KSR - 2024-10-01- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

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met some people during the break. Had Ryan talking to everybody. Hello to all of you over there. Nice to see you. Sorry, you're so far away. All radio guys, a KBA Association. KBA and guys. My man right here, I want to tell a story.

He just told me that he said I could share. So your grandfather's name was Ray. Ray Lutz. So on Saturday, 20 minutes before the start of the Kentucky Old Miss game, this young man from Baxter, Tennessee, in Shelbyville, his grandfather, Ray Lutz, lifelong Kentucky, and KSR fan passed away. And he said it was right before the game, and he was 84. And he told me, Josh Caddus, recovering that fumble was not to me an accident because

Josh Katas is number 84. And I think that's an awesome story. So I'm going to stop saying that it was an accident. He recovered it to honor your father, Ray. So I'm sorry to hear the news, be praying for you, but thank you for sharing that with us. I appreciate it. Awesome story. Kind of a little divine intervention there to make sure that got scored.

859-280-2287. A couple things before I go back to the phone. Did you see Will Levis? Yeah. I'm worried we may have, I'm worried Will Levis. I don't know. You know, he gets hurt during the game and he comes out and then immediately the Titans start playing well and score however many points they score. and win the game with Mason Rudolph, who's like just good enough to take your job.

You know, he's not great, but he's kind of just good enough to make sure you lose your job. Is this a, I don't want to say the end, but is this a massive, do you think Mason Rudolph is starting next week? I don't know. I haven't looked. Have they updated the injury report on Levis? Like, is he out? Well, let's just assume he's able to play. Okay.

Do you think he will play? You know, I've always been a firm believer, man. you shouldn't lose your job over an injury, but the fact that he came in and played so well, I would still probably start Levis. What if you were the third lowest ranked quarterback in the league, O and three, you lose your job, and then the other guy goes and wins the game. Yeah, I'm starting Levis, but I got a quick trigger pulling out of a half. Tadius just announced he's their quarterback moving forward even when he comes back.

Who, Levis? Yeah, that was just on the sports report. So Levis is the quarterback, so there you go. We answered the question. Didn't even have to go into it very much. It is concerning when the new head coach is screaming, like, all we have to do is not turn over the ball and we would win games. And Will Levis continues to do it. No, I mean, there's a world where the Titans could be three and one.

I mean, the Titans should have beaten the Bears and probably should have beaten which team was it. They had another game they should have won. So they could be three and one. Now, they're not, but they could be. And they have a buy this week. So they're going to stew on this for. Okay. So you get a couple weeks for him to get healthy.

Somebody is, and I'm sorry, I don't know who this is. Frank from American Pickers passed away. Yeah. I don't know who this is, but some people sitting here obviously knew who you were talking about. So American Pickers, that's a show where they go in like people's garages? Yeah, and they'll offer money for some of your old antiques, and then they'll flip it in their own. Okay. All right, got you.

So it's like they're looking for sort of secret treasures or whatever. And so I guess he passed away. I don't know him, but sorry to hear that news for, but apparently relatively young guy, right? you know, DeKimbe Muntbo, Pete Rose, now this guy. But it is Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday, I think, today. Jimmy Carter made it to 100. Wow.

How about that? A hundred years old. He's the oldest, the president, to live the longest in the history of the country, which probably that will continue because we live longer, but still an amazing milestone. He said he wanted to live to 100, and then his next goal is to live until Election Day. But 100, to me, is a more important accomplishment

month and election day. So I will say congratulations to Jimmy Carter. As we say, not the best president of all time, but the best ex-president of all time for the work he did after being president ever. Yeah, the humanitarian that he was, you know, building the habitat for humanity houses and all these other foundation things he's done since he left the office. Yeah, that's exactly right. A hundred though, man. I have, okay, so I mentioned the courts thing, and obviously that ended up becoming a thing. I have something else I want you. You, you, all as you're sitting at home tonight and you're looking for something interesting, the rabbit hole to go down.

Let me give you another one. Okay. There's an island that I didn't know existed until yesterday. And I once again read about it. This time I read about it on the BBC. And the BBC article is very good. You ought to look it up because it gives you the history of it. It's called the Diego Garcia Island.

Okay. Do you know what the Diego Garcia Island is? I do not. I'm ready to hear. It is an island. Anybody know? You know. Quickly, because no one can hear you.

Exactly. And they got rid of it. That's right. So I might have to tell the story. I'm sorry. No one can hear you. But it's an island and it's kind of close to India and Pakistan there. The British and the Americans in like 1960.

Well, I think the Americans and British, I don't know how they did it together, but they basically came together and it was a small island with just a few hundred natives but were not part of any country they took the island made the natives leave and created a military

basically a military base there and it is a secret military base you're not like no journalist had ever been on it nobody really knew what happened there the Americans and NATO used the base to like take off for various operations, especially during our war in Afghanistan,

et cetera. It is now, there's a lawsuit that was filed by the descendants of the original people that were moved off the island. And it is now in the British courts, and it's a major lawsuit about what are they going to do with this island. The British and the Americans are for the first time admitting that they were there. They had denied that they even had an installation there for a long time. the history of it is unbelievable.

It is the only place in America that is administered by America and Britain. We do it together. There's no other place in the world where we run the country together. No one lives there except American and British military personnel, but these people are suing saying, we want to come back and live there. It's our island. You kicked us off illegally,

and it is being decided in court. So the court let the BBC reporter go there, and she was the first non-military person to ever be at the island except the natives. And she wrote about what was there and how it's like beautiful, like blue waters and white sands. And then they have all these really nice things for the military people that are there.

And it's called the Diego Garcia Island. You would... Oh, that's... Yeah, that's right. The way the reporters found out about that Malaysia flight plane that, like, disappeared. It went off the radar above that island. And there was some worry that maybe somebody had shot it over the island. So anyway, if you get bored, Shannon, it feels like this is the kind of thing you'd be interested in, the Diego Garcia Island.

I will go down that rabbit hole and find out about it. And it's a place I'd like to go vacation. Sounds like a good time of me. I don't think you're allowed to go as this woman was the first person to get to go. but isn't that kind of interesting? It's a great story. I'm totally captivated. Now I've got all these questions.

Like, where did they take the people? Where did they dump them off at? They put them on another island in the Maldives or Morinitis or whatever that island is there. They took them to a different island and left them. But they basically, the American and British just took the island from them. These people that when they went in 1962 had never had contact with the outside world until that moment. Yeah, this sounds like a story from 1776. not in 1962. That is bizarre.

In 2004. Yeah. I mean, that's like, you didn't think there were places that, I think until 2000, nobody even knew it existed. Like the governments didn't even admit that it existed. Well, without that plane crash, maybe they would never even still

know, not know that's over there. Maybe they got some silicon quartz there that we can mine. Read about it sometime if you're interested in something unique. And maybe it'll be in the news in a few months like the quartz mind was that I mentioned a few months ago. Who's next? Bluegrass. Bluegrass. How are you? First time, long time. Who are? I think, let's talk a little bit about analytics. And I know we've been touched on a little bit today,

but I think where people, it's not as black and white, I don't think, as people think, because they are number driven. Then everybody says, you know, it's got to be this way or got to be that way. But don't you think there's a gray area? I mean, I do think I agree with Stoots, and you do have to take the But let me ask you a question. And again, I'm not trying to, like, harp on it. But when you say, don't you think there's a gray air and I agree with Stoops, why is Stoops gut something you trust more than raw numbers? Like, what makes his gut so trustworthy?

It's not the gut. I do think he's taking the temperature of the game. And I do think if he's not making catches over the middle, then the safety's not cheating down. and that doesn't leave Brown one-on-one. I think all that does have to go into play. Yeah, but when they make the play call, when they make the play call,

they don't necessarily know what defense the other side is in. Well, but Kippen pretty much said he's using the analytics to get stuff, and he had coverage and pressure 70s, and Stoop's calling the go route is probably the hugest long shot in that whole scenario. Yeah, and it's important to remember with analytics, that doesn't mean you're going to be right. You can make the decision and it isn't successful, but it is still, like, again, let's say you draw a number. Let's say I put 20 numbers in a half.

Ryan, what's the percentage chance I draw number 14? There's numbers one third, 20 and a hat. What's the percentage chance I draw number 14? Five. Five percent. So if I give you, what would you rather bet? I draw 14 or I draw one of the other 19 numbers. What are you going to bet?

One of the other 19 numbers. The analytical play is going to be draw one of the other 19 numbers. But that doesn't mean that I won't draw 14. You see what I'm saying? And so that's, I think, sir, how you have to look at the analytic decision. Got you. So appreciate the call. A question for you then.

Theoretically, would you like a computer to run your football team if it's going to give you the best statistical play? This is a theory I have. This is a theory I have, and I've said it before. When it comes to, I don't know if you'd like, quote, unquote, a computer to run your football team. But when it comes to the NFL draft, I think a team would be better off just taking a composite of all the mock drafts, turning it into one, and just drafting whoever comes up first. Really? Yes. I think you would be just as likely to have success.

because just think about how many busts we see. Think about how many successes we'd see. I think if a team just said, you know what, I'm going to take all this knowledge that's out there, combine it into one ranking that is all the experts' opinion centralized. And if they just use that ranking, they do overtime probably as well as anybody else would. Without spending all that money on scouting.

and without doing because people think well I know more than everybody else and maybe you do but on average collective intelligence is pretty usually pretty smart and that's why out of everything you've said today what stoop said on that podcast to me is the most encouraging that he's got somebody in his ears telling him telling him this stuff yeah uh Alex Rainer was named kicker of the week yeah the SEC and Octavius Oxendine was named one of the defensive linemen of the week. How about that? That's kind of a surprise. Good for OX. Yeah, we talked about, you know, the big guy kind of getting double team, triple team. They needed something like OX to step up and maybe make those tackles. And he did, man.

He was awesome again in that game. And Matt, we talked about it on the post game. I mean, Rainer is money. I feel confident he's going to make every kick that he lines up for, Ryan. Let me tell you. Rainer being money is something that, like, we can't underestimate how huge that is for us. Oh, yes. We cannot underestimate how much the fact that when he's, He gets up to kick, Ryan. It's going to go in. I mean, think about it. If we had had that 48-yarder at the end of the game,

would you have felt comfortable we'd make it? I would. I don't know if I would have before the season started, but I absolutely feel confident in doing it right now. Yeah, I'm with you, and he's now made, what, 13 in a row or something right that. 14. 14. When you have a disaster, if your water heater fails,

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Shannon, this sounds crazy, but this is how people are. The game's on Saturday. When Kentucky loses, we feel the ramifications at the restaurant the next week. Right? Yeah. It's like when people win, even though it's Tuesday or Monday, the games aren't on. People are more likely to associate wanting to come to a bar after you win than after you lose. The Mondays and Tuesdays after a big football loss, this place is dead as it can be.

And that's why back when Cal was here and people would say, oh, you want Cal to lose. I'm like, you are insane if you think I want people to lose because it's just something like almost. psychological that you almost feel like you can't be associated for a few days with a loss after a win like we're seeing it the last two days place has been crowded for lunch people wearing their UK stuff they're blue we're proud

we're pumping our chest right now can we just coming off that huge win it's always been like that always it's always and even the call load the callers to this show that way I've never thought about that like do you do the same thing like I do I would do the same thing you don't go out to eat for a couple of days no it's not going out to eat I just think we're so associated with Kentucky

Yeah. That it makes it to where you think about Kentucky. So I could see if I, as a Bears fan, I'm more likely to go to a Bears-themed bar, Shannon, if the bears are winning than if they're not. Jeff says, I was on Diego Garcia Island in the 80s with the Navy. There are chickens there who are considered the Queens chickens. It is a crime to shoot or kick one of the Queens chickens on Diego Garcia Island. Really?

The Queen's chickens. I didn't know that. Yeah, so technically Britain owns the land and leases it to us. So I could see why it's the Queen's chickens because technically it's British land. I believe, is that correct? I think that's right. So the military base, is it just a U.S. military base or is it Britain also have? I think they both have, I don't know.

I think just U.S. just U.S. Okay. Yeah. They announced the game time for UK Vandy 745 Under the Lights. SEC Network, so we get Tommy Hart and Cole Kublich and Jordan Rogers. You went, because it's a late night for me and you. Ridiculous. But in terms of winning the game, a lot more likely to beat Vandy at 745 at night than beat them at noon.

Yeah, the last time they were here two years ago, it was cold, it was middle of the day, it was rainy, it was windy, it was awful. They snuck in here and got us. Come on, man, under the lights. We can't let Vandy come in here and do anything. This is a perfect example of what the new television schedule does. Kentucky Vandy under the old television schedule, this would have been a noon game. Probably so. But the way it works now, they are, they made the schedule to where you get a prime slot noon game, a prime slot 330 game, a prime slot 745 game, whereas it used to be no game could go up against the 330 game, now one can.

and they want two games at seven or three games at seven 45 so really many weeks they'll only be one noon game point of all that's to say billy there will be under the new contract fewer and fewer noon games and a game like u.k vandy which would have been noon probably nine of the ten years of kentucky's lifetime now becomes a night game maybe it helps kentucky not look ahead as a team that came and beat kentucky two years ago beat them at night by the way that was a night game too but yes Maybe not. Maybe that reasoning is not valid.

But we've already had a game kickoff at what, almost close to midnight this year, so why not keep it up? 745, though, on the SEC network. You know, I wish we were playing right now. We're on this high after the Ole Miss game. I kind of, the by didn't come in a good time, I think, for us. We want to get back on the field as soon as possible. And it gives people a chance to do the triple.

Big Blue Madness Friday night, Keenland Saturday, Kentucky football Saturday night, and Kentucky will play a. top 10 Texas volleyball team on Sunday afternoon. So if somebody wants to be a real Kentucky fan and do the quadruple, Ryan, that would be very important. There will be people that will absolutely do that. And that's a big weekend with Big Blue Madness.

You know, we play Kentucky Wesley in like a little over three weeks. I mean, it's almost basketball season. It's crazy. I mean, Big Blue Madness is, what, 10 days? Yeah. It's 10 days away. Who's next? Joseph.

Joseph. Go ahead, Joseph. Hey Matt, I appreciate you taking my call. I had a football point real fast about Chris Christoperson, you know on the highwayman, we were talking about him yesterday. You know, that song, I know you've mentioned before, that song is a little confusing. You know, it's actually about reincarnation.

No, I knew that. I mean, you can see it in the video, too, because they show the reincarnation in the video. Yeah, a lot of people realize that a lot of those guys, Willie and Chris, they kind of dabbled in Buddhism and other various spiritualities and stuff. Yeah, I could see it. Yeah. But, you know, with regards to the football, Mark Stoops, you know, we've moaned about him a lot because, you know, and a lot of us rightfully so.

You know, he's a bad decision maker at the end of half and his conservative play calling. It frustrates us. It really does. And we get on here and we moan it. But at the end of the day, he's a damn good football coach. Yes, he is. I agree with that. And he just went down there and he just showed it.

I mean, because I did. If you ask anyone, Lane Kiffin is an awesome, awesome football coach. Yes, he is. And Mark Stoops out-coached him. Mark Stoops did out-coach Lane Kiffin. And I think, and I appreciate the call, that will be, that's the legacy of that game to me. Mark Stoops out-coached a really good coach on his home field. You know, part of what is interesting is Old Miss's talent base is very similar to Kentucky's.

They have a very similar level of town. And so you would think in that scenario, home field and good coaching might make the difference. Well, you know what? Mark Stoops out-coached him, and the home field ended up not doing a lot, and you ended up with that victory. And, you know, Coach Stoops, one of the complaints people have had have been clock management. The game he was perfect, you know, right at the end of the half. Good at the end of the first half, Billy? Good at the end of the second half.

He did clock management, in my opinion, perfectly in both halves. And this season has been such a roller coaster. If you look at the South Carolina game, you play Georgia at a one point. and then you beat Old Miss, a defining victory of Stoop's era? I mean, it's just been such a roller coaster. Have you ever eaten? How many, is any of you who go to Nashville or from Nashville, have you ever eaten at Hugh Babies? No.

Does anybody know Hugh Babies? Hugh Babies. So, Melissa, my friend that lives in Oxford, she's a big food, food person, right? Like she works for the Southern Food Alliance, and she does all this food stuff. And she said that on her way home, we're like, where can we go get something quick? And she said there's a restaurant in Nashville called Hugh Babies that's like burgers. Yeah. And we were like, all right, well, listen to her.

I'm a huge fan of Hugh Babes. Really? You recommend it? Right off the interstate. It's not in a neighborhood that looks that nice, but you go there and they cook it, and it's like that kind of burger that's thin, but like the grills. Oh, yeah. So I'm just saying if you're, and it's right off the interstate.

If you're ever driving through Nashville, that's my recommendation for you. Hugh Babies. Is that a Smashburger? Or is it? Oh, it's better. It's Hugh Babies. If it was Smashburger, I would have called it Smashburger. It is Hugh Babies.

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Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. So apparently they were, I thought was thinking of smash burgers, the place. Were you talking about a type of burger really? Yeah, like they flatten the burger. Okay, then I apologize. Yes, that's what they are. Oh, okay.

So I thought you meant, because there's a place called Smashburg. Correct. You were talking about the type. Yes, that's how Hugh Bay. But they also have hot dogs. I didn't eat one, but apparently they have a very good hot dog. SEC tournament in March, we need to go. It's kind of out of the way from there.

It's like in the downtown, like close. the Parthenon, like 46th Street, something like that in Nashville. So the SEC and Big Ten have reached a sketch, or are talking this week about reaching a scheduling agreement. What it would require is every year an SEC team would play a Big Ten team, and they would schedule the games in two-year blocks based on your record. So basically, they would look at a two-year period, and the two best teams will play each other, and then the second best teams would play each other, and then the third best teams all the way down through the 16.

I think it's, I mean, obviously that's cool because we get to play new teams and we get to host new teams and go to new teams. What I wonder, though, Ryan, is if the SEC and the Big Ten reached that agreement is the UK Louisville series over. I mean, that to me is the question, because, you know, you basically would end a guaranteed home game.

Yep. So is the UK Louisville series over if we reached that SEC Big Ten agreement? That's the first thing I thought of also, because you're not going to give up those other three home games like this year, you know, Southern Mississippi, Ohio, and Murray State. You're not going to give those up. So one of them's got to go. It would be the Louisville game, unfortunately. And then there's a talk that is as part of the agreement, the Big Ten is going to make the SEC go to nine conference games. Well, if you do that and then it's non-conference games and the Big Ten games,

then I think the Louisville game's over. They're not going to play. I don't think the SEC is going to agree to 11. Kentucky is not going to agree to 11 difficult games and only one stinky game. So are we changing out the Louisville game for the Indiana game? Is that what this is going to be? Well, it would change every year.

So for instance, let's just use the last two years. So our last two seasons, we won five conference games one year, and we won three the other year, so we won eight. So our record over those two years was eight and eight. That probably puts us eighth, ninth in the conference. So whoever the Big Ten team is that was eighth or ninth in the conference over those two years, we would play a home and home with this. See, I don't like it.

See, I don't either, man. We're going to do a home and home with Minnesota or something like that. I want Louisville. I had hate that Louisville game to disappear. But you also might, you know, you might get Penn State. You might get USC. You might get, you know, I mean, Minnesota stinks, but you might get Indiana, you might get Purdue, might get Oregon.

But to give up your in-state rival for the chance to get Minnesota, it's just, what's the incentive? They want people to watch the game? Yes, I mean, what they want is they don't want what Old Miss did this year where they didn't play anybody. They want to make it to where, and they want more playoff first. And their theory is if we play each other, our strength of schedules are going to go up. Why should we benefit the ACC? The argument would be why should the SEC give Louisville the benefit of having Kentucky on their schedule? Or why should we give Clemson the benefit of having South Carolina?

I think that Ryan is the thought process. So all those rivalries, you said Clemson, South Carolina, Florida State, Florida. There's four. Florida State, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Clemson, South Carolina, Kentucky, Louisville. And they would all disappear to play a big team. disappear. I mean, the SEC would probably say you can still play Louisville. You just got to play a Big Ten team too. Like we said, Kentucky won't want to give up another home game, potentially, you know, have two home games you give up every year. So you don't like it. I don't like it.

I don't like it. They don't value tradition very much if that's the case. But as a fan, if I'm going to watch Georgia play Michigan or Alabama play Ohio State, you know, I'm going to I am, yeah, so I'm a big believer in you got to play Louis. Got to play Louis, we've got to play Louis. I've said that for a long time. But at the same time, if you're telling me I can get, I'd rather play Minnesota than play Ohio. Yeah. So.

But then the next year we'd have to go to potentially to Minnesota. So it's an interesting, it's an interesting question. Who's up next? Let's go to Jake. Jake, go ahead, Jake. Hey, how are you doing, gentlemen? Doing good. All right.

I'm glad the Georgia game came when it did because it kind of woke us up. And last year when we were 5 and 0, we kind of destroyed the whole season. I wanted your thoughts on that. It didn't destroy the season. We had. Well, it didn't. How long did it take us to get that six victory? Well, it was more, I think, a fact, Jake, of who we played later in the year.

I mean, now we, you know, most of our years, our schedule has been hard at the beginning, easy at the beginning, hard at the end. This year, we've tended to be kind of harder at the beginning. So, I don't know. And it's made us better. Well, it's made us better, but we also lost a game to South Carolina that I think if we played in three weeks, we might win. Point made. He agrees. I like that, Jake.

Thank you very much. Appreciate the call. I mean, looking back, would you rather we have played Murray State Week 2 instead of South Carolina? No, and I think we saw all you do is look at Ole Miss. They did not play an SEC defense until they played against us, and they had trouble with our SEC defense. So you think we only beat Old Miss because we played South Carolina Earth? I feel that way. That might be right.

Stoves talked about this in the preseason, and he said he liked it just because it gave them a break instead of eight straight comments. conference games at the end of the year, you can break it up a little bit and get some other guys healthier. Yeah, I mean, they played South Carolina and Georgia and then they got Ohio, right? Then you play Ole Miss and you get a buy. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, that makes sense to me. I mean, it's probably the case we'd have a better shot of beating South Carolina in two or three weeks. Yes. Yeah. But then we also might not have beaten Ole Miss. Or play Georgia so closely. Or play Georgia so close. That's probably true. So just depends on how you look at it. Who's next? Shannon. Shannon, go ahead, Shannon.

I got a question about the tight end being used in the, when they run that RPO stuff with the way that they're running the ball so well, and that the way that our receiver, especially Dan Kee and Brown, are able to catch the ball down the field so well, it seems like that's a free five to 10 yards anytime they want to call the play. Yeah, Shannon, what I would say to you is there were three plays where they went to the tied in, and Josh Katis dropped it twice, and the third one was tipped at the line to Jordan Dingell. I think you're right that that play is open, but I do think they tried it.

It just didn't work because a couple times dropped and wants kind of a fluky little tip. Yeah, I must have missed that part, and, you know, I'm just like I would consider myself just a everyday fan to where I love the games and, you know, of course, love the cats, but I don't follow. I don't know what the kids, you know, receiving jars were in high school or what school that came from. So I just didn't know if there was a reason why they didn't use them as much as I seemed like they should to me anyway. Yeah, no, I understand. I appreciate the call.

That passed a dingle. He was wide open. I mean, that was a great play call. Just the pass got tipped. And the caddus ones were right in his hands. They just got tipped. I'm just going to look and see last year's record in the big tent. Okay.

So we've had the eighth best conference record combined the last two years. Yep. Okay. No, wait, sorry. The ninth best conference record. So I'm just going to look and see who was ninth over those two years. We would have be playing home and home with Illinois. But Illinois's ranked.

Illinois is good this year. Illinois is good. Yeah, so I don't see them giving up an Ohio or an Akron game to play. that, so you're going to have to give up naturally the Louisville one. Yeah. Well, let me ask you this. Let's say they do it. Would you rather play Akron and then only have one stinky team or play Akron in Louisville or

Akron in Ohio? Akron and Louisville, but that's just, that's coming from somebody. No matter what. Yeah, my job isn't dependent on if they win six games, though. I'm with you. I want to play Louisville no matter what, but people have to understand. will make some years a bowl game less. Right.

You guys, I'm with you, man. You don't want to see that Louisville game disappear. But at the same time, getting that six bowl wins and getting to a bowl game and getting that extra month of practice is awful good for recruiting. It may also be the case, though, that bowls for us, they may not matter as much in the playoff world. I'll be interested to see how much teams care about the bowls this year.

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Tigers haven't been in the playoffs in 10 years. Can't tell you one player on their team. And Astros are in there every year, it feels like. I have no idea. Do you know any of the players on the team? Nobody. You're a fan, you don't get to say. Can anybody name a tiger?

Tony. Woods. I don't know what. But you know what? I'm still taking the Tigers. We haven't been in 10 years. Detroit's going to be pumped up. I'll take the Tigers.

Here you got. Astros going Houston. Shannon? Pulling for the Tigers, but Astros win the series. Royals play the Orioles. Royals have it been in a few years. Bobby Witt, Jr., is along with Ellie Cruz. Ellie Dela Cruz, the two kind of best young players in baseball.

He's had – Bobby Witt's had an amazing year. And the Orioles have, like, a ton of people. I couldn't give you any of their names except Brady Anderson. So who you got, Brian? Orioles have been one of the best teams in baseball years. I'm going to the Orioles. Yep, took the best division. I'll go with Orioles.

I'm going to go with the Orioles. Shannon, who you got? I think I've got the Royals on this one. All right. Well, you'd rather be royal. I can't remember the West of the Warriors of the song. Mets and Brewers. The Mets were something like one and 14 in games they needed to win in Atlanta in like the last 15 years,

and then they won yesterday. That means to me they're a team of destiny. I got the Mets. Who you got, Shannon? The Mets have been the hottest team in baseball, I think, the last six weeks. I'm going to go with the Mets. Billy. I want a KSR curse them, so let's go Mets here.

You don't like the Mets? No. Okay. What about you? Man, I'm going Brewers. Yeah, the Mets just played a doubleheader yesterday. They got a flat-to-flip there. It doesn't play for them anymore.

Paul Molitor. But here's the thing. They just took, I don't know if you saw it. In the second game, they just told this one guy, they were like, you're pitching until your arm falls off because they knew it didn't matter. And they just pitched the guy. I think you went like seven or eight innings was lobbing it underhanded at the end. But they were going to take him.

Finally, the Braves and the Padres. This is probably the marquee series. Both teams have struggled this year at times, but both teams have a ton of talent. Who got, Billy? Yeah, it's going to be a lot like the Haybell kind. I think the Braves come up a little short, so I'm going to go with the other two. Wow. Shannon, you're going to take up for your Braves? The Braves will end up winning despite having half their team injured, so we're going to beat the Padres with our AAA team.

I'm going to take the Padres. By the way, of all the series, the Padres are the biggest favorite. How about that? Isn't that surprising? Well, yeah, the Braves, after they played that doubleheader, had to get on a plane, fly to San Diego last night to try to play the Padres today. Jetlag Padres win. All right. Who's next, Shannon?

Let's go to Dan. Dan, go ahead, Dan. Hey, Matt, Dan from mocking mouth. Hey, Dan's going to be my Whiskey Thief tweet of the day. Go ahead, Dan. Okay, look, I listen to the talking heads on Sunday from Ole Miss. And they were such, they whined about the whole time. They said that, you know, the referees they're against, were for Kentucky.

They said it was the worst loss they've had in 10 years. And you know what was crazy is. that they were really adamant that Kentucky was the worst team on the field. Yeah, that's ridiculous. First of all, the refs, I mean, I don't know what they're talking about the refs. There were, what is the call they're complaining about about the refs? Like, I felt like the refs ended up, I mean, you know, there are always things you can call that you don't call, but what's the call that we supposedly got away with?

Yeah, they said that, you know, the one pass that was where we were four and fourth and seven, and said it was a push-off and then that's, they're never going to call that. On that Barry and Brown one, they're never going to call that. And another thing, too, I guess this weekend, when Old Miss plays South Carolina and I've got a route

that Old Miss would win by 30. No, we need a. I think we want, I think we want Old Miss to win this week. I appreciate the call, Dan. By the way, thanks to Whiskey Thief coming on as our new tweet of the day sponsor. What could Old Miss complete?

about call was. I mean, I saw a lot of them complaining about the one in the first half where they called pass interference on the Dane Key one, but that dude grabbed Dane Key's arm. Like, of course that was pass interference. It seemed to me like if I remember every close call went to Ole Miss. Well, the reviews went to us for the most part, but that's because it was the right call. Yeah, I thought it was the opposite. I felt like Ole Miss was getting away with face masks and holding calls in the first half. They were bad spots. That one, Brock's face mask got turned around and they didn't call that. Didn't call it.

No flag on that play. That had been the discussion if Kentucky would have lost this game, I think. That was towards the end of the game, right? Was the face mask? Yeah, it was a sack, I believe. Yeah. So I don't know. You know, as far as, I always think it's weird when you say a team stinks after you lost to them on your home field.

Yeah. You know, I mean, discrediting your win. I mean, all you're saying is that you're worse in some way. So who's next? Let's go to Tony. Tony. Go ahead, Tony. Hey, Matt, first time, a long time.

Who I? Enjoy the show. Hey, comment, and then there's a question. Comment. I thought the game, well, the football game, it can be brutally unforgiving, but it could also be redemptive. And I thought Saturday's game was redemptive for the whole team,

especially Coach Stoops, and for Cadiz. I loved it when it got that fumble. It was just, oh, I just loved it. But my question is, is a concern with this being a by week and then Vanderbilt coming in, as good as Vanderbilt is this year, I'm just concerned that we're going to come out and, like I've seen them play in the past,

you know, we'll be flat after a big game. What does coach stoops and the staff need to do to get the players motivated and ready for Vanderbilt? I think that's a great question. I mean, yeah, I think that's a great question. I think the good thing that keeps them motivated for Vandy and keeps them focus, Ryan, is that we lost two years ago.

Like a lot of these guys that play were on that team two years ago, so they remember losing it. The other thing is when after the week off, hopefully they'll be hungry to play. But you do have to be careful. This Vandy team is not as bad as most Vandy teams are. This is a Vandy team that can beat you if you don't come out and play. Absolutely.

They're a better, I think, and most everybody thought they were going to be this year. And it's kind of like a trap game for Kentucky. They've got some other Florida and Auburn coming up after that. You can't let Vandy sneak in here and beat you at home for the second time in three years. And Florida and Auburn are bigger names, but Vandy is probably almost equally as good. Probably so.

Remember, they beat Virginia Tech. They lost in overtime or close to overtime. I don't remember. It was overtime. It was overtime. In overtime to Missouri. Now, they also lost to Georgia State, which is kind of strange. But they're better than they normally are.

They are. And this is always a strange conversation because how do you not get up for an SEC game? You know what I mean? Like, I know it's Vanderbilt, but like you guys said, they lost to them at Krogerfield. couple years ago. These are the games that matter. So you should always be up for something. Billy, before we go, you have like 10 seconds of something bad you want to say to Shannon

for you coming in first and Shannon coming in six. I like how you always directed at me, but Matt's the one giving you the most crap. We do a radio show together every morning. You could have talked trash. Yeah, I will say, I'm glad you guys are getting some youth on KSR. Me and Mario are here representing, and the youth had to show out at the haybell contest. You're like 30. I'm still young, man.

I'm still young, but you know what Shannon was the most disappointing performance of the day. I mean, you're younger than us, but that doesn't, I mean, I'd say that you don't call me old. I don't think if you go to kids and go, hey, Billy's 30, he's young. 29. You're 30. You're like my Facebook age. You'll stay 29 a long time. Thank you all very much for listening.

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