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Episode Date: March 3, 2025

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-2802287. The good thing about talking about books on audio is how many people tell me, Ryan, they listen to Mitch, please. That took so long to record that audiobook. I remember you saying that. It was like 15 hours in the studio. Now what I didn't realize, though, that you used your different voices for different

characters and stuff. Yeah, so it was me. Then Tomlin came in and did his parts. We actually had a couple people that are in the book who came and did their own parts, right? When they were talking to me, there's one, I won't spoil it if you've never heard it, but there's one who's a pretty prominent character who does his own voice. And then I would do some voices sometimes, you know, because I'm almost,

like, you know, a master of impressions, Drew. So I would do some voices sometimes. Yeah, you're like Frank Calliando. Yeah, a little bit, a little bit. Would you do your woo cost? You got a woo? I do woo. And the crazy old man voice.

And my British voice. I have like three. And that's it. They all kind of sound alike, to be honest with you. But that's all right. All right. So I want to play you something at Ryan. Meyer Metcalfe.

ESPN decided to let Meyer Metcalfe call a college basketball game on the radio. All right. He did Clemson, Virginia for ESPN radio. All right. So I talked to him the week before and he was a little nervous because he said, you know, I've never done this before. Do you have any tips?

And I was like, well, I've never done a play-by-play for a game before. So I'm not the guy to ask. He said, I just don't want to be too excited. And so I got to listen to some of the game. This was last week. And he was a little overly excited, but he did good. but he was wanting to figure out, Drew, a catchphrase. All right?

He wants to have a catchphrase. You can't force one. I agree. But he didn't ask me about the catchphrase. So he came up with a catchphrase and he waited for the moment to hit. Shannon, are you ready to hear Myron Metcalf dropping his catchphrase last Saturday, Virginia and Clemson? Let's do it. Catchphrase, Myron.

Here we go. Eight seconds on the shot clock. Something has to happen. Andrew Rody tries to make it happen. And Anthony Robinson says, Tell your friends about me. There you go. Tell your friends about me. Just now play the isolated. See if you think this is a good catchphrase. Go. It's not opening now. What? It says we couldn't open the media file. Let me close it. I will just play the whole clip again. Let me close it out and go back in. Good Lord. Oh, see, this is why I need Billy. may be harsh, Ryan, but he gets the production ready.

I had it ready. It just wouldn't go. All right. Well, yippee, Skippy. I was ready to be excited. What do you think, Ryan, about tell your friends about me. It didn't sound like it was forced. I thought it kind of sounded a little natural. I know, this is Mondays with Myron, as we love Mondays with Myron, but I don't know if that one's going to catch on. Why not? I like it. Tell your friends about me, Drew. It's unique. It's now, it's Myron's thing. I guess he's got a stick with it. Have you heard. Ever heard anybody else do it? No, is that, is it a reference to anything?

Or did he just come up with that with a blank sheet? I think he came up with him on the plane to Washington, D.C. And on the drive to Virginia. All right, let's do it again. Tell your friends about me. One more time. Tell your friends about me. I like it. Perfect. All right, I think if you look on that email, Shannon, I think he had one more. Is there one on there that says something about a search engine? Do you see that one? Let's see. There's one more on there that I think. Three-pointer. Dunk. ESPN radio. Oh, okay. I guess he doesn't have that. He also had one that said Google me, which I liked. Google me. So, congrats to my friends about me.

That's a little angry. I think when you isolate it, though, it sounds kind of awesome. Shannon, I think that needs to go into our drops. I like it. I like it. something happens, I think you hit those drops. Tell your friends about me. That's exactly right. 899-280-2020. They had the Oscars last night. Anora, won for Best Picture. Ryan, are you going to watch it? I'm probably not going to watch it. I don't know anything about it.

I know they won a bunch of awards last night. I just told you Friday what it was about. Yeah. But you don't remember, right? Don't not have any memory of that. I think if I tell him what it's about, Drew, he'll want to watch it. That's why I almost don't want to tell him what it's about because then he'll want to watch it. Let him be surprised now that he knows it's an award-women winning film.

He doesn't need to know the plan. That's exactly right. Ryan, why don't you just watch it? Okay. Don't know anything about it. And then tell me if you like it. Just go in straight. I know it won a lot of awards last night.

It's like an independent film. It's an independent film. It's actually very good. I think you'll like it. I'm not genuinely do. I think you'll like it. And then the woman from that won. an award.

She won the best actress. Yeah, best actor was the guy from the brutalist, Adrian Brody. You would not like that movie. I also, what's his name from Succession won? Karen. Karen Culkin, McCulley Culkin's brother.

He won basically for playing the same character he plays in Succession in a different movie. Best speech of the night, too. I don't know if you saw it, but his wife told him at one point that I can have more kids if you ever wins an Oscar like jokingly. So he got up there and looked at his wife.

He's like, I didn't forget that comment. So he had, so now he has to have another kid. Yeah, he wanted a kid after he won a Golden Globe. And she said, talk to me when he went an Oscar kind of, you know, pushing him off. And then he called around. He said he hadn't mentioned to it one time before that speech. So he had a pretty funny speech there. Oh, that's good.

Good for him. I wonder if he's like, you know, when he plays Roman on Succession, he's a certain kind kind of thing. You think he's like that in real life? Or is that just like a complete character? Because he's so wrapped up to what he's like on that show. in my mind. In his speech, it felt like it was watching Roman. He's still kind of that smart

aleck funny guy, so I think so. He's great on succession. So Anora is the big winner. And finally, Shannon, John Cena. Oh, yeah. Former OVW superstar for the first time in his wrestling career

becomes a heel. That's right. He is, has there, I was trying to think of this. Has there ever been a wrestler, Shannon, that was a superstar that was never a bad guy. No. Or a bad guy that was never a good guy.

Can you ever think of one that never switched sides? No. No. I mean, that would have been John Sina. John Sina is the only one I can think of that had gone his whole career, only being a good guy. And then Saturday night, Ryan, he becomes a bad guy. He turns on Cody Rhodes.

Another OVW guy. Another OVW guy. beats him up and becomes a bad guy for the first time in his career at the age of 43 or whatever. Why? He's like mega superstars. Well, that's what all of the wrestling world is asking. Why would he do that? Because he's joining the Rock. He's joining the Rock to perform a Hollywood. The Rock's a bad guy too. They're performing a Hollywood Alliance. Oh, boy. I mean, who would you want on your side? Cody Rhodes or the Rock? I'd want the Rock.

So there you go. John Cena. First, here's what's crazy. You know, he doesn't. He's like, everybody who knows John Ciena, so he's like one of the greatest guys ever. He does a lot of make a wish stuff. He's done like 150 make a wish things. Shannon, he did a make a wish thing that day right before the event. Yeah. And then became a bad guy. Did you see the kids crying?

The kids were crying. No, way. When he turned on Cody. So can you believe he would do that, Drew? Like the nicest guy in wrestling. turns heel. I think it's kind of awesome. I mean, everyone needs to be the bad guy for a little bit.

It's wrestling. The kids might not get over it, but I think it's a good, I don't know how much he has left in his career, but a good last storyline for him. I'm wondering why Travis Scott was there, though. I'm not watching it closely enough. Why was he punching? I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

And did you see he actually punched him really hard? I don't think. I mean, go watch that punch. Somebody needs to work with Travis. That was not, I bet Cody Rhodes didn't like that a whole lot. Probably not. What title was he carrying it around? It's like you.

You just create your own title. Managers walk around with their own title belt. Well, it's a good question. You think maybe they're watching Lowe? Maybe so. I can't think of anyone ever only being on one side. I'll be honest. It makes me now want to watch it and see what they do about it.

But the kids. Ryan, what about the kids? What are they going to do? It breaks my heart if they're out in the crying because their heroes switch to be a bad guy. Is there some big event coming up? Is that why they're trying to set this out? That's called WrestleMania.

Yeah, it's usually the same weekend as the final four. So, anyway, a very shocking set of circumstances there for Mr. Sien. Oh, yeah, in an interview, Ryan, they asked him, why he did it? And he dropped the mic. then later he was talking to somebody and said, I got mad because when I came back, they made fun of my bald spot. Aha.

That's true. They did do that. They did. They did do that when they returned. They did. Shannon, you know, let's go Sina Suna sucks for a decade at least now. There you go.

All right, let's go to Clayton. What's up, Clayton? Well, since you brought up wrestling, this past weekend, for the first time in Fayette County School, history, a team won a state wrestling championship.

And that would be the Lafayette generals. Well, didn't Union County win? Oh, the Lafayette girls. Okay, gotcha. Gotcha. Union County, yeah, they won by more than 100 points. Well, congrats to Lafayette.

I spoke there a couple months ago. Probably Ryan gave them some confidence to go win the state. What else you got? What else do I have? Well, one other thing I wanted to tell you guys is if we just got a, we need to stay away from Auburn. We need to stay away from, we need to stay away from all the top team teams until we get home to our guards.

Yeah, well, you can't do that. I appreciate the call. You're not allowed to stay away from all of them. And we're getting, we have all our guards that we're going to have because we're not going to have Jackson Robinson and we're not going to have Kirkcisa. So the team we have is a team we're going to have. Ronnie, go ahead, Ronnie. I was seriously anticipating when the game came back on TV after the outage that they would be under an official review again still.

They've got to do something about it. It is ridiculous, and it totally just stopped any momentum. Anybody has it all. I agree. The reviews are ridiculous. They're out of control. They're out of control. They've got to do something about it.

this in the off season. They go to the review. Jay Billis is exactly right. Let each coach have one review challenge. That's it. They go to it way too much. The flagrant they called on Butler, he didn't even blow the whistle in real time. Now, if you look at the monitor, I can see why they called it a flagrant, but if it wasn't even in real time, how are you going to the monitor? And now they're going to the monitor about everything. They're going to the monitor about whether a ball goes out of bounds 10 minutes with left in the first half. Like stop it. that first half took an hour and 20 minutes. I'm with you, man.

It's absurd. Appreciate the call. I can handle it, Drew, at the end of games, because you want to get it right. But at the beginning of games, they went to the monitor five times in the first half. That is ridiculous. The loudest moments on Saturday,

I think we're booing the reps at the monitor, and they couldn't go to the monitor anymore after the broadcast went out. And I think if the broadcast hadn't been messed up, I think we would have had a three-hour game because it went two hours in like 42 minutes. You give them a few more chances to go to the monitor and that would have been a three-hour basketball.

Apparently, yeah. They wanted to go to the monitor again and it was out and they couldn't. I do like that. I agree with you guys, man. Just give each coach one and if it's right, he gets to keep it. But if he did it wrong and boom, he loses it. Dude, it's getting ridiculous. Also that and how they're scheduling these two-hour games.

We've had three straight games where you saw like just three-fourths of a Kentucky basketball game. You know, if you're not switching to the app. with it's the eight minute timeout in Oklahoma. Before that is the eight minute timeout in Alabama. In this game, you miss most of the second half. It's just becoming a horrible product on TV. You just have to, the ratings are way up for college basketball this year. The next step, get rid of the monitor reviews or make it, Shannon, where it just takes a second. Like, we can all see it, watch it one time. Here's my view. Watch it one time. If it doesn't flip what you called on the floor, then that's it.

There's no reason to slow it down to eight times. Yeah, we can watch it at home. and have our mind made up in seconds. They take two or three minutes sometimes. Make 10 seconds. Be like the NFL. Have someone that's not there do it. Right? It'll be done instantaneously. Yep. State renovation isn't just your go-to for kitchens, baths, and basements.

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I can see that, Ryan. It was ridiculous Saturday. It's just getting, like you said, when it doesn't matter in the middle of the first half, they're checking on who the ball went out of bounds on. You made the call. You watch the women's game. It gets done in like an hour and 45 minutes. true. Like those games don't take as long. They just let them go. Play. I looked this up recently for the website, but there's been one SEC game that's lasted two hours for Kentucky. All others have been at least two hours and 15 minutes. The two hour games don't exist anymore. Yeah, that's wild. 859-28027, Coppola open lines. How about this, Shannon? Somebody just wrote me. The author actually wrote me. Did you know there is a fantasy

that we were talking about, author from Kentucky, except she writes books where the protagonists are not like vampires or fairies. They're athletes. Okay. And they're called Kentucky Stallions. One stallion from each sport, and the women who steal their hearts also have their toes curled. Now, the author's name is Kristen Lee, and can I read you the names of the books?

The book about baseball, all your fault. Don't really know what that is, but that's okay. The book about hockey is called On the Ground. But then the next two, Kristen gets a little spicy. The one about football is called On the Knees. And the one about basketball is out of bounds. So there you go. Campus Stallions.

We know what Sarah's going to be listening to. I've got some suggestions. Can we write one where the radio host is the protagonist? That would be great. Is it Billy? Is it Billy? Oh, is it Billy? Oh, yeah, yeah, no.

Oh, Billy is what we'll call it. Oh, all right. Oh, Billy, it works. By the way, the women's team played, I thought, well, against South Carolina and drew for three quarters. It was a one-point game in the fourth quarter. quarter and then South Carolina pulled away right at the end. They had a run at the end. But I thought actually a really good performance for the women going in the SEC tournament.

They get the double by. They'll be the four seed. The coin flip, I think, went their way. So South Carolina is the one. And I think they could beat them in the right setting. I thought Kenny Brooks's team with a pretty good performance yesterday. Yeah, if you just look at the final score, you know, they lost by 12. That doesn't tell the story because they came back and were right in it. Right in it. The fourth quarter before it got separated. like the men's game. The bench was a big part of the story.

It's like 32 to 2 or something between South Carolina and Kentucky. But it showed that they can hang with them. We thought Cal was odd with his bench. I heard them say during the game Ryan that what, I'm sorry, Don Staley for South Carolina, her two leading scores come off the bench. Read and Rob effect going on in South Carolina. Have you ever heard of that before?

I mean, read and Rob were not our two leading scores, even though they may have should have been, Reeves, but their two leading scores come off the bench for South Carolina. I got to know what the strategy is. Like, does one girl tell the coach, hey, I feel better coming off the bench? I don't know. I don't think I've ever heard of that before, ever until yesterday. Chris, go ahead. How about that coin flip? Yeah, so they had a coin flip. Did you see the coin flip? Did you see the coin flip? Yeah, thank you did it. No, but I have questions about this. Okay. How far down do you have to go before you get to a

coin flip. They apparently they played each other twice. They split it. And then they beat everybody else. So there was no way to decide. So they flipped the coin. And they had South Carolina on one side and Texas on the other and South Carolina won. But they were like, what else are going to do?

They each won every other game. I think they should have like a, they should like maybe like a shooting contest. Like let's put some cameras up. We'll live stream this. Oh, okay. Like a three point. That would actually be kind of cool. You know, I watch it.

Each team gets their own. their best shooter. They sit in their staying in their gym. And then it's a three point contest. Sure. I like it. I mean, anything's better on a coin flip. Love it.

I think that's a great idea. Shamed the dude, I think, has added to the sports repertoire. Let's go, Chris. Go ahead, Chris. Hey, Matt, hey guys. Just quick two points that I wanted to get your takes on. One are the foul calls that seem to be a hot button. That is definitely not the reason why a loss to Auburn.

Auburn is a great team. But I will pose a question before I get your thoughts is that sometimes, in my opinion, the number of fouls isn't always an accurate representation. What I mean by that is oftentimes it's the type of foul and the scenario that are more important. And I'll give you two examples of that during the game is the Lamont Butler Flager 1, right? How many times you ever see it do going up for a layup and get the Fligger one to call on them? That's a big turnaround. That's a key type of foul type of scenario.

But by the rule, it was a Flager. But by the rule, it was a flagrant. I mean, I agree with you that you don't see it called a lot, but the rule is what it is. And, you know, now the car call was just a bad call. The car call, he didn't touch him. But we lost by 16 points. I mean, again, I want you,

how many games in a row have we had fans complain about how bad the officials have been against us? Every time they lose. It's literally been like the last five games. And there comes a point that when it is actually, bad because I do think sometimes it is. We can't just complain about it. We lost by 16, you know? No, and my argument is though it was not the number of files.

Six reach-in files on Auburn against UK does not accrue. Ours were not reach-ins. We shot a lot of free throws. We shot a lot of free throws. I bet we shot more free throws. I don't have the number in front of me. They did. They shot more than Auburn did.

I bet we shot more free throws than we've shot. any game this year. I mean, we stayed in the game in free throws. I mean, we made. 20-8 for 38. Yeah, I mean, we had 38 free throws. Now, they had 31, but that's a lot of free throws. I appreciate the call.

So I just can't be like, Drew, you know, we, the refs were out to get us. We shot 38 free throws. You know, we went to the line a lot. I think they had like 20-something in the first half. there was a lot early too. It's kind of the only way Kentucky was scoring early on. I think officials have just been bad in general all year, not just our game. Part of a lot of it is the dead periods of going to the monitor, but I'm not blaming any of Kentucky's losses on that.

You know, the car three called. That was a bad call, Ryan. I mean, he didn't even, and it goes to the point of now they're calling that you foul on a guy, like you land on a guy to foul, and now they're calling it, even if they don't see the landing. he fell, so it must have been a foul. That seems to be, I don't know if it is, a point of emphasis that this season in the SEC. They're calling that more than I've ever seen him call it before. By the way, the UK baseball team also had a sweep

this weekend. U.K. baseball team is now, what, 10 and 1? Is that right? I've got five games this week, too. Play at EKU tomorrow and then host EKU on Wednesday. Ooh, a back-to-back EKU double. Yeah.

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This is a really strange song if you listen to the lyrics, Shannon. Yeah. I mean, it's basically him meeting a prostitute in a hotel room. And they sing it like it's, like, I remember hearing it like, you know, at church picnics. Right. And that's pretty much the music video, too.

I mean, that's depicting. It's just interesting how like people are just like, well, we like Sammy Kershaw. It sounds happy. So third rate romance low rent rendezvous. And it's an old song too. It came out first in like the 60s by a different singer. Oh, really? Okay.

Yeah, because I'll hear that one on Willie Nelson sometimes. I guess I'm about to go see Sammy Kershow at this, what is it, Boyd County Fairgrounds show that they got coming up with Mark Chestnut. Yeah, but it's got Kid Rock, right? Yeah. Yeah, I'm out on that. But just leave before Kid Rock comes on if you don't like that. So who else? It's Sammy Kirchall Mark.

Williams Jr. Yeah, that is a good group. Shenandoah. All right, I'm in. When is it? Sometime in the summer. I don't know when. I'll go with you.

They'll probably close with Kid Rock, right? Yeah, yeah, he's probably the biggest one out of those. So then you can get out of them. Nickleback is going to be there. Yeah. All right, I'm in. You want to go? You want to go to Ashland, the Boyd County?

Yeah, Afro man. Remember we talked to this. I know we taught. I remember it. I just didn't remember all these guys were in it. It feels like it needs Aaron Tippin. Is he not in it? No.

They should have gotten him. You got Dina Carter. She's all right. Strawberry one. Kentucky head hunters. He's a good group. Duma's Walker. All right, we're going.

Boyd County. They got a nice hotel there. We can, if you want to stay the night. Yeah, it's three hours away from July 11th and 12th. Oh, I'm free. Let's do it. We're in. Hey, BBN, if you're exercising more, being healthier and saving more money,

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First time the three of us have all been together since COVID, I think. Are y'all going to old spaghetti factory? I suggested that, by the way. But I was, but Tony wanted to go somewhere else. some fancy Trinity St. X kind of place. But I suggested the Spaghetti Factory. Ryan, did you see the thing about the Kansas player,

Zique Rose? I don't think I've seen this. So Kansas lost at home to Texas Tech. They've lost double digits. Really have not had a good year considering that they were pre-season number one by some people. And after the game, Zeke Rose, who grew up in Lawrence, Kansas,

tweeted all of these messages he got basically saying he's the worst, people saying he should kill himself and then some racial slurs. And he tweets out the messages and says, I'm sorry I didn't play well, but then just shows what people had written him. Some of which were used by people using their real name. Bill Self later that night puts out a statement, says, you know, why don't you blame me?

Why are you doing this with players? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He then yesterday does an interview where he goes, I kind of wish I hadn't done that. I feel like I gave it more attention. And so it sort of gets to a question. Obviously, it's awful. I don't think it just happens at Kansas.

I think it happens at every school, probably including this one. What do you do? I mean, it is clear. at least on social media, at least on Twitter, but maybe on the other platforms too. These platforms have no desire to stop that kind of behavior. Like, it's just going to happen.

What do you do? Do you just, you can say all you want to kids, don't get on social media, but their whole lives are on social media now. And do you think you say nothing? Do you think you highlight the bad behavior? what do you do right it is it is a tough call because you know you're you're trained to ignore it be the bigger person be thick skinned but yet when somebody's saying stuff like that about

why don't you go kill yourself or something i mean that's that's way crossing the line and we're talking about 19 and 20 year olds right we're not talking about 50 year olds Drew what do you do if you're if you're bill self and you're trying to protect your players what do you do well first of all i saw him tweet the screenshots and I actually liked it. Good. Call these people out. I wish, I think, two of the forehead names. I wish all four had names because it was so bad. I think it needs to be seen. So those people, I don't know if an employer will see what can happen, but they need some consequences because that was just awful stuff people were saying and private to him. And I'm glad he put light on it. I don't know what you can do to stop it, though, because like you said, you got to have the apps to help shut these people out. And I don't know that they're going to do it. But I'm actually glad he called them out publicly, even though it's hard to look at. And it probably shines a bad light on the fan base as a whole. But when it's, when it's that awful, I think it needs to be called out. What would you do, Shannon? Well, you know, normally I would say ignore it, but if somebody's giving you death threats, you know, the people that run the apps aren't

going to help you. I mean, I guess you could turn it over to police and let them handle it from there. I mean, you know, what else can you do? You can call them out like he did, but I don't know what that really accomplishes. Well, I mean, part of the problem is everybody, you know, you can have anonymous accounts. Yeah. Right. And those anonymous accounts, can just say whatever. I don't know. I am continually amazed at how cruel people can be online. You know, at the end of the day,

like I understand getting frustrated about a basketball game, but it's a basketball game, right? And I feel kind of particularly bad for this kid. He grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, Ryan. He didn't get an offer from Kansas. So he went and played at like South Dakota, and he did well, and then they brought him back to play at Kansas his last.

couple of years. So this kid grew up a Kansas fan, grew up in Lawrence, gets to wear the team's jersey, and because he's been a little disappointing, that's the reaction he gets. And that hurts, man. It makes the story even sadder when you put that perspective on it. But you know, there's going to be people, and you tell me what you think. People say, these people just want to engage with you. They want a reaction. Then they feel like they win by just poking you. No, that's certainly true. So what do you do? I mean, listen, I deal with the same stuff. I'm older than him, so in theory, I should be able to handle it better.

But, yeah, I mean, it's easy. It's very easy for people to say, Shannon, you should do X and Y when it doesn't happen to you. Right? Sure. Like, a lot of people can go, hey, Zeke Mayo, hey Bill Self, hey Matt Jones, just ignore it. And then they'll get in their car and somebody will cut them off on the road and they'll flip them off and try to, you know, like the littlest thing can set those people up.

Yeah. There just comes a point. What's hard about online for these people, especially kids, is that their whole lives are on it. So it can feel like, I'm sure, in that moment that, Shane, and the whole world is after that kid. I'm just glad that social media did not exist when I was this age because that's got to be so tough growing up and, you know, constantly being on social media since you can remember. and you've always got people who are just jerks on there. I saw an interview with Monica Lewinsky, Brian.

She was on, I think, Alex Cooper. And she was talking about when all that happened. And she was like, I was 19 or 20. And she said, you know, even though it was awful, she said, I could go home and get away from it. She said, I can't imagine if it happened today on social media. She's right. Can you imagine?

She would never get away from it. Never. Be everywhere. And like it would be impossible. I just, you know, I felt bad for that kid. I don't know how, I don't know if there's something else you can do, but I will say if you are a grown person and you are in a basketball player, football player, any kid's DMs writing him after a game,

you need, you have, you need to look at your life. I'm like, what am I doing? It happens here. We can't be naive enough. Of course it does. Of course it does. I mean, it's not a Kansas thing. That's just where.

came out. Edie, go ahead, Edie. Hey, guys. I hope you all are doing well. You know, it's frustrating. It seems like the team was playing better at the beginning of the season and has, like, not improved. However, you know, I've seen all these things on Twitter saying Pope was a bad

decision or this and that. And I don't think Pope was a bad decision. at all. I am still 110% behind Pope. I think that he's going to end up doing great things at Kentucky. And in reality, none of us even expected to have as good a season as we've had. So, you know, I just hope that everybody still gets behind them and supports them.

I'd still think he has mostly. Yeah, I appreciate the call. I still think Drewie's got mostly the fan support. don't you? I mean, I think that he, for the most part, is still, I mean, I think it's a very tiny group of people that are not on board. Yeah, most are supportive. I mean, after the game, I think there's a part of the fan base that needs to put their internet away for the night and go outside and get some fresh air because there's some overreactions, but it's obvious that it's an upgrade from what would have been if we run it back so we can start with that.

And then we still got to give them a full season of building a team before I think you can really form any opinions about the future. I don't know if it'll work out long term, but I'm not judging him in this scenario where he's been injured all year and had a month to put it together. They're telling me, Shannon, it's a cheating wife, not a prostitute. Oh, okay. But I mean, still. Oh, okay. So there's no money exchange. That's the difference, right? It's just two marriages ending. There's no transaction. Yeah. All right. I feel like it's probably better if it was a

transaction. I mean, if she... It doesn't make any better, makes it worse. Yeah, I don't know that that, uh, that, that, uh, that, that, that, that makes it any better. Apparently the tour is Kid Rock's tour, and it's called Rock the South. So he will definitely go last. Yeah, he'll go last. Perfect time. You know, I like to sneak out anyway, Shannon.

Yeah, I know that about you. You're good at it. And we've already seen Kid Rock. We saw him at the Republican convention, didn't we? Yes. Yeah, we bought. With our governor. With Matt Bevan, who seems like such a swell guy.

We'll take a break. We'll be right back. Oh, no, first, tell me about Stock to Mortgage. Stockton Mortgage, I pulled it up. I had a feeling you were getting ready to ask me that. Yeah, because it's on the list. Our friends at Stockton Mortgage make homeownership happen, and Tim can attest. Here's what he had to say. This is Tim. We had originally tried to finance our new home with our old lender.

I do that when I read the book, Shannon. I go, this is Bob. This is Tim. Tim. A voice. Yeah, okay. Let's give Tim a voice. We had originally tried to finance our new home with our old lender. But after six weeks, a very little action, we were suggested to try Stockton Mortgage. we followed that advice and immediately things begin to happen. How was that? What was that supposed to be?

Like, where was that person supposed to be from? He just has a deeper voice. Okay. He just manly. Yeah, he's a manly voice. Manly. All right, go ahead. Stockton Mortgage.

Give him a call. Apply online at Stockton.com. NMLS 8259 Equal housing lender. We were going to take a break. 859-28027. Somebody just writes here, Drew, and says, does Kentucky basketball have a general manager? I keep reading about other schools doing that.

we have someone officially in that role? I don't. There's the Robinson guy, but I don't know his exact role if that's what they call him. He's like director of basketball operations, I think. So I don't know if they call him the general manager. So I lean no. Yeah, I kind of think we don't. I'm kind of with you.

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Yeah, I listened to the Zach Top version on TikTok. What's the Zach? I don't know what that is. So Zach Top is a country singer. We've talked about him before. And he has a version of this that I think, is really good. He sings like, he has his own songs,

but we've talked about this guy, and maybe you weren't here. He sings like 90s country. So he has his own stuff too, but like he sounds like a 90, like he sounds like he could be on that tour we're talking about. I'll have to check it out. But he's a young guy.

He's only 24, 25. But he played Nashville. I think our friend Aaron Fleener was there, Drew. He was. Yeah, I think he just did the Riemann last few nights. But his manager is a UK fan. That's cool.

859-280-2287. Baseball commissioner, I knew you'd care about this, Ryan, says he's going to consider whether or not to allow Pete Rose to be voted on for the Hall of Fame. Now they're one of the... We said this when Pete Rose passed, that they were going to pass some sort of legislation to get him in the Hall of Fame after he'd already passed away. So can I say what is the biggest lie that has ever been told by a human being on earth.

On Friday, Donald Trump pardoned Pete Rose. Whether you think that's good or not is a different conversation. But he did it. Then on Saturday, this comes out. And the commissioner said, this had nothing to do with what Donald Trump did.

So you're telling me, Shannon, that it's been 35 years since he got banned and you were considering this. And it just so happens to have come out the day after the president did it. Stop it. Stop it. You did it because he did it. Now, I'm of the belief all these dudes should be in the Hall of Fame because how are you going to have a Hall of Fame that doesn't have the All Time Hits leader and the Home Run leader? It's not a who's the hall of a good person. It's a question of who's good at baseball. And you can put a plaque in there that says

this dude bet on baseball. But he also was really good. So I don't, to me, this is a non-story. But I will agree with you, Ryan. If they were going to do it. do it, wait until he dies, seems kind of lame. It just seems very lame. And there's no doubt Major League Baseball is just doing the dinner right now because of the president's action. It kind of makes me upset about it. If I'm his family, I'm almost to the point where I just want to be spiteful and go,

no, we don't want to. Apparently they've asked for it. Apparently they're the ones that went to Trump. Well, that's, okay, that's their decision. Yeah. So I guess he has one daughter that's alive. You couldn't have done it a year ago while he was still alive? That's the thing.

They should have done it years ago. But he won't get in, though, don't you think? because like if the baseball writers are not voting in Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, why are they going to all of a sudden vote in Pete Roe? Because he's dead. You think because he's dead? I'm being serious. No, I think that's the thing, you know?

So the veterans committee maybe can vote him in? Maybe, but he has to go through the ballot process for a number of years. So it may be a long time before he gets in. He's going to vote a dead guy out, you know? Well, he's not out. I mean, there's a lot of dead guys that aren't in. I'm just saying like if they're up for a vote, what's what I mean? Like, you're not going to not vote for the Ted guy.

I think they vote against dead guys all the time. I mean, like I... It feels like a bad look. Well, there's a lot of dead guys not in the Hall of Fame, like all of them. But are they up for the vote is what I mean. Yeah, sometimes. Sometimes like they might die. I just think, Drew, all these guys,

Bonds, Clemens, Rose, Shilling, McGuire, all those guys should be in. Whether you think they're with jerks, awful people, just let them in. and then everybody makes their own judgment. You can write what they did on there if you want. Yes, you can. But they were great. Put them in.

I agree. It's the baseball Hall of Fame, not the, your life, Hall of Fame. I mean, isn't OJ in the NFL? OJ's in the Football Hall of Fame? Yeah, I would stick with the stats. That way it doesn't, because once you start doing that debate about what they were as people, then you get into gray areas. Just focus on exactly what they did on the baseball field.

Once you get into the people thing, there's a lot of people you could take out. And there's probably a lot of people that did stuff, and we don't even know they did. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? So, like, you just can't, to me, you just can't get into that stuff. Pete Rose bet on baseball. He got in trouble for that. He got banned, right? He had tax evasion. He got in trouble and he got banned. He's accused of some other stuff that's pretty bad. And that, and people can know, like, it is what it is. But the Hall of Fame is not the Hall of Good People. It's like how you played when you played baseball. You said it. The answer is, just, put it on their plaque if you need to put an asterisk and say what you know the other side of his story

but still he deserves to be in all those guys deserve to be in you agree with Travis hunter Ryan who said what he does in football is harder than what Shohei otani does in baseball pitching and hitting well I mean I'm a baseball guy but I would probably admit playing defensive back and receiver in major college football is a little harder than oh wow is it hitting a baseball wow I think you're crazy oh no you're crazy you're crazy man I thought we were talking about just physical ability. No, he's saying him playing offense and defense is harder than Shohei pitching and hitting. No.

That's insane. The talent is better for Sohey, but I thought he meant just the physical toughness and ability it takes. Dude, it's – The hardest thing to do is hit a baseball. And it's two different skills. Like the thing about being a receiver and a defensive back, yeah, they're different skills, but they're kind of similar, right? Throwing a baseball and hitting one is a completely different thing, right? You take hitting a baseball and just set aside the pitching thing.

That's harder to do than anything in sports. I don't care. To be the best hitter in baseball, Drew, and one of the best pitchers is crazy, if you think about it. Yeah, with the skill, easily showing. I think Ryan means almost like endurance of having to play a whole game versus both. I think is what Ryan was saying. But no, there's probably several corners that could go play receiver if they had to and vice versa, whereas Shohei doing both is insane.

I just think it's like being a great golfer and a great quarterback. Like it's two completely different skills. And yet he's able to do it. So I think it's ridiculous. Thank you all very much. Tomorrow, Kentucky and LSU. We will be at KS Bar and then the pregame show is at 430. This has been Kentucky Sports.

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