May 23, 2025 • 42 mins
Matt, Drew, Ryan, and Shannon are in Pineville for the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival. The crew discusses the festival, Memorial Day, and takes your calls.
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Speaker 4 (01:02):
Now Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Welcome back our number two Kentucky Sports Radio. Here. The
Mountain Laurel Festival, remember the at the Queen's coronation tomorrow
Laurel Cove. And they also have a parade. You know
who the Grand Marshal of the parade is, Ryan Russ Thompson. No,
Chapel Teneus. That's Miss Kentucky. Okay here, I don't think so,
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but you knows Smiss Kentucky. Chapel Teneus. That's a great name.
By the way, Shout out to Chapel te'es. I'm sure's
someone that knows her is listening. Shout out to her.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Yeah, a big honor being the Grand Marshal with all
the people we saw in that book that have done
it exactly right.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
The ninety fourth Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival going on right now.
Ninety four Sha well, I hope there's big plans for
the hundredth. Yeah, they gotta do something. You gotta do
something big for the hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I said on the pre show, I'm more of a
ninety fourth type of guy when it comes to these things.
You know, I want to make sure it's good and established.
We've had ninety three to make sure, this is good.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
It's the longest running in Kentucky, right, longestntinuously running.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
We're big on continuously running. We have the longest running
continuous golf course in Middlesborough in America. You remember that
run in America? Yeah? Well did see? Everybody acts like
that's great. The long the oldest continuously running golf course
in the United States is in Middlesboro, Kentucky. There were
a couple older that shut down and then they were
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reopened like twenty years later. But if you're talking about
from start to finish, you've been able to hack up
the greens the whole time. Middlesborough Country Club it opened
in eighteen eighty seven. And I will go ahead and
tell you if you want to know who won the
nineteen eighty seven ten and undergroup, you're looking at him.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I was gonna ask you that, But there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
That is pretty amazing that that old golf course has
been around that long.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
People don't realize it's Kentucky. It's one of the many
things if you read Mitch Pleas, there are tons of
things in Kentucky that people do not realize is here
that I talked about in there, And that is one
of them you never.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Knew, Mitch. Please sticker on your car. That one's kind of.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It is something fight out over time. Before we go
to the phones, let me go to something Mark Pope
said yesterday. I asked him Drew if he thought Kentucky
after last year, needed to get more athletic, and he
shook his head and said yes that basically he did
not realize that he needed his team to be much
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more athletic than the group where he last year, and
then he recruited to that philosophy. I think we've seen
that next year's team is loaded with athletes. Do you
think that's a positive change? Maybe give up a little
shooting to add a little athleticis definitely.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
That had a great non conference and then you get
to the SEC and Georgia was one of those first games,
and Georgia's played one of the most physical basket stales
of basketball last season. I think that many the others
were wake up call. That's why when the portal opened
he was quick to get guys that bring a lot
of toughness.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, he didn't shy away from that question at all,
And the way he answered it kind of to me
sounded like he said, look, I over underestimated the physicality
of the SEC. I will not do that anymore. We
will get athletes to compete in the SEC.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Now we were Shannon, thank you very much. We were
the least athletic team. People didn't like when I said
that last year during the season, but it was true.
We were the least athletic team in the SEC. We
went from under cow We're usually the most athletic, so
we were the least. I mean, we were still good,
but it was clear, especially when we played Alabama Auburn,
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that we just were a notch below them athletically. And
I think he felt like he had to fix that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, and I also like getting you know, a couple
of players already within the SEC in the transfer portal
on the roster as well. So yeah, you got guys
that that can ball. Some dudes as you would call them.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
This year, Well, there just comes a point, Wheyan, when
you're playing, when you're playing against a guy who is
less skilled than you, but it's just quicker. He can
just take it by you every single time. And that
was that was that was happening to us. It was
what used to do to other teams, is what we
were getting done to us last year. I think that's
part of the reason we lost to Arkansas. Cal had
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his typical Cal team of athletes, and we just can't.
We just couldn't guard him.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The way he answered it, did you kind of take
away too, he was a little surprised by that how
physical it was.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, I see he didn't. If you watch the video.
Mario has a video on YouTube of the entire it's
at the KSR Show YouTube channel. You could if you
watch his face, it's kind of interesting. If you watch
the video with his face rhyme you were there. He
makes facial expressions that are even more pronounced than what
he says, and you could tell he agreed with that.
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I think so too.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
There are a lot of questions other you ask him
as as a fan, we would want to know. I
love the fact that he didn't shy away from it,
admitted some maybe some mistakes he made, admitted some things
he made he were wrong about, but then he had
on the other side, he got you so excited about
what could to come in the years ahead.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
One Meerson rights, Matt, you're talking about your high school
basketball career and whoever this dude Russ Thompson. Is that
beats you? That's not that's disrespectful. Russ? Whoever this dude? Rust?
He made the regional tournament at least once. How in
the world did you get on the radio talking about
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sports if you couldn't even play for your high school.
That's first of all, that's very rude and very mean.
I don't know, it's a good question.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I mean there's a lot of people though, I mean,
do you think Paul Finebaum was a premier athlete?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
You don't think played football?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They would knock him in the next week.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Who you are a golfer and a tennis player? Other sports? Basketball?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Okay, well let's just go over it. Who are the
biggest sports media personalities? All right? Steven A. Smith? Have
you ever seen him? Shoot?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Didn't somebody find his stats?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Who got a couple of points a game? Yeah? So
take that off the pardon my take, guys, not great athletes.
Now McAfee was a pretty good athlete, so he he
might be a little bit of an excession. Bill Simmons, No.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
What did he even do?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Dan Patrick?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh he played college basketball at EKU.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Oh actually he did, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Held the freshman free throw record. I think at EKU.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
The point is you don't have to have any talent.
And I had. I mean, you don't you saw me
when I'm I wasn't even one of its fifty best
athletes at my high school. But it doesn't it doesn't
even really matter because that's ultimately not what this is about.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Yeah, until we start showing up and they're like, we
gotta dribble while we played. I think that's a big
part of the job requirement. And most of the good
athletes would have terrible radio shows.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I could have out argued anybody in the thirteenth region.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You are a master debater.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Okay, all right, who's up next? He cannot help himself,
Jason had Jason.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Matt loved the show and listening all in since my
daughter was the freshman in the UK.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
But I was an escort in the Mount Laurel Festival.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
For Eastern Kentucky University back in ninety.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Four, So you were you were an escort. So did
your queen win the Mount Laurel Festival or did you
help throw the escort into the lake.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I helped throw the escort into the lake.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
We did the whole deal.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
We had the parade, the concert, was Martina McBride.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Oh, that's a big one, Martina McBride, wild horses, yep.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
And then we watched the fireworks on a tennis court
there in downtown Fineval somewhere.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
So it sounds like you have a good memory. It
sounds like you enjoyed it, am I right.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Oh, as you know from Kentucky. It's just one of
the you know, great things that is being a part.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Of all that.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, I remember all that's awesome. There. Came back with
some refreshments, so that's true. Just go across. Although now
you can buy alcohol here, can't you. Oh you have
to Oh it's moist, that's right. Yeah, No we're not moist.
(09:20):
Oh we're full. So you can buy alcohol here. See
that's crazy to me. I appreciate the call. The fact
that you can buy alcohol in Bell County is crazy
because he's right. You would have to go over the mountain,
which back then there was no Cumberland Gap tunnel, so
you had to go on that windy, scary road you
had to go to to to Harrogate. What was the
name of that liquor store, It was just called the
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liquor store. That's how you tunnel two that's right. The
name was Tunnel too. I think my man's been there
a few times. He knows exactly what you really remember.
Tunnel Too. By the way, I feel like this has
turned into just me talking about high scho Did I
hear the oasis burned down? Dude? That makes me sad?
(10:01):
That was what was the isis was the one honky
tonk in Harrogate where but they had good pizza right
when I went over there. I wouldn't tell my mom.
I'd say we were going to Shoney's, but.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Uh yeah, it's on a Friday night.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
We're going to all high school kids.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Who's up next? They did have a good breakfast bar.
You're right about that. Go ahead, Bobby, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Thought I didn't hear any play his name. Sorry. I
was calling because I was wondering if you brought your
golf club down to play Wazzi out of Winds. But
I heard you're going to the Reds game today.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yeah, I don't get to playing. I passed it though.
Wasioa Winds an under ranked course in Kentucky. Very nice
when it's not flooding. It is a very really nice course.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Go ahead, yeah, we uh yeah, we went down there
and took a fellows trip, like twelve of us a
couple of years ago when stated at the Pine Mountain
Lodge and went there. And then when you were talking
about because we were looking for somewhere to go after
we played golf, and they're like, well, there ain't no
place to go around here, you know, to get drinks
and stuff. So we went over to arigatd some little
hole in the wall face and we were a bunch
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of Kentucky and Louisville fans, but we.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Got them to put the.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
TVs on Conserna.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Kentucky and Louisville.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
We're playing football, not to get each other, but and
all these Tennessee fans are looking at us.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Like what a new world?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Or yeah, you can't trust Tennessee fans. That's yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Just one of the questions was, because I know you
played a little golf, but what's your five favorite public
courses in.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
The state of Oh that's a great question. I appreciate
the call five favorite public courses in Kentucky. So you're
gonna have to help me with that. Boy, that's a
good question. I mean the state park resort court, what's
the one we used to do the show up at
it Prestonsburg, Prestonsburg. That's a nice, beautiful course of the
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Stone Crest Stone Crest is that that's in in in Prestonsburg. Okay,
you got Wasiota? I think's really good. There's what's the
one in Bowling Green, not not Old Stone, but the
other one that's there? What?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Oh that one is popular? Mammoth Yes, Mammoth.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Park you know in Louisville, isn't Uh, Persimmon Ridge is
public and that is a really good one in uh
in Louisville. Well, the well, actually, I think the place
we're having the KSR Golf Scramble next week, the U Club,
the University Club. Billy, you're a big golfer. Public courses.
Kearney Hills has a history, had a Senior PGA Tour
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event there a long time ago. Oh was Persimmon private? Okay,
we'll take that out. I'll tell you what though, somebody
righte me the ones because a lot of the pub
They redid a lot of these public national park courses
around the state, and some of them are really nice.
I just I haven't played a ton of them.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I really want to play the one he mentioned I
think it's called Park Mammoth. We had it backwards. That
one's become really popular. I don't know if they've redone
it recently, but that that should be on the list.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Oh, the Madisonville City Park is fun to me.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I don't know if we're.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Gonna be top five. Park Mammoth.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yeah, I think that's what's called.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Oh you were saying Madisonville City Park.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Not quite, but that, of course is called park Mammoth.
I think it is a really popular one.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
One person writes Matt, how did Paul Finebom get famous?
I don't know anybody who knows less on television when
somebody's he got it. He didn't create a blog, but
he just had. He was a newspaper writer, had a
local Alabama newspaper call and they gave him radio show,
and now he's I mean, there's not a nerdier person
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that talks about sports anywhere there.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You're right, No, there's not. And if it weren't for
his callers, I don't know what that show would be.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I really don't.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
I don't listen a lot, but when I do, I
feel like he doesn't ever like give his opinion. He's
just kind of letting people go and all it, kind
of driving it rather than.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
You remember when he came to the bar. I don't
know if you all have ever met him. He is
the skinniest person on the plane. Little guy like he
is the littlest human being. He's short, but he also
his arms are like, yeah, tiny, he is like it
looks like he's gonna break in half.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And then the order like a grilled chicken salad with
no salad dress.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
He asked for a grilled chicken salad. He said, hold
the cheese, hold the dressing. So we gave him like
lettuce and chicken and he picked. He ate it by hand.
He I mean, have you ever seen money eat a
salad with their fingers? That's exactly what he did. He
would just pick little pieces and eat it with us.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
A dry salad is exactly how it would describe the
Paul Fine.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Basically, there is a dry salad.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That was the first show to tap into a fan base.
Though you know he kinda paid the way.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
I love how much you hate what's the other? Hate him?
But what's the other guy? Then you hate Sally Barrett
Barrett salad.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I don't even know how that guy goes he's a
Braves guy now.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
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don't know if they sell that down here, the Seltzers,
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you got the watermelon, you got the berry. They have
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we're not talking about that. It is the Seltzer drink.
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You've loved it, Channing. They're gonna be selling it next
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Go to Cornbread Hemp dot com. We're gonna take a
break and be right back here at the Mount Laurel Festival.
This is KSR walking back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio
here at the Mount Laurel Festival. Seems like drew. The
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universal picks on the text machine for best public golf
course are Dale Hollow and uh Park Mammoth. Yeah, those
are the two that come up the most on the list.
There are other ones on here, including Big Blue at
the UK Club, Houston Oaks, Cherry Blossom, but the ones
lots of votes for Dale Hollow and Park Mammoth dal
Hollow's is that it del Hollow soon? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I've been wanting to go to the
park Man with Well. I hear so many good things
about that, like it's just a fun course.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
One person. Right, Shannon's never said anything more true than
his fine bomb dry salad comparison exactly how I would
describe him and everything that happens on his show Boy.
Everybody's being mean here, Shannon to Paul Finebaum today, Well, you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Know, I mean, the callers are exciting, they are entertaining.
That's the best thing he's got going for him.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I want to I want to thank the Pineville School
senior class for bringing us some great limonade and the
other group that gave us I don't have the name,
but they live for that. Lemonade's awesome.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
I don't know what they put in the senior class
Pineville lemonade. That's the best lemonade on the planet. There's
a little strawberry. I don't know what's going on in there.
That is fantastic.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Ryan the Kentucky Colonels, who probably almost no one sitting
here remembers maybe a couple you remember them. Yesterday was
the fiftieth anniversary of the Kentucky Colonels winning the title. Yep,
they won the tie in nineteen seventy five, fifty years
ago yesterday. And I have to tell you, as somebody
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who really appreciates Kentucky basketball history, et cetera, I feel
like I don't know enough about the Colonels because I
feel like there's a lot of stories with them. Hubie
Brown was the coach, YEP, Artist Gilmore played on the
team and others. Uh fifty years ago a you know,
a professional sports title was in the state of Kentuck.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I actually remember it because they played the Indiana Pacers
in the finals, and the Pacers, who you know, with
their dominating team, and the Kentucky Colonels of all people,
came up and beat him. Didn't didn't Danissel play for
him for a short term?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
And look, Dan did Dan Ansel play when they won
the title.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I don't know if he was on that team because
I think he was on.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
The Nuggets then, but they did have Dan Aissel for
a little while with dampier Artist Gilmore I think was
their main the main guy. Yeah, so congratulations.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You know, there was a push for a long time
to bring the Colonels back.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Whatever happened to that.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
They're still actively what do you mean there was a
push trying to give me to get Yeah, I mean
they still would like to have it, but I think
a lot of that, unfortunately, will wither out with Junior
Bridgeman's death. He was a huge part of Junior Bridgeman.
You know, it's like the richest former NBA player ever
and he I think was a big part of Ryan
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trying to get that. I worry that that flame will
kind of extinguish now.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That that's disappointing because they had a lot of momentum
there for a while. It looked like Louisville was in
the hunt to maybe get a franchise at some point.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah, right, And I were listening to Tom Leach on
the way here. Did he say that they the Colonels
would ocasually play Memorial and like Moses Malone debuted there,
Doctor j would play there.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
That's like a really cool history that it's just not
that you know, you just don't you don't You don't
hear a lot about one person, writes Matt next year,
Let's assume we played Duke in the Uh in the
in the game and Ruppery in the a SEC challenge
between Michigan State, Duke, Louisville and Saint John's. Which of
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those games would you look forward to? Well, I throw
Michigan stayed out. That's fourth. I mean, if Duke's playing
in Roup, it's gonna be number one for me. I mean,
if Duke's playing in RUB, that's the biggest non conference
game in RUB since I don't even know when. If again,
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and I'm not saying they are, but if the ACC
challenge work UK Duke and Rub, that would be the
biggest non conference game since win.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Maybe when Patino and Louisville came in to play Cal.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I think Cal last year is one of the biggest ever.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
But that's conference non conference. You know, you might be right.
It might be the first Patino col Louisville game. I
mean that's I mean, that's fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, you know, and before that was probably when Patino
came in, and when when Tubby and Patino played each other.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I you know, we we've played Kansas a few times,
but we had played him a bunch. We played UCLA once.
The first time they came. I feel like that was
a pretty big deal. And they beat us with Lonzo,
But I Drew, I think it would be the biggest.
I don't know, it'd be the biggest in a long
long time.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Yeah, I mean, we play him a lot in the
Champions Classic, but to have that Duke brand in rub area,
that would make it pretty special no matter how they look.
And they will be good next year. They added Dame
sorry yesterday. They have a good team. I think that'd
be one of the biggest games.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
And that's Olivier sars brother right, No, okay, never mind,
it would be I don't think so. He's the one.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
When Kentucky was reaching out to him, they put on
a graphic that he's considering Kentucky University. So we're a
little little iffy on the translation there, but he's a
good gume.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Are you excited about the game in Louisville next year
with Kentucky? Yeah, I mean that's they they haven't They're
gonna be good.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I mean that that could be two top ten teams
playing right there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
We gotta I agree with you in that interview that
you had with Pope. We gotta get Pope to spice
up that rivalry a little bit. With Pat Kelsey, I know,
like he's like, oh, I hate nobody believes that we
gotta I don't know what it's gonna take to get it.
I don't know if it'll ever get back to Patino
Caliperi level.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
I want you to think about for a second what
next year's schedule is. Let's just look at the preseason
top ten. You're gonna play in the preseason top ten.
There's a very good chance Duke will be in it.
There's a very good chance Saint John's will be in it.
There's a pretty good chance Louisville, if not in the
top ten, will be at least in the top twelve
or fifteen. Florida is gonna be in it. Perdue, who
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we play in an exhibition is gonna be in it.
We are probably gonna be in it. So I mean
six or seven of the top ten are either Kentucky
or teams Drew that we play on our schedule next year.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Non conference schedules awesome, and then the conference schedule two
But like Gonzaga won't be top ten, but that'll be
a big game. They're bringing that Graham ek back who
scores like thirty points a game. In this current series
we have with them. We are third fourth time seeing him.
Of all the ones to get excited about, that one,
my be number one on on this just because it's
a Friday night in Nashville. That's such unique circumstances.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I didn't even mention ga I might do my first.
I mean, when's the last time, when's the last time
we played a regular season game in Nashville that wasn't
against Vandy.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I looked it up at the time. I think it's
like never, maybe long time ago. They've had a few
n CUAA tournament games there, but not anything like this.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, I know the schedule is not complete yet, but
there are very few throwaway games so far on this
hardly any at all.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Well, I want to give Mark Pope al lot of credit.
This fan base wants those games, and he says he's playing,
and so I give him a lot of credit. He
understands that, like this is entertainment. You got to give
the fans what they want. Who's next, boy voice, Shannon,
here we go.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
I'm mist wondering that if if kim to a forty games,
I'll say Mark Holpe has down half to go to
a fifteen game.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Man, you can't go to a twenty man roster because though, yeah,
aren't you worried about the uh you know the gold protectors.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
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gonna ask about rim protector. You can't have twenty players.
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Speaker 3 (23:26):
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Speaker 4 (23:30):
Here's not Joe.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Quarter Back, it is Kentucky Sports Radio. You know what, Liam,
I'm kind of a fan of your music choices. I'm
not gonna lie little Loretta Lynn fift City. I don't
know what she says. If you take her, man, she's
gonna take you to fist City. I think that's a
pretty good, pretty good lie. At dude, you find me
(23:52):
in nineteen, what is this seventy seventy one, I'm trying
to date Loretta Lynn? I mean she is, she might
get fish, she might take me to fist City. But
that's that's kind of why I wanted dat shit.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And the yeah, you like a good strong woman, your.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Type, That's that's something Russ I wouldn't have said if
my mom was here today. A five nine uh two
a oh twenty two eighty seven text machine is seven
seven two seven seven four five two five four. Dan
Essel and Louis Dampier were on the nineteen seventy five
title team along with artist Gilmore. That's a pretty good team.
(24:29):
Now you can see how they won the ton.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's an awesome team to have at that point. So
I'm trying to think, did they play at Freedom Hall?
Did they play their home games for they play?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I think they did. Did they Yeah? Didn't they play?
You were? You said you were? They play at Freedom Hall?
I assume they did. Yeah, So UK Baseball all right,
So they are on the bubble of the tournament. There's
a couple of things to watch. I look this up
last night, Drew. We need the teams that are already
in to win their conferences. So one thing to watch
(24:58):
Texas sand and I know Texas San Antonio Is apparently
has a great record already in the tournament, but they
got upset in the first round of the what is
it Conference USA or American tournament, but it's double elimination.
We need them to win because they may take one
of our burths. Then there's a couple other teams like that.
We need Yukon to win their tournament because they might
(25:21):
take a berth, But we are right on the bubble,
like one of the last two or three teams in
Kentucky may literally be the team that is the last
team in. Unlike the NCAA tournament where they have a
play in, they don't have that in baseball. But we're
gonna need some help over the next couple of.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Days, and in our own conference, we need A and
M to lose. They as the fourteen seed, have now
won two games, and if TDed Kentucky and SEC wins,
Kentucky still has the slight edge. But if they were
going another round in the SEC, we'd start to worry.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I watched them. We didn't win the series over there,
we got that.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
But I watched them beat Auburn yesterday, and as soon
as the game ended on the SEC broadcast, they said,
if you're watching it home in Kentucky, and I thought, wait,
they're talking to me. They said, this is a nightmare
situation for you.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
With A and M went another one.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
I think that's a little extreme, But if A and
M were to win today or go on to the championship.
That could be something.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
So roots for Texas and Antonio to win, and root
for Texas A and m to lose. Otega away. Ryan
has until Wednesday to decide for the draft. Almost every
indication says he'll come back. There's really no I've yet
to see anything to suggest he's even a second round pick,
(26:28):
much less a first round pick. But still, I'll feel
a lot better when the official announcement is made that
he's going to come back.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yeah, he's doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
He's going through the process so he'll be better prepared
for next year.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You don't have any worry that he well, I don't
like to ask you because when you guarantee stuff, it
doesn't happen. Do you have any worry Drew that he
will not come back?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
No, I haven't really had to worry the whole process.
This is what he should do. Honestly, he should take
it to the final day. He should go to as
many team interviews and workouts as he possibly can.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
It's good for him.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
But I haven't seen a single mock draft that has
him as a as a second round pick, So I
don't know why you would turn down the money in
Lexington on a you know, chasing something that might not
be there.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I did also think yesterday it was interesting Mark Pope said,
we have fourteen guys. You only have fourteen, Shandon if
you had Otegoway. Right, So I'm going to assume he
believes at least very likely to reach Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I mean, nothing's ever a guarantee, but I mean, if
you're Otaga away, life is good in Lexington. You can
come back, have another year, make a lot of money,
and then go to the NBA.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
I don't have the salary in front of me, but
I looked it up and I think it's like from
what I have heard Otega always making. And remember I
don't believe the money that gets out publicly. I think
it's always less than they say. But I do think
I know what Otega is making, and it's pretty good.
He would have to get picked Drew kind of at
(27:51):
the upper half of the first round to get more
money than he's gonna get. So I don't see any
way he doesn't come back. Maybe I'll be surprised, but
he shocked if he did.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Yeah, and a guy like him, a competitor, he believes
in himself that he could go back and rise his stock.
I mean, it's unlikely he becomes a lights out three
point shooter that would need to get in the first round.
But if he returns to school, he should have in
his head that that's the plan to climb into the
first round the following year. So I'd take the money
that's on the table now in Lexington and worry about
the NBA next summer.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Shannon, you said there's a thread on our bond that bridge,
that's the KSR Facebook page, yep, of things they say
that like beautiful and special, Mark Pope says all the time.
You said, there's a list of things that people say
I say all the time. Yep.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
This is Fred.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I'm gonna see if I agree with Fred.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
On the bond that Bridge facebook page says, you guys
give Pope such a hard time with all these words
he overuses. So he said, if he were to make
a KSR Bengo card of a list of things of
things that he hears repeatedly on KSR every day, here
would be the list.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
He says.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
I appreciate, appreciate the.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Call off, definitely, that's center square.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I'm not gonna lie, you know, I do say that
lie and.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
But but but the implication then is that I'm lying
the rest of the time I talk, which is not
a good implication. But yes, I do say that a lot.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It makes me sad that the next one is I'm
not gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
It makes me sad.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
I don't say them together.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
That's sounding like a bear when he quotes a Republican a.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Bear, you know, And that's when I do my voice.
But it's not Republicans, it's just anybody that criticizes me.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
But go ahead, And then it gets into Ryan's chicken
chicken pow wow master debater.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, and chili bumps. But do you want to add
to the list.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I do really hate when you say chili bumps because
it's not a thing, and it does drive me crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
We all know what I'm talking about. You get those
chili bumps up and down your arm?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Who's next? Liam, Dennis? Dennis? Go ahead, Dennis.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
How's everybody doing that?
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Man doing great? I can't hear me now, I got you.
I could hear you before.
Speaker 11 (30:04):
All right, Hey, you very watch out the run the
little take to the woodshed.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
That's what I'm hoping for. But go ahead. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 11 (30:16):
You're seeing Kentucky's. But I have an idea. Man, if
it could be pulled off, you you guys there could
pull this off. And that is a forty eight hour
state wise softball extraffick cancer, No, thank you?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Well I know I'm not even a softful Why would I?
Speaker 9 (30:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Are these queen contestants by the way, escorts all bout here? Everything?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Which one of you guys are going on the river?
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I appreciate the call. What score are you from? Mary State? Oh,
University of Kentucky? We have our official UK. Yeah, I
give them around the bus. Are you all required to
walk around escorting them all over town? Because this is you're.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Not a bad gig though, right, we're not complaining.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
All right? Well, good luck? Are you having a good
time here in Pineville? Content? Good? I'm glad. Well, if
they don't they russy, you won't local people, local people
house there right during the thing. That's very cool. That's
a very cool, uh cool thing. Well, you guys enjoy
yourselves there, you are all the queen context.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, let's go walk around town. Shannon be my escort.
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And that's it? Oh? Where are you? Northern? There? You go?
Look at this day. All the Kentucky colleges they get
a nominee here and isn't done nice?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And for ninety four years they've been doing the same thing,
representing all the colleges here.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
One of you is going to be the new Wanda
Lee and get the queen this year. We'll take a
break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Oh stop, welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Dude.
I mean, Liam is just killing the music. There ain't
(32:42):
no getting over me. Ronnie mill Sap, Ronnie mill Sap,
I think he played in Bell County once. His Ronnie Millsaps,
head of Sounds, dad was my preacher, and that he
always said he would bring Ronney Millsap to our church
to sing hymns, and he ever did. But nevertheless, I
like Rodney Millstep because of the theory he could have
(33:04):
come to our church Ryan to see hims, even though
he never did.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
He is a Kentucky guy, right, isn't he from Kentucky? No,
I thought he was.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
I don't think so. I could be wrong, but I
don't think so.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
But it is the mystery that any Sunday he could
just show up. But I get excited every time.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
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(33:43):
the barbecue sauce at Red State Barbecue dot com. Before
we go to the phone, this is Memorial Day weekend.
I do want to take a second to say, I
guess because I've been watching Ryan all these military like
the Ben Laden thing and the documentary Memorial Days kind
of the official start of summer. People gonna be out
(34:03):
on the lake, people are gonna have fun. Take a
minute and remember those who have sacrificed their lives so
that we can be here and do things like this
on Memorial Day. It's a great holiday. But also remember
why we have it.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Probably everybody sitting here, all of us know somebody that
was affected by the war, maybe passed away in the war.
So yeah, that's we need to take time out just
to honor those people, men and women across the country.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Yeah, he did not pass the war, but my grandfather
was a veteran. I got up this morning and I
left I left middles or left Pine Mountain State Park
to drive to Middlesborough and go to my grandparents' graves
this morning for a Memorial Day as he was a veteran.
And hope everybody gets a chance to take a second
and to do something like that over the course of
(34:48):
the weekend. Who's up next, Stanley, Stanley, go ahead, Stanley.
Speaker 10 (34:54):
Hey, Matt, this is an old thirteenth region boy.
Speaker 8 (34:57):
Welcome back home.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
And you've got a special guests in the crowd to night,
Sonny and she works for the SEC network.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Look at Sonny Ann with the SEC Network. Nice Sonny.
End when you do me a favor, will you tell
them to turn the volume up when they're in Rupparena
so we could hear that crowd during the games for
the SEC Network.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Paul fi Bama said, Hi, I'm more worried about you
know what, when you were talking about Paul fie Mom.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I saw her, Mario, don't take her picture when we're
talking about but I could tell something was like that.
All right, go ahead, sir.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Yeah, that's about all I got.
Speaker 11 (35:35):
Man her Sting there was with her, Patfaf Sonny.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Well there's Sonny. Yes, Sonny was talking about the colonel.
So I appreciate, appreciate the call.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
You look at you. You never know who you got
city out here.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
You never know about. This is a great crowd here.
By the way, Uh, the festival goes. What is it
today or tomorrow. Oh, Sunday is well today tomorrow and
perfect weather. You couldn't. You could not ask for perfect weather,
not hot perfect. Who's next, Martin, Martin? Go ahead, Martin?
Speaker 8 (36:05):
Hey man, how are you doing that?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Doing great?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Better than your phone connection?
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (36:09):
You guys are patching on the A B A because
the colonel uh uh, I remember you pointed a problem
with them. And I was about twelve and thirteen. My uncle,
who was the food in UK, put me to a
game a mem oil color fem before your tennis and
I pop, we bring me in a paper. But they
did have damn anpel. They had Louis Anser some reason.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Nothing.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
They may had Jude dan Connor and then picking my
ringing for some reasons. But uh, that's all my first
reverse done.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
I'm sorry man, your phone. Appreciate your fine, I appreciate
car I want to hear it, but your phone is
just too bad. I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
I don't want. I guess.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
You get you do not like when people's phone.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
It's twenty twenty five. How do we have connections that
sound like that?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Oh I saw yesterday they put out a story you
shouldn't text between iPhones and green textures because there's like
it's not safe going from I message. Oh it's androids.
So Ryan is putting us at a security risk in
every group check.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
You know what you are the reason we're falling behind
China's people like you making us text to green texts.
Team Android. Let's go across to tem Android. By the way,
my Matt Jones podcast, we put two episodes this week
week up. If you are kind of roaming around looking
for something to do. Ryan McGee talks car racing and
(37:42):
college football and he's a good Southern guy. You'll like him.
And my friend Crystal Ball it's more of a political talk.
But even though you probably a lot of you will
disagree with her, I promise you you'll like her. She's
a reasonable person. Those two things rying are up for people.
If you want to listen this weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Well, I think people were excited to hear started this
start up again because it was really good the first time.
Kind of a lengthy interview. You get to know these people.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Still number one, like four straight days on the Apple charts,
still number one. Thanks to Billy for helping that and
all of those interviews are also available on video as well.
Who's next Shane from Grayson, Shane and Grayson. How are
you Shane?
Speaker 10 (38:18):
Hey Fellers, how's it going to Thay?
Speaker 5 (38:20):
I'm doing great? Failler.
Speaker 10 (38:23):
Hey, I got small town controversy. I want you to
jump in.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I like a good small town controversy. What is it?
Speaker 10 (38:30):
Okay, tomorrow we have a big prey uptown, two thousand
people to show up. This town is going crazy over
the candy deal.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
The candy deal.
Speaker 10 (38:40):
What's the candy? Well, when they come down to the prey,
they've always thrown candy out into the street.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
You know, Yeah, they throw candy. That's exactly right. I've
been to ones where they throwed the candy and it's good.
It's good. The kids love it. They get to run
and get it. Yep.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
Well they've fanned that this year here in Grayson. They're
not gonna get kids run out in the street.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
Oh why did they? Why did they mean it?
Speaker 10 (39:06):
Well, they just say that they last year they had
run out too far in the street and they all
they almost got hid sod. They from you know, dangerous and.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
You have the same issue that's wide open. See. See
here's the thing. Great, here's what you need to tell
the leaders of Grayson. Here in Pineville, we believe in freedom.
They throw candy the kids and they let them run
out in the straight and street and get it. You
need to not make Grayson become socialist. We don't want that, Shane,
(39:37):
this nanny state of not allowing uh not allowing kids
to go get the candy. So you you need to
get that law changed.
Speaker 10 (39:46):
All right, I'll send them down. I'll let them know
the orders from headquarters.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Get can thank you very much, Shamee.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Shanna's got the answer.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
We need better arms. Run out in the streets.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
That's part of being I remember the Christmas prey in Madisonville.
You run out, you get a little too close to
a truck tire, your parents yell, then you go do
it again. You're always chasing the candy they're throwing around.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Yeah, and it's always the same kids that get all
the candy. But nevertheless, yeah, you can't you can't ban that.
By the way, college football voted, they're going to for
the playoff, Ryan Seed totally by record. Now the champs
don't get a bye. It's by record, so we or
excuse me, by ranking, So conceivably three sec teams could
(40:29):
get buys depending on how it is. Do you like
that rule?
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yes, we don't have a Boise State Arizona State incident
where they were like, maybe you're gonna be seated eleventh
or twelfth, but they got the three seed in the
four seed. Now they're gonna be seating the way they
should be seeded.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
You.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
I got to Ryan now that both those teams, especially
boys that you got, absolutely smoked in the second round
and they had to buy.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Just see them the best top to bottom. How they
are are overall.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
And the report also is that the SEC is likely
if the if the playoff goes, four teams from the
SEC are guaranteed. The SEC is likely to do like
they do in European soccer. The one and the two
best teams make it and there's a playoff with the
three team playing the six and the four team play
in the five. Shannon, that means six SEC teams in
(41:13):
theory could make the playoff. I think that's like that
gifts Kentucky, but I'm not saying this year, but theoretically
that gives Kentucky a better shot down the line.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
In the future, there could be as you put it,
a world where Kentucky's good enough to do.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
That's when I say that's when the world where's.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Where Kentucky could make it in the future.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
So I like this, Yeah, I love it true. I
think it's a great listen. I think it's great. More
teams being it. Kentucky can finish in the top six
in the SEC They can't. I'm not saying they ever will,
but that is plausible. So that's why I love it.
Me too.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
In the old format, I'd probably live my whole life
without seeing Kentucky in the playoffs. But you you widen
it a little bit and there'll be years where they're
in the conversation. You can get over the hope and
get in.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Hey, thank you to everybody in Pineville here for having
its seriously great day. I love being here for the
Mountain Loyal Festival. It's great to be home and you
could not have a better setting and perfect day here.
Appreciate it. Appreciate all of you that made it happen
this weekend. Uh, we got some new food items at Ksbar.
What one of the things again? You want rail bird parking?
(42:24):
Get it like it's Now's the time we've looked a
bunch of gone this week, so if you want it,
now's the time. It will sell out. UH and real
birds coming next weekend. Thank you all very much. Come
down here and enjoy there your the ceremony. This is
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Now Here's Matt Jones.
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Welcome back our number two Kentucky Sports Radio. Here. The
Mountain Laurel Festival, remember the at the Queen's coronation tomorrow
Laurel Cove. And they also have a parade. You know
who the Grand Marshal of the parade is, Ryan Russ Thompson. No,
Chapel Teneus. That's Miss Kentucky. Okay here, I don't think so,
(01:26):
but you knows Smiss Kentucky. Chapel Teneus. That's a great name.
By the way, Shout out to Chapel te'es. I'm sure's
someone that knows her is listening. Shout out to her.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Yeah, a big honor being the Grand Marshal with all
the people we saw in that book that have done
it exactly right.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
The ninety fourth Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival going on right now.
Ninety four Sha well, I hope there's big plans for
the hundredth. Yeah, they gotta do something. You gotta do
something big for the hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I said on the pre show, I'm more of a
ninety fourth type of guy when it comes to these things.
You know, I want to make sure it's good and established.
We've had ninety three to make sure, this is good.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
It's the longest running in Kentucky, right, longestntinuously running.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
We're big on continuously running. We have the longest running
continuous golf course in Middlesborough in America. You remember that
run in America? Yeah? Well did see? Everybody acts like
that's great. The long the oldest continuously running golf course
in the United States is in Middlesboro, Kentucky. There were
a couple older that shut down and then they were
(02:23):
reopened like twenty years later. But if you're talking about
from start to finish, you've been able to hack up
the greens the whole time. Middlesborough Country Club it opened
in eighteen eighty seven. And I will go ahead and
tell you if you want to know who won the
nineteen eighty seven ten and undergroup, you're looking at him.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I was gonna ask you that, But there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
That is pretty amazing that that old golf course has
been around that long.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
People don't realize it's Kentucky. It's one of the many
things if you read Mitch Pleas, there are tons of
things in Kentucky that people do not realize is here
that I talked about in there, And that is one
of them you never.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Knew, Mitch. Please sticker on your car. That one's kind of.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It is something fight out over time. Before we go
to the phones, let me go to something Mark Pope
said yesterday. I asked him Drew if he thought Kentucky
after last year, needed to get more athletic, and he
shook his head and said yes that basically he did
not realize that he needed his team to be much
(03:26):
more athletic than the group where he last year, and
then he recruited to that philosophy. I think we've seen
that next year's team is loaded with athletes. Do you
think that's a positive change? Maybe give up a little
shooting to add a little athleticis definitely.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
That had a great non conference and then you get
to the SEC and Georgia was one of those first games,
and Georgia's played one of the most physical basket stales
of basketball last season. I think that many the others
were wake up call. That's why when the portal opened
he was quick to get guys that bring a lot
of toughness.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, he didn't shy away from that question at all,
And the way he answered it kind of to me
sounded like he said, look, I over underestimated the physicality
of the SEC. I will not do that anymore. We
will get athletes to compete in the SEC.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Now we were Shannon, thank you very much. We were
the least athletic team. People didn't like when I said
that last year during the season, but it was true.
We were the least athletic team in the SEC. We
went from under cow We're usually the most athletic, so
we were the least. I mean, we were still good,
but it was clear, especially when we played Alabama Auburn,
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that we just were a notch below them athletically. And
I think he felt like he had to fix that.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, and I also like getting you know, a couple
of players already within the SEC in the transfer portal
on the roster as well. So yeah, you got guys
that that can ball. Some dudes as you would call them.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
This year, Well, there just comes a point, Wheyan, when
you're playing, when you're playing against a guy who is
less skilled than you, but it's just quicker. He can
just take it by you every single time. And that
was that was that was happening to us. It was
what used to do to other teams, is what we
were getting done to us last year. I think that's
part of the reason we lost to Arkansas. Cal had
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his typical Cal team of athletes, and we just can't.
We just couldn't guard him.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The way he answered it, did you kind of take
away too, he was a little surprised by that how
physical it was.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, I see he didn't. If you watch the video.
Mario has a video on YouTube of the entire it's
at the KSR Show YouTube channel. You could if you
watch his face, it's kind of interesting. If you watch
the video with his face rhyme you were there. He
makes facial expressions that are even more pronounced than what
he says, and you could tell he agreed with that.
(05:38):
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
There are a lot of questions other you ask him
as as a fan, we would want to know. I
love the fact that he didn't shy away from it,
admitted some maybe some mistakes he made, admitted some things
he made he were wrong about, but then he had
on the other side, he got you so excited about
what could to come in the years ahead.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
One Meerson rights, Matt, you're talking about your high school
basketball career and whoever this dude Russ Thompson. Is that
beats you? That's not that's disrespectful. Russ? Whoever this dude? Rust?
He made the regional tournament at least once. How in
the world did you get on the radio talking about
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sports if you couldn't even play for your high school.
That's first of all, that's very rude and very mean.
I don't know, it's a good question.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I mean there's a lot of people though, I mean,
do you think Paul Finebaum was a premier athlete?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
You don't think played football?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They would knock him in the next week.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Who you are a golfer and a tennis player? Other sports? Basketball?
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Okay, well let's just go over it. Who are the
biggest sports media personalities? All right? Steven A. Smith? Have
you ever seen him? Shoot?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Didn't somebody find his stats?
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Who got a couple of points a game? Yeah? So
take that off the pardon my take, guys, not great athletes.
Now McAfee was a pretty good athlete, so he he
might be a little bit of an excession. Bill Simmons, No.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
What did he even do?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Dan Patrick?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh he played college basketball at EKU.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Oh actually he did, that's right.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Held the freshman free throw record. I think at EKU.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
The point is you don't have to have any talent.
And I had. I mean, you don't you saw me
when I'm I wasn't even one of its fifty best
athletes at my high school. But it doesn't it doesn't
even really matter because that's ultimately not what this is about.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Yeah, until we start showing up and they're like, we
gotta dribble while we played. I think that's a big
part of the job requirement. And most of the good
athletes would have terrible radio shows.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I could have out argued anybody in the thirteenth region.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You are a master debater.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Okay, all right, who's up next? He cannot help himself,
Jason had Jason.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Matt loved the show and listening all in since my
daughter was the freshman in the UK.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
But I was an escort in the Mount Laurel Festival.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
For Eastern Kentucky University back in ninety.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Four, So you were you were an escort. So did
your queen win the Mount Laurel Festival or did you
help throw the escort into the lake.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I helped throw the escort into the lake.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
We did the whole deal.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
We had the parade, the concert, was Martina McBride.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Oh, that's a big one, Martina McBride, wild horses, yep.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
And then we watched the fireworks on a tennis court
there in downtown Fineval somewhere.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
So it sounds like you have a good memory. It
sounds like you enjoyed it, am I right.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Oh, as you know from Kentucky. It's just one of
the you know, great things that is being a part.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Of all that.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, I remember all that's awesome. There. Came back with
some refreshments, so that's true. Just go across. Although now
you can buy alcohol here, can't you. Oh you have
to Oh it's moist, that's right. Yeah, No we're not moist.
(09:20):
Oh we're full. So you can buy alcohol here. See
that's crazy to me. I appreciate the call. The fact
that you can buy alcohol in Bell County is crazy
because he's right. You would have to go over the mountain,
which back then there was no Cumberland Gap tunnel, so
you had to go on that windy, scary road you
had to go to to to Harrogate. What was the
name of that liquor store, It was just called the
(09:40):
liquor store. That's how you tunnel two that's right. The
name was Tunnel too. I think my man's been there
a few times. He knows exactly what you really remember.
Tunnel Too. By the way, I feel like this has
turned into just me talking about high scho Did I
hear the oasis burned down? Dude? That makes me sad?
(10:01):
That was what was the isis was the one honky
tonk in Harrogate where but they had good pizza right
when I went over there. I wouldn't tell my mom.
I'd say we were going to Shoney's, but.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Uh yeah, it's on a Friday night.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
We're going to all high school kids.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Who's up next? They did have a good breakfast bar.
You're right about that. Go ahead, Bobby, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Thought I didn't hear any play his name. Sorry. I
was calling because I was wondering if you brought your
golf club down to play Wazzi out of Winds. But
I heard you're going to the Reds game today.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Yeah, I don't get to playing. I passed it though.
Wasioa Winds an under ranked course in Kentucky. Very nice
when it's not flooding. It is a very really nice course.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Go ahead, yeah, we uh yeah, we went down there
and took a fellows trip, like twelve of us a
couple of years ago when stated at the Pine Mountain
Lodge and went there. And then when you were talking
about because we were looking for somewhere to go after
we played golf, and they're like, well, there ain't no
place to go around here, you know, to get drinks
and stuff. So we went over to arigatd some little
hole in the wall face and we were a bunch
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of Kentucky and Louisville fans, but we.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Got them to put the.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
TVs on Conserna.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Kentucky and Louisville.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
We're playing football, not to get each other, but and
all these Tennessee fans are looking at us.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Like what a new world?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Or yeah, you can't trust Tennessee fans. That's yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Just one of the questions was, because I know you
played a little golf, but what's your five favorite public
courses in.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
The state of Oh that's a great question. I appreciate
the call five favorite public courses in Kentucky. So you're
gonna have to help me with that. Boy, that's a
good question. I mean the state park resort court, what's
the one we used to do the show up at
it Prestonsburg, Prestonsburg. That's a nice, beautiful course of the
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Stone Crest Stone Crest is that that's in in in Prestonsburg. Okay,
you got Wasiota? I think's really good. There's what's the
one in Bowling Green, not not Old Stone, but the
other one that's there? What?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Oh that one is popular? Mammoth Yes, Mammoth.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Park you know in Louisville, isn't Uh, Persimmon Ridge is
public and that is a really good one in uh
in Louisville. Well, the well, actually, I think the place
we're having the KSR Golf Scramble next week, the U Club,
the University Club. Billy, you're a big golfer. Public courses.
Kearney Hills has a history, had a Senior PGA Tour
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event there a long time ago. Oh was Persimmon private? Okay,
we'll take that out. I'll tell you what though, somebody
righte me the ones because a lot of the pub
They redid a lot of these public national park courses
around the state, and some of them are really nice.
I just I haven't played a ton of them.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I really want to play the one he mentioned I
think it's called Park Mammoth. We had it backwards. That
one's become really popular. I don't know if they've redone
it recently, but that that should be on the list.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Oh, the Madisonville City Park is fun to me.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I don't know if we're.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Gonna be top five. Park Mammoth.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yeah, I think that's what's called.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Oh you were saying Madisonville City Park.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Not quite, but that, of course is called park Mammoth.
I think it is a really popular one.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
One person writes Matt, how did Paul Finebom get famous?
I don't know anybody who knows less on television when
somebody's he got it. He didn't create a blog, but
he just had. He was a newspaper writer, had a
local Alabama newspaper call and they gave him radio show,
and now he's I mean, there's not a nerdier person
(13:36):
that talks about sports anywhere there.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You're right, No, there's not. And if it weren't for
his callers, I don't know what that show would be.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I really don't.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
I don't listen a lot, but when I do, I
feel like he doesn't ever like give his opinion. He's
just kind of letting people go and all it, kind
of driving it rather than.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
You remember when he came to the bar. I don't
know if you all have ever met him. He is
the skinniest person on the plane. Little guy like he
is the littlest human being. He's short, but he also
his arms are like, yeah, tiny, he is like it
looks like he's gonna break in half.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And then the order like a grilled chicken salad with
no salad dress.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
He asked for a grilled chicken salad. He said, hold
the cheese, hold the dressing. So we gave him like
lettuce and chicken and he picked. He ate it by hand.
He I mean, have you ever seen money eat a
salad with their fingers? That's exactly what he did. He
would just pick little pieces and eat it with us.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
A dry salad is exactly how it would describe the
Paul Fine.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Basically, there is a dry salad.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That was the first show to tap into a fan base.
Though you know he kinda paid the way.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
I love how much you hate what's the other? Hate him?
But what's the other guy? Then you hate Sally Barrett
Barrett salad.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I don't even know how that guy goes he's a
Braves guy now.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Yeah, eight twenty two eighty seven corn Brand Hemp. I
don't know if they sell that down here, the Seltzers,
but they should. Cornbread Hip Seltzers. You got the peacht,
you got the watermelon, you got the berry. They have
just a little bit of the THHC in it, but
we're not talking about that. It is the Seltzer drink.
(15:12):
You've loved it, Channing. They're gonna be selling it next
Friday during Railbird or next Friday and Saturday in our
ks Bar parking lot. Until then you can learn more.
Go to Cornbread Hemp dot com. We're gonna take a
break and be right back here at the Mount Laurel Festival.
This is KSR walking back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio
here at the Mount Laurel Festival. Seems like drew. The
(15:35):
universal picks on the text machine for best public golf
course are Dale Hollow and uh Park Mammoth. Yeah, those
are the two that come up the most on the list.
There are other ones on here, including Big Blue at
the UK Club, Houston Oaks, Cherry Blossom, but the ones
lots of votes for Dale Hollow and Park Mammoth dal
Hollow's is that it del Hollow soon? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I've been wanting to go to the
park Man with Well. I hear so many good things
about that, like it's just a fun course.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
One person. Right, Shannon's never said anything more true than
his fine bomb dry salad comparison exactly how I would
describe him and everything that happens on his show Boy.
Everybody's being mean here, Shannon to Paul Finebaum today, Well, you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Know, I mean, the callers are exciting, they are entertaining.
That's the best thing he's got going for him.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
I want to I want to thank the Pineville School
senior class for bringing us some great limonade and the
other group that gave us I don't have the name,
but they live for that. Lemonade's awesome.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
I don't know what they put in the senior class
Pineville lemonade. That's the best lemonade on the planet. There's
a little strawberry. I don't know what's going on in there.
That is fantastic.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Ryan the Kentucky Colonels, who probably almost no one sitting
here remembers maybe a couple you remember them. Yesterday was
the fiftieth anniversary of the Kentucky Colonels winning the title. Yep,
they won the tie in nineteen seventy five, fifty years
ago yesterday. And I have to tell you, as somebody
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who really appreciates Kentucky basketball history, et cetera, I feel
like I don't know enough about the Colonels because I
feel like there's a lot of stories with them. Hubie
Brown was the coach, YEP, Artist Gilmore played on the
team and others. Uh fifty years ago a you know,
a professional sports title was in the state of Kentuck.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I actually remember it because they played the Indiana Pacers
in the finals, and the Pacers, who you know, with
their dominating team, and the Kentucky Colonels of all people,
came up and beat him. Didn't didn't Danissel play for
him for a short term?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
And look, Dan did Dan Ansel play when they won
the title.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I don't know if he was on that team because
I think he was on.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
The Nuggets then, but they did have Dan Aissel for
a little while with dampier Artist Gilmore I think was
their main the main guy. Yeah, so congratulations.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You know, there was a push for a long time
to bring the Colonels back.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Whatever happened to that.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
They're still actively what do you mean there was a
push trying to give me to get Yeah, I mean
they still would like to have it, but I think
a lot of that, unfortunately, will wither out with Junior
Bridgeman's death. He was a huge part of Junior Bridgeman.
You know, it's like the richest former NBA player ever
and he I think was a big part of Ryan
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trying to get that. I worry that that flame will
kind of extinguish now.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That that's disappointing because they had a lot of momentum
there for a while. It looked like Louisville was in
the hunt to maybe get a franchise at some point.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah, right, And I were listening to Tom Leach on
the way here. Did he say that they the Colonels
would ocasually play Memorial and like Moses Malone debuted there,
Doctor j would play there.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
That's like a really cool history that it's just not
that you know, you just don't you don't You don't
hear a lot about one person, writes Matt next year,
Let's assume we played Duke in the Uh in the
in the game and Ruppery in the a SEC challenge
between Michigan State, Duke, Louisville and Saint John's. Which of
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those games would you look forward to? Well, I throw
Michigan stayed out. That's fourth. I mean, if Duke's playing
in Roup, it's gonna be number one for me. I mean,
if Duke's playing in RUB, that's the biggest non conference
game in RUB since I don't even know when. If again,
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and I'm not saying they are, but if the ACC
challenge work UK Duke and Rub, that would be the
biggest non conference game since win.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Maybe when Patino and Louisville came in to play Cal.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I think Cal last year is one of the biggest ever.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
But that's conference non conference. You know, you might be right.
It might be the first Patino col Louisville game. I
mean that's I mean, that's fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, you know, and before that was probably when Patino
came in, and when when Tubby and Patino played each other.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I you know, we we've played Kansas a few times,
but we had played him a bunch. We played UCLA once.
The first time they came. I feel like that was
a pretty big deal. And they beat us with Lonzo,
But I Drew, I think it would be the biggest.
I don't know, it'd be the biggest in a long
long time.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Yeah, I mean, we play him a lot in the
Champions Classic, but to have that Duke brand in rub area,
that would make it pretty special no matter how they look.
And they will be good next year. They added Dame
sorry yesterday. They have a good team. I think that'd
be one of the biggest games.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
And that's Olivier sars brother right, No, okay, never mind,
it would be I don't think so. He's the one.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
When Kentucky was reaching out to him, they put on
a graphic that he's considering Kentucky University. So we're a
little little iffy on the translation there, but he's a
good gume.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Are you excited about the game in Louisville next year
with Kentucky? Yeah, I mean that's they they haven't They're
gonna be good.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I mean that that could be two top ten teams
playing right there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
We gotta I agree with you in that interview that
you had with Pope. We gotta get Pope to spice
up that rivalry a little bit. With Pat Kelsey, I know,
like he's like, oh, I hate nobody believes that we
gotta I don't know what it's gonna take to get it.
I don't know if it'll ever get back to Patino
Caliperi level.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
I want you to think about for a second what
next year's schedule is. Let's just look at the preseason
top ten. You're gonna play in the preseason top ten.
There's a very good chance Duke will be in it.
There's a very good chance Saint John's will be in it.
There's a pretty good chance Louisville, if not in the
top ten, will be at least in the top twelve
or fifteen. Florida is gonna be in it. Perdue, who
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we play in an exhibition is gonna be in it.
We are probably gonna be in it. So I mean
six or seven of the top ten are either Kentucky
or teams Drew that we play on our schedule next year.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Non conference schedules awesome, and then the conference schedule two
But like Gonzaga won't be top ten, but that'll be
a big game. They're bringing that Graham ek back who
scores like thirty points a game. In this current series
we have with them. We are third fourth time seeing him.
Of all the ones to get excited about, that one,
my be number one on on this just because it's
a Friday night in Nashville. That's such unique circumstances.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I didn't even mention ga I might do my first.
I mean, when's the last time, when's the last time
we played a regular season game in Nashville that wasn't
against Vandy.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I looked it up at the time. I think it's
like never, maybe long time ago. They've had a few
n CUAA tournament games there, but not anything like this.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, I know the schedule is not complete yet, but
there are very few throwaway games so far on this
hardly any at all.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Well, I want to give Mark Pope al lot of credit.
This fan base wants those games, and he says he's playing,
and so I give him a lot of credit. He
understands that, like this is entertainment. You got to give
the fans what they want. Who's next, boy voice, Shannon,
here we go.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
I'm mist wondering that if if kim to a forty games,
I'll say Mark Holpe has down half to go to
a fifteen game.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Man, you can't go to a twenty man roster because though, yeah,
aren't you worried about the uh you know the gold protectors.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Yeah, you can't. She didn't had bent me. He was
gonna ask about rim protector. You can't have twenty players.
Voice when the maximums fifteen, We'll be right back. This
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Speaker 3 (23:26):
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Speaker 4 (23:30):
Here's not Joe.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Quarter Back, it is Kentucky Sports Radio. You know what, Liam,
I'm kind of a fan of your music choices. I'm
not gonna lie little Loretta Lynn fift City. I don't
know what she says. If you take her, man, she's
gonna take you to fist City. I think that's a
pretty good, pretty good lie. At dude, you find me
(23:52):
in nineteen, what is this seventy seventy one, I'm trying
to date Loretta Lynn? I mean she is, she might
get fish, she might take me to fist City. But
that's that's kind of why I wanted dat shit.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
And the yeah, you like a good strong woman, your.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Type, That's that's something Russ I wouldn't have said if
my mom was here today. A five nine uh two
a oh twenty two eighty seven text machine is seven
seven two seven seven four five two five four. Dan
Essel and Louis Dampier were on the nineteen seventy five
title team along with artist Gilmore. That's a pretty good team.
(24:29):
Now you can see how they won the ton.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's an awesome team to have at that point. So
I'm trying to think, did they play at Freedom Hall?
Did they play their home games for they play?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I think they did. Did they Yeah? Didn't they play?
You were? You said you were? They play at Freedom Hall?
I assume they did. Yeah, So UK Baseball all right,
So they are on the bubble of the tournament. There's
a couple of things to watch. I look this up
last night, Drew. We need the teams that are already
in to win their conferences. So one thing to watch
(24:58):
Texas sand and I know Texas San Antonio Is apparently
has a great record already in the tournament, but they
got upset in the first round of the what is
it Conference USA or American tournament, but it's double elimination.
We need them to win because they may take one
of our burths. Then there's a couple other teams like that.
We need Yukon to win their tournament because they might
(25:21):
take a berth, But we are right on the bubble,
like one of the last two or three teams in
Kentucky may literally be the team that is the last
team in. Unlike the NCAA tournament where they have a
play in, they don't have that in baseball. But we're
gonna need some help over the next couple of.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Days, and in our own conference, we need A and
M to lose. They as the fourteen seed, have now
won two games, and if TDed Kentucky and SEC wins,
Kentucky still has the slight edge. But if they were
going another round in the SEC, we'd start to worry.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I watched them. We didn't win the series over there,
we got that.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
But I watched them beat Auburn yesterday, and as soon
as the game ended on the SEC broadcast, they said,
if you're watching it home in Kentucky, and I thought, wait,
they're talking to me. They said, this is a nightmare
situation for you.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
With A and M went another one.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
I think that's a little extreme, But if A and
M were to win today or go on to the championship.
That could be something.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
So roots for Texas and Antonio to win, and root
for Texas A and m to lose. Otega away. Ryan
has until Wednesday to decide for the draft. Almost every
indication says he'll come back. There's really no I've yet
to see anything to suggest he's even a second round pick,
(26:28):
much less a first round pick. But still, I'll feel
a lot better when the official announcement is made that
he's going to come back.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Yeah, he's doing the right thing.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
He's going through the process so he'll be better prepared
for next year.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You don't have any worry that he well, I don't
like to ask you because when you guarantee stuff, it
doesn't happen. Do you have any worry Drew that he
will not come back?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
No, I haven't really had to worry the whole process.
This is what he should do. Honestly, he should take
it to the final day. He should go to as
many team interviews and workouts as he possibly can.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
It's good for him.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
But I haven't seen a single mock draft that has
him as a as a second round pick, So I
don't know why you would turn down the money in
Lexington on a you know, chasing something that might not
be there.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I did also think yesterday it was interesting Mark Pope said,
we have fourteen guys. You only have fourteen, Shandon if
you had Otegoway. Right, So I'm going to assume he
believes at least very likely to reach Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I mean, nothing's ever a guarantee, but I mean, if
you're Otaga away, life is good in Lexington. You can
come back, have another year, make a lot of money,
and then go to the NBA.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
I don't have the salary in front of me, but
I looked it up and I think it's like from
what I have heard Otega always making. And remember I
don't believe the money that gets out publicly. I think
it's always less than they say. But I do think
I know what Otega is making, and it's pretty good.
He would have to get picked Drew kind of at
(27:51):
the upper half of the first round to get more
money than he's gonna get. So I don't see any
way he doesn't come back. Maybe I'll be surprised, but
he shocked if he did.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Yeah, and a guy like him, a competitor, he believes
in himself that he could go back and rise his stock.
I mean, it's unlikely he becomes a lights out three
point shooter that would need to get in the first round.
But if he returns to school, he should have in
his head that that's the plan to climb into the
first round the following year. So I'd take the money
that's on the table now in Lexington and worry about
the NBA next summer.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Shannon, you said there's a thread on our bond that bridge,
that's the KSR Facebook page, yep, of things they say
that like beautiful and special, Mark Pope says all the time.
You said, there's a list of things that people say
I say all the time. Yep.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
This is Fred.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I'm gonna see if I agree with Fred.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
On the bond that Bridge facebook page says, you guys
give Pope such a hard time with all these words
he overuses. So he said, if he were to make
a KSR Bengo card of a list of things of
things that he hears repeatedly on KSR every day, here
would be the list.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
He says.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
I appreciate, appreciate the.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Call off, definitely, that's center square.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I'm not gonna lie, you know, I do say that
lie and.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
But but but the implication then is that I'm lying
the rest of the time I talk, which is not
a good implication. But yes, I do say that a lot.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It makes me sad that the next one is I'm
not gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
It makes me sad.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
I don't say them together.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
That's sounding like a bear when he quotes a Republican a.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Bear, you know, And that's when I do my voice.
But it's not Republicans, it's just anybody that criticizes me.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
But go ahead, And then it gets into Ryan's chicken
chicken pow wow master debater.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, and chili bumps. But do you want to add
to the list.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I do really hate when you say chili bumps because
it's not a thing, and it does drive me crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
We all know what I'm talking about. You get those
chili bumps up and down your arm?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Who's next? Liam, Dennis? Dennis? Go ahead, Dennis.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
How's everybody doing that?
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Man doing great? I can't hear me now, I got you.
I could hear you before.
Speaker 11 (30:04):
All right, Hey, you very watch out the run the
little take to the woodshed.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
That's what I'm hoping for. But go ahead. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 11 (30:16):
You're seeing Kentucky's. But I have an idea. Man, if
it could be pulled off, you you guys there could
pull this off. And that is a forty eight hour
state wise softball extraffick cancer, No, thank you?
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Well I know I'm not even a softful Why would I?
Speaker 9 (30:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Are these queen contestants by the way, escorts all bout here? Everything?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Which one of you guys are going on the river?
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I appreciate the call. What score are you from? Mary State? Oh,
University of Kentucky? We have our official UK. Yeah, I
give them around the bus. Are you all required to
walk around escorting them all over town? Because this is you're.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Not a bad gig though, right, we're not complaining.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
All right? Well, good luck? Are you having a good
time here in Pineville? Content? Good? I'm glad. Well, if
they don't they russy, you won't local people, local people
house there right during the thing. That's very cool. That's
a very cool, uh cool thing. Well, you guys enjoy
yourselves there, you are all the queen context.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, let's go walk around town. Shannon be my escort.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
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(32:10):
And that's it? Oh? Where are you? Northern? There? You go?
Look at this day. All the Kentucky colleges they get
a nominee here and isn't done nice?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And for ninety four years they've been doing the same thing,
representing all the colleges here.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
One of you is going to be the new Wanda
Lee and get the queen this year. We'll take a
break and be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
Oh stop, welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Dude.
I mean, Liam is just killing the music. There ain't
(32:42):
no getting over me. Ronnie mill Sap, Ronnie mill Sap,
I think he played in Bell County once. His Ronnie Millsaps,
head of Sounds, dad was my preacher, and that he
always said he would bring Ronney Millsap to our church
to sing hymns, and he ever did. But nevertheless, I
like Rodney Millstep because of the theory he could have
(33:04):
come to our church Ryan to see hims, even though
he never did.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
He is a Kentucky guy, right, isn't he from Kentucky? No,
I thought he was.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
I don't think so. I could be wrong, but I
don't think so.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
But it is the mystery that any Sunday he could
just show up. But I get excited every time.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
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(33:43):
the barbecue sauce at Red State Barbecue dot com. Before
we go to the phone, this is Memorial Day weekend.
I do want to take a second to say, I
guess because I've been watching Ryan all these military like
the Ben Laden thing and the documentary Memorial Days kind
of the official start of summer. People gonna be out
(34:03):
on the lake, people are gonna have fun. Take a
minute and remember those who have sacrificed their lives so
that we can be here and do things like this
on Memorial Day. It's a great holiday. But also remember
why we have it.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Probably everybody sitting here, all of us know somebody that
was affected by the war, maybe passed away in the war.
So yeah, that's we need to take time out just
to honor those people, men and women across the country.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Yeah, he did not pass the war, but my grandfather
was a veteran. I got up this morning and I
left I left middles or left Pine Mountain State Park
to drive to Middlesborough and go to my grandparents' graves
this morning for a Memorial Day as he was a veteran.
And hope everybody gets a chance to take a second
and to do something like that over the course of
(34:48):
the weekend. Who's up next, Stanley, Stanley, go ahead, Stanley.
Speaker 10 (34:54):
Hey, Matt, this is an old thirteenth region boy.
Speaker 8 (34:57):
Welcome back home.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
And you've got a special guests in the crowd to night,
Sonny and she works for the SEC network.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Look at Sonny Ann with the SEC Network. Nice Sonny.
End when you do me a favor, will you tell
them to turn the volume up when they're in Rupparena
so we could hear that crowd during the games for
the SEC Network.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Paul fi Bama said, Hi, I'm more worried about you
know what, when you were talking about Paul fie Mom.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I saw her, Mario, don't take her picture when we're
talking about but I could tell something was like that.
All right, go ahead, sir.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Yeah, that's about all I got.
Speaker 11 (35:35):
Man her Sting there was with her, Patfaf Sonny.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Well there's Sonny. Yes, Sonny was talking about the colonel.
So I appreciate, appreciate the call.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
You look at you. You never know who you got
city out here.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
You never know about. This is a great crowd here.
By the way, Uh, the festival goes. What is it
today or tomorrow. Oh, Sunday is well today tomorrow and
perfect weather. You couldn't. You could not ask for perfect weather,
not hot perfect. Who's next, Martin, Martin? Go ahead, Martin?
Speaker 8 (36:05):
Hey man, how are you doing that?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Doing great?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Better than your phone connection?
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (36:09):
You guys are patching on the A B A because
the colonel uh uh, I remember you pointed a problem
with them. And I was about twelve and thirteen. My uncle,
who was the food in UK, put me to a
game a mem oil color fem before your tennis and
I pop, we bring me in a paper. But they
did have damn anpel. They had Louis Anser some reason.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Nothing.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
They may had Jude dan Connor and then picking my
ringing for some reasons. But uh, that's all my first
reverse done.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
I'm sorry man, your phone. Appreciate your fine, I appreciate
car I want to hear it, but your phone is
just too bad. I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
I don't want. I guess.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
You get you do not like when people's phone.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
It's twenty twenty five. How do we have connections that
sound like that?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Oh I saw yesterday they put out a story you
shouldn't text between iPhones and green textures because there's like
it's not safe going from I message. Oh it's androids.
So Ryan is putting us at a security risk in
every group check.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
You know what you are the reason we're falling behind
China's people like you making us text to green texts.
Team Android. Let's go across to tem Android. By the way,
my Matt Jones podcast, we put two episodes this week
week up. If you are kind of roaming around looking
for something to do. Ryan McGee talks car racing and
(37:42):
college football and he's a good Southern guy. You'll like him.
And my friend Crystal Ball it's more of a political talk.
But even though you probably a lot of you will
disagree with her, I promise you you'll like her. She's
a reasonable person. Those two things rying are up for people.
If you want to listen this weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Well, I think people were excited to hear started this
start up again because it was really good the first time.
Kind of a lengthy interview. You get to know these people.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
Still number one, like four straight days on the Apple charts,
still number one. Thanks to Billy for helping that and
all of those interviews are also available on video as well.
Who's next Shane from Grayson, Shane and Grayson. How are
you Shane?
Speaker 10 (38:18):
Hey Fellers, how's it going to Thay?
Speaker 5 (38:20):
I'm doing great? Failler.
Speaker 10 (38:23):
Hey, I got small town controversy. I want you to
jump in.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I like a good small town controversy. What is it?
Speaker 10 (38:30):
Okay, tomorrow we have a big prey uptown, two thousand
people to show up. This town is going crazy over
the candy deal.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
The candy deal.
Speaker 10 (38:40):
What's the candy? Well, when they come down to the prey,
they've always thrown candy out into the street.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
You know, Yeah, they throw candy. That's exactly right. I've
been to ones where they throwed the candy and it's good.
It's good. The kids love it. They get to run
and get it. Yep.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
Well they've fanned that this year here in Grayson. They're
not gonna get kids run out in the street.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
Oh why did they? Why did they mean it?
Speaker 10 (39:06):
Well, they just say that they last year they had
run out too far in the street and they all
they almost got hid sod. They from you know, dangerous and.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
You have the same issue that's wide open. See. See
here's the thing. Great, here's what you need to tell
the leaders of Grayson. Here in Pineville, we believe in freedom.
They throw candy the kids and they let them run
out in the straight and street and get it. You
need to not make Grayson become socialist. We don't want that, Shane,
(39:37):
this nanny state of not allowing uh not allowing kids
to go get the candy. So you you need to
get that law changed.
Speaker 10 (39:46):
All right, I'll send them down. I'll let them know
the orders from headquarters.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Get can thank you very much, Shamee.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Shanna's got the answer.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
We need better arms. Run out in the streets.
Speaker 6 (39:59):
That's part of being I remember the Christmas prey in Madisonville.
You run out, you get a little too close to
a truck tire, your parents yell, then you go do
it again. You're always chasing the candy they're throwing around.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Yeah, and it's always the same kids that get all
the candy. But nevertheless, yeah, you can't you can't ban that.
By the way, college football voted, they're going to for
the playoff, Ryan Seed totally by record. Now the champs
don't get a bye. It's by record, so we or
excuse me, by ranking, So conceivably three sec teams could
(40:29):
get buys depending on how it is. Do you like
that rule?
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yes, we don't have a Boise State Arizona State incident
where they were like, maybe you're gonna be seated eleventh
or twelfth, but they got the three seed in the
four seed. Now they're gonna be seating the way they
should be seeded.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
You.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
I got to Ryan now that both those teams, especially
boys that you got, absolutely smoked in the second round
and they had to buy.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Just see them the best top to bottom. How they
are are overall.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
And the report also is that the SEC is likely
if the if the playoff goes, four teams from the
SEC are guaranteed. The SEC is likely to do like
they do in European soccer. The one and the two
best teams make it and there's a playoff with the
three team playing the six and the four team play
in the five. Shannon, that means six SEC teams in
(41:13):
theory could make the playoff. I think that's like that
gifts Kentucky, but I'm not saying this year, but theoretically
that gives Kentucky a better shot down the line.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
In the future, there could be as you put it,
a world where Kentucky's good enough to do.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
That's when I say that's when the world where's.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Where Kentucky could make it in the future.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
So I like this, Yeah, I love it true. I
think it's a great listen. I think it's great. More
teams being it. Kentucky can finish in the top six
in the SEC They can't. I'm not saying they ever will,
but that is plausible. So that's why I love it.
Me too.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
In the old format, I'd probably live my whole life
without seeing Kentucky in the playoffs. But you you widen
it a little bit and there'll be years where they're
in the conversation. You can get over the hope and
get in.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Hey, thank you to everybody in Pineville here for having
its seriously great day. I love being here for the
Mountain Loyal Festival. It's great to be home and you
could not have a better setting and perfect day here.
Appreciate it. Appreciate all of you that made it happen
this weekend. Uh, we got some new food items at Ksbar.
What one of the things again? You want rail bird parking?
(42:24):
Get it like it's Now's the time we've looked a
bunch of gone this week, so if you want it,
now's the time. It will sell out. UH and real
birds coming next weekend. Thank you all very much. Come
down here and enjoy there your the ceremony. This is
Man Kentucky Sports Radio will be back Tuesday after Memorial
Day
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