KSR - 2025-06-03- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

Matt, Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk the latest news and take your calls. Also, Murray State Baseball Head Coach Dan Skirka joins the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-2-802287. A-Vigigigion Autoglass Text Machine is 772-744. Let's give a round of applause, Drew and Shannon to Ryan Lemon who's got the Murray State baseball coach

coming on here at 1130. Job, Ryan. Dan Skirka. Skirka is how he pronounced his name. Skirka. Dan Skirka will be on at 1130. You know, that's the thing about him, Shannon. Yeah, he might be two minutes late to the show

and then not take responsibility. But then he comes through and books the gas when it comes. That's why Ryan Lemon, you can never give up. It's a give and take with Ryan. You get certain things, but you also have to give up certain things. That's exactly right. You know, it's like a marriage with Ryan.

It's not going to all be great. That's right. You know, I've always said there's no eye in Matt, Shannon, Drew, and Ryan. See, we didn't need that, but nevertheless. All right. We didn't need that. I'm trying to figure out what that even means. But that's okay.

One person writes on the text machine, Matt, I was sad to hear the news about KS Bar for the summer, but I understand, are you still going to have the wings on the menu? Yes, I mean, what we're going to do is we're going to keep the items that people really like. So we're going to keep the wings, the cheese logs, the beer cheese. The catfish has been really popular since we brought it back. So we're going to keep that, but we're going to take some stuff off and add some new stuff. I mean, the best way for me to put it is it's hard to fix a ship when it's already sailing. You need to, like, dock it and make the fixes.

And that's what we're going to do. Plus, we needed to do some stuff interior. Rather than do the work during the summer, we just decided this made the most sense, especially during the time that it's slow anyway, because it's June and July. But yes, the things I think we do the best will still be on there. And then I'm excited about a couple of the changes we're going to make

that I think people will really, you know, really like. This is a business with the bar where it's, we do, we have a great business during the season. And then during the off season, we've got to make it to where people make the special trip to come there because people don't live close to that restaurant. That's one of the things. Like a lot of these neighborhood bars are in neighborhoods.

We're around college students, and when the college students clear out, that's part of it. So part of what we're going to do is to make that happen as well. Drew, I'm out on the Reds. Of course you are. I'll update my calendar here. Reds are playing the Brewers. I'm for my friend's son, Henry,

and the Eastern Little League Brewers tonight. Go get them, Henry. But the Brewers, the Reds are going to play tonight. I have won nine straight. The Reds are going to lose again tonight, I'm sure. And Drew, I'm back out on them because they should be good. And they're not, and it drives me crazy. But, I mean, don't you see it as an opportunity?

Let's say you win two against the Brewers. You're back on track. You're feeling good, beating a good team in baseball. There's just no optimism at all. Don't you have Hunter Green on the mound tonight? Let me give you a little stat. You know, we lost game one of the series. How about this stat?

When we've lost game one of the series, you know how many series we've lost in a row when we lose game one? How many? All of them. What would be a bad number for most series lost in a row when you lose game one? In your mind, what would be a number where you go? that's disappointing. I'll say four.

Four, okay. Shannon, what would be a disappointing number? Yeah, I think Drew is in the ballpark. Five. Okay, what would be a disappointing number to you, Ryan? I was going to say 10. What if it was 27? Oh, okay.

That is a stat you need to overcome. That's a bit of a trend. That's not good. So when you lose game one, you might as well just run away and hide. because it's not You're just going through the motions from there. You already know the outcome.

You already know the outcome. So I'm back out and we'll see if we end up back in. The Athletic produced their preseason top 25. And Ryan, I want to read you what they said. I'm going to actually read it. It's from C.J. Moore. And then I want you to say, is there anything you agree or is anything you disagree with? All right.

All right. So here is C.J. Moore's projected starting lineup. Kentucky next year. An interesting starting lineup. Jalen Lowe, Denzel Aberdeen, Otega Owe, Andrea Yellovich, and Jaden Quaintens. That's his starting lineup. No Brandon Garrison.

No Mohamed Diabate. They are on the bench. Then, this is what he says. This roster does not have the shooting of Mark Pope's first Kentucky team, but it should be better defensively and have more playmaking on the perimeter. Pope showed in year one he can microwave chemistry, and he's given himself a ton of lineup options. Not only will there be position battles for starting jobs, Kentucky will have some talented players who struggle to even get in the rotation. I'm most intrigued by

the front court. Pope likes his big to be playmaking hubs, and Yelovich, Mohamed Diabate, and Jaden Quayton's are all intriguing options, though I'm not sure any of them can fully replace Amari Williams. Yelovich was a double-digit score for his professional club overseas, and Quaintance is considered a lottery-level prospect. He'll have to beat out Brandon Garrison. You know what you're going to get out of Otago O'A and Denzel Aberdeen, who've been starters on, who would have been starters on most SEC teams last year.

And Pitt transferred Jowin Lowe is more of a true point guard than Lamont Butler, but he goes through spurts of inefficiency. If Lowe can be a league caliber guard, an all-league caliber guard, and one of the, one of the two bigs can produce consistently, this can be a national title contender. Do you like that? Love it. I mean, it kind of goes along with what you said. Jalen Lowe has to be good for this team to be good.

The thing about Quaitance, I don't know if he's going to be healthy enough to be the starter to start the season, but maybe by the end of the season. I think Brandon Garrison will be the starter to start with as he continues to get healthy. I just want him healthy by the SEC tournament season because if he can be, he can be the most valuable player on the team. Drew, with the exception of saying that Yellowvich is going to start instead of Diabate, I think I could have written this entire thing. I think he completely echoes my thoughts, absent that.

I think he's right that we are better defensively and we have more playmaking, but we won't be as good shooting. I think he's right that there's going to be dudes who are really good who don't even get in the rotation. And I think he's right that they're a national title contender, but that it requires Jalen Lowe to be good. and at least one of these big guys to be really good. But really, on a team with an unbelievable amount of options, the one guy who can't stink is Jalen Lowe.

As crazy as it sounds, even though Otega Owe may end up being our best player again, he could get hurt, and I still think this team can be really good. But you cannot have a bust from Jalen Lowe. He's the most important person on the team to me. So I agree with everything he said. Me too. And Lowe's the only thing you really don't have two of. Heck, you even have three of some things.

It's the only spot where there's not depth with another true point guard option. You've got bodies. It could be Aberdeen, maybe even Chandler. You have different pieces. But Lowe has to be all SEC for them to accomplish, as you think he wrote, being a title contender. My favorite part of the whole thing was him putting Yelovich in the starting lineup, though, because I've had Diabate there. I don't know if he's just guessing

or if he's watched him closely and thought that will translate, but with him being such a mystery to me, I took this as optimistic and him being a major contributor. Yeah, CJ Moore, I mean, again, if you're talking about people that are close to Pope and his staff,

you know, we used to talk about, okay, when Cal was here, if Mike DeCorsi, Andy Katz, or Seth Greenberg said it, chances are it was coming from Cal. So that was Cal speak. When Mark Pope, if Jeff Goodman or C.J. Moore or Matt Norlander say it, I tend to think it comes, if not from Pope, from a member of his staff,

because I just think that's who they talk to looking at it. I don't know that any of those guys are close to Pope specifically, but I think some of his staff members are close to those guys. And if you look at news that has broken in the Pope era, It has tended to come from one of those. It's tended to come from Goodman or Norlander, and then C.J. Morris had some access that has made me think he has connections too. So I'm with you, Drew.

The fact that he writes that about Yelovich suggests to me that's how the staff feels. And then we had that conversation with Pope about Jalen Lowe. Basically, I was like, man, you can be really good. And he said, got to have Jalen Lowe be good. So I think that is, I think that's the best. Ryan review of this team that I've read so far. When you interviewed Pope, you talked to him about all the guys, and he said some glowing things about Yelovich.

But when you talked to him about Diabate, Pope's face lit up. Talked about him being just a leader and a great locker room guy. And that's why I thought maybe he'd be the guy there. That's why I would put Diabate in that slot instead of Yelovich. But Drew may be right. There may be things about Yovete. I don't know.

I've obviously never seen him play. so I would put Diabate there, but otherwise, I could have written that if you just changed that one thing. So I just thought that was very interesting. Who's next, Shannon? Let's go to Larry. Larry, go ahead, Larry. Hey, guys. One of the comment on the Kentucky Clemson baseball game the other day.

During the game, I remember the fourth inning between innings, they, ask all the veterans to stand in the audience. And they played Lee Greenwood's proud to be an American. And the Clemson players, I think it was probably just the guys that weren't in the lineup, went up in the stands, and I think they shook hands and honored the veterans. And I thought that was great. And I was wondering if you guys thought that might be a good idea. Kentucky to copy maybe in the future.

Well, I mean, I think that's a very nice thing to do in special moments. I think this is just my own personal opinion. I think if it starts, like things like that, that's a very cool thing to do in the playoffs in that moment. I don't know if you'd want to do it every single game because I think sometimes when you do that, it loses the special moments. But, yeah, in a specific instance, like on Memorial Day, or, you know, Veterans Day or even, yeah, I think, I mean, why wouldn't that be cool?

I think if you get, like the Reds do this thing where they do the veteran of the day every game. And I like it. I think it's really nice. I also think, like, sometimes it makes it to where people, it's like, because they know it's coming, it's not as special as it could be if they did it occasionally. But that's just, but again, in theory, I think it's a, sure, that sounds like a great. idea. Yeah, and I agree.

It would get old if you're talking it every game, but maybe on Friday nights at the start of a conference series or something. But anyway, just wanted to bring that up. That is cool. That was very nice of, very nice of them to do. Yeah, maybe that's when you do it. Right. Like you do a three-game series, and you do it in game one of the series every night or

something. I think that could be a cool idea. 8-9-2-80-27. What's next? Joe. Joe, go ahead, Joe. Hey, Matt. Question for you.

You usually come up with a couple good books for summer reading. I've got one for you. It entails huge, like talk shows. Bill Buckley, portrait, a writer, Sam Panis, about it. I don't know if you know who Bill Buckley is, but he's the first guy to have a... Can you hear me? Yeah, you talk about Will. William Buckley?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bill. Yes, he was the first one at a firing line. You know, it was 30 years. It ran for 30 years, but it was a... I'm older. He was a great, conservative, liberal. Yeah, anyway, it'd be a good vote for people that... Yeah, I think he's a conservative writer that I've always respected.

Right. I've read his stuff before. He's dead, though, right? He doesn't have a new book, does he? Yeah, he's dead, but there's a... There's a new book about it, but it would be, it incorporates politics as well as history. It's something to read in the summer. Okay.

One last thing about football. Yes. You know, summer reading is you had a good book a couple years ago, right? But I'm really concerned with football. I think the writing's on the wall. It reminds me of the last year with Gillespie or Joker, season tickets are down. Nobody talks about it. I think we'll have a new football coach next year.

my prediction. I had sad to say, but, you know, Steve did a great job. This is very concerned with football. Well, obviously, I hope you're wrong, but he's going to have to do stuff. Yeah, I mean, he's going to have to do stuff to prove that you're wrong. And I, I appreciate the call. I mean, we've said this a lot. We'll probably keep saying it. The signs are bad.

But at the same time, if he were to go win in week two against Ole Miss and then pull off a game that he's not supposed to. to win, then it's a different situation, right? I mean, he's got, if this were a good Kentucky football team, Ryan, you would love the schedule, right? Having these teams in Lexington, having Florida, Tennessee, and Texas. If we were good, you would say, this is the schedule where you can make noise. Yep.

Now, we're not good, at least on paper. But he has the schedule to make noise. We'll just see if it happens. Yeah, when you had a good team, you think you can. sneak up maybe beat a Florida, Tennessee or Texas or Ole Miss at home. Instead, you got a mediocre team trying to beat these guys at home, and now you've got tough games on the road at Vandy, at South Carolina, at Auburn. Game you would have had a good team.

You probably think you can go steal those games. We talk about this all the time. Kentucky's schedule is every two years different. And this is the two-year swing. This is the year where you can make noise because Vandy, South Carolina, and Auburn, you could conceivably go steal on the road if you were good. Yep. Yep.

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Well, Drew, I can't say who they are because it's their phone numbers. I don't see their names. And the answer is no, although I could read their phone numbers, 859653. I don't think you want me to do that. So, no, I read them. I just scan them. I look for ones that I think will lead to good conversation, Drew, and then read it. Even the one supporting zipper merging yesterday, those weren't fictional? Maybe a little fictional.

First of all, I'm not getting into this again today because I have, I'm doing my, you know what, I'm doing my research so that I'm ready when we bring this up again. Because I'm more confident I'm right now than ever. Did you text yourself? No, there were dozens, maybe hundreds of texts on my time. You maybe had, there were maybe six. to eight on your side. It's funny, you know, you had everybody text my phone, and it was like a hundred to two for our

side. Well, I feel like people can continue to text you if they'd like. Because I feel like you still need to know their opinion. Don't you, Shannon? Don't you feel like you? Oh, yeah. Ryan loves tech. He loves your text messages.

What person writes, Matt, what do you think about the school tax in Fayette County? It's got people worked up. But does have people worked up. People very angry. They're adding like, what is it? Is it a quarter of a percent, Ryan, they're adding for the school tax or whatever? I don't know the amount. I just know people are very upset about it on my social media.

I mean, the reason this is this is going to happen all over the state. You know, starting with COVID, Trump first and then Biden second, they started giving money to local and state governments to make up for the money that was lost due to COVID. And so they told school districts to be fair. They told school districts, you're getting this big chunk of COVID grants and you will get them for five years. But then they will go away. So use these wisely, but understand they will go and go away in five years. And a lot of school districts use the money.

And then it went away. And some of them created budgets, Ryan, assuming that money would continue to be there forever. And it's not. And so now they're having to readjust their budgets because they budgeted their entire district based on money that was a one-time five-year grant given by, first the Trump administration, then the Biden administration. So there's a lot of school districts in Kentucky that are doing this. And on the one hand, I understand, like they had like $30 million that they had last year that they don't have negative. On the other hand, and you know I'm pro school district, but they knew this money was going to go away. And a lot of these school districts kept spending as if it wasn't going to go away.

And I see it in Lexington, where I went to school in Middlesbril's doing the same thing, and I have mixed emotions. I hate to see the money cut. I hate to see jobs cut. I hate to see all that. At the same time, though, you knew this was going to happen. So I don't know, Ryan. I mean, at the same time, I don't mind paying it, but I can also understand why people are kind of feel taken aback because they were like, this money wasn't going to be here forever, everybody.

It sounds like there's not an easy answer for this solution. There's not an easy answer because they've got to find a way to make up this money. But there's a part of me that says to the school districts like, y'all planned as if this was just going to get renewed. And both the Trump and the Biden administration told you it was not going to get. renewed. So, I don't know. I don't, I mean, it's, it is what it is. Did you see the video, Ryan, of the dude in Bardstown that pushed the 12-year-old? No. What is this? Well, I got sent this video. I don't know if it's out there, but there was like a 12-year-old soccer game, and like a 12-year-old pushed another 12-year-old, and then someone on the sidelines just pushed the

12 year old that pushed the 12 year old down. Have you seen this video? Or am I the only one that got sent this video? I haven't seen it. So it was an adult that pushed the 12 year old? Yeah. I don't know if it was a father or a coach, but two 12 year olds are going for the ball.

And one 12 year old clearly like, I don't say cheap shot, but he clearly knocks the other 12 year old down. And as he's running back to the sidelines, someone from the sideline runs on and knocks that kid down. And the person who wrote me says that person got arrested.

Which if you see the video, Ryan would make sense. You can't come on to a field and start knocking 12-year-olds down, can you? No. When you're an adult on the sideline, I mean, it's a 12-year-old soccer game for crying out loud. Act your age a little bit.

If you saw your kid at 12 get hit by another kid, what are you doing? I'm not putting my hands on the other kid. I may say something like, yo, hey dude. You know. Are you going to go punch the other kid's dad? No.

No. No. I don't know. 12-year-old soccer. You don't think so? If somebody pushed your kid down, you wouldn't go punch the other guy, Ryan? If he pushed your kid down. We've seen your temper, Ryan.

If an adult did. 12-year-old just. No, no. If the adult did, you've got to go hit the kid. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But if the 12-year-old did, you just go.

You're going to yell at the 12-year-old? I'll probably yell at the 12-year-old. I'll probably yell at the adult. official for missing the phone missing the call kick him out why is he still out to kick him out he he doesn't need to be playing get him out of here murray state's baseball coach will join us just in a second it's ksr tj smith personal injury attorney call tj he'll make him pay now more of kentucky sports radio presented by stockton mortgage here's matt jones welcome back it is kentucky sports radio now joined by the toast of the bluegrass this morning murray state baseball coach dan skirk

Dan, I last night had on my jaw, Murray State shoes, and I was pulling for you guys with UK baseball out. I was all in on Murray State, and it was such an entertaining game, as you guys did something a couple days ago, had done since 79, win your first tournament game, and now going to a super regional. What was it like last night, and how cool is it to have this happen with your program? man it was electric there last night that environment there i mean they are very passionate fans and and just just it doesn't feel real to be honest with it just just just so happy for our guys they performed all weekend they performed all year but but to go in there and to do what they did there was so many performances that are just it was awesome awesome i wanted to have you on

because for whatever reason i watched more college baseball these last four days, and I found myself watching your games next to Kentucky's the most. They just kept being on, and I saw you interviewed after you beat Ole Miss in the first game, and then I saw you interviewed after this one, and I just loved the joy on your face. Yet last night seeing your kid run on the field and your wife, I mean, from a professional standpoint, has this just been the best four days that you've had on a professional base? Well, I'm blessed. I really am.

These guys here are awesome from every player to the assistant coaches. I mean, it truly is a family. We're all in this together. It has been a joy. But there's been a lot of more days before this, you know, and a lot of individual accomplishments from guys graduating to getting drafted and signed and just performing and playing and living out their dream. But, yeah, this is the really.

ride they've been on. And we try to enjoy it. You know, we keep talking about our process, ain't going to change. And that's who we are. We're going to compete like crazy and play for each other, and that's what they did. So I'm glad you're able to watch and able to see that because I get to obviously get a front-road seat of what these guys do, and it's amazing. Talk to me about the logistics of this whole thing.

Okay, so you're playing in Oxford. I mean, that's not just a road environment. that's a crazy environment. The crowds are going nuts. They're into it. They're drunk in these night games, a lot of them. I'm sure they're yelling. Occasionally not so nice stuff.

What's it like? Crazy. Yes, there were some verbal and nonverbal communication going on all weekend. You know what I mean? From their fans. But it was awesome. And they were awesome. We ran into them in some restaurants.

and the coffee shops in the morning and even after the game. A lot of them saw us in between, you know, in the tunnel waiting around. And they were very, very congratulatory to us and what we did. And obviously, they're route for Ole Miss, but you can tell that they were, they knew what a special group we had that came in there. So, yeah, I think that's icing on the cake to go into a place like that. Because that's just not, like you said, that's not just any old regional. That was almost 12,000.

fans and they are passionate i mean sunday they were there for like nine hours of baseball they they had a double-headed nine hours and they were kicking our teeth in sunday evening and they didn't leave there was thousands of people there chanting and just just going crazy when the game was out of hand and that's that's how passionate they are for their their team all right last night it was 12 to 3 but it's college baseball it's never over right so then it was 12 to 11 and i'm sitting there watching, you know, Kentucky had kind of had it collapse on them the night before, and I'm sitting there going, don't have it happen in back-to-back nights. When it goes from 12 to 3 to 12 to 11, I know you're going to say you kept the faith, but are you sitting there guys going, guys, come on,

one more out, come on. Like, what's it like in the dugout? Well, you know, I did. I did because I thought our offense was going to keep scoring, you know, but obviously they went to Elliot, their ace, an SEC power pitcher, and he held us in check in the top of the ninth, but, you know, we had I think 19 hits, something like that. I thought we were going to keep scoring.

So once we stopped kind of a bleeding there, I thought we would add on to our lead, but they got us for zeros in the eighth and the ninth. And then it was up to our pitching and our defense, but I was confident. I did. But you guys have done it all year. We won, I think, 12 or 13, one-run games, and

some of the comebacks we've had at It's been outstanding if you look back at our record in some of the games that these guys played in it. So, yeah, I did keep faith. I was confident, you know, our closer there, Graham Kellum. You know, I told him the slowest heartbeat in America. I mean, you know, 12,000 people yelling, they're playing their music as flat as they can, and you just kept filling it up. It was cool.

Didn't you have a dude who pitched, like, 120 pitches one night, and then pitched a day or two later or something? Am I right about that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So Friday night, our starter went 120. He came back yesterday and threw, I think, another 40. And then our Saturday started through about 85, and then he started the game yesterday. They're dogs. I mean, just I told him that.

You know, I met with them Monday morning. You know, after we lost Sunday night, I said, oh, we meet Monday morning, see how you feel and game plan from there and met both in the meeting room. But whatever you need, coach, just let us know. We want this. We're going to do whatever it takes. And I wasn't surprised by that answer. You know, there was no, well, let's see.

It was a coach, you make the call, I'm ready to go whenever you need me. And that's what those two are perfect examples of what this team's about. Just guts and hearts and wanted to win for each other. All right. So now you had your night of celebration. Now you're probably going to get on a bus here pretty soon and make a drive. I've made a lot. Right down 64 up in West Virginia, you'll go down through Wake Forest, all that,

and you're going to end up in Durham. And you're going to play a team that Kentucky fans really don't like, which is the Duke Blue Devils. Now, I know you're going to give me the coach speak that they're a great team, and I'm sure that's all true. They've never been to the College World Series. But now you're two wins away from Omaha. Are you ready for it? And tell these Kentucky fans listening who are ready to see you knock out the Blue Devils what's going to happen this weekend. Well, what?

Hey, we're going to fly. Oh, you're going to fly. Yes, I love it. All right. How about that? How about that? Races are all the big time. So, yeah, we're on the bus back to burn right now. I think on Thursday.

We'll fly out of Nashville and land in Raleigh at some point. I think it's early evening. But, yeah, on Friday, we'll get out there at practice. And then we see it up, I think, Saturday at 1 o'clock or noon, one of the others. But, yeah, I'm excited. I didn't know that they haven't been there either. But I really don't know a whole lot about them. I haven't played them, haven't really watched them on TV or anything.

but I know they're a good club. They've been ranked and been in regional the last few years. So we'll prepare the next few days. Well, Big Blue Nation is behind you. You know, Christian Leitner broke our hearts. What was it now? 35 years ago it's time for us to get them back? I'm not very good at math, but it was a long time ago.

It's time for us to get them back. I wish you luck this weekend. And I had, I genuinely had a lot of joy watching your guys. and watching your team this weekend. Congratulations. Well, thank you. All right, Murray State, plays Duke this weekend. Thank you very much, Coach.

Ryan, I know you've got to love that. The underdog story, the happening, and they get to fly. That's also very exciting. Don't have to take the bus all the way down there. I love the fact that Murray State, little bitty Murray State going in and playing at Ole Miss where baseball is so important to a school like that,

12,000 people out there, and they march in there and take that series. He just tells you what baseball is all about, man. He had their starting pitcher on Friday, brought him back yesterday. He said, I just want to win the game, Coach. So I loved hearing those stories. Ryan really likes it, Drew, when they just saying, coach. You know, when the player says, I'll do whatever you want.

Whatever you want, coach. Like, that's the, like, for Ryan, life is a Disney movie where you just call everyone coach. I got chili bumps when he said that. Yeah, put me in, Coach. I knew he was going to say that, Drew. I knew it. Ryan liked that, but my biggest takeaway was that Murray has airplane money. Good for them.

It's not too bad of a drive, and they're still going to load up the plane. It's not often they get to go to the Super Regional, so they're bearing no expense. He didn't say they were going private, though. I mean, it could be Allegiant. Spirit, maybe, you never know. That's okay, though. I mean, like, did you ever fly, Kentucky Wesleyan ever fly, Ryan? No, we took vans with like 10 people in each van.

It was awful. You rode vans? You didn't get a bus? No, passenger vans. No bus. We got a greyhound. What are you talking about? You're a highfalutin, dolomint, people.

859-280-2-87. Draft Kings. They say I've got to pick a game here, Shannon. What do I want to pick for draft kings? Well, I mean, go ahead and pick the NBA finals if you want tomorrow. Yeah, but that's not until Thursday. Well, let's take the Brewers in the Reds. The Brewers have won eight straight.

yet the Reds are favored tonight against the Brewers. The Reds are minus $1.30 to break the streak. You go to Draft King's bet five with $300 in bonus bets. Who's taking my Reds tonight to break the streak? I'll take them. Brewer's got to lose sooner or later, so I'll take the Reds tonight. Hunter Green's on the mound. Does that change anything for you?

No, I'm definitely going with the breads then. Hunter Greens. All right, Drew? I'm going with the Brewers. You didn't have much confidence earlier in the show, so you scared me away. It's going to be a Brewers double dip with the Eastern Little League Brewers

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You know, I was just in Amsterdam like two months ago. Remember? I tell you one of the things we did. We were there. We met with the prime minister of the Netherlands. You remember me telling you that? He just had to resign from office today. It's all your fault.

Just after meeting a month and a half ago, Drew, today he resigned, and they're going to have new elections. I feel like that's a KSR curse there. He was very nice to us in our meeting. It seemed like a good guy, but a month and a half later, already out. Is it because of your meeting with him? Did something come up with it that he's out or just a coincidence of the timing? what other than what? No, I mean, he wasn't supposed to resign. He surprisingly resigned today.

I feel like it has to be at least a little bit of a KSR curse. One thing's for sure. The KSR curse will get you. It might take a month and a half to catch up to you, but it will eventually get you. I mean, it even, I didn't think it would cross borders, Shannon. I thought it was United States only. Curse can go anywhere. I didn't know it would cross all the way into the net. Curse is worldwide. Yeah. So sorry to whoever that guy is. you were very nice when I met you, and I wish you the best. Who's next? Matt.

Matt, go ahead, Matt. Hey, guys. What's up? Hello. Hello. All right. I'm sitting out in my garden and the day shine, meditating, and listening to you guys.

I want to tell you, God bless each and every one of you. You all give so much attention to these disaster areas, and I live in one of them, and I appreciate everything you all done and the show. Well, God bless you. What area do you live in, sir? I live in Knox County. Oh, okay.

In Hyman, Knox County. Yeah. In Hyman, yes. Hineman is an underrated gym of a city. You got to want to get there, but you all have a lot of cool stuff when you get there. You said you were meditating. I didn't know there were a lot of people that meditated in Hyndman. Well, I don't know if there is, but I do.

Okay, so wait, wait, do you mind? Can you share your meditating routine for us? I think a lot of people could use meditation. Ryan Lemon probably being one of them. I have a garden, right? And after work, I get off at about 10.30 in the morning. I come home and I do a little work in the garden and I sit down and I just sit and meditate and think about all the good that's happening in my life.

your show was one of them. Your show is one of I enjoy. You all are one of the greatest teams of all time, like the 96th championship UK team. That's very nice of you. That's a very positive way to look at life. So when I started having health problems, I try, I do that some. How did you, if somebody like Ryan, wouldn't you learn to meditate, want to learn to meditate? people speak very highly of the effects it has on you when you learn how to meditate

properly how would you if you were going to teach him because you seem like a nice bell if you were going to teach Ryan how to do it what would you tell him to do well here's what I do I mean I I said a little bit but I just sit down and just block everything out listen to the nature and just I just think about all the good that's happened in my life and I'm appreciative of it, you know. But that's how I meditate. I appreciate you. I appreciate you calling.

It's a good way to head towards the end of the show. And thank you very much, sir. Can I say one more thing? Of course you can. I want to tell the most amazing woman in the world, Rianan Hayes, happy birthday. She did a lot of work during that flood. and I just want to tell her happy birthday.

And thank you all so much for what you all do. Appreciate the call. Thank you. Yes. Does that be a better place when everybody had that attitude? Doesn't that bright ray of sunshine? Yes, he did. Doesn't he seem like a good fella?

Yes, we should all take a moment of every day to be appreciative like he is. I might work some meditating into my life. That was very nice of him to compare us to the 96 cats too. I mean, that's some high company, high praise for him. Cats, Riannon Hayes, meditating. That call has it all. I've got a garden in my backyard, too. I guess I could go do that later on today.

Just go sit in the dirt. Think about all the things you're appreciative of. Positive thoughts. Positive energy. Yeah. Do you, I know you said you were going to do a garden. What do you, remind me what you plant again? Well, it's really my neighbor's garden, but his garden kind of went a little too far, and it went into my property.

So I've got just a little bitty small section. So I decided to plant pumpkins. to have pumpkins for Halloween. So that's, I'm starting off slow. I didn't know this. So you're, you have pumpkins? I do.

Yeah. How many pumpkins are you, have you ever done this before? No, I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just learning through the internet. So how many pumpkins do you think you're going to produce? Uh,

anywhere from 20 to 40, I think. So, yeah. You're going to produce 20 to 40 pumpkins. When do they, when do they come out? Well,

if I timed everything correctly, they would be ready by the end of September. Perfect. So you might conceivably have 20 to 40 pumpkins in your yard in September. Possibly. Or maybe zero because I don't know what I'm doing. So, you know. I want one.

Sure. And it's pumpkin best. If they work out, I'll bring each one of you a pumpkin to carve. Well, first of all, that is, that's awesome. That's very cool. I had no idea. It's not awesome yet. How much work does it take?

How much time are you sprung? I kind of just You know, you get the hole out And you got to make a little hill And then you plant the seeds in the hill Then you water them real good And then you got to fertilize them at some point Which I haven't done yet

But that'll be the next thing And then you just got to try to keep the wildlife Away from the plant Because you know rabbits and things Can come up and eat your plant And then you're not going to have any pumpkins If that happens So it's a process

I'm learning as we go Wow, Shannon I mean Rockstar Shannon the dude former booty-shaking host, Alice Blue Gown, now is a farmer-planning pumpkin. Yeah, pumpkin planner. Age comes for all of us, Shannon, doesn't it?

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