2024-10-22- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 2: I'm back Tucky Sports Radio here at the CHS Bar and grill. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, nice to see you, sir. We got some folks here from Georgetown. Where are you from? My man? Harrodsburg, Georgetown and Harrodsburg in the house.

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Speaker 1: Good in Kentucky. Town's right there.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right, Good Kentucky, Yes they are. That's exactly right. At KY Sports Radio, one person writes, Matt, did you feel like Mark Stoops is getting frustrated? Yesterday? He said he couldn't talk as freely as normally because people take his quotes out of context. I did see that. I'm not sure what quotes he's talking about. It's never a good sign when when when when coaches are saying stuff like that. You remember Cal used to say stuff like that. Towards the end, everything was out of context. You know, people can get taken out of context. I don't know what we would have been saying. I think he was upset about the shoes stuff. Wasn't he going super viral?

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Speaker 3: But I mean, if you're an s See football team and you say your running back can't tie his shoes.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna go viral. I'm sorry like saying that out loud. People are gonna right, people are gonna notice that, you know, when you say they don't talk, when they when you say that you can't tie his shoes, people are gonna notice you can't tie his shoes. I did notice.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I didn't hear all of his call in show, but hearing the press conference in some of it and reading the recap, a lot of similarities in the Calipari and they just say he's not gonna talk as much he does. He's now doing put it on me, not the players. It's one of those things like, well, a lot of people are putting on you.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of similar There is a little of that, isn't there. Yeah? Yeah, all right, So, uh, Georgia and Texas. You know the game there was that really weird scenario at the end of the game where the guy where they threw stuff on the field which led to a delay, which then led to the referees reversing the call. Texas has said they are the SEC fined them two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and said uh and and said that they would tell her that we got Okay, I don't know what else I have to do there. Uh, you can't throw stuff on the field. Yeah, And they and the SEC said, you all have to find out who these kids were that threw stuff on the field, and then they have to be banned from the games. Now, there was a report they were like fake text message that came out that acted like they had sent it. They haven't yet. Do you like banning those students from coming to games anymore if.

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Speaker 1: You can find out who they were, Yes, that just just unaccepted.

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Speaker 2: You just do not do that.

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Speaker 1: It could be kind of hard to figure that out because you know, a big student section there and their cats coming all over the place. You think they can pinpoint exactly the person. Okay, you're in roll five seat two.

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Speaker 2: Who was in roll five seat two? Well, I mean presumably if there are cameras, you could see their face. I mean, I I assume that's what they're gonna do. I don't know if they have cameras or not. The SEC, though, was like, and if you do it again, then you all could like like be banned from having a game with fans or something like. They seem serious about it.

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Speaker 3: Matthew McConaughey wrote a letter when you got him getting involved. He called it a bogey move.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Just sounds like Matthew McConaughey a bogey move. He's calling it a bogie that they were throwing.

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Speaker 2: Bottles at a phrase.

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Speaker 3: But the fact that he had to tell students a guy that's you know, not even that involved with Texas he thinks it's that bad. I saw Georgia dog Nation, your friends a dog Nation. They were doing a little video on the field, which that's pretty cool. Congrats to them they get to do that in Georgia. But uh, one of the bottles broke their actual cameras in pieces, So I mean they were doing damage.

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Speaker 2: One of the bottles broke their camera. Wow, those cameras aren't cheap. That's interesting, all right. So here's my question, what's the what's the worst thing you've ever done in a game? Like, if you look back and you're honest about it, what's the worst thing you've done as a fan at a game? I have Drew's answer if he can't. Oh, I used to be a awful heckler. I mean I would just absolutely break guys down baseball, usually in the outfield, big Heckler. I can't think of any specific ones. Probably couldn't say him on radio if I did, but I was. I was the obnoxious guy for a while. Actually at a baseball game. Haven't you been punched at a game? Twice? One was a Yukon fan.

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Speaker 3: And if I told you all why I got punched, all of you would be in the same situation. They called someone I was with a word we don't say to people. But uh, yeah, that was a one off. But I was asked to leave a Reds game before for yelling at an outfielder.

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Speaker 2: You, like, you're the only person I know that's you were asked for leave a Reds game for yelling at an outfielder. Do you remember the outfielder Griffy? I think, oh, you were yelling at Griffy. No, maybe it wasn't Griffy.

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Speaker 3: It was a whole group of us, about six of us all left it once.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And then you were we were in a Blue Jays game and you got kicked out for drinking. But you were there with me at that one.

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Speaker 3: I was, and was anything inappropriate there? And even they even pointed at a bottle in our row. There was eight seats down that didn't even belong to us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's it was hard to get It's hard to get kicked out of a pretty much empty baseball game. Too rowdy, That's how empty it was.

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Speaker 3: They could see a bottle just on concrete and it had to be one of three people.

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Speaker 2: All right, Ryan, what about you? Have you ever had like some really rowdy thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, guy broke my jaw after the South Carolina football game getting into a little kerfuffle. Yes, but you don't remember that, right, No, I never even saw it.

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Speaker 2: When I came to I was But have you ever done something in a game that you were embarrassed you did? In hindsight, I can't remember a thing now.

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Speaker 1: When I was coaching my kids, I yelled at some umpires that probably was a little embarrassing. Yeah, is that through the baseball that accidentally hit a little more.

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Speaker 2: Than you hit a child in the head, a little girl actually in the head with a baseball.

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Speaker 1: Little Morgan Matthews. Yeah, that thing that cover it? Okay about you?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Now, you know, I mean like, in hindsight, if you think about the things you say to strangers. I mean, I've I've pretty much told Doug Shalls, I've given him the here and now on the court before. I remember when I was a kid, I didn't know anyone in sports except John Clockerty, and I'd be like that John Clockerty and Don Rutledge. You know, those dudes are jerks. I used to like John Clockerty, poor man. I don't even know where he is now, but like he was a four letter word to me and my grandfather, John Clockerty, that there was no raft that Kentucky fans disliked more.

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Speaker 1: How about some of your displays at the Transylvania basketball games when you were a student.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean displays? What did I do? You're you? You were the guys over there yelling and screaming and I was keeping stats.

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Speaker 1: Oh I thought you were one of the guys that were I didn't do the stands.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, Although remember people, Trancy got some crowds back into day. I mean the Trancy Georgetown game sold out, was an underrated sporting event in this city in its prime. No, both those teams were both Nai powers. Trancy Georgetown was a wild atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: You could not get a ticket. It was sold out. No matter where it was that Georgetown or Trancy was so packed. It was one of the best games of the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I hate that that isn't there any too, But that used to be great. Who's up next? Ei, Eadie? How are you Eatie? Hey?

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Speaker 4: I'm great getting excited about basketball. I thought that ball was going to be a little better, but you know, a little disappointments.

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Speaker 2: That's okay, Edie. What do you got?

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Speaker 4: I just got back from a tattoo convention. Okay, I got seven in masters. That's pretty sweet.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? All seven inc Masters?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? So ink Masters. You're not familiar with it.

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Speaker 2: No, That's why I asked you, what what does that mean? But you say there's only seven? Is it like a television show?

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Speaker 4: Not seven? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say seven. But all of this the each season's winner was there this year.

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Speaker 2: So, okayed, do you have a lot of tattoos?

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Speaker 4: I have like six?

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Speaker 2: Six? Okay? All right? Well good, Well, I'm glad you got to meet all the ink Masters. Did you feel like you were there with celebrities?

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Speaker 4: Actually there was a few celebrities there, and you know, I actually got pulled over on the way home for somebody stole my caingburry tags off my car, and so five minutes from the house we get pulled over after like an eight hour drive.

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Speaker 2: So you're saying, at the tattoo convention, somebody stole your temporary license plate.

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Speaker 4: I can't say that it was at the convention because I didn't look when we were leaving the convention, like we packed the car, then we went back and hang out with all of our friends because we go every year, okay, and then we just got in the car and left.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry that happened to you, Edie, but it's nice to hear from you, and I hope you're doing well.

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Speaker 4: Can I give a shout out to JD Adams. She listens to you guys every day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't like shout outs, but we'll let that be nice. I have gone. I appreciated Edie, thank you, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: What going on in that phone call?

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Speaker 2: A lot? She did have a lot going on. Wow, two convention inc masters. By the way, I watched the first two episodes of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. WHOA those people are crazy? Like how I didn't I had no idea.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen an episode, but just walking past the TV's watching it while I'm doing something and catching fifteen seconds of conversation.

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Speaker 2: That is a weird thing that I had no idea. I had no idea that though they're forget about the Mormon part, that there were just people like that. I had no I hadn't, I had no clue. It's just an Uncle Matt recommendation. Now now it's not good. I'm not gonna watch any more of it. I will tell you a show that I do think is good. It's on Hulu and it's called Rivals. Okay, just as like a British show. It's kind of funny, but a drama about like the nineteen eighties, and it's not for everybody. But I bet you, I bet you, I bet Drew, I bet you like it called it's called Rivals. Just came out like last week.

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Speaker 3: I recently just finished all my shows, so I'm in the spot.

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Speaker 2: And then If You Had and then Slow Horses. I've been saying over and over, but I'm a big fan of that. Who's next, David, David? Go ahead, David?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, are you doing guys good?

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Speaker 2: What's up? Uh? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Man, hey, I want to come to suits. Uh, I want to come to his side on this, because Steps is a good coach. He's the best coach we've had here in my lifetime. And I'm sixty five. Okay, not even close. These people saying listen, listen, Uh, he's these coaches dad, that's how they look at him. And when I was a boy, I played little league baseball out of South Leiceston, and in practice, I can hit it out of the dang park. I can hit it a mile. But then the game come, I come up to bat and my dad was at the game, and I get so nervous I couldn't hit it. I shake and shake his I want to do so good from my dad. And then then when I get to play, I strike out and say why am I striking out? And said because? And I didn't know, but now figure it out because I was trying to prove much to my dad how good I was that I can hit at the ball out of the damn park. And now these guys are trying to play their best ball for this coach, tous cause they look at him as a dad.

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Speaker 2: Let's assume what you're saying is correct, though, but like then you your job as a coach is that they need to be loose because at the end of the day, ultimately we need to win.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but getting nervous, man, they changes my bad, couldn't hit the ball.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry they weren't able to hit the ball. But like the coat some of these teams were playing, they're probably nervous, but they're they're coming up and playing.

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Speaker 5: Well, let's get this is actually true. But I mean they're playing their best for their coach because they look at him as dad. They say, Dad, put me in the game whatever position you want me had, Dad, and I'm gonna play my best ball for you. If I mess up, I'm sorry. That's just why. That's where it is in ball, in sports games. That's why it works.

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Speaker 2: Do you think the players are nervous? I actually think one of the strong parts about stoops is that the players are usually kind of loose to me, for better or worse. I don't think they play tight very often.

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Speaker 1: I know what he's what he's trying to say, but for this UK football team, I don't think. You know, some guys maybe not giving the best effort at times has anything to do with being nervous and playing for for him. And the guys that maybe are missing their assignments and taking plays off. I don't think that has to do with them being nervous, you know. I think I don't know what the's wrong with this team. They can't bring the fight, they get punched, they don't punch back sometimes. I just I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Do you get the sense, I mean, again, you're around players more than I certainly am. Do you get the sense that the people on the team understand what's happening or are they as confused as anybody in terms of why they're not having the success?

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Speaker 1: And I haven't talked to anybody since the Florida game, but I know after the Vandy game, I think nobody had an answer, Like nobody had a sense what is wrong what's going on right now? So maybe that's has a changed. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, That's what makes it kind of frustrating, is it doesn't feel like anybody can really pinpoint why is this not working?

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Speaker 1: Even Freddy and I talked about it, even you know, when when Freddy has a hard time coming up with it, he knows football better than any of us.

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Speaker 2: Just it's just not working. Huh. All right? On TV, there is Shams. Do you know who Shams is? Sham's They're like, okay, he's right there, he's the He's the new Woes all right on ESPN. He's the NBA guy. Can I tell you what Shams does that drives me crazy? He reports news and then goes like he'll go. Ryan Lemon has signed a new deal with the LA Lakers. It was negotiated by Blake Jenkins. Who cares who it was negotiated by. He always says that because he gets the scoops from them in exchange, and but that annoys me. Blake Jenkins is not the news and he does that all the time, and I don't like it. Drew, I don't like that we that I should not know the agent's name.

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Speaker 3: He includes it up just about every time, and usually when I see it, I think, well, that's where he got the story.

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Speaker 2: I retweeted it and said thank you for letting me know who the agent was, and then I realized, well, he's my coworker at ESPN. I should probably take that down.

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Speaker 3: I have a different Shams take right now. With our broadcast we just had on SEC Network. The cameras, I think ESPN has spent every penny. They have on Pat McAfee, Shams and maybe Steven A and there's just no one left to work for the company. You better watch your back if if Shams wants any more money.

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Speaker 2: Well I'm not gonna say that. Just let me know who stephen A's agent is. That's really what we all care about. Hey, BBN, you wouldn't want to buy tickets the Big Game and then not go, So why would you want to pay your health benefits and not use them? Court physical Therapy. Once you let you know if you've met your deductible for the year, you can get physical therapy at an extreme discount through January First, don't have aches and pains. Go to court dot com for your physical therapy needs. That's Kort dot com. We'll take a break, be right back, Kiazar. Welcome back, Tay you sports radio. All right, So you know there's two kinds of country. I like, Yes, I like like old school turn up a little bit, John I can't even hear a little bit like Merle Johnny Cash, et cetera, which is now like the versions like Tyler Childers, And then I like eighties and nineties like George Stradey country. So this is this dude. He was at Manchester Music Hall like three or four weeks ago, and remember I told you I saw that crowd and I was like, who is this guy named zach Topp? Never heard of him till that night. And now he shows up on my TikTok and he sings. I mean, I'm sure he sings his own stuff, but he sings. He's covers of eighties and nineties country songs, and he sounds like a country singer from the eighties and nine he does, and I like it turned up a little bit right here? Doesn't that sound like an eighty or nineties country singer?

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Speaker 1: If you had not told the story, that's exactly what I would have said. That guy's from the eighties.

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Speaker 2: So he's singing this song that I really like from the eighties that nobody talks about. All that Glitters is not gold from Dan Seals. Here's a name you haven't heard in a long time. But listen to the chorus and listen how he does his voice like a good eighties singer. Are you ready? Right here? You go? I mean, that's eighties country right there, and I love it. And he's a young guy. I'm a fan now didn't even know who he was until he was across the street from my house and I saw him out the door. Now I wish i'd gone right, I think I have a new person. I like, yeah, what, that's eighties country right in this country. There's no doubt anybody does that.

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Speaker 1: In the middle of the song, you know exactly what era they're singing in.

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Speaker 3: I've been listening to a little zach Toppy even has like the I don't know that it was the instrument.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got that little thing and I don't know what you call the little slider in and he's like John Anderson and Mark Chestnut and like, people don't sing like that anymore. That's kind of like pass a And now there's this kid out there doing it. And so I've decided I'm a fan. And women seem to like him because you know, he's handsome with the mullet and the mustache. But like I, I like the kind of old school thing there. He's a young dress that young guy. But they look up his cover of I don't think it's he recorded, but everything that glitters isn't gold. I think it's even better than Dan Seal's version, which I didn't really I think was possible. Eight eighty seven. Who's up next, Chris, Chris, go ahead, Chris. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I got that story about fan misbehavior when I was in back in the nineties. I had a buddy who got married. We had a guy in our friend group who could get great tickets to stuff through his employer. So for the bachelor party, we went down to Atlanta. We had Fifth Row Center tickets for a Hawks game. They were playing the Lakers, and uh, it was Kobe Bryant's rookie year, so he didn't even play that much, but we were pretty much rooting for the Hawks.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 6: But every time one guy touched the ball, he were booing our butts off, and the people around us started to get kind of mad at us, and they said, why are you booing the Hawks? And we said, well, we're from Kentucky and it was Christian Latner.

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Speaker 2: No, well, that's if I tell you that, I think booing Christian Laightner every time would be completely acceptable, and I would think the Hawks fans would want you to boo him because everyone dislikes Christian.

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Speaker 6: He did not have a good game that day, and he looked kind of frustrated and we like to think that it was because I.

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Speaker 2: Think it was. You. Well, I appreciate the call. I did that once where I just bowed a player every time they touched it. You know. I told you I went to every Duke game when I was in law school and cheered against him every game. But there was one game where they were playing Villanova and Michael Bradley was on Villanova and I didn't like Michael Bradley, yes, from his time here where he had like kind of been rude to my friend. I booed him every single time he got the ball, and I think he scored like thirty four points. It had to be Michael Bradley's best game as a college player. You know. Remember he ended up getting drafted and playing in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he did, so, I think he owns his NBA success from that game.

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Speaker 2: To you, it was like the only great game he ever had, and it was the one where I just sit there and boot him.

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Speaker 1: I want to show that guy sitting over there booing at me what I'm all about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In two thousand and seven, my friends and I we got joke Kim Noah to flip us off when we were the middle of the eruption zone. He's warming up and I can't remember what we were yelling, but it was NonStop. I mean, the whole eruption zone is joke him. No, everybody hated him. We got a little midle finger from him. He felt like a little prize.

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Speaker 2: A guy who writes me about country music a lot rights and this is right, Zach Top, he says, Zach Top is the real damn deal. He used to play bluegrass. I think he's a little bit like Keith Whitley. That's sacrilege to a lot of people. Yeah, but he kind of reminds me of Keith Whitley, just a little bit, Kentucky's own Keith Whitley.

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Speaker 3: Funny you say that because you brought him up. I was gonna mention after hearing Zach a lot. The first time I saw a picture of him, I was so disappointed he didn't have a little curly, wet mullet.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you're exactly right. Speaking of hair, did you see the poor Texas students hair? Have you? Have you not seen it the Guardian? He looks like it's there's a student in Texas who looks like Conway Twitty. No, No, I'm serious. You didn't see this kid. I mean, I'm not trying to be mean, but you're gonna be a little mean. Like, first of all, it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: He's not he it's not as a joke. This is like his No, it's.

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Speaker 2: His real hair. Where's just watching the game. I gotta find his hair. Where's his hair? Got him right here? Okay, look look at that. That's Conway Twitty. That is Conway Twitty hair. My great ant Boots is right now somewhere in heaven talking about how much she loves cut. Look at that hair and some great hair. People. People are saying he's butt head, but no, that's Conway Twitty's hair right there. A lot of hair right there. You can't put a hat on that. You know. You do not see people with that haircut anymore. No, you don't. My goodness, I love it. Whoever you are, kid, be you to be proud of who you self. According to Ryan Lemon, that's what you do. We will take a break A five nine, twenty two eighty seven. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. John Anderson's another one like that. It's perfect, perfect. This song too displays that Yeah. Yeah, that was also for Zach top. If you're discovering he does two dozen roses a version of that Shinnandoah song. If I had two, you know that one. Yes, he does a version of that. That's great too. Okay, look him up. I'm gonna look him up today, and you better If you don't, I'm be very angry at you. The NBA starts tonight. Did you know that? I did know that NBA starts tonight? So two questions. First of all, the late game Lakers versus somebody rob Lakers. Yeah, so you get Lakers versus dealing hands. All right, So here's my question. There are people out there that think they're gonna play Browny tonight for a minute or two, so they have that moment and then send him to the G League. They want to have the moment just in case he doesn't come back and then he's gone. Do you think that happen?

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Speaker 1: Yep, the second quarter, they'll put him in for just a little run just to get there. Everybody to get their video, their their shot, their camera shot of the Lebron and Brownie together.

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Speaker 2: Then he maybe disappeared going to the gesus.

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Speaker 3: Exactly what's happening? They already announced Ken Griffy Junior and senior going to the game, so they have to play, right, They're gonna make this a photo off. Bron can have his moment, and then will you please just let the Lakers try to win basket.

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Speaker 2: And then are you gonna send him down like right after the game?

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Speaker 3: I think they should send him else soon as they take the picture.

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Speaker 2: Take the jersey off before the end of the game. We got your picture. Take the jersey off, Go suit by your mom. All right, So you do get to see dealing Ham on national TV tonight, so everybody should turn it on. He will play. Uh do you think the bron lebron browny thing is sweet? I know you're a dad or you do you think that's a sweet moment that's gonna happen be the first time it's ever happened in the NBA. Yeah, I think it's a great moment.

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Speaker 1: You know, he probably doesn't deserve to be there, but just for that moment, you don't have to keep him up there the whole season.

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Speaker 2: Let the two be on the floor at the same time. Let him have that moment, and then you can send him here and get out, get out, okay, all right, now, NBA. I'll let we do this every year. Give me your NBA Finals. Uh, who's gonna play? I'm gonna go I'll go first. Let you think about it. I'm going to go Celtics Thunder. I think Shay Alexander gets to the championship and I'm gonna say Celtics and Thunder. Uh. Probably I don't know who wins, probably the Celtics, but I'm gonna that's that's gonna be my pick. What about you?

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Speaker 1: The Celtics was the first team I thought of, but I'll try to pick somebody difference. I'll go I'll go seventy six ers.

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Speaker 2: I mean it got Paul George MAXI.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll go seventy six ers and uh, I'll go to t Wolves.

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Speaker 2: It's not a crazy pick. Although don't have Carl anymore. Remember that Carl's with the Carls with the Knicks. What about you?

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Speaker 3: I like the Thunder pick. SHA's on MVP watch. He's got third or fourth best odds.

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, Shay's. I think Shaye is a definite MVP can't it which again, think about the Kentucky dudes over the year while they were at Kentucky. If I told you Shae Alexander no would win the MVP. That's one of the craziest ones. But go ahead, I.

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Speaker 3: Want to say Celtics. That's exactly what you just said. I think those are the favors. You can say it Celtics and who Thunder.

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Speaker 2: So you wanna do that, So you're gonna do the same thing. I am so Celtics Thunder and you're taking Celtics wol sixers.

00:26:12
Speaker 3: With the Wolves, though, I'm excited. I love Anthony, Yes, I mean I'm gonna miss Carl beIN there. Carl debuts tonight for the Knicks. That's the other game. We got a little Kentucky doubleheader.

00:26:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be fun watching Rob. Like, I'm excited because Rob's gonna be playing in big games. Rob's gonna play. You know, Rob could be in the NBA Finals in his first year. I mean, like, you just don't see that a lot. Rob's gonna be in a big slagh Reeves made the team. Yes, Reeves made the team, and uh, we'll see if he gets to play when their season starts tomorrow.

00:26:41
Speaker 1: Now, Julius Randall will does he start for the Wolves?

00:26:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, now he'll start. He'll start. That's right tonight you get Randall, you can see Randall, you can see Dillingham, and then Carl Town's in his new team with the Knicks. So good night, performer Kentucky guys read, by the way, supposed to likely be the sixth man for Houston starting the season.

00:27:00
Speaker 3: Did you see him getting yelled at by Adam? Is the big dude for stealing his rebounds? Really, Reid goes up and gets a rebound, offensive rebound, hustling, and Steven Adams yells at him for stealing his rebounds, calls him a name. It's like a series actually mad at him. But that just shows you how hard read Steven Adams on that team. Yeah, how hard Reeds Reid's working? Are you taking rebounds from the center? All right, who's up next?

00:27:22
Speaker 2: Jordan? Jordan? Go ahead, Jordan.

00:27:27
Speaker 7: Good to talk to y'all.

00:27:28
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I grew up.

00:27:29
Speaker 7: I'm twenty six to the first real season I watched start to finish, and football growing up were the Joker era, in the beginning of the Stoops era, okay, and so I was introduced to suffering in Kentucky football, and so even the like I remember jumping up and down when Austin McGuinness beat Mississippi State and that felt like we climbed a mountain. Yeah, so I don't forget where we where we came from. And I love Stuops. I'd hate to see these two croaches I grew up with and on poor notes with Kentucky between cal and Stoops for their long tenures. But at the same time, I'd hate to see us even more. So let's go on a downslide right when we really could take that opportunity to be If Indiana can do it, we can do it now.

00:28:21
Speaker 2: Listen, this is the time. This is what worries me about us taking a slide now. I said it the other day. This is the time to make a move. College football is more open today than it has been maybe ever. I really, I mean, all you gotta do is look at the top twenty. I mean, you got you got Indiana, you got Missouri, you got Army and Navy. You know, you've got Maryland just beat USC in a game. You know, we saw Van dey As beating Alabama. I mean, there's just so much opportunity out there that this is not the time to like drive the bag.

00:29:02
Speaker 7: Do you think do you think A part of me still believes in stud his ability to turn around, mostly because he always gets the result. You don't think he's gonna get I kind of want him. I'd love for him to give and beat Tennessee. If you beat Tennessee, and even if you go six and six or seven and five, a seven to five season, beating Tennessee, I know, listen, there's a.

00:29:23
Speaker 2: Way for them to turn this around. I appreciate the call. You beat Auburn, say you were to upset Tennessee, beat Murray, beat Louisville. You're seven and five. I mean, I think everything's fine. You know, you you lose all those games and only beat Murray and you're four and eight, and it's not fine. I mean, there's a way, Ryan for that to still have a positive thing. And that's not crazy to say.

00:29:47
Speaker 1: I know bad we all feel after what just happened to add down to Florida, that's not crazy to think you can still be boeligible. Now you're gonna have to beat Louisville within the game end of the season, and if you want seven to five, you're gonna have to beat either Tennessee or Texas.

00:30:00
Speaker 2: It's just tough because like, think about how exciting it would be to be going into this stretch in the middle of it, because so many teams in the SEC. I mean the SEC. You talk about a convoluted tie breaker. Get ready for what it may be to get in the championship. I mean, there's gonna be They're like seven or eight teams with one loss or less. Like it's gonna be wild down the stretch.

00:30:25
Speaker 3: And somebody, I feel like a coach just recently said, no one's even talking about Texas A and M and one lost teams that might be better than any of them, which I don't.

00:30:31
Speaker 2: Know that it has no conference loss, That's what.

00:30:33
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Just the fact that they're in the mix too, with all these big names we think of usually. I've enjoyed this season outside of Kentucky. I like the twelve team playoff. I like that we have Vandy Army and Navy in the top twenty five. I don't like that Vandy beat US, but I kind of like having something different than just the copy pace seasons we had for several roars.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: The twelve team playoff. Anybody that was against it, you just need to acknowledge you were wrong. It's made college football so much better. See Alabama, those teams still cared, Georgia, Texas, they still cared. But now all of these teams, their seasons are still they still matter, you know what I mean, And that that was not how it was if if if you didn't have the playoff, there'd only be a handful of teams whose seasons matter.

00:31:16
Speaker 1: You know, Alabama probably would not make the playoff the old playoff, but people will be. They want Alabama in it. So now they expanded twelve, they're gonna have a good chance to get back in it.

00:31:25
Speaker 2: I mean with this playoff. Navy plays Notre Dame this weekend, and it matters, matters, it matters for both of them, like they they but both of them have a game. I mean, if Navy wins, they're in, like they got a shot to go to the playoff. If Notre Dame wins, they're probably gonna be in the playoff, right yeah.

00:31:44
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of people thought this would hurt the regular season, is I think it's just added so much more and made so many more games meaningful. And when we get to that playoff, I can't wait. I saw a projection today that has our BYU Mormons at Ohio State. I can't wait to see those home atmospheres, these random teams going in setting these traditional powerhouses.

00:32:01
Speaker 2: That first week of home games, so like the home games in the playoff are gonna be. I think they're like the December, it's when we are in New York. So it's that weekend We're in New York and play Ohio State the twenty first. That's the first weekend of the playoffs. You're gonna have Kentucky and Ohio State in football. One game Friday night, three game Saturday. That's gonna be such an awesome day of sports, and we'll all pay attention to it. If it was a meaningless bowl game, I don't care if by he's playing Ohio State. But if it's the playoffs, it's gonna be watching it. It's gonna be awesome. Who's next, Randolph? Randolph?

00:32:38
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Randolph, Hey, I guess do.

00:32:42
Speaker 9: I hope you all having a good day to day. So you sparked my interest a little bit on this idea of like, you know, bad fans and all this kind of stuff. So I had to call in immediately when you started going down that road. I mean nothing. Nothing is ever gonna match the Tennessee game against All Miss a couple of years ago. But I got thrown off a chain game in a football game where my son was playing.

00:33:07
Speaker 8: That kind of DIFFA wait a.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: Minute, I like, so you were one of the people holding the chains and you did something so bad they threw you out of the stadium.

00:33:17
Speaker 9: They threw me off the chain gang. So I was my son's playing. It's peewee football, it's it's actually well it's middle school football, and I'm on the chain gang because they used to ask to run the change right. So I yelled at the rest so much during the game. And one particular call where there.

00:33:34
Speaker 8: Was a past interference and it was I had the largest I had the last lead on the ten yard marker and this play happened right in front of me, and the ref didn't throw the flags, and I ripped his butt left and right, and he threw me out.

00:33:49
Speaker 9: Of the game.

00:33:50
Speaker 2: So like in the hindsight, you seem like a Randolph, like a grown man's who's very smart and well adjusted. Do you look back and say it was embarrassing that I was thrown off a middle school football game field, or do you consider it, like, do you have pride in it?

00:34:09
Speaker 8: No, it was embarrassing because I embarrassed.

00:34:10
Speaker 9: My son, I think, And that's okay, God, it's a dad. You're like, you don't ever want to get to that level.

00:34:15
Speaker 8: But I got home.

00:34:19
Speaker 9: Yeah, when we got home in that pizza that now he agreed with me.

00:34:21
Speaker 8: So so I was right.

00:34:24
Speaker 2: So I appreciate the call. That's quite a story. That's gonna be my whiskey thief story of the day. My friend texted me to every one of the breaks. Did yea?

00:34:32
Speaker 1: I remember one time your dad came to watch you and your son. You coach your son, and you got kicked out of that game while your dad was there. Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

00:34:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you were the kid in that respect.

00:34:42
Speaker 1: No, I was the coach. I was coaching my kid and my dad came to watch his grandpa. Oh so you were coaching your kid. Yeah, you got kicked out with your dad there to watch.

00:34:57
Speaker 2: Yeah. Three generations there, that's right, three generations of embarrassment. Did you do it as like a motivator like cal has won a year and it was one of those things. I'll go with that. Yeah, that's what it was. Serve Pro. Unfortunately, our serf Pro National Sports Storm team has had to go to over two thousand franchises deal with all the flooding all across the country. Serve Pro is there to make things like they never happened. If you have an issue, whether it's a relief valve in your water heater or an electrical storage in your office, and it causes mold or it causes water damage, serve Pro will come in firewater, mold, make it like it never even happen. We hope you don't have to deal with it, but if you do one eight hundred serve Pro that's seer vpro dot Com. Make it like it never happened with serve Pro franchise independently, own and operate. We'll take a break. Come back Final segment, KSR Welcome back. Final segment. Here a Kentucky sports radio at KS Bar and Grill. Don Franklin, Ato is where you get your auto needs. Don Franklin. They've got all the cars at the prices you want, twenty six locations. If you want a vehicle, they'll get it to the place you need go check them out. There's no reason to buy a new or used vehicle without it for at least checking out our good friends at don Franklin Auto dot com. One person writes on the text machine, Matt, my husband got the entire team kicked out of his church league and doesn't say what the story is. But that's a great whatever that is had to be quite a thing. I wanted to know the story.

00:36:27
Speaker 1: Now, how do you get a whole team kicked out of a church league?

00:36:30
Speaker 2: I've told this story on here before, but I kicked Tony really out of a game for acting for being too rude of the former around the guy who's around the horn host? What game? Was it? DC City League and you're refereing? I think I've told you this before. I moved to DC and I didn't know anybody, and so I was like trying to figure out. And I worked with only two guys and they were nice, but we didn't have a lot in common. So I was like, try and figure out how do you make friends? So I was like, I'll join a basketball league. But I was by myself, so I didn't have a team. So they assigned me to a team, and they assigned me to a team of like dudes from Anacostia, like all black dudes in DC that were all buddies, and they just decided like they acted like I was their mascot, like I was the funniest thing in the world. It couldn't have been nicer than me, but I was like the funniest thing in the world. So, I mean, we won the league and it was not close, and it was not because of me, but I so every anything I did, like anything they did, they'd invite me along. So I had to ref some games because I just I don't know, I guess I just wanted to have something to do. And I refed the game and Tony Really, who at the time was probably twenty one years old. He was stat boy on ESPN. On on part of the interruption he was playing, he started mouthing at me. I said, if you do that again, I'm kicking you out. He did it again and I sent him out. Reality gets in my face and my teammates were there and they were like, you want some and I was like, yeah, tell him about it, boy, take your back. They had my bath. Yeah, and we won the league. I still have the trophy. Now you're ESPN colleagues. That's right. It was fun. I've never heard that story. Really, No, Yeah, those those dudes, they were good. I think I told you one week I was MVP because I hit like seven threes. Well we gotta have video proof of this. Well it was just because they would like, no one guarded me on that team, like I was the dude doing I was out there and so they just set me up and it was like that day Preston la Master hit all those threes against old mess YEP where it was like, what is happening? It was your Preston la Master, It was my Preston la Master day. Who's next? Kyle? Kyle? What's up? Kyle?

00:38:53
Speaker 10: Hay Matt so contracts, if you have success, you deserve his extension and you do have the leverage with the university. Definitely earned that in twenty twenty two. I won't argue that fan should not argue that the root cause for this issue for Barnhart and why the university is stuck is he's guaranteeing new coaching hires seventy five percent minimum of their remaining contract value with the buyout clauses soups. When he was hired, it was eighty percent. Cal Pope and Kenny Brooks pop and Brooks haven't even started here. He's guaranteeing them.

00:39:23
Speaker 5: Seventy five percent.

00:39:24
Speaker 10: I look this up and college coaches today are getting between fifty to seventy five percent of contract values guaranteed through their buyout. There's no reason the UK should be offering new hire coaches the top range of that really happened.

00:39:38
Speaker 2: You're taking people, you're taking examples in the general, but you're not thinking about the specifics. All right. Cali Perry when he was hired, was maybe the best hire in college basketball. He demanded that Mitch doesn't have a choice in that moment, Mark stoops by the time he resigns, can't lose him at that point. Who's Kentucky gonna get at that moment that that was better? Kenny Brooks is probably the best women's coach that Kentucky could have gotten that's not already aligned with another school. Now, the pope situation is a little different. Maybe you have a but we're paying him like half what we paid cal. But the reason Mitch had to do that is because these dudes were really wanted. It wasn't like we were hiring somebody who had never done anything before. In all of those scenarios. You're hiring people that had other options.

00:40:39
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, I guess I understand that point. I just think that we're starting these coaches when they're when they're coming here, way too high.

00:40:48
Speaker 2: But what we did, we didn't do that. We didn't do that for Cal and Kenny Brooks. We're hiring people that probably could have gone to ten different schools. So that's why we did it. For Mark Pope and Mark Stoops. When we first hired them, we weren't even paying them that much money, So guaranteeing it is not that big a deal. I mean, what's Mark Pope making five million, I believe, Yeah.

00:41:10
Speaker 10: That's half and half.

00:41:12
Speaker 2: That's half what we paid Cola. So even if you don't, if you guarantee seventy five percent of it, that's still less money than you were guaranteeing Cal by a significant amount. Right.

00:41:25
Speaker 10: I'm just saying that, I'll hang up and listen, But I was just saying that the seventy five percent really just takes away our safety valve to get out of these situations.

00:41:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I appreciate the call, I maybe, but at the same time, I don't know that they have much of a choice. Because these coaches have leverage and so you can't just let them let them walk. All right, let's talk about tomorrow. Tomorrow, we'll be here for the show. During the day, it's Wings Day, Dollar Wings and a game night that doesn't happen a lot. We will have pregame show at four point thirty. I'm going to give away tickets on the eighth row tomorrow from the TJ. Smith Lofow Show. Eight row tickets for Mark Pope's first game. It's Kentucky Wesleyan against Kentucky Wesleyan and then the game is at seven. Remember it's a computer game, so we'll talk more about that tomorrow. It's a computer game. We'll see you later. This has been in Kentucky Sports Radio.