KSR - 2025-05-07- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

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Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Ask Anything Wednesday. Get on in and get your questions. We had one right before the break that we will do. Hey, if you're in the Lexington area this week or weekend for graduation or even just around, come to KS. Bar and see us, you know, when season ends, things slow down a little bit. So we always need your support. So come on by. Today's Wings Day, Dollar Wings. They got trivia tonight.

We have our trivia folks coming in. So if you're in town for graduation, which is I know is coming, come on by and come by anyway. We'd love to see you. Don't forget that we're out here. when Kentucky games are not going on. One person writes, Matt, with all this going on, don't you think the Vatican has to at least give a call to Billy Dodovan to see if he's interested? Well, rumor was he was shopping for a couple horse farms.

I think you all both undersold that. I thought that was a really good line. Shannon, you didn't get a chuckle out of you. You didn't like that line? It was all right. I get the joke. It's okay. I thought it was great.

Whoever, 8,59, 321, that's a good joke. I don't care that they didn't give you a good lie. I laughed. I like the Billy Donovan. I wanted, I don't know. I was laughing. I want Ryan to laugh as much as he does when Shannon just says, give me Peter. Like that makes Ryan laugh so much harder than a well-crafted joke about Billy Donovan.

Can I tell you during the break? He said that line three more times off the air. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. I'm dealing with a child. When it comes the level of common. That's what he giggles at the entire time. It was not, by the way, Mark Grace that got the game-winning hit.

It was Luis Gonzalez. So he gave us a fact, Shannon, and it was not a correct fact. He said it with confidence, though, so I believed him. That's true. With confidence. He did say it with confidence. And because he said it with confidence, I'm embarrassed.

I'm born Boston. You completely. believed it. One person writes, Matt, do we have any update on the lottery winner from Georgetown? I haven't seen any. Drew, have you seen an update as he's even out of the pokey in Florida? No, I mean, there was the fake story going around that we debunked yesterday or the day before about him blowing his money already. But I haven't seen an update about if he's free or what's going on. Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question. We'll see if anybody has an update. I did get an update on the park media. last night.

There were hundreds of people at the meeting. No one showed up in favor of the pickleball tennis court. Everyone was against. So I don't know what that means. I mean, I saw that the mayor, Craig Greenberg, put out a video today explaining its benefits. You do wonder, though, Shannon, you're a Louisvillian. If you get a 300 to zero community meeting. you do wonder what's going to happen.

There are people arguing, though, hey, this park, where we're going to put the pickleball and the tennis was being unused. It was a parking lot and a dilapidated tennis facility. Why wouldn't you want to update it with an updated facility? I don't know enough about it to say either way, but with hundreds of people showed out and no one was in favor of it, according to Brian the intern, who went to the event, then Shannon, I don't know if that's a good sign for it. No, nobody wants it is what it sounds like to me.

It was the number one story on the local news this morning and people out there chanting, we or keep Joe Creason. So they were chanting. Keep Joe Creason. That's what they were chanting? How did it go? Keep Joe Creason. Keep Joe Creason.

Keep Joe Creason. By the way, who is Joe Creason? Does anyone know? I actually Googled that while you all were talking and it says he was a journalist. who wrote for the Courier Journal. And they named a park after him. According to Wikipedia.com. So that would be like what, Rick Bozich Park in, Brian the intern park.

Joe Sanka Park. So they named it after just a guy that wrote for the courier. Wow. Oh, never mind. I said something about W.H.A.S. Did he die playing tennis with a W-H-A-S radio personality? I'm reading this all on the fly. Wait a minute, hang on a second.

He died. I'll read it out loud so I get this right. Wikipedia.com. Creson continued writing and working until his death, which occurred while playing tennis with W.HAS radio personality, Milton Metz. Really? A way to honor him that park. Maybe that's, yeah.

He also started the movement to make the Kentucky coffee tree, the first official state tree of Kentucky. Is that our state tree? Is the Kentucky coffee tree? I think it is. So this dude, when did he die, Drew? Because I've never heard of this person. When did he die?

1974. Okay, so he lived. He was born in Benton, Kentucky. Shout out Marshall County. Born in Marshall County, lived in Louisville, worked as a journalist, played and was playing tennis when he passed away. He was enough, popular enough that they named a part. after him and how ironic shannon that the fight over is a tennis facility yeah joe creason do you think

he would really want pickleball though i mean that's a for oh no if he's a true tennis player then no if he's if he's a true tennis player then he would be aghast at the fact that there's a pickleball but it's a pickleball slash tennis facility see this is where we need a i joe creason to ask him are you okay to can we get your blessing from beyond the grave to put pickleball i really like That's another thing. What if people did that where they use the AI version to try to enhance their arguments? Like what if he's on there going, yeah, I'm perfectly fine with you making it pickleball courts. That's a really interesting point.

It would be hard to argue with AI joke, Creece it, wouldn't it? Yeah. He's like, I died here. My death is not in vain. This is my park. You're trying to, you're chanting, keep me. Yeah. Here I am.

Interesting. I really like the second sentence of his bio. It says he was born in Benton, Kentucky, which he called the only town in Kentucky where I was born. Well, I mean, I was born in like a five different Indiana. Sounds like a funny guy. Wait a minute. Wait, wait, minute.

It said that was like what he claimed about his town. Yeah, it got in quotations. It's the second sentence in his bio. I was born in Big Kentucky, which is the only town that I was born. Yep. Only town in Kentucky where I was born. That's amazing. That's a lot of wisdom.

You can see why he was such a great journalist, right? Yes. Give you the facts in the sentence. That is funny. Well, anyway, so they had the meeting. Apparently there's another meeting later this week. It feels like the momentum is against keeping Joe Kri-or-no, it's for keeping Joe Creece.

We'll see whether or not it ends up happening. I'm now fascinated by the fact he died playing tennis with Milton Mets. I wonder, was it in the park? that now bears his name? Yep. That's why they named the park after him. So that's why they named the park after him. It's awesome.

We're remembering a guy that has been kind of over 50 years, died over 50 years ago, bringing his name back up and really learning about it. By the way, do we know, did he die in the park? Were they named it after him or no? Yep. Yep. According to the current journal.

Died tennis. So it wasn't named after him at the time. So did they name it after him because he died there? Mm-hmm. According to the internet that I'm reading here, had died of a heart attack. Interesting. So Shannon.

would you like to die somewhere so that they named a park after where you died? That would be kind of cool, right? Like if you died during larger than life, it would be started called Shannon the dude in life or something. Would you want that? Yeah. We could change the name like, you know, from the godfather to Shannon the dudes. You know? That's exactly the same thing.

That's exactly the same level of honor, I think. All right. This also says there's a son in Benton that says Benton, the old. only town Joe Creason was born in. This must have been a big thing. Stop it. That is not a town. There is not a town.

It says on U.S.S. Highway 641. That's what it says. The people have bitten Kentucky have to confirm that. There is not a sign in bitten Kentucky that says the only town Joe Creason was born in. According to the Marshall County Daily, I trust it. He must have been a big reporter for the courier. Why would that have been a sentence they would make a sign out of? Was that like a famous sentence that?

he ended up saying you latched onto it as soon as Drew read that that's the first thing that's true but I thought it was like he'd said it as a joke I didn't think it would be something the town would put on the outside of the town must have been a big thing I mean it was the second sentence in his bio he must have said it a lot really stuck well

now I want to keep Joe creasing because I want this guy's memory to live especially not to be replaced by pickleball which is so stupid all right the guy that asked earlier what do you think Coach K said what's harder building a program or maintaining the program. I was thinking during the break, Ryan, I think it depends on the sport.

And again, football, building the program is the hardest because it takes a long time. It may take less time now because of the portal, but it still takes time. And maintaining a program may be a little easier because you have depth, etc. I think in basketball, maintaining is the hardest because, because when you have, like, just look at what happened to Florida, right? When you have success as a team, individuals are, especially in the portal NIL era, almost certainly going to want to go then benefit somewhere else, and it becomes harder to keep it together.

Same thing happened here with Cal. I mean, as the years went on, more and more guys came. They obviously had their individual goals and desires. So I can see what Coach Kay is saying, especially in the college basketball context, of why maintaining would be harder. You know, the question's really good because, like, Cal obviously built the program up and then we've seen Tubby, Jobi, Cowell, after 10, 12, 13 years, it is harder to maintain that program you built.

But the caller asked about Stoops. Stoops did such a great job building the UK program. Now he seems to have struggling kind of to maintain that program. But it has been a slow drop, meaning it's not like it just fell off the face of the earth. I think he has dropped it in part because they let things slip. You know, I think one of the things that's hard in any level of success is can you maintain the motivation that built your success? Like, when you're especially driven to succeed and you have that success, it is hard to continue to every day keep grinding. And I, if you listen to people that do things that require that, I've heard Howard Stern talk about this,

David Letterman, talk about this. When you're doing something that's daily, to continue to put in the effort and the desire, to keep it at the level you want, is hard. I'm sure that's true about sports. You have to kind of bring it every day. You can't sit there and take stuff off. And I'm not saying Mark Stoops took stuff off, but I do think in the last couple years, I personally have questioned, is he still grinding at that level that maybe Drew he did when he first got here?

and we're going to find out this year when they get on the field. And when you're building, you can kind of catch lightning in a bottle and have a great season and get it built, but then you've got to be able to maintain that. That's why lean maintaining might be a little more difficult, kind of depending on circumstances. But when you're building it, it's a good year or two can really take you to another level,

but then you've got to work really hard to stay at that level too. Success can either be like a drug that you just have to keep going for to keep feeling, or it can be something that becomes like a placator that you're just like, I've had it, and you just enjoy the fruits of it and let things slip. And I think you have to be very careful not to do that. And I think both of these coaches we've talked about had that happen a little bit, and, you know, now they've got to go back to the mentality that they had when they started. Who's up next?

Tristan. Tristan. Go ahead, Tristan. Hey, Matt. What's going on? I'm glad you and Mario made it back safely. I just have a quick question, then I can hang up and listen. Do you think that Mark Pope is kind of trying to copy what Florida did this year with so many versatile big men?

Well, I don't know if he's copying Florida, but there's no doubt he's gotten a lot of versatile players who can switch and play every position. This roster to me, and I appreciate the call, is exactly what Mark. Pope once. I just think I'm a little surprised he doesn't have a little more shooting. But maybe he thinks, Ryan, that these dudes are going to all, they're better shooters than we realize. But the

switching every position, everybody being able to dribble, everybody being able to handle the ball, that is very consistent with what he wants. It's how the Warriors play. It's how most NBA teams play now. I think that's exactly what he wants. I think you're right. I think most of our worries are that

is there enough shooting there? But if Otega takes a step up and shooting, Aberdeen, Lowe, if these three guys kind of step up and become better shooters, maybe the combination of everybody will kind of overshadow that need for one drop-dead shooter guy. You know, we get like three guys. When you watch these teams in the playoffs in the NBA, they're succeeding, it is always, it is fascinating to me to watch how almost all these teams have dudes who can just handle the ball, step out. They are, it's positionless basketball, that phrase. It's kind of how it is. Watch, watch these teams.

Watch all the teams left in the playoffs. Everyone on their team can shoot, dribble, pass, all of them. Even the biggest, lankiest, they all can do it. And I think that's what Kentucky is going to have next year. They'll miss a chance to win big while supporting a great cause with Commonwealth causes, exciting raffles. The Queen of Hearts 50-50 raffles, takes place weekly on Thursdays.

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So this is why I like this show. I mean, there's many reasons I like it. But here's one of the reasons. Because you learn things you wouldn't have known either way. All right. So I guess Mr. Creason died in 1974. He was a journalist here, and I would, you know, even though I'm kind of peripherally in that field, would have, I don't know that I ever had heard his name.

But now, after everyone riding me, I'm fascinated by this guy. Multiple people, Ryan, saying to me, Matt, you would have loved this guy. He was your kind of writer. He would write a column featured around the state, which would tell stories of small town, people. He would tell stories about towns across Kentucky. They were often funny. And he looked at the state of Kentucky as a humorist who also loved the place. That sounds like my kind of guy, right? Sounds like a perfect guy that would fit in on this show talking about Kentucky in Kentucky and Kentucky towns and Kentucky people. He said, he wrote a book called Joe Creason's Kentucky,

shaded where he went to every county in Kentucky. That sounds like a unique idea. Sounds familiar. Do you know somebody who did that? Yeah. Like a modern day Joe Creason, Matt Jones. So I got to find Joe Creason's Kentucky, if anybody has that book. It's awesome. This whole pickleball, fight with a pickleball, we've learned something that a man that's been forgotten over time and died 50 years ago. They have a Creason lecture series at Kentucky, the University of Kentucky, Drew, that is named after him.

You may be, did you go to a Creason lecture at some point? I did not, but if I had known all of this, I would have made a point to. Corey Price sent us that he was voted the most popular, was it student Ryan at UK when he was there? Yeah. Most popular guy on campus. What would that have been? That would have been what in like 1930s or 40?

Yeah. Corey Price tweeted it out, named most popular man at UK in the class of 1940. See, what an interesting. And they, he was named, the park was named after him because he died in the park while playing tennis. So there you go. A little history less than the day.

There it is. Text machine, 772-744-5-254. Ask anything Wednesday. Before we get back to it, the real ID starts today, Shannon. Chaos coming to the airports. Have we heard anything? Is it chaos out there? I'm sure that it is.

I haven't seen any reports, but I'm sure that there's a long, long line just to get through. If you don't have your ID, you have to fill out a form, which takes forever. So I'm sure there's a long line for that. And you have to fill it out in person, apparently. You can't do it before. Yep. So I do wonder what the nation's airports are like today. The real ID starts today.

We've been talking about this. Apparently it was passed in 2003 by Congress. And then it took, you know, years to get it to where states were ready for it. And then we in Kentucky pushed it off until I think 2019 or 2020. And then we've had a couple years to do it. And a lot of people, myself included, have not. So, I mean, I can report live. from the airport tomorrow, but, Shannon, today, I haven't heard if it's, if it's bad or not out

there. Yeah. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near an airport for at least the next couple of months just until they get this all sorted out. Yeah. Well, hopefully they'll have a thing. It's clear the Newark stuff continues to be wild. The stories about what happened when those two minutes went off the air. I mean, the planes, they lost contact with the planes. They had no way to communicate with them. They had no way to know where they were. And the planes had no way to let no, like, communicate with the thing. They were just sort of flying around in circles. And I guess there's a protocol for when that happens. They basically tell you to maintain your line. And that's what planes did. And then it came back on. But

Drew, can you imagine the panic in those 90 seconds or two minutes? Because you don't know if it's going to be like that for a long time or not, you know? And you can, that's not something you can play around with. The slightest error can lead to a horrible, horrible, horrible tragedy. They just got to get this fixed. We were talking about to bringing the AIA in earlier. Maybe you can bring it into help a little bit with humans

around it, but this is an absolutely disastrous situation. It can affect a lot of people. April, like 30th or whatever was when it happened. So if you were flying in or around Newark those days, say an extra prayer tonight of thank you. Who's up next? Jeremy.

Jeremy. Go ahead, Jeremy. Hey, guys. I was just checking. Has anybody watched the last season of Righteous Jimstones, and what did you think about it? I think Sunday was the last ever episode, and for me, it just kind of fizzled out. Didn't end anything like the story. No, no spoilers. I haven't seen it. I watched the first couple of episodes of the season. I still got to catch up on it. Drew, Ryan, have you finished it, either one of you yet? I need to see, I think I'm two behind. I've seen most of the season. I've enjoyed the season, but I haven't seen the finale that he's talking about. Have you seen it? I know you love the show, too.

I've only missed the finale. I haven't seen the finale yet. And do you like the season so far? It's probably my least favorite of the four seasons for sure. It just seems to not be as crazy, funny. It's kind of, well, I don't want to spoil anything, but it's... I agree. I mean, I don't think it's anything like the other three seasons.

Yeah, well, I haven't seen it. I mean, I'm kind of disappointed. Well, I appreciate the call. I will check it out. I do love that show. I have seen the baby Billy stuff everywhere, but I don't see a lot of baby Billy this season. A lot. Well, about all of them, really.

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Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. People are telling me the airport lines are pretty normal. So people are saying they think that they've not even started chin and, like, enforcing it? So, I don't know. You know, it was part of the federal bill that they moved all this to regional offices, which is why this all happened. But, you know, I don't know.

I don't have one. So I hope my passport, I hope I don't lose it. That's my key word. Kentucky has three new football players, Ryan, in the last 24 hours. Yeah, kind of snowballing. Two offensive linemen. Yeah, an offensive lineman from James Madison, an offensive lineman from somewhere else.

Ball State and then a wide receiver from SMU. I know nothing about any of these guys. No clue whether or not they're good. So what do we make of these three new players? Positive side, negative sign, who knows sign? Respectfully to the three of them, it's kind of, man, these are depth pieces. They've barely recorded any stats or much playing time

at their first stop. So this looks like they're just filling out the roster, you know, have second, third, and who know, practice squad. I don't know that any of these three additions will have much of an impact good or bad next year. It seems they're just trying to get the team built. How do you even end up with a player, Ryan, who was a, like, depth piece at James Madison? Like, how does that even happen that you end up with him on the team? Maybe it's the coaching connection with maybe with Vince or Mark.

maybe there's some kind of connection. Maybe it's a parent connection. Maybe they recruited him out of high school. I don't know what it is, but I think Drew's right. I think these are just, you needed some depth in the receiver room, so you bring another receiver. You needed some depth in the O-line room, bring another O-Line. I think they're just trying to maybe replenish some guys that left the program.

The receiver was the top recruit. I think he started Oregon, but he had one catch all year or last year. I mean, it's maybe you turn him into something on down the road, but it seems like these are guys they're adding to the roster just to be able to have practices. Okay. So I shouldn't care one way or the other. So what you're saying about this group. I don't think we'll see any of these guys playing on the field next year.

Maybe on down the road, but these seem like guys, you're tucking away on the deck chart. I saw Duke basketball. Duke basketball signed a new transfer, and I looked at him, Drew, and it was a transfer from Rice, and I thought, oh, he must have been good. If Duke wants him, he averaged 1.5 points a game at Rice. And you go, how does that kid end up at Duke? A kid who didn't even really play for rice. You wonder, it's amazing to me that that happens. I mean, even the kid we got as our 13th man, at least average six and a half points at Miami-Bowah.

You average 1.5 points at Rice. How do you end up at Duke? Yeah, his name is Iffy, too. I like the name Iffy. Kind of an iffy add to them. It felt like an I'm not. I don't know Duke's roster that well, but, you know, could be the same. You're seeing football.

I mean, you know, schools aren't targeting high school as much. You don't have a lot of incoming freshmen as you used to before the portal area. So it might be just like, we got to have somebody to put away on the end of the bench that's not demanding a lot of money or playing time. Shannon, a bad decision, at least for the sport, even if it's a good decision for the horse, they decide not to run sovereignty in the preakness. You know, I mean, look, I don't know the horse's health. I get it if you're worried about it. But to me, I know they're purists out there that say you can't change the schedule the triple crown because it is what it is.

It is what it's been. You cannot have a triple crown where the derby winner voluntarily skips the preakness just because. If you do, and somebody that knows more than horse racing about me, more about horse racing than me, can tell me which is right. but you either have to say being in the derby, it's contingent you do the preakness unless your horse is heard, or you need to push the pretenance back. I'm with you. And I'm fine with pushing the pretenance back,

and everybody goes, well, it was supposed to be hard to win the Triple Crown. Okay, fine, it is supposed to be hard, but you know what? Times change. We can't have it to where one of the three marquee races of the year doesn't have any horses that were in the derby. You just can't do that. I'm a very, very casual fan. watch the preakness if sovereignty were running at it.

Now that he's not running in it, I really have no interest in watching it at all. But what we're talking about here is load management for horses now. But I'm okay with it if that's what it takes. Because these horses, like, if you need to give them more time, but would you agree if that's going to happen, you've got to change the races? Change when they are? Change the date. I don't care.

I mean, the more important thing is for me that the derby winner runs in the race. Yes. More so than the date. Sovereignty and journalism, Ryan, who were the two best horses, far in that race. If they were going to do it again at the Preakness, wouldn't you watch it to see? The sport needs it. Had this huge ratings day on the Kentucky Derby. 140,000 people there at Churchill Downs. Now they're going to not have that signature moment of sovereignty maybe win in the Preakness. The sport needs it. So I've heard this argument for 30 years. Just move the Preakness one week back.

Move the Belmont one week back. Yeah, you move them back. And you stretch it out. Yeah. Do you get more publicity? Horse racing a longer stretch life, right? So you go one week back to the Preakness and then one, maybe even two weeks back to the Belmont, a five-week sport becomes a seven or eight-week sport, and you can maybe actually give rivalries. I mean, Ryan, you remember when I was a kid, you had that Sunday silence easy-goer, right? They raced in all three races. I think they were one-two in all three races.

Affirmed in Al-Adard. Yeah, exactly. You don't, even with triple crown winners, like, who was American Pharaoh's rival? Does anybody remember? I mean, who knows, right? Because they don't race in all of them. But if you made it to where journalism and sovereignty got to go against each other again, I think you could even have it to where even if journalism won, Drew, you might watch the third one to see who breaks the tie.

But you can't do it if you make it to wear physically. it hurts the horses and they don't want to do it. And I'm like Shannon and probably thousands of others. I won't even consider watching the preakness. Maybe if I'm home and I'm scrolling through channels, but I would have made a point to be in front of the TV knowing that there's a chance for a horse runner for the Triple Crown, but it's just going to absolutely destroy the pretences ratings.

And apparently they're all going to race in the Belmont, but at that point, Shannon, people won't care because they skip the preteness. So they've got to find a way to make it work. They have to. I know they're a traditionalist. It's not what we did with Seattle's Llew and what we did with Man O'Rour. Well, you know what? So what?

Times change. It's what will be best for a sport. Clearly at its peak, horse racing can still captivate America. It does it every year at the Derby. Why not make it to where it captivates America a couple of other times? Right. You just had the largest ratings for the Derby in how long? You could take that momentum and carry it into the next race, but now I don't think anybody's going to care.

But now there's no moment. I don't even know who's in the pretenance. There might not be one horse in the pretenance that was even in the derby. So who cares? But that's obviously not the decision of the powers that be. Who's up next? Bob and Jamestown. Bob and Jamestown, 859-280-2287.

Go ahead. Matt, Joe Creason was a legend in Kentucky. Like you were talking about, he got all around the state. And like I said, he was a really personal guy. And then back when Barry being a woman in the Courier Journal never winning all those Pulitzer prizes, that's probably one of the keys to it. He actually said something Shannon I might be interested in

and then his phone goes up. You know, it's like the one time he might be saying something that I'm passing. Okay, go ahead, try again. Okay, this is a question for Major League Baseball. Did you know there was an umpire clothing requirement? And did you know that one of those requirements? Umpire clothing required. Major League Baseball.

What is the requirement? What is the requirement? What's the requirement, Bob? They have to wear black underwear. In case of a wardrobe malfunction when their pants split, they want black underwear. All right. So, first of all, how do you

did not know that? How do you know, Bob, the color of the underwear of umpires? That's the Major League Baseball sets those standards for their umpire clothing. You sit around Googling the color of

I knew Joe Nuxel, a legendary reds player. And you talked about his underwear? Yeah. They were talking about. You were like, Joe, what color underwear do you wear? No, no, Joe wasn't an umpire. He was a...

So you and Joe, Nuxhall, sat around and talked about... No, no, no, no. But that was just a little side show of the big show, Matt. Anyway, did you know what this unusually cold weather we're experiencing right now? You get one ridiculous fact today. All right, I appreciate the call. You know, let's do this. That's true.

We think that's true. Let's start with this. I'm going to say yes. You think that's true. Drew, do you think it's true that umpires have to wear black underwear? It's true, but I have a question. Don't umpires wear gray pants? Why wouldn't they wear gray underwear?

If you're splitting your pants, you don't want it to stand out. You said it's true. Like, you know it's true or you're just a... Yeah, I looked it up as he was talking because I didn't believe him. You know, it had to happen. An umpire split their pants and those white skivies were showing through these pants, so they made this move to every. Everybody had to wear black underwear.

What I don't understand Shannon is what makes him call and say that. I don't know. What makes it's he woke up this morning with that on his mind. Bob is like a fortune cookie that comes out with the worst facts. And every day he just decides what's going to come out today. How about we talk about umpires underwear? Not not because he starts with Joe Creason, which at least is on topic. And then we end with that.

Well, he did teach me something today. I didn't know that umpires had to wear black underwear. I get it. Somebody is pointing out this is Ask Anything Wednesday. But although he didn't ask anything. It was a fact. He just came with a fact. He just came with a fact.

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The Pacers, there was some stat that said in the playoffs, teams that are down eight with a minute to go were something like 3 and 17, like 1,762 or something like that. And two of those three, Ryan, are the Pacers in the last two games. Yeah, last night was unbelievable. Last night was unbelievable.

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You have to adjust to the realities of the world. And if the reality is these horse trainers are not going to run the derby winner in the previous, then you've got to adjust the reality. You can't just go, well, in 1963, like that's dumb. You're just smacking yourself in the face as an industry if you do that. You're just being dumb. You can't sit there and say, going backwards in time is never a good reason to do anything. So, and I'm being told, Ryan, that it wasn't even always the case that these were the dates of the races.

They got changed once. So if they were changed in the past, why can't they be changed again? It's best for the sport. There's no doubt about it. I think horses are just getting soft these days. They're like our young teenagers. But that's a stupid. Like, you're saying it as a joke, but there's people that believe what you're saying.

There are people that believe, oh, we're pampering these horses. We know why we're pampering these horses? Because they were dying a few years ago. And let's be real. You want to kill the sport? Have more horses die, Drew. that'll kill the sport. That'll make it to where governments ban it as if we keep doing that.

So we just have to adjust to the realities of the world, right? Yeah, and I still haven't heard a good case for why it has to be two weeks and three weeks off. I mean, pampering the horses, that doesn't really, I don't really think that's a good argument. What is the good case? Like, Shannon, what's the good case for two weeks? You mean the case, like to push it back? No, the case to keep it. What is the case to why the pre-ness needs...

Tradition. But that's a stupid reason to do it. But I mean, that's the reason. But it's a stupid reason. Okay. It could be stupid, but I'm telling you that's the reason they haven't changed it. Well, I mean, if it's not a better reason than that, then it's stupid. I mean, tradition matters.

It matters to me. Like I... But it's not the only reason to do anything. And so imagine if the preteness was Memorial Day weekend. Okay? Why wouldn't that be a huge event on Memorial Day? Yes, it would. To have the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend be the pretense?

And then what if you did the Belmont around the 4th of July? You have now incorporated these races into Americana, haven't you? Why wouldn't you do that? We're making horse racing great again. Yeah, and if Trump wants to ride the ponies at the beginning, then letting. Whatever. Who cares? I don't know if he can fit on the horse or not,

but if he can, it would be, if you did the Pretenance at Memorial Day and the Belmont on the 4th of July, it could become, you could make those races like the derby is where everybody was a part of family gatherings. Isn't that better than now

when two weeks after the Derby does he even know? No one knows. Anyway, I'm just throwing out there where we're talking about it. Isn't like the Indianapolis, was 500 Memorial Day weekend. Maybe they didn't want to run it. But that's on Sunday.

So race the pre- preakness on Saturday. How about that? Yep. Would it work. Never knew you had such strong horse racing thoughts. I just tell you. I don't.

I just, I hate when people's reason for something is, well, that's the way we've always done it. Because, you know, the sport is not the same. Like, it's not as good as it used to be. It's not as big. So maybe we should change things and not just, do it because it's how we've always. But that's why I want the UK U-K. U-L game on a Saturday because it's the way

we always did it. But we didn't even always do it like that. We've played it at different times. I mean, I think it'd be better for it to be on a Saturday for many reasons, but the answer is not just because it's how we've always done it. It's just because it would be better for the fans. Who's next? Adam. Adam, go ahead, Adam.

Hey, I had to laugh out loud when you were talking about the parks and just the thought of them naming that little park next to your house, the rich Bozix Park would just be hilarious. What if I fall down on that park? Will you get them to name at the Matt Jones Park? Oh, yeah. Drew, if I were to fall over there on that park?

You bust at your butt. I think that's close enough. I've gotten hurt in that park before. So yeah, I think that probably should be right. But go ahead. I had a comment and question. My comment talking about yesterday's topic, I would absolutely love to hear Kay Woodford call a game.

and they will actually, they'll, if you put in, like, I want to hear Kaywood call the last final seconds of the 2012 National Championship, they'll print out, or they'll give you a dialogue and a transcript of what he would say, like, in his voice. Like, that's pretty cool. Yeah, see, I'd love to hear it. If they ever get the point where they can do it, I guess they're worried about there being, you know, a name, image likeness of using the sound. Yeah, I mean, I appreciate the call. I had a lot of people write me and they would agree. What, agree with him that they want to hear it?

What was the thing you just sent me, Drew, about what happened in court? What was that about? A guy in Arizona got killed four years ago in a road rage and someone murdered him. But in court this week, they used an AI video of him to talk to the man who murdered him. Wow. He said to Gabriel, the man who shot me, it's a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances. is in another life we probably could have been friends, but they had played a video in court of what they thought,

what AI thought he would have said. I think they used other videos of him, maybe some other stuff he has out there, and they came up with that and played it for the man who murdered him. Wow. I can't believe a judge allowed that. The story even says the judge thought positively of it. It doesn't really go into detail what that meant,

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