June 3, 2025 • 43 mins
Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk the latest news and take your calls. Also, Murray State Baseball Head Coach Dan Skirka joins the show.
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Speaker 4 (01:04):
Welcome back, I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio A five
nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. Even is not
a glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven
four five two five four. Let's give a round of applause,
Drew and Shannon to Ryan Lemon, who's got the Murray
State baseball coach coming on here at eleven thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Job, Ryan Dan Skirka skirka' is how he pronounced the same.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Kirka shark Skirko will be on at eleven thirty. You
know that's the thing about Ham Shannon. Yeah, he might
be two minutes late to the show and then not
take responsibility, but then he comes through and books the
gas when it comes. That's why, Ryan Lemon, you can
never give up.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's a it's a give and take with Ryan. You
get certain things, but you also, you know, have to
give up a certain.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That's exactly right. You know, it's like a marriage with Ryan.
It's not gonna all be great.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know I've always said there's no eye in Matt Shannon,
Drew and Ryan.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
See, we didn't need that, but nevertheless, all right, we
didn't need that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm trying to figure out what that means.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
But that's okay.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
One person writes on the text machine, Matt, I'm sad
to hear the news about ks bar for the summer,
but I understand. Are you still gonna have the wings
of the menu? Yes, I mean what we're gonna do
is we're gonna keep the items that people really like,
So we're gonna keep the wings, the cheese, logs, the
beer cheese, like the catfish have been really popular since
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we brought it back, so we're gonna keep that. But
we're gonna take some stuff off and add some new stuff.
I mean, the best way for me to put it is,
it's hard to fix a ship when it's already sailing.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You need to like dock it and make the fixes,
and that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Plus we needed to do some stuff interior rather than
do like, do the work during the summer. We just
decided this made the most sense, especially during the time
that it's slow anyway, because it's because it's June and July.
But yes, the things I think we do the best,
we'll still be on there. And then I'm excited about
a couple of the changes we're gonna make that I
think people will will really you know, really like this
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is a business with the bar where it's we do.
We have a great uh, we have a great business
during the season, and then during the off season. We've
got to make it to where people make the special
trip to come there because people don't live close to
that restaurant.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
That's one of the things.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Like a lot of these neighborhood bars are in neighborhoods,
we're around college students, and when the college students clear out,
that's part of it. So part of what we're gonna
do is to make that happen as well. Drew, I'm
out on the Reds, of course you are. You know,
the Reds are playing the Brewers. I'm for my friend's son,
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Henry and the Eastern Little League Brewers tonight. Go get them, Henry.
But the Brewers, the Reds are going to play tonight,
have won nine straight. The Reds are gonna lose again tonight.
I am sure. And Drew, I'm back out on them
because they should be good and they're not and it
drives me crazy.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
But I mean, uh, don't you see it as an opportunity.
Let's say you win two against the Brewers, You're back
on track. You're feeling good beating a good team in baseball.
There's just no optimism at all. But you have a
hundred green on the mountain tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Let me give you a little stat. You know, we
lost game one of the series. How about this stat?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
When we've lost game one of the series. You know
how many series we've lost in a row? When we
lose game one? How many all of them? What would
be a bad number for most series lost in a
row when you lose game one? In your mind? What
would be a number where you go that's disappointing?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I'll say four?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Four, okay, Shannon, what would be a disappointing number?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I think Drew's in the ballpark.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Five okay, what would be a disappointing number to you?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Ryan, I'm gonna say ten.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
What if it was twenty seven?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Oh, that is a stat you need to get over now.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
That's act.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's not good.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So when you lose game one, you might as well
just run away and hide, because it's.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Not just going through the motions from there. You already
know the outcome.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You already know the outcome.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
So I'm back out and we'll see if we end
up back in the Athletic produced their preseason top twenty
five and Ryan, I want to read you what they said.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I'm gonna actually read it. It's from C. J.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Moore, and then I want you to say, is there
anything you agree or is anything you disagree with?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
All right? All right? So here is C. J.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Morris projected starting lineup for Kentucky next year. An interesting
starting lineup Jayalen Lowe, Denzel Aberdeen, Otega Oway, Andrea Yellovich
and Jaden Quaintans. That's his starting lineup. No Brandon Garrison,
no Mohammed Diabate. They are on the bench. Then this
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is what he says. This roster does not have the
shooting of Mark Pope's first Kentucky team, but it should
be better defensively and have more playmaking on the perimeter.
Pope showed in year one he can microwave chemistry, and
he's given himself a ton of lineup options. Not only
will there be position battles for starting jobs, Kentucky will
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have some talented players who struggle to even get in
the rotation. I'm most intrigued by the front court. Pope
likes his biggs to be playmaking hubs and Yellovich Mohammed
Diabatee and Jaden Quaintans are all intriguing options, though I'm
not sure any of them can fully replace Amari Williams.
Yellovich was a double digit scorer for his professional club overseas,
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and Quaintance is considered a lottery level prospect. He'll have
to beat out Brandon Garrison. You know what you're gonna
get out of Otago Away and Denzel Aberdeen, who've been
starters on who would have been starters on most SEC
teams last year, and Pitt transferred. Jayalen Load is more
a true point guard than Lamont Butler, but he goes
through spurts of inefficiency.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
If Low can be a league caliber.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Guard, an all league caliber guard, and one of the
two Bigs can produce consistently, this can be a national
title contender.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Do you like that? Love it?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I mean it kind of goes along with what you said.
Jalen Low has to be good for this team to
be good. The thing about Quainten's I don't know if
he's gonna be healthy enough to be the starter to
start the season, but maybe by the end of the season.
I think Brandon Garrison will be the starter to start
with as he continues to get healthy. I just want
him healthy by the SEC tournament season because if he
can be he can be the most valuable player on
the team.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
True, with the exception of saying that Yellovich is gonna
start instead of Diabate, I think I could have written
this entire thing. I think he completely echoes my thoughts,
absent that. I think he's right that we have better
defensively and we have more playmaking, but we won't be
as good as good shooting. I think he's right that
there's gonna be dudes who are really good who don't
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even get in the rotation. And I think he's right
that they're a national title contender, but that it requires
Jalen Low to be good.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
And at least one of these big guys to be
really good.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But really, on a team with an unbelievable amount of options,
the one guy who can't stick is Jalen Low. As
crazy as it sounds, Even though otego Away may end
up being.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Our best player, again, he could get hurt.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
And I still think this team can be really good,
but you cannot have a.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Bust from Jalen Low.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He's the most important person on the team to me,
so I agree with everything He's in.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Me too, and Low's the only thing you really don't
have two of. Heck, even have three of some things.
It's the only spot where there's not depth with another
true point guard option. You got bodies. It could be Aberdeen,
maybe even Chandler. You have different pieces, but Low has
to be all sec for them to accomplish as I
think he wrote, being a title contender. My favorite part
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of the whole thing was him putting Yeleovich in the
starting lineup, though, because I've had diabate there, I don't
know if he's just guessing or if he's watched him
closely and thought that will translate. But with him being
such a mystery to me, I took this as optimistic
in him being a major contributor.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah. CJ.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Moore, I mean again, if you're talking about people that
are close to Pope and his staff, you know we
used to talk about, okay, when Cal was here. If
Mike Decorsi, Andy Katz or Seth Greenberg said it, chances
are it was coming from Cal. So that was Cal speak.
When Mark Pope, if Jeff Goodman or CJ. Moore or
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Matt Norlander say it. I tend to think it comes,
if not from Pope, from a member of his staff,
because I just think that's who they talk to.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Looking at it.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I don't know that any of those guys are close
to Pope specifically, but I think some of his staff
members are close to them, those guys, And if you
look at news that has broken in the Pope era,
it has tended to come from one of those. It's
tended to come from Goodman or Norlander.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
And then C. J.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Morris had some access that has made me think he
has connections too, So I'm with you, Drew. The fact
that he writes that about Yellovich suggests to me that's
how the staff feels. And then we had that conversation
with Pope about jaylen Low. Basically I was like, man,
you can be really good, and he said, gotta have jaylen.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Low be good.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So you know, I think that is I think that's
the best Ryan review of this team that I've read
so far.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
When you interviewed Pope, you talked about all the guys,
and he said some glowing, glowing things about Yellovich. But
when you talked to him about debate, deobote his face
Pope's face lit up, talked about him being just a
leader and the locker a great locker room guy, and
that's why I thought maybe he'd be the guy there.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
That's why I would put Diabate in that slot instead
of Yellovich.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But Drew maybe right. There may be things about Yeovich.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I obviously never seen any play, so I would put
Diabonte there. But otherwise I could have written that if
you just changed that one thing. So I just thought
that was very interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Who's next, Shit, Let's go to Larry.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Larry, Go ahead, Larry.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
They guys, I wanted to come in on the Kentucky
Clemson baseball game the other day. During the game, that
was the fourth inning, between innings, they ask all the
veterans to stand in the audience and they played Lee
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Greenwood's Proud to be an American, and the Clemson players,
I think it was probably just the guys that weren't
in the lineup went up in the stands and I
think they shook hands and honored the veterans, and I
thought that was great, and I was wondering if you
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guys thought that might be a good idea. M M
Kentucky copy might well.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I mean, I think that's a very nice thing to
do in special moments. I think this is just my
own personal opinion. I think if it starts like things
like that, that's a very cool thing to do in
the playoffs in that moment. I don't know if you'd
want to do it every single game, because I think
sometimes when you do that it loses the special moments.
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But yeah, in a specific instance like on Memorial Day
or you know, Veterans Day or even yeah, I think,
I mean, why wouldn't that be cool.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I think if you get yeah, like the Rads do this.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Thing where they do the Veteran of the Day every game,
and I like it. I think it's really nice. I
also think like sometimes it makes it to where people
it's like because they know it's coming, it's not as
special as it could be if they did it occasionally.
But that's just But again in theory, I think it's
a sure that sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah, and I agree it would get hold of you
cutting it everything, but nothing on Friday nights at the
start of a conference series or something. But anyway, I
just wanting to bring that up and that is cool.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
That was very nice of very nice of them to do.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And yeah, maybe that's when you do it right, like
you do a three game series and you do it
in game one of the series every night or something.
I think that could be a cool idea if I'm
nine eighty seven. What's next, Joe, Joe, go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Hey, Matt, h question for you.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Uh. You usually come up with a couple of good
books for summer reading. I've got one for you. It
entail a few like talk shows. Bill Buckley Portrait a writer,
San panas about it. I don't know if you know
who Bill Buckley is, but it's talking about I have
a can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yeah, he's talking about William Buckley.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, billbo Yes, Yes, he's the first one
that firing line. You know, it was a thirty year
for thirty years. It was a I'm no great conservative liberal.
Yeah anyway, it's it's it'd be a good thing.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I think he's Uh, he's a conservative writer that I've
always respected. Uh uh so I've I've read his stuff
before this. He's dead though, right, he doesn't have a
new book, does he.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, he's dead.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
But there's a new book about it, but it's it
would be incorporates politics of all, it's history. It's something
reading the summer. One last thing about football, Yeah, you
know summer reading is he had a good book a
couple of years ago out right, But I'm really concerned
with football. I think the writings on the wall it
reminds me of the last year with Lesbie or Joker
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season tickets or down. Nobody talks about it. I think
we'll have a new football coach next year.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
In my prediction, I.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Had sad to say, but you know, Steve's did a
great job. This is this very concerned with football.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I think, I hope you're wrong, but he's gonna have
to do stuff. Yeah, I mean he's gonna have to
do stuff to prove that you're wrong. And I I
the sign. I appreciate the call. I mean we've said
this a lot, will probably keep saying it. The signs
are bad. But at the same time, if he were
to go win in Week two against Old Miss and
then pull off a game that he's not supposed to win,
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then it's a different situation, right, I mean, he's got
If this were a good Kentucky football team, Ryan, you
would love the schedule right, having these teams in Lexington,
having Florida, Tennessee and Texas. If we were good, you
would say, this is the schedule where you can make noise.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Now we're not good at least on paper, but he
has the schedule to make noise.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
We'll just see if it happens.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, when you had a team you think you can
sneak up, maybe beat to Florida Tennessee or Texas role
miss at home. Instead you got a mediocre team trying
to beat these guys at home. And now you got
tough games on the road at Vandy, at South Carolina,
at Auburn game. You would have had a good team
probably thinking steal those games.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
We talk about this all the time.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Kentucky's schedule is every two years different and this is
the two year swing. This is the year where you
can make noise because Vandy, South Carolina and Auburn, you.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Could conceivably go still on the road if you were good.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
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We'll take a break. Mary back to Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two
five four one person rates, Matt uh, do you ever
make up texts from the text machine? You always say
one person, but you don't say who they are? Well, Drew,
I can't say who they are because it's their phone numbers.
I don't see their names, And the answer is no.
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Although I could read their phone numbers eight five, nine,
sixty five three. I don't think you want me to
do that, So no, I read them. I just uh,
I scan them. I look for ones that I think
will lead to good conversation Drew, and then read it.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Even the one supporting Zipper merging yesterday. Those weren't fictional.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Maybe a little fiction makes up.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
First of all, I'm not getting into this again today
because I have I'm doing my you know what, I'm
doing my research so that I'm ready when we bring
this up again, because I'm more confident I'm right now
than ever.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Did you text yourself?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
No, there were there were dozens, maybe hundreds you maybe
had There were maybe six to eight on your side.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It's it's funny, you know, you had everybody text my
phone and it was like one hundred to two for
our side.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I feel like people can continue to text you if
they'd like. It's because I feel like you still need
to know their opinion, don't you, Shannon.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Don't you feel like, oh yeah, he loves your text messages.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
One person rates Matt, what do you think about the
uh uh school tax in Fayette County? It's got people
worked up, But it does have people worked up, people
very angry. They're adding, like, what is it at a
quarter of a percent? Ryan, they're adding for the school
tax or whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I don't know the amount. I just know people were
very upset about it.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I mean, the reason this this is gonna like, this
is gonna happen all over the state, you know, starting
with COVID, Trump first and then Biden second, they started
giving money to local and state governments to make up
for the money that was lost due to COVID, and
so they told school districts to be fair. They told
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school districts, you're getting this big chunk of COVID grants
and you will get them for five years, but then
they will go away. So use these wisely, but understand
they will go and go away in five years. And
a lot of school districts use the money, and then
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it went away, and some of them created budgets, Ryan,
assuming that money would continue to be there forever, and
it's not. And so now they're having to readjust their
budgets because they budgeted their entire district based on money
that was a one time, five year grant given by
first the Trump administration, then the Biden administration.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
So there's a lot of school districts in Kentucky that
are doing this.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
And on the one hand, I understand, like they had
like thirty million dollars that they had last year that
they don't have net. On the other hand, and you know,
I'm pro school district, but like they knew this money
was gonna go away and they can and a lot
of these school districts kept spending as if it wasn't
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gonna go away. And I see it in Lexington, where
I went to school. In Middlesborough's doing the same thing.
And I have mixed emotions. I hate to see the
money cut. I hate to see jobs cut. I hate
to see all that. At the same time, though, you
knew this was gonna happen, So I don't know, Ryan,
I mean, at the same time, I don't mind paying it,
but I can also understand what people are kind of
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feel taken aback because they were like.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
This money wasn't gonna be here forever everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
So it sounds like you don't there's not an easy
answer for this solution.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
There's not an easy answer because they've got to find
a way to make up this money. But there's a
part of me that says to the school districts like
y'all planned as if this was just gonna get renewed,
and both the Trump and the Biden administration told you
it was not gonna get renewed. So I don't know,
I don't. I mean, it's it is what it is.
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Did you see the video, Ryan, of the dude in
Bartstown that pushed.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
The twelve year old? No, what is this? Well, I
got sent this video.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I don't know if it's out there, but there was
like a twelve year old soccer game and like a
twelve year old pushed another twelve year old, and then
someone on the sidelines just pushed the twelve year old
that pushed the twelve year old down. Have you seen
this video? Or I'm the only one that got sent
this video.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I haven't said seen it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So it was it was an adult that pushed to twelve.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, I don't know if it was a father or coach,
but two twelve year olds are going for the ball
and one twelve year old clearly, like I don't wanna
say cheap shot, but he clearly knocks the other twelve
year old down, and as he's running back to the sidelines,
someone from the sideline runs on and knocks that kid down,
and the person who wrote me says that person got arrested, which,
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if you see the video, Ryan, would make sense.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You can't come onto a field and start knocking twelve
year olds down, can't you?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
When you're an adult on the sideline. I mean it's
a twelve year old soccer game. For crying out loud,
act act your age a little bit.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
If you saw your kid at twelve get hit by
another kid, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'm not putting my hands on the other kid. I
may say something like, yo, hey, dude, you know.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Are you gonna go punch the other kid's dad?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No? No, no, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Twelve year old, you don't think so.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
If somebody you wouldn't go punch the other guy, Ryan.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
If he pushed it, you senior temper ride.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
If an adult.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Twelve year old jokes, oh no no. If the adult did,
you've got to go hit the show. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
If the adult, yeah, If.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
The twelve year old did, you just go You're gonna
yell at the twelve year old.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I'll probably yell at the official for missing the missing
the call. Kick him out. Why did you have to
kick him out. He don't need to be playing. Get
him out of here.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Murray State's baseball coach will join us just a second.
It's KSR.
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Speaker 5 (23:46):
Welcome back.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio now joined by the Toast
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Speaker 5 (23:51):
This morning.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Murray State baseball coach Dan Skirka, Dan, I last night
had on my job Murray Stack eight shoes, and I
was pulling for you guys with UK Baseball out. I
was all in on Murray State and it was such
an entertaining game as you guys did something a couple
of days ago hadn't done since seventy nine, win your
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first tournament game and now going to a super regional.
What was it like last night? And how cool is
it to have this happen with your program?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Man? It was electric there last night, that environment there,
I mean, they are very passionate fans and it doesn't
feel real to be honest with It's just just so
happy for our guys. You know, they performed all weekend
they performed all year, but to go in there and
to do what they did, there was so many performances
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that are just it was awesome, awesome.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I wanted to have you on because for whatever reason,
I watched more college baseball these last four days, and
I found myself watching your games next to Kentucky's the most.
They just kept being on And I saw you interviewed
after you beat Old Miss in the first game, and
then I saw you interviewed after this one, and I
just love the joy on your face yet last night,
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seeing your kid run on the field and your wife.
I mean, from a professional standpoint, has this just been
the best four days that you that you've had on
a professional basis.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Well, I'm blessed, I really am. These guys here are awesome,
from from every player to the assistant coaches. I mean,
it truly is a family and we're we're all in
this together, and it has been a joy. But but
there's been a lot a lot of more days before this,
you know, and and a lot of individual accomplishments from
from from guys graduating to getting drafted and signed and
(25:45):
just performing and playing and living out their dream. But yeah,
this is the ride they've been on and we try
to enjoy it. You know, we keep talking about our
process ain't gonna change, and that's that's who we are.
We're going to compete like crazy and and for each other.
And and that's what they did. So I'm glad you're
able to watch and able to see that because I
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get to obviously get a front row seat of what
these guys do and and it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Talk to me about the logistics of this whole thing. Okay,
so you're playing in Oxford. I mean, that's not just
a road environment. That's a crazy environment. The crowds are
going nuts, they're into it. They're drunk in these night games,
a lot of them. I'm sure they're yelling occasionally not
so nice stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
What's it like?
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Crazy?
Speaker 10 (26:36):
Yes, there was some verbal and noun verbal communications going
on all weekend, you know what I mean, from from
their fans. But it was awesome, you know, and and
they were awesome.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
You know.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
We we ran into them and in some restaurants, in
the coffee shops in the morning and and even after
the game, a lot of them, you know, saw us
in between you know, and the tunnel waiting around, and
they were very very congratulatory to us and what we did,
and obviously their root for whole miss but you could
tell that they were they knew what what a special
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group we had that that came in there. So yeah,
I think that Nicing want the cake to go into
a place like that, because that's just not like you said,
that's not just any any old regional. That was almost
twelve thousand fans and they are passionate. I mean Sunday
they were there for nine hours of baseball. They had
a doubleheader nine hours, and they were kicking our teeth
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in Sunday evening and they didn't least there were thousands
and thousands of people. They're chanting and just just going
crazy when the game was was out of hand. And
that's that's how passionate they are for their their team.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
All right, last night it was twelve to three, but
it's college baseball.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
It's never over right. So then it was twelve to.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Eleven and I'm sitting there watching, you know, Kentucky had
kind of had it collapse on them the night before,
and I'm sitting there going, don't have it happening back
to back nights When.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It goes from twelve to three to well do eleven.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I know you're gonna say you kept the faith, But
are you sitting there, guys going, guys, come on one
more out?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Come on, like what what what's it like in the dugout?
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Well?
Speaker 7 (28:13):
You know I did.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
I did because I thought our offense was going to
keep scoring, you know. But obviously they went to Elliott
their their ace and an sec power pitcher, and and
he held us in check in the in the top
of the ninth. But you know, we had I think
nineteen hits something like that. I thought we were going
to keep scoring. So once once we stopped kind of
a bleeding there, I thought we would add on to
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our lead. But they got us for zeros in the
eighth and the nights, and then it was up to
our pitching in our defense. But I was confident, I did.
You guys have done it all year. We won I
think twelve or thirteen one run games, and some of
the comebacks we've had have just been outstanding if you
look back at our record in some of the games
that these guys played in. So yeah, I did keep
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the faith.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
I was.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
I was confident. You know, our closer there, Graham, tellum
you know, I told the slowest heart beat in America.
I mean, you know, twelve thousand people yelling, they're playing
their music as flat as they can, and you just
just kept filling it up. It was cool.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Didn't you have a dude who pitched like one hundred
and twenty pitches one night and then pitched a day
or two later or something?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Am I right about that?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
So Friday night at our starter went one twenty. He
came back yesterday and through I think another forty, and
then our Saturday started through about eighty five, and then
he started the game yesterday. Their their dogs, I mean
just just I told him that, you know, I met
with them Monday morning, you know, after we lost Sunday night.
I said that was a meet monday morning, see how
you see it, and game plan from there. And met
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both in the meeting room and they're both but whatever
you need, coach, just let us know we want this.
We're them, do whatever it takes. And I wasn't surprised
by that answer. You know, there was no well let's see,
it was a coach. You make the call. I'm ready
to go whenever you need me. And that's that's what
those two are are perfect examples of what this team's about.
Just just guts and heart and wanted to win for
each other.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
All right. So now you had your night of celebration.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Now you're probably gonna get on a bus here pretty
soon and make a drive. I've made a lot right
down sixty four up in West Virginia. You'll go down
to through Wake Forest all that, and you're gonna end
up in Durham and you're gonna play a team that
Kentucky fans really don't like, which is the Duke Blue Devils. Now,
I know you're gonna give me the coach speak that
they're a great team, and I'm sure that's all true.
(30:26):
They've never been to the College World Series. But now
you're you're two wins away from Omaha. Are you ready
for it? And like, tell, tell these Kentucky fans listening
who are ready to see you knock out the Blue Devils.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
What's gonna happen this weekend?
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Well? What hey, we're gonna fly.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Oh you're gonna fly. Yes, I love it? All right?
Speaker 10 (30:49):
How about that racis rolling big times? So yeah, we're
on the bus back to Under Now. I think on
Thursday we'll fly out of Nashville and Land and probably
at some point it's early evening.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
So yeah, that.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
Friday, we'll get out there practice and when we see
it up, I think Saturday at one clock or New
one or the other. Yeah, because I didn't know if
they haven't been there either. But I really don't know
a whole lot about them. I haven't played them, haven't
really watched them on TV or anything, but I know
they're a good club. They've been ranked and been in
regional the last few years. So we'll prepare enough.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
She does well. Big Blue Nation is behind you.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
You know, Christian Latner broke our hearts what it was
it now thirty five years ago. It's time for us
to get them back. Or I'm not very good at math,
but it was a long time ago. It's time for
us to get them back. I wish you luck this weekend,
and I had. I genuinely had a lot of joy
watching your guys and watching your team this weekend.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Congratulations, well, thank you.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
They are great groups, so we'll take all the family
can get and everybody making for us. You guys have
earned a lot of cool stories and a lot of
workmen with Thank you, guys.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
All right, Murray State plays Duke this weekend. Thank you
very much, coach, Ryan. I know you gotta love that.
The underdog story that happening, and they get to fly.
That's also very exciting. Don't have to take the bus
all the way down there.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I love the fact that Murray State, little bitty Murray
State going in and playing at Ole Miss where baseball
is so important to a school like that. Twelve thousand
people out there and they march in there and and
take that series. Just tells you what baseball is all about. Man,
you have their starting pitcher on Friday, brought him back yesterday.
I just want to win the game, coach. So I
loved hearing those stories.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Ryan really likes it, Drew when they just saying coach.
You know, when the player says, I'll do whatever you want, coach,
you want coach, Like that's the like for Ryan. Life
is a Disney movie where you just call everyone coach.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I got chili bumps when he said that put me
in coach.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I knew he was gonna say that, Drew, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Uh, Ryan like that.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
But my biggest takeaway was that Murray has airplane money.
Good for them, it's not too bad of a drive.
And they're still gonna load up in the plane. That's
not often they get to go to the super regionals,
so they're was bearing no expense.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
You didn't say they were going private though, I mean
they could be allegiant spirit. Maybe you never know.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
It's okay though, I mean, like, did you ever fly
uh Kentucky Wesley?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Never fly?
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Ryan?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
No, we took the vans with like ten people in
each van.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
It was awful. You rode vans.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
You didn't get a bus, no passenger vans.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
We got a greyhound. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You're a high falute Doleman people.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Hey, if I'm not two a oh twenty two eighty
seven Draft Kings, they say, I gotta pick a game here, Shannon,
What do I want to pick for DraftKings?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I mean, go ahead and pick the NBA Finals If
you want tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
It is this, Yeah, but that's not till Thursday. Well,
let's tay Brewers in the Reds. The Brewers if one
eighth straight. Yet the Reds are favored tonight against the Brewers.
The Reds are minus third one thirty. Break the streak.
You go to draft gigs bet five with three hundred
dollars in bonus bets. Who's taking my Reds tonight to
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break the streak?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I'll take him. Brewers gotta lose sooner or later, so
I'll take the Reds tonight.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Hunter, Greens on the mound? Does that anything for you?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
No, I'm definitely going with the Brids.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Then Greens.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
All right, Drew, I'm going with the Brewers. You didn't
have much confidence earlier in the show, so you scared
me away.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
It's gonna be a Brewer's double dip with the Eastern
Little League Brewers and uh Milwaukee.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
We'll take a break and be right back.
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I have another KSR curse moment.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Would you like to hear?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
No, what have we done now?
Speaker 4 (36:09):
You know, I was just in Amsterdam like two months ago.
Remember I tell you one of the things we did.
We were there, we met with the UH Prime Minister
of the Netherlands. You remember me telling you that he
just had to resign from office today.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
It's all your fault for me.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Just after meeting a month and a half ago, Drew
he is today he resigned and they're gonna have new elections.
I feel like that's a KSR curse there. He was
very nice to us in our meetings, seemed like a
good guy. But a month and a half later already out.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Is it because of your meeting with him? Did something
come of it that he's out or just a coincidence
of the timing? No, I mean he wasn't supposed to resign.
He surprisingly resigned today. I feel like it has to
be at least a little bit of a KSR curse.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
One thing's for sure, That CaSR curse will get you.
It might take a month and a half to catch
up to you, but it will eventually get you.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
I mean it.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Even I didn't think it would cross borders. Shannon thought
it was United States only anywhere it would cross all
the way.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
In curses worldwide.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yeah, so sorry to whoever that guy is. You were
very nice when I met you, and I wish you
the best. Who's next, Matt, Matt, Go ahead, Matt.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Hey, guys, what's up? Hello? Hello? All right.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
I'm sitting out my garden in the day shine, meditate
and listening to you guys. I want to tell you,
God bless each and every one of you. You all
give so much attention to these disaster areas and I
live in one of them, and I appreciate everything you
all have done and the show.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Well, God bless you. What area do you live in, sir?
Speaker 9 (37:52):
I live in Knock County, Okay in him and Knock County.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, and yes, Hyman is an under rated gym of
a city. You gotta want to get there, but you
all have a lot of cool stuff when you get there.
You said you were you were meditating. I didn't know
there were a lot of people that meditated in Hinman.
Speaker 9 (38:14):
Well, I don't know if there is, but I do.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
But I share your Can you share your meditating routine
for us?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
I think a lot of people could use meditation, Ryan
Lemon probably being one of them.
Speaker 9 (38:29):
I have a garden right and after work, I get
off at about ten thirty in the morning, I come
home and I do a little little work in a
garden and I sit down and I just sit and
meditate and think about all the good that's happening in
my life. And your show is one of them. Your
show's one I enjoy. You all are one of the
(38:51):
greatest teams of all time, like the ninety six Championship
UK team.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
That's very nice of you. That's a very pot way
to look at life.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
So when I when I started having health problems, I
try I do that some How did you if somebody
like like Ryan, wouldn't you learn to meditate?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Won't want to learn to meditate?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
People speak very highly of the effects it has on
you when you learn how to meditate problems.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
How would you if you were going to teach him,
because you seem like a nice fella. If you were
going to teach Ryan to how to do it, what
would you tell him to do?
Speaker 9 (39:27):
Well, here's what I do. I mean, I said a
little bit, but I just sit down and just block
everything out, listen to the nature, and just I just
think about all the good that's happened in my life
and and I'm appreciative of it, you know, but that's
(39:50):
how I meditate you.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I appreciate you, uh, I appreciate you calling you. It's
a good way to head towards the end of the show.
And thank you very much, sir.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
Can I say one more thing, of course? I want
to tell the of the most amazing woman in the world,
Rihann and Hayes, happy birthday. She did a lot of
work during that flood, and I just want to tell
her happy birthday and thank you so much for you
all days.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Appreciate the call. Thank you. Life be a better place
everybody that like a bright ray of sunshine. Yes he did.
Doesn't he seem like a good fella.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Yes, we should all take a moment of every day
to be appreciative like he is. I might work some
meditating into my life. That was very nice of him
to compare us to the ninety six cats too. I
mean that's some that's true, some high company, high praising
for it.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Cats, Rhann Hayes meditating that call has it all.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I've got a garden in my backyard too. I guess
I could go do that later on today, Just go
sit in the dirt, think about all the things you're positive,
appreciative of positive energy.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, do you mean?
Speaker 5 (40:58):
I know you said you were gonna do a guard.
What do you remind me what you plant? Again?
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Well, it's really my neighbor's garden, but his garden kind
of went a little too far and it went into
my property. So I've got just a little bitty small section.
So I decided to plant pumpkins to have pumpkins for Halloween.
So that's I'm starting off slow.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
I didn't know this. So you're you have pumpkins, I do. Yeah,
how many pumpkins are you? Have you ever done this before?
Speaker 3 (41:23):
No, I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just
learning through the internet.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
So how many pumpkins do you think you're going to produce?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Anywhere from twenty to forty I think so, yeah, you're.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Gonna produce twenty to forty pumpkins. When do they come out?
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Well, if I timed everything correctly, they would be ready
by the end of September.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
Perfect.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Yeah, so you might conceivably have twenty to forty pumpkins
in your yard in September.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Possibly or maybe zero because I don't know what I'm doing,
So you know, I want one sure pumpkin. If they
work out, I'll bring each one of you a pumpkin
to carve.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Well, first of all, that is uh, that's awesome, that's
very cool. I had no idea work. How much work
does it take?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
How much time?
Speaker 9 (42:11):
You know?
Speaker 3 (42:12):
I kind of just you know, you got to get
the whole out, and you got to make a little hill,
and you plant the seeds in the hill. Then you
water them real good, and then you got to fertilize
them at some point, which I haven't done yet, but
that'll be the next thing. And then you just got
to try to keep the you know, the wildlife away
from the plant, because you know, rabbits and things can
come up and eat your plant, and then you don't
You're not gonna have any pompkins if that happens. So
(42:32):
it's a process I'm learning as we go.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
Wow, Shan, I mean rock stars, Shannon the Dude, former
Booty Shaking host plan Alice Blue Gown now is a
farmer planning.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
Pumpkin pumpkin planting aage comes for all of us, Shannon, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
It You're gonna reap the reward maybe if they can't wait.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I can't wait to have your we'll see you later,
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Now Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Welcome back, I remember two Kentucky Sports Radio A five
nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. Even is not
a glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven
four five two five four. Let's give a round of applause,
Drew and Shannon to Ryan Lemon, who's got the Murray
State baseball coach coming on here at eleven thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Job, Ryan Dan Skirka skirka' is how he pronounced the same.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Kirka shark Skirko will be on at eleven thirty. You
know that's the thing about Ham Shannon. Yeah, he might
be two minutes late to the show and then not
take responsibility, but then he comes through and books the
gas when it comes. That's why, Ryan Lemon, you can
never give up.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's a it's a give and take with Ryan. You
get certain things, but you also, you know, have to
give up a certain.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That's exactly right. You know, it's like a marriage with Ryan.
It's not gonna all be great.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know I've always said there's no eye in Matt Shannon,
Drew and Ryan.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
See, we didn't need that, but nevertheless, all right, we
didn't need that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I'm trying to figure out what that means.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
But that's okay.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
One person writes on the text machine, Matt, I'm sad
to hear the news about ks bar for the summer,
but I understand. Are you still gonna have the wings
of the menu? Yes, I mean what we're gonna do
is we're gonna keep the items that people really like,
So we're gonna keep the wings, the cheese, logs, the
beer cheese, like the catfish have been really popular since
(02:31):
we brought it back, so we're gonna keep that. But
we're gonna take some stuff off and add some new stuff.
I mean, the best way for me to put it is,
it's hard to fix a ship when it's already sailing.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You need to like dock it and make the fixes,
and that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Plus we needed to do some stuff interior rather than
do like, do the work during the summer. We just
decided this made the most sense, especially during the time
that it's slow anyway, because it's because it's June and July.
But yes, the things I think we do the best,
we'll still be on there. And then I'm excited about
a couple of the changes we're gonna make that I
think people will will really you know, really like this
(03:09):
is a business with the bar where it's we do.
We have a great uh, we have a great business
during the season, and then during the off season. We've
got to make it to where people make the special
trip to come there because people don't live close to
that restaurant.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
That's one of the things.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Like a lot of these neighborhood bars are in neighborhoods,
we're around college students, and when the college students clear out,
that's part of it. So part of what we're gonna
do is to make that happen as well. Drew, I'm
out on the Reds, of course you are. You know,
the Reds are playing the Brewers. I'm for my friend's son,
(03:51):
Henry and the Eastern Little League Brewers tonight. Go get them, Henry.
But the Brewers, the Reds are going to play tonight,
have won nine straight. The Reds are gonna lose again tonight.
I am sure. And Drew, I'm back out on them
because they should be good and they're not and it
drives me crazy.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
But I mean, uh, don't you see it as an opportunity.
Let's say you win two against the Brewers, You're back
on track. You're feeling good beating a good team in baseball.
There's just no optimism at all. But you have a
hundred green on the mountain tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Let me give you a little stat. You know, we
lost game one of the series. How about this stat?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
When we've lost game one of the series. You know
how many series we've lost in a row? When we
lose game one? How many all of them? What would
be a bad number for most series lost in a
row when you lose game one? In your mind? What
would be a number where you go that's disappointing?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
I'll say four?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Four, okay, Shannon, what would be a disappointing number?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I think Drew's in the ballpark.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Five okay, what would be a disappointing number to you?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Ryan, I'm gonna say ten.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
What if it was twenty seven?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Oh, that is a stat you need to get over now.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
That's act.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's not good.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So when you lose game one, you might as well
just run away and hide, because it's.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Not just going through the motions from there. You already
know the outcome.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You already know the outcome.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
So I'm back out and we'll see if we end
up back in the Athletic produced their preseason top twenty
five and Ryan, I want to read you what they said.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I'm gonna actually read it. It's from C. J.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Moore, and then I want you to say, is there
anything you agree or is anything you disagree with?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
All right? All right? So here is C. J.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Morris projected starting lineup for Kentucky next year. An interesting
starting lineup Jayalen Lowe, Denzel Aberdeen, Otega Oway, Andrea Yellovich
and Jaden Quaintans. That's his starting lineup. No Brandon Garrison,
no Mohammed Diabate. They are on the bench. Then this
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is what he says. This roster does not have the
shooting of Mark Pope's first Kentucky team, but it should
be better defensively and have more playmaking on the perimeter.
Pope showed in year one he can microwave chemistry, and
he's given himself a ton of lineup options. Not only
will there be position battles for starting jobs, Kentucky will
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have some talented players who struggle to even get in
the rotation. I'm most intrigued by the front court. Pope
likes his biggs to be playmaking hubs and Yellovich Mohammed
Diabatee and Jaden Quaintans are all intriguing options, though I'm
not sure any of them can fully replace Amari Williams.
Yellovich was a double digit scorer for his professional club overseas,
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and Quaintance is considered a lottery level prospect. He'll have
to beat out Brandon Garrison. You know what you're gonna
get out of Otago Away and Denzel Aberdeen, who've been
starters on who would have been starters on most SEC
teams last year, and Pitt transferred. Jayalen Load is more
a true point guard than Lamont Butler, but he goes
through spurts of inefficiency.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
If Low can be a league caliber.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Guard, an all league caliber guard, and one of the
two Bigs can produce consistently, this can be a national
title contender.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Do you like that? Love it?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I mean it kind of goes along with what you said.
Jalen Low has to be good for this team to
be good. The thing about Quainten's I don't know if
he's gonna be healthy enough to be the starter to
start the season, but maybe by the end of the season.
I think Brandon Garrison will be the starter to start
with as he continues to get healthy. I just want
him healthy by the SEC tournament season because if he
can be he can be the most valuable player on
the team.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
True, with the exception of saying that Yellovich is gonna
start instead of Diabate, I think I could have written
this entire thing. I think he completely echoes my thoughts,
absent that. I think he's right that we have better
defensively and we have more playmaking, but we won't be
as good as good shooting. I think he's right that
there's gonna be dudes who are really good who don't
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even get in the rotation. And I think he's right
that they're a national title contender, but that it requires
Jalen Low to be good.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
And at least one of these big guys to be
really good.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But really, on a team with an unbelievable amount of options,
the one guy who can't stick is Jalen Low. As
crazy as it sounds, Even though otego Away may end
up being.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Our best player, again, he could get hurt.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
And I still think this team can be really good,
but you cannot have a.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Bust from Jalen Low.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He's the most important person on the team to me,
so I agree with everything He's in.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Me too, and Low's the only thing you really don't
have two of. Heck, even have three of some things.
It's the only spot where there's not depth with another
true point guard option. You got bodies. It could be Aberdeen,
maybe even Chandler. You have different pieces, but Low has
to be all sec for them to accomplish as I
think he wrote, being a title contender. My favorite part
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of the whole thing was him putting Yeleovich in the
starting lineup, though, because I've had diabate there, I don't
know if he's just guessing or if he's watched him
closely and thought that will translate. But with him being
such a mystery to me, I took this as optimistic
in him being a major contributor.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah. CJ.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Moore, I mean again, if you're talking about people that
are close to Pope and his staff, you know we
used to talk about, okay, when Cal was here. If
Mike Decorsi, Andy Katz or Seth Greenberg said it, chances
are it was coming from Cal. So that was Cal speak.
When Mark Pope, if Jeff Goodman or CJ. Moore or
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Matt Norlander say it. I tend to think it comes,
if not from Pope, from a member of his staff,
because I just think that's who they talk to.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Looking at it.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I don't know that any of those guys are close
to Pope specifically, but I think some of his staff
members are close to them, those guys, And if you
look at news that has broken in the Pope era,
it has tended to come from one of those. It's
tended to come from Goodman or Norlander.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
And then C. J.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Morris had some access that has made me think he
has connections too, So I'm with you, Drew. The fact
that he writes that about Yellovich suggests to me that's
how the staff feels. And then we had that conversation
with Pope about jaylen Low. Basically I was like, man,
you can be really good, and he said, gotta have jaylen.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Low be good.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So you know, I think that is I think that's
the best Ryan review of this team that I've read
so far.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
When you interviewed Pope, you talked about all the guys,
and he said some glowing, glowing things about Yellovich. But
when you talked to him about debate, deobote his face
Pope's face lit up, talked about him being just a
leader and the locker a great locker room guy, and
that's why I thought maybe he'd be the guy there.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
That's why I would put Diabate in that slot instead
of Yellovich.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But Drew maybe right. There may be things about Yeovich.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I obviously never seen any play, so I would put
Diabonte there. But otherwise I could have written that if
you just changed that one thing. So I just thought
that was very interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Who's next, Shit, Let's go to Larry.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Larry, Go ahead, Larry.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
They guys, I wanted to come in on the Kentucky
Clemson baseball game the other day. During the game, that
was the fourth inning, between innings, they ask all the
veterans to stand in the audience and they played Lee
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Greenwood's Proud to be an American, and the Clemson players,
I think it was probably just the guys that weren't
in the lineup went up in the stands and I
think they shook hands and honored the veterans, and I
thought that was great, and I was wondering if you
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guys thought that might be a good idea. M M
Kentucky copy might well.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I mean, I think that's a very nice thing to
do in special moments. I think this is just my
own personal opinion. I think if it starts like things
like that, that's a very cool thing to do in
the playoffs in that moment. I don't know if you'd
want to do it every single game, because I think
sometimes when you do that it loses the special moments.
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But yeah, in a specific instance like on Memorial Day
or you know, Veterans Day or even yeah, I think,
I mean, why wouldn't that be cool.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I think if you get yeah, like the Rads do this.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Thing where they do the Veteran of the Day every game,
and I like it. I think it's really nice. I
also think like sometimes it makes it to where people
it's like because they know it's coming, it's not as
special as it could be if they did it occasionally.
But that's just But again in theory, I think it's
a sure that sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah, and I agree it would get hold of you
cutting it everything, but nothing on Friday nights at the
start of a conference series or something. But anyway, I
just wanting to bring that up and that is cool.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
That was very nice of very nice of them to do.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And yeah, maybe that's when you do it right, like
you do a three game series and you do it
in game one of the series every night or something.
I think that could be a cool idea if I'm
nine eighty seven. What's next, Joe, Joe, go ahead, Joe.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Hey, Matt, h question for you.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Uh. You usually come up with a couple of good
books for summer reading. I've got one for you. It
entail a few like talk shows. Bill Buckley Portrait a writer,
San panas about it. I don't know if you know
who Bill Buckley is, but it's talking about I have
a can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Yeah, he's talking about William Buckley.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, billbo Yes, Yes, he's the first one
that firing line. You know, it was a thirty year
for thirty years. It was a I'm no great conservative liberal.
Yeah anyway, it's it's it'd be a good thing.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I think he's Uh, he's a conservative writer that I've
always respected. Uh uh so I've I've read his stuff
before this. He's dead though, right, he doesn't have a
new book, does he.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, he's dead.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
But there's a new book about it, but it's it
would be incorporates politics of all, it's history. It's something
reading the summer. One last thing about football, Yeah, you
know summer reading is he had a good book a
couple of years ago out right, But I'm really concerned
with football. I think the writings on the wall it
reminds me of the last year with Lesbie or Joker
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season tickets or down. Nobody talks about it. I think
we'll have a new football coach next year.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
In my prediction, I.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Had sad to say, but you know, Steve's did a
great job. This is this very concerned with football.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I think, I hope you're wrong, but he's gonna have
to do stuff. Yeah, I mean he's gonna have to
do stuff to prove that you're wrong. And I I
the sign. I appreciate the call. I mean we've said
this a lot, will probably keep saying it. The signs
are bad. But at the same time, if he were
to go win in Week two against Old Miss and
then pull off a game that he's not supposed to win,
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then it's a different situation, right, I mean, he's got
If this were a good Kentucky football team, Ryan, you
would love the schedule right, having these teams in Lexington,
having Florida, Tennessee and Texas. If we were good, you
would say, this is the schedule where you can make noise.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Now we're not good at least on paper, but he
has the schedule to make noise.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
We'll just see if it happens.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, when you had a team you think you can
sneak up, maybe beat to Florida Tennessee or Texas role
miss at home. Instead you got a mediocre team trying
to beat these guys at home. And now you got
tough games on the road at Vandy, at South Carolina,
at Auburn game. You would have had a good team
probably thinking steal those games.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
We talk about this all the time.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Kentucky's schedule is every two years different and this is
the two year swing. This is the year where you
can make noise because Vandy, South Carolina and Auburn, you.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Could conceivably go still on the road if you were good.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
The problem is we may be really not good, but
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We'll take a break. Mary back to Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,
text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two
five four one person rates, Matt uh, do you ever
make up texts from the text machine? You always say
one person, but you don't say who they are? Well, Drew,
I can't say who they are because it's their phone numbers.
I don't see their names, And the answer is no.
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Although I could read their phone numbers eight five, nine,
sixty five three. I don't think you want me to
do that, So no, I read them. I just uh,
I scan them. I look for ones that I think
will lead to good conversation Drew, and then read it.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Even the one supporting Zipper merging yesterday. Those weren't fictional.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Maybe a little fiction makes up.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
First of all, I'm not getting into this again today
because I have I'm doing my you know what, I'm
doing my research so that I'm ready when we bring
this up again, because I'm more confident I'm right now
than ever.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Did you text yourself?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
No, there were there were dozens, maybe hundreds you maybe
had There were maybe six to eight on your side.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It's it's funny, you know, you had everybody text my
phone and it was like one hundred to two for
our side.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I feel like people can continue to text you if
they'd like. It's because I feel like you still need
to know their opinion, don't you, Shannon.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Don't you feel like, oh yeah, he loves your text messages.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
One person rates Matt, what do you think about the
uh uh school tax in Fayette County? It's got people
worked up, But it does have people worked up, people
very angry. They're adding, like, what is it at a
quarter of a percent? Ryan, they're adding for the school
tax or whatever.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I don't know the amount. I just know people were
very upset about it.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I mean, the reason this this is gonna like, this
is gonna happen all over the state, you know, starting
with COVID, Trump first and then Biden second, they started
giving money to local and state governments to make up
for the money that was lost due to COVID, and
so they told school districts to be fair. They told
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school districts, you're getting this big chunk of COVID grants
and you will get them for five years, but then
they will go away. So use these wisely, but understand
they will go and go away in five years. And
a lot of school districts use the money, and then
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it went away, and some of them created budgets, Ryan,
assuming that money would continue to be there forever, and
it's not. And so now they're having to readjust their
budgets because they budgeted their entire district based on money
that was a one time, five year grant given by
first the Trump administration, then the Biden administration.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
So there's a lot of school districts in Kentucky that
are doing this.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
And on the one hand, I understand, like they had
like thirty million dollars that they had last year that
they don't have net. On the other hand, and you know,
I'm pro school district, but like they knew this money
was gonna go away and they can and a lot
of these school districts kept spending as if it wasn't
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gonna go away. And I see it in Lexington, where
I went to school. In Middlesborough's doing the same thing.
And I have mixed emotions. I hate to see the
money cut. I hate to see jobs cut. I hate
to see all that. At the same time, though, you
knew this was gonna happen, So I don't know, Ryan,
I mean, at the same time, I don't mind paying it,
but I can also understand what people are kind of
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feel taken aback because they were like.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
This money wasn't gonna be here forever everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
So it sounds like you don't there's not an easy
answer for this solution.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
There's not an easy answer because they've got to find
a way to make up this money. But there's a
part of me that says to the school districts like
y'all planned as if this was just gonna get renewed,
and both the Trump and the Biden administration told you
it was not gonna get renewed. So I don't know,
I don't. I mean, it's it is what it is.
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Did you see the video, Ryan, of the dude in
Bartstown that pushed.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
The twelve year old? No, what is this? Well, I
got sent this video.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I don't know if it's out there, but there was
like a twelve year old soccer game and like a
twelve year old pushed another twelve year old, and then
someone on the sidelines just pushed the twelve year old
that pushed the twelve year old down. Have you seen
this video? Or I'm the only one that got sent
this video.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I haven't said seen it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So it was it was an adult that pushed to twelve.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, I don't know if it was a father or coach,
but two twelve year olds are going for the ball
and one twelve year old clearly, like I don't wanna
say cheap shot, but he clearly knocks the other twelve
year old down, and as he's running back to the sidelines,
someone from the sideline runs on and knocks that kid down,
and the person who wrote me says that person got arrested, which,
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if you see the video, Ryan, would make sense.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You can't come onto a field and start knocking twelve
year olds down, can't you?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
When you're an adult on the sideline. I mean it's
a twelve year old soccer game. For crying out loud,
act act your age a little bit.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
If you saw your kid at twelve get hit by
another kid, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'm not putting my hands on the other kid. I
may say something like, yo, hey, dude, you know.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Are you gonna go punch the other kid's dad?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No? No, no, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Twelve year old, you don't think so.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
If somebody you wouldn't go punch the other guy, Ryan.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
If he pushed it, you senior temper ride.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
If an adult.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Twelve year old jokes, oh no no. If the adult did,
you've got to go hit the show. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
If the adult, yeah, If.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
The twelve year old did, you just go You're gonna
yell at the twelve year old.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I'll probably yell at the official for missing the missing
the call. Kick him out. Why did you have to
kick him out. He don't need to be playing. Get
him out of here.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Murray State's baseball coach will join us just a second.
It's KSR.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
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Speaker 3 (23:35):
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now more Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's
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Speaker 5 (23:46):
Welcome back.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
It is Kentucky Sports Radio now joined by the Toast
of the Bluegrass.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
This morning.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Murray State baseball coach Dan Skirka, Dan, I last night
had on my job Murray Stack eight shoes, and I
was pulling for you guys with UK Baseball out. I
was all in on Murray State and it was such
an entertaining game as you guys did something a couple
of days ago hadn't done since seventy nine, win your
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first tournament game and now going to a super regional.
What was it like last night? And how cool is
it to have this happen with your program?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Man? It was electric there last night, that environment there,
I mean, they are very passionate fans and it doesn't
feel real to be honest with It's just just so
happy for our guys. You know, they performed all weekend
they performed all year, but to go in there and
to do what they did, there was so many performances
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that are just it was awesome, awesome.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I wanted to have you on because for whatever reason,
I watched more college baseball these last four days, and
I found myself watching your games next to Kentucky's the most.
They just kept being on And I saw you interviewed
after you beat Old Miss in the first game, and
then I saw you interviewed after this one, and I
just love the joy on your face yet last night,
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seeing your kid run on the field and your wife.
I mean, from a professional standpoint, has this just been
the best four days that you that you've had on
a professional basis.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Well, I'm blessed, I really am. These guys here are awesome,
from from every player to the assistant coaches. I mean,
it truly is a family and we're we're all in
this together, and it has been a joy. But but
there's been a lot a lot of more days before this,
you know, and and a lot of individual accomplishments from
from from guys graduating to getting drafted and signed and
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just performing and playing and living out their dream. But yeah,
this is the ride they've been on and we try
to enjoy it. You know, we keep talking about our
process ain't gonna change, and that's that's who we are.
We're going to compete like crazy and and for each other.
And and that's what they did. So I'm glad you're
able to watch and able to see that because I
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get to obviously get a front row seat of what
these guys do and and it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Talk to me about the logistics of this whole thing. Okay,
so you're playing in Oxford. I mean, that's not just
a road environment. That's a crazy environment. The crowds are
going nuts, they're into it. They're drunk in these night games,
a lot of them. I'm sure they're yelling occasionally not
so nice stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
What's it like?
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Crazy?
Speaker 10 (26:36):
Yes, there was some verbal and noun verbal communications going
on all weekend, you know what I mean, from from
their fans. But it was awesome, you know, and and
they were awesome.
Speaker 9 (26:47):
You know.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
We we ran into them and in some restaurants, in
the coffee shops in the morning and and even after
the game, a lot of them, you know, saw us
in between you know, and the tunnel waiting around, and
they were very very congratulatory to us and what we did,
and obviously their root for whole miss but you could
tell that they were they knew what what a special
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group we had that that came in there. So yeah,
I think that Nicing want the cake to go into
a place like that, because that's just not like you said,
that's not just any any old regional. That was almost
twelve thousand fans and they are passionate. I mean Sunday
they were there for nine hours of baseball. They had
a doubleheader nine hours, and they were kicking our teeth
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in Sunday evening and they didn't least there were thousands
and thousands of people. They're chanting and just just going
crazy when the game was was out of hand. And
that's that's how passionate they are for their their team.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
All right, last night it was twelve to three, but
it's college baseball.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
It's never over right. So then it was twelve to.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Eleven and I'm sitting there watching, you know, Kentucky had
kind of had it collapse on them the night before,
and I'm sitting there going, don't have it happening back
to back nights When.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It goes from twelve to three to well do eleven.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I know you're gonna say you kept the faith, But
are you sitting there, guys going, guys, come on one
more out?
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Come on, like what what what's it like in the dugout?
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Well?
Speaker 7 (28:13):
You know I did.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
I did because I thought our offense was going to
keep scoring, you know. But obviously they went to Elliott
their their ace and an sec power pitcher, and and
he held us in check in the in the top
of the ninth. But you know, we had I think
nineteen hits something like that. I thought we were going
to keep scoring. So once once we stopped kind of
a bleeding there, I thought we would add on to
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our lead. But they got us for zeros in the
eighth and the nights, and then it was up to
our pitching in our defense. But I was confident, I did.
You guys have done it all year. We won I
think twelve or thirteen one run games, and some of
the comebacks we've had have just been outstanding if you
look back at our record in some of the games
that these guys played in. So yeah, I did keep
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the faith.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
I was.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
I was confident. You know, our closer there, Graham, tellum
you know, I told the slowest heart beat in America.
I mean, you know, twelve thousand people yelling, they're playing
their music as flat as they can, and you just
just kept filling it up. It was cool.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Didn't you have a dude who pitched like one hundred
and twenty pitches one night and then pitched a day
or two later or something?
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Am I right about that?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
So Friday night at our starter went one twenty. He
came back yesterday and through I think another forty, and
then our Saturday started through about eighty five, and then
he started the game yesterday. Their their dogs, I mean
just just I told him that, you know, I met
with them Monday morning, you know, after we lost Sunday night.
I said that was a meet monday morning, see how
you see it, and game plan from there. And met
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both in the meeting room and they're both but whatever
you need, coach, just let us know we want this.
We're them, do whatever it takes. And I wasn't surprised
by that answer. You know, there was no well let's see,
it was a coach. You make the call. I'm ready
to go whenever you need me. And that's that's what
those two are are perfect examples of what this team's about.
Just just guts and heart and wanted to win for
each other.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
All right. So now you had your night of celebration.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Now you're probably gonna get on a bus here pretty
soon and make a drive. I've made a lot right
down sixty four up in West Virginia. You'll go down
to through Wake Forest all that, and you're gonna end
up in Durham and you're gonna play a team that
Kentucky fans really don't like, which is the Duke Blue Devils. Now,
I know you're gonna give me the coach speak that
they're a great team, and I'm sure that's all true.
(30:26):
They've never been to the College World Series. But now
you're you're two wins away from Omaha. Are you ready
for it? And like, tell, tell these Kentucky fans listening
who are ready to see you knock out the Blue Devils.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
What's gonna happen this weekend?
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Well? What hey, we're gonna fly.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Oh you're gonna fly. Yes, I love it? All right?
Speaker 10 (30:49):
How about that racis rolling big times? So yeah, we're
on the bus back to Under Now. I think on
Thursday we'll fly out of Nashville and Land and probably
at some point it's early evening.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
So yeah, that.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
Friday, we'll get out there practice and when we see
it up, I think Saturday at one clock or New
one or the other. Yeah, because I didn't know if
they haven't been there either. But I really don't know
a whole lot about them. I haven't played them, haven't
really watched them on TV or anything, but I know
they're a good club. They've been ranked and been in
regional the last few years. So we'll prepare enough.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
She does well. Big Blue Nation is behind you.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
You know, Christian Latner broke our hearts what it was
it now thirty five years ago. It's time for us
to get them back. Or I'm not very good at math,
but it was a long time ago. It's time for
us to get them back. I wish you luck this weekend,
and I had. I genuinely had a lot of joy
watching your guys and watching your team this weekend.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Congratulations, well, thank you.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
They are great groups, so we'll take all the family
can get and everybody making for us. You guys have
earned a lot of cool stories and a lot of
workmen with Thank you, guys.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
All right, Murray State plays Duke this weekend. Thank you
very much, coach, Ryan. I know you gotta love that.
The underdog story that happening, and they get to fly.
That's also very exciting. Don't have to take the bus
all the way down there.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I love the fact that Murray State, little bitty Murray
State going in and playing at Ole Miss where baseball
is so important to a school like that. Twelve thousand
people out there and they march in there and and
take that series. Just tells you what baseball is all about. Man,
you have their starting pitcher on Friday, brought him back yesterday.
I just want to win the game, coach. So I
loved hearing those stories.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Ryan really likes it, Drew when they just saying coach.
You know, when the player says, I'll do whatever you want, coach,
you want coach, Like that's the like for Ryan. Life
is a Disney movie where you just call everyone coach.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I got chili bumps when he said that put me
in coach.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
I knew he was gonna say that, Drew, I knew it.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Uh, Ryan like that.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
But my biggest takeaway was that Murray has airplane money.
Good for them, it's not too bad of a drive.
And they're still gonna load up in the plane. That's
not often they get to go to the super regionals,
so they're was bearing no expense.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
You didn't say they were going private though, I mean
they could be allegiant spirit. Maybe you never know.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
It's okay though, I mean, like, did you ever fly
uh Kentucky Wesley?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Never fly?
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Ryan?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
No, we took the vans with like ten people in
each van.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
It was awful. You rode vans.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
You didn't get a bus, no passenger vans.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
We got a greyhound. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You're a high falute Doleman people.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Hey, if I'm not two a oh twenty two eighty
seven Draft Kings, they say, I gotta pick a game here, Shannon,
What do I want to pick for DraftKings?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I mean, go ahead and pick the NBA Finals If
you want tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
It is this, Yeah, but that's not till Thursday. Well,
let's tay Brewers in the Reds. The Brewers if one
eighth straight. Yet the Reds are favored tonight against the Brewers.
The Reds are minus third one thirty. Break the streak.
You go to draft gigs bet five with three hundred
dollars in bonus bets. Who's taking my Reds tonight to
(34:06):
break the streak?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I'll take him. Brewers gotta lose sooner or later, so
I'll take the Reds tonight.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Hunter, Greens on the mound? Does that anything for you?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
No, I'm definitely going with the Brids.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Then Greens.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
All right, Drew, I'm going with the Brewers. You didn't
have much confidence earlier in the show, so you scared
me away.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
It's gonna be a Brewer's double dip with the Eastern
Little League Brewers and uh Milwaukee.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
We'll take a break and be right back.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
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If I'm nine to eight zero twenty two eighty seven, Drew,
I have another KSR curse moment.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Would you like to hear?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
No, what have we done now?
Speaker 4 (36:09):
You know, I was just in Amsterdam like two months ago.
Remember I tell you one of the things we did.
We were there, we met with the UH Prime Minister
of the Netherlands. You remember me telling you that he
just had to resign from office today.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
It's all your fault for me.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Just after meeting a month and a half ago, Drew
he is today he resigned and they're gonna have new elections.
I feel like that's a KSR curse there. He was
very nice to us in our meetings, seemed like a
good guy. But a month and a half later already out.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Is it because of your meeting with him? Did something
come of it that he's out or just a coincidence
of the timing? No, I mean he wasn't supposed to resign.
He surprisingly resigned today. I feel like it has to
be at least a little bit of a KSR curse.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
One thing's for sure, That CaSR curse will get you.
It might take a month and a half to catch
up to you, but it will eventually get you.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
I mean it.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Even I didn't think it would cross borders. Shannon thought
it was United States only anywhere it would cross all
the way.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
In curses worldwide.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Yeah, so sorry to whoever that guy is. You were
very nice when I met you, and I wish you
the best. Who's next, Matt, Matt, Go ahead, Matt.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Hey, guys, what's up? Hello? Hello? All right.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
I'm sitting out my garden in the day shine, meditate
and listening to you guys. I want to tell you,
God bless each and every one of you. You all
give so much attention to these disaster areas and I
live in one of them, and I appreciate everything you
all have done and the show.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Well, God bless you. What area do you live in, sir?
Speaker 9 (37:52):
I live in Knock County, Okay in him and Knock County.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, and yes, Hyman is an under rated gym of
a city. You gotta want to get there, but you
all have a lot of cool stuff when you get there.
You said you were you were meditating. I didn't know
there were a lot of people that meditated in Hinman.
Speaker 9 (38:14):
Well, I don't know if there is, but I do.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
But I share your Can you share your meditating routine
for us?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
I think a lot of people could use meditation, Ryan
Lemon probably being one of them.
Speaker 9 (38:29):
I have a garden right and after work, I get
off at about ten thirty in the morning, I come
home and I do a little little work in a
garden and I sit down and I just sit and
meditate and think about all the good that's happening in
my life. And your show is one of them. Your
show's one I enjoy. You all are one of the
(38:51):
greatest teams of all time, like the ninety six Championship
UK team.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
That's very nice of you. That's a very pot way
to look at life.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
So when I when I started having health problems, I
try I do that some How did you if somebody
like like Ryan, wouldn't you learn to meditate?
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Won't want to learn to meditate?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
People speak very highly of the effects it has on
you when you learn how to meditate problems.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
How would you if you were going to teach him,
because you seem like a nice fella. If you were
going to teach Ryan to how to do it, what
would you tell him to do?
Speaker 9 (39:27):
Well, here's what I do. I mean, I said a
little bit, but I just sit down and just block
everything out, listen to the nature, and just I just
think about all the good that's happened in my life
and and I'm appreciative of it, you know, but that's
(39:50):
how I meditate you.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I appreciate you, uh, I appreciate you calling you. It's
a good way to head towards the end of the show.
And thank you very much, sir.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
Can I say one more thing, of course? I want
to tell the of the most amazing woman in the world,
Rihann and Hayes, happy birthday. She did a lot of
work during that flood, and I just want to tell
her happy birthday and thank you so much for you
all days.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Appreciate the call. Thank you. Life be a better place
everybody that like a bright ray of sunshine. Yes he did.
Doesn't he seem like a good fella.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Yes, we should all take a moment of every day
to be appreciative like he is. I might work some
meditating into my life. That was very nice of him
to compare us to the ninety six cats too. I
mean that's some that's true, some high company, high praising
for it.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Cats, Rhann Hayes meditating that call has it all.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I've got a garden in my backyard too. I guess
I could go do that later on today, Just go
sit in the dirt, think about all the things you're positive,
appreciative of positive energy.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, do you mean?
Speaker 5 (40:58):
I know you said you were gonna do a guard.
What do you remind me what you plant? Again?
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Well, it's really my neighbor's garden, but his garden kind
of went a little too far and it went into
my property. So I've got just a little bitty small section.
So I decided to plant pumpkins to have pumpkins for Halloween.
So that's I'm starting off slow.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
I didn't know this. So you're you have pumpkins, I do. Yeah,
how many pumpkins are you? Have you ever done this before?
Speaker 3 (41:23):
No, I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just
learning through the internet.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
So how many pumpkins do you think you're going to produce?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Anywhere from twenty to forty I think so, yeah, you're.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Gonna produce twenty to forty pumpkins. When do they come out?
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Well, if I timed everything correctly, they would be ready
by the end of September.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
Perfect.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Yeah, so you might conceivably have twenty to forty pumpkins
in your yard in September.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Possibly or maybe zero because I don't know what I'm doing,
So you know, I want one sure pumpkin. If they
work out, I'll bring each one of you a pumpkin
to carve.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Well, first of all, that is uh, that's awesome, that's
very cool. I had no idea work. How much work
does it take?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
How much time?
Speaker 9 (42:11):
You know?
Speaker 3 (42:12):
I kind of just you know, you got to get
the whole out, and you got to make a little hill,
and you plant the seeds in the hill. Then you
water them real good, and then you got to fertilize
them at some point, which I haven't done yet, but
that'll be the next thing. And then you just got
to try to keep the you know, the wildlife away
from the plant, because you know, rabbits and things can
come up and eat your plant, and then you don't
You're not gonna have any pompkins if that happens. So
(42:32):
it's a process I'm learning as we go.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
Wow, Shan, I mean rock stars, Shannon the Dude, former
Booty Shaking host plan Alice Blue Gown now is a
farmer planning.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
Pumpkin pumpkin planting aage comes for all of us, Shannon, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
It You're gonna reap the reward maybe if they can't wait.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
I can't wait to have your we'll see you later,
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