KSR - 2025-07-30- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: July 30, 2025

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This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday, July the 30th. I'm Matt Jones here in Lexington, Kentucky. You can give us a shout at Clark's Puppet Shop. Phoneline 859-280-2287. It's going to be an asking.

anything Wednesday. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 7.72-745-254. And this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith-Lavis. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. We are all in studio. John Michael Montgomery will be here today at 11 o'clock. Life's a dance. You learn as you go. I swear. Sometimes you follow. Yes. I swear. That's my favorite. Grundy County auction. Yeah. What else? There's a bunch. Let's be my baby tonight. I can love you like that. Yeah, that's a good one. Letters from home, which I think is actually a beautiful underrated song,

like a military song, people writing letters. That song, that's one of my favorites. I'd forgotten about that one. Anyway, he will be here at 11 o'clock to promote his concert he's going to have at Rupp Arena. We got a full house today. Media Day is Friday for UK football. And we have a lot of various things I want to talk about, but I want to start with one thing that just,

happened to me this morning. Went to my McDonald's, right? Okay. How's that been going? It's been going good. I mean, that McDonald's and I are going well. And, you know, there's usually you go, you order, and there's

an older guy that takes the money. Very good. He's quick. He's efficient. No nonsense. Shannon, no conversation. Takes the card. 4.02, hands it right back. Next car. next car. Bam.

Sometimes he'll go, have a good day. But it's like a stern, have a good day. It's not a happy. It's like, it's like, okay,

we've had enough of you. Get out. Get out of here. And I'm for it because the efficiency is part of it. Today, the way it wasn't as crowded.

He was not there. So first of all, we'll thrown off. Different person. That's okay. People need days off. They got to have other things. They got to have other things going on.

I pull up, this guy looks at me. doesn't this is important doesn't say hello no greeting at all younger guy he just looks at me and says what if i'd known at five years old what i know now can you imagine that that was the first thing he said never seen this person before in my life i am rarely speechless i didn't know what to say about that. Does he mean generally? What if we knew when we were five years old? Or him specifically, what if he knew what he knows now at five years old? I don't know him. I don't know what he knows. And he looks at me kind of waiting for a reaction. This is as if, Shannon, we've been in a conversation for a

long time. We've never seen each other before, to my knowledge. And I just look at him and I go, that would be amazing. And he was like, yes. Yes, it would. And then he just hands me my card back. And I've thought about it ever since. I didn't know what else to say to him. I guess it would be amazing. But what it was interesting to just out of nowhere, just say that to someone.

And this isn't a complaint. He's had me thinking for 30 minutes. What if that guy had known what he knows now when he was five years old? Who knows? I think it's brilliance on his part. He probably does it to everybody this morning. He came through the drive-thru. I think he does that to everybody.

He's probably got a variety of questions. Yeah. And you just happen to be the five-year-old question. The guy behind you got a different question. So instead of saying, that's an interesting theory. So you say, instead of just saying, hello, have a nice day, he's trying to spice it up with interesting comments. You know, and when you started the story, I thought he was going to be kind of a psycho. And now that I'm thinking about it, it's still on your brain, I kind of like the move.

I do you. And I've worked to drive through. It can be very boring. Just same thing over and over. I like that he's probably trying to keep the job fun, mix it up a little bit. So even though it probably threw you off quite a bit. I like his move. I also think, though, if you had a five-year-old who knew everything a 35-year-old would do,

that would be a maladjusted child. I think you would have a hard time, Shannon, interacting with the world if he had a brain of a 35-year-old in a five-year-old body. He'd be a real problem in kindergarten. There's no doubt about it. He would just look at the kids and go, yeah, the teacher would go, what did you like to be? I want to be a singer. And this guy would be like, there's no chance that's happened, just so you understand. Being a singer in today's society is very difficult.

Did he mean just general thinking of a 35-year-old or specifics? Like, I would invest in Nvidia or I know who's going to win the Super Bowl. If there wasn't somebody behind me, I probably would have continued the conversation. So that was good. And I needed it because last night during the Reds game, I nearly, well, let me tell you how angry was at the end of the Reds game. Okay. And you think this is a joke, Ryan. It's not a joke.

I was so mad at the end of the Reds game last night, I nearly called the Post game. Oh, my. I nearly was mad. from Lexington. Yeah. That could have been awesome, really. Lance McAllister almost got a call for me. I was so frustrated by it.

I was so frustrated by we had the Dodgers beat and then he substituted Tito substitutes Jake Fraley for Santiago Espinal and Connor Joe, who's a nice guy, but he should be, he should be like selling T-shirts. There's no reason for him to be on the team. Substitutes Marte for Connor Joe. Both Marte and Frayley hit a home run early. in the game. Took them out. Got Gavin Lux in left field who plays it like Mario would. I mean, it's just, it's just a disaster. We end up losing the game five to four.

Graham Ashcraft and his stupid goatee can't throw strikes. And next thing you know, we lose. And I was very upset. Most upset I've been at a baseball game, maybe ever. Wow. Well, because I mean, I don't watch, you know, I don't care. But see that they reeled me in after sweeping the race. Six games above 500. And they start reeling me in. And then they're up four to two in the seventh. And it all falls apart. And I almost called the post game show.

I was going to go, Lance. And then I was going to say, can you hear me? First time. Are you, Lance? Are you there, Lance? Lance, can you hear me? And then I was going to do that. I almost did it last night.

You should have done it. But now you're so fired up. You said you may go tonight because Shoah is going to pitch. Well, I have to go tonight. Show Hey's pitching. When am I going to see? I mean, the Dodgers are here once a year. Sometimes you don't even get Sho Hay in the rotation.

Right. So, like, this is the one chance to see him. I've seen him hit, but, like, this might be the best player of all time. Part of it is because he hits and he pitches. So if it's going to pitch, but now we're going to lose. We're pitching Nick Martinez, who throws as bad as Shannon did last night for the legends. And so, I mean, we have to go. I have to go, but I'm frustrated. Shoah is one of those athletes.

If they're anywhere near you and you have the opportunity, you know, this is like a generational talent. You have to go see it. Who have been the athletes in our lives? that if they, if you have a chance to see them, you have to in our lives. All right. Michael Jordan. Absolutely. Magic Johnson.

Yeah. Larry Byrd. LeBron. Those are the basketball. Maybe Steph. Kobe, okay, I'll take that. All right. So that's your basketball.

Football. I don't think football guys resonate like that. Yeah. Like the team is what you want to see it. But to the extent you would want to see them, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Montana. Before all these off the field stuff, I felt that way about Brett Far.

I went to watch Brett Farmore one time. Yeah, but I mean, he was not, it's because you liked him, but I don't know that he's that special. You're right, that football doesn't give you that individual as much. It feels like it's more of a team. You know, they're wearing their helmets. For some reason, football doesn't work like that with me.

It's basketball. And then baseball. Okay, Barry Bonds, I wanted to see, first of all, I wanted to see Soson McGuire hit home runs. Yes. I drove up to Chicago. when St. Louis played Chicago and they went against each other. I didn't know you did that.

That was the game where Sosa passed McGuire for the lead, and then McGuire passed him back in the same game. That was awesome. That's one of the best sporting events I've ever been to. Sosa McGuire, Barry Bonds, and then Shoah, right? It is right now. Is there another one in your life that you can think of? I just want to say I've seen him.

No, I mean, there's a lot of great players, but you're talking about doing everything you can when they're near you at all to go see them and just lay eyes on. Then you would have Tiger. Yeah, oh for sure. I think he's the only one in golf in my lifetime. Yeah. You and I saw Federer Nadal in tennis.

And that was kind of a cool, like, special thing seeing those two. Especially head to head. Even Djokovic didn't do it for me like the two of them did, even though he might end up being a better player. Is Serena in the tennis conversation? I think Serena is in the tennis conversation for sure. Anybody else? Is anybody else you can think of like, I have to go see them do their craft?

not really i mean i think of like girls and katelyn clark that we're getting there with kately clark there's another one i don't know that i would drop things but i would if i if i knew that i could i know she's not far away in theory i guess i could but if i knew that katelyn clark was playing in the louisler lexington i'd be like i kind of have to go to go to that yeah she's entering that realm for sure See, when I was a kid, you know, it was Nolan Ryan, Pete Rose, those guys. Pete Rose, I'm sure, was like that for a certain. It was a little before my time, but I can see that with Pete Rose. I mean, show him play at least once.

I mean, show his pitching, you almost have to go. I think you have to go. And it would be nice to sort of be able to contrast the greatness I'm going to see tonight with what Shannon did last night at the baseball game. What do you mean what I did last night? First of all, I heard you and Billy were about to fight today. Is that true? No, absolutely not.

Well, he was saying that you're the worst. pitcher that's ever pitched. Who Billy was saying that? Well, I think he said on the show, didn't. Billy's just upset because nobody asked him to throw out a first pitch. And if they did, nobody would care. So I think maybe that's why he was a little upset. Wow. Wow. That right there was kind of the first segment of the pre-show. There was a little bit of a, it was like my parents were fighting. It's very cool. You got asked to throw out the first pitch. That's awesome. Yeah. Thanks to Lex and legends for having us. Yes. And then, but you did, I was told on the text machine, you tell me if this is right, You were registered on the machine as 27.4 miles in hour.

Is that correct? No, they didn't have the radar gun even going, first of all. I did throw from the mound, from the rubber. Yeah, but you didn't throw from the rubber. Yes, I did. Well, the picture I saw, you were, there's some pictures. Mario has pictures. There's a lot of altars stuff out there.

There's a lot of altars. Well, Mario has pictures where it looks like you're two or three feet in front of the rubber. Mario, would you like to pull the pictures up? Incorrect. Okay. I feel like I saw them, but go ahead. You were through from the rubber. And if you'll look right here, you can see the first video there.

That's the actual video. You'll see that I'll throw it right down the middle, a perfect strike. It looks to me, though, that's like, okay, here, first of all, I'm going to look at the picture from Mario. I see you at least two or three feet in front of the rubber. Well, you are wrong, sir. So did you take a running start? Is that why you're in front of the rubber? My foot is touching the rubber.

Are you not able to see? Put those glasses on. That's the first time I've seen this angle. Okay, so that angle. And then it looked like it bounced. Did it not bounce? No, that is an AI video. AI is getting crazy these days.

It really is. Like, AI is getting really good. This is the first video that existed. And then 20 minutes later, mysteriously, this other video, this altered video came out. And Ryan's trying to spread false information. And it's okay if it makes you feel good about yourself, Ryan, to do that. But, you know, the first. Well, Ryan, you were there live.

How would you judge that? I was there live. I had a camera behind home plate. my video is as accurate as anything you're going to see. It bounced in front of the plate. Corey Price has now tweeted out a picture showing that it bounced in front of the plate. It was such a bad pitch. It was such a bad pitch that catcher couldn't even catch it.

The guy behind the plate, the professional baseball player, was so bad pitch. And cannot reach out and grab the ball. It was horrible pitch. Oh, wait, but you're blaming the catcher. I mean, he was set up 20 feet behind home plate. No, obviously not. He is right behind home plate. I'm looking at Corey Price.

It's a picture. It is a strike. This is not you laying on the ground at the end of wrestlers. It's embarrassing, but it's up there. It's not embarrassing at all. First of all, everybody's like, you're a former college baseball player. Yeah, 20 years ago, dude, all right? It wasn't two years ago.

And a torn rotator cuff. I mean, come on. Are you saying you have a torn rotator cuff now? I think I still have some lingering effects from it. Okay, all right. Well, that would make some sense as to why this looks so bad. I was proud of my first pitch. It was awful.

It was one of, Alan Stein for the legend, that's one of the worst first pitches they've ever had in the history of their franchise. You know what? You keep talking. You keep getting Chusty. I wasn't going to do this. But I have some information here. I've got a little ammo of my own from 10 years ago when you threw out a first pitch.

And I'm going to tweet it out for everybody to see you right now. You want me to do that? You want to keep talking? It's awful. It's pretty bad. And Ryan, yours is worse than Channis. I was trying to throw it as hard as I could and I threw my shoulder out. You watched me walk off the field.

Yeah, he literally hurt himself. And it almost went the crowd. I think the wall. No, no. Shannon, you should put that out. That's the worst throw of all time. Yeah, you said Alan Stein said mine was bad. This is 20 times worse. Yeah, this is Baba Boo. That leaves me and you mad is the only two that have gotten it there at Legends games? I got it there. I got it there. I got it there. Didn't we all three throw it first?

We all did it. We did it well. We did it well. You didn't do it at the same time from the rubber, huh? How did that happen? Well, it's a big rubber. We brought her own rubbers. Well, you didn't throw it from the rubber either. I just want to see. That's up. 100% The picture you're seeing, I think, is on the follow-through. He was actually on the rubber. How was he three feet in front of the rubber on the follow-through? You know, you take a step towards home plate and you're, you know.

And you've ended up falling off of home plate? You've watched a lot of base. I don't think Show-A's going to fall off of home plate. You watch him. After releases the ball, he's a foot or two in front of the rubber. Okay. Yeah, 5-9-2-2-22-287. Now I've a sudden Ryan's coming around on my side a little bit.

San-Tex machine is 7-7-7-4-5-25. I'm not sure who's worse. Connor Joe or Shannon last night, but they were both, they were both bad. We will take a break. John Michael Montgomery at 11 o'clock, some basketball practice gossip going along as well.

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Sir, fake Brandon Knight, who now calls himself fake. Sir Brandon says young Matthew would have liked to know how to swim, paint pictures, change the oil, fix radio technology, and learn NFL rosters. All of those would have been healthy. If I had one I'd like to do over again, I wish I'd like learn to swim. Because I mean, I can do it, but not really. And I feel like I missed out on like fun because of my not enjoying swimming. I wish I was comfortable around the water more.

That is one. Everything else, who needs to learn how to change the oil? They got places. But I do wish I could swim better. Yeah, if I could go back, I'd probably not even bother trying to play basketball. I've wasted my time. A lot of chasing sports, I would have focused on things. I probably would have had a better chance.

Who knows, I could have been UK's kicker. If at a young age, I just started kicking field goals. Other athletes, people are saying, Bo Jackson. That would be one that I would, especially when he was at his pride, When he was able to just do both so well, that would have been nice. Usain Bolt. Oh, my goodness, yes. I think being, I've never been at one, but being at like an Olympic hundred meters would be amazing.

Like if it was one of those big ones, like Assain Bolt. Mike Tyson. Yes, that's another good one. That's got to be one. Yeah, for sure. I mean, in that moment, it would have been something to be at a Tyson fight, right? One of his last ones was actually in Louisville, but he lost. Yeah, but I'm not talking about it.

about that one. I'm talking about when he was Mike Tyson, when he was like walking in and like a scary dude. I think that would have been great. I have one that I just did two summers ago. I went to Nashville to see Messi when he was Miami. Messy. Great one. And it was the one goal or one game didn't score goal like the whole season. One person said for young women, Simone Biles. I could see during that period when the gymnast like Mary Lou Retton or one of those people. And I could certainly I can see for certain people because you know I mean when they do these gymnastics events at memorial people are losing their minds I think Muhammad Ali I didn't even I saw him after he retired just seeing him in person like oh my goodness that's a legend he was at that UK football

game that one time right uh Dale Earnhardt yeah I saw Dale Earnhardt that would have been yeah so these are all good there's maybe more than I realized but show hey you know how often you get it an hour yeah from so definitely in the category I'm gonna I'm not gonna boo I'm going to respectfully clap before we lose. I bet there's a big crowd the night too for this game. Oh, the tickets. If I was going to sell these, I mean. Make a little cash.

Premium pricing tonight, right? Oh, it's great. Like the tickets, I sold my Monday night tickets for a lot of money. Last night, a little less, but tonight, if I wanted to sell them. Yeah, I bet. It would be absurd. For ones like this, do you ever consider selling your single and just sitting with the person you sold to? No.

But I mean, if you could make like, but something extreme. where you can make a stranger. I mean, you're probably going to sit by a stranger anyway. When it comes to prices at Reds games for selling them, without question, if you get a weekend game against the Yankees of the Red Sox, I ain't going. No, I mean, a weekend game against the Yankees, I can get a grand for my tickets or more. Red Sox are close.

If the Cubs are good, when the Cubs are good, you can get a lot. I always look as soon as the schedule comes out. The Dodgers Yankees, Red Sox, are they here and is it on a weekend? Because during the week, it's not as much. But if you get them on a Saturday. And then I had a – my buddy and I had a conversation about what team gets the worst? Like, who brings the fewest fans to a Cincinnati game? And I think I've seen them all play.

I think the team that brings the fewest fans is the Arizona Diamondback. Yeah, got to be in the conversation. Because they come here a lot. The Padres actually have some. Really? They come here a lot because they come here every. year and they don't have any fans. Tampa Bay is pretty bad too. Yeah. That's why I always give Billy tickets because that doesn't matter. And then the

Marlins. Those are the ones that like you can't, you can't give away. I bet tonight there's as many Dodger fans as Reds fans there tonight. Wouldn't there be anything? I think because of Show Haye Pitchie. I think it's going to be full. I'm just going to get, I think it's going to be absolutely full tonight. 859-8-0-2287. Before we go to the Ask Anything Wednesday, a little basketball scoop. Jack, Pilgrim, got some practice info and I got similar to him. I guess sometimes I think UK people just decide, we're going to let people have a little info because it seems like everybody gets them on the same day. But really not a huge change, but a lot of things that we've heard. Here's the good

news. Jaylon Lowe is going in the direction that we want him to go. Like he is, if he's not, it's either going to be him or O.A. is the best player. And I think he's going to be the leading score. best player will be in the eyes of the beholder. But from what I understand, like taking to the Pope's system, playing under control, and people are saying what they hoped, this was the exact quote given to me, what we hoped Jalen Lowe will be, he might even be a little bit better. Wow. I like that, you know, we'll start to see it here in November,

but I like that it sounds like his floor is pretty high because when we got him, he wasn't the first option, he was at Pitt, where his efficiency numbers weren't great. but so far it sounded like he's in a great spot, as you're saying, and any concerns and maybe not panning out or even being like a bust or something, it's looking like he's going to be good. We know what way he's going to be. Then the other sort of universal thing is that Trit Noah is the best shooter on the team. It was said to me, he will not start, but he is going to force himself to be played

with how well he's shooting the ball. Which is great. You know, when we started talking about the roster early on, we were worried about him being 10th, 11th, 12th guy. I think the fact now he's earned the right and in an respect where he's going to on the floor plane, mainly because he's be one of our best shooters. Remember, he still don't have Jade and Quaiton's yet.

Now, to the extent there's a negative, and I always hesitate to do this, but there is some I don't say concern. But there is some is Brandon Garrison going to take a step up? And I think

there is some concern with the team of between Brandon Garrison and Moreno and our Slovenian, who's not here, yet. Are we going to have a five or a parts of five that we can rely on? I think that's going to be the worry that you. We take for granted how much we could rely on Amari last year. I do think there's a look because that five is a huge position in Mark Pope's offense. And I think there's a little concern of, hey, has Brandon taken the step up that we need him? And I worry, you know, we joked last year as Brandon Garrison time because sometimes he

call his own number. I worry that now he has a bigger opportunity and he's trying to fill Amari's choose if he's going to try to do too much. I think they really need to keep him in a role that he can thrive in rebounding. If he can play defense like he did in Oklahoma last year, that's good. But I worry about him trying to do too much. Good stuff for Mohammed Diabate, good stuff from Aberdeen. I think they want to see a little more from Cam Williams in terms of they think he's got potential to be great. They want to see him kind of get a little bit, take another step up. but what makes me excited is I don't think this team can be great

without J-1 Low being great and it sounds like those steps are happening and that makes me very happy. He's got to be good for this team to be good. I think he's got to be great for this team to be good. 8-5-1-2-8. They can be good with him but to be great. 859-28027. We'll be right back.

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First of all, that's cheap. I'm not going to go to lessons now. I'd be worried about videos coming out of me flopping around the water. Doggy paddling out there. I'm not going to do that. You got water wings put those on? No, at least I can be fine. I just have told you I don't like to jump into the water.

You lower me down. I can swim around. Lower you down like in a harness? here it comes like we're feeling to the sharks. If I go down, that's not what I'm in. If I go down like the steps of a boat or the steps of a pool or whatever, I use myself in. But like if I just jump in, I can do it, but I panic. We're just being honest.

Don't really panhand ball in anymore. I don't. I could sit here and act like I could, but I don't. You know, you missed out on some things in life. Like when you guys went snorke in the Bahamas and you stay in the boat? Well, it's not even that. For me, it would be like. Like I'd like to go like to Lake Cumberland or something on the boats on a nice day when everybody's having fun.

Everybody's looking hot. And like I don't want to be the dude reading the book and the book. Like I'd like to be able to. But I tend to stay away from that stuff because I don't want to be like, just get in the water. It'll be fine. Yeah. It's like when people tell you about your dogs that they're like, oh, you'll love my dog. No, I won't.

No. They'll always be like, it'll be fine. Like the lake is the scary You can't see the bottom I don't know how deep it is No it's fine We'll bring you out We'll get the boat

We'll get your harness We'll lower you in I don't want a harness Strap you in Just like a police system Let's go to Andy Go ahead Andy It's Ask Anything Wednesday

Hey guys I'm asking anything Wednesday Coming up to Lexington Tomorrow for the weekend And Friday night I'm going to Jeff Ruby's For the first time I've never been

And I was wanting your All the recommendations On what to order Well I mean If you've never been I mean, they're known for their steaks. Don't get like a chicken sandwich. You know, if you want to spoil yourself...

It's a good burger, though. If you want to spoil yourself, Andy, they do these cakes that are like wild, and they'll set them on fire, and, you know, they'll be like... So that's why I would say if you wanted to spoil yourself. But in general, you know, don't go too far. I don't know. Do you like oysters? I've tried smoked oysters.

I've never done the raw oysters. Yeah, well, I mean, it's an acquired taste. Gotta go raw, Andy. Yeah, if it's acquired taste, so if you like it, They're good. But you'll have a good time. I appreciate it. And we'll see you at the wing thing to tomorrow night.

Appreciate the call. That's right. See you guys tomorrow night. I was at the bar last night. Yesterday we were testing the burgers and we were not, don't say which one, but we had to do a blind taste test of all the different kinds of meat. And we all agreed on one. And it's so much better than what we used to do.

I mean, no offense to what we used to do. I think the burger wasn't great, to me honest. It was okay, but this is going to be really good. And so we were like tasting. I didn't realize how much difference buns make. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So we tasted like five different buns.

I didn't realize that buns were such a big deal. I just thought, you know, like that old commercial when I was a kid, motor oil's motor oil. Bonds a bun, but it's not. No, bad bone will ruin a good burger. Yeah. Get a good potato bun on there. Yeah.

Well, we tried a bunch of them. You remember that commercial, old guys. I remember that commercial. Motor oil. You and I are the only ones that seems to Mario doesn't remember that. Bob, go ahead, Bob. Good morning, yes, I'm going on, Bob. I've been blocked, dropped, and cut short,

but the pauper you came me was my call, and you stopped me to tell me Bob from Jamestown was the most recognized caller. Well, Bob, I can't suck up to people. I think it's likely the case that Bob from Jamestown, that doesn't mean good, but he is probably the most recognized. I'm pointing change. My question is, you know, we have a concept of something,

and then one look can change it forever. You are hunting, I think, the boat, and they get trophies that put on the walls with fish and deer head and antlers. Have you ever seen this set of antlers on where it was? I had a set of gonads hanging from them and a smirk on that deer face. What are you talking?

have I ever seen I don't see you know I can explain that again but Bob have I ever seen what hanging from the wall a deer

deer head sitting up there with a set of golden eggs hanging from the rand that's the first time and the second time that word's been said

on the show yeah Bob I have not seen that and where you see such a thing I don't know I don't know

where one would where one would see that you know have those at buckheads you know you Whiskey thief call the day. I don't say that. I'll say that. I don't know how a blob is. But there is an age where people will just say anything.

Sure. And I think he's hit that. I think he's his 90s. Oh, no. Last summer while you were gone, didn't we have some Bob shows where we had to kind of, I think he got grounded for a week? Yeah. He said some things we had to.

How do you think he? That same Bob? Yeah, that's the same guy. How old do you think that guy is? Next time he calls, I got to ask him. Yeah, obviously. Yeah, late 70s, early 80s. But you know, I mean, could be like Madison.

That's true. who sounds old and he's not that old. Yeah. One time he called us, and this wasn't one of the inappropriate ones, but I think it was the same week. He was like, I'm just wondering if y'all are going to start talking about anything entertaining today. And we're like, all right, Bob, we'll get on that. Yeah, since I made fun of myself for how bad I'm at swimming,

I am the only person here who's ever shot a fish with a bow and arrow. That is true. Somehow you got lucky and shot it in the dark and it had a boat full of people. Fish got the way of your arrow. One person shot the fish with an arrow. Yeah. That jumped up in the air, the Asian carp. Fish got in the way of your arrow there, I think is what happened.

No. And I was going to keep it, but it smells. Clay, or Ben, go ahead, Ben. Hey, guys. So I bought a ticket for tomorrow night's wing tasting. I unfortunately cannot go. I have to be a, my daughter has a preschool open house. I have to go to that.

I was looking to see if I could give the ticket away. I don't really know how to go about that. I don't want it to go to waste. I just wanted to give it away. I didn't know if there was a way for me to do that or if you all had a recommendation. I'll tell you what, in your honor, what's your name? Ben. And you just bought one?

Yes. All right, Ben, in your honor, I'll give it to somebody and give them your reservation, Ben. Yep. Okay. Thank you so much. I can handle that. All right. Appreciate you call.

I'll give that to someone because, yeah, we don't want to go to waste. This is science. And good for him to not just. you know, leave it and go about his life and not worry about it. He wants to make sure that seat gets filled. We appreciate it. Ben, we'll, we'll try. That's nice of you. Clay, go ahead, Clay. Hey, Matt, I want you to tell me where I'm confused, because I'm going to, I'm going to go to football here. Okay. We have, this is the most depth that we've ever had on a Kentucky football team. That's been sorry. I'm hearing a much of four, four and five wins. You know, I'm thinking about, wait, wait, why do you just say? Why do you just, okay, are you just, okay, are you,

Are you being silly or are you being real? I'm being, I'm, there's not a smile on my face, dear man. All right. So why do you think we have depth? What are you basing that on? Tell me who our second string line. No, let me, let me, tell me who our second string linebackers are. I think, I mean, I can't give you defense.

I appreciate the call. 859-280, 2287. I mean, I, I, we don't have depth. Depths is the problem. We don't have depth. We, we might. might have a good starting group. We'll see.

I'm a little skeptical. But there's an argument that with the portal and with the guys moving up, we might have a pretty good starting group. I think we have some depth at wide receiver, but I don't know if that depth is that everybody's good or everybody's just the same. And I think we might have some depth in the secondary,

but I don't know if it's that everybody's good or everybody's just the same. But we do not have depth on, say, the offensive line. We do not have depth on the defensive line, and that's part of the concern. We might have a first string that works, but we'll have to see about the rest. Yeah, the defense, I think they are very happy with the first string guys, but I think the concern is kind of contradictory with that guy said.

There's kind of a lack of depth. You mentioned who's a backup linebackers are. I have no idea. I can't think of one guy's a backup linebacker. And that would have been the thing, Shannon, he could have said any names, and I might have said yes. That's right. All he would have had to say was, you know, Andrew Smith is showing some great.

I might have been like, well, that's plausible. He just said Smith. He's good there. Got a couple of them. I will add the running back. We're going to have some depth there because last year, Wilcox and Patterson were two of the options, and now they're fighting for third and fourth. So the running back room did add some good deck. Who are the starters?

In the running back? Yeah. They got Nebraska's first. Yeah, Dad L from Nebraska. And then they got the McGowan. He's supposed to be good, right? And then McGowan's from where? He's kind of bounced around.

He even took like it came from Juko, had a year off with some issues. But he's here now and Stoops raved about him. He'll probably be the two, but that's a pretty good one-two punch. And then Wilcox, who was good last year's third. Because they are talking like they're confident. I mean, obviously Bush Hamden said the thing about the offensive line, but even Stoops, you know, you said. I mean, do you buy that? Do you think it's false bravado?

Do you think they're just like, do you think they're just? I think they feel better about this roster because they cleaned up some things that need to be cleaned up. You know, we talked about the culture, some guys maybe not getting effort in the classroom and the film room and that kind of thing. I think they feel better. look in the mirror the coaches and go, this team is good. This team is good. But you think they believe it? I think they believe it.

I think the schedule is not friendly, but I think they believe they got a good team. Okay. Well, I mean, but I mean, that's hard to have you ever thought they didn't believe they had a good team, though? True. I mean, you know, I don't. We'll find out early. Like, we found out early last year that there were some issues going on with that team last year. I think we'll find out this year.

I do think that I will say this. I don't know how much. I think they're going to be better than last year. don't know that their record will be significantly better. Right. I do think, though, one thing I feel confident about, I do think the chemistry problems last year, it will be better this year. Do you agree with that? Oh, absolutely. We're already hearing that too. Even it's a small thing, but Stoop saying a freshman was late early in the summer and that coaches didn't even have to say a word, the players jumped on them like, we're not late

here. That's good. A year ago, that wouldn't have happened. It is impossible to overstate how bad the culture got. And as the season went on, it got awful. But also, I think they had just let it slip. And so now that stuff is good to hear. Now, what it turns into on the field, we're going to have to see. You know, nothing says summer like long days. What do you think Shohei's strikeouts are going to be tonight? He's not going to pitch a lot. He'll only pitch like four. Four. Oh, seven. Seven? What do you think? Nine. I'm going to go six. But you can bet on draft king's sportsbook app for a major league baseball game. Ellie hits. He gets one almost every game. Showy struck out four times last night, by the way.

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Welcome back, Tuggy Sports Radio, 859, 2807. Text machine is 772-752524. One person writes, Matt, you guys are missing, not going to Lake Cumberland. You would have the most fun in the world. I would have fun in theory. but then like I just don't like answering the questions about not getting in water. It's just like, why aren't you in the water? I'm allergic.

Just tell me don't get in the water. So I don't feel like getting in water. Mind your business. I'll just dance on the boat. You can hang on the boat? Somebody's going to hold this thing down. Yeah, exactly. You'll float off if I don't do it.

One person says, Matt, I've listened to you interview people for many years. I think your Josh Hopkins interview was the best one I've ever heard. Him talking about Rust was made me cry. talking about UK basketball made me sing with joy. I don't know about singing, but I do think it's one of the best things we've done. I mean, he talked about, you know, he was literally on the set when Alec Baldwin accidentally shot the guy. And he talked about what happened that day, you know, and I don't want to spoil it.

But Mario, you were here. I mean, it was like amazing. It really was. And he taught, it was the first time he's talked. We talked for like 30 minutes about it. We did other stuff too. But I really, like, I thought it was great. I think if, even if you don't even know who he is, I guarantee you you'll like it.

Well, you said, you know, the first time he really talked, excuse me, talked about it, almost maybe he needed to, needed, like, some therapy to get, talk about that incident. He also talked about, like, how he almost got Jerry Maguire, the movie. Yeah. And then he didn't. And so, like, what that was like, to have a movie that, you know, gets nominated for an Oscar, and the Jerry O'Connell part was supposed to be him. and it didn't happen.

So just things like that. And then we talked about UK basketball. And he suggested a show that I think would be a great show. So this was like four or five years ago when I was really struggling with stuff. And I went to Austin. People always give me a hard time about going to Austin. Part of why I went to Austin is I really like Josh. Josh was a fun person to hang out with.

He lives down there. And he and I watched a UK Auburn game when both of us were kind of struggling. And we watched the game. We lost the game. but during the game he and I would talk about what was going on. And he said it was like Kentucky therapy. And then he goes, wait a minute, that would be a great show. Kentucky therapy.

People talk about their problems while watching a UK basketball or a UK football game. And I was like, you know what? I would like that. That would be a good show. Yeah, I'd definitely tune in. What if the game is the reason you need therapy? Well, we should. That's a very good point.

You're in a football game that might be the case. John Michael Montgomery is waiting outside, so we'll get to him in just a second. What was that? Oh, you're on a computer. Trevor, go ahead. Hi, good morning. I hope you're all having the great summer. Matt, I just want to recommend.

I know you're looking forward to going to South Africa next few weeks. I definitely recommend it. It's an awesome place. If you do go to work circling, I recommend taking some drama, I mean, because if you're prone to see six things. But my actual question is, especially when it comes to college football, there's a lot of, the solutions generally relates to collective bargaining. but for the players, why would both players be interested in actually agreeing to restrictions?

Is there a percentage? Well, I mean, they'd like to be... Well, they'd like to be... Would it be like a majority like 3%? Well, I mean, that's like asking why would you want to have a union? I mean, union, I mean, there are people who don't want to have unions, but in general, on the whole, unions get better working conditions and money. for the average member than a total like free-for-all.

Now, you'll see this with the Major League Baseball Players Union right now. The top players in Major League Baseball do not want to have a salary cap because it limits how much the best players will make. But you could, the middle and the bottom players, it actually probably will help. And so in the union, there's this argument between the Bryce Harper's of the world and the Connor Joe's of the world about whether you're not, you want a salary cap,

and maybe even whether you would want a union at all. The same thing I'll be true in college sports. If you had a union and a cap, it would probably hurt the earning potential of, you know, Otega Oway. But it probably would help the earning potential of a Colin Chandler or something like that. And so I think that your point is,

why would they want to do it? Well, the other option, which is that Congress passes a law that limits all of their money, I think is probably worse than if they get to collectively, Bart. For college football, though, especially, would it need to be negotiated between, like, schools or conferences? Well, that's a great question.

Nobody knows. Is the union going to be school by school? Is it going to be conference by conference? Or is it going to be college football as a whole? The answer to your question is, nobody knows right now. Appreciate the call. And that's an issue. like should you have SEC players negotiating Mac players deals?

Or should you say the SEC gets a union, the Big Ten gets a union, etc? I don't think they'll do it school by school. I think they do it conference by conference. And then the SEC has to think maybe if we give our players a better deal, we'll get players that otherwise would go to the Big Ten. That's exactly what I was going to say. So then it becomes like the union negotiation, the players, and the school might have an incentive.

You know what I mean? So I think there's so many different ways this could go, and it's hard to know right now. Trevor, go ahead, Trevor. Hey, Matt. As future traffic are of Lexington, do you think the traffic problem could be solved by any time you see traffic,

you go ahead and DipperMurge, like you were telling everybody works real well? I think Zipermerger's work really well. I don't think that's the big problem, though. And I don't think that's more of an interstate problem. That's a Cincinnati problem. The problem in Cincinnati is everybody hits their brakes on 75 and there's nothing to hit your brakes for and it slows it down. In Lexington, it's just construction and we need more roads.

We just need more roads. I appreciate the call. But people don't want to interfere with the horse farms and, you know, Ryan would tear down all businesses on Nicholsville Road to only have roads but then have nowhere to go. Yeah, we don't need sidewalks. Take those sidewalks out. I didn't need more. probably the best thing Lexington would need is it'd be nice if we had public transportation, but I know that'll never happen.

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