2025-08-18- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington welcomes the always hilarious Joe Dombrowski August twenty first through the twenty third, Then from Gutfeld and the Joe Rogan Experience. Catch Jeff Die August twenty eighth through the thirty and don't miss social media sensation John Christ September fourth through the sixth four. Tickets to all Comedy Off Broadway shows called E five nine, two seven to one joke or visit Comedy Off Broadway dot com Off Byway.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Monday, August the eighteenth. I am Matt Jones here at the Louisville Golf Scramble at the Glen Oaks Country Club where today thirty one teams will fight it out on what was going to be a hot golf course. Look, they look at each other, like why you look at surprise. You know we're gonna have a lot of people. But you know what, You don't play the KISR Golf Scramble for speed. You play it for fun. And we will be out here.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be hot outside, but should be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: You can give seven Clark's Pumps Shop phone line eighty five nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. A vision auto glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four in this distion sponsored by the t J Smith Loves. If you call it TJ, you'll make them pay. We have a bunch of folks in here watching. That's like school Drew. They won't, they won't. They sit in the back so that they won't be called on. But uh, good to have him out this morning, and it should.

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Speaker 3: Be a lot of fun. This is the OG Scramble.

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Speaker 2: This was the first KSR golf screen but we did was in Louisville and now they've branched out all over the place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is fun.

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Speaker 4: Got a good early crowd here to hear the show. Uh. Some first timers asked if it's okay to listen, so absolutely get in here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is part of the event.

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Speaker 2: This is usually one that there's like fifteen or twenty groups that play every year. But already see some new faces everybody, but join me right now. It's happy birthday for Ryan Lemon, who is today is his birthday.

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Speaker 5: Happy birthday, buddy.

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Speaker 3: Happy birthday to Ryan. How old are you again? Fifty five?

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Speaker 5: Fifty nine, fifty nine years old. This one's hitting me.

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Speaker 6: I'm telling you, this one hit.

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Speaker 2: We gotta do something for your sixtieth birthday? Yeah, what's a good old person thing?

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Speaker 5: Nursing home? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: All the great athletes are born on August eighteen, Kenny Walker, Willie Coley Stein, and myself August eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you all have a lot in common.

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Speaker 5: Where was Shannon?

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Speaker 2: Where would be a good place? Like, what's a good old person vacation? Like when you're vacation? Yeah, for like that we could go for his sixtieth birthday? Where do old people.

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Speaker 3: Go in mass a casino on the Mississippi River.

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Speaker 5: That would be.

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Speaker 2: Ranson, Missouri, Renfro Valley. We can go to Valley. That we could go Ranson, Missouri is a good call. That feels like go see Rodney millsap. That feels like something we could do.

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Speaker 3: Where else is a good old person? I would say Alaskan cruise, but we've already done that.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, to see the Washington Monument. We've already done that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, where you are you excited to be moving towards sixty?

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Speaker 6: I'm telling you, man, this one, this birthday's probably hit me harder. Than any birthday I ever had, because I think next up is sixty. I mean, you're right, How in the hell did I turn fifty nine? How am I almost sixty years old? I don't feel sixty. I sure don't look sixty. I look like I'm twenty four years acted either, I don't act.

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Speaker 2: Well you certain let me put it. I don't know how you feel. Only you know that you certainly do not act sixty. I think that's totally fair. You act younger than almost everyone on this show. Uh.

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Speaker 3: I mean I don't think you look sixty either. I mean so yeah, I did it.

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Speaker 2: I mean the most sixty year olds don't do donut contest and things like that.

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Speaker 5: The new hair helps a little bit.

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Speaker 3: No, you definitely look the new hair. It certainly helps you. I just I am.

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Speaker 2: I think sixty is different, though I will say it is when I I mean when I was a kid. The idea of being sixty. I mean, you're already playing in the funeral. And for Ryan it doesn't feel I agree, Drew, it doesn't feel like he's that old.

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Speaker 4: You get a look at day pass like fifty five. What you're doing, you're doing well.

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Speaker 6: About the fiftieth birthday. You guys, you come out to my party. It was like more of a celebration this sixtieth. When next year this is gonna it's gonna hurt.

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Speaker 3: Well, we need to do something.

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Speaker 2: We need to do something fun for you. You can think about what you'd like to do and then I'll alter it into a version that's acceptable.

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Speaker 3: Uh, And we'll do something for your sixtieth birthday. How's that?

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Speaker 6: You know I started with you when I was forty four, forty four about to turn forty five.

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Speaker 5: Why I started with you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: You know what We had my friend Hubby, his birthday was this weekend, and I was saying, you know it is August the eighteenth, all right, so we fast forward. I will be in South Africa when this happens, so we're gonna celebrate it before. But I'm gonna celebrate September tenth. What was what would actually happen in the middle of September. The twentieth anniversary of KSR is a month away. I mean I started I started the website KSR twenty years ago in September. Wow, I started this radio show fifteen years ago. Go in October. And it's kind of crazy to think that we've gone this far. It is, really, it's kind of I've had because it was the twentieth in it, because it was Hubby's birthday, who helped me start it.

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Speaker 3: I kind of have been reflecting on that.

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Speaker 2: It's crazy, Drew to think twenty years you've been with me for seventeen years.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's crazy to think it's been like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm sure when you were had Hubby draft up that beautiful blog twenty years ago, you do exactly. It's all the radio show and everything that comes with it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, anyway, so thanks to everybody for coming out here. I want to talk about this is gonna be a little bit of UK football today.

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Speaker 3: But I have to.

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Speaker 2: Say one thing, and I want your honest opinion of was this a bad decision or not?

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Speaker 3: From me this weekend? Okay, you know.

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Speaker 2: You know where I live in the Highlands, right, Yes, So I made a decision during the day Saturday, I went for a walk.

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Speaker 3: I walked from my house Shennon to the Waterson and back to pretty long walk could walk.

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Speaker 2: It was like eighteen thousand steps, so pretty long walk. Did it before it got crazy hot, but it was still hot, So I'm tired the rest of the day. Fast forward, It's Saturday night. Now you got to understand the circumstance Saturday night, about ten thirty at night. You know that area of Louisville you all live here, you know, that's kind of like people are, well, is it getting too much crime? Is it too much traffic on Saturday nights? Cause kids have been getting fights in front of the taco bell and all that. There's a place that's gotten extremely popular, which is like what do you call those things?

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Speaker 3: Drew the boba teas? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: You drink them, and they've got little things in there that burstoppers pop.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that place has gotten really popular. It's down the street all right.

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Speaker 2: So I at like ten thirty, was thinking I want something to drink, but I don't want drink soda because I don't want to stay up all night, right, So I walked down to the to just get like elimonade. Okay, a lot of people, but it's mostly kids, you know, people out to to party, right, Okay, but yet there's this family. There's like five families sitting in the back, you know, probably middle aged, right, they have kids and these kids range from three to seven or eight.

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Speaker 3: Now, Shanon, I would start by saying, it's.

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Speaker 5: Ten thirty at night, but your kids' bed.

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Speaker 3: Right, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you could have your kids out, but just for the record, it's ten thirty at night and it's in a place where you know.

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Speaker 3: There are bars, and everybody's like partying.

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Speaker 2: They're sitting in the back, enjoying themselves, doing what middle aged parents do when they're.

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Speaker 3: Out of the house. I guess, just being happy.

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Speaker 2: But they have just decided that because this is a public place, they're just gonna let their kids run wide. So there are six to seven, three to nine year olds running around the restaurant.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I see immediately this is not a situation.

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Speaker 5: I like, right, I understand, but you know what, I want one.

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Speaker 3: Of these little Boba tee and so I get it.

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Speaker 2: I sit down and I think, every man in here, you know the scream I'm about to talk about when like a three or four year year old does that blood curdling scream. I see you all shaking your own. Yeah, I can't do it, but you know what I'm talking about, That not crying, like the happy, blood curdling scream. Okay, this kid, she's running around and her friends are chasing you her, and she's doing that screen douse.

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Speaker 3: Everybody know what I'm talking.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's like a shriek.

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Speaker 2: Yea, I would argue next to a Dennis drill. It's the worst sound on earth, is a little kid's shriek.

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Speaker 5: That's fair, do you it is? Yeah, it's fair.

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Speaker 3: She's doing it and like nobody's stopping her. Right.

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Speaker 2: I think they just think, hey, the collective is here, will let our kids run around and they'll do blood curdling trills. And when she does it, then her friends start doing so. Now there's multiple kids with blood curdling trill. I get my drink. I sit at the table. Now I'm by myself, but there are people all around me. There's like a couple making out in the corner. There's all these.

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Speaker 5: People everywhere is the island.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I expect that. I'm used to that, right.

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Speaker 2: These two kids get to my table and it's almost like they've looked at me and said this is the person we're gonna bother. They start chasing each other in a circle around my table, screaming, and.

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Speaker 3: Like every time they yell. The other one just yells more yeah.

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Speaker 5: And I'm looking around Shannon going where's mom?

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Speaker 3: And everyone around me is agreed, like, are.

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Speaker 5: Y'all gonna stop this?

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Speaker 3: It's ten thirty a night, You're in the Highlands.

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Speaker 2: Your kids are screaming like they're being abducted, and they're chasing each other around and you can't even see them where you're sitting over there. So I wait about a couple of minutes, Drew, and I'm like, all right, should I say something?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Here comes Uncle Matt. Is the I've been rooting for Uncle mad Getting ready?

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Speaker 3: Should I can't do it anymore?

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Speaker 2: When I say fifteen triols, it's fifteen triols, fifteen Triel. Finally, I just walk over there to the group of parents I don't know who's whose kid, and I just go, I don't want.

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Speaker 3: To be rude, but.

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Speaker 5: I'm about to be rude.

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Speaker 2: Can someone keep these kids from at least running around and screaming over here? Can you at least bring them to you and do it? Nothing wrong with that? No, nothing wrong.

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Speaker 3: With that, That's what I'm asking you.

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Speaker 2: They looked at me, they gave me that snotty look, and they're like, yeah, and then they get them and you know what, then they leave and everything's fine.

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Speaker 3: So there's my question, am I, Because when I came back there was kind of like a mini applause in my sex.

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Speaker 2: But I could tell that the ten parents thought and they there might even be a listener to this show.

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Speaker 3: Heck, maybe one of them's in here right now. Did I do the wrong thing?

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Speaker 6: You're the You represented the whole group. They all a little scared to step up, and do you did what they wanted to do? You need somebody like you in your group that are not afraid to step up.

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Speaker 2: Is that rude to look at people and go get your kids out of our faces?

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Speaker 7: See a responsible parent? Yes, Noah, you did the right thing, absolutely okay.

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Speaker 2: But if you're a parent, if someone had done that with you when you had a little kid, I feel like you would have gotten mad.

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Speaker 6: Actually, I was trying to put myself in a position. If I was the parent, I'd be embarrassed that I let even my kid was running around like that, Like maybe I'm so engulfed with my friends and talking, I'm embarrassed to know that my friends my son's over here causing a ruck.

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Speaker 2: I had to have heard it. It was literally you could have heard it in Saint Matthew's. They were screaming so loud they had to have.

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Speaker 3: Heard it well.

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Speaker 4: As the story was building, I thought you were gonna tell me that you the kids. I was really I was really rooting for that, and I don't think you talk to other people, So yeah, I was rooting for that chaos, but I'd say this is a step down below from that, so the right thing.

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Speaker 2: So you think, you don't think because that part of me felt bad, I was upset.

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Speaker 3: Let me also be clear. I was upset because the rensid just blown that.

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Speaker 5: Game, So that was added to the frustration.

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Speaker 2: The Rams had just blown that games exactly right. Elly threw the ball in the dirt. He should have held it. They moved on, cannot walk the first two guys in the ninth inning, Like, you can't be doing that stuff, says Andy.

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Speaker 5: But I was already upset about that, understand.

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Speaker 3: And then this kid blood curdling.

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Speaker 7: I see a version of what you just described all the time. It's like where parents just go out in public, they dump their kids off and just let them have free reign of the of the guitar area.

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Speaker 3: They act like the restaurant is a kid's zoo, right, Like, oh, I.

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Speaker 2: Can just drop them off at daycare here and do any Plus it's ten thirty at night.

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Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, why are they out at ten thirty on a Saturday night?

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Speaker 3: All Right? So I'm glad to hear you back me up on it.

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Speaker 5: We got you.

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Speaker 2: Saturday was a UK football scrimmage. It was the second UK football scrimmage. We're gonna talk in the next segment about Cutter Bowler, who played well. I have intentionally got no hopes up this year about being good or whatever, but we when I was out, I was I was all over Louisville this weekend. I've been here for like three or four straight days.

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Speaker 3: I was all over Louisville.

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Speaker 2: Everywhere I went that I saw someone who knew me. They asked me how we gonna be at basketball this year? Not one person has asked me in Louisville in the last three or four days about football. We are thirteen days, twelve days away from kickoff. Do you think our fan base has any excitement ryan for.

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Speaker 6: Football any I really don't, because when they do ask you about it's like, are we gonna get three wins? Are we gonna get four wins? Like there's no optimism at all.

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Speaker 2: But excitement. I know there's no optimism, Drew. Do you even think people are excited that in twelve days.

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Speaker 4: We are kicking off not nearly as much as it usually is at this point. I mean, you have your people that have already gone out and put their tents down, which that even isn't even.

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Speaker 3: Huge numbers the social thing more than it is.

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Speaker 4: But your core audience is excited just because it's here. But overall, I think just the unknown people are just kind of waiting to see what it is before they get too fired up about whatever is going to roll out there.

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Speaker 7: It feels like fans have just already accepted that it's going to be a bad season. But if they were to come out and let's say blow out Toledo and let's say pull off and went over Ole Miss somehow, some way, I think the fan base would jump right back on as quickly as they jumped off.

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Speaker 2: What is weird to me is even when we've been bad over the years, and we've been doing this show long enough that we've been bad going into many years, people always were into at least the season starting I just have not felt that this year. I've walked. I walked up here past about two people. First two questions. I think we're gonna go to the file four. I think we're going to the national Championship. I think a combination of how excited people are about mar Pope, how people are excited about the basketball team, and how bad the football team feels like it's gonna be, has made it to where there's the least excitement around football.

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Speaker 3: I can think of.

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Speaker 2: Maybe since Joker's second year, but I don't even know if it was like that quiet then, I really some of.

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Speaker 4: Those bad teams, it's guys you'd followed for several years. There's a connection. I mean, with fifty new players, I bet most fans would fail a test about the roster right now. It's just that this is such a unique year. There's so many unknowns where guys have come from.

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Speaker 2: How many of you, how many of you here, if you're being honest, because we've got probably twenty people sitting in here right now, how many of you you think you could name six of the starters on offense and defense? Not one person raising one hand, And these are clearly UK fans they're not one person.

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Speaker 3: For those of you play now, nobody knows what to think.

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Speaker 2: I mean that I think says says a lot right there, and that to me is a failure from the UK marketing folks and even getting people.

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Speaker 3: We all know Calzada, we know Shihajh Pete yep.

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Speaker 2: But then the rest of the team, I don't know. We'll take a break right back. We're here at KSR Golf Scramble. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Walking back.

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Speaker 2: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the KSR Golf Scramble, presented by Stockton Mortgage and Cornbread Ham our Driving Range sponsors, Boomer Express which is what Ryan is now a boomer Express, and our conspon cart sponsor minus one ninety six and on the Rocks Cocktails, both drinks made by by Beam minus one ninety six.

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Speaker 3: You ever tried that?

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Speaker 4: I had it at our Lexdon Scramble for the first time. Very good caught me off guard.

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Speaker 3: I was spro oh, yeah, those are the ones my buddies were trying. That that said very good liquor.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of alcohol sponsors on our court.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of alcohol sponsors and I would also say, uh, there's a hole of OVW wrestlers that uh uh. We we have Crixis Luscious Lawrence and Fred the Slayer who are willing to put all of you in a head headlock if you if you were to get it.

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Speaker 3: So they're all gonna be out there as we.

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Speaker 5: Don't mess with Cricks. So I can tell you that.

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Speaker 3: He's got new hair. Did you see that? Yeah, he did a rhyme. He went and got to.

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Speaker 7: I can never understand what he's saying, so I just go, uh huh, yep.

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Speaker 5: I disagree with everything he does.

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Speaker 3: Seems like most people agree with me.

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Speaker 2: On the kids, one person says Matt, I'm a one person, says mad I'm a pairent of four. I see both sides. Sometimes my kids need to unwind and get out some energy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's for your backyards. That's not for Bobo T's all right, Bobo.

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Speaker 3: T is not the place to let your kids get energy. Here.

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Speaker 2: If we want to get to the reason what I said about the football, we open up the phones A five nine twenty two eighty seven topics football.

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Speaker 5: Rick tells me no cault cricket.

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Speaker 3: That's another thing. Like I am I just I've never seen it like this.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question that would have been insane to ask even just two years ago.

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Speaker 4: Will the stadium be full for the first game. I'm curious to see what that whole looks like. I mean a noon game. Usually you gotta want it to get out there and set your toelgate up and really have them make a morning out of it. I'm interested to see just getting out there, what the excitement is day off around the stadium at like eleven am, an hour before they kick off.

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Speaker 2: I'm we're opening for breakfast that morning. It'll be the first week with ks Bar. I feel like things will go well because of that. But usually we get a pretty good hint of what it's gonna look like that the stadium with how it looks like at the bar before I I Historically that first game has either been sold out or close.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that's gonna it's gonna be hot? Do you think that's gonna happen?

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Speaker 6: See, I'm on the boat that they'll be a good crowd, but it won't be full because, like Drew said, the noon start, the apathy that has built up over the last couple of years, people just aren't excited, So they'll be a good crowd. But I don't think it's gonna be packed.

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Speaker 5: Isn't that also Labor Day weekend?

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Speaker 7: Three day weekend, so maybe a lot of people going out of town for Labor Day weekend.

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Speaker 5: I think it's probably gonna too not quite not quite full.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So what can Kentucky do in that game to win everybody up?

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Speaker 2: Like, is this one of those things that if they go win by twenty one points considering it's now down to an eight and a half line, is that the.

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Speaker 3: Way drew for everybody to go? Okay? I'm I'm I'm back on board.

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Speaker 4: I think they get a lot of people excited. I think winning at all, this is a game, just get out of there. I hope there's not a negativity if they do win by a touchdown because this is not an easy Week one opponent where you used to being have a bigger point spread there in a game you don't have to sweat out. So if they were to win it by three touchdowns, I think it'd be very exciting.

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Speaker 6: And then you got to ole Miss the next game.

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Speaker 5: If you're like Channon said.

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Speaker 3: Earlier, we're gonna oh miss is gonna be full.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that thinks a lot.

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Speaker 2: Unless we lose, Old Miss will be full because it's Old Miss. They're gonna bring a lot of people here. I mean, that's that's gonna be their first game of the year that really matters, So they're gonna bring a lot of people here.

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Speaker 3: They haven't been here.

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Speaker 2: I think they played here what they played during COVID, but nobody could come, so I think it's probably been has it been since they had DK Metcalf since they were here. I think they were here that year, but I think that's the last time they were here.

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Speaker 4: The SEC nation will be at that game too. I don't know how much that adds to the X.

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Speaker 3: It adds a lot. A lot of people want to see sexy Paul Fum and it might get people out a.

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Speaker 5: Little dry salt with nothing on it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it feels weird to say that the first game of the season is a statement game, but I kind of feel like for our fan base, it is like, you got to show us, so let's see what you can do against a decent Well, let me give you.

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Speaker 3: A piece of good news.

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Speaker 2: Cutter Bowley apparently looked magnificent again in the scrimmage, so much so that Mark Stoops kind of led his offensive talk with the second string quarterback.

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Speaker 3: This is now two scrimmages and a row. He's played well.

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Speaker 2: If you talk to people in practice, if you talk to people around the program, they will all tell you Cutter has outplayed kaal Zaida this fall or this summer. Now cales that is going to start in part because you paid a lot of money to get him here. Right, But Mark Story said he thinks the Kentucky quarterback room is in a better position now than they've been in years too deep. You know, the starter isn't necessarily as good as it's but that this is the best backup Kentucky's had, Is there any chance to back up? At some point becomes the starter. I mean, everything you hear is that he has taken leaps and bound progression.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I'll go back to what the guy told me that knows a lot more football than I do, and he said Cutter will be the starter by the end of the year. And he said even at the first game end, if Zach starts, Cutter will be on the field like they plan on playing him.

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Speaker 3: I think, but we hear that every year and they never play that guy.

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Speaker 2: Like we always hear they're gonna put the backup on the field, and then that never happens.

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Speaker 3: I think if they do it, is it gonna be a switch? Like you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Like that the idea of rotating both. I feel like they say that and that never happens. You think this will be different. I think they're gonna give Cutter a shot.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I really do you know? They did have Gavin WIMPs that come in in certain situations last year to be in the number two guy.

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Speaker 5: I think they want to see what Cutter can do the win. When do you do that?

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Speaker 7: Do you have to be down significantly at halftime to make the switch? What if it's Toledo and you're down by.

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Speaker 3: The problem to put to back up in early in the season Drew Is, it's hard to go back to the start unless he just comes in and is terrible.

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Speaker 2: If you're already in game one, give it like give it up on your starter, it's hard to go back to him.

00:22:29
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be fine with Calzada. I think if Kentucky's got problems, it won't be a quarterback. Even if he's just a game manager. They're gonna run the ball a lot. He doesn't throw many interceptions if it's not going well. I don't think he'll be the issue. I think he'll be the line wasn't helping him or the defense, and.

00:22:46
Speaker 3: We need to be able to run all over Toledo.

00:22:48
Speaker 2: But also remember historically in the first game, Stoops teams have taken a while to get going. We've had slow first halfs in a lot of Mark Stoop's first games over the year. We'll take a break. Per it backs KSR. Welcome back TENNI Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt, I'm very excited about football. Shannon, of all people, has me optimistic. He's always pessimistic, and this year he thinks we go to a bowl. Look at you, mister optimism.

00:23:17
Speaker 7: But I haven't heard too many people say six wins. But you know what, I think they can do it. I think there's definitely a path to make that happen. Some things have to go their way, yes, but they can happen.

00:23:26
Speaker 2: I mean it's not crazy, but it's also not although I said that last year and it still gets thrown in my face every time one person rights Matt, I'm excited. I'm driving in from Iowa for both the first Week one and Week two games. That's a long drive. So if you do that for both of them, Drew, I think you are excited.

00:23:42
Speaker 4: Just doing it twice, it's gonna go and turn around do it again maybe next week. I understand. Yeah, that's that's a long drive. Good commitment for the Cats.

00:23:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, week three against I will say if they don't do well in Week one or two, tickets will be available for Week three against Eastern Michigan. I think that one's I think that's fair. I got before you go the phone some news this morning that I think is going to make you two, Shannon and Ryan mad Did you hear what the Major League Baseball commissioner said last night? He basically said that he did. I mean, he didn't specify this, but it's certainly what it sounded like. He basically said, we're gonna expand add two more teams, and the American and National League are going away. No, he's basically suggesting they would do eight divisions of four teams and base it by geography. And I look this morning online and they were showing what the tentative plan would be, and it would be not Beatle twenty twenty nine, but it would It actually makes some sense if you look at the geography. It would put the teams in divisions of four right next to each other. So you would end up with New York the two New York teams, Boston and Toronto in the same division. And you go through and like the Reds would be with Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit. The Cubs would be with the White Sox Milwaukee and maybe Minneapolis, and they basically put them in little and and everything, and then the two expansion teams might be Nashville and Charlotte.

00:25:13
Speaker 3: What do you think about that?

00:25:15
Speaker 2: What do you think about And basically, instead of American League, National League, it would just be eastern part of the country versus Western part of the country.

00:25:22
Speaker 7: Well, with open league play being what it is, you really don't need the National and American League anymore. You know, used to have those two separated, So I mean, it does make sense. I am a traditionalist when it comes to baseball. I don't like changes, but I can see that making.

00:25:36
Speaker 2: Your Cardinals would be in the West. The basically the you'd have a division of the New York teams, Boston, Toronto. Then there'd be a division that's like Philly, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, and then it's.

00:25:49
Speaker 3: Like Atlanta and Nashville and the Florida teams.

00:25:52
Speaker 2: It's like Saint Louis, Kansas City and the Texas teams and then so I mean, it's if you just look at the Giaga, it makes sense.

00:26:01
Speaker 5: The Braves used to be in the n ol West and I'm going like, how does that Raves?

00:26:04
Speaker 2: When I saw it, it looks like the Braves have the easiest thing because the Braves would have Nashville and then the two teams from Florida, So.

00:26:10
Speaker 5: We don't we don't have to worry about Philadelphia, Like you got the easies?

00:26:13
Speaker 3: What do you think though, you're mister traditionalists.

00:26:15
Speaker 6: See, I was kind of on board with it until you just told me who the Cardinals are gonna be.

00:26:18
Speaker 3: With It would be Saint Louis, Kansas City, Texas and Houston.

00:26:22
Speaker 6: I can't hate that enough. And that is that just boils my blood. Can't you take away the rivalry with the Cubs and the Reds. But you're gonna have a new rivalry with Dallas and here's all, come on, he still gives a crap about Dallas and Houston people who live there.

00:26:36
Speaker 5: Come on, I can't believe they're going to.

00:26:38
Speaker 3: Take that away. I mean, this is still like, first of all, it's not just about the cars.

00:26:42
Speaker 2: It is.

00:26:43
Speaker 5: They're not taking the Cubs off the schedule.

00:26:45
Speaker 3: They're still still.

00:26:46
Speaker 5: Playing, but it's just a rival. You know, you're you're battling omials.

00:26:49
Speaker 6: Games are means so important?

00:26:50
Speaker 5: Well, now you have Kansas City to be important to me.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: The people that should be the maddest would be like Toronto because they end up with the Yankees, the Mets in the Red Sox like brutal.

00:26:59
Speaker 5: That's brutal.

00:27:01
Speaker 3: I mean, that's like absolutely brute.

00:27:03
Speaker 2: You know, for the Reds, if they ended up with Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit, it doesn't really change much. Like they they probably have a better chance in that division than the one they're in because they missed the Cubs.

00:27:15
Speaker 5: So I don't know, I can't stand it.

00:27:18
Speaker 3: I cannot.

00:27:19
Speaker 5: I feel like you'd have a big rivalry with Houston, Kansas City. Come on, yeh, Kansas City at all the border. That's exactly what you share.

00:27:27
Speaker 6: The state that they play that interqua inner squad, interleague game wherever they call it.

00:27:32
Speaker 3: Who cares?

00:27:32
Speaker 2: Give me the cub better care because that's your big rival. Now, Boom, Who's up first? I knew you would hate it.

00:27:40
Speaker 3: That's why I was excited to tell you, go ahead, Doug is up first? Doug, go ahead? Doug.

00:27:46
Speaker 8: Okay, man, I'm one of these that I just cannot get excited about this upcoming football season. And I'm just asking myself, am I being programmed after the last couple of years of Cali Perry and the last couple of years of tooops where I've had my hawks up so much with the program and just be let down, and now I just refuse to get up for it.

00:28:14
Speaker 3: Well, I get it.

00:28:15
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. But what I would say to you, Drew is the games are coming either way. Would you rather watch? Would you rather look at week one and go, oh, it's gonna be terrible? Would you rather get excited? I have been shocked. My point when I started this was to be say I'm shocked to how little attention it's gotten.

00:28:31
Speaker 3: I'm shocked to how little people seem to care.

00:28:33
Speaker 2: With all that said, when we get to that Saturday morning of Kentucky Toledo, I'm gonna be pacing the floor hoping we win as much as anybody.

00:28:41
Speaker 3: That's not gonna change for me, not at all.

00:28:43
Speaker 4: I'm very excited, even though I have a low bar for the season. But for the first twenty five years of my life, I got excited for Kentucky football and they sucked. I just like watching the team, I like going to the games. I like the tailgating everything that comes with it, and I can't wait to get out there, even though I have no idea with the actual product on the field of the clay.

00:29:02
Speaker 2: This Cole Kublick and Kole Kubrick saying to me when I was on his show Friday, said, I think Kentucky makes a bowl.

00:29:08
Speaker 3: Greg McElroy said that Kentucky in the SEC has the high.

00:29:12
Speaker 2: Swing potent between pencil potential upside and potential low side of any team in the league.

00:29:18
Speaker 3: Does any of that excite you a little bit? Those two guys I think know what they're talking about.

00:29:22
Speaker 4: Does And even though it's not the most exciting brand of football, I do think the ways toops is gonna go back to how he had success when he first got here. Even though it might be a little bit of a bore in some of those games, I think that gives Kentucky their best chance to win, especially with the current makeup of the rosters. So I'm hoping getting back to old school. I mean, oah, the games might be a dragon, it might be seventeen to twenty, but hopefully you're in just about every game and then you make these rock fights again.

00:29:47
Speaker 2: Well, I think Kole Kubrick said to me, and you can hear that interview it's online, but I mean they were interviewing me, but they ended up me kind of interviewing them. At the end, Kole Kubrick did say, Ryan, you know Bush Hampden he thinks is very creative, very interesting in the way he plays, but that last year sixty percent of the things that he likes to do he just couldn't do because the offensive line was too bad.

00:30:09
Speaker 3: Do you think that's plausible.

00:30:11
Speaker 6: I think it's highly plausible, and I think that's why they've maybe we've switched their offensive philosophy. They're gonna try to pound it and run it a lot this year. I think they feel like they got two running maybe four running backs back there. They can really move the football for him. So I think Hampton's gonna he likes a quarterback.

00:30:23
Speaker 5: I think that runs.

00:30:24
Speaker 6: I think he think Kazata can be that guy too. Kazata just can't make a lot of mistakes. He's got to play smart.

00:30:29
Speaker 7: Well, Hampden likes that offensive line. He said, this is gonna be one of the great offensive lines. It's gonna remind you of the big blue walls.

00:30:35
Speaker 5: So he got no excuse this year.

00:30:36
Speaker 3: Then that's you gotta be careful saying that.

00:30:38
Speaker 2: One person, rights, Matt, why would you say our roster is any worse than it's been the last few years. Well, I think it's probably better than it was last year. But here, here's the easiest way to measure it. Let's go back seven years. Kentucky's had more draft picks in the last six years than they had had in life the thirty years prior together. I mean, just think about how many people we have in the NFL. Okay, how many draft picks do we have projected this year? Anybody know last year we had two guys get drafted, Maxwell Harrison and Dion Walker.

00:31:16
Speaker 3: This year we have one guy projected Alex Afari. That's it. Wow, So I'm not I mean, that doesn't mean you can't. But then now go back.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: Years ago, we were getting five guys drafted every year Drew, which means on some rosters there were like fifteen dudes playing that had NFL futures. That's a big difference from having two guys last year, one of whom in Dion Walker, was kind of given half effort to and remember all those guys Dean Walker, Maxwell Harrison, Alex Farri.

00:31:44
Speaker 3: On defense, where are the offensive guys? Like, where are the offensive guys that are We went from having multiple dudes go to the NFL on the offensive line to we don't even have anybody being considered to go on the offensive.

00:31:59
Speaker 4: Line is an issue, but defensively you could at least say, and they've had all these draft picks, but none of them were really we were talking about his draft picks going into the years, like did did anybody have Drew Phillips starting for the Giants? Carrington Valentine, Those guys were projected to be paid Right now, Bryan Childress is Undrafted's probably gonna start for the Cowboys. So yes, your Hope is Hardaway or a Waller, even a Ty Bryan or I love it. Guys that have been there can make the jump that several guys have because many of the draft picks. You can go back to jam and Davis going into the year, we weren't talking about them as draft picks.

00:32:31
Speaker 2: You're right about Zion Childress, but Carrington Valentine was projected as a pick. I mean, and again, somebody may play their way into it. But going into last year, people thought Maxwell Harrison and.

00:32:43
Speaker 3: Dan Walker were getting picked. This year, there aren't as many of those guys. Who's next? Rick, Jenny is next? Jenny? Go ahead, Jenny.

00:32:53
Speaker 9: Hi, guys, listen, longtime listener, first time caller. I have a couple of quick hitters for you here. First of all, Ryan, age is just a number. I'm exactly ten years older than you are and I'm still out having a great time. The guy sitting up a girl, you will feel completely differently about it when they are your age. So just you let them talk and then you remind them of that years from now. That's good thing. I've had a two mile walk this morning, not seventeen. However, you all have gotten my blood boiling to start today. Negativity is popular opinions. We all have them, but negativity is popular for clicks and possibly for listeners. This football first fan thinks that it's completely weak to be bailing out on a team you haven't even seen yet. I'm going to use matt sphrase of correlation versus causation a number of things. Number One, football, you ask for people to name starters. Susan hasn't started. Football players will we're helmets. We haven't eighty five played for roster fifty new players this year in basketball, which is matt uh first choice in sports. Quite obviously, you have tar game. You see them completely shot. So I think that that is an unfair comparison. I did take notes about things I wanted to say, because you all, okay.

00:34:20
Speaker 3: I can't go into all the notes. First of all, brought up his points hang on a second. First of all, I brought them up on Friday.

00:34:30
Speaker 10: I like that you.

00:34:32
Speaker 2: I like everything you said. You you you take me to task, and there's nothing wrong with that you did say. It started the call. You're a football first fan, which is totally fine, But then you can't criticize me for being a basketball first fan. If you're the same way. Although I I'm only basketball first because we've been better at that. I want them both to win. But I will say I liked your call. Thank you for coming in with the fire, and I appreciate you listening.

00:35:00
Speaker 9: It was not a criticism, it was a comparison, saying your two sides to every point I was getting the other side. Thanks for letting me speak, and for you all listening.

00:35:10
Speaker 5: All right, Jenny from the block right there.

00:35:15
Speaker 3: I got. I feel like I just got scolded.

00:35:18
Speaker 2: Yes, school, but no, I'm glad she said all that, and I'm glad to hear that there are people like that.

00:35:23
Speaker 3: To be honest with you, that's why we need to know that those people exist. And uh and yeah, she doesn't know.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: Honest she did not mention the starters, though she said they wear helmets, which is true. But that's why my opinion, football has to do an even better job of marketing because they do wear helmets, and because we do not know them. And y'all are just scared. You don't want to say anything. I see the look on your face. Hey, big Blue Nation, Summer's almost here. If you're ready to enjoy your favorite outdoor activities like she what was her name? Jenny Jenny walk for two miles today, then go to court physical therapy. Our therapists are here to get you moving again. No medications, no injections, and no surgery. Schedule appointment today at court. That's Kort dot com Book today with Court dot Com.

00:36:05
Speaker 3: Shannon. Yeah, taking a break, so's so we'll be right back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Water Maggot is Kentucky Sports Radio.

00:36:13
Speaker 2: Here it's KSR Golf Scramble sponsored by Stockton Mortgage and Cornbread. Hemp decided to get out on the Glen Oaks golf course. They've hosted us for a number of years. Ah, he's a good time. Should be great today. Ready to get out and play? I was I played so terribly at the Lexington when gonna try to do a little bit better at this one? One person writes, Matt, well done getting scolded by an old lady in cold week.

00:36:38
Speaker 3: I just I said to these guys at this table, if.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: It is a sixty five year old woman or older, I'm not gonna argue with her.

00:36:45
Speaker 3: I just can't.

00:36:46
Speaker 2: I think it's I think that my mom made that sixty five year old women eighty five year old males.

00:36:53
Speaker 3: You can probably just say whatever you want to me and I'll I'll just ask you.

00:36:58
Speaker 5: She had a lot more to say. I mean, if you didn't cut off, she would probably still be talking.

00:37:01
Speaker 3: No, I know, I think she could have done the show. She had notes. She said you were trying to get notes.

00:37:06
Speaker 2: I just said we had to go to break. One person writes Matt. You should feel scolded. Your negativity is too much. You criticize them in tone. How does Tom Leech know the starters if you don't, Well, Tom Leach gets First of all, I love Tom Leach. He gets to go to practice, all right, we don't, so that's a big thing. He gets to go watch everybody, so he sees them play. We don't, so that's one way he knows it. Secondly, he's paid by the university. I love Tom, but the university pays him. They don't pay us. So it's a different kind of thing. If I I you know, I love Tom, it's just a different role. He's in an official role. We're in an unofficial role. As far as the negativity, I'm convinced there are people who would blame me no matter what happens. Last year, I was blamed for being too positive and they weren't good. Now I'm blamed for being too negative, and we don't know what they'll be. It is what it is, that just comes with it. But I think our job is just to say what we think it is. It has been hard for me to be positive, although I will note I think we're gonna win five games, and I think most of our fans even pick numbers drew lower than that.

00:38:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've actually talked myself into a little more of Shannon's territory here here in six.

00:38:22
Speaker 3: Now, well, I have a theory.

00:38:23
Speaker 4: I've eliminated the possibility of five, and it makes inse in my head.

00:38:28
Speaker 8: I think.

00:38:30
Speaker 3: I think it's four to six.

00:38:32
Speaker 4: Five is impossible because if they get to the Louisville game and they have five, that's and Mark Stoops wins that because they can go to a ball back against the wall. But if they get to the Louisvill game they only have four, I don't think they have as much to play for, and that's a game Mark Stoops doesn't have them up for and they lose. So oddly, I think that five is not possible because I think if they're at five going into the Governor's Cup, they'll have enough.

00:38:55
Speaker 3: So what's your prediction. I'm at five. I've moved to six for that, Like, all right, what are you?

00:39:01
Speaker 5: I'm at six, let's go all right, come.

00:39:04
Speaker 3: On, I'm the one holdout.

00:39:08
Speaker 5: Usually you're the one staying on the boat.

00:39:12
Speaker 2: I actually think Kentucky can be significantly better than they were last year and still win five games.

00:39:19
Speaker 3: Because of the schedule. I think you can be.

00:39:21
Speaker 2: I think we will be competitive and nine out of our twelve games, we'll get killed in one of these road games, because we always do. Somebody will just and then we'll probably get We'll probably get killed at Georgia.

00:39:35
Speaker 3: We'll end up like Texas. Let's just say we're oncompetitive there. That's ten. We might be competitive in all the other games. I think we can be. I think we can be a lot better.

00:39:44
Speaker 5: It's just the schedules hard.

00:39:46
Speaker 6: I feel like to get six, you got to steal one of those home games. Which of those four home games you think they could get.

00:39:51
Speaker 2: Florida to me is the most likely to steal just because of where it is on the schedule for them, I think there, and then you know, Tennessee objectively is probably the worst of those teams. Teams, but it's Tennessee and you know, I have a mental block when it comes to them. The best six. The best way to get to six, in my opinion is Vandy Auburn, Florida.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: That's doable. That's the good way to get to six.

00:40:14
Speaker 5: That's not insane to say that.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: I think Old Miss has to be in that too. I know it's early, but just on the simple fact that you beat them last year with a much worse team whatever, Kentucky looks like they're gonna be better than that.

00:40:26
Speaker 3: That makes it worse to me.

00:40:27
Speaker 2: That makes it harder because because it nick you know, Lane Kiffin's got the entire offseason, and for all of his at times jerkishness, he's a brilliant offensive mind and he's got the entire offense to get the offseason.

00:40:39
Speaker 3: And he can't lose twice. His fan base will crush him if he loses to Kentucky again. Who's next? Adam is next? Adam?

00:40:47
Speaker 11: Go ahead at him, Like guys, I think six and six they I'm optimistic about it, but you've got to go. I think you have to start three in one, whether it's Old Mess or at South Carolina because that stretch out at South Carolina at Georgia Texas Tennessee, that is brutal and not to mention in the weyeks. Within the first six weeks of the schedules, we have seven straight games to end the season. Imagine injuries will pile up. You know, depth's gonna be tested, so it's gonna be a struggle. But if you can start out three and one and get either Old Mister or South Carolina, you know, let's do it. Let's get to a bowl.

00:41:26
Speaker 3: That's the that's the path. I think you're right.

00:41:27
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call because that that stretch is hard, and you're right, tough team after tough team with no bot Who's next?

00:41:35
Speaker 3: Sean is next? Shawn? I got thirty seconds? Go ahead?

00:41:39
Speaker 10: Yeah, you guys are looking out in the future. I'm just an average Kentucky fan here in Texas, But to me, everything is still about The first game is Toledo. I don't know who they are. So if Kentucky fumbles a couple of balls but still wins the game seven to ten, I mean I just think that what does Kentucky have to do to win? The Hearts and minds against Toledo.

00:42:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you're gonna be able to win the hearts and minds against Toledo.

00:42:08
Speaker 3: Although I'm with Drew, just win. I don't even care about you win by just win.

00:42:12
Speaker 2: The Old Miss game will decide how people look at the team, whether you win or lose. I think they'll judge it based on that. We're gonna talk some basketball when we come back. It is. We are here at glen Oaks Country Club. It's a KSR golf screen, but we'll be ready to