 (41:03):
Had a comment on question my comment talking about yesterday's topic.
I would absolutely love to hear KA would love for
call a game, and they will, Actually, they'll if you
put in, like I want to hear K would call
the last final seconds of the twenty twelve National Championship.
They'll print out or they'll give you a dialogue and
(41:25):
a transcript of what he would say, like in his
voice like that.
Speaker 9 (41:29):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
Yeah, see, I'd love to hear it if they ever
get the point where they can do it. I guess
they're worried about there being a you know a name
image likeness of using the sound. But yeah, I mean
I appreciate the call. I had a lot of people
write me and they would agree. What agree? I agree
with him that they want to hear it. What was
the thing you just sent me? Drew about what happened
in court? What was that about?
Speaker 7 (41:52):
A guy in Arizona got killed four years ago in
a road ragees and someone murdered him. But in court
this week they used an AI video of him to
talk to the man who murdered him. He said, he
said to Gabriel, the man who shot me, it's a
shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances.
In another life, we probably could have been friends. But
(42:13):
they played a video in court of what they thought,
what AI thought he would have said. I think they
used other videos of him, maybe some other stuff he
has out there, and they came up with that and
played it for the man who murdered him.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
Wow. I can't believe the judge allowed that.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
This story even says that the judge UH thought positively
of it. Didn't really go into detail what that meant,
but it said had a positive response.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
That's I'm really surprised. Yeah, I have to think about
that one in court.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
Wow. Well with that mind blowing incident.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Come out Wings Day chaos, Mark ks our Bowlingess tonight
as well.
Speaker 5 (42:51):
We will see you tomorrow morning. You have a good day.
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