2026-03-26- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Welcome to our two Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now Here's Matt Jones quarterback.

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Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here hour number two at Great American Ballpark, Holy Grail Reds Opening Day, Ryan Lemon and been joined. Happy to be joined by Tom Brindleman, who stayed with us through the break. I gotta tell you Tom two things. One, I got a text up text machine that says, Tom Brindleman is proof Matt, you do not have a voice for radio.

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Speaker 5: I'm right about that, very true. You have no voice radio. Well, thank God for it. You're still hanging in there. After sixty two, we'll see what outs. We've been very lucky though for a terrible voice. We've been able to make it work here for a few years.

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Speaker 4: But and then this guy right here, Tom, there is no bigger fan of.

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Speaker 6: Your dad than this dude right here. Like he geeks out at just the mention of him.

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Speaker 7: I sent your dad a text message while it goes they said he may be here. I have his number. He text me back. I'm like, yes, the bonny Brinnan text me we'll be coming by the way.

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Speaker 6: He's in the parade. Well, I know he's in a parade.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, apologize, Like he said, he listens to our show. Oh my goodness, Marty Brenman listens to our show. I'm set for life now.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely. Have you ever done a Kentucky game? No, never done a Kentucky game. Done the Big ten games, ACC games, PAC twelve games, the old PAC twelve, but never an SEC game.

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Speaker 4: I want to go back to that nine to eleven thing you restored. I mean that I remember that World Series very distinctly. You you called through the whole thing.

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Speaker 5: We're on the Arizona Diamondbacks Radio three games because on television it goes to the network.

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Speaker 4: So tell me you go into New York post nine to eleven, and that takes a big symbol that series almost like America has persevered and we're gonna keep What was that like?

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Speaker 5: We played the first two games in Arizona. We won the first two games. Yeah, we have r Andy Johnson at Kurt Schilling, and we got we got a really good team. And so now we come in and so Rudy Giuliani's the mayor of New York at the time, and we're roughly at this point, about a month and a half removed from nine to eleven. It's like late October, because the World Series started a little bit late, yes, very late, October, and so he was looking at that at that particular point in time, with anybody that had any sort of celebrity to come down to ground zero and just to try and cheer up the guys that are literally digging through rubble, ten stories of rubble to try to find bodies. And so he had asked the Diamondbacks that the team would come down there. So we landed in New York after an all night flight after game two, and we get off the plane and the buses take us directly to ground zero.

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Speaker 6: And man, I mean you couldn't believe it, And I mean what was it like, could you? Was it still in the air? Oh yeah, and smoke coming up, still.

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Speaker 5: Still in the the building where it had been blown up and subsequently collapsed the twin towers. It was probably eight to ten stories high of just the rubble from the buildings, and there are people climbing those ten stories, dogs, people trying to see if there's anybody under there still alive. I mean, hour after hour, day after day. And this was six seven weeks after the actual explosion.

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Speaker 4: What was that like to process? I mean you can hear it, but what was it like to see it?

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Speaker 6: Smell?

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Speaker 5: It be there, you know, Matt, It's like the old Jimmy Buffett's side about you know, don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it, right, you know, trying to describe what that was like standing on a street corner where right in front of you, that is what is in front of you, and the whole world watched on television when that happened, and to be standing there, it was just it's indescribable. And you know, a lot of our players well known guys, and we had a bunch of them, because we had a very much a veteran team of guys that have been great players, Cy Young Award winners, v Mark Grace, we had Luis Gonzales, Steve Finley, Matt Williams, we had Jay Bell. I mean, we had a veteran team. And but but none of those guys had won a World Series before.

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Speaker 6: So you know, they put the team together.

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Speaker 5: It costs a lot of money to come in there and and try to win one. And even those guys, and most of them at that point, we're in their mid to late thirties, you know, And and and I think everybody in the traveling party and then so you know, you do that.

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Speaker 6: Year off day.

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Speaker 5: The next night we come back and you got to remember, I mean, everything is pretty much still at that point, by and large shutdown in.

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Speaker 6: New York, are you.

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Speaker 4: I mean, were people who thought that might be a place for another time or never, never for a second. But then we had a police escored our buses to go to Yankee Stadium and you're driving down some of the busiest streets in America, you know, Midtown New York to get to the Bronx, and just going through the streets and looking around and it's still almost kind of a borderline ghost town.

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Speaker 6: It was just weird.

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Speaker 5: And but then when we got in the stadium at night, the atmosphere, the energy of people in that town that just needed.

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Speaker 6: That game for for just to feel better for a little while, you know.

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Speaker 5: And and then like you said, President Bush comes out throws a strike.

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Speaker 6: You know, I mean that I say.

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Speaker 4: This all the time, and the listeners know politically I couldn't be less aligned, but that pitch, I remember, America needed that, they needed that.

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Speaker 6: And then he threw a strike.

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Speaker 5: Well and what people, I mean perfect, perfect, and what a lot of people don't don't know unless you've seen that documentary. There've been a number of them about it, and so some people are aware of it now.

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Speaker 6: But when he went out.

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Speaker 5: There, he had on a bulletproof vest underneath his jacket. So I mean, what like just you or me walking out there and trying to do it in the nerves and so on and so forth. But he was walking out there with this, you know, really heavy thick jacket, which is gonna limit you know, how well he was going to be able to actually move. And I mean, he delivered a strike and then you look up. The crowd is going to cra I can see it like it happened ten minutes ago. And you look up and that eagle is flying around the stadium and the emotion and the crowd and then they.

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Speaker 4: Weren't had a real ego. They actually did oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh wow.

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Speaker 5: They the next three games they won for the first time in the history of the World Series. They won after trailing at the end of the eighth inning in all three games. They won all three games in their lasted back. But you won won the World Series, came back and beat him too, and a up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the one the story book didn't quite yeah, didn't quite get there. All right, So now you've done that, right, I mean you've done Game seven World Series, Right, you've done boy, you've done one of the most famous college football games of all time, the boys in state Oklahoma. Yeah, it's Clemson versus Boston College.

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Speaker 6: How do you get yourself up from?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 6: Are you kidding? When you don't work?

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Speaker 5: And it wouldn't have mattered if I didn't have a job for four years. I mean I'm always and maybe it's from growing up and you know, understanding how precious and few those jobs are.

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Speaker 6: I mean, they really are.

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Speaker 5: You know. I tell my son and he's in broadcasting at Indiana University and he got a chance to broadcast all three of their games in the College Football Playoff on radio student radio. And you know, I've always tried to tell him, dude, I don't care if you're doing you know, forget Clemson and Boston.

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Speaker 6: I'm in basketball.

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Speaker 5: Well I know, but I don't care if you're doing whatever it is. Man, almost all the people that are watching that game wish they had your job. That's true, almost every one of them, that's right, Not every one of them, but a lot of them. And so to get those kind of opportunities. Never for a second do I look at it like to step down from what I used to do, and why am I doing this? And although not a chance in this world.

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Speaker 4: Your dad's a legend, what's it like to be a kid that then tries to follow a legend in the same profession.

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Speaker 5: Never never thought about it for five minutes, not one time. And I've tried to say the same thing to my son. You're your own guy. Whatever you like, I can help you with some little things. Like my dad would be if there were things about actually broadcasting I needed to ask him about, you know, would you think of that or would you have done that?

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Speaker 6: A little bit different that kind of thing.

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Speaker 5: But no, never for a second thought about, oh I got to live up to this or live up to that. And I give a lot of that credit to my mom, you know, rest your soul, but you know, she she wanted to make sure that. But hey, don't get wrapped up in all of this kind of thing. And my wife, I think, does the same thing with our son in the same regard.

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Speaker 6: All right, before I.

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Speaker 4: Let you go, I am a Red season ticket holder. Yeah, what do we think about this season? Is it gonna be what I hope last year would be the summer of Elie.

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Speaker 6: Are we gonna have a big year?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's time, I mean, it's time for him to do it. You know, Hey, I want to get sick to my stomach when I've heard people around here on local radio talking about, you know, all, he's the next Eric Davis. Well, right now, he can't carry Eric Davis's jock so far. So far, I'm not saying he won't be able to, but I mean, listen until you go out and hit forty bombs and go steal seventy eighty bases in a season, you know, then come talk to me about it and play gold glove defense, which Davis did in center field. So I have no doubt Crue de la Cruz is capable of doing it. But now's the time that you got to put it together and you could say the same thing not only just about him, but about three or four other of those young guys that have come up at the same time, because you know, you go back to that group that won the World Series in nineteen ninety. I mean they had Paul O'Neill, they had Chris Sabo, they had Barry Larkin, they had I'm forgetting another Eric Davis. They had all these guys that had come up, you know, had their highs and lows for about two three years, and then all of them collectively and individually, bang, they all arrive really at the same time. They put it all together and the team subsequently wins the World Series.

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Speaker 6: Well, this group has a little bit of that in them.

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Speaker 5: You know, you've got Marte to a lesser extent, shorter amount of time, nonetheless third year and now the big leagues. You've got McLean who looked really good, Steer, You've got Stevenson, You've got Doah, you've got Lodo Well, yeah, Lodolo and Green.

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Speaker 6: That's a whole different topic. But but yes, it's.

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Speaker 5: Time now for those guys to live up to all the potential. Quit talking about the potential and make it into reality.

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Speaker 6: Tom. Thank you very much for doing this. I'm glad to have you on. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Look at how excited this man is you just made You guys got the best seat, you have, the great seat.

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Speaker 6: This is a great seat. Appreciate it. Great to see you.

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Speaker 8: Nice to see it.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna take a break, be right back.

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Speaker 4: KSR. That was an awesome interview. Listen to him talk about them. I didn't know that he did the nine to eleven and I didn't either. I had no idea that that's you know, that's I was just telling Mario the story the other day about about the last about the last plane in the air.

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Speaker 6: You know we've talked about that over there, that that there was.

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Speaker 4: A plane in the air on nine to eleven where they didn't know whether or not it had been hijacked, and they were trying to decide whether we shoot it down. I was telling Mario that story. I just I'm always fascinated by all those there. It's probably because I ended up going to New York a lot, and I know I now know that area really well.

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Speaker 6: So listen to him say that, I thought was really great.

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Speaker 7: I loved hearing him tell the stories. How you know, the whole team went down there because they wanted to see it, and you know, these these are big league baseball players, but they're they're Americans, you know, and it affected all of us. I thought it was really open and vulnerable too. Talking about his time away from broadcasting.

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Speaker 6: If that one was. But we'll see. We'll have to figure out what, figure out what has can.

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Speaker 7: Bond over both being big Reds fans.

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Speaker 4: Though today it's this thing right over here, Oh the Florence y'alls.

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Speaker 6: I was like, what, y'alls, what is that head?

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Speaker 7: Just like the water tower? Painted like the WaterTower?

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Speaker 6: All right?

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Speaker 4: A nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven? Are you watching Kentucky? Are you watching Arkansas tonight? Are you watching? Are you pulling against cow? Pulling for cow? Not watching? What are you doing?

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Speaker 7: I'm pulling against cal But you said the spread was eight and a half. That's that's a lot of points really hot to me. That's a lot of points.

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Speaker 4: So I'm doing shinning a classic money line hedge tonight.

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Speaker 3: There you go, taking are rooting against.

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Speaker 4: Arkansas but putting a significant amount of money on Arkansas.

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Speaker 6: So if they win, I feel better.

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Speaker 7: I'm with you.

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Speaker 6: That's what we're doing tonight.

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Speaker 3: And at this point, I'm just pulling for the Johnny's. There was my team from here on out, Saint John's.

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Speaker 6: For sake, and you know I'm going that game tomorrow night.

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Speaker 7: Oh it's amazing. Hell, all the Big Blue Nation is now on board with Saint John's because of Patino.

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm going, it's Saint John's, Duke. I'm not only going, I'm wearing a Saint John's hat, I'm wearing a Saint John's hoodie.

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Speaker 6: I don't know why. I don't know what's gotten into me, but I'm like, especially.

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Speaker 4: Since it's against Duke, You've got to what about the reports that if Donovan takes the Carolina job, John Shire might become coach of the Bulls. That's well, you said it could. That would be interesting. I mean, that could flip that rivalry on its head. No doubt you could go from it looks like they found a coach who could replace Krzyzewski who's actually good, and then you could lose.

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Speaker 7: Him just a couple of years later, you don't know.

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Speaker 4: What's next, and then Billy Donovan's at North Carolina.

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Speaker 7: That would be amazing, That would be kind of well, you said it could start a Snowballs from Chicago. I think Ah probably grew up a Bulls fan. Then, without question, that'd be a big dream job for him.

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Speaker 4: And I would think he'd be a good high for them because I think he's smart and it seems like pretty good and he's he's basically dealing with pros now and clearly it's working. Yeah, I mean the amount of guys who can coach pros and make it work.

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Speaker 6: Cal was clearly one. Looks like John Shire might be one.

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Speaker 7: Too, and you know, kind of that Bratch Stevens mold, where you know, the coaching is not in your face, it's more analytics and kind of calm. I can see him working there.

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Speaker 6: Do you. Uh?

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Speaker 4: So you're pulling for Arizona. I am pull for Arizona, Shannon. We're not pulling for Arkansas.

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Speaker 3: I know I've got Arizona, if for no other reason my bracket, But yeah, I don't want to hear.

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Speaker 6: If I'm going to tell you this, though, you write this down.

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Speaker 4: If if Arkansas wins tonight, they're going I think they're going to the championship yet I do, and I don't want that. But they will win the next game. They will beat the winner of Purdue in Texas. Yeah, so I I need Arizona to win just for me, you know, because I'm I'm not not trying to be a hater, but I don't think it does Kentucky basketball any good.

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Speaker 6: Every game he wins.

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Speaker 7: I'm pulling for Arizona, but I may bet Arkansas is. To me, that's a lot of points.

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Speaker 4: I think that's a lot of points, especially when the Arkansas's gotten dude as good as Acup.

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Speaker 7: Who's next, Bob and James?

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Speaker 4: Oh great, if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Bob, it's opening.

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Speaker 8: To I know, man's the side show of the big shows going on down there on the river Back. They're they'reing down Longworth all make room for that new bridge going up. Anyway. You know, you got talking to Tom at Tom with an H. You know he spells his name with four letters and not three Anyway, there's a statue of Marty Dad. Some kid broke the microphone off, but they're gonna get a new one for thirty seven thousand dollars. Recaps the new Mold. Anyway, we're going to see the Ellie get some home runs today and beat the tod all right.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: That's a classic.

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Speaker 4: Bob probably was chanting in the realm of Bob and Jamestown calls.

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Speaker 6: That was a bad at Bob and Jamestown call. As you get right there.

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Speaker 3: Took a lot of turns, a lot of things.

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Speaker 4: He talked about the bridge being open, a microphone broken, a microphone broken. What was the middle thing?

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Speaker 6: He said? Something in between? It was also nonsense. I forgot about it. Yes, what the heck did he say?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 4: He said Tom with an H. By the way, I knew. It's like no one's ever seen that guy.

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Speaker 7: You know, he spells it with four letters instead of three.

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Speaker 6: I've heard.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad to hear it, almost like that short for Thomas or something.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 4: Yes, next, Rick, Rick, go ahead, Rick, Hey.

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Speaker 8: It's happy opening day.

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Speaker 6: I'm uh.

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Speaker 8: We're on the way up from Louisville.

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Speaker 10: We're getting ready to hit send to that of here in about fifteen minutes. Really great interview with Tom. Really enjoyed that.

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Speaker 8: Thank you as big as a Kentucky fan as I am. I'm a bigger Reds fan, and.

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Speaker 10: I absolutely just love Opening Day and this might be the most excited I've been for the Reds in a really long time. I think a lot of people are really under valuing how big a deal it is with Terry fan Kona being in his second year, coming off his first year of making the playoffs.

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Speaker 8: I think there's three keys to this team.

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Speaker 10: I think three guys are gonna have absolutely breakout seasons, all right, Nobel, Marty Foals Stewart.

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Speaker 8: And Matt McClain.

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Speaker 10: I think those three guys are gonna have just unbelievable seasons as long as our bull pick can hold up. I really like this team's chances to go a long way this year.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, thank you very much. I didn't expect a Reds preview there, but that's okay. I won't go into my thoughts. We'll probably I got plenty of time to be disappointed as the season goes on. By the way, where'd you get that jersey? Just out of curiosity, like, that's not this is first of all, what is what number is it?

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Speaker 7: It's number eight, Joe Morgan. Okay, but it was my son Michael's little leg jersey when he was twelve years old, twelve years ago.

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Speaker 4: Shannon, it kind of looks like a twelve year old's jersey.

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Speaker 6: Both in, both in.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, this is the fit.

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Speaker 6: The fit is not ideal.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's definitely twelve years old.

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Speaker 6: This stitching looks to be coming a part.

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Speaker 4: It is three or four different placest door.

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Speaker 6: I mean it is.

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Speaker 4: I just I'm gonna, I'm gonna, if you don't mind, I'm gonna touch your body in a second. Okay, Right, there is a whole form. Right here is a whole for me. Right here is a whole form. And right here the stitching seems to become undone. If this shirt makes it through the end of the day, Mario, look at all the deformities this shirt has already. I don't know if it's going to make it through the day, do you. But we've missed the best part. It's got my name on the back. It's got oh my goodness, it's worse in the back ship deformities. Oh my like there are multiple threads coming out of it. One, two, three, four. There's no way this shirt is making it through the day. Here is laughing at you, and she doesn't even know you.

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Speaker 7: I know, let's I mean, I used to play for the Reds. This is my jersey when I played.

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Speaker 6: Okay, who's that that?

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Speaker 7: Let's go to Brenn brin ahead.

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Speaker 6: That she does not think you put you Matt?

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Speaker 11: I was, yeah, man, I was looking at something on Twitter and it said Mark pached everage wins For the last ten seasons, He's won twenty one games and he's lost twelve.

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Speaker 9: Don't you worry.

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Speaker 11: That that he will be just good.

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Speaker 9: Enough not to get fired, but not to be able to take Kentucky to the level that he needs to take us to to get back to final fours and championships Because I just can't imagine him coaching us to a championship game. I'll ain't up a listen, thank you.

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Speaker 6: That's a great question.

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Speaker 4: Now, I actually can't imagine him getting this to a championship game.

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Speaker 6: But I will tell you.

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Speaker 4: Consistently, twenty one to twelve is at the worst thing that could happen for Kentucky because you're because he's right, that's the kind of thing that makes you look unreasonable to fire him, but also isn't successful. Do you know what I mean? Yes, Well that's what Tubby was doing at the end exact. You know, it was like just good enough, but not what we want.

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Speaker 7: And when Popen on his coaching show the other night, it compared his record to the last four years, like, that's just kind of what the caller was saying that just go, we don't want just good enough, we want better than that.

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Speaker 4: It's tough because I don't want it to be the case, like we've asked him to be more open, and you can't be the kind of people that are like, we want you to be more open, and then when you're open, go, we don't.

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Speaker 6: Like what you say. Yeah, right, so this is our server if you want something.

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Speaker 4: So I didn't like though, the comparison to Cow because he was acting like mediocre is good.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, like that saying this is not good enough.

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Speaker 4: He did kept saying that, but I don't know he got Did you see Seth Greenberg blasting for it?

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Speaker 6: I didn't see that. Did you see it?

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Speaker 4: Did you see Seth Greenberg absolutely blasting? And I don't like Seth. I'll take Mark over Seth. But he was kind of a I was like, he was like, you know, if you're gonna pick cows last four years, why don't you pick the ten before that?

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Speaker 6: Uh huh. And there's something to that, to be honest.

00:23:21
Speaker 4: Yes, So if I'm not two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we're gonna see if we can get our guy Bill Cunningham to come screaming in a minute, we'll.

00:23:27
Speaker 6: Be right back. TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney, called TJ. He'll make them pay.

00:23:33
Speaker 3: No more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 6: Here's not Jones.

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Speaker 4: I picked the wrong apparel for today, Shannon. I didn't think. I didn't ruize it was gonna be eighty degrees.

00:23:43
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I supposed to be like eighty six later.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I'm not to go in the Reds team shop and get a new shirt because I'm wearing a black hoodie.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, sitting in the degree.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't have picked the worst thing. So I'm not to go in the Reds team shop and get something new. You might you know what I'm gonna do for you because I love you, even through all your unics, right, I just realized the buttons on this shirt are broken.

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Speaker 6: But I'm gonna buy you a new shirt.

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Speaker 4: Well, you and I are gonna both and Mario has no Reds gear, so I'm gonna buy us all Reds gear, which is probably gonna cost me six hundred dollars to buy three Red shirts and the Reds team shop. But I'm gonna do that for you and Mario because Mario right now is wearing camouflage plant pants and a black T shirt.

00:24:26
Speaker 6: We need to get him in the spirit we do.

00:24:28
Speaker 7: I appreciate it, but you know, I'm not a Reds fan.

00:24:31
Speaker 6: I know, but I can't keep seeing you wear this.

00:24:33
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00:24:35
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00:24:36
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00:25:11
Speaker 6: Let's go over a couple of other little notes.

00:25:15
Speaker 4: Brett Setzer, the donor who's been going after Mitch Barnhardt. He's one of the knuckleheads about the contract. Really not even so much Mitch Barnhart. Eli Cappoluto, he tweeted, I still haven't heard from President Capaluto since sending my letter this past Monday. And then he has a lot of emojis, crickets, crickets. Brett Setzer, it sounds like he ain't gonna drop this.

00:25:38
Speaker 7: He will absolutely not drop it. Like we said on the show this week, take it's gonna take somebody with a little power to kind of make something happen.

00:25:46
Speaker 6: He is that guy.

00:25:47
Speaker 7: He's gonna keep pushing it to try to make something happen.

00:25:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, I listen, I said this the other day. It ain't going away. Nope, He's not gonna let it go away. We were the first ones to mention it. Then Linda Black made a big deal about it. I don't think she's done. She's not gonna let it.

00:26:03
Speaker 6: She's not done. And I don't think Brett Setzer's done.

00:26:06
Speaker 4: And I do think Bret has given permission for other people who are UK donors to speak. I think now the question will be will any of them do it right? So I do think in order if I do think other ones are gonna need to speak, I don't think it can just be Brett. But he is kind of almost now given permission. Okay, the rest of you can now speak, and let's see if they end up doing it.

00:26:28
Speaker 7: You know, he's a guy. He can all of a sudden he said, Okay, I'm not gonna give my money to UK football anymore. You can't use my plane to fly your teams are anymore.

00:26:37
Speaker 6: But I don't even know if that's what it is.

00:26:39
Speaker 4: I think it's just he's the kind of dude that likes to raise a ruckus.

00:26:43
Speaker 7: He's a Kentucky.

00:26:45
Speaker 6: But he's also you know, some people are not ruckus race. I'm a ruckus race.

00:26:49
Speaker 4: You are, really he's a ruckus race, he is, And so I could see him continuing to uh down this path.

00:26:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, like I said he's not gonna let it let it die. Uh, somebody that's maybe the leading the charge for other donors to follow. Yeah, the other donors that will follow.

00:27:06
Speaker 4: Other piece of news I thought was interesting the ratings for the first round and second round the NCAA Tournament came out. NCAA Tournament first round Kentucky Santa Clara the second most watched game of the entire first round, which is crazy to me considering it was.

00:27:22
Speaker 7: On at noon noon on a Friday.

00:27:24
Speaker 4: It was on at noon and still number two. Number one was Duke Sienna, of course, which is because Duke almost got beat.

00:27:30
Speaker 6: Yes.

00:27:31
Speaker 4: Then in the second round, Kentucky Iowa State second most watch game, next to Kansas Saint John's, which of course had Ray Patino and Bill self.

00:27:39
Speaker 6: I bring that up fast to.

00:27:41
Speaker 4: Say it doesn't it doesn't take over like obviously we'd rather win, have national championships, et cetera.

00:27:48
Speaker 6: But Ryan, anybody who wants.

00:27:50
Speaker 4: To say, and I don't care who it is that says it, anybody that wants to say Kentucky is not a marquee program or not a brand, I'm just gonna say to you, go look at that. We were the second biggest game in the second round and the second in the first round, and we're the only team that was in both Okay.

00:28:09
Speaker 7: And both games were at News and we were the only ones in both.

00:28:12
Speaker 4: Duke had the biggest first round game, but the third biggest second round game. Kansas had the biggest second round game.

00:28:19
Speaker 6: But like the.

00:28:20
Speaker 4: Twenty fifth biggest first round game, we're the only team that was in both. And our second round game wasn't even that close in the second half.

00:28:29
Speaker 7: And we're still in it.

00:28:30
Speaker 4: And people can say, well, they're watching Hope in Kentucky will get beat. But that's what makes you a marquee program. Yes, what makes you a marquee program is that teams want to see you. Fans want to see you lose. Why do people watch the Yankees? They want to see him lose. Why do people watch the Cowboys because they want to see him lose. That's part of it. Why do you want Why do we watch Duke? We want to see him lose?

00:28:49
Speaker 7: So are we the needle?

00:28:51
Speaker 4: Duke is probably the needle now, if I'm being honest, we have dropped the needle to Duke. But we're second still, and we're second without having made a final four in a decade if we can ever get back to doing that well past Duke.

00:29:09
Speaker 6: But I still sometimes it's our fans that say it.

00:29:12
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's a fan of other teams, but we still are the I would say number two marquee program in college basketball. I wish it was number one, but if I'm being honest, it's number two.

00:29:23
Speaker 6: Now.

00:29:24
Speaker 4: If Carolina hires Billy Donovan, they're gonna join us. Kansas is probably just a notch below that, but we're still there. So I do think that's important for people to understand. Yes, I'd rather win, but we will not stop mattering.

00:29:39
Speaker 7: Is that why CBS and the networks for Kentucky's that first game again, with that CAA.

00:29:44
Speaker 4: Tournament bracket comes out, let me tell you what happens at CBS. CBS says, who is Duke playing? Who is Kentucky playing? All right, let's place those in the slots that we want people to watch. Huh yep, let's play those in the slots on CBS in the afternoons. Yes, and then they go, okay, where's Carolina now, let's put them up there. And then they start going, all right, let's see matchups? Oh, Bill self, versus Rick Patino. That's big, it's a good one. But before they do anything, where's Duke, where's Kentucky? And that's what they do. It's what ESPN does. Why do you think these national shows spend so much time talking about us? It's not because we're great, It's because we care and we're marquee. And that's why you're never gonna convince me, at least now that we're not.

00:30:31
Speaker 6: We're not Indiana.

00:30:33
Speaker 4: When's last time you seen an Indiana game in a prime slot anywhere?

00:30:38
Speaker 7: Nineteen eighty But we still are.

00:30:40
Speaker 6: So that's what I think is important for people to.

00:30:42
Speaker 7: Realize, and that's why they want to kick off the NCAA tournament. But with Kentucky in that spot, I.

00:30:47
Speaker 4: Think what they've realized is because I saw this thing that Duke and Kentucky more and more than the last few days have been playing the day games on Thursday and Friday.

00:30:56
Speaker 6: Because they take the mindset.

00:30:58
Speaker 4: We're gonna get people in the pattern of watching those games all day by kicking it off and Duke and then everybody, do you keep them and then you keep them throughout the day?

00:31:07
Speaker 6: Is I think the mindset, who's next? Pat pat go ahead, Pat.

00:31:13
Speaker 3: Hey, how you guys doing.

00:31:15
Speaker 6: I'm just talking.

00:31:16
Speaker 8: Actually, I just move back into town.

00:31:19
Speaker 12: Watching UK every game that's.

00:31:21
Speaker 6: Seas for the first time in a long time.

00:31:23
Speaker 8: Let's admit it. Hope it is just not it.

00:31:26
Speaker 12: He looks too much at numbers and he can't even I mean, my fiance was watching the game and we're hitting double teams and nobody would even come up. He's like, why don't they come up and help him? You know nothing, I mean, he doesn't have any game plan. I mean, I know he had those comeback and that's great, but they were come back. We should never had to come back from They weren't. We should have been beating all those teams. So yeah, great comeback. But he's too busy putting it and look at the court and figure out who's could be in the game and who should it. So, I mean, we can say everything we want and Okay, Spark and everybody I know they okay, he played for us, Great, that's fantastic. But Mad I've heard you say a thousand times, don't pick somebody because they played for it. I agree that coach.

00:32:18
Speaker 4: I agree a Kentucky's coach and I went, you know, I went against my my thing. I've been saying for fifteen years on this, and I still look, he's our coach, so I'm gonna support him. I appreciate the call, and I think he's gonna have another year and I hope it succeeds. But it's the thing about falling down early in the games, Ryan, It's not just this year. We did it last year too. Like this isn't just this year that we fell down.

00:32:42
Speaker 7: It's last year.

00:32:43
Speaker 4: We had huge comebacks last year too, if you remember. Not more this year, but we had a lot last year.

00:32:48
Speaker 7: So I had a coach point out to me, you know, the assistant coaches are responsible for the game prep. You're for getting ready for the game.

00:32:54
Speaker 6: Well, maybe we need to replace them all. That sounds like we are.

00:32:57
Speaker 4: It sounds like I don't know if it's gonna be all, but I think there's gonna be a decent amount replaced and maybe that's the correct thing to do.

00:33:03
Speaker 6: That was his point.

00:33:04
Speaker 7: You know, the assistant coach, get your ready for the game. Head coach didn't make the adjustments to the halftime a lot of time.

00:33:08
Speaker 6: Look at these nachos. Oh don't look at Delaney, thank you. Look at this. Can I get another diet?

00:33:14
Speaker 7: Please?

00:33:15
Speaker 4: I'm sorry we're ordering on the air, but we don't have a choice. Who's up next?

00:33:18
Speaker 3: Let's go to swag Sandwich.

00:33:20
Speaker 6: Swag Sandwich. How are you?

00:33:24
Speaker 11: I'm doing good? Guys?

00:33:25
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:33:26
Speaker 11: I just wanted to say this and I've not heard anyone say it yet.

00:33:30
Speaker 12: Why don't why don't we look at like Rondo.

00:33:34
Speaker 6: Like for the.

00:33:37
Speaker 4: For the exact same reason that we just said about the former players? Why now, is Ragion Rondo potentially a good coach? Maybe and if if, if Mark Pope believes he is. But what I would say to you is, if we're gonna add Ragon Rondo, we should add Ragion Rondo, even if we would have added him if he went to Georgia. If you if you look at Ragon Rondo interview, talk to him and you feel like he's the best candidate than hiring. But it can't just be because he went here, because that's what gets us in trouble.

00:34:09
Speaker 6: I think when we do that.

00:34:12
Speaker 9: Well, I just think he would help a lot with recruiting.

00:34:14
Speaker 7: Like, now you say that, but how do you know?

00:34:18
Speaker 6: I mean, like, has he ever recruited before? Maybe he would.

00:34:22
Speaker 4: I'm not saying he wouldn't and I'm certainly willing to give him a chance.

00:34:26
Speaker 6: But if I'm the coach, Let's say I was the coach, I'd talked.

00:34:29
Speaker 4: To Region Rondo, but Region Rondo would have to convince me that he would do better than anyone else.

00:34:35
Speaker 6: It can't just be because he went here.

00:34:38
Speaker 4: Like That's why I loved the idea of like Tayshaun Prince when we talking about him as GEM, because it wouldn't be just because he went here. He's gone and had success in the NBA. He knows the Johazzi Muhammad was the same way when we talk about a guy like Rajeon who might be awesome, but he's never done that before. So we're only bringing up his name Ryan because he went.

00:34:58
Speaker 7: Here the one hooked it get him. Maybe you get early recruitment of his son.

00:35:02
Speaker 6: But now that's maybe a reason. And if they wanted to bring you mind, that.

00:35:06
Speaker 8: Was a point of mine too.

00:35:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a fair people.

00:35:10
Speaker 4: I think that.

00:35:12
Speaker 9: No, I think that he could just get involved in some ways.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: Yeah I'm not saying.

00:35:17
Speaker 12: I mean, you know, you see coach k on.

00:35:19
Speaker 5: The sidelines, you see Felt on the sidelines, you see these guys with these faces, and we don't have one.

00:35:27
Speaker 9: We don't have Rick on our sidelines or sitting in the bitch, you know, in the stand, but we don't have.

00:35:33
Speaker 4: If it's not an assistant coach though, and I appreciate the call. Let's say he's in like a player development role, you know, because there are all these people on the staff we don't even know, right, random guys. If you hired him for that, then sign me up.

00:35:45
Speaker 6: I'm for that.

00:35:45
Speaker 4: That's a different animal. That's a different animal. But you only get so many assistant coaches, so I want to be careful with that. But if you're talking about just one of the player development roles, sure, yes, he'd be great.

00:35:55
Speaker 6: For sure.

00:35:56
Speaker 7: Who wouldn't want to have a guy like that on your bench? NBA Champion?

00:35:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, because like I don't think Tyler Elis is an assistant is he?

00:36:03
Speaker 7: I don't know what exactly what his role is now at Arkansas, but like what Tyler you list did did here?

00:36:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm four, I have to be I'm for it if they wanted to have him in that role. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, all right, I'm gonna go see if I can find Bill Cunningham shit, And I don't totally know what he looks like, but I'm gonna look like see if it's an old man yelling at the garage, and if so, I'm gonna try to bring him over here. We'll see what we can do. We'll take a break and be right back. Its Kazar, quarterback of his Kentucky sports radio. This lady just came over here and said, here's the picture we took nine years ago. And then she goes, you look so young. The implication, of course, is that I don't look that young anymore. But you're right, But that's okay.

00:36:48
Speaker 7: Well, nine years ago you were in your.

00:36:50
Speaker 4: Thirties fifties, and now, uh, I'm in my fortress. So it's a little differ Bill. But Cunningham uh doesn't get here till twelve thirty, unfortunately.

00:36:59
Speaker 7: So I was looking forward to that. That would be a good segment, a little back.

00:37:04
Speaker 4: Back. O't I keep scaring this guy. I'm sorry, that's my Bill Cunningham.

00:37:09
Speaker 6: What do you One.

00:37:10
Speaker 4: Person writes, Matt, what do you think about buzz Baker tweeting the UK Doze account?

00:37:15
Speaker 6: Do you know about this whole thing?

00:37:17
Speaker 10: Oh?

00:37:17
Speaker 6: Yes. So there's a Twitter account called like uk y Doe. Yes.

00:37:23
Speaker 5: Uh.

00:37:23
Speaker 4: It ignores the fact that the original doze was a failure. There's my little political comment. But the the premise of it is he's giving the behind the scenes of like stuff that he alleges is happening at UK. Oh. Yes, he seems to be on the academic side. He seems to be very focused on the UK healthcare. Yes, big time. I thought I thought maybe we were talking about that. So he tweeted something yesterday and he starts analogizing what's happening with UK Athletics, with UK Healthcare and then Dave Baker responds and goes, can you talk? Which makes me wonder if like, because this is an anonymous person, nobody knows who did is. I've tried to figure out who it is, and no one knows. Like all the journalists in Kentucky are behind the scenes going who is this person? Like I know, I mean, I've heard a lot of a mask. No one seems to really know Dave Baker. For whatever reason, he's publicly trying to talk.

00:38:17
Speaker 6: To the person.

00:38:17
Speaker 7: If definitely somebody that's on the inside, and he's got some really, really good inside information.

00:38:23
Speaker 4: It seems like it. I mean, I don't know, you know, I haven't. I'm not sure if it's real or not.

00:38:29
Speaker 7: But when Dave reached out to him, can we talk the guy?

00:38:32
Speaker 4: I think people think that that makes it seem legit. The fact that Dave.

00:38:35
Speaker 7: Reached out to him and then the response was I am batman.

00:38:39
Speaker 4: Oh?

00:38:39
Speaker 6: Is that what his response was? I didn't see that.

00:38:41
Speaker 7: I meme and like, I don't.

00:38:42
Speaker 4: I think this person's just gonna stay anonymous. Kind of kind of intriguing, isn't it? Who is the anonymous person?

00:38:49
Speaker 7: I just found it like a week or so ago, and I immediately called Drews. Are you aware of this?

00:38:54
Speaker 4: It started a long time ago, but it has really picked deep steam.

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00:39:35
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00:39:38
Speaker 5: Let's go to Hunter, Hunter, Go ahead, Hunter, Hey, Hunter, Hey, Matt.

00:39:43
Speaker 13: So I wanted since with all of Billy Donovan talk, I wanted to remind everyone why Mitch Barnhardt could not wait for Billy Donovan that Friday. The swim coach allegation story was coming out, so he needed a hire to bury that story by Friday. That's how we ended up with Mark Pope.

00:40:04
Speaker 6: Well, I appreciate the call.

00:40:05
Speaker 4: There have obviously been people over the years that have made that argument. Only Mitch would know the timing of it. But yeah, who's next.

00:40:15
Speaker 7: Let's go to Willis, Willis.

00:40:17
Speaker 6: I got about a minute, go ahead.

00:40:20
Speaker 4: I just want to thank Brett Setzer for calling out the administration.

00:40:25
Speaker 9: I think you did.

00:40:26
Speaker 6: The other people need to step up.

00:40:28
Speaker 13: Also, I want to touch on I hope North Carolina does not hire Billy Donovan.

00:40:32
Speaker 8: Because that's who we need.

00:40:33
Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean listen, people can get on the media. There's two ways things happen. People in media say it, or people in important places say it. The media did it with Mitch. Now it's up for people in important places. Brett Setzer did it, and now we'll see if somebody else does as well. Let me go over a couple things real quick for this week. I am off tomorrow and next week just taking a few days vacation. Billy is gonna be on the show tomorrow at various points. I'm letting Ryan drive for a couple of days, Drew is gonna drive for a couple of days. We're even gonna let Billy drive for a day, and then Jack Pilgrim and Nick Rouse will be on various days as co host so we'll hear a bunch of variety of voices, and we'll have people on here who know what they're talking about as opposed to just me and Ryan.

00:41:26
Speaker 7: I look forward to having Jack and Nick on because they're kind of morning the weeds of some stuff we've been talking about.

00:41:30
Speaker 6: So be watching for that.

00:41:31
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00:41:39
Speaker 6: We got a lot of specials going on, and I'll be back after that.

00:41:44
Speaker 4: So I've got like I'll be gone for six shows and then I'll be back for quite something.

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00:42:08
Speaker 4: All right, he's good at Arkansas and Arizona. Arizona, it's now only a seven and a half point favorite. Who you got.

00:42:14
Speaker 7: I'm still taking Arkansas to cover. I think Arizona wins. I'm taking Arkansas to cover.

00:42:17
Speaker 6: We're doing Texas.

00:42:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can never bet on Purdua. What's I don't know what the spread is. I don't seven and a half Texas covers.

00:42:25
Speaker 4: I like Textas, I like both Texas and Arkansas to cover, maybe even to both win, but certainly both to cover.

00:42:32
Speaker 6: I guess what Houston, Illinois is that right.

00:42:35
Speaker 3: And a half point favorite?

00:42:37
Speaker 6: I like Houston.

00:42:37
Speaker 7: I got Houston winner.

00:42:38
Speaker 6: They're on their home court, right it's at.

00:42:41
Speaker 3: Houston, Nebraska.

00:42:42
Speaker 6: Iowa.

00:42:42
Speaker 3: Nebraska is a one and a half point favorite.

00:42:44
Speaker 7: Give me Iowa, Iowa.

00:42:47
Speaker 6: I like the underdogs and except Houston. See you later. This has been the Kentucky Sports Radio Live and opening Day. Go Cats and go Reds. We'll see you later.