June 4, 2025 • 42 mins
Matt, Ryan, and Shannon talk all the latest news, strange baseball field dimensions, and your calls.
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Speaker 4 (01:04):
Now here's Matt Jones walking back.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
It is our number two Kentucky Sports Radio. Here on
a beautiful day. I catch a flight when this is
over back to Kentucky. But I'm in New York's Kentucky
beautiful today, Ryan, is it not?
Speaker 6 (01:16):
It is fantastic. I think hearth Worm's coming in Thursday
Friday though, just as you get back.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Perfect right now, that's what we want. We're in Summerset
on Friday, right.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
What's the is it? What is it?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
The victory h the Virginia, Virginia.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Okay, it's not the victory in Jesus Theater, which is
what I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
No, the Virginia.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
That's a little different than the victory in Jesus. It's
a great hymn, though, victory in Jesus My Savior Forever.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Where is the Virginia, Somerset?
Speaker 7 (01:47):
Okay? I understand that, But what is is it a theater?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
It's yeah, because Shannon the Dude Allas Blue gowns for
performing there Friday night, same place.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
So we are at the Virginia from ten to twelve
in Sumrset on Friday. Love to see everybody there in Somerset.
Friday always been one of our maybe one of the
stops we go at the most on the road is summerset,
so we will see you on Friday. Timberonece Ryan means
sharks in Spanish. That's the name of the team. Okay,
(02:18):
so one person says, map it was ah it was
his daughter that got hit, not a son, and it
was a boy that hit the girl when they were playing.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Does that change your mind at all? No?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
No, still no.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
First of all, there is no excuse ever for hitting
a kid or for hitting a woman.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Period.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You're not gonna get an excuse from me. There's no excuse. Like,
you know, if you're a man, you do not hit
a kid, you do not hit a woman. You shouldn't
hit anybody, but you certainly shouldn't hit a kid, and
he certainly shouldn't hit a woman. Apparently this guy was
having his daughter play on the boys team, probably to
make her, you know, against harder competition. Okay, that's fine,
(03:07):
I got no problem with that. But then, like if
she's playing against the boys, like she's playing against the boys,
like she's making the decision that she's gonna play in
this pizzic, or you're you're making the decision for her
that you're gonna be playing in this more physical game,
and that doesn't.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Mean you can go hit people, Okay, I mean you can't.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
When you make a decision for your daughter to play
with the boys, it's gonna be rougher and she is
gonna they're gonna treat her, hopefully like they treat the
other boys. But even if they don't, they can take
it out of them. They can punish the kid. But
you can't be the one ryan to go hit a kid.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
You just can't.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
No, you can complain to the official and you know,
call for a foul, which it looks like they did,
but then you can't take it out on a twelve
year old kid, regardless of what the situation is. It's
just inexcuseable.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm apparently it's the the least people are saying
she allegedly it's the director of the team.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well that makes it almost even worse.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No, I mean, it's not the kid's fault. Correct that
it's not the kid's fault. So like I wouldn't suspend
the team, but I'd say you gotta get away suspend
him or I don't know that they own it or
they run it or whatever, but like he can't be
in charge anymore.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
But no, I mean, you don't suspend the whole team.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It's not the you know, it's not the It's like
when when kids parents do something wrong, it's not the
kid's fault that the parents act a fool, it's the
it's the you know, it's the parent's fault. All Right,
A couple of things. First of all, Shannon, I just
I'm not gonna dwell on this, but I want the
record to show I.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Was right about something.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Okay, what did I say the moment Elon started working
for Trump?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
What did I say?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You said, eventually he's gonna turn on Trump and they're
gonna disagree.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
It's never gonna work. And I say that two egos
that big, no way, no way. And just for the record,
what's happened. He's already out now, he's criticizing. I told you, Shannon,
did I called this moment one?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You did?
Speaker 5 (05:10):
You get It's like when the mega powers exploded in wrestling.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
They can only co exist for so long.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You cannot have Hulk Hogan and watch a Man together forever.
At some point the egos explode, and I feel like
Ryan I should get a check mark for that.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Correct they made it, what five four and five months,
a lot longer. I thought that most people thought they
would make it.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I said that he'd be out by July first, and
it was getting close, Shannon, but it happened. We got there,
and uh so that's one point team team, Matthew Harper. Second,
I'm still giving up on the Reds, Ryne, but that
was an awesome win last night.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
The way they.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Won't Yeah, there's the one thing to say about the Reds.
They do provide you with a lot of exciting moments.
They can't maybe win the game, they do provide exciting
moment with Eli doing stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Did you see the ninth and it was classic Reds. Okay,
we're up four to two, two outs, Ellie. All he
has to do is throw it first, that's it, game over,
and he throws it away error.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
So now there's a guy on games should be over?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Should be over?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
And then the Brewers dude hits a shot deep center field,
like the deepest part of the park. And when he
hits it, Ryan the announcer has in his voice, oh no,
oh no, oh no. And then Freedo gets over the
wall and grabs it. I'm gonna go ahead, and tell
you had that been a home run, I was gonna
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have to take about a two week Reds break and
literally not watch another day if they had blown it
with that air and then the home run. But he
caught it and I'm still out on him. But it
was an exciting way, probably the best moment of the
year so far for the Rents.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah, the you know, the baseball guys often will punish
some but after an air like that, that's why I've
shot it. Ball didn't wasn't a home run anyplace else
in the ballpark at the home run that's the one spot.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
By the way, in baseball? I want to ask you
too that I've often wondered this. Why center field deeper
than right and left field? What is the rationale?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I don't really have an answer.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'm just trying to fit. Like, think, if center field
were as short as left and right field, But why
isn't it it would be like it wouldn't be like
the shape of it would have to be completely different.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, but the shape they chose is completely random. They
could have chosen a different shapes.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Just a more rounded shape.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But why, I mean why, what is the logic for
it's a home run three hundred and fifty feet, right,
but it takes it four hundred feet in center?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Really, I'm not really sure there's logic behind it.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Shouldn't there be logic? So sports?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I mean, in other ballparks it is like that. I
mean there's no one, you know, way.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Every ballpark then, I know of center field is longer
than left and right field. Oh yes, it's obviously different
distances depending on the field you choose, But what was
the reason why center field was always longer? Like, why
isn't it three hundred and fifty If you decide to
make a home run in your stadium three hundred fifty feet,
Why wouldn't it be like that everywhere?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
It's a fair question.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I mean there are because in basketball the three point
line is different, but it's because the court's not big enough, right,
And if presumably if they had made a bigger court,
they wouldn't have said the corner three is shorter. They
have to do it because the court is too big
because they made the court before we had three point lines.
But I've never understood why in baseball center field is
(08:41):
I mean, everybody just accepts that center field is farther.
But I've never understood why.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
No, that's why they call it a diamond. I guess
it's you know, it's diamond shaped.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
So but now the diamond is the infield is far
of a circle. It's not a it's not a diamond,
it's a it's a the baseball diamond is the infield.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I thought it was the whole field. Well, either way,
I don't know why exactly it is.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
But you know, you know there are a little league
fields where the fits is two hundred feet all the
way around two hundred that's that's the That's.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
That to me would seem more logical. Anyway. I'm glad
because of last sight.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
But I've just also well, if you hit it to
center field, presumably you've hit it with perfect timing, right,
because when you hit it to left or right, you've
either hit it early or late. But if you hit
it dead straight, presumably that's the best timing you could get.
So why do we make it the farthest away?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
All right? So here's an answer. I'll just read what
the say.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Was it that center field and baseball is typically deeper
than other outfield positions because it covers the largest area.
This is due to the shape of the baseball field
and the need to have all positions cover equal amounts
of ground. Centerfield's depth is also influenced by factors like
altitude and the historic constraints of building ballparks within city blocks.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Okay, the first part of that definition is the definition
is just defining what it says. It's farther because it's farther.
The second part is city blocks. I don't really know
why that would what that why that would change anything,
but okay, that does. That still doesn't totally answer the
question to me. But either way it is, and that's
ultimately why the Reds won the game.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Who's up next?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Shit, let's go to Madison.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Madison, Go ahead, Madison to ask anything. Eighty seven.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
I got two things for you. One I'm basketball, one
I'm football.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Okay, when do.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
You think I know, we've announced a couple of non
conference games in basketball, But when do you think we'll
get another announcement? Because I know there's not very.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Man, I don't know when we'll get the other announcement.
I would say, usually, Ryan, by mid June, you have
the whole schedule, right, isn't that about.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Some we do usually definitely a summer thing that it
comes out in the summer, for sure.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yeah, I think it's usually around mid June. We have
most of the games, I mean not there's I think,
what who are the bad teams we play? We play
bellor Men Ryan. Don't we play what Tennessee Tech or
something like that?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I think that's right, that sounds right.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I can't remember we have I think we have most
of them, but there's like two or three that haven't
been announced.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
So we have close to the schedule.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
At this point, we still don't know the ACC team
we play yet, although a lot of the rumors have
been in c State who now looks like they'll be
a top twenty five team, but Madison, it'll be sometime
in mid June.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
What's your second question?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
And then the second one is they recently released the
line for the first football game against Toledo twelve and
hats Do y'all think that's too high? What Chelsea pain?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I mean it should be and I appreciate the call.
It should be too low, right, I mean twelve against
the team. If we're gonna playing the SEC, we need
to be a lot more of a favorite than twelve
and a half. With that said, I can't say it
feels too low considering the team we have. Toledo's the
favorite in the MAC, et cetera, but on paper we
should not be only a twelve and a half point
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favorite to any team in the MAC.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
And I wonder if that the fact that even though
Kentucky's been favored by seventeen twenty twenty one, they don't
they don't cover these games in the first game of
the season. I think they're historically stoopidest teams have not covered,
So I don't know, maybe that's playing into it a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what made me
think of this. But you know who I walked past
yesterday on the street, Shannon, while walking down the road
is Bill Burr. Yeah, I just he's in a play here,
I think, and he just walks down. And what's crazy
about New York is a dude like Bill Burr walks
down the street and no one said like, no one
acts like it.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Uh huh did you say anything to it?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Brother?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I did not get him.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
I don't want to get him angry at me.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
But you know, if Bill Burr were to walk the
street in Lexington, people be like, oh, there's Bill Burr.
But in New York, it's like it's people just feel
like it's cool to not act like they're there. And
I'm kind of looking around, like going hereybody's you see
that's Bill Burr and like nobody seems to care shit.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, well yeah, you know, I've been in New York
several times. I guess I've never seen anybody famous or
didn't recognize it when you're.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Close to that the thirty Rock where that's where because
they all go in there to do Say're Not Live
or the Tonight Show or.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So he's just walking down the street. He doesn't have
an authorage or nobody.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Like by himself, by himself walking down the street.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So at what level do you have to get to
in New York of like celebrity to where you you
can't do that?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
You know, I think a.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Lot of those dudes pride themselves on just trying to
live normal lives. When I was working on my book,
I worked on it at Simon and Schuster. You remember
I when Mitch got me kicked off the radio. I
came to New York and I wrote the book for
like two months, and I would work out of the
Simon and Schuster building which is in thirty Rock, and
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so I would walk around to eat lunch and stuff,
and I saw a ton of people. I saw all
the people at the time that were on Saturday Night Live.
But then like the guy, who's the guy that voiceover
voiceovers hard knocks?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
What's his name? Liam? Do you don't talk about the
guy who's like, I.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Don't know his name, can't think of his name, Shrieber, Shreiber,
You would recognize him anyway? Point as I saw that
guy and it's you're saying, and they just walk by
themselves like it's nothing, you know, which I think it's
kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
It is if you can slide under the radar. But
you know, if you got people bothering you, then.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Then that wouldn't be Who's next. Let's go to Andrew, Andrew,
go ahead, Andrew, Hey.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
So three points real quick. I'm disappointed about my Knicks
losing the conference finals. I'm like for UK football to
be eight and four and be whatever bowl game used
to be called the Outback Bowl in Tampa Bay, And
then how about UK Saint John's and artisas all in
the file four next year and get to you a
howl again there boy whoo.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
No on Arkansas in the final four. I do think
it would be fun to have Saint John's there with us.
I'd love for us to go eight and four. Don't
know if that's gonna happen. And the Knicks, well, we'll
talk about that that. I can't believe they fired their coach.
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We'll take a break, be right BACKTNA take you sports radio.
So this is who I'm gonna see. This is Zach
top Shannon. We've played him before, this playing Sunny Night.
This is his big song. I am excited because you
know his manager's Kentucky fan, and he's playing nineties country,
So we'll see him Sunday night at CMA Fest.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Do you like this guy?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I mean I don't know a whole lot about him,
but much.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
You can hear how he sounds like he'd be from
the night.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, right, yeah, I like this style better than what
was it Chase McDaniel's listening earlier?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Yeah, turned out you can totally hear that coming on
in nineties country radio.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Oh, no doubt, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
That's why I like him. So I'm looking forward to
seeing him in person. I just sent you somebody sent
me Morehead States baseball field.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
That's wild, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
That field you sent us is Morehead State?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
That's what they said. Is that not Morehead States baseball field?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I've played there?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Did it look like that?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
No? I don't remember looking like that.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
What does it say on there? It says Allen Field?
Is that the name of their field?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
I hope so?
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Or else?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
This person?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
It's like it has a big, huge left field right, Yeah,
Like the left field looks like center field and other stadiums,
but even farther like you couldn't hit a home run
to that left.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Field oblong and left center and right field.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I bet the wall is like really tall, like it's short,
but I bet it's short from home plate. I bet
it's tall, goes up.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
It is weird though, also in baseball, it's the only
sport where the stadiums, like the dimensions are not the same.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Like in basketball.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
They don't have sub courts that are just like, you know,
ten feet longer for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, only the distance from you know, base to base
and the mound to the home plate. The rest of
it could be anything, but the home runs, right, it
could be anything.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Are completely different depending on where you play. That's kind
of strange.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
And I think it just Clipson. Last week Kentucky was there,
they had like a little hill that went up toward
the fence, like on around the Athelet have that.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Or teams have like a little hill that, yeah, that
goes up to center field. So uh, one person writes
in the text machine, Matt, do you think there's anything
at all that can be done to make the UK
football fan base excited about the season. You know, I've
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tried to think about that recently because I want to
play my role too to not just be an arbiter
of doom and gloom.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
But Ryan, I don't know, I.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I is there anything Let's say you were in charge
of pr at UK, your job was fan engagement at UK.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Is there anything you think they can do before.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
The Toledo game to get people more on board?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I think one thing I would have Calzada do some
meet and greets or come on here with us. You'll
get to know who our quarterback is, the new running back,
and we won't anything about him from Nebraska. I think
we got to get him out there and let him
meet and greets with some people.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Dal Is that his name?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
I don't even know his name. I think that's right.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
It's a bad side if we don't know his name, Shannon,
I think it's I think it's Dal.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
But go ahead, and.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
You know, we've got a couple guys that are coming
back and we need to maybe put them out there.
You know, Ty Bryant's already been on the show. Jordan
love It. Think both our safeties.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Are bad besides going on the radios, like just a
bigger picture thing, what can they do?
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Like, what can they do?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What can Mark Stoops in the If you're trying to
get this fan base excited. Is there anything they can do.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Put together a really good hype video and put it
out there on social media and get people hyped up.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
What worries me is when kas Are the website puts
any football content at all, out anything, just go look
at the comments. It is overwhelming negativity. And I don't
know how you get off as that. I mean just
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on a personal level, as I try to think about
the content I'm gonna do. You go to July and August,
we usually get into football mode, and as a content producer,
I'm trying to figure out if we can do.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
That this year because I don't I.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Want people to still listen during July and August. And
I just don't know. I don't know what they can do.
I really don't. I think they're in this weird spot
where there's not gonna be anything anybody believes until the
season starts.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Ryan, I just I don't know what.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
They can do. Yeah, you know, Mario and these guys
can put out in video after video after video, but
until they go out and beat somebody.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
But if people don't care, they don't care.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You know, you gotta make them care, though, If you
gotta make you know, you gotta go out and win
against Ole Miss.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
So that's what it may be the case, maybe the case.
There's nothing they can do until the season starts.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
And I'm telling you man that that first game they
can't afford to lose. But they've got to play well
against Toledo before they limp into the Mole Miss game.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I think that's a big reason why it's been so
quiet in the offseason too. I think they I think
steps for a loss is that you think they go
out and when people will start carrying, Yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
We'll find out who's next. Ryan, Ryan, go ahead, Ryan.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Hey, Matt, gentlemen, first time, long time, what.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (21:20):
Two quick points. So, first off, Peddy crime punishment, and
I think it'd be easily enforced because it doesn't happen
often when a gas station is really crowded and people
are stacked up at the pumps and then people pumping
then go on in and get their big gulp or
be with.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
You the I mean, I'm not I'm gonna let you finish.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But the gas station at exit twenty eight uh in
Shepherdsville and then in Wadie forty three, they're very guilty
of that because there's a lot of people that stop
there because that's the cheaper gas.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
And people do that.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
They they pumping and they go in and I do
that too, but not at a crowded station. When you
do it at a crowded state, and I agree that
should be at least one to three.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Years exactly, and then the cops just waiting there to
cuff them when they come back out.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Exactly right. That'll learn them, all right.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Second point, I want to follow up. You're talking about
school funding yesterday. You are correct where school disc and
I worked for a local central Kentucky school district, not
Fayette County. Yes, we got a lot of funding from
federal government through COVID, but districts were advised like just
to do one time expenses, not reoccurring, and most adhere
to that. What we're dealing with now coming out of
(22:31):
COVID is just like everything else, the expenses and everything
I've gone up, most particularly staffing, so you know, our
pay scales have had to go up across the board, teachers,
classified staff, and it's really just hard to keep up.
So that's a big piece of it, and as well
as everything else just going up in costs.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
So I just want to make understand that I totally
get that, and I'm not blaming it all on COVID,
but there are particular circumstances, and at least from what
i've I think Fayette County is one of these circumstances
where they specifically did not do a good job playing
in that the COVID money wasn't gonna continue.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
But yes, they're at it costs.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
If this budget bill passes, there's going to be cuts
to local school districts that's gonna hurt. There's a lot
of there's a lot of issues, but I do think
some of these places screwed up on the COVID money stuff.
And even though I'm as pro public education as anybody
in the state, they're having to pay the piper now,
and unfortunately the taxpayers are the ones doing it.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
We'll be right back. TJ.
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Speaker 5 (23:43):
This is a good sort of deep cut Metallica song.
Isn't it king Nothing?
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yeah? Is that right?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I think it was off the load when they cut
their hair.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Look at this, see I know a little metallic. I'm
then Reload.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, I liked them better when they cut their hair,
like everything after that, did you?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I kind of like the Load album. It was my
favorite one.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Load album I enjoy that came out when we were
in college. I think that's probably why I like it.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, school always liked the music that came out when
they were in college. It's like if you if you
go through history and you ask people, what's your favorite
what do you think the best music was? Almost everyone
is gonna pick music that was popular when they were
in high.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
School or yes, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
That's what they're gonna pick. So for I bet you Ryan,
your favorite music is when you were in high school
or in college.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
From the eighties, no doubt about it for sure.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Yeah, and for us Shandies like nineties because that's when
I was in high school and when I was in college.
Get it first, that's when you get into it, and
that's when music seems to like matter a lot, you know,
because you're you're like living it in that moment. Some
other sports, by the way, they don't have the same dimensions.
Good point. I hadn't thought.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
About auto racing, right, Yes, different, I.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Didn't think about this shit in golf.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
So I guess that's I guess that's true.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
What person says, Matt, I don't think there's anything that
could get my friends to care about UK football this year.
I'm having a hard time getting them to even go
to the first three games, and we used to make
it a weekend trip with all my college buddies. I
hope it gets better when it gets closer, but I
haven't seen it like this in a long time.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Yeah, there's a lot of people. There's a lot of
people like.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
That I know, and you know that's why. Earlier this
week I said, I heard some good news about the
offensive line, that the line's gonna be much better this
year with the guys they've got. So maybe that's the
start of maybe trying to build some excitement that way.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
What person rates, Matt, I feel like you do a
good job explaining things on issues without your liberal bias.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
That's not very nice shit. I'm saying, I have a
liberal bias.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Without your liberal bias. Can you explain what the debate
is on Trump's big beautiful bill? First of all, let
him let me give him credit Shandon for calling it
a big beautiful bill.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
That sounds like something you would love, right, something it does.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
He's got a big beautiful bill, so we'll make it quick.
I think when people think about how we pass laws, Ryan,
don't they think, Okay, you have an idea I want
to do X.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Let's say I want to make it to where it's
illegal to cut.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Lanes at McDonald's right, you would make a bill and
then if everybody votes for it, it would pass.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Correct. When you think that's how you do.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
It, I would think that's exactly how you do it.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
That's really not how we do it anymore. In America.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
We basically pass most of our laws now in one
bill called the budget bill.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
And why do we do that?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Because in every other bill you have to get past
a Senate filibuster?
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Ryan, what's a filibuster?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
They talk and talk and talk and talk and talk.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
That's sort of true, that's sort of true.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
But basically the way our suggust government is set up
now is to for a bill to pass the spit Senate,
it has to get sixty votes. Why because if they don't,
it's a filibuster. So basically, not only do you have
to get more than a majority, Ryan, you have to
get sixty votes.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Did you know that?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Didn't know that?
Speaker 5 (27:16):
So most bills, the vast majority of bills don't get
passed because they don't get sixty votes, because you have
to get.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
People on the other side to agree with you to
get past the sixty votes. So how does stuff get passed?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Well, the only kind of bill that doesn't require sixty
votes is the budget.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Why, I have no idea, that's just what the rules are.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
They've just made it historically that the budget is the
only kind of.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Bill that doesn't require sixty votes.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
So, Ryan, they have an incentive for everything they want
to get in without getting sixty votes, throw it in
the budget.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
Does that make sense, Yes.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Because it's the only bill that only takes fifty votes.
So every party when they're in throws everything they want
to do that they don't think will be popular, and
they throw it into the budget. And that's why the
bill ends up huge. You know how you've seen over
the year, Shan and how bills will be like six
hundred pages long. Yep, it's because they're throwing it all
(28:16):
in the budget because it's the only thing that takes
fifty votes. And over the years it's made a lot
of politicians. Mad Ram Paul's been the biggest one about it.
He's always like, let's vote on each of these things separately.
And when Democrats are in charge, they go, Nope, we
need to put it all.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Together, and the Republicans complain.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
And then when the Republicans are in charge, they say,
let's put it all together, and then the Democrats complain
and it's all and ram Paul, to his credit, will
always say, why do we keep doing this because they
sneak stuff in.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
So Trump has rebranded it the Big Beautiful Bill, but
it's really the same thing everybody's always done, which is
cram everything unpopular into one bill because it doesn't take
a majority. I hate it. It's why Washington kind of stinks.
And this debate we're having is this year. But really
the problem is that we cram everything into one bill
(29:10):
and most of these people don't even read it.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
I don't know if you saw.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Marjorie Taylor Green tweeted out yesterday, Sorry I didn't even
read this.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
When I voted on it. My bad.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
That's not how it should bess.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, at least she was honest about it. She acknowledged
she had not read.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
It, because how can they.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
They give it to them three hours before the vote,
and it's six hundred pages. There's no way they can
read that even if they wanted to. So I hate it,
but it's unfortunately, Ryan, the way things are.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
You've talked to this before. How they slide something in
the budget bills.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Sometimes they'll put things in the budget bill that only
one person put in.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Only one person.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
They'll just throw in there, Oh, by the way, give
my district forty million dollars to set up. But Shannon,
the dude skate park. Just do it and no one
even knows it's in there, but they do it. And
this happens every time, and at some point somebody's got
to say, we have to stop doing this. Who's up next, Kyle, Kyle?
(30:14):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Kyle?
Speaker 11 (30:16):
Hey, Shannon, thanks for the Billy Corgan call back there earlier. Yes,
the uh, let's talk about Cardinals Stadium when the Red
Birds are there. That was a crazy stadium, a short
right field, super long left field. Because of being a
football stadium, that center field is about the same length
as left field. So a lot of those stadiums like
that that they're retrofitive football.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Stadium or had State one looked like, wasn't it Ryan?
It had that big, huge left field like it was
a football field.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
You could see there where a football field could definitely you.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Can see what Yeah, that's probably that's kind of it
was probably shaped the same way.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
What else?
Speaker 11 (30:49):
Yeah, Well, the last thing, you know, I'm enjoying your ESPN.
I like ESPN Matt almost like Ambi mag a whole
different person sometimes. But my question for I asked Evan Wendsey,
how have the suits handle you? I mean, you've ripped
on Indiana for two straight weeks. I love it, but
there's gotta be some retribution, you know, something coming back
to you. I'm talking bad about those people.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
They don't ever say anything to me.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I think, uh, I think I fly under the radar
for everybody except radio. I think most people at ESPN,
to be quite frank with, you don't even know who
I am. My radio boss has listened to everything. But
ESPN's changed a lot since I've been there. You know,
now with Pat McAfee and some of these guys, they're
(31:34):
encouraging people to sort of be who they are.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
I'm glad. I think they should do that.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
That wasn't how it was when I started, but I
think they kind of like it, at least that's what
they tell me.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
So you know, it's been fine.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
The only feedback I ever get is sometimes they will
say to me, Matt, don't admit on the air you
don't know anything about sports, because I do.
Speaker 11 (32:01):
That humanizes you.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
See, I agree with you. I think it's actually good
to do that.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Sometimes they wish I wouldn't do that, But to ESPN's credit,
I've been there seven and a half years. I told
them like three years ago, I can't keep doing this
unless you just let me be myself, and they said,
all right, have at it. And since then, actually my
stock has kind of risen in the company. So I'm
glad mac. I'm not a huge fan of McAfee, but
(32:27):
he has made it to where all of us are
able to do that more, and so I'm glad.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
Well in the Wildcat talking these interviews the last two
it has been great. It's gonna make for a great
summer to get you to interview all these former Wildcats
on national radio. So keep it up.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Man, It's amazing that they let me do that, right,
And I appreciate the call, Ryan, they let me interview
Kentucky guys about Kentucky on national radio.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Well, you've had some good ones to start with, ed Travis,
Jamal McLure, John Wall. Mean, those are good with people
that are still interested to see what they're up to.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Now these days we should note and Ryan, you could
speak to this more than me. Travis Ford's father passed away, Eddie.
I know you know more about him, so I'll let
you speak to that.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Eddie Ford was the godfather of basketball in Western Kentucky.
I mean, he had this AAU program and if you
were any type of player at all, you played under
Eddie Ford's umbrella for AAU basketball. He was just a
super guy. Everybody liked him. One of those guys you
won't hear anybody's thinking bad about him. I kind of
broke my heart saw that he had passed. Travis put
out some really nice posts about how he was more
(33:29):
than just a father. He was his coach. You know,
played for him in Madisonville. So kind of sad to
see they had passed.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Yeah, rest in peace to Eddie Ford.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I mean literally, if you're in Western Kentucky and you
played basketball, you probably had some interaction with him. Yeah,
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He had because it was it was, it was, it
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He was.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
He never contemplated the words that were coming out of
his mouth. That's what you get right there with your
Ryan Levon Reed. Who's up next, Johnny? Go ahead, Johnny.
Speaker 12 (36:24):
Hey guys, I'm actually a more Head State alum. So
I've got a comment about the field.
Speaker 10 (36:30):
The reason, so, is it what I look like?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
It's got a huge left field? Is that what it is?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Or right field?
Speaker 12 (36:37):
Right field got a huge wall. It's really short because
there is an endangered species of salamander that lives in
the tree line behind right field and they cannot disrupt
it all right.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Stop you say there's an endangered species of salamander in Morehead.
Speaker 12 (36:57):
Yeah, that's what was always told whenever I went to
school there there's an endangered species of salamander that lives
in the tree line behind the right field, and that's
why the field is shaped like that.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Do you believe that, Shad? Do you believe that they're
they're all right? So let me ask you a question
before we get to the rest. What is a salamander?
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Like? What is it? Do you know what a salamander?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Lizard family?
Speaker 12 (37:22):
Yeah, it's an amphibian.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
Okay, So it's a lizard.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
And you're saying they have there's a kind of lizard
that is only in more Head.
Speaker 12 (37:33):
I don't know if it's only in more Head and
it's not a lizard. They're amphibians. They look like lizards.
But I guess it's it's just an endangered species that
can't be disrupted, so that the habitat cannot be disrupted.
That's why they couldn't make the field bigger than what
it is.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Okay, all right, let's just because because I mean, there's
a right answer to this question.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
And you may be right, sir Shannon.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Do we believe that's true or it was a falsehood
just told the Moorhead Stable.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I think that's something they just told everybody and people
believed it. I don't believe this.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
You're throwing the challenge flag, Ryan, do you believe it
or not?
Speaker 6 (38:10):
I don't believe it. I think you hit on it earlier.
Probably it was built around the football original football stadium,
and that's why I was built that way. I don't
know about the salamander story.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
See, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw the challenge flag as well.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
I think that people have said that over the years,
but I have a hard time believe it that the
city of Moorhead has a kind of salamander that is
on the endangered species list and that prevents a football state.
That's just my excuse me, a change in the in
the in the baseball stable. You may be right, sir,
and I'm sure I'll get a correct answer by tomorrow
(38:42):
and we'll let you.
Speaker 12 (38:42):
Know that's fair. I got a Kentucky football.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
Question for you, okay.
Speaker 12 (38:51):
So I think it would be silly to go four
and eight with a seventh year starter at quarterback. If
that's how bad do you think the season has to
go before they throw Bowlie out there?
Speaker 7 (39:01):
Because that's a great point. It's a great, really great point. Yeah,
that's a great point. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
I appreciate the call. I hadn't thought of that, Ryan,
but that's a good point. I mean, if you're gonna
go four and eight, you might as well play the
young guy some do you think you think that's true.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
I think if you start struggling, you've got to look
ahead of the future. And you know everything I've heard.
Cutter had a great offseason, worked hard in the in
the film room, had a good spring, so he's he's
poisoning ready to maybe step up and get some playing
time this year.
Speaker 7 (39:32):
Might be an interesting way to look at those first
few games.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Yes, I hadn't really thought of it like that, but
you probably bring in the seventh year guy, kind of
like Menji One did two years ago where he said
I'm bringing in all these fifty year seniors because I
gotta save the program, and then he did. That's probably
why you bring in a seventh year starter. But if
it doesn't look like that's gonna work, then you maybe
(39:55):
go to the young guy. It's a good point. Who's next?
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Shane from Grayson.
Speaker 7 (39:59):
Shane go ahead?
Speaker 13 (40:00):
Shape, Hey, Hell, it's it going today? Fethers?
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Good? What's up?
Speaker 11 (40:05):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (40:06):
Hey?
Speaker 13 (40:06):
M I ask anything Wednesday question? I want to ask
going off the wall here, what would you do rather
be the first person to ever meet a legit alienation
like lands in your parking lot to hear the first
person ever meet them? Or would you be the person
to discover the cure for all cancers? Which one you're giving? Thanks?
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Wow, that's a really interesting question. I actually like that question. Chan.
You said it's easy. What do you pick?
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Curing cancer? You could save?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Like, I don't know how many people die of cancer
every year, but I would say tens of thousands, if
not hundreds of thousands of people. Why would you not
want to be the person to discover the cure for cancer?
Speaker 7 (40:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I mean if you're talking about what's best for humanity,
then there's no doubt you'd want to cure cancer. I
mean cancer. Curing cancer would be like literally discovering penicillin
in terms of its effect on humanity. Who discovered penicillin?
Was it, uh, Currie who discovered penacillin?
Speaker 4 (41:11):
I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
Something we knew in school we can't think of now,
isn't it? Isn't it?
Speaker 7 (41:17):
Currie? Isn't sure?
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Sure? Go with it?
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Well, I'm just saying, in terms of your name being No,
I was My point was gonna be your name would
be known forever, but it may not.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Be Alexander Fleming.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
Oh yeah, I wouldn't have known that.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Okay, so never mind about Alexander Fleming. The point is
you would save it would it would completely change humanity?
So you want to pick that, But Ryan, it would
also be kind of cool to be Since I don't
believe aliens exist, it would be kind of cool if
they did, to be the first one to meet.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
I feel like we've probably already met a few aliens,
we just don't even know it. So I'm going with
the cancer solution. Definitely want to do that. You all
are crazy about that.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
I feel like Alexander Fleming and it should be better. No,
should be.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
More well known, have some statues or something so we
know who he is. At least you said Curry and
I didn't have a clue.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
I thought that was Marie Currie. Well, what did she do?
Because she did something?
Speaker 6 (42:19):
She did do something doesn't play for the Golden State Warriors, right, No.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
Don't try to be funny. What did she what did
she look her up?
Speaker 4 (42:29):
I don't know what is it? Marie Curing? I never
heard of that person either well what never?
Speaker 5 (42:35):
Yeah, all right, Well that's a good way to end
the show, is with this really the great information about penicillin,
Alexander Fleming. We should know more about one hundred year
anniversary of discovering it coming up. We will be back tomorrow.
I'll be back in Lexington. Enjoy this beautiful day. This
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Friday though, just as you get back.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Perfect right now, that's what we want. We're in Summerset
on Friday, right.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
What's the is it? What is it?
Speaker 6 (01:28):
The victory h the Virginia, Virginia.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Okay, it's not the victory in Jesus Theater, which is
what I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
No, the Virginia.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
That's a little different than the victory in Jesus. It's
a great hymn, though, victory in Jesus My Savior Forever.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Where is the Virginia, Somerset?
Speaker 7 (01:47):
Okay? I understand that, But what is is it a theater?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
It's yeah, because Shannon the Dude Allas Blue gowns for
performing there Friday night, same place.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
So we are at the Virginia from ten to twelve
in Sumrset on Friday. Love to see everybody there in Somerset.
Friday always been one of our maybe one of the
stops we go at the most on the road is summerset,
so we will see you on Friday. Timberonece Ryan means
sharks in Spanish. That's the name of the team. Okay,
(02:18):
so one person says, map it was ah it was
his daughter that got hit, not a son, and it
was a boy that hit the girl when they were playing.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Does that change your mind at all? No?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
No, still no.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
First of all, there is no excuse ever for hitting
a kid or for hitting a woman.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Period.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You're not gonna get an excuse from me. There's no excuse. Like,
you know, if you're a man, you do not hit
a kid, you do not hit a woman. You shouldn't
hit anybody, but you certainly shouldn't hit a kid, and
he certainly shouldn't hit a woman. Apparently this guy was
having his daughter play on the boys team, probably to
make her, you know, against harder competition. Okay, that's fine,
(03:07):
I got no problem with that. But then, like if
she's playing against the boys, like she's playing against the boys,
like she's making the decision that she's gonna play in
this pizzic, or you're you're making the decision for her
that you're gonna be playing in this more physical game,
and that doesn't.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Mean you can go hit people, Okay, I mean you can't.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
When you make a decision for your daughter to play
with the boys, it's gonna be rougher and she is
gonna they're gonna treat her, hopefully like they treat the
other boys. But even if they don't, they can take
it out of them. They can punish the kid. But
you can't be the one ryan to go hit a kid.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
You just can't.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
No, you can complain to the official and you know,
call for a foul, which it looks like they did,
but then you can't take it out on a twelve
year old kid, regardless of what the situation is. It's
just inexcuseable.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm apparently it's the the least people are saying
she allegedly it's the director of the team.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well that makes it almost even worse.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No, I mean, it's not the kid's fault. Correct that
it's not the kid's fault. So like I wouldn't suspend
the team, but I'd say you gotta get away suspend
him or I don't know that they own it or
they run it or whatever, but like he can't be
in charge anymore.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
But no, I mean, you don't suspend the whole team.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It's not the you know, it's not the It's like
when when kids parents do something wrong, it's not the
kid's fault that the parents act a fool, it's the
it's the you know, it's the parent's fault. All Right,
A couple of things. First of all, Shannon, I just
I'm not gonna dwell on this, but I want the
record to show I.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Was right about something.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Okay, what did I say the moment Elon started working
for Trump?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
What did I say?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You said, eventually he's gonna turn on Trump and they're
gonna disagree.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
It's never gonna work. And I say that two egos
that big, no way, no way. And just for the record,
what's happened. He's already out now, he's criticizing. I told you, Shannon,
did I called this moment one?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You did?
Speaker 5 (05:10):
You get It's like when the mega powers exploded in wrestling.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
They can only co exist for so long.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
You cannot have Hulk Hogan and watch a Man together forever.
At some point the egos explode, and I feel like
Ryan I should get a check mark for that.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Correct they made it, what five four and five months,
a lot longer. I thought that most people thought they
would make it.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I said that he'd be out by July first, and
it was getting close, Shannon, but it happened. We got there,
and uh so that's one point team team, Matthew Harper. Second,
I'm still giving up on the Reds, Ryne, but that
was an awesome win last night.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
The way they.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Won't Yeah, there's the one thing to say about the Reds.
They do provide you with a lot of exciting moments.
They can't maybe win the game, they do provide exciting
moment with Eli doing stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Did you see the ninth and it was classic Reds. Okay,
we're up four to two, two outs, Ellie. All he
has to do is throw it first, that's it, game over,
and he throws it away error.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
So now there's a guy on games should be over?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Should be over?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
And then the Brewers dude hits a shot deep center field,
like the deepest part of the park. And when he
hits it, Ryan the announcer has in his voice, oh no,
oh no, oh no. And then Freedo gets over the
wall and grabs it. I'm gonna go ahead, and tell
you had that been a home run, I was gonna
(06:41):
have to take about a two week Reds break and
literally not watch another day if they had blown it
with that air and then the home run. But he
caught it and I'm still out on him. But it
was an exciting way, probably the best moment of the
year so far for the Rents.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah, the you know, the baseball guys often will punish
some but after an air like that, that's why I've
shot it. Ball didn't wasn't a home run anyplace else
in the ballpark at the home run that's the one spot.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
By the way, in baseball? I want to ask you
too that I've often wondered this. Why center field deeper
than right and left field? What is the rationale?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I don't really have an answer.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I'm just trying to fit. Like, think, if center field
were as short as left and right field, But why
isn't it it would be like it wouldn't be like
the shape of it would have to be completely different.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, but the shape they chose is completely random. They
could have chosen a different shapes.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Just a more rounded shape.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But why, I mean why, what is the logic for
it's a home run three hundred and fifty feet, right,
but it takes it four hundred feet in center?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Really, I'm not really sure there's logic behind it.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Shouldn't there be logic? So sports?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I mean, in other ballparks it is like that. I
mean there's no one, you know, way.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Every ballpark then, I know of center field is longer
than left and right field. Oh yes, it's obviously different
distances depending on the field you choose, But what was
the reason why center field was always longer? Like, why
isn't it three hundred and fifty If you decide to
make a home run in your stadium three hundred fifty feet,
Why wouldn't it be like that everywhere?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
It's a fair question.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I mean there are because in basketball the three point
line is different, but it's because the court's not big enough, right,
And if presumably if they had made a bigger court,
they wouldn't have said the corner three is shorter. They
have to do it because the court is too big
because they made the court before we had three point lines.
But I've never understood why in baseball center field is
(08:41):
I mean, everybody just accepts that center field is farther.
But I've never understood why.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
No, that's why they call it a diamond. I guess
it's you know, it's diamond shaped.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
So but now the diamond is the infield is far
of a circle. It's not a it's not a diamond,
it's a it's a the baseball diamond is the infield.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I thought it was the whole field. Well, either way,
I don't know why exactly it is.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
But you know, you know there are a little league
fields where the fits is two hundred feet all the
way around two hundred that's that's the That's.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
That to me would seem more logical. Anyway. I'm glad
because of last sight.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
But I've just also well, if you hit it to
center field, presumably you've hit it with perfect timing, right,
because when you hit it to left or right, you've
either hit it early or late. But if you hit
it dead straight, presumably that's the best timing you could get.
So why do we make it the farthest away?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
All right? So here's an answer. I'll just read what
the say.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Was it that center field and baseball is typically deeper
than other outfield positions because it covers the largest area.
This is due to the shape of the baseball field
and the need to have all positions cover equal amounts
of ground. Centerfield's depth is also influenced by factors like
altitude and the historic constraints of building ballparks within city blocks.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Okay, the first part of that definition is the definition
is just defining what it says. It's farther because it's farther.
The second part is city blocks. I don't really know
why that would what that why that would change anything,
but okay, that does. That still doesn't totally answer the
question to me. But either way it is, and that's
ultimately why the Reds won the game.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Who's up next?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Shit, let's go to Madison.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Madison, Go ahead, Madison to ask anything. Eighty seven.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
I got two things for you. One I'm basketball, one
I'm football.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Okay, when do.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
You think I know, we've announced a couple of non
conference games in basketball, But when do you think we'll
get another announcement? Because I know there's not very.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Man, I don't know when we'll get the other announcement.
I would say, usually, Ryan, by mid June, you have
the whole schedule, right, isn't that about.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Some we do usually definitely a summer thing that it
comes out in the summer, for sure.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yeah, I think it's usually around mid June. We have
most of the games, I mean not there's I think,
what who are the bad teams we play? We play
bellor Men Ryan. Don't we play what Tennessee Tech or
something like that?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I think that's right, that sounds right.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I can't remember we have I think we have most
of them, but there's like two or three that haven't
been announced.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
So we have close to the schedule.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
At this point, we still don't know the ACC team
we play yet, although a lot of the rumors have
been in c State who now looks like they'll be
a top twenty five team, but Madison, it'll be sometime
in mid June.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
What's your second question?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
And then the second one is they recently released the
line for the first football game against Toledo twelve and
hats Do y'all think that's too high? What Chelsea pain?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I mean it should be and I appreciate the call.
It should be too low, right, I mean twelve against
the team. If we're gonna playing the SEC, we need
to be a lot more of a favorite than twelve
and a half. With that said, I can't say it
feels too low considering the team we have. Toledo's the
favorite in the MAC, et cetera, but on paper we
should not be only a twelve and a half point
(12:14):
favorite to any team in the MAC.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
And I wonder if that the fact that even though
Kentucky's been favored by seventeen twenty twenty one, they don't
they don't cover these games in the first game of
the season. I think they're historically stoopidest teams have not covered,
So I don't know, maybe that's playing into it a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what made me
think of this. But you know who I walked past
yesterday on the street, Shannon, while walking down the road
is Bill Burr. Yeah, I just he's in a play here,
I think, and he just walks down. And what's crazy
about New York is a dude like Bill Burr walks
down the street and no one said like, no one
acts like it.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Uh huh did you say anything to it?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Brother?
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I did not get him.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
I don't want to get him angry at me.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
But you know, if Bill Burr were to walk the
street in Lexington, people be like, oh, there's Bill Burr.
But in New York, it's like it's people just feel
like it's cool to not act like they're there. And
I'm kind of looking around, like going hereybody's you see
that's Bill Burr and like nobody seems to care shit.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, well yeah, you know, I've been in New York
several times. I guess I've never seen anybody famous or
didn't recognize it when you're.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Close to that the thirty Rock where that's where because
they all go in there to do Say're Not Live
or the Tonight Show or.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So he's just walking down the street. He doesn't have
an authorage or nobody.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Like by himself, by himself walking down the street.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So at what level do you have to get to
in New York of like celebrity to where you you
can't do that?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
You know, I think a.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Lot of those dudes pride themselves on just trying to
live normal lives. When I was working on my book,
I worked on it at Simon and Schuster. You remember
I when Mitch got me kicked off the radio. I
came to New York and I wrote the book for
like two months, and I would work out of the
Simon and Schuster building which is in thirty Rock, and
(14:02):
so I would walk around to eat lunch and stuff,
and I saw a ton of people. I saw all
the people at the time that were on Saturday Night Live.
But then like the guy, who's the guy that voiceover
voiceovers hard knocks?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
What's his name? Liam? Do you don't talk about the
guy who's like, I.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Don't know his name, can't think of his name, Shrieber, Shreiber,
You would recognize him anyway? Point as I saw that
guy and it's you're saying, and they just walk by
themselves like it's nothing, you know, which I think it's
kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
It is if you can slide under the radar. But
you know, if you got people bothering you, then.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Then that wouldn't be Who's next. Let's go to Andrew, Andrew,
go ahead, Andrew, Hey.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
So three points real quick. I'm disappointed about my Knicks
losing the conference finals. I'm like for UK football to
be eight and four and be whatever bowl game used
to be called the Outback Bowl in Tampa Bay, And
then how about UK Saint John's and artisas all in
the file four next year and get to you a
howl again there boy whoo.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
No on Arkansas in the final four. I do think
it would be fun to have Saint John's there with us.
I'd love for us to go eight and four. Don't
know if that's gonna happen. And the Knicks, well, we'll
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We'll take a break, be right BACKTNA take you sports radio.
So this is who I'm gonna see. This is Zach
top Shannon. We've played him before, this playing Sunny Night.
This is his big song. I am excited because you
know his manager's Kentucky fan, and he's playing nineties country,
So we'll see him Sunday night at CMA Fest.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Do you like this guy?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I mean I don't know a whole lot about him,
but much.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
You can hear how he sounds like he'd be from
the night.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, right, yeah, I like this style better than what
was it Chase McDaniel's listening earlier?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Yeah, turned out you can totally hear that coming on
in nineties country radio.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Oh, no doubt, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
That's why I like him. So I'm looking forward to
seeing him in person. I just sent you somebody sent
me Morehead States baseball field.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
That's wild, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
That field you sent us is Morehead State?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
That's what they said. Is that not Morehead States baseball field?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I've played there?
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Did it look like that?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
No? I don't remember looking like that.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
What does it say on there? It says Allen Field?
Is that the name of their field?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
I hope so?
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Or else?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
This person?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
It's like it has a big, huge left field right, Yeah,
Like the left field looks like center field and other stadiums,
but even farther like you couldn't hit a home run
to that left.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Field oblong and left center and right field.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I bet the wall is like really tall, like it's short,
but I bet it's short from home plate. I bet
it's tall, goes up.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
It is weird though, also in baseball, it's the only
sport where the stadiums, like the dimensions are not the same.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Like in basketball.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
They don't have sub courts that are just like, you know,
ten feet longer for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, only the distance from you know, base to base
and the mound to the home plate. The rest of
it could be anything, but the home runs, right, it
could be anything.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Are completely different depending on where you play. That's kind
of strange.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
And I think it just Clipson. Last week Kentucky was there,
they had like a little hill that went up toward
the fence, like on around the Athelet have that.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Or teams have like a little hill that, yeah, that
goes up to center field. So uh, one person writes
in the text machine, Matt, do you think there's anything
at all that can be done to make the UK
football fan base excited about the season. You know, I've
(18:22):
tried to think about that recently because I want to
play my role too to not just be an arbiter
of doom and gloom.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
But Ryan, I don't know, I.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
I is there anything Let's say you were in charge
of pr at UK, your job was fan engagement at UK.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Is there anything you think they can do before.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
The Toledo game to get people more on board?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I think one thing I would have Calzada do some
meet and greets or come on here with us. You'll
get to know who our quarterback is, the new running back,
and we won't anything about him from Nebraska. I think
we got to get him out there and let him
meet and greets with some people.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Dal Is that his name?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
I don't even know his name. I think that's right.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
It's a bad side if we don't know his name, Shannon,
I think it's I think it's Dal.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
But go ahead, and.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
You know, we've got a couple guys that are coming
back and we need to maybe put them out there.
You know, Ty Bryant's already been on the show. Jordan
love It. Think both our safeties.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Are bad besides going on the radios, like just a
bigger picture thing, what can they do?
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Like, what can they do?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What can Mark Stoops in the If you're trying to
get this fan base excited. Is there anything they can do.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Put together a really good hype video and put it
out there on social media and get people hyped up.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
What worries me is when kas Are the website puts
any football content at all, out anything, just go look
at the comments. It is overwhelming negativity. And I don't
know how you get off as that. I mean just
(20:02):
on a personal level, as I try to think about
the content I'm gonna do. You go to July and August,
we usually get into football mode, and as a content producer,
I'm trying to figure out if we can do.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
That this year because I don't I.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Want people to still listen during July and August. And
I just don't know. I don't know what they can do.
I really don't. I think they're in this weird spot
where there's not gonna be anything anybody believes until the
season starts.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Ryan, I just I don't know what.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
They can do. Yeah, you know, Mario and these guys
can put out in video after video after video, but
until they go out and beat somebody.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
But if people don't care, they don't care.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You know, you gotta make them care, though, If you
gotta make you know, you gotta go out and win
against Ole Miss.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
So that's what it may be the case, maybe the case.
There's nothing they can do until the season starts.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
And I'm telling you man that that first game they
can't afford to lose. But they've got to play well
against Toledo before they limp into the Mole Miss game.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I think that's a big reason why it's been so
quiet in the offseason too. I think they I think
steps for a loss is that you think they go
out and when people will start carrying, Yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
We'll find out who's next. Ryan, Ryan, go ahead, Ryan.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Hey, Matt, gentlemen, first time, long time, what.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (21:20):
Two quick points. So, first off, Peddy crime punishment, and
I think it'd be easily enforced because it doesn't happen
often when a gas station is really crowded and people
are stacked up at the pumps and then people pumping
then go on in and get their big gulp or
be with.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
You the I mean, I'm not I'm gonna let you finish.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But the gas station at exit twenty eight uh in
Shepherdsville and then in Wadie forty three, they're very guilty
of that because there's a lot of people that stop
there because that's the cheaper gas.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
And people do that.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
They they pumping and they go in and I do
that too, but not at a crowded station. When you
do it at a crowded state, and I agree that
should be at least one to three.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Years exactly, and then the cops just waiting there to
cuff them when they come back out.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Exactly right. That'll learn them, all right.
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Second point, I want to follow up. You're talking about
school funding yesterday. You are correct where school disc and
I worked for a local central Kentucky school district, not
Fayette County. Yes, we got a lot of funding from
federal government through COVID, but districts were advised like just
to do one time expenses, not reoccurring, and most adhere
to that. What we're dealing with now coming out of
(22:31):
COVID is just like everything else, the expenses and everything
I've gone up, most particularly staffing, so you know, our
pay scales have had to go up across the board, teachers,
classified staff, and it's really just hard to keep up.
So that's a big piece of it, and as well
as everything else just going up in costs.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
So I just want to make understand that I totally
get that, and I'm not blaming it all on COVID,
but there are particular circumstances, and at least from what
i've I think Fayette County is one of these circumstances
where they specifically did not do a good job playing
in that the COVID money wasn't gonna continue.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
But yes, they're at it costs.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
If this budget bill passes, there's going to be cuts
to local school districts that's gonna hurt. There's a lot
of there's a lot of issues, but I do think
some of these places screwed up on the COVID money stuff.
And even though I'm as pro public education as anybody
in the state, they're having to pay the piper now,
and unfortunately the taxpayers are the ones doing it.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
We'll be right back. TJ.
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Speaker 5 (23:43):
This is a good sort of deep cut Metallica song.
Isn't it king Nothing?
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yeah? Is that right?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I think it was off the load when they cut
their hair.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Look at this, see I know a little metallic. I'm
then Reload.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, I liked them better when they cut their hair,
like everything after that, did you?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I kind of like the Load album. It was my
favorite one.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Load album I enjoy that came out when we were
in college. I think that's probably why I like it.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, school always liked the music that came out when
they were in college. It's like if you if you
go through history and you ask people, what's your favorite
what do you think the best music was? Almost everyone
is gonna pick music that was popular when they were
in high.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
School or yes, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
That's what they're gonna pick. So for I bet you Ryan,
your favorite music is when you were in high school
or in college.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
From the eighties, no doubt about it for sure.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Yeah, and for us Shandies like nineties because that's when
I was in high school and when I was in college.
Get it first, that's when you get into it, and
that's when music seems to like matter a lot, you know,
because you're you're like living it in that moment. Some
other sports, by the way, they don't have the same dimensions.
Good point. I hadn't thought.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
About auto racing, right, Yes, different, I.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Didn't think about this shit in golf.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
So I guess that's I guess that's true.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
What person says, Matt, I don't think there's anything that
could get my friends to care about UK football this year.
I'm having a hard time getting them to even go
to the first three games, and we used to make
it a weekend trip with all my college buddies. I
hope it gets better when it gets closer, but I
haven't seen it like this in a long time.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Yeah, there's a lot of people. There's a lot of
people like.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
That I know, and you know that's why. Earlier this
week I said, I heard some good news about the
offensive line, that the line's gonna be much better this
year with the guys they've got. So maybe that's the
start of maybe trying to build some excitement that way.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
What person rates, Matt, I feel like you do a
good job explaining things on issues without your liberal bias.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
That's not very nice shit. I'm saying, I have a
liberal bias.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Without your liberal bias. Can you explain what the debate
is on Trump's big beautiful bill? First of all, let
him let me give him credit Shandon for calling it
a big beautiful bill.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
That sounds like something you would love, right, something it does.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
He's got a big beautiful bill, so we'll make it quick.
I think when people think about how we pass laws, Ryan,
don't they think, Okay, you have an idea I want
to do X.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Let's say I want to make it to where it's
illegal to cut.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Lanes at McDonald's right, you would make a bill and
then if everybody votes for it, it would pass.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Correct. When you think that's how you do.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
It, I would think that's exactly how you do it.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
That's really not how we do it anymore. In America.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
We basically pass most of our laws now in one
bill called the budget bill.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
And why do we do that?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Because in every other bill you have to get past
a Senate filibuster?
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Ryan, what's a filibuster?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
They talk and talk and talk and talk and talk.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
That's sort of true, that's sort of true.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
But basically the way our suggust government is set up
now is to for a bill to pass the spit Senate,
it has to get sixty votes. Why because if they don't,
it's a filibuster. So basically, not only do you have
to get more than a majority, Ryan, you have to
get sixty votes.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Did you know that?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Didn't know that?
Speaker 5 (27:16):
So most bills, the vast majority of bills don't get
passed because they don't get sixty votes, because you have
to get.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
People on the other side to agree with you to
get past the sixty votes. So how does stuff get passed?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Well, the only kind of bill that doesn't require sixty
votes is the budget.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Why, I have no idea, that's just what the rules are.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
They've just made it historically that the budget is the
only kind of.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Bill that doesn't require sixty votes.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
So, Ryan, they have an incentive for everything they want
to get in without getting sixty votes, throw it in
the budget.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
Does that make sense, Yes.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Because it's the only bill that only takes fifty votes.
So every party when they're in throws everything they want
to do that they don't think will be popular, and
they throw it into the budget. And that's why the
bill ends up huge. You know how you've seen over
the year, Shan and how bills will be like six
hundred pages long. Yep, it's because they're throwing it all
(28:16):
in the budget because it's the only thing that takes
fifty votes. And over the years it's made a lot
of politicians. Mad Ram Paul's been the biggest one about it.
He's always like, let's vote on each of these things separately.
And when Democrats are in charge, they go, Nope, we
need to put it all.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Together, and the Republicans complain.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
And then when the Republicans are in charge, they say,
let's put it all together, and then the Democrats complain
and it's all and ram Paul, to his credit, will
always say, why do we keep doing this because they
sneak stuff in.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
So Trump has rebranded it the Big Beautiful Bill, but
it's really the same thing everybody's always done, which is
cram everything unpopular into one bill because it doesn't take
a majority. I hate it. It's why Washington kind of stinks.
And this debate we're having is this year. But really
the problem is that we cram everything into one bill
(29:10):
and most of these people don't even read it.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
I don't know if you saw.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Marjorie Taylor Green tweeted out yesterday, Sorry I didn't even
read this.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
When I voted on it. My bad.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
That's not how it should bess.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, at least she was honest about it. She acknowledged
she had not read.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
It, because how can they.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
They give it to them three hours before the vote,
and it's six hundred pages. There's no way they can
read that even if they wanted to. So I hate it,
but it's unfortunately, Ryan, the way things are.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
You've talked to this before. How they slide something in
the budget bills.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Sometimes they'll put things in the budget bill that only
one person put in.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Only one person.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
They'll just throw in there, Oh, by the way, give
my district forty million dollars to set up. But Shannon,
the dude skate park. Just do it and no one
even knows it's in there, but they do it. And
this happens every time, and at some point somebody's got
to say, we have to stop doing this. Who's up next, Kyle, Kyle?
(30:14):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Kyle?
Speaker 11 (30:16):
Hey, Shannon, thanks for the Billy Corgan call back there earlier. Yes,
the uh, let's talk about Cardinals Stadium when the Red
Birds are there. That was a crazy stadium, a short
right field, super long left field. Because of being a
football stadium, that center field is about the same length
as left field. So a lot of those stadiums like
that that they're retrofitive football.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Stadium or had State one looked like, wasn't it Ryan?
It had that big, huge left field like it was
a football field.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
You could see there where a football field could definitely you.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Can see what Yeah, that's probably that's kind of it
was probably shaped the same way.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
What else?
Speaker 11 (30:49):
Yeah, Well, the last thing, you know, I'm enjoying your ESPN.
I like ESPN Matt almost like Ambi mag a whole
different person sometimes. But my question for I asked Evan Wendsey,
how have the suits handle you? I mean, you've ripped
on Indiana for two straight weeks. I love it, but
there's gotta be some retribution, you know, something coming back
to you. I'm talking bad about those people.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
They don't ever say anything to me.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I think, uh, I think I fly under the radar
for everybody except radio. I think most people at ESPN,
to be quite frank with, you don't even know who
I am. My radio boss has listened to everything. But
ESPN's changed a lot since I've been there. You know,
now with Pat McAfee and some of these guys, they're
(31:34):
encouraging people to sort of be who they are.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
I'm glad. I think they should do that.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
That wasn't how it was when I started, but I
think they kind of like it, at least that's what
they tell me.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
So you know, it's been fine.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
The only feedback I ever get is sometimes they will
say to me, Matt, don't admit on the air you
don't know anything about sports, because I do.
Speaker 11 (32:01):
That humanizes you.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
See, I agree with you. I think it's actually good
to do that.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Sometimes they wish I wouldn't do that, But to ESPN's credit,
I've been there seven and a half years. I told
them like three years ago, I can't keep doing this
unless you just let me be myself, and they said,
all right, have at it. And since then, actually my
stock has kind of risen in the company. So I'm
glad mac. I'm not a huge fan of McAfee, but
(32:27):
he has made it to where all of us are
able to do that more, and so I'm glad.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
Well in the Wildcat talking these interviews the last two
it has been great. It's gonna make for a great
summer to get you to interview all these former Wildcats
on national radio. So keep it up.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Man, It's amazing that they let me do that, right,
And I appreciate the call, Ryan, they let me interview
Kentucky guys about Kentucky on national radio.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Well, you've had some good ones to start with, ed Travis,
Jamal McLure, John Wall. Mean, those are good with people
that are still interested to see what they're up to.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Now these days we should note and Ryan, you could
speak to this more than me. Travis Ford's father passed away, Eddie.
I know you know more about him, so I'll let
you speak to that.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Eddie Ford was the godfather of basketball in Western Kentucky.
I mean, he had this AAU program and if you
were any type of player at all, you played under
Eddie Ford's umbrella for AAU basketball. He was just a
super guy. Everybody liked him. One of those guys you
won't hear anybody's thinking bad about him. I kind of
broke my heart saw that he had passed. Travis put
out some really nice posts about how he was more
(33:29):
than just a father. He was his coach. You know,
played for him in Madisonville. So kind of sad to
see they had passed.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Yeah, rest in peace to Eddie Ford.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I mean literally, if you're in Western Kentucky and you
played basketball, you probably had some interaction with him. Yeah,
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Because it sounded me, Shannon like he was being surprised.
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He had because it was it was, it was, it
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He was.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
He never contemplated the words that were coming out of
his mouth. That's what you get right there with your
Ryan Levon Reed. Who's up next, Johnny? Go ahead, Johnny.
Speaker 12 (36:24):
Hey guys, I'm actually a more Head State alum. So
I've got a comment about the field.
Speaker 10 (36:30):
The reason, so, is it what I look like?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
It's got a huge left field? Is that what it is?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Or right field?
Speaker 12 (36:37):
Right field got a huge wall. It's really short because
there is an endangered species of salamander that lives in
the tree line behind right field and they cannot disrupt
it all right.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Stop you say there's an endangered species of salamander in Morehead.
Speaker 12 (36:57):
Yeah, that's what was always told whenever I went to
school there there's an endangered species of salamander that lives
in the tree line behind the right field, and that's
why the field is shaped like that.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Do you believe that, Shad? Do you believe that they're
they're all right? So let me ask you a question
before we get to the rest. What is a salamander?
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Like? What is it? Do you know what a salamander?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Lizard family?
Speaker 12 (37:22):
Yeah, it's an amphibian.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
Okay, So it's a lizard.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
And you're saying they have there's a kind of lizard
that is only in more Head.
Speaker 12 (37:33):
I don't know if it's only in more Head and
it's not a lizard. They're amphibians. They look like lizards.
But I guess it's it's just an endangered species that
can't be disrupted, so that the habitat cannot be disrupted.
That's why they couldn't make the field bigger than what
it is.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Okay, all right, let's just because because I mean, there's
a right answer to this question.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
And you may be right, sir Shannon.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Do we believe that's true or it was a falsehood
just told the Moorhead Stable.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I think that's something they just told everybody and people
believed it. I don't believe this.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
You're throwing the challenge flag, Ryan, do you believe it
or not?
Speaker 6 (38:10):
I don't believe it. I think you hit on it earlier.
Probably it was built around the football original football stadium,
and that's why I was built that way. I don't
know about the salamander story.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
See, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw the challenge flag as well.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
I think that people have said that over the years,
but I have a hard time believe it that the
city of Moorhead has a kind of salamander that is
on the endangered species list and that prevents a football state.
That's just my excuse me, a change in the in
the in the baseball stable. You may be right, sir,
and I'm sure I'll get a correct answer by tomorrow
(38:42):
and we'll let you.
Speaker 12 (38:42):
Know that's fair. I got a Kentucky football.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
Question for you, okay.
Speaker 12 (38:51):
So I think it would be silly to go four
and eight with a seventh year starter at quarterback. If
that's how bad do you think the season has to
go before they throw Bowlie out there?
Speaker 7 (39:01):
Because that's a great point. It's a great, really great point. Yeah,
that's a great point. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
I appreciate the call. I hadn't thought of that, Ryan,
but that's a good point. I mean, if you're gonna
go four and eight, you might as well play the
young guy some do you think you think that's true.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
I think if you start struggling, you've got to look
ahead of the future. And you know everything I've heard.
Cutter had a great offseason, worked hard in the in
the film room, had a good spring, so he's he's
poisoning ready to maybe step up and get some playing
time this year.
Speaker 7 (39:32):
Might be an interesting way to look at those first
few games.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Yes, I hadn't really thought of it like that, but
you probably bring in the seventh year guy, kind of
like Menji One did two years ago where he said
I'm bringing in all these fifty year seniors because I
gotta save the program, and then he did. That's probably
why you bring in a seventh year starter. But if
it doesn't look like that's gonna work, then you maybe
(39:55):
go to the young guy. It's a good point. Who's next?
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Shane from Grayson.
Speaker 7 (39:59):
Shane go ahead?
Speaker 13 (40:00):
Shape, Hey, Hell, it's it going today? Fethers?
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Good? What's up?
Speaker 11 (40:05):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (40:06):
Hey?
Speaker 13 (40:06):
M I ask anything Wednesday question? I want to ask
going off the wall here, what would you do rather
be the first person to ever meet a legit alienation
like lands in your parking lot to hear the first
person ever meet them? Or would you be the person
to discover the cure for all cancers? Which one you're giving? Thanks?
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Wow, that's a really interesting question. I actually like that question. Chan.
You said it's easy. What do you pick?
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Curing cancer? You could save?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Like, I don't know how many people die of cancer
every year, but I would say tens of thousands, if
not hundreds of thousands of people. Why would you not
want to be the person to discover the cure for cancer?
Speaker 7 (40:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I mean if you're talking about what's best for humanity,
then there's no doubt you'd want to cure cancer. I
mean cancer. Curing cancer would be like literally discovering penicillin
in terms of its effect on humanity. Who discovered penicillin?
Was it, uh, Currie who discovered penacillin?
Speaker 4 (41:11):
I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
Something we knew in school we can't think of now,
isn't it? Isn't it?
Speaker 7 (41:17):
Currie? Isn't sure?
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Sure? Go with it?
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Well, I'm just saying, in terms of your name being No,
I was My point was gonna be your name would
be known forever, but it may not.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Be Alexander Fleming.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
Oh yeah, I wouldn't have known that.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Okay, so never mind about Alexander Fleming. The point is
you would save it would it would completely change humanity?
So you want to pick that, But Ryan, it would
also be kind of cool to be Since I don't
believe aliens exist, it would be kind of cool if
they did, to be the first one to meet.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
I feel like we've probably already met a few aliens,
we just don't even know it. So I'm going with
the cancer solution. Definitely want to do that. You all
are crazy about that.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
I feel like Alexander Fleming and it should be better. No,
should be.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
More well known, have some statues or something so we
know who he is. At least you said Curry and
I didn't have a clue.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
I thought that was Marie Currie. Well, what did she do?
Because she did something?
Speaker 6 (42:19):
She did do something doesn't play for the Golden State Warriors, right, No.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
Don't try to be funny. What did she what did
she look her up?
Speaker 4 (42:29):
I don't know what is it? Marie Curing? I never
heard of that person either well what never?
Speaker 5 (42:35):
Yeah, all right, Well that's a good way to end
the show, is with this really the great information about penicillin,
Alexander Fleming. We should know more about one hundred year
anniversary of discovering it coming up. We will be back tomorrow.
I'll be back in Lexington. Enjoy this beautiful day. This
has been a Kentucky Sports Radio
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