KSR - 2025-02-28- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

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I am Matt Jones here at the absolutely beautiful new Lexington Sporting FC Soccer Facility out next on the Athens-Bunsboro. exit off the interstate. What's the street? What do we call this? Shives. Shives. Shives.

But everybody knows where it is. You know, it's exit 104. Right off it, and this facility is absolutely beautiful as we get ready to celebrate the Lexington soccer team's move to the championship level of the U.S.L and opening day next Saturday night. You can give us a shout on the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line. 859-280-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 770. 7274-5254 in this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office.

You call T.J. He'll make them pay. Ryan, you know, last summer I spent the summer in Europe, went to soccer stadiums all over. I went to Champions League Qualifier Games. I went to league games. I went to the European soccer championships and went to really, really nice soccer stadiums all around the continent.

This is obviously smaller in scale than some of those, but maybe just as nice. An absolutely beautiful facility. I've driven by this over and over. This is the first time I've been in here. Wow. I don't think I realized that this was this nice and in Lexington. It is.

We can't emphasize enough how awesome this facility really is. I mean, it is beautiful out of here. I got a little tour before we went on, saw the locker rooms. We're in the VIP club now. I mean, this is really a fantastic soccer stadium they've got out of here. I mean, it really, really is. For those of you that are like me, you know, if you followed the construction of it,

etc. I love the logos, Drew, the Lexington Sporting logo. I got the 859 hat on. This is what they, you know, they call the kit. The kit. That's the new kit. Debuted yesterday. Just released. Oh, this is a debut. Brand new Lexington SC kit. I love the colors. I think, you know, everything in Kentucky, Shannon tends to be blue because of Kentucky to have this black and green. I think that's a very good look. It's not just a green. It's almost like a neon type of green. I don't know what you would call that color. But not gaudy. No, it's sharp looking. Ryan's already got a pullover, and he's pretty much on the squad, I think, at this point.

I just had gotten in, and Ryan had already had free years. You knew that's exactly what's going to have. I brought my own scarf from home. I'm a hooligan of Lexington, S.C. Big fan. Oh, yeah. All right, well, here's the thing. So this is to promote opening night is next Saturday. You remember, Kentucky ends the basketball season next Saturday against Missouri at noon. So my post-game show, everything will be over by 4.30.

That night, Lexington Sporting plays their first game in the new level, their first game in the championship level. That's the same one for those of you around Kentucky that Louisville City has been in for years. Lexington is moving up to that league. In a little bit, I'll tell you who's in that league. But for everyone here that came to show, you get two free tickets to the game. So right here, all of a sudden, you get two free tickets. And by the way, if you're out and you'd like to come by, you'll get two free tickets. if you come by during the show.

But for those of you at home, who for whatever reason can, this is what I'm going to ask you to do. Go to lexporting.com. Lexporting.com. If you put in my code KSR, you can get tickets for $5 for the opening night. Oh, that's a good little perk.

Lexporting.com. So literally the debut, one of these days, Lex Sporting will be playing, you know, for the World Cup. And you'll be able to say that you were there. I know they won't, but they'll be playing.

And you will be able to say, you were at the first game in the new level. They play Hartford. We're absolutely going to beat Hartford. I haven't done my research on Hartford yet. I have to fly into Hartford Airport in two weeks. I'll taunt them after we beat them when I go to ESPN. Wear your new hat.

Show up with pride. That's right. But like you said, this is an amazing place. I live two exits down. I've been seeing the construction go on too and to walk in. I mean, I feel like, I mean, it is a professional stadium, but I mean, it feels big time. It does. I mean, it feels like a European soccer stadium.

It really does. Lexporting.com. Code KSR, $5 tickets for the opening game. You know, I think, I hope people in the Lexington community realize what a nice resource this is. And I will say this, when you get to these games, you know, there's a Louisville City fan here. I've been to those games. I've been to those games. Like, when it gets going, it can be, it's a really great atmosphere.

This stadium, like, it holds like 7,500 people. So how awesome would it be to come out here and pack it, man? I'm going to try to fill it up for their opening match a week from tomorrow. I feel like the soccer, like, fan, the etiquette's a little bit different, too, when it comes to being in it. A lot of shirts off. That's right, yeah. Babies? Any babies, Ryan, at soccer matches like this?

Yeah, there should be. Well, not according to Ryan, but I think this is a great family sport to come to. You've got a pitch out here for kids? You're right out by the first. You just say pitch? Look at this guy. How did you know pitch? That's what they called it when I took the tour.

Said, we had a little pitch over here for the kids. So they didn't say. You were, you knew not. I thought you would say field. You knew to say pitch. I probably would have called it Field, but they called it a pitch to me, so it's a pitch out there. It's a pitch out there. So, again, Lexporting.com promo code KSR.

We'll be out here all day. And that merchandise shop, is that open? That is a really nice merchandise shop. I'm a big merch guy, so it looks great. Cats, tomorrow, get ready for three games left in the season. This is, I mean, the number one team in America is coming in here, right? Probably the favorites to win the national championship. coming into Rupp Arena at 1 o'clock.

I think we're all still so excited after the Oklahoma win that I don't know if everybody's processing the best team in the country is coming here tomorrow. One o'clock on ABC. I think I said the other night, when's the last time we played on ABC? It turns out it wasn't that long ago. We played when we played in London, England against Michigan. That game was on ABC. But before that, would you like to know the last regular season game we played on ABC?

I can't think of it was. It's got to be a long time. It was the final game of the white chocolate era at Florida when he came in here and lit us up and then got kicked off the team a couple days later. Do you remember that? That's the Cameron Mills game. Cameron had like 27, but Jason Williams had like 33. Yes, Jason Williams was one of the best games against Kentucky ever.

But we will play tomorrow on ABC. It might be the first college basketball game. They've won of the only couple they've shown this year. Kentucky and Auburn, how you feel it? really we said this one of they went down and played at Alabama I feel like Kentucky's only they're kind of playing with house money you know nobody's expect them to win this game Auburn's really really good so you can go out there and play loose

maybe you know surprise some you get hot you can surprise somebody I actually think Drew we have a better chance of winning this game than I thought we had at Alabama the different even though I think Auburn's a better team you were on the road that makes it much harder you were without two stars whereas in theory you might play with those guys tomorrow and there is a rough advantage there's a there's going to be an advantage to especially if Kentucky gets out gets going early that crowd will be buzzing and it'll be ready to go so I think what we were a 12 and a half point underdog at

Alabama I think that number is going to be much lower tomorrow yeah at Auburn obviously very good what they've done and maybe the best conference ever this year is amazing there only two losses are to Duke in Florida who I'll add Kentucky beat both of those but I I'm not at all surrendering this game. I think it's going to be a great game. I think it's going to come down to the end. Like you said, the crowd will be a factor. But having Butler back appears to be good enough to go full speed

as long as you stay out of foul trouble and whatever you get out of Robinson. I like Kentucky to keep it closed, maybe even win this game. Broome's probably the best player in college basketball, but Kentucky's one of only a few SEC rosters where if you have any form of what you had of Garrison the other night, he and Williams might be able to contend with him in a cardwell inside. My worry about the game is honestly a depth worry. Auburn goes nine or ten deep, and when they bring them in, they don't have a huge drop off.

Like, guys come in off the bench and they're still good. They come at you in waves. Broome is the most famous, but they got eight, nine guys that can play. So I actually worry about, I always worry about our line changes, Shannon, but I especially worry about them in this game because we get our second best against their second best could be a really ugly thing. So I think that's going to be the key is weathering the waves that Auburn can bring. That is 100% it, the waves.

They just keep hitting you. And, you know, like you said, you go to the bench. There's no drop off at all. Do we know what Jackson-Robinson's situation is? Because I'm kind of concerned about whether or not he's healthy enough to play. I have no, this is with no insight, right? This is just a guess. I'm sure we'll get a text message tonight that'll say one way or the other.

But I wouldn't shock me if he sits out. I mean, the fact that he had to leave in the second half, this game being what it is, Mark Pope's a smart guy, he knows we've got to beat LSU Tuesday, right? And like, so you got to make sure you do that. I could see Ryan him taking this game off. But if you're Jackson Robinson, man, you came to college to play in a game like this, so it may be going, you know, I'm playing the number one team in the country. I want to play.

See, that was going to be my point. I think they kind of talk about with Jackson. He's going to want to play number one team in the country. You already beat Florida at home and Tennessee at home. They're thinking they can beat Auburn at home. So I think he'll probably do everything he can try to get on the court at least a little bit. I think so too.

Second to last home game, respectfully at LSU. Really the last one with a whole lot of juice that I think the guys have had circled on the calendar for a while. So if he's able, I don't see any scenario where he would want to rest for, you know, LSU and Missouri when you have the number one team in the country in front of it. Well, we can have it, though, is he come in and, you know, get that hand aggravated again, and then you have them out longer into the tournament. I think it's more important to rest him tomorrow and have them ready to go for March than it is.

I don't know that. I mean, that can happen at any point. Sure, but it's more likely to happen. Why is it more likely to happen now? I'm just saying the more you play on, the more likely it is to happen for him to re-aggravate that. I would rather that happen maybe in March instead of before we get to the tournament. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I haven't seen his diagnosis.

So, I mean, like, I don't, I'm sure they're doing whatever they think is best for him. I do see Drew's point, which is that, like, you don't get to playing games such as this very often. You don't get a lot of number one action. The other thing is, this game is, if you could win, is a lot at stake for Kentucky. I mean, if you win, then you take all possibility of you playing on Wednesday out of the way. If you win, you're going to probably have a really good chance of playing your way out of the 8 seat. You can move to the 5, 6, or 7 so that you don't have to. to play Auburn maybe until the finals of the SEC tournament if you were to make it.

And all of a sudden you have a path that looks more manageable in the SEC tournament. If you win, I think you're assured a four seed and maybe a three seed and maybe you're playing for a two seed, Drew, if you win. I mean, if you beat Auburn and you add that to the list. So let's just imagine we were to beat Auburn. Let's look at our resume. We were beating Auburn, Duke, and Florida. three of the five favorites to win the national championship,

and we would have beaten three of them, right? And we would have been up 10 on the road against the fourth one. So you all of a sudden are looking at maybe a two seed in the NCAA tournament. So you win this game. There's a whole bunch of doors that open up. Yeah, you add another to Pope's record of beating top 15 teams, which is already crazy this year that he's won so many of those. And at that point, when you do get the NCAA bracket,

everyone will be a team you're afraid of because you've got beaten most of the top seeds outside of Alabama. you've played all of them well even going to Tennessee who you've swept who's going to be one of the top you know maybe a two three seed depending how they finish it's just you'll you'll have so much confidence knowing that you've already done it and they're able to do it again i was asked by radio show ryan to you know i've kind of like i always pick one of these five will win the title yeah and sort of guarantee i was trying to think who my five are i know albren's going to be one i knew i know duke's going to be one i know houston's going to be one like those three are definitely going to be on my list

I'm probably going to put Alabama as one, too, even though their defensive metrics are lower than most title contenders are. But then I'm sitting there trying to think about the fifth. And you look at the contenders for the fifth, Florida, we've played, Tennessee, we've played. You know, you start to go, wait a minute, outside of Houston, all these teams that can win the national championship, we've already played them. So we shouldn't really be scared of anybody out there because we've played the best teams in America. And the other potential two seeds, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa State. I mean, I'm not scared of you. I'm not picking any of those.

Honestly, if you told me Kentucky plays Wisconsin or Iowa State and we're healthy, I'd pick us on a neutral court. I think I'd pick us over Michigan, to be honest with you, on a neutral court. So it's going to be weird going into the tournament because we've been up and down. But for the first time in my life, unless we see Auburn, in our bracket, I don't know that I'm going to be scared of any of these teams. I'm not even scared of Auburn.

I just would rather not play them. Also, Kentucky's losses have been in true road environments. You've only have Missouri of that left. Then it's to neutrals where Kentucky will probably have the best crowd at most places. So you put that aspect aside too. And I just, I'm feeling good about tomorrow, to be honest. Maybe they don't win it. Maybe they won't.

I think they're going to be in it. And as I said, if you just, if they are able to pull that off, you won't be afraid of anyone moving forward. Before SEC played started, if you had told me we were fully healthy, I thought we'd win tomorrow. I did. I thought that's the kind of game that we get in Rupp with the crowd. Now, we're not fully healthy. And they're probably a little better than I thought they were going to be.

But still, I think we have a great chance. I thought we had no chance last week against Alabama. I actually think we have a great chance of winning tomorrow. 859-280-2287. The text machine is 772-75-25-4. We are here at Lexington Sporting. What's the name of the stadium? Lexington Sporting Club Stadium.

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The largest tax investigation in American history. You need to tell me what you know. Is somebody coming after me? Jacob told Levan, you're ruining my life. Listen to Kingdom of Fraud on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Music, Rick, welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Rick, what is this? You got to do, but you can't. Rick, I love you and I like you. You can't put this. What is this? This is Mr. Brightside by the killers. This is, well, then play, you should play the part that people.

know. Okay, now that's better. It's good people going. This is the remix. Yeah. Is this the remix, Rick? I'm not sure. It doesn't sound here. Techno remix. This isn't the original. Yeah, this isn't the original. That's okay. Rick, you just hit the button, right?

And saw what comes up. That's right. So we try to maybe we try to do a little more than hitting the button, and then you get better something. Well, you know, speaking of music, Alice Bluegowns single dropped today. Yeah, so everybody give a round of applause to Shannon. Alice Blue Gowns. And you can keep it in the podcast.

We won't sue you. Actually, so I'll tell you what, Rick, will you look up Alice Blue Gown's new song and play it coming in next time? Yeah, that'll be easy. Okay, what's the name of the song? Helios. Helios. Did you write the song? I did.

We actually wrote this song 15 years ago and just got around to recording it last year. So this is something that I wrote when I was in my 20s. Oh, wait a little ago. That's kind of cool. I didn't know this. So you wrote this when you were in your 20s. What's it about? I'd rather not say I want

There to be some mystique about it So you can look at the lyrics And you can tell me what you think it's about And whatever you think it is That's what it's about Is that the cool singer thing to do Not say what the lyrics are about? I don't ever like my songs to be ruined

Like songs that I grew up listening to I would rather not know what they're about And have my own kind of version of what I think it is So you wrote it 15 years ago Yeah When you went back to it Did you still feel the things that you felt 15 years ago, or were you, like, looking at a different person, right?

Yeah, I mean, I think I probably felt some of the same things that I did back then, and then going back and re-recording it. You know, we had, like, a really crappy recording of it. So then we went to an actual professional studio to record this one. So it was really cool. Is this your first original song? That we've recorded, yes. Good for you.

That's awesome. Yeah, that is cool. So seeing it on iTunes this morning was really cool. That is, dude, that's really awesome. So I tell you what, how does it work? How do we put something up the charts on iTunes? How does that work? I don't know.

I mean, you have to buy it, right? Well, you don't have to. You can stream it. I don't want to ask anybody to buy anything. I'll buy it. But you can if you want to, but you can also stream it on Spotify, YouTube music, obviously Apple Music, and wherever you can stream music. I'm pulling this.

So this is on Alice Blue Gown. Soon you're going to be ahead of Alice in Chase. Alice Blue Gown. It says there's a Bobby Darren song called Alice Blue. No, maybe scroll down a couple. I don't think we... There you are. You see the little logo.

And there it is. There you go. It's $1.29. Well, actually, I got... Oh, I have Apple Music. Then there you go. You don't have to do that. You can just...

Cool. I now have Helios in my... I can't thank you enough. Thank you very much. Yes. So everybody on your phones and whenever, download Shannon's song, and let's get him up.

there, he'll be the new Morgan Wall. I've always wanted to have a hit. So even if it gets in like the top thousand, I would be happy. Let's get him in the top thousand. I don't know that there's a chart for that, but if there is, all of you that have your phones out here, Dalla, we got to get him on top. We can get him past Sabrina Carpenter easily. He's just as hot.

859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-7-7-4-7-24-5254. Lex Sporting.com. Code is KSR. They may have had a little bit of technical problem at the beginning, but it works now, I hope. $5 tickets if you use the code. Let's a couple little pieces of news before I get to phones. UK Gonzaga has been announced next year, Drew, for Nashville on a Friday night,

December 5th. So Kentucky will play. I hear this is going to be potentially an ABC network Friday night game where Kentucky plays Gonzaga in prime time on a Friday night. the thought I was thinking, though, is having a game in Nashville. I mean, having a marquee opponent in Nashville in the regular season, when's the last time that happened? We've played in Nashville, but has it been a marquee opponent?

I mean, only Vandy trips, and even those until this year weren't even on a weekend, usually, or at least not a good one. Nashville non-conference opponent? No, I can't at all. I think, by the way, I think that's going to be an amazing atmosphere. Oh, yes. Like, you're going to get like a non-rup crowd, but close enough where everyone can go. on a Friday night.

I think, Drew, that's got a chance to be a wild atmosphere next year. Well, you already know my opinion on that. That's on the calendar. I got my rooms yesterday. Tickets go on sale Friday. I'll be first in line for that. Tickets go on sale Friday? Next Friday.

March, what is that? 7th, I believe. Yeah. 10 o'clock, so I might be on my phone during the show to get them. But no, I'm so fired up. Like I said, already booked it. Already got friends booked it. I already counting down even though it's next December.

I have no idea how good we'll be. Ryan, I don't have any idea how good Gonzaga will be, but just having that game and having it, I think that's a great date to have it on a Friday night because that'll be the Friday night before conference championship weekend, the next weekend. So, like, you don't want to play on Saturday because everybody ignores it, but on Friday night you can maybe get an audience there,

and that would be good. I think it's going to be an awesome weekend. Have that game Friday night, people spend the night, then hang out all day in their blue on Saturday, watching the football games. You know, Gonzaga beat us at Rupp, and then we beat them at Seattle. So this is the rubber game there. Well, they beat us twice.

They beat us at Gonzaga. Oh, I forgot about that game. So it's not really a rubber game. We can also wake up to drive straight to Atlanta in case Kentucky is in the SEC championship. You know, it cuts down on the drive to get to Atlanta. Oh, you think that might happen. I don't have high hopes this season for football, but if they were to surprise us,

we're already on our way down there. So if we were to play for the SEC championship, they'll be there. Yeah, I don't know if I'll be driving anywhere on that Saturday, but if someone wants to take me, I'll go. Also, shout out to the guy in the crowd who bought me off Shannon off of TikTok, a sweatshirt that says, I need a Diet Coke. Oh, love that. What a great hoodie.

What a great hoodie that is. Off of TikTok, is that like a thing that's trending on there that's big on TikTok? I don't know, but there are many times when I'm grumpy. This would be a good show to have on. Who's up next? Matt is up next. Matt, go ahead, Matt. Hey, Matt.

Long-time listener called back in 2013. I just wanted to say, sorry, I'm not walking by. talking about a breath. This season's been just so much fun to share with my son. Groven Lexington, y'all actually talked about a while ago. My dad was the mascot back in the 70s. He was on stilts. He was Big Blue. He did a story about him on WKYT a couple weeks ago. Yeah, we did talk about that. Yeah, the guy that was on stilts. That was a different time in UK athletics. Well, I'm glad to hear that was your dad. Yeah, it's just, and so like, you know, The Oklahoma, O-A is my son's favorite player, Burton.

So he had to go to beg if he's young, but I got him up the next morning and watched the last 12 minutes together and just watching him, you know, get excited about the AN1 dunk and the game-winning shot, obviously. It's just been real special. I don't have any. Somebody's already got my tickets for the Auburn game, but I have a Champions Club passes and a parking pass. I'd love to share with somebody who's going to the game.

So you can send them to me if you want, Matt, dot Jones at kentucky sports radio.com. I'll give away any and everything that people send. I appreciate the call. I haven't gotten a lot because I don't think a lot of people are giving away UK Auburn tickets. But if you do, if you want to, I will certainly give them away to everybody else. We'll take a break and come back here at Lexington Sporting Club.

This is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Lexington Sporting Club. The women's team here plays on tomorrow night. Yes. So like the men's team play next Saturday, the women's team, tomorrow night opens up there. Well, they've already played a couple of games here, but they will play against Brooklyn FC. And there'll be free match posters, the first 300 fans, their spring home match tomorrow against it's 7 o'clock. So again, another time you can watch the game during the day and then do that at night. Yeah, it was pretty cool.

When we had them at the bar a few months ago, met some of the women's team. They're really nice and excited. Okay. Shout out to TJ. Hey, Rick. Rick, how's things going this morning? What are you doing in there? Sorry about that.

All right. If you're not on the wine yet, are you? Yeah, Rick, I feel like, all right. Now, we didn't, you cut off before I could get there. That was Shannon's song. So I tell you what, let's do it again at 1040 and then let it play a little bit, Rick, okay? Because I want people to get to here, all right? Sure thing.

All right. And then do the T.J. Smith drop right there, too. One person writes, Matt, leave Rick alone. He did not make any call or cry like Billy did, so he's already better. That's still got a life of its own. People are still. You know, Billy, I feel like it's going to linger a little while. You know, I want to put you on the air on the show to make it better,

but I don't think you will make it better, which is partially why I'm not going to do it because, you know, we might address it on the postgame show Saturday after the Auburn game a little bit. But it has taken a life of its own. I'm not going to lie to you. Yesterday got brought up to me quite a bit, including people who don't talk to me about the show. We're like, so what was up with Billy? It also I looked on Apple iTunes. At one point, we were the number 10 episode in the country, which doesn't ever happen.

I mean, that doesn't ever happen. Good job, Billy. Yeah, part of a good job. He's just doing it for the show. Part of it was, I think it was a late night post game, so a lot of people went to bed, so they wanted to hear it the next day, and then we had beaten Oklahoma, so it was a good win. And I think part of it might have been people going,

what happened with Billy and this? So I think this is going to linger. So what side of you on? Should Heather call Saturday? And should Billy? Well, I mean, that's up to Heather. I would love for Heather to call. I want Heather to call.

She got a lot of good feedback, I think, from Twitter. Twitter seemed to, she sent a thing. You know, I would just suggest as a recommendation to young Billy that if she calls, I would be overly nice if I were him, Shannon, if she did. Because it's probably, this is not one you want to linger, I think. The best thing that could happen for Billy is Heather actually calls in and we make it right this time, right? Sometimes you screw up. You have an opportunity to make it right now. If she doesn't call back in, then it might linger a little longer.

I would say, though, at some point she'll call back. Yes. It's in her hands. And when she does, I just think it would be really nice for Billy to be sort of nice. I think that would be helpful. And her post that she put out, you know, she said she started calling to help kind of therapy for the floods, a little relief from the floods. And she wanted to give a shout out to her 95-year-old grandmother and Billy waxer.

She said she called in the post-game show to help with flood recovery and for her 95-year-old grandmother, which certainly helps Billy's case a lot, Drew, when we learned those facts, too. I'm afraid to even look at you right now because the look Billy's giving you is making me uncomfortable. Staring a hole for me. Don't you get mad. Don't get mad at me, Ricky Bobby. I ain't the one who did it. And if you remember, I tried to save you in the moment at 140 a.m.

I know what fan reaction is going to be like, Shannon. He did not apologize. Or actually, he did apologize on the pre-show, but he will not take responsibility. So now he's flipped from where he was before. All right. Since we are here at Lexington Sporting, I want to tell you, soccer story that did you see what happened in the German League 4 Bundesliga game? Man, I guess I missed that one.

Tell me about it. Between FC Terry 2 and Wright Weiss Marheim 3. You probably didn't watch this game. Battle for the ages. You know why you didn't watch the game? No. Because he got postponed during warmups. Would you like to know why?

Yes. You know how when you watch soccer games. I don't know, do they do this here? Do like, do little kids walk out? Okay, so you'll, it's always an interesting thing about soccer is that little kids will, like, walk out with the team. They'll hold hands with them, and then everybody will shake hands. It's kind of got to be a cool moment for the little kids that do it.

So, FC, Tari, 2, and Wright, Weiss, Mannheim 3 are playing each other. Kids walk out with the thing. The referee is standing in the middle comes in. All the kids are going to walk by. and shake hands with the referee, and one of the kids just punches the referee in his crotch. No way. And then he bends over and the kid bites his testicle.

What? And he ends up having to go to the hospital, and they don't have a make-up referee, and they end up canceling. They have to cancel the match. A German professional soccer match ended because of an assault by an eight-year-old on the referee before the game start. you could have asked me 15 reasons why that match got canceled and I wouldn't have thought somebody's

testicle got bit. I hope it was more than 15. I thought I hope it was going to be like a million. Wow. I feel like a punch would have been enough. But to go back and bite it is insult to injury at that point. You're just piling on. He ended up having to go to the hospital like look at like. Oh yeah. And so that match by the way has been rescheduled. I don't know if they'll have the kids walk on the the pitch for that one. But an interesting moment. How do you even handle that with the kid? I mean, you can't. I think you've got to put him in trouble. I think you have to say that's not, you can't do that. Please tell me, please tell me there's video. I don't really want to see this. I've not seen the video, but I don't expect that will happen

next Saturday on opening night. I think they'll, they will protect our referees. Who's up next? Got Josh up next. Josh, go ahead, Josh. Hey, Matt, I'm not going to wait your time asking how you're doing. That bugs me when people do that. But I'm going to do it. You already did. So go ahead. Yeah. So I was going to give a shout to Heather and Pikeville, but you guys just covered her. I did want to say that I won tickets to the Auburn game for Saturday. I won a VIP experience.

And they actually invited me to the practice today. So I left a little before 6 o'clock this morning from Western Kentucky. I'm just now pulling up the arena for practice. And I just wanted to ask, what kind of a heck of a VIP experience? Who did you win that from? Hang on. Who did you win that from? That's a big experience.

Okay. Well, let me just close a little information my wife doesn't know. I won the tickets, but I won them through coaches versus cancer auction. So you paid for the BIP experience. Yeah, okay. Winning at auction is a little different. Hang on just a second. There's a difference between winning and paying.

Now, I think it'll be worth it. That's a little different than winning the experience. I won. I won the bin. It said you won. You won because you spent the most money. That's how an auction works. Well, anyways, what can I expect of the practice?

There are anything you think I should look for to better my experience? Well, it sounds like you've got the kind of money. You don't need to worry about the experience, but I appreciate the call. He could send us a Jackson-Robinson report if he wants to. Yeah, no, that would be interesting to see how much Jackson-Robinson and Lamont Butler play. I have not been because during the summer I was gone. So I have not been to a full Mark Pope practice beyond the one that the whole media went to. So I haven't, you know, when coaches do media practices,

I always think they're a little bit careful what they do because all the media is there. In the earlier years of Cal, I would go to a couple practices every year, and you kind of got a sense of what it was going to be like. So I have the point being I haven't really seen Mark Pope coach a team yet. So I do think, Ryan, that would be interesting because you do learn about a coach based on behind the scenes. I used to say about Cal, people would be like, oh, Cal doesn't coach. Well, you haven't been to practice because he would coach in practice. It would be interesting to see Polk do one too.

I would love to go to a practice sometime because you hear like Jack Givens or Cameron Mills, those guys that go to practice a lot, they talk about how Mark is like always uplifting, always encouraging, always trying to push guys, you know, to be a better player. It's not a lot of screaming and hollering and getting on somebody. It's more support from coming from Coach Pope. Also today, as he noted, they're practicing in Rupp. I know for many years we wanted them to do that more often. Pope's done that. He's got a press conference right after this show ends,

and instead of doing it at the usual spot, you've got to go to Rupp to see it. So that's one thing I think he's, every fan has wanted, you know, going back maybe over decades to do more practices there. We have thought, I've never understood why we didn't do that, Shane. I mean, you know, like every other team in the country,

literally every other team in the country gets to practice in the arena they play it. Unless you're St. John's playing in Madison Square Garden, pretty much everyone else practices, I mean, Cameron, Fog Allen Fieldhouse, even the Dean Smith. Like they practice there, and we haven't been able to do that. So I'm glad that has started to become a thing. I mean, it's nice to have that practice facility. But yeah, I mean, if you're going to play there, I don't know why you wouldn't. Like, what's the argument against that?

Well, they don't have access. I mean, Rupp Arena charges. Yeah, you've got to pay rent. sure you can. Wait, wait, wait. So they actually have to pay to practice at Ruff Arena? Well, I mean, they may have done some sort of deal with them where they can now get it the day before. But generally speaking, you know, UK is, that facility is owned by the city. So UK is like renting it somehow. So I'm sure that's why. I mean, you couldn't have practiced there Thursday because the Blake Shelton concept was true. Right. Yeah, but either way, even if you do have to pay, I think that would be money worth spent.

Worth spending. Worth spending. That was a Ryan Lemon, worth spending. That was a right. Money worth spent. Well, I'll tell you, when you have your money worth spent, how about using it in a high-yield savings account from UK federal credit union? Well, tell me more, Matthew. How about that transition? As high as 4% APY on your savings,

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It is a little intense. That's good, though. That's what you want. Well, Shannon the dude, nice job. Appreciate it. Alice BlueGound, Helios, go download it. 859, 2807. By the way, so the KSR $5 tickets, they now have it to where there's just a button on the front of the site.

So you go to Lexington Sporting.com. There's a button that says KSR fans here, and that's how you can get your $5 tickets. So if the code doesn't work, they just have a button for you to click right there on the first. Yeah, we talked about it. We should pack this out for their home opener. You know, everybody here gets free. You can buy cheap tickets online, so pack it out. If you get out here before noon, you can have the tickets.

So I asked them for the teams that we play this year because we're in a new league, new teams. Are you ready? So I'm going to give you the cities. You tell me your quick thought on these. These are now our rivals in the Lexington, excuse me, in the U.S.L. Are you ready? I'm ready. Louisville City.

Stink, smelly. National. Stop. They're our rival. I told you during the break. I'm going to give you some things. Be careful what you said. And you already are telling smelly and stinky to a city where we have thousands of listeners.

Yeah, but for their soccer team, though. I'm not asking you about their team. I'm asking you about the city. Oh, okay. Because you don't know anything about any of these teams. No. Okay. All right, I'm going to give you one more chance.

Take two. Take two. Here we go. And it's smelly and stinky. It's not a thing. Birmingham. They don't have to be made fun of. Just what do you know?

know about these cities. Birmingham? It's in Alabama. It's state capital, and I guess they are in the middle of the state. Charleston. Charleston, West Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. South Carolina. Beautiful city. One of the most beautiful cities on the east coast. Colorado Springs. We play the switchbacks. Been there. Air Force Academy. Beautiful, right on the edge of the mountains. Detroit City FC. Going to be cold if you go up there this time of year, Detroit. The El Paso locomotive. Oh, that's going to be hot. We go down in El Paso, Texas. We're getting weather reports now. Our opening game against the Hartford Athletics.

Hartford, they don't play soccer up there. They play hockey. No, they don't. They lost their team. Oh, damn. Leesburg, Virginia, Loudon United. I know absolutely nothing about Leesburg. You know where Leesburg, Virginia is.

It's in Virginia. Okay. You're terrible at this game. I mean, I knew you'd be bad. I probably didn't say Darius Rucker for Charleston, South Carolina. Oh, I should have. Do you know, Drew, the 15th region controversial? I don't, but I like controversies.

I don't, 15th region, the district tournaments are going on right now. So let me give you a little backdrop. I learned all this from a woman who made a TikTok video that I saw this morning while I was getting ready, and she talked for about 45 minutes about this. I liked your info, lady, but maybe make it a little shorter. But anyway, I wanted to hear it because it was 15th region. So apparently in every other region in the state, you have the district tournament. Right.

You play the first round games. If you lose, you're out. if you win the district, you go, if you win or you lose in the finals, you play in the region the next year. But in the 15th region, I guess they've had some issues in the last few years where the favorites have gotten upset in the district

first round. So now they have something where if you win the district, you make it, but then they have a bonus if you lose in the district and everybody plays off against each other. It's like double elimination in the district. It's been very controversial in the 15th region. This woman who was on my

TikTok very upset about it. Like she talked to, she was very angry. So, I guess they had a game between Betsy Lane and Preston'sburg. Okay. I didn't know Betsy Lane was still a school. I thought that had consolidated. Small school, yeah. But Betsy Lane and Prestonburg, there's video of this online.

I guess it's one of these playing games where a team had already lost and had to play again. Okay. There ends up being a little fight. The players are mad at each other. And it culminates in the scorekeeper, who's running the book, just flips off two of the players. Oh my goodness. Oh. Now, wow. I don't know what led to it.

I saw the video. The announcers were outraged. They're like, how does the guy running the score flip off our player? And he was very angry. I don't know what happened. Then there was questions of can he be impartial when he's flipping off the players, but he is only running the scorebook. So what do you think of this? I've learned that the 15th region is a hot, a cauldron of difficulty right now. Well, I assume the scorekeeper was probably for the home team. It's not probably...

It's hard to tell. Yeah. But I did see him flip the birds. That clearly was part of what happened. I'd say he's not going to be invited back. I'd say he needs to look for another job during basketball season. How would you feel if during the game, Doug Schaulz just flipped off Jackson-Robins? I think that would be awesome.

I'm encouraging that to happen. But we know if you do that in Rupp Arena, you are not invited back. Shout out to Blue Co, Doug. This is pretty outrageous. I don't know everything the person keeping the book supposed to do, but I know one thing they shouldn't do, and that's go double birds to the amateurs playing sports in front of them. Stone Colt Steve Austin on.

The high school kid. I want to know, though, what happened that made him that matter? Yeah. What could the high school kid have been so upset? With the guy running the book. The scorekeeper. He wasn't even, like, he's not even doing the score clock. He's doing the book, which I thought,

how could you even be mad at the guy doing the book? They must have thought he screwed up the score. Because, you know, the official score, not necessarily what's on the scoreboard. It's what's in his book. Well, he certainly thought he didn't, based on the reaction. I wanted to hear the radio call, because remember a couple years ago, that's where we got 606 by God.

I think that was the 15th region tournament. The other sort of controversy is the 15th region tournament is always in a gym that's got like 7,000 people and it's a neutral gym. Problem is they had the floods. FEMA is now using the gym. FEMA is operating out of the gym, so they can't have it in the gym. And now there's a huge fight about where are you going to play it? Everybody's like, well, I wanted it at my school,

and I wanted it at my school. And apparently, I don't know if they still know where they're going to play it yet. And so that was part of what this woman was complaining about on TikTok, too. Hopefully don't fight too much over that. I mean, I think they should all understand unique circumstances there. Maybe do a random drawing or something. I don't think you can just kick FEMA out of the gym. They're doing some important work.

Let's just take it to a city park and have an outdoor game. You know, just so. Well, just 15th region, a lot of emotion. Who's next? Michael is up next. Michael. Michael, go ahead, Michael. What's up, fellas?

I feel like Shannon screened my call. after yesterday. Well, Shannon's not in studio, so go ahead. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Hypothetically, this is for all of you all. If the season ended the day, where do you all see any of our players if they're able to make the NBA draft or be drafted? Yeah, I don't think any of them get drafted.

Yeah, no, none of our guys are going to get drafted. No. I mean, O.A's probably going to come back. So if he were to come back and then had like an amazing. year maybe but the only person on the team i think that has any chance of ever getting drafted is brandon garrison um but i doubt that happens at least unless he improves a lot i mean oh way there's a world where oway came back i appreciate the call average 20 points a game and then was drafted the next year in the second round but this is not drew a team of NBA players it's just

not no maybe late second round someone takes a flyer on coby brayer thinking he's a lights out shooter, but I still worry his defense just isn't quite up to speed for making the NBA. Maybe Amari, someone takes a chance, but none of them are really projected to be in that conversation. Yeah, I mean, they just all, they all have a weakness that I think makes it very difficult to play in the NBA. Oway and Garrison, I think, have the athleticism, but I just would be surprised. O'A. needs a shot.

Better shot. That's why if he comes back and he, like, start shooting threes like Jackson Robinson, then maybe there's a world where he plays in the NBA. We'll take a break. Come back. Hour number two. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy,

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