KSR - 2025-05-27- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk baseball, interrupting callers, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio. We'll go to the phone here in just a second, 859-280-2287. Shannon says it sounds funny when I was wailing there in the first hour. For the he-hall song. The he-all song with no music. That's all right. You know what? Podcast people, I hope you enjoyed it. Shannon's a little freaked out, right? Why is that? They've posted a picture around the Louisville I heart with a picture of a person saying,

watch out for this person. This person has made threats. And Shannon just sent me the picture. And I got to tell you, Shannon, I wouldn't have needed a warning. I wouldn't have needed a warning. If I saw that dude, if I saw this dude right here, oh boy. I think I'd be a little bit worried too. Yes. So do we know what happened? They said he's made threats to the building? Yeah, I don't want to say on the air. Oh, you know what he's happened. I don't know. I mean, you know, he could be listening right now and get me when I walk out the door. Oh, yeah. You got to be careful, Shannon. I don't know anything to happen to you. All right. Can't kidnap me. But yeah. We'll be watching for that. If you see that guy, run.

It's weird. When you walk in his face is like plastered on the walls and on the cabinets in the kitchen. Like, have you seen this man? if you have avoid him. What do we think he's upset about? You think it's like I'm going to be completely stereotypical. This has got to be political, right? That's a Trump or guy. Yeah. You think he's like liberal media, you know.

I don't know which side of the alley is on, but you can make that assumption if you want. But it probably is political, though, I would say. Yeah, I mean, no, but that's the only reason you would get mad at a radio station, right? I think he's a big fan of the Indianapolis 500. and not happy with what you said about it. Well, luckily, I'm in a different city right now. So I guess I got to take it out on me.

One person writes, Matt, how could you not know about Pete Rose? You're a Reds fan? Because I wasn't a Reds fan back then. I didn't. I mean, I've never, like the Pete Rose, even the Joey Votto thing, like the, it's never affected me because I wasn't a fan there. But when I was reading, I'm telling you, this book Charlie Hustle, even if you're not a book reader and you just like sports, like you will like it.

goes through his life. I didn't realize how much Pete Rose was gambling like his whole life. Yeah. Like I didn't realize that I guess what's the Northern Kentucky track? Is that Turfay? Turfway. Apparently he went to Turfley like every day. Wow. Every day. Like back then the baseball games would often be like four in the afternoon. And then at night he would go to Turfley. And it just talked about how. And he also like didn't pay his debts.

Part of the problem was part of the reason he got caught is he owed Booky's money all over the East Coast. And so eventually, when these bookies got brought down, they would turn on rose because he owed them all money. I didn't know any of that. Like, I didn't know how the whole investigation even started. It was because bookies got caught and they all flipped on rose because he owed them like. And he would, I mean, he was a degenerate. He like ran from one bookie to the other because like there'd be a book like, I'm not taking your bets anymore because you, you owe me so much money. And if I remember correctly, these bookies saved the tickets to show Pete Rose's name betting on the Reds.

And I didn't realize that for a lot of their career, he and Johnny Bench were kind of like they butted head. Yeah. Because like, Pete Rose thought Johnny was considered better than him. And by the end of their career, they got along. But during the early career, they apparently butted heads. And the things Pete Rose would say in the media, including some awful things. I mean, he said, I didn't know the. history of kind of sexist, racist stuff he had said. I didn't realize that. But even also,

he was just like, he'd just be about to play somebody and go, he's not good. About a pitcher he was going to go against the next day, Shannon. He'd be like, yeah, that dude's not any good. You know, when we now see such outrage about what athletes say, go look at what Pete Rose used to say. Pete Rose would be about to play a pitcher and go to the media and go, yeah, he can't, he can't strike me out. I like that. Were you kidding me? We need more of that I don't disagree with you but it's funny how outrage people

get at modern athletes if you then go look at the stuff the guys said back then it was like so I think it's a great book I have not even finished it yet but I read it literally all weekend I will add it to my reading list

I've heard stories I feel like some people locally in the media have told stories about him being at the track all the time all the time game days after games fur coats Can you imagine

Can you imagine going to Turfway And seeing Pete Rose walk in with a fur coat No, not like a perfect white guy It doesn't Again, like the things I thought I knew I just think about him with that bowl cut haircut Yeah But then I realized that when he got the hit

That broke the record That's one of the first sporting moments I can remember Is it really? It's one of the first I'm not sure like 84-85 is when sports start to come into focus for me. I can remember the 85 Final Four.

I remember the 85 Bears season, the whole thing. And then I do remember watching with my grandfather when he got that hit against Eric Shao and the Padres. And against that, he was about to hit. He had gone like two games where he didn't get a hit. Like everybody was in Cincinnati to wait and see what happened. The next night, he told that he was also the manager. think about that.

Like, can you imagine each row, or not each a row, Otani also being the manager? He was the manager, and he said the night before the game, I'll get it tomorrow. Shal's not good. He was right. Caughty Shott. It's kind of badass, really.

So, anyway. I remember after he got the hit, remember Little Pete, his son ran out to him and greet him at first days. They'd say that in the book. Yeah. You would love it. This book was written for Rhineland. I'm telling you, you would, you would really love it.

Took, you know, I kind of stayed offline all day Sunday, got home Sunday night, got on my phone, looked, and they, someone had taken a clip of like 10 or 11 seconds of me talking to Pope and interrupting him at one point. And so me being the interrupter became a big thing. I feel like, you tell me, I'm open to criticism. while it is correct that I interrupt all the time. I did feel like with Pope, I didn't interrupt him a lot. Am I wrong? No, I sat right there during the whole interview. I thought you did a good job.

I mean, you interrupt him as a point of a conversation, but not interrupt him to keep it moving. You let him talk and had to expand on a lot of topics. It's pretty long-winded too. So you let him get us. Yeah, you did. Let him get his thoughts out. I didn't see the clip they used against you.

I remember, like when he's talking about a little. You chombed in when he's like, that was the one. Yeah, I mean, I remember, I remember you like adding to what he's saying. I don't remember just a full stop interruption. That was the, that was the clip. It was something about, no, no, no, it wasn't about Louisville. It was about Cal. He said when Cal told him, don't ruin my program.

I guess I interrupt. But, you know, I've decided, by the way, to call the podcast interrupted. Yes. Good choice. I think that's the play. I've had people recommend interrupted by Matt Jones because it's kind of like a double play like the podcast is by Matt Jones and you're also the active interrupting. Whoever gave you that idea.

My mother actually. Shout out to Nancy. Nancy. Great idea. But I mean, I am bad about interrupting, but I didn't feel like I intentionally tried to be calm, cornbread hempy. You know, I tried to do that, Ryan, because I thought, you know, he's a coach. I want him to come back.

We talked about the next day how it's a different interview format when you're interviewing somebody like that for a podcast, then you are on the radio. On the radio, you want to keep it moving and try to, you know, keep the guy on topic. You let Mark, I think, expand on topics. Now, if you interrupted him once or twice, I think it was because, like, you would do us in conversation if we were having lunch somewhere, not like you're trying to keep up, keep the podcast moving. Well, that was the Twitter Sunday night conversation, is Matt interrupts too much.

So I just started chiming in saying, Shannon and I agreed that he's the worst. And we need to get him out. he talks about politics too much. Andrew, what's up, Andrew? What's up? This is a question for you, Matt. Who is your favorite current red on the team? Who's your all-time favorite red? And what is your favorite piece of red memorabilia that you own?

Ellie, Ellie, and Ellie's bobblehead. I mean, those are the answers. Because, again, I've only really rooted for him for like six years. And I love Ellie, even though, you know, he's up and down. There is nothing I've seen in baseball when I'm. when I was a kid, when Dale Murphy would come up to bat, that was the most exciting thing, Shannon, to me in the world, was Dale Murphy was up to bat. Now, when Ellie gets a hit, watching him run is the best thing in baseball, in my opinion, because you don't know what's going to happen. He's so exciting, so fast.

So that's mine easy. And then my Ellie bobblehead that I made Billy get for me that he had to fight someone to get for that for that. for that one game, that's my favorite member. Yeah, because you didn't go to the Pete Rose jersey night the other couple weeks ago. I saw my tickets. Got a lot of money for him. Yeah, that was good. But it's easy. Most of the Reds I've hated. I also liked Lewis Castillo, the pitcher. Because he could, he's the first time because I had seats behind home plate. Shannon and I could watch the ball curve.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. You know, like his curve was so so curvy. So curvy. That sitting behind, it's really the first time I could watch a ball in person, like, do magic when he was rolling. And I really liked that. I would never miss when he, like, I try not to miss 100 green pitches at home. He throws it. Even though it's only like four miles an hour faster, you can feel it, which is crazy.

But the difference between like 101 and 97, you can feel it when he throws. That's another thing about Friday. He made his return, Hunter Green, back to the mound. He was throwing 100 miles an hour when he came back. and then they lost the lead and lost the game. That's so weird to me as a guy who didn't play baseball, you would think 9,7001. It's not that big a difference.

But when you watch it in person, you guys played it. You can feel the difference. It's a big difference when you're 60 feet away from that. It just feels like, whoa, coming off his hand. There's a guy they got right now. Lewis May, he throws 102, and he has no control.

And when he throws, I'm like, I'm scared. I'm sure the batters have to be. Dalton, go ahead, Dalton. Hey, Matt, I'm not sure if you've seen this, but I think you would really like the movie A Real Pain with Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin. I have seen it, and I thought it was great. I thought it was great.

Yeah, I've seen it. The one where they go to Auschwitz or whatever? Yeah, yeah. I just thought it was like just a good commentary on, the Holocaust and I know you mentioned it a couple weeks ago because that's what you did

at the... I thought it was great. I thought it was great. It's a great movie and it's also like there are a lot of idiots right now that for whatever reason on podcasting stuff are trying to like sort of downplay

the Holocaust or even trying to act like some people act like it didn't even happen. That's nonsense and very dangerous. But also that movie I thought was really, really good. You know, it's called it. What's a real pain?

Is that right? It's the dude from Facebook and the dude from succession in a movie together. Yeah, it's really real. Yeah, I really thought it was a breath of fresh air. Yeah. So, yeah, I appreciate it. $59-2802287. Back to the Pope thing for a minute.

In his interview, he talked about wanting to get more athletic, et cetera. He also said during that interview, though, that he still wanted the team to take a ton of threes this year. Do you think they're going to be shooting well enough to do that? I guess you've got to show me yet. I'm not so sure how many good shooters. We're great shooters we've got on this roster. Maybe they're going to surprise me.

Maybe everybody takes a step up. But I guess if you're asking me to predict, I don't know if they'll predict many more threes than they took last year. They won't have a Kobe Brea. Not many teams do have a Kobe Brea, but I think a lot of the guys are going to do better than some of us are giving credit for. Aberdeen, you know, he played behind the best back court. in the country. But in the games where he started, I think there's five or six games.

He shot 40 something from three. I think Jasper Johnson's going to be able to knock it down. I feel like no one mentions Cam Williams' name just whatsoever. So even though they don't have just the sharpshooter, you know, that's what they're in for. I still think they have a lot of guys that'll be able to shoot it. That little section where he was talking about Jalen Lowe and he was talking about how he took the highest percentage of the worst percentage of shots. Yes. Yes. If you're a basketball nerd, that's probably the best part. He was like, Jalen Lowe took the worst 20% of shots the top 10% of times. And if we could just move him to block, I thought that was really interesting.

It was really interesting. I'm glad you brought that up because he confused me on it a little bit. Was he trying to say that Jalen Lowe was forced to take these shots because he had nobody else on the... I'll tell you what I'd like to do. Let's take a break. I want to hear you to try to explain what he said. Okay. And then I'll tell you what I think he said.

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The Yaxel Landenbergstein at Michigan, withdrawing from the draft. So a lot of the big names in college basketball, Drew, are coming back. That's one we wanted to see him go to the draft because Kentucky really wanted him early in the process. When he went to Michigan, I think we were all rooting that he'd go to the NBA and leave them hanging. That was one of the, as when the whiffs originated online for Pope when he wouldn't get a recruit. Yeah, I mean, if we had lost him, we lost him and that frustrated a lot of people. That was very early in poor season.

It was very early. And I think Pope was worried, you know, big men are harder to get even the. and guards. And I think he was worried if you go all in on that guy and then he ends up staying in the draft, then you are left without a big man. And so I, you know,

I do think they wanted him. I also was not as worried as everyone else when he decided not to come. It was so interesting to hear Pope talk about that. You know, not necessarily that the dude maybe didn't want to come to Kentucky. Maybe Kentucky after meeting with the dude didn't want him. You know, maybe he felt like he wasn't going to make a big fit.

I don't think that was true with him, though. Okay. I think it was true with that dude from Georgia. I don't think that was true with the dude from Michigan. I think they would like to have had the Yaxel guy. I think at one point they thought they did have him, and then he changed his mind. I think the Georgia kid is the one,

I mean, there may have been others, but the Georgia kid is the one that I think when they met him, they, for whatever reason, I don't know what the reason was, decided that they didn't want. There were a couple of dudes, like the guard from San Houston State where I thought Kentucky was. They wanted him too. Wanted him and just didn't work out.

Well, of course you thought that, Shannon, of course he thought we were getting that one because he guaranteed it. That's right. On the radio. And you said it was going to happen later in the day. And you interrupted my serene vacation in the Netherlands with everyone mad at me because you guaranteed a player that didn't come. I think Yaxel was his other one.

Yaxel was the other one. Yeah. So notice what he just did right there, Shannon. Do you notice what he just did? He just turned his two guarantees that didn't happen into a Kentucky didn't want them anyway. Yeah, I think that was it. Yeah. Cover your base.

So Kentucky didn't want them, then why did you guarantee they were going to come here? Well, that was before they met, maybe met him on FaceTime. You guaranteed Sam Wilkerson the day he was deciding. He was supposed to. Then what? Indiana made an 11th hour visit. Well, then how could Kentucky have not wanted them? They did.

I'm so confused. So is he. It's the concussion from the Herbie to the face. He got a broken nose. So is he. 859-280-22. Okay. So tell me what Pope said about Joe.

Jaylen Lowe's shot quality in your mind. Okay. This is what I heard sitting in the room, is that Jalen Lowe is the point guard for Pitt. Correct. Pitt was so awful. He didn't say awful, but I think that was the insinuation.

Insinuation that they ran the shot clock down to the final seconds because nobody could get a shot, and he was forced to jack up a bad shot just because the shot clock was about to wind down. So really his shooting percentage is not as bad as it perceives because he was forced to take bad shots because he was on a bad team. Yeah, he didn't say that.

No, what he said was that, I mean, that might have been part of it, but what he basically said was there's a stat that ranks how many high quality and low quality shots you take. Yeah. And low quality shots are shots that are like from the 80th percent or from the 20th percentile of the worst to zero. He said, Jalen Lowe took more of those shots than almost any percent. player in college basketball.

And his shooting percentage on those shots was awful. But when he took shots that were of a higher quality, his shooting percentage was very, very good. And his point was if we can just get him to take fewer of the, I think Pope used the word hard shots and more of the others, it'll work. And he said Lamont Butler had similar stats before he came here. and they got Lamont Butler to get away from the bad shots,

and his shooting percentage went way up. Yeah, I think, Lo, this is confusing to say, but low was in the 90th percentile of taking the most shots under 20 percent of quality. Which is, it is confusing. But he was at the top of the worst scale you can be on. Those are contested long twos. And it was interesting. Pope said that they are basically like looking for inefficiencies in analytics. where is the guy that if you just take that trade away,

the other traits will get better? And he said Lamont Butler was like that two years ago, and Jalen Lowe, he hopes is like that this year. But when it was over, I will say this, kind of in a private moment. Well, should we say, I think we said an inversion instead of the day. He was like, Jalen Lowe's a dude that's got to be good. Yeah.

You know, he kind of was like, he said, that's the one. Like he's got to be good for this to all work. That's the only spot where they're not really too deep. I mean, they have guys that can back him up, but if he were to go down or not pan out, you don't really have a true point guard that could step into the role. And by the way, that was true last year too. Lamont Butler was the one guy you kind of couldn't really replace if he went out.

And I think we're going to be like that again. Yeah, Pope still spoke very highly of Jalen Lowe, and him as a player and what he could potentially could be this year, I think, for the team. Jerry, go ahead, Jerry. Yes. I think you should own interrupting people. If you see the movie, the darkest hour, there's a scene where Winston Churchill is arguing

with one of us war cabinet members who was wanting him to sue for peace with the Nazis. And as they were talking over each other, Winston Churchill said to him, stop interrupting me while I'm interrupting you. I've done that before. If you could grab that take and have Shannon play that anytime someone tries to talk back over you. No, that's your exactly right.

I do that with callers. I'd appreciate it. I do that with callers. They'll interrupt me and I'll go, let me finish after I didn't let them finish. And it's a fair criticism. Everybody has a weakness. You know, I told one of the guys that was giving me a hard time on Twitter about it. I'm like, everybody has a weakness.

That's just one of mine. And that's okay. At least you recognize it, though. That's the main thing. Yeah, I feel like I'm pretty self-aware about my weaknesses. Now, that doesn't mean I will stop them. But you know, like, that's one of my biggest weakness. What do you think is one of your biggest weaknesses, Ryan?

Math. Why he said that so quickly and leaned into the way. That's not really a personality weakness. that's something you're not good at. What's like a personality week? I have a hard time telling people no. Okay. I think that's true.

I think that's good. What about you? I think I can be too carefree to a fault. I'm just always, and sometimes I need a little more urgency, a little more aggression. I'm just constantly, whatever. Okay.

That can be good in some situations, but sometimes I need to be more assertive. Sometimes you need to be. Yeah. I agree with that. What about you, Shannon? Oh, everybody knows I'm perfect. I don't have any flaws.

he was going to say that. I knew you were going to say that. What are you talking about? Shannon doesn't accept. Shannon is like exactly, well, I love Shannon, but I knew you were going to say that. I'm exactly like what. Say it. I don't know how to articulate it in a way that's as nice as I want to be because I love you. And I know. So we'll just, we'll just take a break. I'm very back. KSR. 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.

Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. Segment sponsored by Draft Kings. You can go to Draft Kings, bet five. You get $300 with the promo code. KSR. Draft Kings is your home of all that is fun in the world of placing bets. Nick's Pacers tonight, Pacers 2.5 point favorite. All three of these games in the series have been close.

All three have been exciting. So far, the road teams won every game. Who wins tonight? I still think the Knicks win the series. I'll say they win tonight. This is by far been the most fun. Really, all the Knicks and Pacers games, all playoffs. It has got to the point.

There's just no point watching the first three quarters of these playoff games if the Knicks and Pacers are involved. Because it doesn't matter if it's a 20-point lead, 18-point lead. It's coming down to the wire. And I hope that's the case again tonight. Fowl. Sorry, I've been watching Carl Town's videos. Zesty Carl Town is popular on the internet.

Like, if you get on TikTok, it is all. shen. Zesty Carl. I've seen the videos. It's all just him going SEC, and like it's just it's in that past

that's going by the past that he did. I actually think it's made Carl even more lovable to the fans is that they are literally standing outside the arena

and doing Carl Town's impressions. And I love Carl but he is definitely changing his voice in interviews to sound more in New York. He is.

He does all of it. And I love him for it. But they have shown him when he gets fouled and screams, oh! Like he does that all the time. And the videos, they have like tons of videos, Shannon. I can't stop watching them. They make me laugh so much. Once you get in that algorithm on TikTok, that's every video.

You can't get away from it. If you get in the Carl Town screaming videos, you cannot get out of it. I'm stuck in the loop. I see you and Mario a link to there's a zesty town shirt. I'm thinking about buying it. I think he's kind of, he's kind of zesty, and he was good the other night. He had 20 points in the fourth quarter. And I was really mad at him that night.

I'm a Pacer's guy, but Carl was unstoppable in the fourth quarter of the night. That dunk when he dunked on the dude. Even I got up and was flexing. Imagine being in the city of Indianapolis in a postseason game and giving the ball to Carl late in the game for a win. I mean, what a novel concept. If only we had done that 10 years ago. Gosh, when I see him get hot from three,

and I think Cal was like, nope, can't shoot them, can't shoot him. He was 7 for 11 from the field and didn't take a shot after the 7 minute mark, just a reminder. In the Wisconsin. In Indianapolis. So you said that college football 26 video game came out, no Kentucky. They have all these teams on the cover, probably 40 teams, and they don't have Kentucky. They released the deluxe cover. I mean, it's just a big collaboration of all kinds of teams.

There's probably 50 teams, you know, players. coaches, fans. Kentucky did not make the cut, but there is a fan, pretty prominent spot wearing a Toledo sweatshirt. So our first opponent made the cover of the new video game and not the cats. Do you know that we have, Ryan, the fifth lowest win total on draft kings of any Power 4 school? Only for Stanford, there's like Stanford, Purdue, we're fifth lowest. What is it? Four and a half. That's tough.

We have the lowest in the SEC. I didn't like, I forgot the website, but someone over the weekend did like one of those anonymous coaches things. And one of the coaches said they can't keep up with Vandy. Like, that's the biggest insult. Over the years, that anonymous coaches thing that Athlon does has been pretty dead on. Yes, it has been. And normally it's been very, very complimentary to Kentucky. Not this year.

No. last year they were complimentary to Kentucky and they had to stroke. It usually says we hate playing Kentucky. We know we felt it. We feel it the next day. The whole thing is Mark has let it slip. We have no idea what this team is going to do. They might be off. Like,

it's not good. The one that said they can't keep pace with South Carolina and Vandy. If you can't keep pace with Vandy and other coaches are saying that out loud, that's that one stung. That one was worried me. And it basically said there's a lot of players that aren't that great. It's all going to come down to a seventh year next.

Nick Kowza. So as I accidentally called him, Eric Impanata, Shannon, we really need Nick Kousada to be good. Daryl, go ahead, Darrell. Morning, gentlemen. I just have a couple of comments and then I'll hang up and get out. First, if you want to, if you're worried about interrupting people, listen to Sean Hannity's radio show. Not only does he interrupt his guest, he asks questions that go for paragraphs. Second, West Virginia is the place where greatness is learned and couches were first burned. Go mountaineers. I'm out. Oh, well. There you go. West Virginia greatness is learned and cat.

Well, it is learned and then it comes to Kentucky, right? You learn it there and then you come craft it here. We like that. Yeah. We're going to, with all respect to the caller there, we're going to show West Virginia what's up at noon on Friday, too. They're almost like our minor league feeder system. Sure. And we thank you, once you cross over I-64 from Huntington to Ashland, you get in the big leagues. And we thank you for that, West Virginia. Got Oscar Sheeweigh, got Kirk Creason. We got the football player that's

coming over now this year. So keep sending them to us. Keep sending them. We'll take them. Mark Anthony. What's up, Mark Anthony? Hey, Matthew Randu, Shannon, fellas. If there is but one statistic I want to see him prove this year. from the basketball team, it would be shot percentage from three feet and in. I know it was every game last year, they would leave 10, 12 points on the floor from three feet and in. And they had an awful time with the lob. Just could not get that lob to work. So just one thing I want to see improved, it would make a big difference this year.

There would be, yes, I appreciate the call. There would be multiple games that would have got a different way if we'd been better with. layups. We were, I mean, and really it was all the guys. I mean, O-Way missed a lot. Robinson missed a lot. Butler missed a lot. Amari. How many times do we yell just dunk it, Amari? Dunk it. I mean, there were just so many layups that just, again, I think it was an athleticism thing. I think the athleticism, when you are going up against a great athlete and you're not quite as good an athlete, you tend to try to avoid being blocked and it causes you to miss it. that might get better, but man, there were a lot of layups missed.

Yeah, I mean, Carr, he's a below-the-rim player, and then when his back got hurt, he definitely wasn't getting up there. Although I thought he oddly was one of the more successful ones. Yeah, he'd draw some good fouls. But Amari, he turned it on in the tournament and had some flashy dunks against Illinois, but there were so many games where you're just yelling, go rip the rim off, big guy, and he would just miss some two-footers. It got frustrating.

He was so good at just about everything, but around the rim, he would have some problems. Free Bird. What's up? Hey, glad you all. I hope y'all had a great Memorial Day. Matt, if you want a really good funny, I've sent you on the text line, a Grand Paul Jones outtake that he misses up freight.

And I think Ryan hit it on the head. Nick Minjone has done a fabulous job with what he recruited, with what he got into transfer portal. And I think we're going to do some damage, man. Hope y'all feel the same way. Well, they got in it. They got in a little brown.

and I appreciate the call that they have a shot in. You know, sometimes you can get stuck with a team that even if you play great, like they're just a lot better than you. And they're in a bracket where, as Drew said, those teams have struggled down the stretch. You've got a chance. And so, yeah, I mean, I'm not going to sit here and act like I know the, excuse me, the pitching matchups and all this because I do not.

But I do know that when I look at the baseball tournament, I look in your little four-team pod, do you have a chance? And they have a chance. Yeah, you may look at just the overall records. Well, Kentucky doesn't have that good of a record. But then you look at who their wins were against in the SEC, some of the top-level teams in the country, then you realize this guy, this team is really good,

better than their record indicates. One of the good things about playing in the SEC in baseball, but this is true in every sport, but certainly in baseball is we're so much better than every other conference. And they try to keep you from playing another SEC team in your little pod. Yeah. So it makes it to. where you get teams that might not be as good as the teams you've been playing all season long.

Yeah, even though Clemson's hosting had a good year, West Virginia, obviously two-seat had a decent year, you get a little bit of relief not having to see an SEC team. It felt like when they were reading the 16 regional sites, it was just one SEC school after another. They had about all of them, so now at least get a little break from that. By the way, the Keynes won a game. I saw that. They needed to win. They did.

I watched most of it. They came back. they've got, you know, they have a Russian dude, Shannon, who just got to America. He's only, he came here and he came here and he's had to play for the playoffs. And he speaks no English. Okay, so I want you to think about that. He speaks no English, none. And they said that he, for last night's game, spent the day trying to learn enough English

to give a pregame motivational speech. Really? Now, I want you to think about this. He's only been on the team for two weeks. He's from Russia. This is his first time even in America. He decides to try to motivate his new teammates. He's going to learn just enough English for a speech.

And after the game was over, the players were like, it wasn't good. And it wasn't even close to. But there was something that motivated them about the fact that he would try. Yes. You know, that he tried to do. it, that it actually got him excited, even though they said, like, he was using the wrong words and all that. But I think that's kind of cool, though, right?

Imagine, you know, you had to go over to Russia and do a motivational speech in Russian and had to learn it. Exactly. I'd be terrible. You wouldn't know what to say. But I wonder if the Russians would be like, well, at least he's trying, you know. So I think that I would love to have heard the speech. They said it was like 20 seconds.

He gets up and the guys try not to laugh because he's so serious. serious and even though it sounded ridiculous, they all went, I think that's kind of a cool story. Yeah, I like that. I mean, he's obviously wanting to be part of the team. Once the show he can lead, just hadn't got through the Rosetta Stone yet. It's a big process to learn our language. I'd love to hear it.

I'd love to hear what he said that was like not even close to right, but still got people going. I think it's awesome. I think it shows he's a good, wants to be a good locker room guy. He wants to be a good teammate. So even though I may mess up the words, sometimes people mess up words when they're in live radio sometimes. It doesn't matter. It does happen sometimes. You're here for the good of the betterment of the people.

Oh, I thought we were about the good of the betterment of the people. Yes. All right. Lions even are trying to do in the same language as us. It is. 859-28027. We will take a break. Come back. Final segment. It's KSR. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions

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But I'm going to have Billy pick 10 news items, news sports or entertainment items for us to discuss. And I thought we were going to tape it on Wednesday, but now we have to tape it on Tuesday. So I didn't tell him until last night. And I don't know what he's going to pick. Shannon, do you think he's going to pick good things? Yeah, he's got plenty of time. He does the one hour pre-show with me, and then he's got 23 hours to come up with topics.

So I think if he can't come up with 10 topics, then that amount. of time, then I don't know. And he's going to, he will just give them on the air. And then Drew and I will discuss them. And that will be one of the two episodes this week for the Matt Jones show. People, people wanted that fade this dynamic. So we're going to have a little bit of it. And thank you all.

The amount of downloads of the show has been through the roof. People, I would suggest, hey, if you see a guest on there and you're like, I don't know this person, give it a shot. You will create new fans. I had people say that to me about both Ryan McGee and in Crystal Ball this weekend. Well, I'm excited for the show I'm going to be on because it's almost like a game show. There's no show prep. We don't know what Billy is going to put in front of us.

It's just going to be our natural, off-the-cuff reactions to whatever he brings up. And if Billy doesn't pick good stuff, Shannon, I might mention that during the show as well. That's right. Just blame it on him if you don't have good topics. Khalil Whitney. I thought about you, Drew. when I saw this. Because that was your guy, the dragon. He put up a, was it Instagram?

I think it was on TikTok. TikTok. He put up a picture of himself when he was at UK with the caption, all he needed at the time was a hug. So it was like a picture of him looking sad. On the bench. On the bench with him saying all he needed at the time was a hug. And then a lot of Kentucky. This is the best of Big Blue Day.

Kentucky fans lit up the comments saying great things about him. And you could tell it affected him positively because he then put up a different one that said, B, B, B, B, B, B, and I love you all, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I will say when I saw the first picture of him being sad with that caption, it made me sad. Like, even though things didn't work out. out with that kid, you always have to remember. Like, these are, he was a kid

when he was here. You were a huge fan of his. I was ready to lead the Khalil Whitney Dragon fan club. Well, I did. It just lasted a few months. Yeah, that one hurt. You know, we don't know the real story of what happened there. Just looking at that

post he made, it shows he obviously wanted to go a different direction and felt probably UK let him down a little bit if he's saying all I needed was a hug. I do remember at the time, kind of people in the Khalil Whitney Camp weren't helping his situation. He seemed like he wanted to be at UK, and I don't remember what ultimately led to him leaving, but I think the people around him failed him pretty bad in that process too,

because he had a world of potential, and I looked it up last night, and he's playing it like he just played in somewhere in Mexico. Now he's at like the third or fourth level of Australia, and he had way too much talent to not get a better shot at a better pro career, but I just needed a hug. It makes you wonder what he's really implying there. As much as I love, and I do love when guys come here and I saw DeMarcus cousins do an interview with Kevin Garnett where he said Kentucky was the first and only place he felt totally loved and accepted by a fan base. I thought that was really cool.

It does hurt. It hurts me when guys feel the opposite. I mean, some of it's inevitable. Some of it might even be their fault sometimes. I'm not saying that's the case with Khalil. But I saw that and it really did. I did bummed me out like that because you want. want this to be a positive experience for everybody that's a part of it.

I've always felt bad for that kid. Like he said, he was 18, 19 years old. And for him to leave the team in January, tells me that was more than just playing time. Maybe he was broken. He felt broken. Maybe he didn't feel wanted. It is hard to remember that these are just kids a lot of times.

We just saw just a couple years ago. And now I'm drawing a blank on his name. Got drafted by the 76ers. Justin Edwards? Justin Edwards. You know, he ended up having some struggles throughout the season. We saw him crying on the bench that one game, you know? Yeah, I mean, Cal's thing is like the tough love.

And I do think there is a lot of love with that. I mean, I do think he cares about his guys. I think he is, I think he cares about his players, you know, a lot more than he even gets credit for. But he can be a lot. And I think some of the guys that's just hard for, and maybe, sometimes it breaks before he has a chance to really get through to them that he does care a lot. You know what I mean? Yeah, and it seems he's insinuating.

He needed more love. Maybe not, I don't remember the fans being too bad. I really don't remember the reaction how he's playing, but probably internally behind the scenes. Cal does a great job taking care of his players. They all adore him, but he's probably not batting a thousand on every single player. And Whitney's, I'd say, one of the ones that, you know, Cal probably could have done a little better in making sure he was doing okay. Kenny Payne here when Khalil was here?

Because Kenny Payne was a big part of like stopping Cow's worst instincts from hurting the plate. Yeah. And when he was gone, I'm not sure there was somebody that played that role. That was Kenny's greatest strength. Is Cal would go nuts and then Kenny would come back around and build it back up. I think Kenny was, yeah, that should have been, he went to the next round COVID.

I thought he went before COVID. Yeah. Well, either way, I will say that. And I think, but a shout out to our. fans who then use that as an opportunity to say really good things. Because it's clear that made him feel better for whatever was happening, Ryan, at that moment. Another example why Big Blue Nation is the absolute best. This guy left in January, but still when he needed a helping hand, Big Blue Nation is going

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