2025-05-30- KSR - Hour 1

Live from the Lexington Golf Scramble. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:40):
He'll make them pay for the first time.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Ryan, We well, we've done this once before where we've
used two courses for the scramble, but this is the first.
This is our biggest uh one we've had yet. Twenty
three teams on each course, forty six teams out here. Uh.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Unfortunately it has been pouring rain all day.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's supposed to eat up a little bit by noon
and hopefully we can get relatively dry for the rest.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Of the Yeah, definitely, it'll be a little sloppy out there.
And Mario, I'm talking before the show, said it's supposed
to quit by noon. He's kind of laughing, like, no,
it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, it's all right, We're gonna have a good time
these folks.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I told him there's a lot of alcohol out there,
for better or worse. So at five o'clock this this,
I think this place will be jumping dru This is
our I was trying to think in Lexington.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
This is our I think eighth or ninth.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
That we've done always been a lot of fun in
our I think our second one we've done here at
the UK.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, it's good to pull up here.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
I'm a little disappointed by defending champion parking spot wasn't there.
I guess this JB. Holmes guy still has one. But
I'm still expecting the the treatment. I tried to have
a champions dinner last night. You ought to answer my text.
But it's good to be back here.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
I like this one because I have the fond memories
of Ryan putting that year and us doing Hay Kentucky
out here on this Yes we did.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
This is where you missed the putts and had to
go to jail. Yes, right right out there on the
island green on the blue course.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
I don't remember that. It must be uh if you're
making some story up.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
No.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I got a little flashback when I drove by that
island green, like, oh there it was right there.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
So I played the Blue course, Drew play the white
and should be a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
And then people are all around him.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
This is a it's a nasty day, but you know what, Shannon,
this is one of my favorite days because I feel
like the KSR listeners they kind of let their guard down.
I see sides of some of the people that I
don't usually see.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
There was a guy here last year. I hope he
comes back because we had to help him get home
last year.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
And I hope I told him when they go to
the cornbread hemp the Seltzer, wouldn't just be careful.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
I feel like all the ubers cool two. For those
of you that are out.

Speaker 6 (02:39):
There, all the ubers and lifts who are just you know,
around five six o'clock, just come out here to the
parking lot. You've gotta get a lot of business. I
feel like I'm looking at all the sponsors. Maybe two
or three aren't alcohol, the rest of them are well.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
So yeah, thanks to Clark's Pumping Shop, Cornbread, Hemp minus
one ninety six and on the Rock Rocks Cocktails, Stockton Mortgage,
and Penn Station all here today this Uh, I want
to tell you a story before we get started with
some sports stuff. All right, I tell you first of all,
everybody Ride's son graduated from high school last night.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Josiah clapping for me, like I had anything to do
with it.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I mean, he overcame a lot having you to be
able to make it. So yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
My favorite story, Like in middle school, he's like, Dad,
can you help me with my science project? I'm like, yeah, sure,
when's it due? He said yesterday? But he got through,
got it done, all right.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
So yesterday I was driving and I was driving down
for those of you in Lexington, you got a picture
where this was. I was driving down for Sales Road, okay,
and I was about to take a left on Oliver Lewis. Yeah,
and you know that used to be like a short
cut that used to be away. You could now forget it,
like forget that that Oliver Lewis is now as crowded
as downtown is. It's a it's completely packed with people.

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You try to turn there there's a backup, and this
dude is doing a move, Shannon, that I would do
quite a bit. He doesn't know whether to turn and
left YEP or to keep going straight because he wants
to see how the lines go, and so he's.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Hovering in both lives that I've seen that movie. It's
I'm not gonna pick a live. I've seen you do
that movie.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's what I was gonna say't I can't get too
mad because that's a line of a move I've done.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
But because I was mad, I was behind him.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I was getting a little bit frustrated, so I was
honking at him, like, make a decision, make a decision.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Honk, honk honk. Finally he makes a decision. I think
he's out of my life.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
He ends up in front of me and I start
looking and I can see through his back window.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
He is yelling at his wife or girlfriend or whatever.
And I don't mean just yelling, I mean like.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yelling wife, screaming at her to the point I don't
know this woman, but I'm starting to feel really sorry
for her and actually starting to be like, Okay, dude,
you need to calm down.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Now, of course most people would mind their business, but
you know, mister Franklin, I'm not the kind of person
to just see someone in need and just let it happen. So,
I mean, he's yelling at her for like twenty or
thirty seconds. We go to turn left there on Oliver Lewis.
We end up in different lanes and he drifts into
mine almost hits me. So now he's helped me out.
He's almost hit me, and he's yelling at his wife right.

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So as the traffic goes, I end up pulling up
next to him. Were stopped look into the car window,
still yelling at her, uncomfortably yelling at this woman who
looks sad and is.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Staring straight ahead. And at that point, Ryan, I felt
like I had to get involved.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
And this is not necessarily the best thing in the world,
but I honk and he rolls down his window and
I said, dude, how about you stop yelling or excuse me,
stop yelling and start focusing on your driving. You almost
hit me twice, and he gets that look of anger.
Drew you've seen it before, and he goes, you don't

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know what we've been through today. You don't know what's happening.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
You don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
And then all of a sudden, you can tell a
light clicks in his head. Get the crazy, and he goes,
you don't know what's happening. You don't know what we've
been through, Matt Jones. But and then he just starts
like he recognizes me, and he goes Matt Jones. And
then he pauses and says, you still don't know what
we've been through.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
You still don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
And his wife kind of looks over at me and
gives me like a thank you or something like that.
And then I drive on, but watching him halfway through
his argument realize who I was, and then get right
back to arguing. He did not stop, but he did
it almost almost like Shannon. He had a look of
this is gonna be on the radio too. Oh yeah,

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I can tell he's probably listening right now. And sorry,
you may be a wonderful person, you shouldn't yell at
your wife like that in public, because that was that
was embarrassing.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Otherwise, fine, did you remember to get us picture? Because
I did not take his picture there's controversy pictures.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean say, he had a very distinct car, but
I'm not gonna say what it is, Drew, because like
then people might be able to know who it is,
so I'm not gonna do that. But it was a
very distinct car. But nevertheless, I just it was the
yelling and almost hitting me. I feel like I had
to say.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
I like, when there's any confrontation, confrontation maybe a gas station,
there's like a matt light that goes up in the sky,
like the bat signal, where it's like it's calling you
in to come help, come reference.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I've never seen though a person like halfway through be
able to recognize me, but didn't keep on yelling exactly
the same way.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
I thought you were telling the story. He's gonna say,
Mitt Jones, here, you signed my book, handing the book
out across the way for you.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I don't think he was the guy who would have
read that book just looking at him. But nevertheless, I
hope that worked out better than it did that lady.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, I just it was, you know, you see somebody.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Like I get uncomfortab when I see somebody like that
with kids, but when it's their wife it's like, come.

Speaker 6 (07:49):
On man, road rage, though you gotta be very careful
because you don't know who's in that car.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, and I can't fight. I think we know that,
all right.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
So Also, in addition to KSR golf scramble, here in
the little less than two hours, UK baseball kicks off
their NCAA baseball tournament. They play against cl excuse me,
West Virginia at noon on espn U. Kentucky is actually
second favorite in the regional behind Clemson. Even though they're
the third seed. They actually have better odds than West

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Virginia their favored to win today.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
How do you think they're gonna do?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
I've heard I actually listened to a baseball podcast on
my drive down to McCreary County that had Kentucky winning
this regional as.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
An upset pick.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Thanks for the reminder. I need to get that bet in.
I meant to do that before it starts, because I do.
I feel confident the Cats. The SEC was such a
grind and they led in so many games and know
they're capable of it.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
They just can't close.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
And I'm hoping Menjeon had the message or whatever it
takes at the reset button for the NCAA's after they
had those heartbreaking losses at Vandy, left a lot on
the table against Oklahoma. They have good baseball in them,
they just can't close. And I feel like eventually that
luck's got to flip the other direction. Let's have a
good weekend.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Thirty one SEC games they've played ryn thirty one. This
stat is amazing to me. They have led in twenty
seven of the thirty one games, even though they are
thirteen and eighteen in the Conference of the thirteen. Even
though they're thirteen eighteen, they have led in twenty seven
of the games, which means even in games they've led,
they're thirteen and fourteen. There has to be no team

(09:18):
that's ever had that happen. You could either say, well,
that means they can't close or they have bad luck.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Which one would you say?

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Well, I think their starting pitchers, their weekend starters are
really really good, and they got that lead. I think
it's when they go to the bullpen. The bullpen's kind
of not been able to hold that lead all season long.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
I'm letting my starter got the distance, I think, and
they'll shit know if they're trying to be optimistic about it, though,
you can look at the other three teams and say,
none of these three teams are as good as what
Kentucky has already played this season. And you know the
top seed Vandy, they had them on the ropes all
three games.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
They very well could have swept Bandy.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, so people who don't know if they they played
today at noon, if they win, they would play tomorrow
at seven. If they lose, they will play tomorrow at noon.
So and then Sundays they could play one game, they
could play two games, but it will be going on
all weekend.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
And then the second thing.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
UK's football team announced the times for all the for
the first three games, they're basically in the first three
home games, they're playing in all three slots. The first
game against Toledo will be twelve forty five, which worries
me a little bit. The game against Old miss is
at three point thirty on National TV on ABC, what
if you remember is exactly where it was. We played

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at noon last time, but we played on ABC last
time when we beat them last year. And then the
game against Eastern Michigan is at night DREW at seven o'clock,
So you get all three time slots in the first
home games or any of those you particularly like or
particularly don't.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I'm fine with what they are.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
But the Oh Miss game, it is South Carolina last
year all over again. That was three thirty ABC Week two,
kind of a similar SEC opponent we had SEC Nation.
I think they'll be back this year for that game
because it's the only SEC game that weekend. I mean,
it's copy paste that South Carolina game, and we know
what happens when you get drilled by South Carolina. That
killed a lot of the excitement. Season was a disappointment.

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I worry you could be looking at a similar situation
in Week two this year.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Could be I mean, you don't know what again, you
have no idea what's gonna be. Could be hot like
that could be a at three point thirty on a
Saturday in early September could be very hot. That twelve
forty five time for the Toledo game worries me a
little bit. It is the first game of the year,
so you usually get a good crad for the first
game regardless, but playing a team that is good, but

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that our fans may not be.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Amped up for playing it at noon, now, you know,
I pick to win the MAC by the way, and
that's a good conference.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
I'm not tired of hearing about Toledo. If we can't
beat Toledo, this is gonna be a long season. It's
gonna be a two or three weeks.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
You're not worried about no, or if you, if we,
if you, I guess you think, if we're gonna lose,
then the rest of the season's gonna Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:54):
I mean, if you can't beat Toledo, look out, man, like,
just fold it in now, like, just quit the season.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
And if you can't beat Toledo, I wish to start
tying for the Toledo Eastern Michigan flip flopped. Oh we too,
host We had Toledo at night, Eastern Michigan at nude.
I've told you a little bitter about that.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, I wish Toledo was at night as well.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
But the good thing I will say this, if they
get blown out in that Old Miss game, the Eastern
Michigan game may just be friends and family there in
week three, after three in a row. I do think
with the Old Miss game, it guarantees you'll have a
crowd that's ready for.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
It, that's into it.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know, from a selfish perspective, for me with the bar,
I love three thirty games because we get crowds before
and after. But I do think for if you're really
wanting to win that game, You're right, we lost to
South Carolina last year, but I do think three thirty
is a good time.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah, I love the spot.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
And if you're like Shannon, assume Toledo's in the books.
You got that one done. That can be a huge
win to get fans back behind you. As we all know,
fan sports a little dicey right now. But if you're
two and zero and win that three thirty game on ABC,
that sets you up for an all day tailgate against
Eastern Michigan. I think there's some excitement in the season.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Just out of curiosity.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
How many people here on the news that we gave
an extension and arrays to our offensive line coach think
that's a good decision. How many of you think it's
a bad one. See that's what I mean that we
don't get one hundred percent for a.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Lot of polls.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Ryan I those when I looked at that schedule, I
just thought to myself, those first two weeks, those first
two weeks are Mark Stoop's UK career, meaning you cannot
lose to Toledo, and then if you beat Old Miss,
maybe you're going off on a year that gets you
back on track. If you lose and it's close, but

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if you get blown out against Old Miss, then I
think things start to be nicked.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
See, and I'm worried about that game. I think Lane
Kiffin will try to embarrass Kentucky since Kentucky won down
there last year.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
And you made a good point that he's got all
summer to play because I mean their first games get
somebody terrible.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
So he's got all summer.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
All summer to game plan against Kentucky going into week two.
So I'm a little no. I am worried about that game.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
And he doesn't like how Stoops beat him last year
because Stops broke character and went forward hit the baron
Brown on the bomb. I heard Kiffin reached out to
him after were like, what the heck was that?

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Mark? Where's that been? So I think Kiffin definitely has
no we.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Can't remember we kept Old Miss out of the playoff.
They're in the playoff if we If they're in that
game and they it's it is that Old Miss program
is looked at completely different. If they could have just
beaten us at home, and they didn't, so I think
they'll be uh, they'll be ready if I'm nine two
eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
We are here at the U Club. It is a.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
KSR golf scramble that will be a little bit soggy,
but still fuck soggy. All right, you don't have to
You're just gonna stand in the rain all day. It's
no big deal. We'll take a break right back. It's
Kentucky Sports Radio. You got we talked about corn bread,
hem Clark's Pumping Shop minus one ninety six cocktails, Whiskey,
Thief Club, Blue Beer.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
That's the the UK.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Beer, Kentucky Eagle. I've got ks bar. We've got alcohol
out there as well. So that's seven holes just with that,
and then there's food and other things.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
But spoken spirits eight holes on each on each course.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
A lot of alcohol out there. I see also that
OVW is going to be here. Do we have wrestlers
coming out today?

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Should?

Speaker 2 (15:14):
And speaking of that on the text machine, one of
the one person writes, Matt, every time you have the
KSR golf scramble, I think of that scene in Wrestlers
when you drove away from that.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Guy on the golf cart. Poor Brian, Poor Brian.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
All he wanted to do is spend time with his kid,
and you wouldn't let.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Him get back to work. I watched this shot first.
I did not do the George W. Bush. Now watch
the strip. I did not do that. You know, I
love that show.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
But that does show you the power of editing, because well,
none of you were with me. So don'tybody to Parify's
when they say that team gets here. They can tell
you I did talk to him for ten minutes before
they showed the scene of me driving off.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah, the producers did you no favor the way they edited.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
There were two things.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
The producers did me no favors on that and then
look at that cake date.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
They didn't have to do that to me either. No, yeah,
you think they did you dirty.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
They didn't leave you on a mat with a drone
shot going over top of you.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I mean, actually, you know what you did get it
worse I did in that regard. Well, but you did
get beat up, so I think that makes it makes
it fair. But that and it was whole too. It
was whole too. It was right at the beginning it was.
It was not very nice, poor Brian. He just want
to spend a pound.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Jes families, stop with stop with poor Brian. If I'm
nine two twenty two eighty seven, who's up first? Rick?
Got Tim of first? Tim?

Speaker 7 (16:41):
Go ahead Tim, Jim Tim.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
One thing I did not expect to hear in the
KOSR golf scrap but was a screaming, screaming, crying child.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
But that's okay. Everyone is welcome. Uh, go ahead driver,
it's gonna go separate him from his dead Go ahead, sir.
Can you hear me? You still got you?

Speaker 7 (17:07):
Okay. You keep saying the times of the football games,
but you never say the date in the second like
talk about the new quarterback coming in if he's any good.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, as far as the dates, they'll be this they're
playing the games this year, sir, on Saturdays, so they're
on August thirtieth, September sixth, and September thirteenth are the
game as far as the new quarterback appreciate the call? Nick, Nick, Zach,
I'm gonna get it before the year's over.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
You're besoming Ryan with Will Wolford. For some reason, I
keep you on the comment, Zach, Kylezada.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
I did talk to someone this week, Drew, who said
to me, I said, all right, I gotta talk about
this guy. I don't know anything about him, Please give
me something to say. And they said that his strengths
are he can he can be mobile, although he's had
injuries at times, and they like his decision making. It
was basically, here's what the person said to me. Think

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about last year the strengths Brock had versus weaknesses.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Now flip them.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Those strengths now are what Zach has or what Brock's
weaknesses were, and Brock's weaknesses are are zach strengths?

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Do you agree with that a little bit?

Speaker 5 (18:25):
And I like that he has a I won't say
a ton of experience because he went to incarnate word
step down a little bit, but he has big game experience.
I mentioned yesterday that game against Alabama where he led
a and M back. If you want to get excited
about Calzati, you should really just go watch that those
Holiday game because you he has shown that he can
do it in the sec against the great defense.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
That was years ago, and he's been hurt, but at
least it's in him.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
There's a lot of mystery around how to play at UK,
but we know he's at least played this level a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
What do you incarnate word?

Speaker 5 (18:53):
I may remind you of my Tennessee Titans. Cam Ward
came from there, So it's like it's not like they're
just nobody.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
What are you hearing about.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
He's got a good arm, That's what I think everybody says.
He's just the kid has a good arm.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
But more accuracy than than straight.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Right probably, And like you said, you mentioned his decision making,
and we saw a lot of time Brock kind of
just focused in on one guy and you know, trying
to force a few passes. So focused on one person.
I think maybe his cale's ota maybe be able to
open it up a little more.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
The biggest difference with Brock is absolutely their personality. I
think Brock wanted to go get in the tree and
hunt when it's time. Off is as got a little
swagger and him he showed that in the micd up
video in the Spring on the Sideline.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's a little bit of a taller. Yeah, he's kind
of like Will Levis in that regard.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
He's kind of think he wants to be Johnny Manziel
got some of that.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
First, I'm not expecting him to get knocked down at
all this season. Now that our offensive line coach just
got one hundred thousand dollars raised, that better be the
best offensive line in college football.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Seventh highest paid offensive line coach in America.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Let's see if we get the results that.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Match seventh highest paid offensive line coach in America.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Well worth it right, only one returning starter on that offensive.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
But I don't I think that's good. Our offensive line
was terrible last year. I'm fine with us not having
any returning with starters except one we were We were
awful last year, but I think that's gonna be something
drew that all year if the offensive line does not
play well. I mean, I say some people, it's gonna
be me going, we're paying this guy. He's a seventh
ties paid coach, and our offensive line, which was awful

(20:24):
last year, it's gotta have a market improvement.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Now.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
I want to be careful not to sound like I'm
defending the Rais, because I hate that.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Sounds like you are, but to give the guy credit,
at least on.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Paper, what he did in the portal, it was hard
to ask for much more of what's available. What he
went out and got. Now they have to go do
it in the games. I'm not saying he deserves one
hundred thousand dollars, but he did load up on the
best he could that was available. I think they're gonna
be a much better spot last year.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
If if they're not good, it's gonna be this year's
version of Pony Up.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
We're gonna keep bringing that up. It's interesting, you know.

Speaker 6 (20:52):
Oh yeah, you just said it yourself. You're gonna bring
it up. If it doesn't, I want to everybody you're not.
You know, we talked about with cow in that last
year or two. I always said, I am more.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I feel like this show and me personally even are
more of a reflection of the fan base than a
driver of the fan base. I don't think there's any
question that when it comes to our fan base right now,
the negativity about this regime is the highest, maybe the
highest it's ever been, because because in the early years

(21:26):
people still had optimism. There was that little time Rhine
in the year before we made our first Bowl where
people were questioning it, and then of course you had
the Austin againness kick against Mississippi State. But this fan base.
When I go out in the state, I don't think
UK realizes. Honestly, since I was gone last summer, I'm
not sure that I realized how much negativity there was

(21:50):
around the fan base. I think these first four or
five games will decide Stoop's future here.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I really do.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
It's why you have to win Toledo. You have to
cannot get him bears by Old Miss. Those first two
games could decide the rest of disease.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Where are you gonna get six wins? I mean, uh, Shandon,
you were just saying next Friday, we're doing a show
in Summerset, and then you have a concert that night
in Summerset, and you don't want to drive back home.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
So what are you gonna do for those eight hours?

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Well you suggest it, mister Gaddy, is all you can
eat buffet? I thought, maybe I boys at least three
eight hours worth of you know, have you ever gotten
kicked out of a buffet? I might be the first
person to do that on the show I saw it,
have you Okay, we'll be second.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
I went with a competitive eater to see Ce's pizza
to watch him train.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
It was incredible.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
They eventually just brought a box and set it down
and said you can fill it, but you have.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
To leave one thing we should mention before we have
a ton of fun. Today is some sad news that
another tornado did hit in Kentucky last night in Washington
County actually last night early this morning. There's one fatality,
lots of damage, so we don't know, don't know all

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the specifics, but prayers to the people in Washington County.
That uh kind of a surprise event again, Ryan, that hit.
You know, we are kind of like I said, we've
become we're tornado ali now. Unfortunately, and uh it continues
to show it. So prayers to all those folks in
Washington County. One person writes Mat Matt, with your inability

(23:19):
to remember kal Zada's name, I don't know how you
think you could have run for political office.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
You would get crushed for.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
It, I would say, I think with the last two
presidents it's been pretty clear that's not a disqualifier anymore
as being able to remember or say coherent things. I
don't think that's apparently that's that might actually help me.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Didn't you say one time, like Bill Clinton has that
ability to remember.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Every said that Bill Clinton could like, if he met you,
he could remember your name from then on.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
I don't believe it. You don't know anybody. I mean
like people don't mean I don't know if he means yeah,
I think he means people like.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
I don't think if he just you said my name
is Joe, and he could see you in ten years
and remember you were Joe. But I think the far
is everybody would have a conversation with which I cannot do.
I mean, there are people I've had twenty five conversations
with and that I like that I can't remember their name,
So I mean that I do not have that.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
I'm terrible at names.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
So when you met him, did you have a conversation
with with Bill Clinton?

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Or did was it like like picture two minutes?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Maybe if he came back and remembered my name after
I would be pretty impressed.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Well, there is kind of a some people just have
an ability you look somebody in the eye and you
can kind of match their name with who they are.
I've just seen people do that.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
So Greg Sankie said yesterday, or excuse me, Charlie Baker,
the president of the NCAA, said yesterday that they are
trying to get all the conferences on board for the
NCAA tournament to go to seventy two teams, which is
four more than they have, and that it could start
as early as this year's tournament.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
The one, the one coming up. I don't love it.
What do you think.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
I feel like it's happening, the fact that he wants it,
others seem to wor on it. I guess now with
revenue sharing, they gotta find ways to make more money.
I mentioned before that sure, I like the idea of
a noon game to gamble on Tuesday of NCAA tournament week,
but I really wish they'd leave it alone.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I liked it at sixty four.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
It's fine at sixty eight, but I feel like, we'll
just do this and it'll be seventy six and it'll
be eighty the next thing, you know, we're in the nineties.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Baker said that if they did it, it would be
four more at large teams. They would not they would
not make any more teams play in that are automatic bits,
So it would be basically for probably major conference or
maybe one or two kind of mid majors that make it.

(25:42):
You know, it does give you all day games, all
game I mean basically, you know, you always say, Shannon,
you love how Thursday and Friday, you'd essentially have that
Tuesday and Wednesday too. You'd have games all days starting
on Tuesday. I do wonder if there's some point though,
where you start to make it a little less special
if you keep batting that.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, that's my thing.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
And the great thing about Thursday and Friday is you
have upsets. You can't really have an upset when you
have two eleven seeds playing each other in a playing game,
So I think it takes away the excitement in that regard.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
It was interesting to me.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
There was also a listing yesterday of the ten most
watched first round games of all time or excuse me,
since twenty twelve or something like that. It was the
ten most watched first round games. And I looked at it,
and they followed a pattern. They were two sets of games.
It was either two major programs playing each other, so

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like last year Arkansas and Kansas. When col went up
against Bill Sell, that was an extremely highly watched game,
or it was Kentucky or Duke on upset alert. It
was US against Oakland, it was up against Saint Peter,
it was Duke against Lee High. It was Duke against
North Dakota State. It was there were only the two

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highest ranked first round games are major programs against each other.
Duke and Kentucky on upset alert. I think Ryan the
theory is you can't make Duke in Kentucky be on
upset alert every year, like you can't plan that.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
But you can plan two power teams playing each other
every year if you want to.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
And I think the idea would be by adding four
more teams, you can get two major programs on a
Tuesday or Wednesday, like this past.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Year, North Carolina played Texas.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
That was a very highly ranked playing game because it
was North Carolina in Texas.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
I think that's what you're they're doing.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
I think, you know, we're all not crazy about it,
but it's probably gonna happen. I just kind of hope
they leave it all in Dayton. I mean this, I
think that idea was it all being date see now,
I kind of like that, if we're gonna add four
more teams and you show it on Tuesday night, let
it stay in Dayton because they've kind of got a
thing going on now. We're kind of used to it.
And I think it'll help it grow.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
I just don't want this to Is it the end
of the world if it goes to seventy two, No,
But I just don't want it drew to be the
step to seventy six ninety six, because then you start
to get a point where I do think it starts
to ruin it. I don't know if one more, you know,
two more playing games matter, but if you start, if
you went from sixty four to ninety six, then I

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do think you're starting to hurt it.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
That's what I worry they're doing.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
They're gonna see, Okay, we made a little more money
this step, all right, let's just do a little more
next year, and eventually you're just letting everybody in. For
so long, it's been a measure that your team made
the tournament. I mean, coaches got fired and kept based
on did they get into the field. But when the
field gets so big, I think even some teams that
don't deserve to be in the conversation, you're get an
opportunity just had more games to one.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well, think about this for a second.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Go back to twenty thirteen, that Neurlins Noel season. If
there were seventy two teams in we're in. Yeah, do
you look at that year differently? If there are four
more teams and that Neurlins Noel after he got hurt,
that Archie Goodwin team goes to the tournament and plays
a playing game, do we end up looking at that
year differently?

Speaker 4 (28:54):
I mean for me personally, I probably do, just because
in fact they were got in the tournament. I don't
care if it was seventy two teams they got in.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
That makes a difference for me, and I think that's
a big reason they want to do it. Coaches want
to do this so that they can have more of them.
Who said, you can't fire me. I made the tournament.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
See, but that it means less though.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
You water it down to the point to where, okay,
I made twenty straight in Cuba tournaments, but we made
it with seventy two teams.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
I mean if you if they had that as a rule,
then cal only misses one tournament and he could have said, well,
I only missed the COVID tournament.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
That was it.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
But there's always going to be a seventy third team
or a second four team, seven team in participation.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Matthewson, They're just gonna invite every Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
I mean Lonardi is still going to have a job
either way because you're going to figure out which is
the seventy third team.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
But it is. It does uh, that's revenue and it
helps coaches job.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
So I think they're gonna do it and maybe starting
this season.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
He said they could.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Start it this year, which surprised me they could do
it that quickly, but they would.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Who's next? Rick? Carson? Is up next? Carson? Go ahead? Carson?

Speaker 8 (29:56):
Hey, Matt, my brother, my buddy and I broke. I
rouped into this or going down Clemson for the Battle
of Coal Mines. We're on eighty five. We'll have boots
on the ground about thirty minutes to give you updates.
I think we're of the most dangerous twenty nine to
twenty four teams in college baseball. And I hammered the Wildcats.
I'm sorry for Robin's DraftKings in broad daylight? But how

(30:17):
do you feel about Cleaver for the first game and
instead of going with Walker McLay Walker McKay, do you
think that's.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
That's the question. You know, I'm not the person to ask.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I think, generally speaking, the rule in UK base or
in college baseball has been ryan. If you're a two
or three seed, it's very important you win that game.
You pitch your ace in the first game. If you're
a one seed, they usually try to save the ace
until the second game. That's generally how it's gone. We're
a two or three seed, so I appreciate the call.
I think you end up pitching trying to pitch your

(30:50):
best guy.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Today's they you talk about. You know, the guys start
on Friday night. Clever's the guy that starret on Saturday night.
Cleavers kind of had a better year, so you flip
flop them around and start Cleaver then tonight today.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
It's very, very hard.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
I think like only ten percent or five percent of
the teams that lose their first game end up winning
the regionals. So they you got you know, sometimes the
one seeds feel like they can hide their their best
pitcher until the second game, but the two and threes
can't do that.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Yeah, we're not in a good enough spot to be
trying to look ahead or game plan for other games.
You got to throw your best at every opportunity. And
I'm depositing the DraftKings now to get on that too.
Are you What is the what we're minus one o
five today. That's just like you said, we're stealing from them.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
On this one minus one oh five. Let's do it DraftKings.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
That's gonna be our DraftKings pick of the day from
Drew Franklin. Go to DraftKings bet five win three hundred
dollars on bonus bets and his DraftKings.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
The crown is yours. Let's do one more. Who's next?
Rick Carter is up there? Carter, go ahead? Carter.

Speaker 9 (31:49):
Hey, guys, my girlfriend and I are going to be
coming to the bar for the first time. And what
do you off the gift that we ordered?

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Wings, catfish, cheese, logs, beer, cheesecaso.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Those are the four.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I suggest one of those four or two if you want,
but that's what I would do. And thank you for
coming by this weekend with Railbirds. Should be should be
quite an atmosphere there throughout the weekend.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Have you seen Shaboozie around town yet? I have not.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
I'm interviewing Shaboozi next Sunday. Really, I have no idea
what to say to it.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
What do you say to.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Shaboozi ask him about Lexington.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I've heard he's been here for a week, so you
can go, hey, man, what'd you do in Lexington for
the last week?

Speaker 6 (32:33):
There?

Speaker 3 (32:33):
You go, maybe invite him out the chaos bar. Hey,
look at that, the sun's out. All right, let's go. Okay,
you gotta have more excitement than they.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah, you guys want to play golf or not? Come on,
come on now, you gotta be excited about that. If
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Speaker 3 (33:03):
They've got them.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
They got them the stores all over and they will
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It is Cornbread Hemp and Cornbreadhimp dot Com. We'll take
a break and be right back Kentucky Sports Radio. Looking
around this room, I'm gonna say, first of all, how
much money.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Drew did they make it? The PGA Championship involve Yeah,
everybody there is anyone here.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
You guys got Quail Hollow gear like they must print
money at the Masters, in the PGA, maybe the US
Open too, But there are va HOLLOPGA shirts and hats
all over this.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
I can't judge an one. I gave them on my head.
Yeah you too.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
I gave the Hollow gift shop paycheck myself, so I'm
not judging one here.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
But it is everywhere. Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
All day yesterday, Shannon, I got messages from people in
Lexington with their wonderful experiences with the roof company.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Oh, it was my favorite story from the show yesterday.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
All day, like literally all day, I thought I was
in the Kentucky Better Business Bureau with how many uh,
with how many? It was unbelievable. I mean not some
of the like reverend stuff and all that. Just a
lot of these were just customers who had felt upset
about about whatever. But uh, and did you see the guy,

(34:17):
the the main guy, what was his name? His name, well, yeah,
the reverend whatever. He's actually Brad or something like that,
Brad Pagel. He went on Facebook made some comments about
how now the shackles were off and he was free
to do whatever he wants, which now that's a little
scary if making everybody call you reverend and all that
is with you with your shackles on. I don't know

(34:40):
what it's gonna be like with your shackles off. But uh,
I got a feeling this thing, this story is not over.
I just feel like, you know, it's been on the
front page of the Harold's website for three or four days.
That means they're getting a lot of traffic on it.
I feel like I feel like they're not gonna stop.
That's just a guess, but that's how I feel like you.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Said, A lot of people have stories to relate to
what as has happened, so that is going to keep it,
keep it going out there, give it snowballing.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
I don't know if you had a chance to reading
of his Bookshet though there's twelve of them.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
I was wondering if you twelve books, as.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Someone who's written one book, and I know how long
it takes twelve books, that's a lot of work.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
I'm waiting to see you at a Reds game reading
roof King or whatever you about motivating roofers.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Well, if I go to a Reds game, I'm not
gonna get to see Ryan Alexis Diaz anymore. I don't
know how many Reds fans are here, but for two years,
the dude was unstoppable, Like couldn't be hit. I mean
just he was on. When he came in, you knew
the game was all over. And now can't even throw
a strike, just comp It wasn't great last year, a

(35:41):
disaster when they put him in this year, end up
trading him to the Dodgers for basically nothing.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Why do you you're a baseball guy. I've never understood this.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
You look at pitchers, hitters, you know they'll get better
or worse, but pretty much they kind of are what
they are.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
They follow career directory. Why do closers? Why are they.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Dominant for a year or two and then they just
fall off the planet. Why does that happen with them?
Is it just a is it their mindset or what?

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Yeah, there's something a little wacky about closers and kickers
in football where their minds are just a little different
than the normal people. And for a closer man, you
gotta have that mentality. You gotta have a killer mentality,
and I think it's tough to maintain that.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
You gotta have short term memory losses. You forget about
what happened the next before.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
How many closers have there been that were like great
for a decade Mario yeah or all. This Chapman's been
good in a lot of different parts. I mean, he's
gone in good.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
But you know, he he pitched for a.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Long time Cubs, Yankee who he won with the Cubs
and Yankees.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Was really good with the Reds.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
There's been some guys out there that.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, that's a while ago, but you just don't.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
I mean, this dude, he was my favorite player pre
Ellie for the Reds because he just was dominant and
then literally cannot throw at.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
You know, there's something about baseball. Remember when Steve Sachs
couldn't throw it from.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Second Steve Sachs chuck noblock.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Chuck no block. Mickey Sassar I think was the catcher
who couldn't even throw it back to the Matt Pigeon mound,
something to some mental block.

Speaker 5 (37:14):
How high is the probability that he goes to the
Dodgers and took it back on though.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
The red one of the Reds accounts.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
I won't go too deep in the Reds, but one
of the Reds accounts went and looked at all the
players for the Reds in the last seven years who
were good that then then became terrible. And it's a
lot like They've had a lot of guys like Christian
and Carcion strand you barely remember. He exists like he
was supposed to be like Ellie and then he's just gone.

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Little Spencer Steer, Matt McClain, like pretty much everyone but
Ellie has gotten worse when they got.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
With bad luck.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
There's got to be some common denominator, which I would
think coming to the coaching maybe.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
So who's up next? Aaron is up next? Aaron? Go ahead?

Speaker 10 (37:55):
Erin hey Man, at the beginning of the show, you're
talking about the guy yelling, and uh, you had mentioned
that or Ryan said, given give him your book, and
you said he didn't look like he could, like like
he would want your book. I didn't understand what you
meant by that.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
I think it's fairly fair. I think it's it's pretty
self explanatory. Sometimes you can tell that a person's not
on the same wave leaked as you are about certain things.
It's not a criticism, it's.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Just you can tell if a people, yes, if you're
if you're trying to bait me to you can look
at people are thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Who's next? This is the golf scramble. This is golf scramble, Matt.
It is not argument.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
But what if that was that guy?

Speaker 2 (38:39):
It may have been that guy. That was the templar
that that guy had on yesterday.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Who's up next? John? Is up next? John? Go ahead? John.

Speaker 9 (38:48):
I wanted to congratulate uh Wolf County Wolves on our
first ever fourteenth regional baseball championship, and I also had
a question, Uh, do you think the lack of nihill
has to do with the football program falling apart?

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Let me ask you real quick before we hang up.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
The Wolf County High School their nickname are the Wolves.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Wolves, the Wolf County Wolves, the county and then the
plur I love it.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
I appreciate the call. Congrats to the Wolf County Wolves.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
So you should be the Middlesborough middles.

Speaker 6 (39:24):
They wouldn't let us be the Bullet County Bullets.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Bullets.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
I like the Campbell County Campbell's It's not exactly the same,
but yeah, not some alliteration to it.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
The Middlesborough middles would be a little bit, uh bit.
As far as nil, I actually Drew do not think
the football programs. I don't think nil is I mean,
is nil the reason that we can't compete with Alabama hexas?

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:49):
But is nil the reason we lost to Vanderbilt or
South Carolina. No, like Ari and I, you tell me,
are and Ile was not better than Vanderbilts in Io,
of course it was. Ri and Ile was comparable to Louisville's.
We got run off the field last year against Louisville.
So in I l if you want to say in
Ale is why we don't make the playoff fair enough.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
But I'm not gonna say it's why we went four
and eight.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
And what have they lost? Like eight straight Power four
home games? They've had enough nil money to win some
home games.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Kentucky is probably tenth to twelfth in SEC. And I
l but it's not the reason we lost to Vanity
absolutely two years ago. I guess we didn't lose us. Yeah,
we lost two of the last three years. We lost
two of the last three years. We will take a
break