KSR - 2025-05-08- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

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As always, Connecticut Sports Radio, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office called T.J.N. Shannon. He'll make them pay. He'll make them pay. We'll have our Clark's Pubbyshop phone number. We'll be up and going all day today. That's 859-2802-287. The A-Vision Glass text machine is my, I guess, my cell phone today.

What's that number? If you don't have it, tough. I'm not giving it out. I've got it. No, it's okay. No, it's all right. And then we'll have our whiskey thief call today. So listen, guys, black smoke over the Vatican this morning.

The Cardinals have not elected a new pope, but there was white smoke over the I heart building today. Oh. Because we have new host today. What's that? What about that? The equipment was on fire or something. Ryan Lemon, Drew Franklin, Shannon the dude, Billy Relage, Mario Maitland. It takes five of us, four of us to replace Matt Jones, who understandably Drew is going to pass on the show today. He's got a long day today. Flies back from Phoenix. As soon as he lands in Cincinnati, Mario's picking him up, then they're driving three hours to Owensboro tonight. Long day. So we kind of understand why he's uh load management load management taking a pass today pulling a sovereignty

sitting this one out to rest up for the next week we're at the kentucky skin cancer center in oinsborough tomorrow should go ahead and shout that out now so we all we all have a little bit of traveling to do coming up i'm still i'm still filling the effects from phoenix i need this coffee to kick in and after your intro you seem like you've had plenty of coffee when did you work on that smoke joke was that off the cuff or was that on the drive over oh no that's show prep okay because we didn't get short notice is when we figured this out here My alarm goes off at 715 to make sure Josiah is up and going. I check my phone and Matt sent us a message at 2.30 in the morning our time.

Guys, I need to pass on the show. It's going to be a long day. I need to be fresh for Friday's remote in Owensboro. So from 715 on, I've been up. I couldn't go back to sleep because all of a sudden my mind's working. I'm like, what are we going to talk about? There's nothing going on. Drew and Shannon, Billy.

We're all going to be there. What are we going to talk about? I was up early because I wrote the morning post on KSR today. I was up a little before 7 to do that. but I get text to my computer and you're the only person who doesn't come to my computer because they're green. So even though Matt had sent the message,

I still didn't know this because I hadn't looked at my phone until close to 9 a.m. So I trust that you did all of the show prep. I'm just hearing my usual seat ready to react to whatever you brought for us. Well, I've got my list of topics. I already used the black smoke analogy. That's good though.

That was really good. Three minutes in. Now what? So, you know, the Cardinals went to, went into the Sistine Chapel they're 0 for 1. Nothing like no new Pope elected yesterday. I took this as good news. It means pizza ball is still alive.

If it had been one night, I think it would just go on to the favorite. But the longer it goes, I think the better our guy pizza baller can pull this off. And Shannon, like I said yesterday, if he wins, he can't change his name. You know, they change their name to Pope John Paul and Pope Francis. He's got to be Pope Pizza Baller, right? Well, he would, right? I mean, that's his... You're telling me they actually changed their last name?

Oh, yeah. They've been... So Pope Francis wasn't really... his name wasn't Francis? Correct. I'm pretty sure. Pappel name? Papel. Look at you. Wow. See, this coffee's kicking in. I'm going to be all right today. I thought that Pope Francis was actually his name was Francis. But yeah, Pizza Bala, I feel like Pope Pizza Bala would be perfect.

Pete Zabala is perfect. Is it a rule they have to do that? Or is it like you have the option to, have a radio name if you want to? We'll get into that maybe the next segment. We need a little more research. We don't want to go through all of our knowledge before the first break. go on my show prep list already in the first segment. You know, like a wrestling name or something, you know? Well, I mean those wrestling names aren't real? You mean his real name is not cash flow?

Mr. Pectacular? Reverend Ronnie, those aren't real names? Well, some of them might be, but no, not all of them. Your name's real. Well, yeah, the first name is, not the last. The dude is actually not my last name, believe it or not, Ryan. Yeah. You know, there's not a lot going on, but I thought the one

news topic that I guess we should maybe lead with is our boy Aaron Torres did a podcast. Well, hi, Billy. What's up, Ryan? He doesn't, he's not always on this portion of chaos. No, I'm here. Headphones on, he's on a microphone. Good morning, Billy. How are you doing? I'm doing great, Ryan. Your hair looks great. Thank you. It must have been really tough for Matt and Drew to go play a TPC course in Arizona and go to the Bet Gala. I got a lot of sympathy for you guys. Warm out. Hey, I'm here. I answer the bell. My last day off was in like September, so I'm just going to keep showing up.

And Ryan, you're right. While it's not strictly required, it is custom for a newly elected Pope to choose a new papal name. But do they have to or they have the option? Not a requirement. Oh, there you go. It's a tradition. We're keeping Pizza Bala.

I think pizza ball is his made-up name. He's getting out in front of this knowing he's going to win. Billy, I know you and I both had a little FOMO when the guys are playing golf out there and we see him at the big bit gala. Oh, yeah. I had a little fomo going on. Well, yeah, when Matt brought me on the show to say I could play TPC Tate's Creek with him while the guys went to Arizona, I had a little bit of foam. A little bit of difference.

Nothing wrong with TPC Tate's Creek. That's my best round. Yeah, but you guys were looking great, especially Mario over there. All right. Aaron Torres. He's a friend of ours, friend of the show. Former KSR writer, Aaron Torres. He wrote a book, One and Fun.

One and Fun. One of the few books I've read in the last 20 years. He had Jaden Quaintance on his podcast. and Jaden Quentin's had said something to Jack Pilgrim. How long ago did he say that to Jack Pilgrim? I was shortly after his commitment. It was during Drew Paloosa, I believe. He came on Drew Paloosa too.

He's been good at doing interviews since making the commitment. Well, in the podcast with Aaron Torres, he says, look, I'm not only going to be ready by September. I'm going to be banging and pushing and shoving and doing my job. I'm going to be ready to go by September, which means that's plenty in time before the practice starts. I mean, if that's the case, Drew, if that's fact, I've said it.

I think Drew, Jaden Quaidens, could be our best player. May not be the leading score, but could be the best player on the team next year. And if he's healthy when the season starts, look out. I don't know much about ACL injuries. I'm not a doctor. He injured it in February. That seems like a very optimistic timeline. I hope it's the case.

And he's said a couple times that's what he's shooting for. But that would be a pretty miraculous comeback to be at full contact, as he said he wants to do by September. Hopefully that's the case. and he didn't clarify if he meant just kind of back on the court, running, practicing or actually wants to play in the season opener. I think he told Jack a while back, his goal is the season opener. But if he can pull that off, that's an incredible recovery time, coming back from a serious injury just at the end of last season.

Billy, that's the fact. This team went from a good team to a Final Four team with him healthy. If he's healthy the whole year, that's how good I think he is. Yeah, this whole front court, it's been exciting to see the depth that they have. But if you're telling me, Quaitance is going to be ready to go from the start of the year, not only does that make me more optimistic that they can win in the Champions Classic, but also the Louisville game, as it's before the Champions Classic this year. Well, I think Louisville is going to try to move the game to August now,

because I think they put it in November because originally everybody was kind of saying mid-December for Quaintance, I think they've got to help their chances. I mean, they've lost 14 out of 16. They've got to go to some extreme measures here to try to win this game. So I think they moved it to November thinking Kentucky wouldn't have Quaintance. An hour after that news comes out, Quentin says he's shooting for September, so I think Louisville's going to try to push it back to August

and do anything they can to win this game. Now, you're right. ACLs are a funny animal. Some people do take eight, ten months. But you then always go back. Well, Derek Anderson ripped his ACL in January. He was ready to go by the final four just a couple months later. It may be individual healing process.

Maybe guys heal faster than others. But I'm telling you, when I saw him say that, that very confident in his comments to Aaron Torres, I just think, if you're not, you were able to put him on the floor with Brandon Garrison at the same time. The front cord obviously very strong. Then you got Aberdeen and Otega and Lowe, running out your starting five.

I mean, that's a team that can win the whole thing, really. Yeah, at first we thought it might even be SEC play before we see him, which would still be great to get him to that point. If he goes that early, that's a difference maker. Also, just like hearing from this guy, as you mentioned, we had him on, when I was hosting, Jacks had him on 11, or not 11 personnel sources, say. The interview with Torres. I really just enjoy hearing from this kid.

Some of these guys, especially to be 18 years old, they're not good at interviews. It's a one-word answer. It's clear they don't want to be there. He's been a really fun interview, not just on our shows, but hearing him on others. And I like him a lot, not just what he will bring to the basketball court eventually. But that was a good interview with Torres yesterday. And he has a lot to prove. Sorry to interrupt you.

But I was going to say, I mean, it kind of fell through with Kentucky when Cal left, and it was a place he wanted to be. So now he comes back and with a first round grade in the next NBA draft, I think he wants to prove people that he is deserving of that and wants to play well for Big Blue Nation. Do you think he would be the best player like I think he will be? Like I said, may not the leading score. I think he's going to lock up our,

I think he's got the best player spot, especially if he even improves from last year. I think he's looking at potential, definitely all-SEC, maybe all-American season if he can continue or even take another step forward. But Quaintance is the biggest NBA talent. He's projected as a lottery pick right now, as long as he can prove that he's back to full health.

one of my friends did tell me this past weekend he's fearful that one team is going to tell Otega we're going to take you in a second round you're going to get a guaranteed contract we're going to take you in the second round and you're going to have a guaranteed contract does that still concern you no I think he'd be crazy to take second round money with whatever UK will pay him I don't know exactly what check UK will write but I don't know that a second round probably bounce around G league and back to the NBA that kind of set up why Why wouldn't you put that off a year and go make at least a million or two at Kentucky? Yeah, and I think the latest Bleach Report mock draft, he's the last pick of the second round,

the last pick of the draft. And I think there's been some reporting on KSR that he would only go if he was guaranteed a first round spot. And some guys are what they are, so they just go. If he comes back and improves his three-point shot, you can go from second round to first round, because he's got a lot of other good tools. It's the three-point shot that's holding him back. And if he has a whole summer working on that, can fix that little hitch in his job. jumper and shoot it a better clip next year.

The NBA check gets a lot bigger, and you already made another year of a lot of money at Kentucky in your second season here. That's it, man. He can make himself a lot of money if he comes back and improves his three-point shot. He's got the rest of the game. And it seemed to me like when the season started last year, his shot was a little smoother. And as the season went on, that hitch got a little worse and a little worse and a little

worse. You feel the same way? Yeah, that'll be a priority this summer working on that because, I mean, getting to the basket. We saw what he can do there? What do you have double figures in every game but two or something crazy? Yeah. Yeah, ball handling can improve a little bit, but those are all things that are fixable.

Some guys, you just can't get bigger, you can't get quicker, you can't get stronger. They are what they are. But Otega always still has some stuff he can work with and really improve his game with another year in college. It'll be odd because my expectations were pretty low for him going into the year. I mean, coming from Oklahoma, I didn't expect him to be the guy that scores double figures in every game but two. So now I think I go into this season if he's on the roster as he is the best player on the team. So it's going to be definitely a change at expectations for what we see from him. On the original point of Quaitance, if he comes back to full strength and can match the potential

that they've been saying he has since he's been, heck, he played last year at 17, which is crazy, but what they expect he can become, he will be a huge difference maker. And they already have so much depth. Agreed. It's almost like you don't need him. We'd love to have them for the Louisville game and the Champions Classic, but it's not the end of the world. It's not like he's the only option there. So if he does have to be a little more patient, that's fine. As long as he's able to play it at a high level at some point,

he makes a big difference for Kentucky. We got a full house today. Drew Franklin, Shannon the dude, Billy R. Sports in his hair, and we're going to take your calls as well. Breaking news right before the show started. We've got to get to that. A little disappointing breaking news. We'll get to that.

And we're going to have another one of our drafts, Shannon. You know, like Matt had his draft, the All Caliperi team, then we did the All-Tubby team. We're going to have a different kind of draft, probably in the second hour today. Rick Petino's team? No. No, it's just kind of a little, because I think Matt still wants to do that with us.

It's going to be just a little bit of a different. You're going to give us like a heads up. We've got to prepare for this draft. Well, maybe I'll tell you off the air. A draft committee has to get our picks together. That's true. We've got to get in the green room. The big board.

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And where's the location? It seems like, Shannon, you told him to go to a hotel tomorrow. I gave the wrong address on the pre-show. So, Billy, what is the correct address? It's New Hartford Road, right? 29-15 New Hartford Road. There you go. That's it.

See, in Owensboro, there's an old Hartford Road. and obviously now there's a new Hartford Road there you're at the location at New Hartford Road Pre-show will be there Pre-show will be there We're getting facials Are you excited for that Ryan I've never had a facial

I don't even know what they do in a facial What do they do when you have a facial Well I don't want to spoil it But if any of us have had one I guarantee it's you What do you mean by that Pampered baby I have a nice skincare routine

I wear a nice moisturizer sunscreens every day, but no, I've not had a facial. Oh, you've not had a facial? No, I've never had one. This will be my first. I haven't. Shannon, have you? Not a professional one. I think I've put on some of Sarah's like mask things that you can put on at night. Shannon's had a different facial. Not talking about that. I'm talking about the, you can put like a, I don't know, it's like a piece of plastic thing that you put over like your face that's got like all these is that what we're doing tomorrow?

Moisturizing stuff. I think they're like scrubbing your face and they may put like a mud mask on you. Get some dead skin. Put some serums on there. Shannon, I think you were wearing a collagen mask. There you go. See, Drew knows. I had one on last week. I'm not shy about my skincare routine. A collagen mask. Thank you. That's what it is. You got to take care of your body, Ryan, it's your temple. Getting older, you got to make sure everything looks good. A sunscreen is very important. That's, that's my advice to everyone listening. Wear your sunscreen. So you and me and Matt are getting our facials during the pre-show. Yes. I have an 845 of appointment. I didn't know we had appointments. Oh, yeah. And that's actually central time.

Well, Matt's not going to make the time. I can tell you that because he's going to be coming, what, from Cincinnati. Mario's driving him. Mario's driving him. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think that's. Are you doing yours during KSR then? Yeah, I'm going to do it afterwards. We're going to try to the pre-show, but I don't know how good that. It's going to be a train wreck. But we'll give it a try and see what happens. We'll see. So we'll be there tomorrow and I'll get our facials and try a new thing. After, and we're sticking around for some barbecue, right, it is the festival. The barbecue festival in Owensboro. I don't think I've been in 20 years. I used to try to hit it every year. It probably went four or five times consecutively. I'm looking forward to our show first, facial, and then hanging around a little bit and eating

every piece of barbecue in town. I mean, we talk a lot about hibbley days in Pikeville, Court Days in Mount Sterling. The barbecue festival in Owensboro is right up there when it comes to people watching and things you don't think. eating way too much food. Eating way too much. Greasy, nasty food. Not nasty, but bad on your stomach food. I won't call it the healthiest day we'll have.

But, you know, when you're at Wesleyan, did you have some, do you all go tear up the barbecue festival every year? Oh, my goodness. Yes, absolutely. We've been there many times, but I haven't been to the barbecue festival in probably 30 years. Well, it's time. So it's time to go back. Shannon, you're in for a treat. You got to stick around to go down and just kind of walk.

But all the good people watching will be like in the evening, you know. that's when the people come out. People come out, huh? The freaks come out at night. The freaks come out at night. Yeah. Well, I'll stick around for some barbecue. I'm down with that. I don't know that I'll be sticking out for the,

stick around for the freaks coming out, as you put it, later on in the night, though. 859-2802-287. That's our Clark's Publishop phone number. We did get this on the A-Vision Glass text machine. This guy, I guess, has my cell phone number. A lot of times ACL recovery depends on the severity of the tear and the health and shape of the person.

Someone active in good physical health takes less time in most cases. Well, I know like Ronald Ocunia Jr. drew for the Braves. He tore his ACL, I think it was a year ago. And I don't think he's coming back until July. So that would put it like 14 months for him. But to come back in seven months, that's crazy. And you said Anderson came back in two months, Ryan? The tear was in like January and he was ready to go when the cats were playing in the final four.

That's insane. It is unbelievable. And then Patino famously did not play him. Right. Well, I can say why. He practiced that day, full practice, but they did not play him in the game for fear of risking further injury and, you know, damaging his NBA future. Shannon, you mentioned the Braves. Matt didn't let us talk about it.

I know we lost last night, but we won the series over Summer of Ellie. Actually, some bad news. Hunter Green got hurt last night. We didn't. We won't celebrate that. We don't like injuries. But since he wouldn't even let us say the results yesterday, we got to work in. that outside of last night it was a good series for Atlanta.

Well, it's actually a four-game series, so they got one more tonight. Well, I got ahead of myself then. It's okay. We can make it three games to one. But yet the Reds have been banged up in this series. Their left filter just broke his forearm in game one. And that was a – I don't know if you saw that. That was crazy.

But Matt Olson for the Braves ended up with an inside the park home run. The left filter, I think it was Callahan, I think is his name, broke his forearm when he ran against the wall and just laid there on the ground. in pain. The ball's right next to them. Meanwhile, Matt Olson's just circling the bases. Some of the Reds fans weren't too happy about that, Ryan, but you know, the play continues, right? Just like in football or basketball. It's a live ball. It's a live ball.

You keep it on. We saw a losing record, though. It's not fun. As a potential World Series team before the season began, it's not fun to be in third in the division. Well, going into last night, the Reds had lost five in a row, and then last night they won, but they lost Hunter, maybe lost Hunter Green. He left the game.

I will point out my St. Louis Cardinals have one five in a row. Okay. There we go. There we go. There we go. But the baseball season for that division, the Reds and the Cardinals are not doing well. Braves, your Braves are not doing well. Who's your team, Billy?

The Rays? The Rays. And they're playing in that stupid minor league ballpark because the roof got torn off when they had that storm come. And it just doesn't feel like a real season. I don't know. It just feels like exhibition games. But the Rays are in trouble. There's no doubt.

The Cardinals or Reds are only three games. is back out of first, so they're not doing that bad. It's just a terrible division. Terrible division, yeah. All right, 859-2-2-287. That's the Clark's Pump and Shop phone number. Let's get Brian. He's been our first caller.

I get ready to go. So, hello, Brian. How are you doing? Hey, what's up, guys? How are you, Brian? I'm doing good. Hey, I was going to see what you guys were going to get into an Owensboro tonight. It's called my bed.

I'm going to get into. I'm going to get in my bed tonight when I get there. Is that an open invitation to the listeners? I don't know if you guys were getting out somewhere. The young, Young bucks may be getting out somewhere, but not me. I'm coming in, going to tuck in and get a good night's rest for the show tomorrow. Gotcha, gotcha,

hey, can I give you some suggestions of some spots to hit? Please. Again, it's my bed. I'm going to hit my bed. Well, I'm talking to the young guys. Yeah, let us hear it. Let us hear it. Yeah, I'd love it.

Hey, uh, check out a Brasher's Little Nashville. It's downtown. Okay. What about that is? All right. Yeah. It's a cool little bar and, uh, the tavern 144. It's a couple of spots.

Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you, Brian. Appreciate the phone call. Where did a young Ron live and hang out? Oh, it was the brass. The brass A saloon, Barnabies, Boilerm, Taylor's Tavern. those were the hot spots.

I feel like you were in college. You don't have to tell anything you don't want to tell, but a bit young Ron Lemon when he wasn't stealing bases. I'd like to get after a little bit. Well, Barnabies was as big as any place in the Evansville, Owensboro, Henderson area. People would travel over from Evansville to go to Barnabes. It was crazy.

And the brass? Hmm. Oh, maybe we shouldn't have asked you. 859-2-8-7. That's our phone number if you want to call and get on board. we have one minute to the break. Not enough time to take this call, so we'll get retired ref when we come back from the break.

We do want to say that UK graduation is this weekend. That details you a couple things. Stay away from downtown, unless you have to. Do not drive through downtown. But if you are coming here for graduation, come to KS Bar and Grill. We get a lot of people, a lot of families that come out before or after the graduation.

So it's an all-day event that's going to be going on all weekend. Yeah, I mean, it just completely takes over downtown. Congratulations, everyone graduating. We're going to have some, I guess, some of the basketball players, maybe go through it, grad students. I'm sure they probably will. We'll have pictures and all that on the website of any of the athletes that go through, but it's here for everyone graduating UK. Stay away from downtown. We're right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J., he'll make them pay.

Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. All right, welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. Drew, Shannon, Billy, Mario, the whole group's here. I got this on the aviation glass text machine. This guy obviously has my cell phone. My father was an orthopedic surgeon in Louisville. He said Derek Anderson's injury had to be misdiagnosed. He told me at the time.

He has never heard of an athlete ready to compete in two months post-surgery and will never see another athlete again coming back from an ACL injury like that. So we can't count on that for the Jaden Quentin's return. Well, maybe Derek Anderson has a second. just like a tiny tear. I don't know. I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm just trying to make sense of it. Coming back after two months after an ACL tear, that sounds crazy. And those stories are legendary, how they were in Indianapolis at the Final Four, and it was on the Sunday.

Who did they beat on the Saturday? They played Arizona on Monday. Oh, goodness. I can't remember who they played on Saturday and won. Minnesota? Is that it? How do we not know? this. It's my favorite season and team.

Okay. This is the 97 team. Yeah. I don't know. I don't have it. Can't remember. Weren't you covering the team? Yeah, I was. That was 30 years ago. Yeah, I was 11. That's why my memories. Somebody was going to look it up. And so they practiced on Sunday, a full practice.

It was Minnesota. I looked it up for you. There we go, Minnesota. And Derek Anderson practiced on that Sunday in between the two games, full practice and was the old Derek Anderson, like practice lights out. and then Petino still did not want to play him in the Monday championship game. Although if you remember, he did let him go out and shoot two free throws. That made it worse. I do remember that very well.

I'm like, well, he's in now. Where's he been the whole time? Yeah. I wish he was shooting the free throws that Nasi Muhammad shot that night because Nasi was 0 of 6 and they got beat by Arizona. Could have been the rare college three, Pete. Could have been. 859-2-802-287. That's our Clark's Publishout phone number.

All right. We had some breaking news, Shannon, right before the show started today. Do you want the sounder? Well, sure. The TBT tournament announced that they are not going to be playing in Lexington this year. They will again be playing back in Louisville because the ticket sales went a lot more sold from the Louisville fans. They got $4,000. I mean, we still host the games are more on the road, but this is the regional final.

The regional finals. They're still Lexington games, but Louisville won the contest, those losers. They care a lot more than any other team in this because they don't have any other tournament success lately. but we will be heading back to Louisville if it gets to that point. But the first two games again would be here in Lexington. Howardman is three. I don't have this. I mean, everything that's been promoted and sold, it's still a memorial,

but there was a contest just for the regional final whenever you, just like last year. It was in Rupp for the whole first few rounds. Then they had the one game in Louisville. And they base it on total ticket sales. I want to say it was a race to 4,000 sold. And Louisville got it. Louisville won.

A little disappointing, Billy. A little bit, but that means Kentucky will have a win in Freedom Hall and then in the KFC Yom Center in a span of what a couple months. As long as Drew doesn't get sucker punched on his way out, I think it should be a good trip. That's the main thing. Can we wrap Drew and bubble wrap so he doesn't get punched again? No kidding. Yeah, I don't think it hurt you too much though. I mean, you kind of know sold them pretty well on that punch. Yeah, I can take a punch. I don't think they should have been allowed. It's not just me getting hit. I mean, those losers were the biggest losers to ever lose in that game.

I mean, Onahuaku's spitting on Nate Sistina. Fans won and everyone. where, I mean, they showed their true asses in a summer exhibition of guys who were barely, barely young enough to still play basketball. So I think they should have been banned. Of course they sold more tickets because they suck at the actual game. That's why they're getting a host again. But I wish the TBT should have said, no, you showed your asses last year and you're not allowed to host again.

Preach it. But I will go back and I will do the exact same thing I did last year. I will keep my Ls down for two hours, and they can bring it again. You know, it ended up being kind of a special win because you went, You beat Louisville on their home court. And they were so excited. They were so excited. They were talking so much smack.

All the, you know, the crowd majority of Louisville fans. Yeah. And so when you went on an opponent's home floor, it makes it a little special. Yeah. And I had my run in with that weak-minded human. But the spitting. Who spits? Who spits?

Who spits? A grown man in a basketball game. Halk and a loogie on his opponent because they can't handle losing. They should be good at losing. It's all they do. How have they not learned how to be? be gracious losers yet. Pope took the UK team with him over there to watch and support the guys. Saw them. Kind of cool. Thank God they were up in a box. No telling what would have happened to them around all those losers. But they did win this contest. Congratulations on finally winning something. I can't wait to see you there next summer. Losers.

Preach, Drew. I'm wearing body armor. So it's set up. We're going to happen again. Kentucky who takes care of business here at Memorial again. Wins those games. Yeah, we're going to take care. But we're just going to do it again. Beating Louisville is what we do. the Lexington games were in a interrupt, right? Did they announce that? It's a memorial. I announced that 20 seconds ago. I started. Sorry, I missed that.

We got the Harrison Twins. They added them. The Harrison Twins. We got the Harrison Twins. So we got Duran, Liggins, Harrison Twins, Willie, several more to come. I've heard a few rumors of who they're working. Well, what did you hear with rumors? Well, I don't want to say it just in case they have to bail.

There's a lot of scheduling stuff. But I know who they've targeted and had conversations with. We're going to be loaded again. But I'm glad the twins are back. It was a lot of fun watching them be a part of it last year when they beat those losers in Freedom Hall. I hope Sustina's back too. I don't know if that's been announced. He should be the number one pick

if we can get him. He took it so much more, well, they all took it seriously. I don't want to diminish the other guys, but he got so into it and he played really well. He was on the Kentucky team that got robbed and didn't have a tournament. So I think Nate was treating that like his NCAA tournament. He was the best player on the TBT team.

And Ennis's little brother. Let's bring him back. Bring him back. He was the other star. He's part of the family. We got Liggins with that Logdown, D. We'll go beat these losers again in Freedom Hall. So even though the news is a little disappointing, it still can make it just as sweet when you go there and win again this year. Yeah, it'll happen.

It'll happen. Mark your calendars. 859-2-2-287. Let's go to the phone lines. We got Greg coming up next. Go ahead, Greg. Hey, guys. I thought I'd chip on these ACLs.

I've torn mine. My two daughters have torn theirs. And there's not a coach that's ever going to play a player before six months is up. I mean, after two months, you can jump around, walk and run, but you put Derek Anderson in there at game speed, and he was going to ruin his knee. And if he could have played, if he was recovered, Patina would have played him. But it's a six-month deal, and somebody can prove me wrong,

but I don't think any players come out, come back before six months was out. All right, I appreciate it. Great. Thanks for the phone call. Yeah, that kind of adds to the mystery of that Derek Anderson incident. I mean, they were the best team, and then with him, they almost won it without him. So with him, you've got to think they would have beat Arizona and Miles Simon and Mike Bibi in that group. Is that the most famous U.K. injury that's cost them?

I know there's been some big ones, but is that, that probably adds a title, a banner to the rafters if his injury doesn't happen. Because it happened in January, you know, when they were making their big run. Was it 03? When Keith Bogan's got hurt. Is it 2003? 03, yeah, right before that sprained ankle he got. in the Elite 8.

In the Suite 16 against Wisconsin, they tried to play against Marquette in the lead eight. I still think we have a banner of Alex Poiters isn't hurt because Wisconsin doesn't, or we have someone to guard Sam Decker in that bunch. This is not a fun exercise. No. I mean, the Nirlins-Nuel injury boarded that season,

but it wasn't the championship run or anything they were making at the time. They go to the tournament that year easily. They're not in the NIT losing to Robert Morris. Was it PJ Washington, had a thumb injury, played through it, but missed all those free throws? Yes. PJ in the boot. That one with Cal was at his most. I haven't seen him. I haven't seen him. We were getting, I haven't seen him daily. But the PJ, he hits a couple of those free throws. They may beat Kansas State and end up in the final four. That's another final four they could have had. Half of last year's roster. Half of last year's roster. That's also a lot of list. Kurt Creasa. Absolutely. Jackson Robinson. What if he stays healthy the whole year last year?

Or you have Andrew Carr for that big stretch to change things? It's a fun game. Last year. Last year. was probably the most injury prone where it happened to more than one guy. You know, it had three or four guys go down, major players go down. It hurts when you got one guy, but that team last year, man, they lost so many key pieces. Yeah, I mean, losing Robinson, when you don't have them in the tournament, that's one of the biggest. There's been other individual injuries, but I can't think of a team that just had as many across the board. 859-2-2-8-7. We got Paul up next.

Go ahead, Paul. Yeah, on the ACL tear, if that... They had him doing hyperbaric oxygen treatments before and after surgery. He could very well be up on it and plan. It would increase the healing about probably four times. All right. Did they have that kind of procedure in 1997? Yes.

Okay. Well, maybe that's what they did then. It's just, yeah, it's a chamber that you go in 100% off. oxygen that's compressed and it takes your body's natural healing ability times a thousand. But to get there, you'd have to do, you know, 20 to 40 treatments, two-hour treatments, and you do them consecutively. All right, Greg, thanks to the phone call. Appreciate that.

I mean, the advances in medicine now, I'm sure it's helped Jaden Quaitens get ready. Is his tear as bad as Derek Anderson's tear? I have no idea. Yeah, I mean, I love the shooting for mid-September for full-com. contact, but I'm not going to write that down in Sharpie that he'll be a part of the team to start the year. That would be pretty impressive. He seems to believe it, Billy. He's been telling everybody. That's the right attitude to have. That's right. Yeah. And I'm sure that helps in the recovery process as well. If you have an optimistic mindset, then you're going to do everything with 110%

effort, Ryan. I'm surprised you were such an athlete. You didn't tear anything sliding into a base or never major injuries like that? Well, I was a fine-tuned athlete. You know, I was, you know, the elite of the elite that don't get hurt like that. I did break my finger, like during my senior year of fall baseball. I missed the whole fall season because I broke a bone in my throwing hand and my coach made me run cross country. You were on the cross country team? I was a Kentucky Wesleyan baseball player and cross country runner. Wait a minute. We've always known about these records you have in baseball, but I didn't know you were a two sports star. Yeah, my baseball coach who just turned 80 years old, we just went to see him Sunday. God bless

him, Denny Potts. He was also the cross country coach for a couple years. If you got hurt during baseball season, guess where your butt ended up? Running on the cross-country team. Stay in shape. So they're like a handful of us running cross-country for one year. Sound like he didn't have a choice. He needed to keep you all that condition. Otherwise, you would have been at brasses every night or whatever you were up to you. I think I ran in three meets and finished last or next to last in all three of them. So you're like simply joking. You're simply joking. Yeah, I was simply joking. You're so funny. All right. 859-2-2-8-10. We'll be right back. Ryan, Drew, Shannon, Billy. This is Kentucky Sports

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Podcasts for wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of I Heart Women's Sports. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio. This Nickelback? It is. Yeah, this is back on the first album when they were really popular. Well, there's a documentary on Netflix. We talked about during the break about Nickelback.

I think it came out maybe a year or so ago. I just saw it just while you guys were off in Arizona. It's really, really good. Because it talks about how they were so popular. Then people started hating them. And it talks about how it affected those guys, you know. They were as popular as anybody. And all of a sudden it became a real hot, trendy thing to not like nickelback.

Well, that's because they were writing songs like this that were actually good to songs like this. And that's when they started to get hated. When they put out rock star and they put out photograph. But I mean, it's still a good song. I know. That's what I like. See? Well, when you're nickelback and you appeal to the rascal flat,

fans, I think that's why they got hated on. Ryan is right here. He can hear you. Rascal Flats, that's your other band. Yeah, I've kind of fallen off the Rascal Flats bandwagon because they called it quits. But I've always liked Nickelback. I never understood why all that nickelback hate that was going on for so long. But you're saying that's a good documentary I should go watch on Netflix? It's really good because they really get personal with the guys, how it affected them and their families.

Their kids would go to school and other kids would make fun of their dads and nickelback and stuff. You know, it's really good. Well, it all started with Creed. Creed was really popular. They got this treatment first. Then it kind of spread over to Nickelback after that. But now Creed's cool again.

Creed's cool with the TikTok crowd, the younger crowd. Well, I think Nickelback's cool again, aren't they? They're efforting. I'll put it like this. We started playing Creed again on QMF, and we didn't plan for years, but now we're back to playing Creed. But we're not playing Nickelback. So I don't know if that says anything about

either their popularity or our pro. programming. You know nickelback, don't you, Billy? Of course. And I don't know if it's people that just want free stuff, but when Shannon and I gave away Creed tickets, I mean, you would have thought we were giving away free money. Yeah, Beatles tickets or something. People are knocking down people trying to get through the lines. Well, I was hoping to go see Creed this summer, but now the Three Doors Down, who was not their opener, I don't know if they're co-headlining or before Creed, but he announced yesterday a cancer diagnosis, and Three Doors Downs done touring, and I'm sure that will affect the Creed concert at Rupp.

Bad news from what's his name, Shannon? Brad Arnold. One of the nicest guys you could ever be. I've had a chance to interview him a couple of times. Really good guy and really sad to see that come out. Very sad. Stage four kidney cancer. And they shut down the whole tour?

Well, for three doors down, I don't know if that. See, I just assumed that they were going to cancel the entire tour with Creed, which meant Creed wasn't going to play Rupp Arena. But I haven't heard officially if they're going to cancel Creed's part of it and maybe pick up another opening band. I'm not sure. There's like five or six bands. I've read some have already been canceled,

but they're hopeful maybe slide something in for three doors down as replacement. I'm not sure, but it's just awful news about Brad Arnold. There you go. Alice Bluegown can open up for them. Yeah, we play for sure. Yeah, we're going to be playing the Virginia. We just announced that KSR is going to be coming to Somerset, June the 6th, at the Virginia, which is this really nice old theater.

We're going to be playing there with the band. that night. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So I'll be hanging out for the entire day and night, morning and, uh, and Owen, uh, not at Winsborough. That's, SummerSet. Yeah, Somerset. SummerSet on June 6th. Well, you played your new song earlier and I didn't catch it. Can you play it again? Well, you asked me to play it to set up this conversation we're having now and you completely ignored it. So no, no, no. I have ADHD. I forgot that. I only get one. Speaking of, speaking of concerts, a railbirds coming up in Lexington into this month, right? May 31st, June 1st.

Oh, you're asking? And you're telling you. We have the parking spots available for sale over at KS. Bar and Grill. So all you got to do is go to the KS Bar and Grill social media accounts. They've got the links there where you could buy a parking pass. And we're not going to let you just go in and park and walk over. You've got to buy a pass to park and walk over.

It's the best parking you're going to have. We get some good security out there. Good security. We got Griff. We had Griff. We had the OVW wrestlers out there that one year. That's right. No offense to them.

I thought Griff was a little more organized. His guys were shirts. A lot more organized. His guys had shirts on that had their security name on it. Both were great, though. Matt was out there one year. Pictacular and Immaculate Joe Mack. Slaping people's cars because they weren't going the right way.

But yeah, that is May 31st and June 1st. There you go. And the parking is really good. It is good. I'm not just saying that as someone with KSBarr. I've attended every railroad. And the one over Red Mile, it was a very short walk. and even just like leaving to go get lunch and a few drinks and get some air conditioning at KS Bar,

check on my car, you know, whatever you need to do, then head back over. It's very convenient. So go to the KS Bar, social media accounts. There's a link there you can sign up by your pass. Before we take our top of the hour break, I do want to bring up. There's a, there's been a movement in Kentucky where they're trying to get a one-year free transfer rule for high school athletes, where you could transfer from one school to another free, not have to sit out a year. Well, it looks like KHSAA and the people are going to shoot it down. They're going to stay kind of maintained with the rule they got now. If you transfer to school, you will be investigated.

If you can show proof of residence that you actually physically moved, or if your parents split up and you moved or, you know, there's some things you can do. But there was a movement, guys, to try to get a one-year free transfer rule. You could transfer anywhere you want for free and not be investigated or lose a year. You is the high school sports guy in the traditional. I'm sure you're glad they're not letting them move around. I am glad about that. I mean, I understand the world we live in and people are transferring, but if the family

physically moves to that school district, I don't know what you can do. And it's happening all the time, baby, for football and basketball. You know, I think you can transfer in tennis, golf, some of the minor sports, and not ever get investigated. But you do it in football or basketball. You will get investigated by the KHSAA. You have to prove proof of residency in that. school district. Was it Zion Harmon that seemed like he was at a different high school every other

every other month? Yeah. There's been some kids around here who've played for four different schools in five years or four years. What do you think about it? Well, I agree with you that I'm glad they're doing it. Well, it's no secret that private schools have an advantage over public schools because they recruit to their sports. Right. Right. Do they still have to sit out if a kid goes to a private school? I don't think so. I think you go to a private school. You don't have to have that sit-out rule. I don't think that's the case. Well, that doesn't seem fair for the public schools. So this would be a way to even the playing field a little bit,

but are we incentivizing you just going to the school that gives you the best chance to win a championship? Do we need to be incentivizing that in high school? Because they're, you know, St. X and Trinity and Louisville, they get kids from Indiana. They recruit. Like, let's not act like they don't. So it's like, do you want

the public schools to be able to get kids for maybe, with the transcers without setting out a year? It seems like it's plausible, but there's a lot a tradition that they'll have to get over. There's a lot of movement for it because the colleges now have it with the transfer portal. Right. You can go from school to school and not have to sit out.

Trying to try to me translate that down to the high school though, but looks like the KHSSA is saying at least right now. Ain't happening. Ain't happening right now. Maybe in the future, but ain't happening right now. All right, that'll do it for hour number one. We'll be back. Hour number two, 859, 280, 2287. We've got a draft coming up.

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