KSR - 2024-03-20- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk NCAA Tournament, UK vs. Oakland, and the city of Pittsburgh.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's right, March 20th here in Pittsburgh. We are in Shadyside, Drew Franklin. Shadyside. Specifically, a neighborhood called Friendship. Did you know that? I did not know. We are in Friendship, Pennsylvania. I didn't realize.

I just thought, so it's both Shadyside because we're shady, but it's also friendship because we're friends. I think Friendship is the neighborhood within Shady, and that's where we are. That's exactly right. 859-280-2287. The text machine is the Clark's puppet shop phone line. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-752524, in this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smidlisle of us. call TJ will make them pay. We are in Pittsburgh getting ready for the NCAA tournament.

Ryan is in Lexington at the KS Bar and Grill. Ryan, how are you? You'll be excited. They're putting up the big bracket banner out front. We speak right now. It's going up. The big bracket goes up today for the NCAA tournament. We've put that up now for four years.

It hasn't had the best luck, Shannon. But now this year's going to be different. The big bracket is going to give us big success. That's right. I'm looking forward to all. of March Madness. Hopefully it'll be a lot more exciting than that Virginia game last night, but this is my favorite time of the year. We'll talk about that later. Virginia should be put in detention for putting everyone through it. But we are here in Pittsburgh. You know, I looked for a place

for us, Drew, that would sort of give us all our needs. I wanted an Airbnb so because we could watch the games, right? And then I want it to be, you know, a neighborhood that look like there are things. Apparently there's coffee across the street. there's a popcorn store that's not very far away. Golden Retriever Museum. I passed that on my way in. There's a Golden Retriever Museum? I go check out the Golden's.

What does that mean? I don't know. We'll find out later. So it's like a museum is the best. It's a museum for dogs. This is what Google told me when I was checking out the neighborhood. Yeah, well, I'm not going to that. Ryan, that sounds absolutely awful. But we miss you here in Pittsburgh.

It would be great to have you here. I wanted to ask if your Airbnb has the bunk beds that we'll stay in in Pittsburgh. that one year. This is nice. Take up for me and say it's nice. Yeah, we start leaving you guys at home more often. I've got plenty of room. There's even like spare bedrooms where last night I wasn't loving a back situation.

I thought, I might go try another bed. There's just so much room. Yeah, we got all these beds. Lots of beds. Only one bathroom, but that's okay. It's all right. You know, it's friendship here in Shadyside. So I drove here yesterday, and before we get into basketball, just a little road trip stuff.

If you came from Kentucky to Pittsburgh, I did. I came from New York City to Pittsburgh. I would like to say the drive from New York City to Pittsburgh is, I think, the Guinness Book of World Records' longest drive in America. The state of Pennsylvania, Shannon, it is not past Kansas, but it has now entered the chat for worst drive that you could have. First of all, why is Pennsylvania so long? Why is it so long? Why is it made the way it is? It takes forever.

It's all boring and straight, and I feel like I'm still on it right now, Ryan Limith. Well, we got a little taste of it when we did our Pennsylvania tour, you know, stopping at all the kind of the cool places. But we went up and down. Like we went around the roads. This is just the Pennsylvania turnpike straight, and it has almost no exits. Like they don't even, you know how I like to stop at exits, Drew and like go places? Here they make you stop at their exits, like just on, you know, like they're a little.

What do they call those? Just off the side of the highway. Off the side of the highway. And I don't want to go to those. Last I drove it, there were tolls too. They're like, you're not getting off here. Also, you have to give us money. Yes.

Well, now they do it automatically. So now I don't know. I don't know how they know who I am, Shannon. But I feel like I'm going to get a bill for $175 for driving down that road. You just take the same approach you do with parking tickets. Just don't pay it. Just don't pay what they're going to do about it. Don't pay it.

What are you going to do about it, Pennsylvania? I'm not giving you your turnpike money. You can just go away. I did make a mistake, and some of you all may have made this mistake before. So when you're driving down an interstate, Drew, you know how the interstate will split sometimes into two different interstate? And usually, Ryan, the interstate that you're on, wouldn't you say stay straight? and if you want to go on a different one,

you veer off in one of the directions, right? Yes, I think that would be the standard thing. There's a split on this interstate where to go straight, you have to take a hard right to keep on the one you're on. I'm like half paying attention, singing songs, you know how I am in the car, singing songs, like Mark Chestnut, brother jukebox, like just rolling.

And next thing I know, I'm going 30 miles in a wrong direction. I'm going 30 miles south and I realize, oh, you know, I've gone 30 miles in the wrong direction. So then, okay, I look at the map. How do I get back? And you have to drive through, I have to get off the road and drive through these country roads. One of the things you don't realize, Ryan, until you get off the main roads is how country Pennsylvania is. Yes. Yeah.

Like people think of Pennsylvania, I think is like Philly and Pittsburgh. But they got some country stuff here. I mean, the moment. Very rural. The moment you're off the road, turkey and chicken smells, Trump flags, right, like gun racks. I mean, all of a sudden, you're off the road. And, I mean, I'm used to that kind of thing. But then you're driving around, and it took forever and you get behind trucks.

There are so many Amish people up here. Yes. You went through Amish country. I mean, Amish people. And Amish people, Shannon, they own the roads. Of course, yeah. It's like, you don't, I mean, there's no deferential nature to the Amish folks. They're like, I'll go with the speed I'm going.

They're going to get in the fast lane. And yes, they're getting in the fast lane. Two Amish people will ride next to each other and take up every lane. Yeah, they're like, listen, we own this part of the country. You're just going to have to deal with it, Drew. So I had to, I sat behind Amish people, trucks, the smell of the, the chickens and turkeys. I mean, we've talked about this before.

There is no worse smell. And that, to me, is what Pennsylvania is. The side-by-side, they're trying to fix that. That street racing has gotten out of control. We've got to clean that up. But you're right about just rural Pittsburgh. It's like you've got the bookend cities and everything else. It's like, where in the heck am I?

I will say Pittsburgh, though. It's kind of its own breed, too. But we've had a lot of fun in this city in the past. You and I on separate trips did the U.S. open here. Yeah, that's right. Our radio show, this is like our fourth stop. I think. Yeah.

So once you got out of your map and then the part of the map you weren't supposed to be on, it's like we've got a home base here. So I was in the country and Ryan, I thought, you know what, I got to get something eat. It's almost dinner time. And so I was looking around like what are the places? And I saw something in a town and it was called Ryan, Bad Boys Bistro. All right, bad boys bistro.

That's like a perfect place to go. For great food and wild times. And I thought, you know what I'd like? I'd like some great food. and I'd like some wild times. So I pull in, the street I'm on, no one's on. Walk inside, Shannon, I'm the only person there. You're the only person there.

I was the only bad boy. I'd come to be there with fellow bad boys. No bad boys at bad boys. Bad boys, by the way, with a Z. All right? So like I'm getting it right now, yeah. I'm expecting it to be, what town is it in, Shannon, Bad Boys Bistro? Bedford.

Bedford. That's what it was. See, again, alliteration. Bad Boys Bistro and Bedford, right? Like, here we go. Walk in, no one's there. I was a little early. It was like 515.

I was like, that's okay. Bad boys aren't here yet. You know, by the time I'm here for a while, we'll get some bad boys. Sit down. Everything on the menu is like named after people. Right? And it's all people from like 30 years ago. So it's like the.

Arnold Schwarzenegger pork chop. I see the menu. Yeah, the Hellraiser's on here. You got the menu there, right? So it's like the Mike Tyson fried pickles and all this stuff. And then you're looking at the menu, there's like, in there like a Donald Trump steak or something like that on there? Yeah, there is. Yeah.

There's a Donald Trump steak. I knew I knew I was in the country. Like I said, there's Trump flags everywhere. And when you, in Bad Boys Bistro, they have pictures. of all these people they consider bad boys. Trump's on there. He's a bad boy. So I sit down and here's where I am.

I'm sitting there looking at it going, I don't want a steak. So I'm going to pass on that. I think I get like, I don't know what it was, like the Scott Bayo burger or something like that. And so it comes. And while I'm sitting there,

two men come in. And I'm thinking, Ryan, here we go. Here's the bad boys. Fellow Bedford Bad Boys. Here we go. They sit down. I hear him talking to each other, and this is what one man says to the other. He goes, well, I ain't really feeling steak, but I feel like I should order the Trump, you know, because.

And it's like I wanted to hear what the explanation was. And he goes, yeah, yeah, we probably ought both order the Trumps. And I was thinking to myself, would you order an item of food just because it was named for someone that you liked. So like if there was like if there was a stone, if you went to a restaurant and it was a stone temple pilot's chicken sandwich or like Darius Rucker ice cream or something, would you order it just so you could feel the connection to the person who'll never even know that place exists to order it? Would you do that? I was about to give a hard no and then I remember it. It hasn't been a week since I bought Reed Shepherd's pizza at Donados. So I guess I'm guilty. And I only wanted that

because Reed Shepherd was attached to it. So you did? I'm completely guilty. All right. Reed Shepherd is my Donald Trump. Okay. So would you do that, Shannon? You know, I think I might.

You know, like I'm looking here at the Donald. It comes with your choice of two sides for only $24. Oh, it wasn't. But there were other people. You could have had the Arnold or the Slice Stallones. Yeah, the pretty boy Floyd, the Ozzy. See, like, okay, there's the Ozzie burger. There's an Ozzie.

I think I would get the Ozzie burger because I like Ozzy. It's like they all. made it for the stars of America in the late 80s and early 90s, and then they threw in Donald Trump, too, as well. The Paradise City Burger, they got the Guns and Roses burger. I think I'll probably get it. I'm looking at the menu. They have a Matt Foley burger, the Chris Farley character on SNL. It says a divorced 35-year-old man living down by the river. I wouldn't know what it is. It says nothing about food. It says served with pickles. It's all it says. I would think that Matt, you would get the Folsom Prison Blues. I almost did. What's crazy as I was like, well, that's a cool sounding name.

for it. Well, why are we sitting here? Let's go. I want the back folly of pickles. It said great food wild times. It was okay food and the times were pretty calm at the bad boys bistro in Bedford. But I did want you to know, Ryan. I tried to like fit in with the locals. I was like, hey guys, what's going on? I didn't go like bad boys for life or anything, but then they really weren't feeling it. So I just drove on to Pittsburgh. I'm sure they talked, looked to each other, looked at you, like, why is he here? He is nothing. like a bad boy he is not like that well these two guys they were not bad boys either they were wearing like they were wearing that t-shirt that reed shepherd wore in the donados video yeah they were wearing that

and so it was a good start to my thing to my trip here in pennsylvania feel like good vibes are good to start it off hopefully it's it's a long week well it better be a long it better be a long week we're here on tuesday night we're leaving on sunday it better be a long week uh kentucky's open practice is at 3 o'clock today, 2.45, something like that. Drew and I are going to go, Ryan. This is the first time I've been to one of these in a long time in the first and second round, and I'm looking forward to it. They're always kind of cool. I mean, usually they're open to the public, and a lot of Kentucky fans have worked their way into these things, or the elementary school nearby will come and watch them practice. I always kind of enjoyed these open practices for the tournament.

I did too, actually. I mean, they don't take them seriously, but I always think it's kind of a cool way to see the vibe everybody goes, and then they'll have the press. conferences. That's all this afternoon. I'm going to film some stuff. What'll happen is I'll live film some of it and then someone Drew will tell me to turn my phone off and stop, but I'll give 10 or 15 minutes of it before that happens. What's your thing about asking for forgiveness? Yeah, no, you beg for forgiveness, you don't ask for permission. So I'll do that today so people can see a little bit of what's going on. Yeah, you're right about that open practice, though, even though it's a layup line and half court shots, at first, you're feeling the energy of the NCAA tournament. The logos are everywhere. You've

Got to drink out of the Power Aid Cubs. Cal and the players are focused. It starts right there with that open practice for me as a fan. So, yeah, this afternoon around that time, I'll probably do like a Twitter live video, maybe Instagram. It's KY Sports Radio if you do that. But be looking for that because they'll make me shut it down very soon after I do it. That's kind of how they always roll. 859-280-2287.

The text machine is 772-754. We'll try to get Shannon to stop looking at the Bad Boys Bistro menu here. You want to go, don't you? I do. I want to get that Paradise City Burger. Yeah, I know you do. It's okay. They were bad boys.

They were just rocking it. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSR. That's right. Bedford Bad Boys here. I'm going to tell you something that's crazy. This is absolutely crazy.

Text machine 772-74525-254. There's somebody writing on the text machine. This building we're in, Ryan, has two apartments in it. Okay. There's somebody writing who says, they're in the other apartment. No way. They described where it is,

and this is where it is. They literally were like, yes, this person says, Matt, I think we're in the same building you are. It's right across the street from, and he says where it is, and that's it. And there's nothing else in here. There's only one other apartment ride. That means

think about the coincidence of that. The person in the other apartment is not only a Kentucky fan, I mean, I guess that's not crazy, but that they're listening to this show, and they're in this apartment. Hello there next door. I feel like they're having the same experience you did yesterday with Stephen A. Smith. They can hear you screaming through the walls. No, they probably can. Yeah, because I can hear they're kind of just rustling around a little bit. These walls are very, very thin. So, hello, everyone, bang on the wall

if you're listening. Isn't that insane? It is. Let's just tear down these walls and make this BBN headquarters here in friendship. Of all the places to stay in Pittsburgh, they're staying in the one right connected to where you guys are. We're 10 or 15 minutes away from the arena. Yeah, and that's right, It's just, it's room one and room two in this building. There's only, yeah, there's only two rooms in this. Wow. That is, that is. Blue got in.

Yeah, 859-280-2287. The Oakland coach, Ryan, says yesterday that he loved the matchup with Kentucky, that he said of the teams that they might have played, this is the one they wanted to play. And his answer was, we knew that would be a prime time slot, and that's good. And secondly, this is a team that if we play well, we can actually beat.

Now, that doesn't bother me. I think coaches should say things like that if that's how they feel. But what do you think? Do you like that he comes out and says we can beat them? I was a little surprised coming from a guy who's been coaching there for 40 years, you know, to come out and say something like that. Like you're almost your poking the bear and don't be careful what you wish for. You think it's a good matchup with Kentucky.

You make your run out of the gym. You play that zone. Kentucky knocks down six three-pointers in a row, you may be wishing you hadn't matched up against Kentucky. His argument was, Drew, that if you play a lot of big-time teams, they just overwhelm you with size and there's nothing you can do. And he basically said, their big guys don't score. I mean, he says that. He goes, they're big guys don't score. So if we can make it to where they just don't make every shot, we have a chance. I heard the comments. I kind of hated them. I'm not worried about the game at all. If you can't beat Oakland, we got much bigger problems

than Oakland. But I did hate how he said what you just said. He was like, because it's Kentucky and they don't have any post presence, we know we just have to guard the three. And I said, crap. I don't want them to do that. I don't like that at all. I don't like that. He's saying that out loud. Now, at the same time as Oakland and Kentucky is way more

talented, and that shouldn't be an issue. But I mean, it does seem to have a pretty good plan and play. You can't really argue that strategy. Well, it is interesting. If you're a small school team, you probably think, like, if you get Anthony Davis and you don't have a person like that, there's really nothing you can do.

That's what he said. He said mid-majors lose because they run into power teams that have a big man. And we don't have a big man. Not the one that scores. But we don't have one that scores on the block. So, I mean, I get his argument. Do you think, Ryan, it fires up our team that he says something like that? Well, I hope so. I mean, I'm sure they're going to see it because it's everywhere this morning what they said about, you know, likes to match up with Kentucky.

Okay. And I hope it fires up our big guys. He acts like the big guys are just a non-factor. Well, go out and do something. Just go have a little offense action going on then. Our guys will get asked about it today. They will. I mean, they'll get asked about it at the thing, and it'll be interesting to hear what they say. I go back to in 2015 when West Virginia was like, we're going to give them their first loss.

And Kentucky beat them by a thousand. You know, hopefully you don't need motivation for the tournament. But I do wonder in a game like this, is this a way to get our guys? attention is the fact they say something like that. If I was Cal, I'd try to use it. I would say if the players just saw it on their own, realistically, they'd probably go, who's Greg Campy? Where's Oakland again? If this were the Sweet 16 and it's being said, then, yeah, all right, we're getting together and it's on. But I mean, again, this, it's, oh, this should not be, you shouldn't need motivation or it shouldn't be an issue as a 16-point favorite

in the first round. Does it worry you that they have the Horizon player of the year? He averages 20 points a game. And they have two. dudes who are amongst the top 20 in the country and three-pointers made in the season. So he basically have three guys who can shoot like lights out. Does that worry you at all? A little because guys get hot, but at the same time not to be repetitive, I was told last summer, this is Kentucky, this is, we're Kentucky good again. Oakland should not even be near that conversation of playing with Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Right, does that worry you? They got all these guys who could light it up.

because probably, you know, history is shown one of those two guys will have be just unconsciously hot and just have a great shooting night. I just accept that. That's probably going to happen. All right? Well, then to stop everybody else. If one guy's going to go off, just don't let everybody go off. And that guy, they shoot so much that when they're a little cold, they shoot them out of games.

They do. So, I mean, this is still the 140th team in Ken Palm. Yeah, there's a world you could win this game by 30, right? I mean, there's a world that you just come out and they're cold and you just run them off the floor. That's why I think it's so important what I said about A&M, and I don't want to look too far back, but this happened in St. Peters is if you give them just a couple minutes of confidence, they flip a switch and that logo they're afraid of and that crowd they're afraid of, suddenly they're up eight points, and they're like, I'm not afraid of this team,

and their shots start going in, they start filling themselves, they start telling the fans to shut up. I think it's going to be like that every game, especially with this young Kentucky team. Don't let the team punch first because that's when you tighten up and they start feeling themselves. You are the big guy. Which is why you would make the argument start your best guys so that you come out right at the beginning and put a punch on them. Don't let them have that feeling. Yeah. I forgot to say one thing and we'll take your calls.

A couple open lines. 859, 280, 2287. Ryan, I also, just as like a time breaker on the trip, I stopped in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Okay. Do you know what's in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania? I do not know. Lehigh University. Right?

Okay. And I saw that it was off the road there, and I was like, you know what? I want a hoodie from Lehigh. So I pulled off, I stopped. Bethlehem is a weird town. Like, I need to read up more on it. The houses are all like, they share walls, Shannon. Like, think about that, houses that share walls.

I find that sort of odd. in a city. In other words, an apartment. Nicole's like row houses, I think? Yeah, I think they're row houses. That's right. And the hill, it's very hilly, very hilly. It reminds me of Morgantown.

You remember how hilly Morgantown, West Virginia was? It was like that. So I go to the campus bookstore. They have the worst colors, Lehigh. They're colors like brown and peak in like burnt yellow. It's a horrible color. But I get a sweatshirt. I pay for it.

I'm walking out. And this guy goes, are you Matt Jones? No way. What? And it was a listener from KSR who goes to Lehi. No, the Blue got in. I mean, literally. Just at Lehii High University, a KSR listener who's like, man, what are you doing here?

And I was like, I don't really know why I'm here. What are you doing here? Like, why are we here? I wonder what I got here. You had on that Lehigh shirt. Well, I stopped. I was so excited about it. I stopped at the gas station, change shirts and put the Lehi shirt on.

That's what I did. I'm in tournament mode. I get it. That's right. We'll take your calls right after this. KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney.

Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. What a great song, Shannon. Oh, yeah. I love Mark Chestnut.

Mark Chestup. I was talking with Marty Smith about Mark Chestnut on Twitter last night. Yeah. I mean, Brother Jukebox is a great song. I actually play. to sleep with the last night. Sister wine,

mother freedom, father time. You don't seem to know as much. I'm admiring your, you're having a little moment here with Mark. I just like Mark. Whatever it takes. Like Shannon does too. We need to leave you alone.

Shannon. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's like he's the kind of country singer you don't see anymore. He just looked like a regular slub. He was like he had a belly, Shannon.

You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. I want my country singers to have a belly. Yeah. Now everybody's got to have a thing. Like everybody's got to like, like, you know, everybody's got to have some kind of look. That just looked like a guy that would hang out at the bad boys' bistro

and then at the side and then play in the bar and just kind of do his thing. And I like that. I feel like the older countries, 90s country, they use different instruments. What's the little sliding guitar? It's the slide guitar. That's what it's called. We need to bring that back. Yeah.

I mean, I think Tower Childers still uses it. I guess I'm thinking more of the new guys. Yeah. But I mean, I don't think you see a lot of that with Luke Brian. Yeah. 859-28027. And the people that are from Kentucky, they are in apartment one, and we are an apartment two in this building.

And there's only two apartments. Isn't that crazy? And they're listening to the show right now. I figured out the right beside you. I mean, they're right over there. How did they know we were here, by the way? We're probably allowed, I would guess. Yeah.

I mean, probably the car with the Mitch please bumper sticker in the back of it. Yeah. Maybe that's a big blue chance we did this morning. We're also probably a giveaway. That's how you and I get up. We're doing Fade this, by the way, at the arena today, so until they kick us out. One person writes, Matt, I'm going to be at the bar today with the Sweet 16. I hope to see Ryan.

Are you going to give out the little Draft King's basketballs? We start that tomorrow. Did you see that, Ryan? They have these little Draft Kings basketballs they're going to give out? I haven't seen him yet. I've been here this morning. I need to go down and check them out. I haven't seen them yet.

Are you going to go at all to the Sweet 16? Ryan today? I may go to the Great Crossing game tonight. It's the last game tonight, but I'll be here this afternoon watching a couple of games with our buddy Darrell doing a little podcasting. That's right. Also, if you are at the bar,

we will show the games at the bar for the Sweet 16 today, and then obviously we will have all of it tomorrow. Shannon, we'll talk about this more in the second hour, but I got the lines, the old men lines for the game and put it up on Twitter. Did you like that there are lines for the game? I love it. create these game lines and they just create them out of thin air right i mean do they have any

basis on in there just completely out of thin air i don't know how they would have any idea what they are but they do one person writes matt are you is part of you worried because the oakland coach has so much confidence what do you think are you worried because they have so much confidence uh no i mean they should have confidence i hope that my team has the same amount of confidence. And in that case, they will whoop their ass because my team should be much more talented at basketball. Yeah, I mean, I think that's the part that throws me off a little, Ryan, is to hear so much confidence from a coach, you know, normally they'd be like, oh, they're so good, we'll just have to play our best. But to hear that confidence, does it not worry

you just a little that he has all that? No, because, I mean, they split with Northern Kentucky. You know, this is the team that Kentucky should be able to manhandle. So if the coach is going to talk to smack a little bit, just let him talk. It's not going to make a difference. All right. Fine. I guess if you're fine with it, I guess I am. Who's up first?

Francisco. Francisco, how are you? Yes, just fine. I've got advice for Coach Cal. I think he should start the lineup. I think the lineup should be Wagner, Dillingham, Reed, Reefs. and on the end so. And they should start out in the zone defense.

And they should, I'll have an advice for Cal. They should do rebounding with two hands, rebound with two hands, and fight for the loose balls all the time. Go on the floor if you have to. Die for the loose balls. And use two hands rebound. I like it.

All right. So, Drew, do you like Francisco's pointers to Cal Perry? Appreciate the call, Francisco. might tweak his lineup a little bit. They do have a pretty strong four. That's their star player. I think it's going to be a big, a do game, maybe even Justin Edwards having to play a little big, but I don't know that we want to guard on Tray Town. So you're nay on Francisco's friendly tips. Everything else is good. I just wouldn't put all four guards in to start the game. Yeah, your nay, Francisco's friendly tips. I think Francisco makes a lot of sense, and they do need

to rebound with two hands and fight for the ball. So I like his advice for Cala Perry. I like it too. I would rather, I say this with love, but I don't. rather have the Francisco's lineup to start than cows. I know I got all my best scores out there. So I'm pro, and he's right about two hands on the rebounds. We, especially our bigs, Aaron Bradshaw's terrible about it. Two hands, two hands. Ryan, what do you think?

I think there's a lot of people that agree with Francisco about his lineup. You know, put the scores out there and let's roll. Let's just run with them. Francisco, if we win, just so you know, he's already gone. I'd like to hear a Francisco friendly tip before every game. I like that. I like that's a lot. I think so.

I feel like if we figure out Francisco's friendly, we need to get what's Francisco's friendly what for alliteration purposes, friendly suggestions. I'll say feedback, but that's not good. Fodder. Not feedback because it. Fodder's good. Francisco's friendly fodder.

It's not as good as Goose as Givens, but it's close. What is? I love goose. excuse gives that's such a cordy name though you all both love it who's next marvin marvin how are you marvin wait a listen i appreciate the call i know i like to play up my you know fish out of water but i i can handle my like i'm i've grown up around country places i'm not worried about it i'm much more uncomfortable drew in like a high class place than i'm am like a redneck joint.

Yeah, I mean, you're from, you're from Middlesbrough. Yeah, I don't want to like, like a, like a Michelin three star restaurant is much more uncomfortable for me than the bad boys bistro was. Plus, how, how country can it be if it's a bistro, you know? I mean, I don't know if that was a bistro. I mean, the sign had flames is the logo. But I agree that you are more comfortable in the roadside truck stop than the fine dining. I would argue I like those kind of places, certainly more than Shannon and Ryan,

and their hoity-to-to-dy nature. You enjoy that with me somewhat. I like everything. You put me anywhere. I'll figure it out. Ryan, are you mad that Antonio Reeves did not make one of the All-American teams? I think it's a little bit of a slight, to be honest. I mean, you were in the running for SEC Player of the Year, made first-team all-S-C-C,

and you're not even on one of the first three teams. You're the leading score or one of the best teams in the country, and you're not on one of the first three All-American teams? I think it was a slight for sure. I think it's ridiculous. I mean, leading score of the Cal era was two free throws away from me in 50, 40, 90. He shot 60% at the rim, 50% on other twos, and over 40% on threes. Only one player in college basketball on a Power 5 team.

has done that since 2010 and it was Kimball Walker. And you're telling me with those numbers, Shannon, you can't put that dude on one of the three All-American teams. And he plays at Kentucky? Yeah. That's ridiculous. Now, this is the AP vote, right? So we're talking about media, which, what do they know?

So it comes down to a bunch of... Well, it just goes to show you got to, like, like, Dilley Dam and Shepard get all the attention. And so because he's quiet, Shannon, he doesn't get the... but the numbers he deserves it. Most consistent player on the team, I mean, you give him the ball in any given moment, especially

at the end of the game, I have the confidence that it's going in. And I think that it's crazy that he wasn't included in I think the first two teams. The thing that's nuts to me is for a dude that plays like him, his shooting percentages are what's so astounding,

Drew, like it's not, I mean, forget about his raw number of points, which are still the highest of the Caliparriera. He has, like, Jamal Murray was the leading score before him of the Calpare. And I love Jamal Murray, but his percentages were much worse than Reeves because he shot more. For Reeves to score the way he does and do it while shooting such a high percentage is unbelievable. I was shocked when that, I saw that on Twitter that he had been snubbed. I just assumed he'd be a lock for one of the three. I understand maybe not put him on first team. There's some good guards. When I saw the first team,

I think you could leave him off. But he should at least be second. Right. He should have been in one of the three for sure. I couldn't believe that happened, especially when he was so close to that coveted 50, what is it? 54. 540-90, yeah. Just missing a free throw there at the end and a technical free throw. It cost him from getting that, I think, because that's a rare feat to pull off. Yeah, I mean, like, that's a Steph Curry feet. Yeah.

You know, and he just barely missed it. And he just barely missed it. I just, he definitely, definitely should have made it. Clear-cut Hero Energy Drink, or not, excuse me, sports. sports drink, not energy drink. When it comes to staying hydrated, don't settle for a mediocre performance. Get a clear-cut hero. It's a hydration drink that's changing the game, six flavors, only five grams of sugar and 25 calories. They got a great blend of electrolytes, carbs, perfect, keep you fueled, focused, and feeling like a champion. And in this March, bet on blue with a cosmic blue raz.

It's clear-cut hero at your local Kroger or on Amazon. I can't believe there's somebody in this, like, like, other apartment is Kentucky people. Apparently, they're from Middlesboro. Their family are, oh, they're not. Their family are osmuses. That is very random. Osmases. The osmases. We're not even like near the arena is what makes it so random. Middlesboro, Kentucky KSR fans in this building. In friendship. In friendship. Part of shady side. We've got to hang out later. We'll get this dubbed tomorrow.

We'll take a break. Be right back. KSR. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Never heard this song, I don't think. Shannon, what's it called? Uneasy rider, Charlie Daniels. Yeah, that guy mentioned that.

For some reason, I don't know this one, but that's all right. 859-280-2287. People are giving us restaurant recommendations. If you have any in Shadyside or close to there, let me know. Most of the stuff people pick is downtown, and we'll spend a lot of time down there. But here in Shadyside, it'd be nice to know where to go. Can I give you a shady statistic? Sure.

From our friend Corey Price. In its history, Kentucky has had 19 upperclassmen average 20 points a game, and 16 of them were an All-American. See, he should have made it. I hate that for Antonio because he deserves it. He's played well, and he's been, what an improvement. He deserves it. He joins Jim Andrews and Kevin Grevy as the snubs.

Well, I can't believe Grievey was, though. uh francisco's friendly fixes shannon what about that that's good i like that one yeah i like it yeah as long as we get up every day every game that's all right so you got to get bring it friday for the game on saturday assuming we win francisco's friendly fixes uh i'll tell you what needs to be fixed shanananan they should never let virginia into the nca tournament oh that was absolute disaster brutal watching that last night the over under at one point during live betting on draft kings was 107 i've never seen it that low before first of all we you can't Kept out Kreme Abdul-Jabbar for that.

Can you imagine what it would have been like last night if Indiana State played instead of them? How much fun that would have been? The whole country would have been watching it. The whole country would have been watching. We had to watch Virginia. After the game, Tony Bennett said he might change his style right. He might, he says, you think?

No, that's what he said. He said it may not work because he said he's having a hard time recruiting kids today to play that style. Yeah. You scored 14 points. at halftime. I think nobody wants to play in that style. He said college basketball back 40 years

with that game last night. You know who almost, but remember, Reed Shepard almost went there. He was on his list, yeah, that was his number two. It was the number two. It was like Kentucky or Virginia. What if he had been there? They might have scored 19 points then last night.

But I had some steals. I just, when they put them in the field, everyone was mad because it knocked out cream and we knew they shouldn't be in it. But last night was even, worse than it was worse. Anyone could have imagined it would have been. Colorado.

I think they should have like a 20-year ban as a school. Let me just give you their last five NCAA tournaments. All right, I want you to think about this, Ryan. Five years ago, they lost in the first round of Maryland-Baltimore County by 20. That's what people don't forget. Remember, they ran them off the court. They didn't just lose. They crushed them.

Then the next year, they won a national championship. then the next year they lost to say uh excuse me to uh to to to ohio they were a four seat ohio beat him as a 13 then last year they lost to firm it and then this year they lose by 25 in the playing game i mean ryan they should not be allowed to play in the nca tournament they should be banned i didn't realize this they've not won a game since they won one at all no no no And they didn't win one the year before. The heck of an outlier they have.

I know. It's absolutely. Did you imagine being fans of that team that wins a national title? Well, that would be interesting. Well, first of all, you got to remember you go back. They almost lost in the first round again. Do you remember that? They had a controversial call against Auburn, too, later in the tournament.

They almost lost in the first round again the next year. I can't remember who it was against, but I think I could be wrong. about this, but I think that game came down to the very end. Well, I'm saying the year they won the title. They barely even got to make that run. I'm saying to you they almost lost that year in the first round. And then that you're right. They're a controversial three.

There's a controversial call against Auburn. So, anyway, who's up next? Shano. I believe they also hit some miracle shot maybe against Purdue or something to win, too. But go ahead. Hey, guys, it is a shady ray kind of day. I've got my timber captains on sitting outside and joining the show. And just wanted to say Francisco, I'm on board with that.

Why get punched in the face right from the start and have a couple turnovers and get discouraged and let the other team, you know, get that spark. Yeah, especially in games like this. Especially in games like this. Yeah, you guys. Appreciate the call. Enjoy your shade arrays, guys. I mean, like, when you have a team that you're better than, you've got to, Drew, come out and just knock them out of the game immediately, right?

Those Oakland players, I mean, they can say what they want in the media. When they go to bed tonight, they're thinking, oh, my God, I'm in the Institute of Play tournament. Oh, my God, we're playing Kentucky. On CBS. When they get to the court, they should be terrified seeing John Caliperi, the Kentucky uniform, and the fans everywhere. With 10 minutes into the first half, they shouldn't be popping their jerseys. and I hope they're not, but that has happened in past games of similar circumstances

where why is this team having fun and having all the confidence, and Big Bad Kentucky is so tight. So I'm more concerned mentally with how this will go. As long as Kentucky shows up loose, they should run this team out of the gym with talent. Ryan, did you know the Major League Baseball season started at 6 a.m. this morning? Is that the Dodgers game over in Berea that started at 6 a.m.? It counted. Did you know that? This was a regular season game in Korea.

this morning, it counted. It was the first game in the season. The Dodgers won five to two. The Soul Series is, they are actual real games. And I bet, Shannon, you all had no idea about that. Actually, you know, I'm a baseball fan. I did know. I woke up this morning and checked the score.

It was in the third inning. And, yeah, so there's other, I guess, spring training games going on this week. This is not a spring training game. This is a real game. I know that. But I'm saying the rest of the regular season doesn't start for like another week from now. Yeah. But yeah, it was kind of cool to see them.

starting it off. So hey, I'm morning with the game. So Hey, O'Tonnie hit a foul ball so hard it broke the roof. Saw that. I haven't seen that yet. No, it broke the roof. I don't know how. And his wife went crazy.

I think his wife thought if you put a hole in the roof, you got extra points or something. Extra money for them. But he put a hole in the roof of the stadium with a foul ball. If this was your team, like you're passionate about them, would you want to be getting up at 3 a.m.? I mean, if it's not going to be a home game, Would it matter to you that it's a If it were the Reds And they were playing at 6 a.m.

I would have gotten up and watched it But I mean would you be against that or is that a cool experience to get up and do that? Assuming home playing in your own stadiums not option I think you'd rather play in the continental United States in your home game But I mean I guess the Dodgers though in Padres like they're all fake fans anyway right They're in California that's true what do they know you know they're just like The London NFL game can be fun. I was wondering if this kind of has that. It's just weird that it starts a week before the rest

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