KSR - 2024-08-07- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk all the latest news, Pitbull Stadium, and most disappointing players at Kentucky.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Actually, they did not. They are trying to even up the men's volleyball semifinal against Poland. I think Poland apparently has the best volleyball team, Ryan. Did you know that? I did not know that. Thanks for that Scouting Report. Yeah, that's what I'm here to tell you is about Polish volleyball. 772-745254 is the text machine.

One person writes, Matt, I've been to European McDonald's and it's all Europeans. I had a friend tell me you should go eat where the locals do and all the locals to me look like they were in McDonald's. It's the truth. First of all, they don't fast food. I only saw three American fast food restaurants in Europe. Only three and there were 50 of them, 50 of them total. There's a McDonald's in every nice part of town. Tons of KFC.

Yeah. But then the one that shocked me is Burger King. Really? They love Burger King. They love Burger King more than we do. So like never saw Wendy's, never saw like a subway kind of place. But McDonald's, KFC and Burger King, huge. Did you go into McDonald's?

I'm wondering if it's the same product or different products. Different products. They're not allowed to use some of the stuff we use on beef, like some of the, what's the word I'm looking for? Preservatives. Preservatives and some of the. In Europe, a lot of those are banned. So I ate a hamburger. It tastes different.

It's not, I don't know if I thought it was better or worse, it tastes different. But because of that, they got a lot more selections of everything else. Now, their Diet Coke doesn't have our mojo. No, it doesn't. It doesn't. No, it doesn't. No, the McDonald's, I went in thinking, all right, I'm going to be saved by McDonald's Diet Coke, not the same.

No. Our McDonald's Diet Coke, maybe again, it might be what they're, like, Maybe the sweetener isn't allowed, but you're right, Ryan, it doesn't taste this thing. We were just craving a Diet Coke. We were there, went across the street doing McDonald's, and it's like it almost tasted like it was like extra sweet. They don't have Diet Coke. They drink Coke zero. And it doesn't taste the same either.

No. It's a different, it's good, but it's not. We're better at soft drinks here in case you were. America's number one drew on. USA. USA. All right. Let's go over a couple of news things here.

before we go back to the phones. The SEC is likely to adopt this week an official policy that will require football and basketball teams to before the game tell you who's hurt and who's not. They will have to reach and release an official list of who's out and who's playing similar to the way pro sports are. The rationalization for this is basically gambling because, and the perfect example is when Will Levis didn't play. I mean, the Will Levis situation,

is a perfect example of why this is the rule. South Carolina a few years ago, it leaks out to a couple people that Will Levis is likely to not play. UK doesn't announce it for like 12 hours and the line moved exponentially in Vegas as it should have. We went from like seven point favorites to maybe one point favorite. We ended up losing the game obviously. But they're basically going to say you have to tell us Thursday or Friday and it is what

it is at that point. I think it's a good rule. Cow will hate that rule. Stoops will probably hate that. I don't like to talk about injuries, but now it looks like like Drew, they're going to have to. Yeah, I like it, one, from a work perspective, it makes our job easier as we're trying to get things ready before a game. We'll know who's officially in and out, but I just think it's good overall, not just for gambling. Remember, there might even been that live at Levis situation.

It gets to where teams will put them out there and tweet a photo and almost really try to trick people into thinking they're going to play. So I'm glad it's finally going to pro route. Well, we'll know exactly who will be on that field when a game's kicked out. And there will be apparently fines if they believe that you said somebody could play who couldn't. Right. So, like, if you're like, let's use a Levis situation. Like, if you didn't say Levis and the other team believe Levis was going to start,

and then you start the second guy, there'll be a fine with that. So, like, that's exactly the way it is in pro sports. And they enforce them in pro sports. So, Ryan, we'll see if they do it here. When Rich Brooks was here, he did it every time. But he has that NFL background. You know, that's just what they do in the NFL. He did it religiously.

And then Mark Stoops came here, and I think he's one of the guys that likes to play a little gamemanship. I think he's going to take that away from him. I don't think he's going to be able to, he's going to be able to do that anymore. I didn't cover Brooks, but wouldn't he just get up there and just read it right away? He would. He would do it and playing. And he was honest with all of them.

Yep, just like they do in the NFL. He'd come out and say this guy, this guy, this guy, out, out, boom. Then he'd go into the news card every time. Next thing, Paris High School. Yeah. Have you ever been to Paris High School? Oh, many, many times. Three hounds.

Who's the most famous Paris high school athlete? Alvin Sims played. To Louisville, right? Went to Louisville, yeah. Ches Marks. Chas Marks went on the Moorhead State team that played with Ricky Minard. They went to the NCAA tournament and beat Louisville. Okay.

That's two. That's better than most people. Well, maybe they will have lots of new players because they have just built a new football field, and it is orange. Yes, bright orange. Bright. It's not kind of orange. It's really orange.

It is bright, bright orange. Now, I saw it, and I, you know. It's far. First of all, those are their school colors. Yeah, orange and black. It's a little much, don't you think? Like, it's a little, and plus this is Kentucky, and I know it's their school colors, but like pretty orange, Drew.

I don't know. Yeah, I mean, Boise has the famous one that's blue, but that's a lot lighter on the eyes than this one. This is almost like got some radiation in it. Just looking at a photo, you've got to squint a little bit. Just to even look at the field. It does feel like you'd have to see a dermatologist

if you spend too much time on it. I don't know if they like it. Maybe they do. That's their school colors. It is an aggressive change from a green football field. It is an aggressive orange. Do you think that might be a trend where, you know, Middlesbrough might do theirs in yellow or the other schools?

Well, I mean, I'm sure. Okay, the reasoning is, like, the reason there do it is exactly what's happening right here which is there we're talking about right so like we wouldn't be talking about paris high schools football field otherwise so i get it it gives you an unique like thing to hang your hat on i get that too but it's just hideous isn't it's bright it's very bright it's that it's that like puke inside of a pumpkin or it's like it's not the orange you can sit with and i i think that makes it harder they've got a lot of football tradition and they won a couple state titles in the early 80s and

I think there's been a concerted effort to try to get some excitement back into the Paris football program, and I guess this is one way they're going to try to do it. If they get used to it, they'll have an advantage because I think other teams will be like, what the heck am I playing on right now? They're going to be like, why am I playing on the surface of the sun? I bet it gets hot in this summer, too. It kind of reminds me of those Louisville, whatever color they went with for the Final Four. Oh, yeah.

Infrared. Yeah, yeah. Well, good luck to Paris, and maybe we'll make a lot. trip there at some point. And then finally, before we go back to phones, Florida International. All right. Again, I don't know if this is a good idea, but it's making us talk about it. What do you know about Florida International? It's down in the Miami area, Fort Lauderdale, Miami area. Okay, good job. You know what conference they're in? No idea. Yeah, I don't either. Are they in Conference USA, maybe? Anyway, they, like a lot of teams, decided to rename their

football stadium and they went to sell it to a corporate sponsor and they sold it to pit bull mr worldwide the single so it will be pit bull stadium no it won't i'm not lying to you it is pit bull stadium and he is a great as part of it not he will also once a year play a post game concert at a Florida International game. But Florida International is now playing at Pitbull Stadium. Shannon, love it, hate it. I would lean love it. I think it's kind of cool.

He paid, what was it, $1.2 million? He paid $1.2 million for it. And he gets to sell his vodka as the official vodka of pit bull stadium. They have official vatkas at Florida. They do now. Hey, you put $1.2 million down. You can sell whatever you want there. Or if Ms. Barnard will ever get to the point that he has an official vodka of the UK.

I doubt that. But for a team, I did look it up. They were four and eight, I think, the last two seasons. So for a team that's struggling like that, I mean, it's got to be cool for recruits, I would think. So it couldn't hurt. I got to think, Drew, Shannon hit a couple of things. First of all, they're giving you $1.2 million. You get a concert out of it every year.

Yeah. So you got a good chance of maybe selling that home game out for that game. We're talking about it. Recruits, like, even though it's easy for to make fun of it, because I kind of think Pitbull sucks. I do like, it's kind of smart, don't you think? It seems silly that I was reading the details. I think Pitbull actually got a bargain here.

He's selling his own alcohol. He might make that money back. He gets a 40-person suite and 20 VIP parking passes every game. He gets to use the stadium for whatever he wants 10 days a year. Oh, really? I mean, just the marketing on that. I feel like Pitbull is going to get that one. He gets to use the stadium 10 days.

So he could do concerts. Yes. I think Pit bull is going to make that. one point two back rather easily maybe on the lot of them I didn't know booze but he got a lot of stuff with it but on the same end like you are saying I think the school kind of gets a little bit

of exposure out as well so is it it seems silly but it makes sense I'm kind of with Shannon I lean it's a little cool I mean I think if you're going to Florida International I mean pit bull maybe these these players don't know who he is but their their parents know who people are they'll know

yeah they'll know or Rick Poutino loves him if some pit bull right didn't that what we found out one day That's a strike against it. I will say during the opening ceremony, Shannon, I don't know if you saw. Did you see the French rapper that looked like Pitbull? Yeah. That wrapped during the opening ceremony?

Yeah. I didn't see it. So he came out. He's French. He looks like Pitbull. Somebody on Twitter was calling him pit bullet. And, but I got to say, he looked ridiculous. But Shannon, I think the song kind of was awesome.

Yeah. And as I was listed to it, as people were laughing. As I was listening to it, I was like, this is terrible. And then all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. You find yourself kind of bobbing into the song? I kind of like it. And I was almost embarrassed to like it. And then I saw, they showed Snoop.

And Snoop was loving it. Was it? And I was like, well, if Snoop loves it, Shannon, I guess I can. Hey, if Snoop likes it, it's instantly cool at that point. I don't know what his name is. I think his name is like, REM something. What? I think his name is like RIMK or something.

I'm not making, I didn't just pick RIM out. His name is RIM. It's RIM K. RIMK. Okay. It's RIMJ. We'll play it coming back.

I want you to play it. And tell me if you don't actually think it might be good. Who's next? Let's go to J.D. What's up, J.D. Hey, Matt. So I'm hearing a lot with this 22 million. and all our salary cap that's coming through.

A lot of talks based around financial evaluation. And what I think is missing from a lot of people's analysis is cultural evaluation. And given the true finite resources that we have as university, do you see any potential concern of an identity crisis on the horizon between football, basketball, and then just the rest of the sports that we now have to value in? I think that's going to happen at every school. Like I talked about yesterday, I think every school is going to have a fight for resources. You know, there's a bigger conversation to have down the road about the fact I think we've learned in the last couple years that Kentucky doesn't have the donor money of a lot of our rivals in the SEC.

You know, if you're going to rank the 16 schools in the SEC based upon potential donor donations, we're probably at the towards the bottom. We're probably like 13th. And that's an issue. I mean, it's just it's just an issue. and right now our donations are top heavy. They're coming from a handful of people. Now, on the basketball side, Club Blue is filling that gap.

Football side, the 15 clubs doing better. But we're still, Auburn's got 20 guys, 20 families that are willing to give a million dollars each. Let's just use that number. We might have like three. And that's just a big difference. We just don't have the high.

high-end donors that other schools do. We have a couple of them, but we're relying on them heavily, and they're not going to be able to keep asking these people year after year after year to give this kind of money. So I do think there's, if you were to say to me, Matt, look at the next 10 years of Kentucky athletics. What are you excited about? What are you nervous about?

I'm excited about the fan base. I'm excited about our coaches, the new coaches in men's women's basketball, ball, MNG owns. Stubbs's been here a longer. But I'm excited about that. I'm nervous about our donor base because that's going to become such an important thing. And Ryan, I know you agree with this. We just don't have what these other schools do.

No way, not even close to what most schools have. I am impressed with the fact that Coach Stoops has been able to get some of these people to invest in football. For years, years, years, that just didn't happen. People who are, and I know it's cool, especially for younger people, to blast Stoops. I'll say this. The reason we have players is Vince recruits them and Stoops is fine in the NIO. I mean, that's just the truth.

He, I know I didn't love him complaining about it, but the reality is he is the head fundraiser and does a good job. And if it wasn't for him, no doubt. If it wasn't for him, this roster would not, Vince and he will, I'll go further. We'll never have two better recruiting pair than that in football. We'll never have a better basketball recruiter than Cal. But we'll never, I think, have football recruiters like those two ever again. So we should be thankful for that. I am, and I hope other people are.

I'll add another name to that fundraising. People don't know what Eddie Grand's doing right now over there. He is killing it. I mean, it's a lot of it's behind the scenes. So it's not an official coaching role, but he's been a big part of the fundraising. That's a great point. We are at A-Vision Glass on Friday, 33-Sacquia Drive in Hopkinsville to celebrate their grand opening of A-Vision Glass. They sponsor the text machine, and they can help you if you have a broken windshield, any sort of glass repair.

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This is the one that's got like 1.1 million views. Then I guess it probably is. But it was like I didn't want to lie. I mean, I don't know what he's saying. But there was just a point where I was like, all right, I like this guy. You and Snoop Dogg jamming out to it. That's right. And what he did at the Olympics is called King.

Was this called King? This is called Trapp House. See, that's the wrong one. We need King. All right. See if you can find King for the next. We'll take as much rim as you. Yeah, you know, that list, I mean, we need as much rim as possible.

We were out, so we were out on, at Hotel Lex out there on Athens Boonsboro. We saw the new football stadium, the Lexington, or soccer stadium, the Lexington FC Stadium. The first game is September 8th, first home game at the new stadium. That ain't going to be up, is it? got a long way to go yet in a month time a month from today one month from tomorrow i mean when they told me i asked somebody i was like when's that opening and i thought they were going to say next september and then they were like september 8th i go wow well good luck that i will say it looks

awesome. I had not been out there since they said it looks awesome out there. It's not going to be ready September 8th. I'm going to go ahead and go on record Shannon. I'll take anyone's money on that being ready on September 8th. Yeah. As far as it being an awesome stadium to have in Lexington, it really is amazing. I wonder if they'll just have the field

ready because the bleachers in the stadium is not going to be ready in a month. Maybe they can still have the field ready. It's going to It looks like Vanderbilt's football stadium last year. Does that mean nobody can go? You could just play, but nobody's there? They've got all those youth fields out there. They're going to just play on a youth field until they get the stadium ready. But I hadn't, unless you've been out there, like, it looks like a completely different thing out there.

It does. Like, I hadn't been there in probably a couple years. And that's just a couple of exits from where I live. I think I might be a regular out there. I'm really looking forward to that getting going. And then the other thing is down here next to where I live, this amphitheater behind Rupp Arena it's coming

coming along I mean it's coming like that's going to be really cool isn't it it's going to be probably like like what's the capacity to be like 3 to 5,000 people see Shannon that's a cool place to see a music thing right like something with that's that amount of people

yeah like we don't only have that in Louisville anymore like it used to be Louisville Gardens was kind of that size of a bit of is it I don't think it holds I don't think it holds three to five thousand. I don't think it holds that many. Well, I don't know if that's theirs. But what I was sitting there thinking is, you know, my porch is about to become a prime slot.

Yes, it is. Like to just sit there and watch music on a. The internet tells me it'll hold 5,000. See, 5,000 is a perfect. That's a venue that's hard to get, you know, that like, and that looks like it's going to be amazing. I think it's going to be an awesome setting. To be sitting back there behind Rupp Arena. You're right where you sit on your back deck.

charge people to park in your parking lot and enjoy the music. I'm not really in it for the money. I'm just saying like I could just sit on the deck, though, and watch. Very cool. You could. That'll be neat. Who's up next? Mark.

Mark, go ahead, Mark. Hey, Matt. Hey. Hey, I was just going to comment on your topic of conversation about the coach. Yes. Yeah, it reminds me of an old Seinfeld episode where the maestro wanted to be called maestro. Exactly. I know that episode.

And that's exactly, it wants to be called Maestro, and they're like, you're not my Maestro, like that you're exactly right. It's very similar. Exactly. Show about nothing.

I appreciate the call. I'm glad to hear you back. Thank you very much. It makes me wonder if, like, if you grew up in the music world, we'd be more inclined to calling Maestro. For like us, we wouldn't do it.

But you, but you, do you, you call high school coaches, coach. Coach. So do you call like, like there's that TV show the bear. They call everybody chef.

And I think that's so stupid when I watch it that they call each other's chef. But when I think about it, you do that with high school coaches. I do. Doesn't matter what sport. If you're coach, whatever, I'm calling you. And if I see you in the street, I'm still probably calling you coach. I went to a nice restaurant in Louisville with a bunch of my friends. And our old roommate is the chef there.

And everyone there kept yelling, yes, chef to him. And we're telling the server, stop doing that. We'll get up and leave if you keep calling him chef in front of us. I do find that so weird about that show that they do that all the time. 859-280-2287. One person writes, Matt, you all have taken the view that Jackson Robinson is going to be, is going to be the leading score. Everybody take their bet on who's the second leading score.

If you're going to let me go first, I'll take Kobe Brea. I just think he's such an elite shooter and then the offense they run. He's going to get a lot of open looks. I think he may end up even being the leading score. the best player, but the leading score. Oh, you think he could do like an Antonio Reeves thing and be the leading score? Yes. Okay, what about you?

First of all, fist bump on getting that name. I called him Robbie Abraeu most of the summer. You called him Robbie Abraeu? We've been working on it, proud of you. Okay. He's coming off, got a little bit of an injury. I don't think it'll be a big deal, but I'm going to not pick him for that reason, and I'm going Andrew Carr.

I think Andrew Carr might struggle a little defensively in the SEC, but I think he'll be able to score points. I'm going to take Andrew Carr as well. I think when you're playing the position he is, he'll get some, you know, he'll get some bunny points as well. So everyone else is going to be rotating so much. And I think he's kind of locked in a lot of minutes at the fore. I think that with what we've heard maybe one of those guys being not quite as advanced as Andrew is. And so I think that's a good one.

I do think Jackson Robinson, for me, the difference between us being good and fun and us potentially being great. is how good is that kid? Like, is he, is he Antonio Reeves like? Or is he, you know, something else? That's going to be a big deal for us. We'll take a break. Barry back.

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His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows. Without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall.

And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. man, he running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball. Like, you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah.

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Okay. I think I'm Snoop Dogg. That's right. That's why he said at the end, he goes, think I'm Snoop Dogg. That's why Snoop Dog was into it. They threw a little reference in the song. So you never knew you would know a French rapper, and they had a heavy metal group in there, Shannon, for you.

Did you see that? Yeah, but I can't remember the name of the band. I can't either. It's first time they've ever had heavy metal in an Olympic ceremony. They were rocking. Yeah, they were going at it. One person writes on the text machine, Matt, I have a question. What, me and my friends were debating,

what UK athlete have, is, in your opinion, have the greatest unused potential. So who's the player that came to Kentucky that had the most ability that it just didn't work out the most? Football or basketball? Do you have an answer that comes to you? How about Drew Barker? A lot of that was injury, had some off the field, but I thought that guy was going to, really take Kentucky to another level. That's good because I did too.

I thought Drew Barker was going to be, was going to be great. That's a really, really good answer. He's really good in high school, and he just got beat up a little bit, had some bad injuries he couldn't overcome. I like Drew Barker. There are guys who were over,

so there's guys like Scal who didn't match their rating, but I'd ever thought Scow was that good to begin with. So I don't know that I necessarily would put him. What about you? I got one for football and one for basketball. Okay. For football, I go with Lonnell DeWalt.

I loved him. He was a freak athlete, just a freak. He'd block every field go. Yep. And for basketball, I go with Antoine Barber. You know, he could have gone pro. They thought after his Juko years, and he came to Kentucky and ended up being kind of the sixth man, I think. Yeah, I mean, I think we thought he'd be better than he was, right?

That's it. I like, you know, I think that's a good answer, too. I'm trying to think. Matt Elam. some of that the Matt Pilgrim. Yeah. Well, I mean, if you just talk about what people thought he was going to be, you know, that was one. Some of that's just the recruiting rankings get it so wrong.

Guys who came in super athletic that just didn't happen for him here. I like our list so far. I mean, if you're going old school, the answer would be Sean Kemp, but he didn't, he just didn't get to play here. I think if he had played here, he would have been absolutely unbelievable. He just didn't get to play. I was ready to put Khalil Whitney in the rafters at Big Blue Madness, and then he wasn't on the team much long after that. But also that part of that could just be the recruiting cycle.

Well, we have to see what he does at Arkansas. But, I mean, a Vich. Nobody's had a better debut. No. And then had nothing happen after than Big Z. I hope he gets to shoot threes. Do we need to go get him? Do we need to go save him?

If he's not allowed to shoot threes, that's a crime. You know, when we look, when we're talking in the future about best UK atmospheres, We always do this. Best UK home atmospheres. And we'll talk about like, you know, the John Wall game with Carolina, the Anthony Davis game with Carolina, 03, Florida. You put those best atmospheres. That five-minute stretch with a Vich against Georgia was kind of awesome in Rupp Arena.

I was there with my mom. And it was electric, Drew. Wasn't it in there for those few minutes? And it's not just that it was his debut. There's so many things you can't recreate. I mean, we had to have a billboard to even get him eligible, and that's how he comes out of the gate, his first performance. I think that's going to be tough to top.

I mean, that was wild in there. I wonder if it'll get forgotten because he will kind of be forgotten, probably, unfortunately. But I will say in that moment, Ryan, it felt like, it felt like in that moment this is a team that can go win the national championship. I think that's what people thought in that moment, because they had just added this guy to this team of great shooter. That's exactly right.

At that moment, this is the missing piece. This is the guy's going to take us to a championship. He's doing everything, hitting threes, throwing behind his back. The behind the back to Reeves. I forgot about that. He catches it behind the back to Reeves who hits a three. Didn't he hit a dew cutting towards the rim? He did.

The dunk, but it was also a nasty pass. That's a great point. I will always remember. He throws it back to Reeves. When Reeves takes that shot, as the ball is in the air, the arena is dead silent. And then it explodes as loud as an explosion. You're exactly, I thought it was an awesome play. I miss him.

I miss him already. Well, you know, when you were gone, Cal said he wasn't going to let him shoot threes at Arkansas. That's what I'm saying. I can't let that. That's what he does. If John Cal Perry was the coach here, and I read him say, we're going to have him shoot free throw line long twos instead of threes. That might have been the day I went.

You know what I can't do? Because he did say that, didn't he? Yes, he did. That is exactly Big Z scouting report. Unbelievable. Big man that loves to shoot for the perimeter. But we're going to move him in two steps so that he can get one less point and miss more often.

That's a good idea. Who's next? Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony. What's up? Good morning. Doctors of Radio Broadcast Science. Matthew, I am so glad you're home.

It's good to hear your voice. A couple of things. One, I hope Paris's orange football field has at least black stripes and numbers on it for contrast. Because if they're white, I'm hanging anyway. And I understand from the television news, which is not always reliable, that Pitbull's paying 1.2 mil a year for the life of this contract. But did you say he gets 10 dates? That's what Drew said. Drew said he gets 10 dates.

guess is if he were to rent that stadium out, it would cost him that to do it. It's 1.2 or 5 years. 1.2 or 5 years. Yeah. 1.2. Yeah, okay. Okay. 1.2 over 5 years? Yeah. 5 year deal. 1.2 per year. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I think he can make his money back on it. Heck, yeah. Yeah. No, I didn't realize he got the dates. That's amazing. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. And you say that Major League Baseball is going to try to get 130,000 people

to watch a baseball game. Is that right? Wow, that's ambitious. Ryan may be the only one that agrees with me, but I wonder, why didn't they get two good teams? All right. Now, that's enough of that.

That's our call today. That's enough of that. Your Braves are collapsing right now. They're playing with their minor league team. They've got their entire starting line up injured. I've been looking at the standings to see, like, how far are we from the wild card, and the team we're chasing always changes.

And I look last night where it's now the Braves. have the last wild card spot right now. There was a stretch where any time you looked up something on the Braves, another player was injured. We're the most injured team to ever be injured this year. And am I wrong, Ryan? I think, didn't the Red sweep them in Atlanta? I don't remember that.

They just swept our minor league team. I believe. Yeah, they did. By the way, that's what's been fearing about the Reds. They have swept the Phillies in Philadelphia, the Yankees in New York, the Braves in Atlanta. and the Dodgers in Cincinnati,

and they still stink. They don't only beat, they sweep the best teams, and then they're like 0 and 6 against the Brewers. Like, it's just annoying. Well, and Hunter Green is quietly putting together a great, great season. If he could pitch more often, man.

I don't know what war, I mean, I know it's wins against replacements. I have no idea how they figure it out. But in war, Hunter Green, is the best pitcher in the national league. Is he really? And Ellie De La Cruz is the second best hitter in the national league.

And yet, we stink. That's very frustrating. It's just your organization. It's just one of those that I don't think will ever win. Shut up. Who's next? Tony. Tony, go ahead, Tony.

Hey, guys. Matt, glad to have you back. Thank you. Mark Anthony kind of stole my thunder I was going to talk about with the Reds and the Braves. Hey, Drew, just remember do the math. four more championships in Cincinnati than there is in Atlanta. Oh, it makes a good point.

It makes a good point. Ours is most recent. I just think it's going to be a great experience because, you know, I've got a lot of friends. I go to a lot of games. I had 15 people within an hour yesterday, texting me, hey, we've got to get a group of us to go. It's a good, I'm a NASCAR fan, too.

I think it's great for NASCAR. It's a good publicity for Bristol, getting people involved. I know the look at it, getting people to go back to Bristol. and you've got the two fan bases that are just right into there. If you go all around that area, that's where that family is down there. That's the two channels they got. It makes the perfect sense.

I just thought it's going to be a great experience, and I think that should be a KSR road trip. No, we're definitely going to go. I appreciate the call. I think it's a great idea. You're right. Perfect two teams for it. It's perfect.

Don Franklin's opening five new state-of-the-art facilities in August. Lexington, Somerset. How many places are they going to have in Somerset? Every stoplight, you'll have a Don Franklin. Is it just going to be like this is like the eighth one in Somerset, right? Must be doing well. Or Glasgow. And Shannon, the dude, is going to be at the grand opening on August 8th from one to three, Shannon.

It's tomorrow. Yeah. So you're going to be at Don Franklin. Is that just to meet people? In Lexington with W, double Q, WKQQ. So Don Franklin Hyundai's grand opening is August 8 through 10th. Then the one in the Genesis is also opening next door. It's all there.

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Rashad Carruth. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I thought he was going to be really good. I did too. And he had that game against Duke where he was like. Insane.

Insane. Rashad Carruth to me is a really, really good one. Roderick Rhodes. But Roderick was good. Yeah, he had a good career. People act like he was a bust. He was good. It just ended badly.

Had a poor ending. Matt Elam. I said him. Drew mentioned him. Oh, you mentioned him. I'm sorry. I didn't hear you say that. Ryan Mosakowski.

That's another one. Yeah, it's another one. People thought he was going to be maybe the unsung quarterback of the future. A lot of older folks are saying Richard Madison. The Master Blaster. built like a tank. He could throw a baseball like over 90 miles an hour and he played basketball. He was just a freak.

Derek, go ahead. I'm going to say, how can we not say Justin Edwards? I mean, the guy came in as a top three recruiter, but I mean, I... First ever top three recruit did not be drafted. Yeah, I mean, Justin Edwards, I thought that was a real disappointment because I thought he was going to be really good. And, yeah, I mean, Shannon's right. in the history of the rankings in the last 30 years he's the only top three player in the history of the rankings ever to not be drafted ever this time last year we were doing summer interviews talking to him about being the projected number on overall pick yeah and i don't know i don't know why didn't work you think you just think you think you wasn't good good enough or do you think that he wasn't used correctly

Because there were moments I mean the Alabama Alabama again I mean there were moments where you saw that talent He somehow looked to gain weight As a college freshman in a college basketball program He put the freshman 15 on Yeah he didn't know if that's on him or the staff

But that added to why it didn't work out like the way it should have I think he lost a little confidence too Have you struggled a little bit And then only you know talk to some sports psychologists And I think that helped him And I think maybe you know his best basketball is yet to come because he didn't get it wasn't able to play here. He was a good one.

Oh, yeah. That's a great one, actually. You, at one point I remember said that you thought he could be as good as anybody you'd ever see when he was in high school. Oh, I didn't say that. Oh, you didn't. I thought you did. No, I had people telling me that he's way overrated. Okay.

Yeah. Well, then maybe I dreamed that you said that and hoped and hoped. A lot of people are saying Shaden Sharp. Do you consider that a disappointment? because he ended up good in the NBA. Yeah, that's not on him. That's on his agency telling Kentucky what they were going to do. Yeah.

That's the moment Clutch became dad. We answered the Clutch. You kind of believe that at the end of the Cal era, Clutch was coaching the team. Rich Paul probably had more control over Kentucky than we needed to. I wanted Chris Livingston at the four. It sounded like that. Might have Clutch didn't want him playing inside. There's plenty of clutch issues.

No, I mean, let's go over it. Clutch made Shaden Sharp not play. They literally clutch. Much is why Chris Livingston was at the three and not the four, like we all thought. I mean, it wasn't, clutch was why that it. Clutch is why Justin Edwards started over, over, I mean, like, Cal was beholden to them. And I sort of don't understand why. Like, tell them to go on, you know, I don't know.

They don't have that many players. They only have two or three guys a year, so, like, who cares? Is Cal afraid he wouldn't get those guys if he didn't oblige? But let's be real. What clutch player? did we get that was great in the last three years? I think was, I think Rob's clutch. He, but he was clutch after.

Was he clutch when he was here? I'm not sure on the timeline there. I don't think, I mean, we got Aaron Bradshaw, Justin Edwards, Shaden Sharp, Chris Livingston. Anybody else? There's some I'm not thinking of. I don't think clutch did Justin Edwards any favors when he left either because it was all brawny, brawny, brawny, brawny, brawny, and I didn't hear much of them pushing to get Justin Edwards drafted. Yeah, and apparently Justin Edwards didn't work out for some teams.

Like, you don't even know if you're going to get drafted. You're not even going to work out for, like, I don't know. That's a mistake. While you were gone, Rich Paul did a podcast and threw Cal into the bus. They actually defeated Cal a little bit. So think about that for a second. After all that Cal did for those dudes, including sacrificing some wins to get hit those dudes minutes, Rich Paul goes on a podcast and blast the dude for not using Justin Edwards correctly.

I was pretty done with Cal at that point, but I completely sided with him and what Rich Paul was saying. I side with him too. But that's why you can't be loyal, like loyal to disloyal people. He did all that stuff for him, and then they stabbed him in the back anyway. threw him right under the bus. So who's next? Moby. Moby.

How are you Moby? Good. Thank you for having me on. Welcome back. Two quick things over the summer. The guys talked about the tipping culture. And I wanted to tell them that a lot of those times where tipping comes in, it's not on the restaurant. It's actually the service they use because the service, like the credit card service gets fees off the tipping.

So they default on that, even though the restaurant doesn't look at tipping. And then the second thing I want to say about Big Z, I took my daughter to her first UK game, which was like UK Georgia game. Atmasture was unreal. She was standing up the whole time. Then I took her to the Oakland first round game because I live two hours away. And she was bored out of her mind. She was like, why aren't they making shots? Why aren't people playing?

And so that Georgia atmosphere will by far be one of the best games I went to. Thanks for Mike. Yeah, I know it was. It was great. And unfortunately, didn't lead. It's just going to be hard for me not to be depressed about that season last year. And one of the things I'm glad about Mark Pope, that whole, like, that whole culture of we owe you so you have to do. That's gone.

I mean, the best players will play. Whoever they are. Yeah. I think with Pope, I mean, you got so many guys. this year if you don't play somebody else going to play. That's true. And I don't think any of those dudes are beholden to start or anything like. I know there was one kid who Kentucky was in contact with last year who as part of their

Kentucky offered the same N IL deal that another school did. But the kids, people said he has to start and UK would say that would not do that. And the kid ended up going to know school. Scratch your head because he started DJ and Justin. all season long. But I'm talking about for Pope. This is a Pope's coming this season. So he would not, the Pope people,

they guaranteed the same NIL money, but did not guarantee a starting spot so the kid ended up going somewhere else. But I'm glad he did that. Like, because you don't want to have a situation like you did last year. That's just insanely frustrating. That's why in this NIL world,

there's going to be some recruits that you want them to go after. They might know more of what those kids are demanding and pass on them, even if it's a great player, you don't want to, you know, make all these promises and overpace for someone. If your dude's so good, he'll start. Yes, that's right.

You know, if you have to guarantee it, then it's not, and it's kind of a fraud anyway, right? Like, if he's good enough, I mean, you know, if Reed Shepherd returns for a freshman year, I understand a point guard being like, well, I may not start. But if you're good enough, you're going to play, and if you have to guarantee it, then maybe you don't want to do it. Thank you all very much for coming out here.

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