2025-08-05- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: Comedy Off Byway.

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 5: Welcome everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio, Tuesday, August the fifth. I'm Matt Jones here in Louisville, Kentucky, where the whole team is here and it's been a scramble to get on the air, but we are on the air. And it's Clark's Puppy Shop Phone nine eighty five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto glass text machine is seven seven two four five two five four in this edition sponsored by the t J. Smith Lo Office. You call Tj'll make them pay you would you know for me? Who don't know. We work for iHeart Radio and this is a big day for iHeart Radio. First of all, getting us on the air. You would think a company like this getting on the air would be the least of our worst. Oh no, no, no, no, it's very difficult. Right now, Ryan, he just got headset with two ear pieces because for a while he only had one ear piece because the Louisville equipment. Nobody uses this studio, so it doesn't really work very well and we had to scramble to get it. But we're here and we very rarely have a day that we're all in Louisville and studio, but Ryan, today is that day. There was wild eggs breakfast for us and now we're ready to rock.

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Speaker 2: You know, Shannon was crying and whining and complaining on the pre show about how he never gets any food. We walk in here and it's like a smorgas board of wild eggs out.

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Speaker 3: There's no food in here. We have ramen, noodles and nuts. That's normally all we get.

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Speaker 5: Balls big breakfast. Yeah, this is a big, big day. So here's what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 5: iHeart does a once a year local radio week nationally all right, So it's all about local radio. And this year and every year they sponsored the Spotlight. Three hosts as like they're watch these people. Yeah, one in music, one in entertainment, and one in sports. Okay, this year I'm the sports slow down big so, so like everyone's freaking out, Like the regional bosses are all here, Mario and Billy are trying to set up the cameras. They both look like they're gonna cry, okay, because they're in charge of making this work. Terry Miners is interviewing me for it.

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Speaker 2: Oh that is big time.

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Speaker 5: And people here are all freaking out.

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Speaker 2: And so is that why Tony Vinetti was so nice to you all ago?

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Speaker 5: Well, Tony Vinetti was supposed to interview me, but he backed out. So I was asking him why, and he said, because he just bought a truck. I don't know how those two things. I don't know what those two things have to do with each other, Drew. But that's why he said he couldn't do it, because he bought a truck.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I don't think that that's an excuse me action. I mean, congrats on the truck, but hear nothing against Terry. But you know, Tony was in that Spotty Bells on you.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Tony Tony bail. So so Terry is interviewed. But everyone is nervous about it because they're like, the whole country's going to see this. Now, I'm gonna make the argument, no one's going to see it. Who's going to watch this? Radio nerds? But who are those people who's gonna watch?

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Speaker 4: Where do you watch it?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't think it's on I don't think it's on ESPN.

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Speaker 2: No, well, at least you got cleaned up for it. Wors some nice clothes.

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Speaker 5: I told them I was going They wanted me. I was going to dress like I dress. So I have a hoodie and that's what the That's what they said, be who you are, because the point is to show who you are. If I come in here where wearing a suit, that's not who I am. So now it is a local radio spotlight.

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Speaker 2: So you're the face of iHeart Lexington and Louisville today, and you.

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Speaker 5: Know I'm the face of sports local radio national nationally today.

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Speaker 2: And so we can look at you and say, that's what our sports guys, this is what they want, this is what we want.

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Speaker 5: This is what you need to wear the headphones, which is one ear. This is what you want, dude, this is what This is what you're looking for.

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Speaker 7: The content they needed for the five minutes getting the show together to show what a real host you were. As we're screaming, are there headphones in this building?

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Speaker 5: Who is gonna watch this?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 5: They are treating this like we are making Godfather too. But who is going to watch this?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm pretty sure Karen Blondelle will watch it.

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Speaker 5: I don't think she has access to I still know where it is.

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Speaker 7: If you tell me, I'll watch it.

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Speaker 4: What it is, where it's at? Who's even filming?

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Speaker 5: It's the local well Billy and like all the tech people here. That's why. That's why you see all these people running around is they're trying to get ready. That's at one thirty today.

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Speaker 2: Well, we were really prepared to start this show with no headphones. It worked and we got ready to go on the air.

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Speaker 5: So for your local radio spot, like get ready now? I was thinking when I was pulling up here the UH. I have long maintained that the hardest time to do radio in Kentucky is early August. Always believed that because people are ready to move into football. But there's nothing to talk about. No, I mean, there's nothing to talk about. We don't know anything true, we don't we have done the Okay, who are we gonna beat already? This is the the these two weeks, really, the first full week of August, which is what we're in. I have always said is the hardest week to do sports radio ever. Now, last year I had just come back from Europe, so I had all that excitement. So because that reason, I say all this is I'm gonna take your calls eight five, nine, two eight, twenty two eighty seven. But this is one of the more random shows you're gonna hear because I don't. I mean, I was sitting there. What am I gonna say about basketball? Like, like, literally, what new can we say?

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Speaker 2: There's no new news.

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Speaker 5: There's really nothing. I mean, Jaden Quaint's apparently is able to jump. Now that's nice, but that's really it. I always got a boot on, does he? That was an AI picture. I'm just saying, that's the news.

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Speaker 7: Even if it's not a I mean's a boot who cares you?

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Speaker 5: But you know he has a boot on?

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Speaker 7: Well I saw the picture.

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Speaker 5: The talk of the Yeah, but that could be Ai, you can't just believe it.

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Speaker 7: I mean, is it a It looks like a real picture to me.

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Speaker 5: I'm asking you.

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Speaker 2: You're the reporter, like you said, even if it is, it's early August, it shouldn't affect.

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Speaker 6: This at all.

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Speaker 5: So you think it is real.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it looks real to me. But I'm not concerned about it. But I'm saying, if there were anything to talk about, that would be it. But I also, my wife's in a boot and my dad's in a boot, and they take them off and walk around the neame.

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Speaker 5: I'm not expecting your wife and dad to play big minutes on the Final four.

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Speaker 7: Boots aren't as big as they seem. Also, the season isn't till November, so there were some overreactions to that.

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Speaker 5: But you're sure it's true, I mean person's account.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that looks like a real photo to me.

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, I'll I'll take your word for it. See, this was the one basketball conversation we could have. Is the boot?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Do you believe that Quentin's is jumping?

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Speaker 6: Though?

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Speaker 4: Then you got to believe that that's a boot.

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Speaker 5: I had heard he was like doing stuff before this. I don't know if that picture is real or not, but that's true, Shanan. You can't think that the Queens is jumping half of it's reel and the heather half of its ai.

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Speaker 6: That's it.

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Speaker 5: That's it. That's that's a good point. By the way, it feels like people wear boots more now, Yeah, is that just a thing that people like they assign you boots more now.

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Speaker 7: I think players have been wearing boots a lot more than we even realize. But you see him on campus, and naturally you don't want to see your star player in a boot. But I don't know anything about Otaka in the moment, but that that is done often for precautionary message script.

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Speaker 5: And then on the football side, the biggest whisper is what we talked about, which is the hole. Uh is Cutter Bowley playing better than Nick Kazon in practice? You're starting to hear that more and more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think a lot of it is you know that this is cut her second year with Bush Hampden. You finally got an offensive cornerator sticking around for more than one year, so he kind of knows the system, kind of understands what he wants. And then cut it all everybody says cut it was like great in the classroom, in the film room, all the stuff he needed to do off the field to get ready for this season. So I think that's maybe it's why he has a little a little ahead in that aspect of Zach.

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Speaker 5: So if you call if I'm nine two eight h twenty two eighty seven, are you text, I'll go in any direction you want. The only thing I'm not gonna do is rank the cow teams again. Okay, that's the one thing I'm not gonna do. You can put a good job with that, though, but I feel like we've done it a lot. I feel like I get asked about once a week and I have to make the same cases. So I'm not gonna do that. So if it does, if it feels like we're going in weird directions, I am just going to do this in the order that I wrote them down, which is not necessarily the order of important.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh.

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Speaker 5: Do you understand what I'm saying? So that's what Okay, So let's start with number one. This is just the thing I had written down right because I was watching h and I needed my baseball people to help me.

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Speaker 4: Oh, we're here, I.

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Speaker 5: Was watching the Reds and the Cubs and we had Nick Lodolo pitching. He's like seven foot six.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a big man.

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Speaker 5: He threw was like a slider, and he has been really good in the last few weeks. He really So we're playing the Cubs and we're like, here we go, and the game starts and he throws one pitch and then they take him out, which feels like it feels like you're supposed to go more than one pitch.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I know they're strict on pitch counts.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but that feels like the pitch count can at least be two. They take him out, and then it comes out there they take him out because he has a blister. They said he had a blister. He had to go. Now, luckily, the Reds still won. I don't know how, but I became frustrated with the idea of a blister. Now, you all are baseball players, how is it that a pitcher who presumably does the same thing every day, how do you get a blister? And how debilitating is the blister?

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Speaker 2: Shannon's the pitcher. He's got an answer, and I got an answer, I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: Well as far as how you get the blister. That's a great question. I don't know. Maybe he got the blister doing this before.

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Speaker 5: Well, whatever he's doing.

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Speaker 4: He shouldn't do carrying his luggage or something.

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Speaker 5: He's had, like he was out for part of last year with a blister. So I guess what I'm saying is, you know it is two thousand and twenty five. They can take your arm ligaments, take horses faces and put them in your arms, well, and it'll make it better. How do we not have an answer for a blister?

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Speaker 2: A lot of it is how they put their fingers on the seam, and sometimes the seams like maybe when he's warming up or maybe a little bigger than the seams of the baseball and the game ball. What the scenes on the ball? Yeah, you know the ones you throw in the bullpen made the scene maybe a little thicker than those seams you play with in the game.

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Speaker 5: You say, may are they I'm sure they are? Why are they?

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Speaker 2: Because you know each each baseball is a little different when the way they're made, they're not all exactly the same. I'm not buying that.

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Speaker 4: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 5: So you're telling me the baseballs have different blister or have different scenes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like that's why you'll see if they throw a ball out in a pitcher, look at it and get rid of it. He doesn't like the way it feels.

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Speaker 5: Because the tell me they don't make the same baseball. No, they're all.

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Speaker 2: They're all you by now, I don't know you guys are wrong.

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Speaker 4: Well, how many games have you pitched? One?

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Speaker 3: I was undefeated, so I would say, why not pop the blister, put a band aid on it, and go.

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Speaker 4: They can't.

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Speaker 5: You can't do that on your pitching hands. Why not?

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Speaker 2: You can't have a band aid on your pitching him You're trying to grip a baseball to make it spin coming out of your hand.

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Speaker 5: Why you just can't.

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Speaker 2: It's not really saying baseball if you've got a band aid on your finger and you're trying to spin it.

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Speaker 5: When I go for these long walks, and this is the same thing, Drew, Basically, the back of my shoe will rub against my heel and I will get a blister, but I persevere. I don't stop the walk exactly. I keep going. Why can't Nick Lodolo do the same thing I do when I'm walking through Louisville, Drew.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he is pitching to get to the playoffs and you're walking home from skyline. There's a little bit of difference here.

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Speaker 2: Not really, I grew wrong.

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Speaker 7: I don't know how he could get the blister, But I don't think a picture would want to throw the blister. That throws off your control to spin. You could worsen it. You're trying to get it to heel. That will only make it worse as you pitch.

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Speaker 3: Okay, my god, probably three fifty pitches in the bullpen. Did he not know that he couldn't go when he was warming up?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 3: Why would you go into the game? Why wouldn't you tell your manager I can't go. I got a blister. Don't start me.

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Speaker 5: I just it feels like to me. And again I know nothing, but it feels like to me, the blister. It is two thy and twenty five. How do we not have a cure or prevention for blister? People have quadruple open bypass surgery. Right. They are taking people's brains and putting them in other people. I don't know if that's true, but they're doing They're doing crazy, amazing things in the medicine. How can you still miss for a blister. How do we not have blister cure?

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Speaker 2: You know, back in the the seventies and eighties, pitchers when they get blisters on their fingers, I'm not kidding, the used to soak them in pickle juice. They said pickle juice would helped. Hell the blister.

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Speaker 5: Didn't people tell me when I got a sore throat to drink pickle juice.

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Speaker 2: Pickle juice must be magic.

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Speaker 5: What's in pickle juice?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess we need to find out.

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Speaker 5: So they would soak their fingers in pickle juice, Yes, yeah, this is well. He didn't even try that.

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Speaker 2: He's like, I'm out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, she just started there. He just went away, and I was very upset. They also confirmed that at the baseball game Saturday, there were ninety one thousand people here at the game. It broke an all time attendance record for a Major League baseball game. But here's my question. They didn't play the game. Sont do you break? Does it count as an attendance record for most people to see a game if they don't play the game.

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Speaker 2: They did play one inning.

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Speaker 7: Enough to break the attendance record if they had never got an inning in I'd say, no, that's just a bunch of people sitting around for Pitbull. But they did get the inning in, so I thank you.

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Speaker 5: Count it's the biggest Pitbull concert of.

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Speaker 7: All time, the biggest timbergrawl featuring football concert.

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Speaker 5: You think that counts as a game if you play a half an inny in the record books, it didn't count.

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Speaker 2: I think you count it. Maybe you put the asterisk by it. Did this game only.

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Speaker 5: Lasted of all time?

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Speaker 6: We go.

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Speaker 5: The most attended inning of baseball of all time because the next day they only had like thirty seven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes me that's what I said this yesterday, fifty feel back for Bristol and baseball. This could have been a really awesome event and mother nature decided to poopoo it.

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Speaker 7: And I think the event was tickets sold. So like that's what they're counting as the record.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well we do that for Football Town. They do the tickets sold. That's the new thing. Don't say how many people actually came, just say tickets sold. Louisville got away with that when Kenny Payne was here and they'd be like eight people in the crowd and they'd go, oh, the tickets sold.

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Speaker 7: But if I'm Cleveland Stadium that had the record for seventy years. I'm arguing you're suing because I had butts and seats in nineteen twenty whatever.

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Speaker 5: All right, so if you're a blister expert seven seven two seven seven four five two five four, if I'm nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven, we will take a break. That's number one. We're gonna go through here. Hopefully all of our stuff will work throughout the show. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, tell me what Tell them what you just said to me.

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Speaker 7: I was on Kentucky Sports Radio dot com, my favorite website, and a little pop up ad popped up with some shoes that help feed the blister, feed the blister, help when your feet blister, some shoes that help.

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Speaker 5: See these computers are listening to us, of course they all and I personally, I think that should be illegal. I'm not I'm not even kidding. That's not a joke. We it is clear that these phones listen to us, and that should be illegal. Did anyone do you want your phone to listen to you? No? No, I say bad things sometimes I don't want it to know. You know, I shouldn't and it does, because there's no way you would just randomly have a blister.

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Speaker 7: I haven't searched anything blisters.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, no one searches blisters. I learned two things during the break that I didn't know seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. See this is where when people complain about, oh, you're talking about random stuff. We learned things. Yes, did you know in baseball you can't have a band aid on your hand?

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Speaker 2: It makes sense.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know that use a foreign object? You can't have a band aid on your hand. It is illegal in Major League Baseball to throw a pitch with a mandate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah makes total sense, does it? But yeah? Really you could hide some pine tar or something maybe underneath the Come on.

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Speaker 5: Uh. Secondly, they say that in Major League Baseball they still sew the stitches the seams by hand.

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Speaker 2: That's why each baseball is just a little different.

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Speaker 5: They still do that.

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Speaker 2: I think so every major where are they made the baseball shop?

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Speaker 5: I mean, what do we know? Is it in America? First of all, not put a terrif on it. No, But I mean, is it is it? Where's it made?

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Speaker 7: I would hope in America? But I have no idea where baseball.

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Speaker 5: That's shocking to me that in twenty twenty five there's still a little old lady going here. You picked it if, Like, I can't believe that's still how they make baseball.

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Speaker 2: And I just I just read this a little story during the break that the same height on the baseball has been shortened in recent years, probably by demand, and that's what's causing more blisters.

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Speaker 3: This says they're made in a factory in Costa Rica. I think they're probably all the.

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Speaker 2: Same Major League baseballs.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, we're talking about.

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Speaker 5: Let's what we're talking about. So they're made in a factory in Coaster, but there could still be people sewing them in the factory in Costa Rica.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I lean towards machinery.

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Speaker 5: Come on, all right, Well there you go, five, nine, twenty two, eighty seven. I again, I'm just going to these in order. Number two, the AP Football Top twenty five came out. We play four of the top excuse me, two of the top eight, five four teams, four of the top ten, and six of the top eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Well that tells you what we've been saying all summer. How tough this schedule is, like it's a crazy hard schedule, so it's right to prove it.

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Speaker 5: We play uh I think, just off the top of my head, I think Georgia's one. Actually Texas won Georgia's four. Then the next highest team, I think we play South Carolina maybe yeah, thirteen eleven, maybe something or something like that, and then you've got what Florida, Tennessee, an Old miss. Those are the ones that we play that are ranked.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. That's why they would even though this football team may be better than last year, the schedule so hard the record may not reflect.

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Speaker 5: Do you like playing six out of the top eighteen though, I mean you're gonna get to see and that like Louisville's not ranked, Louisvill's unranked.

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Speaker 2: And they probably will be ranked before those season.

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Speaker 5: Do you like you like playing the best? You know, you want a little bit of a break.

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Speaker 7: I mean half your schedule being in the preseason top twenty five is a bit much. Kentucky has to have one of the toughest toughest schedules.

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Speaker 5: I think we have the third toughest schedule in the country.

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Speaker 7: Gotta be I would like, maybe like a South Carolina to not be as high as they are. Yeah, but I mean it is exciting to have a Texas or a Georgia that's gonna be playing for national chie amienship. I mean, we can all dream going into that, especially now when we don't know what product we're gonna roll out.

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Speaker 5: But if you're decent, you should beat one of those teams, wouldn't you say? I think if you have a decent team, you play six teams in the top eighteen, you should steal one. Is that fair?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 2: And that's kind of the men Kentucky's m in recent years, Like they get one of those games they're not supposed to. You know. The thing is, though, they got to stop losing games that they should were supposed to be.

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Speaker 5: We can't lose at Vandy. You can't lose, I mean, but the problem is, Okay, we play six games against teams that are ranked then team seven, eight to nine. We play those games, two of them on the road, and one of them is against Vane, you know what I mean? Like it's hard to the schedule just has no breaks for.

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Speaker 7: You and your home opener. They're the MAC favorite. The MAC is a tough conference. Toledo return a lot of a lot of players.

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Speaker 5: It's change. It was twelve and a half, now it's down to ten and a half.

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Speaker 7: It's even down to nine and a half. It just keeps going.

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Speaker 5: Down down to nine and a half.

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Speaker 7: So I mean even a game that we call cupcakes to open the ear till is not a cupcake at all.

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Speaker 5: Now you should win us in Toledo is nine and a half.

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Speaker 7: People are very high on Toledo. I still think we're all right, though, what if we lost. I think of the of the ranked teams, Tennessee, I mean they're blurring their damn quarterback because he's throwing so many interceptions and videos like there that I don't know that Tennessee.

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Speaker 5: I think See is going to be overrated.

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Speaker 7: And Florida's got issues with Lagway. We don't know what they're gonna be.

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Speaker 5: But we played to I mean, none of this matters. If you lose to.

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Speaker 2: Toledo, none of it matters. But if you like, if we can get one of those home games, I think they've got to steal one of these home games this year and then win maybe at Auburn at Vandy.

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Speaker 5: You got to check, well we played Vandy at home right or on the road they beat us at home last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they beat us at home.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna beat We're gonna beat Bandy. We've got four. The question is can you find two more? The one I like is Florida at home. It's in November. I don't think they're good. When do we play Florida November? I mean, if it is Lagway, he's gonna come up here. I hope there's snow everywhere because he will have never seen that. We needed to know. You're right.

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Speaker 7: I'm watching Florida as a big as a win.

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Speaker 5: Let's go to Sean. Go ahead, Sean, Hey, guys, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh hey, I know.

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Speaker 9: I just want to say, on the way thing, I was at Douglas Park here in Lexa last night for the dirt ball, and it's not a he did have a boot on, okay, quainting since some other guys shut up, it was real.

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Speaker 5: Was he walking with a limb or anything?

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Speaker 6: Oh no, no, what's funny.

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Speaker 9: And I even told a couple of buddies last night because I know it sounds stupid, but to have a boot on, the guy was moving around fine, getting toots up with acquaintance on another court. To have a boot on the guy was walking fine. I know that sounds dumb.

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Speaker 5: No, I can that could be that could be true. All right, I appreciate it. Good.

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Speaker 6: See.

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Speaker 5: That's that's reporters on the street information.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, a little ankle tweak anymore of just a precautionary manager like Drew said. They put these boots on now and let him wear it for a couple weeks.

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Speaker 5: Have you do you go to the dirt ball?

00:21:54
Speaker 6: No?

00:21:54
Speaker 7: I would like to.

00:21:55
Speaker 5: I mean, I okay, So where is it I've had I've never been? Is that on Georgetown Road?

00:21:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, Douglas Parks's right.

00:22:00
Speaker 5: When Georgetown Road and Newtown split and then it starts right there.

00:22:05
Speaker 2: It's across from Grimes, you know the Grimes restaurant. Yes, right across from grind.

00:22:08
Speaker 5: Okay, so that's I drive sometimes on Sundays on that road and there are so many it's it looks like the biggest it looks like a party, and I want to go it is, but there's like no white people there.

00:22:21
Speaker 2: No, but they've got like food, a lot of food, a lot of music. I'm going, will you go? I've been many times.

00:22:27
Speaker 7: There's versions in Western til I go the dust Bowl and it's awesome.

00:22:30
Speaker 5: They have one of these inlets in Louisville too. What's it called the where where Myron saw a guy on a horse with a Boa constrictor around his neck.

00:22:38
Speaker 7: I probably would have gone it yesterday if I'd even known about it.

00:22:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, when did it taste? Their schedule?

00:22:43
Speaker 2: Oh no, it goes like it's like two weeks long.

00:22:45
Speaker 5: Is it going on right now?

00:22:46
Speaker 2: Oh?

00:22:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, so is it a week?

00:22:47
Speaker 4: Yes?

00:22:48
Speaker 2: Probably is every day of the week. So when what is it? It's a basketball tournament and they have all ages playing? They got like five year olds all the way to like, when to the non five year olds play? I don't know the schedule?

00:22:59
Speaker 5: Well I want to go. All right, we'll be right back. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them pay now.

00:23:06
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00:23:09
Speaker 4: Here's Matt Joe.

00:23:10
Speaker 5: All right, so we have a we have a definitive thing. They make the balls in Costa Rica. The core and all that is done by machine, but the balls are hands sewn. Yeah, every ball is hand sown in Costa Rica. Can you guess how many balls in an average Major League baseball game are used?

00:23:29
Speaker 2: In an average game game, not in the warm ups.

00:23:31
Speaker 5: In a game, what is the average amount of baseball's used? Everybody take a can, I'll.

00:23:37
Speaker 2: Say sixty two seventy two fifty. Wow, you can double coming about.

00:23:44
Speaker 5: The foul balls, guys. Sometimes the pitchers just look at him and throw him into the ground and make the little batboys.

00:23:50
Speaker 3: I'll spend all that time sewing a ball that God just spikes your ball into the ground.

00:23:53
Speaker 5: Or what if you you make all that time sewing a ball and they use it in warm ups?

00:23:57
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:23:58
Speaker 2: And then you know, there's a guy, You've probably seen him sit in the U out. He's the often cater authenticator, authenticator. Every ball he writes, he puts a little sticker on it.

00:24:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, use that something important happening.

00:24:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they sell them in the gift shop. You know, game but use ball.

00:24:16
Speaker 5: Yes. All right, I'm gonna do this every segment. We're going to go to number three before I go to the phones. All right, this, I'm using this. I don't want you arguing in the on my text machine about the political part of this. That's not what I'm bringing this up for. I'm bringing it up for the secondary part. You know, I don't know if you followed. The Texas legislature wants to jerry mander the thing to take seats away from Democrats for Congress and give them to Republicans. Basically, you know, forget about that part. But they have to have a quorum to vote, and so the Democrats don't want to let them do it. They say that's cheating. So the Democrats have escaped the state, some of them and gone to Illinois and they're basically like, until you all agree to stop this, we're not coming back. And there are like fourteen of them that have left. So here's my question for you. They apparently some of the Democrats have jobs where they couldn't leave. So they got the ones that either their own their own businesses or they do something where they could be gone. So here's my question for you, Ryan, Drew and Shannon. Let's say how far Texas to Illinois would be the equivalent of like here to what Denver? Maybe? Sure, let's just say Denver. Yeah, if I said to you tomorrow, you have to get in your car and go to Denver. You'll keep your job, all right, You're not gonna get fired. You have to go from here to and you can't come back until. I say, how long do you think you could go? Packing one bag going to Denver until cause they say we'll stay as long as we need to. So how long could you go to Denver and not return?

00:26:06
Speaker 2: You go first because you got well connection.

00:26:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have a brother in law in Denver, so it's losier for me.

00:26:12
Speaker 5: But just in.

00:26:12
Speaker 7: General, three months. You think you can go for three months? Think I would enjoy it? Yeah, I'd be like, I'll see ill when I get back. I'll figure it out. You as long as I'm not losing a job.

00:26:21
Speaker 5: But here's the thing. You can't. Can't your folks if they're gonna see you're gonna have to come to you. Nobody everybody's gona have to come there.

00:26:26
Speaker 7: That's why I said three months. After a while, i'd miss family. So you think you could go to Denver for three months? Yeah?

00:26:32
Speaker 5: Could?

00:26:33
Speaker 7: Can we make this a challenge, but you.

00:26:34
Speaker 5: Like, lose your at you can't take. You're basically taking one bag and heading to Denver in three months? Okay, Shannon?

00:26:40
Speaker 4: Six years?

00:26:41
Speaker 5: No?

00:26:43
Speaker 4: Probably?

00:26:44
Speaker 3: Well, I could probably stick it out for one year as long as I don't get into the gummies.

00:26:47
Speaker 4: A year yeah, I think one year and.

00:26:49
Speaker 5: Okay, what about you? Yeah, you couldn't do it.

00:26:52
Speaker 2: I was only like maybe a month, Max. I was gonna say five days, so I got yeah, but.

00:26:59
Speaker 5: Your kids that you don't have to be here, like they're going to college. They don't. They don't want you here.

00:27:04
Speaker 2: They may not want me here, but I'm gonna miss them.

00:27:07
Speaker 5: Well, but I mean, they don't want you here.

00:27:10
Speaker 2: My parents, I'm my parents.

00:27:12
Speaker 5: Can come to you.

00:27:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're eighty years old. I'm I'm thinking a month is all I could do.

00:27:17
Speaker 7: If not for checking on family, I think I could do something extreme like maybe never come back.

00:27:23
Speaker 6: You know.

00:27:24
Speaker 5: I mean I was thinking about that. If it were not for my parents, I think I could just live in Denver.

00:27:32
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I could pull that off.

00:27:36
Speaker 2: Our parents a little older, they don't you don't want them to travel out to see you. You need to come back, and would be.

00:27:40
Speaker 5: Good for them. Well, honestly, why can't they come to Denver? Good point in Denver?

00:27:48
Speaker 2: They could do it once a month maybe, but that's a lot.

00:27:52
Speaker 5: I'm kind of I'm kind of though with Shannon and Drew that if you assume I can still do my job my jobs don't require the only thing that really requires me to be here is trying to is the ks Bar park. I would miss my friends and stuff, but like, I feel like I can just go to Denver.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:28:10
Speaker 3: DSR start your own restaurant out there, yeah dsbar.

00:28:14
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:28:15
Speaker 7: I love Colorado? Actually, can can this be my summer challenge?

00:28:17
Speaker 5: Cane or if any of the legislators in Texas will be like.

00:28:21
Speaker 2: Why they pick Illinois they go in to Cubs games?

00:28:23
Speaker 5: I think because I don't know. Actually, I think maybe because it's run by Democrats, because he's threatening he's going to have them arrested, and so I think their thought was probably will go to someplace that won't arrest us. I don't know that. I'm not sure, but that's that's my guess.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: See, when I heard this story, well, I thought of can they get fired? I mean, they're supposed to show.

00:28:42
Speaker 5: He says they can, but I don't know. I don't it's in the Texas legislature. I mean, you know, congress people, that's one of the interesting things. You can elect like a senator and they could just never do anything and you really can't do anything about that.

00:28:55
Speaker 2: Fire them, can't get him nired.

00:28:56
Speaker 5: You can never do anything right, Like they could just be like, eh, just don't re elect them. Yeah, that's what the that's in theory. What you could do is not is not re elect them.

00:29:05
Speaker 2: But I I I so these fourteen Democrats got in a van their party and all I.

00:29:11
Speaker 5: Think they probably flew. I don't know, maybe they didn't take a van. I don't know.

00:29:14
Speaker 7: Is this like Billy Gelespie when they were trying to fire out they we don't have.

00:29:18
Speaker 5: To produce yes, but they've done this before, like this is the way because you have to have a quorum, and they're not the first people to do it. I mean other people and other legislators have done it. But this is what I found interesting about this is they called the vote. You have to call it in twenty so they had to get out in twenty four hours. So they just had to.

00:29:33
Speaker 2: Have just packed a bag and get out of the states.

00:29:35
Speaker 5: They had to get out. Yeah, So anyway, I think the three of us could go a long time.

00:29:40
Speaker 10: Eric, go ahead, Eric, Hey, what's up, guys?

00:29:44
Speaker 5: What's going on?

00:29:46
Speaker 6: Hey?

00:29:46
Speaker 10: So what Lidolo is? I'm a Cubs fan, so I'll listen to the pregame. He got a blister within like thirty minutes of the game starting. Therefore they couldn't scratch him. Therefore he had their one pitch where they could take him out.

00:29:59
Speaker 4: That makes sense.

00:30:00
Speaker 5: Okay, see I didn't realize that, all right, that makes sense. That makes sense. Apparently he pitched. I turned the game on in the third inning. Apparently he maybe pitched. Appreciate the call the first inning, and then one pitch of the second I thought it was just one pitch over. But still that makes sense. If you can't scratch him, well, what do they do, like if someone has a heart attack? Sh and then those thirty minutes, sorry, go out there. You're gonna have to throw one Yeah.

00:30:21
Speaker 3: Throw one pitch with scratching a stint in there after that first, that's interesting.

00:30:25
Speaker 5: After the first thirty minutes, you might have a weekend at Bernie's situation if you went ahead and put him down.

00:30:31
Speaker 7: I wonder what the worst injury that's happened where they had to, you know, do the thirty minute It's a great question.

00:30:36
Speaker 5: Broken leg, Yeah, exactly, they have like a like they get run over by the little golf cart and then they're like, listen, man, but could I please go to the hospital. No shut up or pitch he got running.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: If he got it thirty minutes before the game, he obviously was warming up, and probably the stitching in the ball was a little different. Maybe he's rubbing it, spinning it out of his hand.

00:30:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's what people who pitched since since you and Shannon didn't. It's the breaking balls or whatever that makes you rub against them. Okay, so fastballs, Yeah, exactly, Only throw fastball.

00:31:09
Speaker 4: Change out, throw a circle change Jane, go ahead, Jay, Hey.

00:31:13
Speaker 11: Matt, what's going on?

00:31:14
Speaker 5: What's up?

00:31:15
Speaker 3: Hey?

00:31:16
Speaker 11: I gotta thought. I want to run past you. You know, when Mark Pope assembled last year's basketball team, he did so with a lot of like journeymen's basketball players, guys that have been in college for a while. They weren't, you know, overly talented, but they were very experienced, and they turned out to be a really good team. Like you said that the whole was greater than the some of the parts.

00:31:37
Speaker 8: Right, Yes, Okay, I think in my and it just this is just me, but I think that's what Mark Stops has done. I think he has brought together a lot of journeymen's football players that have done you know, They've got a lot of experience in college football. They're not going to be surprised by a big stage or anything like that. And the whole can be greater than the some of the part.

00:32:00
Speaker 11: They might not be the most talented team, but they could turn around and win some games. We're just not expecting.

00:32:06
Speaker 6: Them to win.

00:32:06
Speaker 5: I think, I mean, you're you're making the case and I appreciate the call that. I bet you if you were to get the pr people for UK Drew, they would make that same case right now? Does that work in football? In basketball? You know, whatever physical limitations that Andrew Carr might have, he could make up for with shooting and so they can football, Can you make up for the fact that the other dude's just quicker than you? I don't know, We'll.

00:32:30
Speaker 7: See, but I do think that was Stoop's intent when he hit the portal this year, was to get a guys that have played a lot of football, wherever they come from. I mean, I think the best defender might be Gusta. Where are you from, like Washington State? You got Pete from New Mexico. I mean they're literally all over. You got Braun that played a little in the SEC. There as Pete said, they're the beast of nonation, and that was what UK was trying to put on their roster because I think the experience was lacking a little bit.

00:32:53
Speaker 5: There's no doubt they took a completely different tact in the transfer portal before this year. The tack was, go get the guys from George in Alabama that were second string, have him come here and then they'll let him play. It didn't totally work. So now it's go get the guy from New Mexico State and from Akron and from Washington State, and get just they were their best player, now bring them here. That's what and that's what Pope did for basketball. To be fair, that was the same thing.

00:33:18
Speaker 7: You got Western Marshall. I mean all kinds of levels, but guys that have played a lot of football.

00:33:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that theory we are giving a lot more important to the transfer portal is kind of maybe one of the reasons Vince left. Right. We put so there's.

00:33:31
Speaker 5: No doubt that if you were, I mean Vince believed Vince was not given total control over the portal. He had I think some say but he didn't have total control. He kind of did have total control on the high school recruiting, and I think as we moved more and more to the portal, Vince got pushed a little more and more to the background, and that's I think that probably was part of it. I've been told Louisvill's kind of given him close to total control over the portal, which I don't think Stoops, for whatever reason, wanted to do. Lexington Lexing and Sporting Club is taking on Phoenix Rising FC on Saturday, August ninth at six pm. Bring the kids to the end of Scummer Summer Back to School Bash Chick fil A help. Chick fil A will help kentu Fayette County Public school students prepare for the first day of school, and you can as well by dropping off school supplied donations. It's lex Sporting dot com. Support your team they play the Phoenix Rising Lexington Sporting Club. Go by else sc Stadium or get tickets at Lexsportingclub dot com. Couple open lines eight five nine two twenty two eighty seven. Take a break, go over what's next on my list? Yeah, welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio eight five nine to two eighth twenty two eighty seven. The Dirt Bowl. I just got to go tonight and Thursday, and the playoffs are Friday end Saturday.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: I mean some of the best players around playing at like X college players. They've had X NBA guys playing that out there.

00:34:54
Speaker 5: Yes, O takeo away. According to on three Sports Kentucky Sports Radio, uh hurt his ankle at the Jason Tatum CP three camp, but he's gonna be okay. But what has That's why he wears the boot and why And another person writes, why is Jaden Quainton's dunking in slides?

00:35:13
Speaker 7: It's my biggest takeaway in the photo. I didn't even notice always boot. I'm like, why is our lottery pick who's recovering from injury dunking on a street ball court without even warning shops.

00:35:24
Speaker 2: Maybe that's a great sign. Maybe he's father alarm, but.

00:35:26
Speaker 5: Still, yeah, I don't know that anyone should dunk in flip flops and you can. Yeah, wha. I'm gonna go ahead and say, get some padding in there. That's what That's what what I'm gonna ask for. Okay, s h Next thing on my list, sec Hard Knocks starts tonight on Netflix. Maybe out right now, you're gonna watch it. It's not gonna be pretty for us.

00:35:47
Speaker 7: I tried to start it this morning, had to drive to Louisville. I got to see a little bit, but uh, yeah it's out.

00:35:52
Speaker 8: Uh.

00:35:52
Speaker 7: Jack Pilgrim even wrote a little recap. I guess he stayed up all night watching it working on it. Of the UK parts, but uh, good or bad? I haven't seen the I haven't seen everything that's been out there yet, but I know the games that they went to weren't good, so I don't know how they can painted too good of a light.

00:36:08
Speaker 5: How many episodes are there?

00:36:09
Speaker 2: Uh?

00:36:11
Speaker 7: I looked right in kennything. I don't know the exact number.

00:36:14
Speaker 5: I'm gonna watch it, but I feel like it's gonna be.

00:36:17
Speaker 2: Especially if you said episode one is the South Carolina game at home and they.

00:36:21
Speaker 5: And we got destroyed. Yeah, yeah, are gonna watch it?

00:36:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna watch it.

00:36:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, I watch it. I like the ww unreal thing. Shannon. Have you seen that?

00:36:31
Speaker 6: Know?

00:36:31
Speaker 4: I've heard about it.

00:36:32
Speaker 5: Pretty good. It's pretty good. I mean, it completely stoled off us, but otherwise it's pretty good.

00:36:36
Speaker 4: That's on Max.

00:36:37
Speaker 5: No, it's on Netflix on Netflix. Okay, that's pretty good. It's worth it's worth watching. It's kind of cool to see the behind the scenes and see how things go. I mean, you don't know how much of it's like, how much of even that is stage? But then again, you know, I mean there are people who think in Wrestlers it was to I can tell you it wasn't. I mean, I lived through it, so I wonder.

00:36:57
Speaker 2: What you guys thought. Because I saw part of the trailer where they're actually going to the the.

00:37:02
Speaker 5: That's the one thing Al didn't want to do. I didn't want us to to no. I mean, they filmed some of it and they but I was kind of that when I told Al about it, that was the one thing he was like, I don't want us to do that. And I go, well, somebody's going to do it one day, and he was like, no, they won't. And then a couple of years later they did it. But they filmed us in that room, but I don't think they they didn't air and I don't think it's in.

00:37:26
Speaker 2: There when there's pulling back the curtain and then they're pulling it back.

00:37:29
Speaker 5: All pulling it back. Yeah, so uh uh. I liked what I've seen so far. I've only seen one episode.

00:37:36
Speaker 11: Jamie, go ahead, Jamie, Hey, Matt. Right now, all of the boys are on the way to Wrigley Field to wash the Cubs.

00:37:45
Speaker 5: In the red Oh, that'll be fun.

00:37:47
Speaker 7: You ever been, Yeah, I had not.

00:37:50
Speaker 5: You'll love it. It's cool.

00:37:52
Speaker 11: Right now with no air conditioned.

00:37:54
Speaker 5: That sounds awful, but uh, it's fun. Like give yourself time to walk around the neighborhood. I mean, and the environment's cool, like you'll you'll love it. I mean that the Cubs Wrigley feel that you'll enjoy It's it's a very unique place.

00:38:08
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:38:09
Speaker 9: Uh.

00:38:10
Speaker 7: My question is if you could pick three players out of this upcoming twenty six recruiting class, who would they be.

00:38:17
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not the best person to ask because I don't know, and I appreciate its called I don't follow it enough. I'll defer over here to Drew. I do want Tyron Stokes since he's number one player in the country in Louisville once, it'd be nice to beat Louisville for a kid that grew up in Louisville. Uh, for the number one player in the country, So that one I want? Who else should I want?

00:38:37
Speaker 8: Well?

00:38:37
Speaker 7: There that point guard you got. They're looking at Darren rippy. He's second, uh rank second in the class and.

00:38:43
Speaker 5: You could get one in two.

00:38:44
Speaker 7: See he's the second rank point guard excuse me overall though he's still in the commer. He's a five star okayim ten eleven overall, but second rank point guard.

00:38:51
Speaker 2: And then uh the Kentucky kid, Tylan Kenney.

00:38:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I thought he was going to Louisville.

00:38:59
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's anywhere yet.

00:39:00
Speaker 5: But I mean that's where people think he's gone.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: I don't know, not sure.

00:39:04
Speaker 5: Well, I would love to see.

00:39:05
Speaker 2: He's good friends with Jasper. I think one of the things.

00:39:07
Speaker 5: I want to see is how does how does Pope do with freshmen? You know, we still don't know yet, right, Like, I mean, we still don't know. Is this Let's see how things go with jet But do what do you if the number one player in America wants to come, do you want to get him? Yes?

00:39:19
Speaker 7: Of course you did, of course you. Dan Lovell has been counting him, well, just.

00:39:22
Speaker 5: Thought they've had him for years and if we could take him and then just be able to just make him weep, that would be amazing.

00:39:29
Speaker 2: Yeah. Not only is he the number one player, he's at Kentucky kid that grew up like Louisville, grew up like in louis So if you can steal him away, that's a big regard.

00:39:37
Speaker 5: That's a bet, that's a huge GIF. Yeah, So that's my one. As far as everybody else, I'm not going to say I don't follow it. Well, I don't like I used to, But I still think the majority of our teams in the future will be built in the portal or with guys we have. So I think we're back to the days where we need like three guys instead of we need like eight guys when it was with cal.

00:39:58
Speaker 7: And I think this upcoming year, especially if they play the way we're all expecting them to, I prioritize a lot of that roster. You want Low back, you probably want Chandler back, you want Trent Noah back, Marino back. If Jasper doesn't go pro, you want Jasper back. I mean a lot of the guys that are on this current team, we're hoping they're two year guys.

00:40:17
Speaker 5: Even more. Yeah, the Croatian kid, right.

00:40:21
Speaker 7: Really, most of the roster outside of Oway and I don't know who's seniors, but.

00:40:25
Speaker 5: SoRs A cam Cam Aberdeen, Aberdeen diabate. Oson, Is that right? Oson? That's right, Oson? How are you?

00:40:37
Speaker 6: I'm good? How you guys doing good?

00:40:38
Speaker 5: I hear you're from the dirt ball? Is that right?

00:40:42
Speaker 6: Yes? I am.

00:40:42
Speaker 5: I've got like a minute explain to people that don't know what it is.

00:40:47
Speaker 6: What it is is Me and Summer League Basketball. Me and Summer Basketball League has started back in nineteen sixty seven. We've been running it man for over almost fifty years. I guess over fifty years. So what we do. We have a lot of guys who play college ball, high school ball, and some professional guys who come back in the summer to work on their games and stuff. So right now we're in the semi final quarterfinals of our playoffs and the final four is Thursday, and our championship games are Sunday.

00:41:19
Speaker 5: Okay, so what so? So you play tonight?

00:41:23
Speaker 6: Yes, we play tonight, then we have a day off tomorrow, and then our final four is Thursday evening.

00:41:29
Speaker 5: I may go Thursday. Yeah, I hear you, I hear there's food. Is there good food?

00:41:35
Speaker 6: The food is spectacular. We have plenty of Thursday nights is probably the best night to come up because we have five music in the front of the park. We have live music in the front of the park, and then we have a lot of food vendors out there, and the food is spectacular. And you have to come out and get you a practice.

00:41:50
Speaker 5: Which man, you pull up Thursday Thursday, get some fish, yeah, and then watch a little basketball, Ozon. Can I dance with the music?

00:42:03
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, most definitely, most definitely. Many. They give you all type of music, anything you want. Man, it's pretty dope.

00:42:12
Speaker 5: Well all right, you sold me appreciated Ozon.

00:42:16
Speaker 6: All right, man, I hope to see you guys out there.

00:42:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna go Thursday. I can walk from my house.

00:42:20
Speaker 2: You need to because parking is tough.

00:42:22
Speaker 5: Yes, so just walk, Yeah, just walk. That's right. If I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven, we'll come back. Take your calls. Go through the rest of this list. Kentucky Sports Radio