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Speaker 2 (01:39):
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Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, well good, that's very good. All right. So a
couple of players that I think are at least worthy
of honorable mentions that I think we forget how popular
they were when they were here. Darius Miller.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
People forget, you know, how much people loved him because
he's from Kentucky. And I'll tell you a guy that
at one point was his below does any of these
people and then unfortunately got overshadowed a little bit at
the end, is Patrick Patterson. Yes, I mean Patrick Patterson,
you know, at the end and here comes Wall and
Cousins and but you know, especially in the Billy g years,
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he was kind of the rock of the of the
of the fan base.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh before the cal Era I'm probably putting him on
my Mount Rushmore of uk players. He was so big
in that run when I mean the basketball wasn't as
good with Billy, but Patrick was a big star. And
as you know from the early KSR day is a
huge signing, big recruitment. Everyone followed.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Here's a good question. This will be my Kentucky branded
question of the day, Matt. Outside of the National Championship
for a win and outside of the Wisconsin game for
a loss, what col Era game made you the happiest
and which one made you the saddest? All right, saddest
is easy. Carolina twenty seventeen, because I love that team.
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I think we're the second best team in the country,
and I got so after the game.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
That'll make you sad, That'll make you really sad.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So Carolina twenty seventeen is mine. The two times we
lost to Yukon in the twenty fourteen title and the
twenty eleven or game, I kind of felt like we
were fortunate to be there too, so it didn't bother
me quite as much. But twenty seventeen, I think we
were the second best team, and I think if we'd
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won that game, we'd won the title. The one that
made me the happiest, if you're just talking about in
the moment, beating Louisville in twenty fourteen in the Sweet sixteen,
just the atmosphere of that game, I was certain we
were gonna lose. That was their beloved repeat national champion attempt.
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We were all freshman. It was in Indianapolis, so both
fan bases were there in mass If you're just talking
about in the moment, that was probably the game that
made me the happiest. What about you?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And you almost got no a fight before the game,
and the preame show.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Woman almost threw up on me during the pregame show.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yes, I'm gonna say that the happiest I've been. I
think it's the best regular season college basketball game I've
ever seen was Kentucky North Carolina in Vegas. All Right,
that was incredible, and I was so happy that I
think we know we watched it. We witnessed something special. Yeah,
and the saddest I think just happened. I think losing
to Oakland because I think I knew cal Era is over.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's an interesting answer.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, I think it's over. I think it just got that.
That one probably affected me more because I just realized
things will never be the same.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, you know what, that's a That's actually a good
one because I sit there with Drew that whole second
half and I thought, if we lose, this is over. Yeah,
It's just over. And there was a that was ill.
Remember that hour between the game and the postgame show
for a long time trying to think about like what
am I gonna say? Like, yeah, no, it's a good one.
What about you?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Uh, you all have already said most of mine. I'm
gona agree on Carolina and the louisvill one. But I
had beating Louisville in the final four of New Orleans
just because if we had los to them wearing those
stupid infrared jerseys and then we had to spend the weekend
with them in New Orleans while they're having fun, that
one felt good. I'll add the Auburn loss in the
Elite A with hero in that group, I thought they
had turned a corner. And then you lose to Auburn
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when their best player was like in a wheelchair and
it's sweaty Bruce Pearl over there. That one stung, as
did pretty much every SEC tournament lost the last couple
of years when we can't even get to the weekend.
Those kill me because that's such a fun weekend. Yeah,
A and m Vandy, you name it. It's just it's
like our first thing in March. Everyone travels, it's so
much fun. And here recently the chair got pulled out
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from under. So I'll add pick any of them in
the conference turn.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
By the way, I probably second for me in sadness
is West Virginia in twenty ten. Yes, because I love
that team so much and it felt like we were
never even in that game for a lot of it.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
What about you, anytime you beat Losville in the NCAA tournament,
that's got to be one of the happiest wins we're
gonna have as a Kentucky fan. So I'll share your
ciniment in that. And then I guess the saddest would
probably I could go along with the Oakland loss, but
probably the Saint Peter's loss because it was the first
time I'd ever seen anything like that happen. By the
time we got to the Oakland loss, we've just seen
that a couple of years ago. But the shock of
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the Saint Peter's loss was the worst.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I think that's a good point. The Oakland game, we
kind of in the back of our heads knew it
was a possibility. The Saint Peter's game came out of nowhere. Yeah,
you know what I mean. I mean the Saint Peter's game.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Nobody saw that company because Kentucky doesn't lose in the
first round, and they definitely don't lose the fifteen seeds
except I Eagle.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I Eagle is the one person who said.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What's wrong with cow?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Like, what's Yeah? Well, it turns out he knew something,
all right. Who's up next?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Got Chris up next?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Chris? Go ahead, Chris?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Hey, guys, real quick on the Brady Roast. My two
cents on why he did it, Uh well, it was
produced by One nine Productions, his production company, and I
think they alluded to doing more.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Row so, but that's even lamer. If his production company
did it, and then he's gonna complain about doing it,
that's even lamer for him to do. I mean, I
I agree, yeah, I mean, look, I'm a brady hater
a little bit just you know, again, he's too handsome.
It shouldn't be allowed. But I but there's also a
little bit of I feel like he kind of threw
(07:20):
those people under the bus with well my kids when
you were the one that agreed to it. But go
ahead and then on the.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Club Bluenil dot com. You've got according to the website,
you got twelve hours, forty nine minutes and twenty nine
seconds to still make the event by donating.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Okay, yeah, so somebody, I'm glad you said that. Thank you.
I appreciate the call. Somebody came up to me and
show and showed that I thought yesterday was the last day.
Apparently today is the last day. So you do still
have twelve hours to do it according to the website.
So if you want to come to that event, uh,
there's still time to make it happen.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Right, little bonus time, little extra time to get in
born and get on that because I think momentum has
kind of really gathered here this week. People want to
be a part of this that's coming up in June.
So well, now you still got a chance.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Who's up next?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Got Terry up next?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Terry, go ahead, Terry.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Yeah, guys, it's the first time I've been on since
Pope was announced as a coach. I just want to
say that, other than throwing the brinks truck at Dan Hurley,
Pope was my choice because I bet BYU a lot
last year, and I watched a lot of their games
and just to watch them play. They move the ball
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around your heads on a swivel. They got multiple guys
that can shoot. They play, they play. They're underrated on
their defense. I know in the Big Twelve they didn't
show out as well defensively, but against the teams they
should beat, They're really really tough defense defensively. People that
are still on the fence, fans that are still on
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the fence, let me tell you, go watch some BYU games.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
We got the good, We got a good he.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Might have been the greatest coach we could get. We
got a good coach. And people that are still on
the fence on Jackson Robinson, don't beat that guy will
be the best player on our team if we get him.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Thanks. Agree with everything you said, Terry, I mean, if
you I also bet on a number of BYU games
last year, and you know they're their variance level can
be high, Drew, because if they're missing the way they play,
if they're missing threes, it's tough. But I think that's
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why they went and got all those defensive players, because
last year, when they were not hitting threes, they bad
teams could beat them. But now they've gone and got
three good defensive players that if they're not hitting threes,
I still think they can win a game sixty one
point fifty seven, whereas last year I don't think they
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had the players to do that. The other thing is
when you talk about that hiring, you gotta go back
and see think about how it played out when Drew
and Hurley said no, and our administration and I don't
mean Mitch, I mean people above him said you can't
talk to Bruce Pearl or Nate Oates. Would you rather
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have Shaka Smart than Mark Pope? No, So I mean
that was the choice at that point.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, And I think at least I underestimated how much
the nostalgia and having one of us back would be.
Like I knew there'd be a little bit Pope obviously
having that connection to ninety six, but I did not
see how people would immediately go all in the day
after complaining on Twitter and then do what they did
on Sunday. I even typed up a little list coaches
I wanted. I think I had Pope tenth pretty far
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down the list, but I, like everyone else, I flipped quickly,
quickly underestimating how he'd be able to do this with
the support he'd get, with the nil and everything else
he's done in these this first month.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Uh, Shane, and I have two things that were specifically
for you. Okay. Number one, Red Lobster is expected to
clare bankruptcy.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Next, No, I love Red Lobster. The Cheddar biscuits are
the absolute best. So they're all of them. Does that
mean every.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well, well, I mean bankruptcy doesn't mean you're gonna close.
It means they restructure, and so that means some of
them may stay, but they're going to close a lot
of them. And they are. They're declaring bankrupts.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Did you see what actually did it? They tried to
do endless shrimp. Well, whatever it was, they lost like millions,
maybe even billions on their endless shrimp campaigns. When backfired.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They underestimated the appetite of the fat they asked underestimated
how much people would eat their shrimp. Yeah, Drew's right.
They lost that one promo, did it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You know there was a time that Red Lobster on
Nicholasville Road you had to wait an hour minimum. You
could not get in. You had to wait an hour.
But now you go, you can get right in. I
mean it is and there's one I hear in Hamburg,
there's one right across the street.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was weird about that, is It's not like people
quit like and see food. Yeah, right, it is surprising,
but we America has completely deserted the sit down chain.
They've just completely outside of like Texas Roadhouse, they have
completely deserted the sit down chain. And it seems like
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it happened really quick, you know.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Yeah, I mean I don't know if it was maybe
a factor of COVID. You know, they got people out
of those habits of going out.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And they tried other stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Possibly possibly, but I mean it good shrimp.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, I mean, like all those places, the group that.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Took them down, I guess it's partly my fault for
supporting it.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
All right, Second thing, did you see in the Florida
Marlins game? Two nights ago, a man caught two foul
balls in the same game.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, back to back, two straight pitches, two straight pitches,
got caught two straight foul balls.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
The chances of that happening are apparently one in fifteen million.
So what do you if you're that guy?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Play the lottery. I mean, I've been to a lot
of baseball games at you know, different levels. I've never
caught a foul ball one really hit close to me before.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I had one hit my hand this year.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Really from what in your seats or where you walk
where I sit, I think most people call that a drop.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
All right, now you watch it, okay, I mean I'm
not trying to well, I'll explain to me, but so
you know where I sit, Yeah, you actually don't get
a lot of them, like a big netting instead of
big nets so it has to be a foul ball
way up in the air and straight back down, so
you don't I've probably had three come near me in
nine years, but we had I had one come and
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you know, the road behind me is like a handicap seed, right,
so you know you're not gonna try to steal those, right,
So I the ball comes and I reach back, and
I it like it was behind me enough that I
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couldn't like dove out.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
But but but how far do you want to go
to get a foul ball? And if you catch that
foul ball, I.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Know I look awful, are you? Because if I didn't
catch it? There was a man there who was like
in a wheelchair who was gonna catch it, and he
ended up he didn't catch it, but he ended up
getting it. But I can't be the guy that steals.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
If you move your hand and it just hits him.
Sure you can be a hero, you know. And they're like,
why didn't that guy catch the ball?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Why?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I drive you just put your New Yorker magazine down,
you might have been able to catch it.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
We also know how much you hate kids. So if
you were to catch this ball, would you give it
to a kid? Because you're almost expected to do that?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Very good question. I think it depends on how close
the kid is sitting. No, No, this is I've had
this convers station with tall at games. If a kid
is either right in front of you or to the side,
and you catch a foul ball, you have to give
it to the kid.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Otherwise you're the biggest jerk. In the whole stadium.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But I don't think you have to walk two or
three rows to find a kid.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Kid comes to you, what do you do.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Get away from me? No? I mean, because what are
you going to do it? You catch, you have to
the kid. It has to be long enough that the
camera has left you.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, and if it's a spectacular catch, sometimes the camera
comes back to you after a pitch. I know, so
I think.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It has to be. One time, a few years ago,
I was with Chris Tomlin and he said his son's
favorite player was is there a guy named Trey Turner
for the Phillies? Is that right? So he hit a
foul ball and it went behind me. It was almost
nobody in the stadium and it was Trey Turner, and
I was like, this was right after Chris had had
his I was like, I want to get it for
his kid. And I went. I came out and sprinted
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for it, and a little kid came sprinting you. I
have to back off. Yeah, I think I would have
gotten it, but I'm like, I can't be out sprinting
a ten year old.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
No, you have to just let the kid have.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Just let the kid have it.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And then that's like if you had taken an ambien
that morning.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Though that kid was going down before the kid even
got there.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
That's right. We'll take a break right back because Kentucky
Sports Radio walking back here Kentucky Sports Radio Live and
Ashured partners. Thanks to all the folks who who came out. Tomorrow.
We're at the PGA. I've had people ask me, I
mean you can't come. We're in the uh. I mean
you can go to the tournament if you have tickets,
but we can't. Uh. We're in the media center, so
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that you won't be able to uh to come where
we are. But we'll be out there Thursday and Friday.
Billy's driving out there today to set up the equipment,
so it should be a lot of fun. Have you
ever been before?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I never have. I just want to see John Daily,
He's my favorite. I just want to be able to
watch him Daily.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Daily plays during our show tomorrow and then I think
he plays Friday afternoon right after our show.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
So you could go see mister watch him. Yeah, cigarette
hanging out of his mouth yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
We get tight, So tomorrow after the show's over, you
can see Michelson, Scheffler and Rom and then Friday, after
the show's over, Tiger Kepka John Daily, So, uh, I'm
gonna walk if you want to. I'm gonna walk the
course on Friday. I gotta come back and do trivia
tomorrow night. But are you gonna walk the course at all?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I want to tomorrow? Says I can't be there Friday.
I want to go out to You're gonna do it
a little bit before you leave.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why can't you be there Friday at that funeral? Oh? Well,
I'm sorry about that. Well, I didn't mean to bring
the mood down. Sorry. Uh yeah, I mean maybe a
few minutes. I gotta do trivia though, you know, I
gotta make sure I have all.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Gotta win trivia, that's all I gotta get out of there. Yeah,
walk around with who are the favorites to win?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Probably rom Kept and Scheffler. You know, they're the best
golfers in the world, So I would say it's probably
one of those three, of course Rory, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I mean in order on DraftKings, then maybe running.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Those four are like by far the best players, So.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Longer's four to one for a golf tournament.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'd say long shot. Yeah, you know, I don't know
I love jt posted maybe the guy won it what
a year or two ago? More Cowa, It would be
a long shot. You got to hit it long at
valhalland like they have it if you hit it long, though,
guys like Rory, this is a perfect tournament for him.
But should be fun. I mean they've set it up
completely differently. The rough is as high as I've ever
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seen it, so it should be. It should be fun.
But you just want to see John Day.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You want to see Tiger. This is probably the last chance,
last time Tiger over playing in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Not impressed, not in Sehn Daly though.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Not impressed by Tiger.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I wouldn't stand in a lot longer than five minutes
to meet Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But John really you wouldn't say.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I mean, I mean, I'm just not into golf. But
John Daly is a man's man, that's an athlete, right,
there's a guy I can relate to.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I mean, you could probably get John Daily fifty dollars.
He'll come to one of your shows like that. I
would do it. He's not he's April. Not that I
mean Tiger though.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
When you like who you like, I like who I
like saying like.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I'm not saying I love Tiger. I'm just saying he's
like an icon.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
But for you, John John Daly is ANND to me.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
What person goes Matt? I do not believe that Shannon
would give a ball to a little kid. He has
to take that best.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I never said I would. I said you have to.
I didn't say I had to.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Okay, would you take a ball from a little kid?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I wouldn't take it from him? But if I got it,
I would say, why are you entitled to it? I
got it. I'm the one who has a blister on
my hand from catching this ball.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Little girl there with her long, curly hands, tell them
to stop.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
It's not my job to catch the ball and give
it to you. You got a parent, They could catch
their own foul ball.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
What if it's a foot race like Matt kid. What
if it's an orphan Well, I don't.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Need to know its history, but how did it get here?
If it's an orphant?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
One thing I told you. The guy or someone on
the text machine wrote and said, Chanslin here was at
Bluegrass Airport. Joe Tipton, who does recruiting for on three
and KSR, says he is not in Lexington. So whoever
you were at the airport I may end up being well,
probably is end up being incorrect. So airport source you
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now get marked as don't listen to you block TXT machine. Yeah,
if I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, who's next? Joseph
is up next? Joseph? Go ahead, Joseph.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Hey, Matt, do we beat South Carolina and football this year?
We can't lose three times in a row. I'll be
at the game.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Is the game here? The game's here?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah? We beat him? Yes?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
At we're fourteen and oh at games I've been to,
hotels are almost swd out for that weekend. At almost
didn't get a hotel the way I got. Lucky I
did because I've found one.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Okay, I don't even know the whole hotel history. But
but you're coming to the game, yes, sir? Well, good, good, No,
we're gonna win. You're gonna be fifteen and oh after
we play South Carolina in football? All right, Well there
you go, Josie. That left you and I left him
to speechless. All right, you think he agreed with you?
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Do you agree with that? You think we beat South
Carolina this year? On the on the grid iron.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
We you know, went to that strict where we owned
South Carolina. They've won the last two in a row.
I just got sucker punch the last game that they
beat us. So I absolutely want to get take care
of South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Getting you got sucker punch, that is that was one
of the more ridiculous And of course he didn't have
anything to do with it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
No, No, are.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
There any lingering effects. That was pretty serious.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It was it was popping. When I yawned, it would pop.
But that that's gone away, So I think we're good now.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Can I ask you a question on the dairy queen
thing from a couple of days ago. Have you had
a change of heart about it?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I still think we handled it appropriately.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I was.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I was told, holla, we didn't do anything as you.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I was told by I was told by national representative
of dairy Queen that the vast majority of dairy Queen's
do not have cherry flavoring anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
There are a couple still here in Kentucky that do.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
We got, but the one you went to likely did not.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's possible. Yeah, so you're you're The whole basis for.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Your anger was that he was giving you something he
that or he didn't give you something they had. Does
it change your mind if they didn't have it?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Uh No, I think it was his failure to even
look me in the eye. And we have to look
you in the eye and throw the cup at me
and tell me to get yourself.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Do you demand eye contact from wherever you go?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Be pleasant, be nice. We're here to spend money, eat
your food.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
If you go.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
My fault, Mario picked and dairy queen Mario's fault.
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Speaker 3 (24:01):
We were just talking about legends. I said, like you'd
want to I'd want to see Tiger because he's a legend.
And we were talking about what people in sports right
now are legends that are still playing. And I sort
of defined legend as top four to five of all time, right,
so you're seeing somebody that's history. So those people now
(24:22):
would be Tiger, Serena Djokovic, Mahomes, Lebron, maybe Steph Curry,
depending on how you look at it. Maybe otanis stay
(24:44):
out of trouble. Well, but the other guy already went
to like already playing county and went to prison. And
I don't know, is that it messy? Somebody mentioned messys
and messy's in that messal but but anybody else.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You know, you just mentioned just one football guy one
baseball guy, one basketball guy, but you don't understand.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
There can't be more or else they probably wouldn't be
a legend, right I mean, so, I mean no, those
would be the people you just like, might want to
be able to tell your grandkids one day. Yeah, I
saw Lebron play live. I saw Tiger play live. I
think that's what I would want to do if I could.
I've seen Tiger, seen Lebron, seen Otani. You saw the Saucerena,
(25:27):
saw Feederer, saw Djokovic.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
We got the tennis covered.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, we got the tennis covered. So I mean, I
guess I haven't seen Messy, but otherwise I've seen all those.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Saw Lebron and Tiger. Hoping he catch Tiger again. I'm
like Shannon, I'm pretty excited to get out balls on
him at Valhalla. I miss seeing him yesterday.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Like, I don't think he's gonna play golf much more,
you know what I mean. I don't think there's a
lot more golf in him, just when you watch him walk.
So I think these are there's only probabing me two
or three more years of him period, So.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
That years are gonna be a Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well he'll never be here again. I mean, he's not
gonna play in the Barbersol, so like this will be
this is the you know, his last time, probably the
last time he'll ever play in this state. So you know,
I do want to be here. Mouth is out of
the Preakness.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Right, I mean he's Mystic Dan. That makes him the favorite.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Now scratched. He had one hundred and three degree temperature.
So now it's down to seven horses and Mystic there's
two horses from the from the Derby in and then
new ones.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I think Mouth beat Mystic Dan in the Arkansas Derby.
So that's why the showdown is supposed to happen here
at the Preakness. Bafford's horses out, mist Dan.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Baffort has another horse in, but that one's out.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You don't have a cream he could put on mooth.
Get that temperaure down run again.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't know what to do with horse temperatures, but
but that's a shame. That makes it a lot less
exciting if the favorite's out.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yeah, but if Mystic Dan were to win, that would
be exciting. It gives the triple current chi yeah exactly,
So you think for that reason I'm more excited.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Do you think you could recognize No, I know where
you're going.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I'm saying that's a horse. Can't lock it off the horse?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
You lined up the horses, I couldn't pick it up
a little.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, this is all right. I know you wouldn't know it.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Let's say I put the twenty Derby horses and I
gave you two minutes to look at all them. Yeah,
and then I moved the horses around. Do you think
you could know what horse was? What horse? No? I
mean neither. No.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
No is by the number and the silks that it has,
And it's the only way I could recognize it. It's
a horse.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
You saw me do the match game, and there were
only eight cards in front of me, and I missed
all of them. I'm certainly not getting the tears.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Why I say this, I've often wondered this about horse racing.
I mean, I've often wondered this. Do you think there's
ever been a race where they've just taken the silks
off the fast, off the slow horse and switched them
with the fast horse to win money.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
That's what I tried to do. Lost h McGinnis when
he left UK at kicker.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, but I mean you think that's ever happened.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
We're like, I would say, probably not in a major
stakes race.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
But no, no, not in the major race. But like
one of these little rinky.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Dean Kallas and Henderson, you think they've been.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Like I think, because because how would anyone know? Yeah? They?
I mean, what oh they? That is it? So I
didn't know, say, tattoo inside their lips? We to Ryan, no,
(28:24):
and then okay, So I honestly, that's an easy answer.
I've always wondered that. So does every horse have a
tattoo inside its lips?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And they checked before every rate and they checked before
Ryan to make sure it's not an aposter. God.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Derek up the Derek go ahead, Derek.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Hey, Matt, I just want to touch on a couple
of points that you all made earlier when you were
talking about your favorite UK players and then of the
Calparrier and then the happiest, saddest time. And I apologize.
I get distracted by work unfortunately, so if this was mentioned,
you can just skip over. But he's definitely not at
the top tier of like Wall and Ewis, but someone
that was overshadowed by Ewis. Jamal Murray's definitely up there.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
In terms of I mean, in terms of if you're
just talking guys that were the best while they were here,
Jamal Murray is definitely top ten. I mean, Jamal Murray
was great when he was here. I don't know, oh
yeah exactly. And he had the bow and arrow thing,
which fans really liked a lot. It's interesting. I appreciate
(29:32):
the call. He is a great player that we went
here that we don't always mention, probably because of Tyler
Ewlis and that team lost in the second round. But
I think next to Antonio Reeves, he averaged more points
a game. It was like, it's so it's Reeves. It's like, Reeves, Murray,
(29:54):
Monk are the three most points a game guys of
the col Era.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
And like the caller said, we've had a lot of
the little side stuff. The George, the Brow. The Blenaro
was pretty huge. Remember the bench would get into it. EJ.
Floryll would catch it and fall back and Willis would
catch him. That season didn't in the way we wanted,
but Murray was a lot of fun in that back
court with less.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
In twenty years from now, we're gonna be having this
conversation right about Antonio Reeves. Yes, I mean Antonio Reeves
is destined to be a dude that people are gonna forget.
And he finishes the Caliperi Era with more points per
game in a season than any player in the history
of the col Era, and nobody will ever think that.
And if they had played two more games in the
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SEC Tournament and three more games in the NCAA Tournament,
he would have ended up with one of the five
highest scoring point years ever at Kentucky, and people just
don't think about it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, he's gonna be on that underappreciated list we talk
about all the time because everybody was on Reid and Rob.
You forget Antonio Reeves was a superstar this past season
for that basketball team.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
We would say this during the year, but I firmly
believe it. I think three of the six best three
point shooters to ever play at this school, we're on
the same team. To me, Reeves and Reed are not
even in the debate. Reeves and Reed Shepherd are two
of the top four. And I think even though you
(31:18):
don't think about Rob like that, his percentages are worth it.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
YEP.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And yet I mean, I don't want to go in
will we lost again? But I mean three guys like
that drew on the same team.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
That's why yesterday when Cody figures like, oh, we want
to shoot a lot of threes, thirty five of them.
That's a little high. But I was thinking, man, that
would have been fun last year running with those three dudes.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Can you imagine if you had a team, Shannon, where
you made getting Reeves open a priority?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Yeah, imagine what could have happened.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I mean, he could have scored twenty six, twenty seven
a game.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
If you made it a priority, we're gonna get this
guy shots, yep.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
He he was underappreciate it last year because we talk about,
you know, the Dillingham or Shepherd having a big game,
and just kind of glossed over the fact that once
again Antonio Rees would have a twenty point plus game.
It was almost just like a given.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
And it wasn't just that he shot threes.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It was a given Goose's I didn't think about that
until I said it, and then and then what came
back to my head was was Goose's givens. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Next got Lieutenant doctor Smith up next.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Lieutenant doctor Smith, How are you, sir?
Speaker 9 (32:30):
I'm doing good. First time caller, a long time listener.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Who are what's up?
Speaker 9 (32:35):
So back in twenty twelve, my dad started listening to
KSR and he unexpectedly passed in twenty thirteen, and since
that time, me and my two brothers have been listening
to KSR every day, so now for eleven years, and
I just want to thank you all for all the
great memories, too many to share on this one phone
call with you out to my little brother Philip, who's
(32:55):
at the show today, and just thanks for all the
memories you've given us.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Man, Oh, I feel well, Thank you very much. Philip
is waving in saying hello. That's very sweet and we
appreciate you letting us do that for the last eleven years.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
Yeah, it's it's been awesome. Too many awesome stories to tell.
But I really love when my older brother told you
it was my twenty first birthday and it was not,
and you made us come on the pregame show to
tell everybody that we would come party with you afterwards,
and we were scrambling trying to find a fake ID
for me.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
We can go out there and party with you.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
And unfortunately we choked at the last second and lost
that game. But I actually was I always feel guilty
that it was my fault for letting my older brother
tell you it was my birthday.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, that's all right, you know what I get it.
I think half the people that tell me it's their birthday,
it's probably not. It's like when you go to when
I was appreciate the call when I was young, When
I was a kid in high school, people would go
to Showti's and say it was their birthday to get
the free k birthday.
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I don't want to do it tonight.
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are now happy to be joined from the UK Baseball
team by Nolan McCarthy, par of the SEC leading UK
baseball team. No, and thank you for your time, and
(35:04):
I'll get started with this big series this weekend. Been
an awesome year. I don't think any team in the
country has much more fun than you guys do. What's
it been like this season?
Speaker 11 (35:17):
Oh, it's been a lot of fun. We got a
great group of guys and coming out this weekend.
Speaker 12 (35:21):
Is gonna be just a just a great time.
Speaker 11 (35:22):
We got some new additions to KPP and excited to
see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, they added seats for this weekend as well, and
probably for the regional and subregional that will be coming. No,
when you've been here from the beginning, so you were here.
I think your first year the team struggled, and now
you have a shot to win the SEC title. What
has it been like to just watch this growth and
be a part of it.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
Yeah, it's been a long time kind of coach manager
for building this program up and just sticking with it,
because I mean, the group of guys we have now
is just an amazing group and we've always had a
good culture here and it's just awesome to see it
come in fruition and uh and us getting some accolades
and hopefully you can finish that off.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
This weekend now. I mean, you do seem like you
it's a great culture, but it's also a culture where
I mean, for people we haven't gotten to a game yet.
You guys are chanting, making noise, doing stuff though the
whole time. I know you did that some last year,
but that does seem to be something that's grown as
the year's gone on. What's the thinking behind that and
(36:26):
and and how much does it pump up the team?
Speaker 12 (36:29):
It pumps us up a ton.
Speaker 11 (36:30):
I mean, our dugout will give a lot of credit
to them, the guys who weren't playing, they're they're keeping
the energy up and they're they're willing us to do
i mean, just to win every game. So it's it's
awesome and it just gives us a lot of energy,
and even when things aren't going well, it's like, Okay,
we got these guys who have our back, and it
kind of keeps us in the fight no matter how
how uh how off we are.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Now, I heard you're the one that started the row
your boat thing that they do after the doubles? Is
that right?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
It was?
Speaker 11 (37:00):
It was kind of a kind of a group thing,
but yeah, I was definitely a part of it.
Speaker 12 (37:04):
Yeah, I kinda I kind of like.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
Doing some of the celebration stuff, but yeah, are we
got some We got some good guys who help out
with that stuff too, So it's it's been fun.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Now. I love it. I love that kind of stuff.
We've talked on this show sometimes that I wish baseball
did it more. But I also know, knowing some of
the teams you play, they don't love it as much.
I saw the Florida player was frustrated after the game
between me and you, just me and you talking. Does
that make you want to do it more? When you
hear him complain about it?
Speaker 11 (37:36):
I mean, we do that stuff for us, and coach
is big on that, like it's this is all for us,
and if other people don't like that, that's fine because
this is how we're gonna play baseball. And it's if
it affects them, I mean, that's fine for them, but
we're doing this all for us, so we can, you know,
just keep the energy up and win some ball games.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
We had Minji on Na on a few weeks ago,
and he talked about your All's philosophy, which is just
on offense to attack, attack, attack, you know, try to
make the other team make mistakes. You're gonna have a
lot of Kentucky fans who this weekend and in the
regional SEC tournament are gonna be watching you guys maybe
haven't watched it a lot. How would you describe how
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this baseball team plays and what makes it different than
a lot of the teams were used to.
Speaker 11 (38:24):
One word I'd use describe it's probably hectic, because I mean,
if there's like a bloop single, it's gonna be a double.
Like we're gonna push everything, and it's college baseball eighteen
to twenty three year olds and they make mistakes, so
it's kind of pushing the envelope for other people to
make mistakes, and we trust ourselves. We're gonna be aggressive
but not stupid. And uh yeah, I mean steal a
(38:46):
ton of bags. We lay down bunts when needed, we
hit homers when needed, and I mean it's it's a
fun brand of baseball to watch.
Speaker 12 (38:54):
So it's really good to be a part of an
aggressive team like this.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I mean, I've watched more college baseball Kentucky baseball this
year that I've ever watched in my life because it
is fun. Now, you're playing for the SEC championship this week.
If you win all three, you get it yourself. If
you win two, your at least guarantee to share. We'll
see what happens in the other games. So what's your mentality.
I know you're gonna say, noing, Oh, it's gonna be
(39:18):
like any other game, but it's not. That's gonna be
a packed house. There's a lot on the line. What's
your mentality going into it?
Speaker 11 (39:26):
Yeah, I mean I was gonna I was gonna go
out there and say it's like any other game.
Speaker 12 (39:29):
But obviously we all know what's on the line.
Speaker 11 (39:32):
But we know what it takes to win, and it
doesn't really matter who we're playing at that point, so
we play our game. I mean, it's gonna be awesome
playing in front of all the people who are gonna
come out, and we've had.
Speaker 12 (39:40):
Great crowds all year, so that's that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 11 (39:43):
But yeah, it was a lot on the line, and
we'd like to say we've got chips on our shoulders
because we always do. We're never covering the team that's
gonna be preseasoned ranks number one. But I mean, we
believe we are the best team in the country. So
I think a we's gona keep those chips on our
shoulder and play like we play, and I think the
outcomes gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, there has been a since, you know, watching the
National College Baseball world of fans of some of the
teams that have been more traditionally successful, going, Eh, Kentucky's
gonna fall off. Eh, Kentucky's not for real. Have you
guys heard that stuff? And does it motivate you?
Speaker 12 (40:19):
Yeah, we love it. We love it. We think we
play best as an underdog.
Speaker 11 (40:22):
So the rankings can say what they want to say,
but I mean, we know who we are and we
love that people don't respect us still so and we're
starting to get some more respect. But I mean, it
just it just adds to the fire we got going on.
And I mean, all our guys are just unbelievable competitors.
Speaker 12 (40:37):
So it's it's just it's fun.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Well, the games are Thursday, Friday, Saturday at Kentucky Proud Park.
There is going to be I think it's gonna be
drew an amazing atmosphere out there this weekend. Uh, there's
still some tickets available for general admission. Good luck, hopefully
you win the title, get ready for the SEC tournament
in the NCAA. And thank you knowing very much for
(41:00):
coming on the show. Thank you, Noen McCarthy, everybody from
the Kentucky Baseball team.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
UK Baseball and SEC Championships. You just don't put that
in the same sentence on what happened once, only one
time in the history of UK baseball and they got
a chance to win an outright on their home field.
This is a huge moment for this program.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
You could make an argument that winning the SEC regular
season is as hard as winning the College World Seison. Yes,
in terms of who you have to play and who
you have to beat. Drew to to get to do it, and.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
With this weekend ahead and look like they're gonna host
some postseason I'm worried about that record we said against
Tennessee a few weeks ago. Now, if there's new bleachers,
I think we had like foury three hundred something, maybe
might've been more than that, But with the new bleachers
in the left field, I think it's gonna be an
insane atmosphere this weekend and then whatever they're able to
host next after the SEC.
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Yeah, well good, that's very good. All right. So a
couple of players that I think are at least worthy
of honorable mentions that I think we forget how popular
they were when they were here. Darius Miller.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
People forget, you know, how much people loved him because
he's from Kentucky. And I'll tell you a guy that
at one point was his below does any of these
people and then unfortunately got overshadowed a little bit at
the end, is Patrick Patterson. Yes, I mean Patrick Patterson,
you know, at the end and here comes Wall and
Cousins and but you know, especially in the Billy g years,
(02:13):
he was kind of the rock of the of the
of the fan base.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh before the cal Era I'm probably putting him on
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Speaker 3 (02:29):
Here's a good question. This will be my Kentucky branded
question of the day, Matt. Outside of the National Championship
for a win and outside of the Wisconsin game for
a loss, what col Era game made you the happiest
and which one made you the saddest? All right, saddest
is easy. Carolina twenty seventeen, because I love that team.
(02:56):
I think we're the second best team in the country,
and I got so after the game.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
That'll make you sad, That'll make you really sad.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So Carolina twenty seventeen is mine. The two times we
lost to Yukon in the twenty fourteen title and the
twenty eleven or game, I kind of felt like we
were fortunate to be there too, so it didn't bother
me quite as much. But twenty seventeen, I think we
were the second best team, and I think if we'd
(03:24):
won that game, we'd won the title. The one that
made me the happiest, if you're just talking about in
the moment, beating Louisville in twenty fourteen in the Sweet sixteen,
just the atmosphere of that game, I was certain we
were gonna lose. That was their beloved repeat national champion attempt.
(03:44):
We were all freshman. It was in Indianapolis, so both
fan bases were there in mass If you're just talking
about in the moment, that was probably the game that
made me the happiest. What about you?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And you almost got no a fight before the game,
and the preame show.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Woman almost threw up on me during the pregame show.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yes, I'm gonna say that the happiest I've been. I
think it's the best regular season college basketball game I've
ever seen was Kentucky North Carolina in Vegas. All Right,
that was incredible, and I was so happy that I
think we know we watched it. We witnessed something special. Yeah,
and the saddest I think just happened. I think losing
to Oakland because I think I knew cal Era is over.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's an interesting answer.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, I think it's over. I think it just got that.
That one probably affected me more because I just realized
things will never be the same.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, you know what, that's a That's actually a good
one because I sit there with Drew that whole second
half and I thought, if we lose, this is over. Yeah,
It's just over. And there was a that was ill.
Remember that hour between the game and the postgame show
for a long time trying to think about like what
am I gonna say? Like, yeah, no, it's a good one.
What about you?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Uh, you all have already said most of mine. I'm
gona agree on Carolina and the louisvill one. But I
had beating Louisville in the final four of New Orleans
just because if we had los to them wearing those
stupid infrared jerseys and then we had to spend the weekend
with them in New Orleans while they're having fun, that
one felt good. I'll add the Auburn loss in the
Elite A with hero in that group, I thought they
had turned a corner. And then you lose to Auburn
(05:13):
when their best player was like in a wheelchair and
it's sweaty Bruce Pearl over there. That one stung, as
did pretty much every SEC tournament lost the last couple
of years when we can't even get to the weekend.
Those kill me because that's such a fun weekend. Yeah,
A and m Vandy, you name it. It's just it's
like our first thing in March. Everyone travels, it's so
much fun. And here recently the chair got pulled out
(05:35):
from under. So I'll add pick any of them in
the conference turn.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
By the way, I probably second for me in sadness
is West Virginia in twenty ten. Yes, because I love
that team so much and it felt like we were
never even in that game for a lot of it.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
What about you, anytime you beat Losville in the NCAA tournament,
that's got to be one of the happiest wins we're
gonna have as a Kentucky fan. So I'll share your
ciniment in that. And then I guess the saddest would
probably I could go along with the Oakland loss, but
probably the Saint Peter's loss because it was the first
time I'd ever seen anything like that happen. By the
time we got to the Oakland loss, we've just seen
that a couple of years ago. But the shock of
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the Saint Peter's loss was the worst.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I think that's a good point. The Oakland game, we
kind of in the back of our heads knew it
was a possibility. The Saint Peter's game came out of nowhere. Yeah,
you know what I mean. I mean the Saint Peter's game.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Nobody saw that company because Kentucky doesn't lose in the
first round, and they definitely don't lose the fifteen seeds
except I Eagle.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I Eagle is the one person who said.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What's wrong with cow?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Like, what's Yeah? Well, it turns out he knew something,
all right. Who's up next?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Got Chris up next?
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Chris? Go ahead, Chris?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Hey, guys, real quick on the Brady Roast. My two
cents on why he did it, Uh well, it was
produced by One nine Productions, his production company, and I
think they alluded to doing more.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Row so, but that's even lamer. If his production company
did it, and then he's gonna complain about doing it,
that's even lamer for him to do. I mean, I
I agree, yeah, I mean, look, I'm a brady hater
a little bit just you know, again, he's too handsome.
It shouldn't be allowed. But I but there's also a
little bit of I feel like he kind of threw
(07:20):
those people under the bus with well my kids when
you were the one that agreed to it. But go
ahead and then on the.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Club Bluenil dot com. You've got according to the website,
you got twelve hours, forty nine minutes and twenty nine
seconds to still make the event by donating.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Okay, yeah, so somebody, I'm glad you said that. Thank you.
I appreciate the call. Somebody came up to me and
show and showed that I thought yesterday was the last day.
Apparently today is the last day. So you do still
have twelve hours to do it according to the website.
So if you want to come to that event, uh,
there's still time to make it happen.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Right, little bonus time, little extra time to get in
born and get on that because I think momentum has
kind of really gathered here this week. People want to
be a part of this that's coming up in June.
So well, now you still got a chance.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Who's up next?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Got Terry up next?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Terry, go ahead, Terry.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Yeah, guys, it's the first time I've been on since
Pope was announced as a coach. I just want to
say that, other than throwing the brinks truck at Dan Hurley,
Pope was my choice because I bet BYU a lot
last year, and I watched a lot of their games
and just to watch them play. They move the ball
(08:32):
around your heads on a swivel. They got multiple guys
that can shoot. They play, they play. They're underrated on
their defense. I know in the Big Twelve they didn't
show out as well defensively, but against the teams they
should beat, They're really really tough defense defensively. People that
are still on the fence, fans that are still on
(08:52):
the fence, let me tell you, go watch some BYU games.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
We got the good, We got a good he.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
Might have been the greatest coach we could get. We
got a good coach. And people that are still on
the fence on Jackson Robinson, don't beat that guy will
be the best player on our team if we get him.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Thanks. Agree with everything you said, Terry, I mean, if
you I also bet on a number of BYU games
last year, and you know they're their variance level can
be high, Drew, because if they're missing the way they play,
if they're missing threes, it's tough. But I think that's
(09:31):
why they went and got all those defensive players, because
last year, when they were not hitting threes, they bad
teams could beat them. But now they've gone and got
three good defensive players that if they're not hitting threes,
I still think they can win a game sixty one
point fifty seven, whereas last year I don't think they
(09:51):
had the players to do that. The other thing is
when you talk about that hiring, you gotta go back
and see think about how it played out when Drew
and Hurley said no, and our administration and I don't
mean Mitch, I mean people above him said you can't
talk to Bruce Pearl or Nate Oates. Would you rather
(10:13):
have Shaka Smart than Mark Pope? No, So I mean
that was the choice at that point.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, And I think at least I underestimated how much
the nostalgia and having one of us back would be.
Like I knew there'd be a little bit Pope obviously
having that connection to ninety six, but I did not
see how people would immediately go all in the day
after complaining on Twitter and then do what they did
on Sunday. I even typed up a little list coaches
I wanted. I think I had Pope tenth pretty far
(10:42):
down the list, but I, like everyone else, I flipped quickly,
quickly underestimating how he'd be able to do this with
the support he'd get, with the nil and everything else
he's done in these this first month.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Uh, Shane, and I have two things that were specifically
for you. Okay. Number one, Red Lobster is expected to
clare bankruptcy.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Next, No, I love Red Lobster. The Cheddar biscuits are
the absolute best. So they're all of them. Does that
mean every.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well, well, I mean bankruptcy doesn't mean you're gonna close.
It means they restructure, and so that means some of
them may stay, but they're going to close a lot
of them. And they are. They're declaring bankrupts.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Did you see what actually did it? They tried to
do endless shrimp. Well, whatever it was, they lost like millions,
maybe even billions on their endless shrimp campaigns. When backfired.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They underestimated the appetite of the fat they asked underestimated
how much people would eat their shrimp. Yeah, Drew's right.
They lost that one promo, did it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You know there was a time that Red Lobster on
Nicholasville Road you had to wait an hour minimum. You
could not get in. You had to wait an hour.
But now you go, you can get right in. I
mean it is and there's one I hear in Hamburg,
there's one right across the street.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was weird about that, is It's not like people
quit like and see food. Yeah, right, it is surprising,
but we America has completely deserted the sit down chain.
They've just completely outside of like Texas Roadhouse, they have
completely deserted the sit down chain. And it seems like
(12:17):
it happened really quick, you know.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Yeah, I mean I don't know if it was maybe
a factor of COVID. You know, they got people out
of those habits of going out.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And they tried other stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Possibly possibly, but I mean it good shrimp.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, I mean, like all those places, the group that.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Took them down, I guess it's partly my fault for
supporting it.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
All right, Second thing, did you see in the Florida
Marlins game? Two nights ago, a man caught two foul
balls in the same game.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, back to back, two straight pitches, two straight pitches,
got caught two straight foul balls.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
The chances of that happening are apparently one in fifteen million.
So what do you if you're that guy?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Play the lottery. I mean, I've been to a lot
of baseball games at you know, different levels. I've never
caught a foul ball one really hit close to me before.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I had one hit my hand this year.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Really from what in your seats or where you walk
where I sit, I think most people call that a drop.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
All right, now you watch it, okay, I mean I'm
not trying to well, I'll explain to me, but so
you know where I sit, Yeah, you actually don't get
a lot of them, like a big netting instead of
big nets so it has to be a foul ball
way up in the air and straight back down, so
you don't I've probably had three come near me in
nine years, but we had I had one come and
(13:51):
you know, the road behind me is like a handicap seed, right,
so you know you're not gonna try to steal those, right,
So I the ball comes and I reach back, and
I it like it was behind me enough that I
(14:12):
couldn't like dove out.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
But but but how far do you want to go
to get a foul ball? And if you catch that
foul ball, I.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Know I look awful, are you? Because if I didn't
catch it? There was a man there who was like
in a wheelchair who was gonna catch it, and he
ended up he didn't catch it, but he ended up
getting it. But I can't be the guy that steals.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
If you move your hand and it just hits him.
Sure you can be a hero, you know. And they're like,
why didn't that guy catch the ball?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Why?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I drive you just put your New Yorker magazine down,
you might have been able to catch it.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
We also know how much you hate kids. So if
you were to catch this ball, would you give it
to a kid? Because you're almost expected to do that?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Very good question. I think it depends on how close
the kid is sitting. No, No, this is I've had
this convers station with tall at games. If a kid
is either right in front of you or to the side,
and you catch a foul ball, you have to give
it to the kid.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Otherwise you're the biggest jerk. In the whole stadium.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But I don't think you have to walk two or
three rows to find a kid.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Kid comes to you, what do you do.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Get away from me? No? I mean, because what are
you going to do it? You catch, you have to
the kid. It has to be long enough that the
camera has left you.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, and if it's a spectacular catch, sometimes the camera
comes back to you after a pitch. I know, so
I think.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It has to be. One time, a few years ago,
I was with Chris Tomlin and he said his son's
favorite player was is there a guy named Trey Turner
for the Phillies? Is that right? So he hit a
foul ball and it went behind me. It was almost
nobody in the stadium and it was Trey Turner, and
I was like, this was right after Chris had had
his I was like, I want to get it for
his kid. And I went. I came out and sprinted
(16:03):
for it, and a little kid came sprinting you. I
have to back off. Yeah, I think I would have
gotten it, but I'm like, I can't be out sprinting
a ten year old.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
No, you have to just let the kid have.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Just let the kid have it.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And then that's like if you had taken an ambien
that morning.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Though that kid was going down before the kid even
got there.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
That's right. We'll take a break right back because Kentucky
Sports Radio walking back here Kentucky Sports Radio Live and
Ashured partners. Thanks to all the folks who who came out. Tomorrow.
We're at the PGA. I've had people ask me, I
mean you can't come. We're in the uh. I mean
you can go to the tournament if you have tickets,
but we can't. Uh. We're in the media center, so
(16:47):
that you won't be able to uh to come where
we are. But we'll be out there Thursday and Friday.
Billy's driving out there today to set up the equipment,
so it should be a lot of fun. Have you
ever been before?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I never have. I just want to see John Daily,
He's my favorite. I just want to be able to
watch him Daily.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Daily plays during our show tomorrow and then I think
he plays Friday afternoon right after our show.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
So you could go see mister watch him. Yeah, cigarette
hanging out of his mouth yesterday.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
We get tight, So tomorrow after the show's over, you
can see Michelson, Scheffler and Rom and then Friday, after
the show's over, Tiger Kepka John Daily, So, uh, I'm
gonna walk if you want to. I'm gonna walk the
course on Friday. I gotta come back and do trivia
tomorrow night. But are you gonna walk the course at all?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I want to tomorrow? Says I can't be there Friday.
I want to go out to You're gonna do it
a little bit before you leave.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why can't you be there Friday at that funeral? Oh? Well,
I'm sorry about that. Well, I didn't mean to bring
the mood down. Sorry. Uh yeah, I mean maybe a
few minutes. I gotta do trivia though, you know, I
gotta make sure I have all.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Gotta win trivia, that's all I gotta get out of there. Yeah,
walk around with who are the favorites to win?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Probably rom Kept and Scheffler. You know, they're the best
golfers in the world, So I would say it's probably
one of those three, of course Rory, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I mean in order on DraftKings, then maybe running.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Those four are like by far the best players, So.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Longer's four to one for a golf tournament.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'd say long shot. Yeah, you know, I don't know
I love jt posted maybe the guy won it what
a year or two ago? More Cowa, It would be
a long shot. You got to hit it long at
valhalland like they have it if you hit it long, though,
guys like Rory, this is a perfect tournament for him.
But should be fun. I mean they've set it up
completely differently. The rough is as high as I've ever
(18:42):
seen it, so it should be. It should be fun.
But you just want to see John Day.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You want to see Tiger. This is probably the last chance,
last time Tiger over playing in Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Not impressed, not in Sehn Daly though.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Not impressed by Tiger.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I wouldn't stand in a lot longer than five minutes
to meet Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But John really you wouldn't say.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I mean, I mean, I'm just not into golf. But
John Daly is a man's man, that's an athlete, right,
there's a guy I can relate to.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I mean, you could probably get John Daily fifty dollars.
He'll come to one of your shows like that. I
would do it. He's not he's April. Not that I
mean Tiger though.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
When you like who you like, I like who I
like saying like.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I'm not saying I love Tiger. I'm just saying he's
like an icon.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
But for you, John John Daly is ANND to me.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
What person goes Matt? I do not believe that Shannon
would give a ball to a little kid. He has
to take that best.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I never said I would. I said you have to.
I didn't say I had to.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Okay, would you take a ball from a little kid?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I wouldn't take it from him? But if I got it,
I would say, why are you entitled to it? I
got it. I'm the one who has a blister on
my hand from catching this ball.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Little girl there with her long, curly hands, tell them
to stop.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
It's not my job to catch the ball and give
it to you. You got a parent, They could catch
their own foul ball.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
What if it's a foot race like Matt kid. What
if it's an orphan Well, I don't.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Need to know its history, but how did it get here?
If it's an orphant?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
One thing I told you. The guy or someone on
the text machine wrote and said, Chanslin here was at
Bluegrass Airport. Joe Tipton, who does recruiting for on three
and KSR, says he is not in Lexington. So whoever
you were at the airport I may end up being well,
probably is end up being incorrect. So airport source you
(20:38):
now get marked as don't listen to you block TXT machine. Yeah,
if I'm nine twenty two eighty seven, who's next? Joseph
is up next? Joseph? Go ahead, Joseph.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Hey, Matt, do we beat South Carolina and football this year?
We can't lose three times in a row. I'll be
at the game.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Is the game here? The game's here?
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah? We beat him? Yes?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
At we're fourteen and oh at games I've been to,
hotels are almost swd out for that weekend. At almost
didn't get a hotel the way I got. Lucky I
did because I've found one.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Okay, I don't even know the whole hotel history. But
but you're coming to the game, yes, sir? Well, good, good, No,
we're gonna win. You're gonna be fifteen and oh after
we play South Carolina in football? All right, Well there
you go, Josie. That left you and I left him
to speechless. All right, you think he agreed with you?
(21:35):
Do you agree with that? You think we beat South
Carolina this year? On the on the grid iron.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
We you know, went to that strict where we owned
South Carolina. They've won the last two in a row.
I just got sucker punch the last game that they
beat us. So I absolutely want to get take care
of South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Getting you got sucker punch, that is that was one
of the more ridiculous And of course he didn't have
anything to do with it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
No, No, are.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
There any lingering effects. That was pretty serious.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It was it was popping. When I yawned, it would pop.
But that that's gone away, So I think we're good now.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Can I ask you a question on the dairy queen
thing from a couple of days ago. Have you had
a change of heart about it?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I still think we handled it appropriately.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I was.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I was told, holla, we didn't do anything as you.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I was told by I was told by national representative
of dairy Queen that the vast majority of dairy Queen's
do not have cherry flavoring anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
There are a couple still here in Kentucky that do.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
We got, but the one you went to likely did not.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's possible. Yeah, so you're you're The whole basis for.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Your anger was that he was giving you something he
that or he didn't give you something they had. Does
it change your mind if they didn't have it?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Uh No, I think it was his failure to even
look me in the eye. And we have to look
you in the eye and throw the cup at me
and tell me to get yourself.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Do you demand eye contact from wherever you go?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Be pleasant, be nice. We're here to spend money, eat
your food.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
If you go.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
My fault, Mario picked and dairy queen Mario's fault.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I I kind of think drew it's on. It's on here.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
I mean, if they don't have the syrup, then on
the syrup. Like if you get order McRib and they
say we don't have them, to yield and McDonald's for.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
You. Look me, don't have a bib, won't take it?
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Speaker 3 (24:01):
We were just talking about legends. I said, like you'd
want to I'd want to see Tiger because he's a legend.
And we were talking about what people in sports right
now are legends that are still playing. And I sort
of defined legend as top four to five of all time, right,
so you're seeing somebody that's history. So those people now
(24:22):
would be Tiger, Serena Djokovic, Mahomes, Lebron, maybe Steph Curry,
depending on how you look at it. Maybe otanis stay
(24:44):
out of trouble. Well, but the other guy already went
to like already playing county and went to prison. And
I don't know, is that it messy? Somebody mentioned messys
and messy's in that messal but but anybody else.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You know, you just mentioned just one football guy one
baseball guy, one basketball guy, but you don't understand.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
There can't be more or else they probably wouldn't be
a legend, right I mean, so, I mean no, those
would be the people you just like, might want to
be able to tell your grandkids one day. Yeah, I
saw Lebron play live. I saw Tiger play live. I
think that's what I would want to do if I could.
I've seen Tiger, seen Lebron, seen Otani. You saw the Saucerena,
(25:27):
saw Feederer, saw Djokovic.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
We got the tennis covered.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, we got the tennis covered. So I mean, I
guess I haven't seen Messy, but otherwise I've seen all those.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Saw Lebron and Tiger. Hoping he catch Tiger again. I'm
like Shannon, I'm pretty excited to get out balls on
him at Valhalla. I miss seeing him yesterday.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Like, I don't think he's gonna play golf much more,
you know what I mean. I don't think there's a
lot more golf in him, just when you watch him walk.
So I think these are there's only probabing me two
or three more years of him period, So.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
That years are gonna be a Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well he'll never be here again. I mean, he's not
gonna play in the Barbersol, so like this will be
this is the you know, his last time, probably the
last time he'll ever play in this state. So you know,
I do want to be here. Mouth is out of
the Preakness.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Right, I mean he's Mystic Dan. That makes him the favorite.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Now scratched. He had one hundred and three degree temperature.
So now it's down to seven horses and Mystic there's
two horses from the from the Derby in and then
new ones.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I think Mouth beat Mystic Dan in the Arkansas Derby.
So that's why the showdown is supposed to happen here
at the Preakness. Bafford's horses out, mist Dan.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Baffort has another horse in, but that one's out.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You don't have a cream he could put on mooth.
Get that temperaure down run again.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't know what to do with horse temperatures, but
but that's a shame. That makes it a lot less
exciting if the favorite's out.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yeah, but if Mystic Dan were to win, that would
be exciting. It gives the triple current chi yeah exactly,
So you think for that reason I'm more excited.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Do you think you could recognize No, I know where
you're going.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I'm saying that's a horse. Can't lock it off the horse?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
You lined up the horses, I couldn't pick it up
a little.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, this is all right. I know you wouldn't know it.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Let's say I put the twenty Derby horses and I
gave you two minutes to look at all them. Yeah,
and then I moved the horses around. Do you think
you could know what horse was? What horse? No? I
mean neither. No.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
No is by the number and the silks that it has,
And it's the only way I could recognize it. It's
a horse.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
You saw me do the match game, and there were
only eight cards in front of me, and I missed
all of them. I'm certainly not getting the tears.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Why I say this, I've often wondered this about horse racing.
I mean, I've often wondered this. Do you think there's
ever been a race where they've just taken the silks
off the fast, off the slow horse and switched them
with the fast horse to win money.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
That's what I tried to do. Lost h McGinnis when
he left UK at kicker.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, but I mean you think that's ever happened.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
We're like, I would say, probably not in a major
stakes race.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
But no, no, not in the major race. But like
one of these little rinky.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Dean Kallas and Henderson, you think they've been.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Like I think, because because how would anyone know? Yeah? They?
I mean, what oh they? That is it? So I
didn't know, say, tattoo inside their lips? We to Ryan, no,
(28:24):
and then okay, So I honestly, that's an easy answer.
I've always wondered that. So does every horse have a
tattoo inside its lips?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
And they checked before every rate and they checked before
Ryan to make sure it's not an aposter. God.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Derek up the Derek go ahead, Derek.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Hey, Matt, I just want to touch on a couple
of points that you all made earlier when you were
talking about your favorite UK players and then of the
Calparrier and then the happiest, saddest time. And I apologize.
I get distracted by work unfortunately, so if this was mentioned,
you can just skip over. But he's definitely not at
the top tier of like Wall and Ewis, but someone
that was overshadowed by Ewis. Jamal Murray's definitely up there.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
In terms of I mean, in terms of if you're
just talking guys that were the best while they were here,
Jamal Murray is definitely top ten. I mean, Jamal Murray
was great when he was here. I don't know, oh
yeah exactly. And he had the bow and arrow thing,
which fans really liked a lot. It's interesting. I appreciate
(29:32):
the call. He is a great player that we went
here that we don't always mention, probably because of Tyler
Ewlis and that team lost in the second round. But
I think next to Antonio Reeves, he averaged more points
a game. It was like, it's so it's Reeves. It's like, Reeves, Murray,
(29:54):
Monk are the three most points a game guys of
the col Era.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
And like the caller said, we've had a lot of
the little side stuff. The George, the Brow. The Blenaro
was pretty huge. Remember the bench would get into it. EJ.
Floryll would catch it and fall back and Willis would
catch him. That season didn't in the way we wanted,
but Murray was a lot of fun in that back
court with less.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
In twenty years from now, we're gonna be having this
conversation right about Antonio Reeves. Yes, I mean Antonio Reeves
is destined to be a dude that people are gonna forget.
And he finishes the Caliperi Era with more points per
game in a season than any player in the history
of the col Era, and nobody will ever think that.
And if they had played two more games in the
(30:35):
SEC Tournament and three more games in the NCAA Tournament,
he would have ended up with one of the five
highest scoring point years ever at Kentucky, and people just
don't think about it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, he's gonna be on that underappreciated list we talk
about all the time because everybody was on Reid and Rob.
You forget Antonio Reeves was a superstar this past season
for that basketball team.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
We would say this during the year, but I firmly
believe it. I think three of the six best three
point shooters to ever play at this school, we're on
the same team. To me, Reeves and Reed are not
even in the debate. Reeves and Reed Shepherd are two
of the top four. And I think even though you
(31:18):
don't think about Rob like that, his percentages are worth it.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
YEP.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And yet I mean, I don't want to go in
will we lost again? But I mean three guys like
that drew on the same team.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
That's why yesterday when Cody figures like, oh, we want
to shoot a lot of threes, thirty five of them.
That's a little high. But I was thinking, man, that
would have been fun last year running with those three dudes.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Can you imagine if you had a team, Shannon, where
you made getting Reeves open a priority?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Yeah, imagine what could have happened.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I mean, he could have scored twenty six, twenty seven
a game.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
If you made it a priority, we're gonna get this
guy shots, yep.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
He he was underappreciate it last year because we talk about,
you know, the Dillingham or Shepherd having a big game,
and just kind of glossed over the fact that once
again Antonio Rees would have a twenty point plus game.
It was almost just like a given.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
And it wasn't just that he shot threes.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It was a given Goose's I didn't think about that
until I said it, and then and then what came
back to my head was was Goose's givens. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Next got Lieutenant doctor Smith up next.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Lieutenant doctor Smith, How are you, sir?
Speaker 9 (32:30):
I'm doing good. First time caller, a long time listener.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Who are what's up?
Speaker 9 (32:35):
So back in twenty twelve, my dad started listening to
KSR and he unexpectedly passed in twenty thirteen, and since
that time, me and my two brothers have been listening
to KSR every day, so now for eleven years, and
I just want to thank you all for all the
great memories, too many to share on this one phone
call with you out to my little brother Philip, who's
(32:55):
at the show today, and just thanks for all the
memories you've given us.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Man, Oh, I feel well, Thank you very much. Philip
is waving in saying hello. That's very sweet and we
appreciate you letting us do that for the last eleven years.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
Yeah, it's it's been awesome. Too many awesome stories to tell.
But I really love when my older brother told you
it was my twenty first birthday and it was not,
and you made us come on the pregame show to
tell everybody that we would come party with you afterwards,
and we were scrambling trying to find a fake ID
for me.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
We can go out there and party with you.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
And unfortunately we choked at the last second and lost
that game. But I actually was I always feel guilty
that it was my fault for letting my older brother
tell you it was my birthday.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, that's all right, you know what I get it.
I think half the people that tell me it's their birthday,
it's probably not. It's like when you go to when
I was appreciate the call when I was young, When
I was a kid in high school, people would go
to Showti's and say it was their birthday to get
the free k birthday.
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I think everybody's done that at some point. Yeah, right, Bryan,
I don't want to do it tonight.
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I'm back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at
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are now happy to be joined from the UK Baseball
team by Nolan McCarthy, par of the SEC leading UK
baseball team. No, and thank you for your time, and
(35:04):
I'll get started with this big series this weekend. Been
an awesome year. I don't think any team in the
country has much more fun than you guys do. What's
it been like this season?
Speaker 11 (35:17):
Oh, it's been a lot of fun. We got a
great group of guys and coming out this weekend.
Speaker 12 (35:21):
Is gonna be just a just a great time.
Speaker 11 (35:22):
We got some new additions to KPP and excited to
see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, they added seats for this weekend as well, and
probably for the regional and subregional that will be coming. No,
when you've been here from the beginning, so you were here.
I think your first year the team struggled, and now
you have a shot to win the SEC title. What
has it been like to just watch this growth and
be a part of it.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
Yeah, it's been a long time kind of coach manager
for building this program up and just sticking with it,
because I mean, the group of guys we have now
is just an amazing group and we've always had a
good culture here and it's just awesome to see it
come in fruition and uh and us getting some accolades
and hopefully you can finish that off.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
This weekend now. I mean, you do seem like you
it's a great culture, but it's also a culture where
I mean, for people we haven't gotten to a game yet.
You guys are chanting, making noise, doing stuff though the
whole time. I know you did that some last year,
but that does seem to be something that's grown as
the year's gone on. What's the thinking behind that and
(36:26):
and and how much does it pump up the team?
Speaker 12 (36:29):
It pumps us up a ton.
Speaker 11 (36:30):
I mean, our dugout will give a lot of credit
to them, the guys who weren't playing, they're they're keeping
the energy up and they're they're willing us to do
i mean, just to win every game. So it's it's
awesome and it just gives us a lot of energy,
and even when things aren't going well, it's like, Okay,
we got these guys who have our back, and it
kind of keeps us in the fight no matter how
how uh how off we are.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Now, I heard you're the one that started the row
your boat thing that they do after the doubles? Is
that right?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
It was?
Speaker 11 (37:00):
It was kind of a kind of a group thing,
but yeah, I was definitely a part of it.
Speaker 12 (37:04):
Yeah, I kinda I kind of like.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
Doing some of the celebration stuff, but yeah, are we
got some We got some good guys who help out
with that stuff too, So it's it's been fun.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Now. I love it. I love that kind of stuff.
We've talked on this show sometimes that I wish baseball
did it more. But I also know, knowing some of
the teams you play, they don't love it as much.
I saw the Florida player was frustrated after the game
between me and you, just me and you talking. Does
that make you want to do it more? When you
hear him complain about it?
Speaker 11 (37:36):
I mean, we do that stuff for us, and coach
is big on that, like it's this is all for us,
and if other people don't like that, that's fine because
this is how we're gonna play baseball. And it's if
it affects them, I mean, that's fine for them, but
we're doing this all for us, so we can, you know,
just keep the energy up and win some ball games.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
We had Minji on Na on a few weeks ago,
and he talked about your All's philosophy, which is just
on offense to attack, attack, attack, you know, try to
make the other team make mistakes. You're gonna have a
lot of Kentucky fans who this weekend and in the
regional SEC tournament are gonna be watching you guys maybe
haven't watched it a lot. How would you describe how
(38:18):
this baseball team plays and what makes it different than
a lot of the teams were used to.
Speaker 11 (38:24):
One word I'd use describe it's probably hectic, because I mean,
if there's like a bloop single, it's gonna be a double.
Like we're gonna push everything, and it's college baseball eighteen
to twenty three year olds and they make mistakes, so
it's kind of pushing the envelope for other people to
make mistakes, and we trust ourselves. We're gonna be aggressive
but not stupid. And uh yeah, I mean steal a
(38:46):
ton of bags. We lay down bunts when needed, we
hit homers when needed, and I mean it's it's a
fun brand of baseball to watch.
Speaker 12 (38:54):
So it's really good to be a part of an
aggressive team like this.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I mean, I've watched more college baseball Kentucky baseball this
year that I've ever watched in my life because it
is fun. Now, you're playing for the SEC championship this week.
If you win all three, you get it yourself. If
you win two, your at least guarantee to share. We'll
see what happens in the other games. So what's your mentality.
I know you're gonna say, noing, Oh, it's gonna be
(39:18):
like any other game, but it's not. That's gonna be
a packed house. There's a lot on the line. What's
your mentality going into it?
Speaker 11 (39:26):
Yeah, I mean I was gonna I was gonna go
out there and say it's like any other game.
Speaker 12 (39:29):
But obviously we all know what's on the line.
Speaker 11 (39:32):
But we know what it takes to win, and it
doesn't really matter who we're playing at that point, so
we play our game. I mean, it's gonna be awesome
playing in front of all the people who are gonna
come out, and we've had.
Speaker 12 (39:40):
Great crowds all year, so that's that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 11 (39:43):
But yeah, it was a lot on the line, and
we'd like to say we've got chips on our shoulders
because we always do. We're never covering the team that's
gonna be preseasoned ranks number one. But I mean, we
believe we are the best team in the country. So
I think a we's gona keep those chips on our
shoulder and play like we play, and I think the
outcomes gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, there has been a since, you know, watching the
National College Baseball world of fans of some of the
teams that have been more traditionally successful, going, Eh, Kentucky's
gonna fall off. Eh, Kentucky's not for real. Have you
guys heard that stuff? And does it motivate you?
Speaker 12 (40:19):
Yeah, we love it. We love it. We think we
play best as an underdog.
Speaker 11 (40:22):
So the rankings can say what they want to say,
but I mean, we know who we are and we
love that people don't respect us still so and we're
starting to get some more respect. But I mean, it
just it just adds to the fire we got going on.
And I mean, all our guys are just unbelievable competitors.
Speaker 12 (40:37):
So it's it's just it's fun.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Well, the games are Thursday, Friday, Saturday at Kentucky Proud Park.
There is going to be I think it's gonna be
drew an amazing atmosphere out there this weekend. Uh, there's
still some tickets available for general admission. Good luck, hopefully
you win the title, get ready for the SEC tournament
in the NCAA. And thank you knowing very much for
(41:00):
coming on the show. Thank you, Noen McCarthy, everybody from
the Kentucky Baseball team.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
UK Baseball and SEC Championships. You just don't put that
in the same sentence on what happened once, only one
time in the history of UK baseball and they got
a chance to win an outright on their home field.
This is a huge moment for this program.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
You could make an argument that winning the SEC regular
season is as hard as winning the College World Seison. Yes,
in terms of who you have to play and who
you have to beat. Drew to to get to do it, and.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
With this weekend ahead and look like they're gonna host
some postseason I'm worried about that record we said against
Tennessee a few weeks ago. Now, if there's new bleachers,
I think we had like foury three hundred something, maybe
might've been more than that, But with the new bleachers
in the left field, I think it's gonna be an
insane atmosphere this weekend and then whatever they're able to
host next after the SEC.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
All right, couple things. First of all, at ks Bar,
it's Wings Day, dollar Wings all day, So go check
it out. If you made the finals for the trivia,
make sure if you haven't talked yet to Monique, that
you get your table set for tomorrow night where we're
going for five thousand dollars. We are at the PGA
Championship tomorrow and Friday. If you see us out there,
(42:12):
come say hello. Thank you to the folks here at
Assured Partners for hosting us. It's been a great remote
out here, our last one in Lexington until I take off,
And thank you to a crowd probably the crowd that's
laughed the most we've had in years. Thank you all
very much. We appreciate it. We will see you guys later.
This has been Kentucky Sports Radio. See IF for the
(42:32):
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