KSR - 2025-08-26- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

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Welcome to Hour 2 of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the KS Bar. You could do better than that. There you go, right. At the KS Bar and Grill. We are

We have just opened after a three-month hiatus. Yes. And folks here eating lunch, we appreciate all of them joining us. We'll be here. So I'll be here today during the show. And then from 12 to 3, the moment this show ends, Ryan, I flip it over, and ESPN begins. You said earlier I was going to talk to you about this. They send you your production list at 1130.

You can't review it because you're doing this show. You're going to be just going in naked. I'm not going to be naked. I'm going to go ahead and wear my clothes during the entire show today. Thank you. You're welcome. I've got, let's see. Segment one, Trey Hendrickson and the Bengals.

And the Bengals. Yeah. Segment two, Darnel Revis calls out the NFL Players Association. Don't even know what that. Wow. Don't even know necessarily what that means. Giants released Tommy DeVito. I figured that'd be a big one.

That was all over my feed this morning. the QB situation in New York. Yeah, so we're ready. Should be exciting. All right, one person writes on the text machine. Matt, with UK football starting Saturday, do you think there will be any changes or anything done by UK to make the game day experience more exciting this Saturday? I hope so.

No, I mean, I do hope so. I don't know if they've done anything, but again, part of what you're going to have to do to kind of get this new air going, in theory, is that you would like to do all of that, right? I hope so. I have very little expectations that that has happened, but I'm hoping there's stuff new. I will say I'm surprised by a lot of people getting excited about the tailgating, at least online.

I'm starting to feel good about that early pregame scene being week one. As far as any upgrades to the experience, I don't have a lot of faith in UK doing that. You know, people have had their tent spots reserved for a couple weeks out there. You drive over there and they're everywhere. So all those people show up, it could be a great environment. but are they doing anything new? That I don't know yet.

Yeah, I mean, the game is at 1245. The weather is supposed to be like perfect. Perfect. Right? I mean, it's supposed to be the best football weather you can imagine, like 79 degrees for August. In August, I mean, it's going to be about as good as you can be sunny. I mean, if you're trying to think of a time to go to a game,

tickets for those who, like, they're going to be relatively cheap, as the guy who called earlier, or maybe it was you that was sitting here said, Hope Springs Eternal. Like everybody is, I guess it wasn't you, it was the car, but like everybody is zero and zero now. Yeah, that's right. So, I mean, but as far as like, are they going to do anything new? I don't know. I haven't heard.

No, we're getting Duma's Walker. We're getting all roads lead to Lexington. I don't know if they still have the big blue drum. That only lasted a season or two. That's true. Whatever happened at the big drum? Did we have a drum? We tried to make it a thing.

What was the drum? They rolled out a drum and then hit it, and then we were like, yeah, and then they kept up. I think Art still did the first one? We hit it and we said, yeah. We were like, all right, drum. Is that the thing that show off in the new video game where they're beating the drum to go big blue? EA Sports didn't get the message that we didn't really get into. Wait, but we had a drum?

Yeah. Those big, huge bass drums, they rolled it out, and before the game, they would have a former player come out and bang it, and it lasted like maybe one season. Did not take off. What were people supposed to do? We weren't sure. They'd bring it out, and then it'd be like, boom. Everybody would clap, and then it would be like, all right.

Disappeared on the next game. So, Shannon, did you know there was a drum? Just only from that video game. Only from the video game. And I think they were supposed to go, go big blue, and he's supposed to hit it on beat. So did they highlight the drum on the video game? Yeah, yeah, like that's what they show. But we don't really do that.

I don't remember. We still have it. It never really got going. I don't remember seeing it at all last. year now to think about it. Missouri has one called like Big Mo and it's a big thing and I think we tried to borrow from them and it didn't it just didn't hit I don't know if we're a drum crowd. We're still trying to get Duma's Walker going. I got an email today from UK. It says get game day ready. I thought well this might be the list of stuff they're going to do for

game day. Now it's just an advertising about UK shoes visit the UK shop to buy shoes. I mean again we've spent a lot of the offseason talking about how it would have been nice to introduce people to the stuff and it would have been nice to do this and it would have been nice to do that but really that stuff just didn't happen much and I guess you can just kind

of assume it's not going to happen right we see I don't like to give them credit but you can turn on a night game at Nailen or just about anywhere and it is just a different fan experience that is here in Kentucky that's just not a strength Mitch Barnhart it's been a few years but didn't he say fans need air

conditioning a place to sit in the water or something something stupid like that. It's just being at the front line of trying to do. He's very old school and he thinks, I mean, he just thinks this is, well, first of all, I mean, here's the thing about Mitch. He thinks all fans, I've always known this about him even when I talk to him. He thinks all fans are like him, right? He believes this is what I like in a game. This is what people like in a game. And I've said this a lot and it's no offense to him because I think he's done a really good job on a lot of stuff. You have to talk to people that are not the people that are in your zone.

And I just don't know how much of that happens with him. Well, like you said, he only kind of answers his email. Well, who emails? If you brag about not being on social media, well, I mean, you're not going to know what a significant chunk of the fan base wants. So we have, Missouri has the worst game day experience in the SEC. Fandy does too Pretty close, yep

But we're probably after that I mean we're probably of the game day experiences We're probably 14th of the 16th Now in basketball that's not true In basketball I would say Where would you rank the Kentucky Basketball game day experience in the SEC I have a hard time rating it

Because every time I go to an away game It's the Kentucky game and they're just camping out And parking lots and it looks like the greatest thing ever But I know when I'm not there with Kentucky It is not that long I think that's a great point. If you were to say average game day experience, game by game, Kentucky basketball is one. If you were to say big game experience, though, you can make an argument that Auburn or Arkansas, even Arkansas has a better big game.

But then we've seen Arkansas games where no one's there, like no one. So I think if you said game by game, Kentucky would still be number one. There's no doubt when it was a big game, Rupp Arena is rocking. It is the best. See, I think it's the opposite. I think for an average game, Kentucky's the best. I think on a big game, there's nothing, no better. If you've been to Auburn when they play Kentucky?

Oh, yeah, I've been down there. But Kentucky, the biggest games I've ever seen are Kentucky, the atmosphere in a Ruppereen is just like the best ever. You know, like the Florida game and the 03 games like that, the North Carolina game where Anthony blocked his shot. It's just amazing. I mean, I want to say that's true. And I think it's, don't get me wrong. I think it's great, but like, you know, we were at Kentucky, Indiana in 2012. I've been to many Duke Carolina games.

I've been to Michigan State Michigan, right? Part of it's just the size of Rupp Arena. It just can't get as big. But on a game-in-game-out basis, Kentucky's number one. And some of these SEC schools, or most of them, you don't get Kentucky on your campus, but every other year. And if you don't have much basketball history and when the SEC's down,

you know, if you've got Kentucky coming to your school, you circle that the minute the schedule comes out and you're camping out, t-shirts. I'm not going to turn into Cal here, and all that and how he spills it. But that is the experience when Kentucky rolls into your town for a basketball game. Remember when we played it West Virginia, and we all went to that game?

We all like, my goodness, this is awesome. It was West Virginia, but the atmosphere was great that night because Kentucky was in town. Yeah, 859-280-2287. Who's up next? Bobby. Bobby, go ahead, Bobby. Hey guys, hope you all are having a good day.

I am with Shannon. I think that we will make a bowl game. And to all the haters out there that talk about Calzada, there is not a very long list of SEC quarterbacks of beating Sabin-led Alabama teams that SEC quarterbacks have beaten. So he's one of them. So just something to think about. He's taken down Saban.

Yes, remember Calzada has played well against Alabama. We've had people say, hey, you know, can we not just have him be like he was in that game? What do you think the best of Calzada will be this year? We run it, run it, run it, run it, and then he throws a bomb off a play action for a touchdown. Or he gets the tight ends going. I'm not going to say this is the year, but you have Willie Rodriguez, who looks like a freak. Josh Katas, who's been playing every snap since he was a freshman. Maybe look at him.

but we're not going to talk ourselves into a tight-in year, but this would be a good year for how Calzada can really be helpful as get those guys going. And if I'm not mistaken, Calzada did not throw a lot of interceptions at an incarnate word, right? Like, he's pretty accurate, makes good decisions. He does that. Yeah, they can do some magic then maybe once in a while.

I hope so. I mean, I remember the game he played so well, and he beat Alabama. He looked amazing. It's been a while. But I also feel like he gives us a shot, which is ultimately what our goal, ultimately that's all we can ask.

Even though he's got some swagger and he told us he's won and done and he wants to show off his cannon, I'm pretty ready to just go back to hand it off. If we have the offensive line to do it, play defense and try to win 22 to 21. Because I was screaming, let's get crazy with our offense. You think that's the best chance for Kentucky to win at football. I just think that Mark Stoop is your coach. That's the way you got to do it. We saw what happened when he tried to go out and get the flashy playmakers and turn the offense

to something he's not used to. He's a ground and pounded guy. Yeah. 8.9-28027, what do we think about the story that the Alabama assistants had to call Nick Sabin Daddy? That's embarrassing. Have people seen this story? Yeah.

Have you all seen this story? It's embarrassing. Okay, so Seth Wickersham is writing a book about quarterbacks, and in it he's telling stories about quarterbacks, and there's two parts of the story. part one is that the Alabama coach, Alabama's assistant, let me follow this, Alabama's assistant is recruiting Arch Manning, okay? Arch Manning, the assistant's on a Zoom with Arch Manning, and he says about the Texas

coach, Steve Sarkeesian, he's my best friend, I love the guy, I hope that he's able to stay sober, which is a really terrible thing to say if you think about it. I mean, like, I love the guy, but I hope he's able to stay sober. I don't know. I feel that it's pretty rude. But when they get off the call, one of the other assistants looks at the guy who says that and goes, hey, dude, that was a jerk thing to say, which good for that assistant. Yes, it was, yep.

And he said, sorry, daddy's on me. And then Wickersham says the Alabama assistant coaches would refer to Nick Saban as Daddy. Thoughts? It's hard to imagine an operation so professional as that. Sabin, he's got guys called him Daddy. Mario, you like that? You're going to call Sabin Daddy? No, you're not going to do that.

What about you, Daddy? Daddy Fat Stacks. I don't like it. I've gone on the record as saying, Ryan, please don't call me. Daddy Fat Stacks. I don't like that name. I think it's terrible, but at least he puts fat stacks after of it. Because if Ryan just looked at me and said, Daddy, I would fire him on the spot. We call you Uncle Matt. And I would ask him to pay backpack. We call you Uncle Matt. We're conversing with each other. We might say, hey, Dad wants us to do this.

Okay, there's a difference between Dad and Daddy. Daddy is a vote just a word you don't need to call anybody. That's true. There's a difference. Yeah. Dad is one thing. Daddy is another. I'm not calling anybody, Daddy. Okay, that's different. And I think it's really funny to think of football coaches calling each other, Daddy. You know, football coaches are all like, yeah, smack me in the head. Yeah, rah, right, right, right.

And then they're like, Daddy, though, wants me to get the player. I don't know, I don't know, Drew. I think that's bizarre. And the fact that it's Alabama. That's the thing. You're thinking, like, probably the smoothest, most business-like operation in all of college football. They're calling him Daddy behind the scene. Do you think Nick Saban wants the, do you think Nick Saban wants the assistance to call him dad?

I can't. I don't think so. I can't. He seems just too intense to want to be called Daddy. Like, I would expect him to be like, call me sir at every moment. Yeah. I think, I just have to say, I think this story should be getting more attention. Like, I feel like I'm the only person that brought this up. It's in a book.

And it's about Arch Manning. I mean, this has all the things you would think would be a big story. Arch Manning, Nick Saban, Alabama, Texas. They're going to play each other. I just start getting called out. Sark getting called out. Sart being called an alcoholic, a coach bringing up that he's an alcoholic, a coach who now coaches for Lane Kiffin saying it.

Sounds like you're the only ones who's read the book, maybe. I haven't read the book. This was online. I mean, anyway, I just find it to be a little bit of a weird story. I agree with you. We call you dad. We don't call you daddy. First of all, we, no one calls me dad, but you. Don't act like that's normal. I don't like when you put familial terms on me. Can you picture like UK assistants calling Stoops Daddy? Like, heck no.

It's like, I can't think of any coaching operation than referring him as Daddy. Belichick might have some people. No, I can say that. Petino probably had a few daddies. We'll take a break very back. It's scare yourself. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind.

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available on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back, TuckySports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-7-745254. One person writes, Matt, do you think they will ask Nick Saban about that on Game Day? No, I do not. I do not think they will ask them that. You don't think Pat McAfeele try to work one in?

Well, now that actually might happen. What if you say, like, listen, Daddy, and then said something after that. Actually, no, you're right. I can see that. I could see him doing that. I can see him doing that. I think that was a little bit.

One person says, you remember, Matt, during COVID, people were calling Andy Bashir daddy. Yes, they were. And I thought that was odd. But it was women, which is still odd about the governor, but it's not the same as your boss. Your direct ball. I mean, it's definitely weird, not excusing it.

I thought being in a football locker room is even weirder. The woman who started the like govern me daddy thing, which I made, to be fair, I made fun of that at the time. Yes, you did. I actually have gotten to know her, and I like her quite a bit, and I still am like, why did you do this? She was like, well, he was on TV. I was like, you still. You shouldn't have done it. He wasn't like our...

We were all going through some things. Yes. He was like our father figure talking to us, helping his out get through all that. He was the governor. I thought he did a good... But like, he was not... Did you think he was your father? You're older than he is.

I am older than him. I got to admit... I'll see your father figure when you're older than it. I don't think they were saying, govern me, daddy, and their father figure. Yeah, I think they were meaning it in a more sexual sense. You're getting lonely at home. Yeah, I don't think it was quite like you may be meant. Or maybe you did.

I don't know. I did say when you bought us all lunch yesterday. today. Thanks, Dad, when you were paying. Again, but the D-Y does a lot of work in that sentence. You know? So I said, thanks, Daddy. Do you want me to ask you to leave? I think he's going to start doing this. I take, who's next, Shannon? Matt.

Matt, go ahead, Matt. Hey, guys. I heard you guys talk earlier about Al-Qaraz and the haircut, and I decided to call in towards the end of that, but hopefully I'd admit this. Are you guys aware of the reason that he cut his hair? He said, brother screwed up his hair. Is that right? That is correct. And yeah, I guess he didn't fly his barber out from Spain probably seems like a long trip. But yeah, I just thought that was a pretty crazy story. And sorry I missed that

towards the end. No, no, I didn't say that, but I did hear that the reason he, yeah, I appreciate the call. Drew, the reason he, Alcaraz shaved his head was his brother screwed up his hair. And so he felt like he had to shave it. Think about his brother. I mean, if you just open the internet you're going to see that on most sports websites his brothers created a big sports controversy here yeah he did get a loud applause and also was that katie george from louisville interview katie george is now doing the uh main court katy george is doing the the interviews for the for the u.s open open now he asked the crowd if they approved they cheered so he had a little bit of a moment there in the match katy george by the way is part of a nice piece of uh ksr trivia which is one year wdrb named it's louville

sports figures of the year. And it was three winners. The three winners were me, Katie George, an American Pharaoh. Wow. An American Pharaoh, of course, one of the legendary horses.

Katie George is now doing U.S. Open and et cetera. And then there's me. And so at first, I felt a little disrespect that I was tied with a horse. The horse. And I think Katie George was like, a senior in college at the time or something. Now I think the horse and her have definitely passed me,

and now I am the most embarrassing of the threesome that won that year. She's on my television on the main Arthur Ash Court at the U.S. Open, and you've got Ryan calling you daddy on there. Yeah, not nearly as impressive. Cal Raleigh, the catcher for Seattle, got his 50th home run last night of the season. Here's what I found interesting, and I know you baseball guys will care about this. Most home runs ever by a catcher. Does that surprise you?

He is in his rookie, his first full season playing, has the most home runs in a season ever by a catcher. I didn't realize that. That was the record for most home runs by a catcher, but he's obviously had a great season. What are they calling him? Big pumper. Big bumper. Big dumper. Because he has a big butt.

That's why they call him that. They call him the big dumper. I was surprised they haven't had anyone get 50 home runs up there in Seattle since Griffey. I know 50's a lot, but since Griffey I thought they'd have some power hitter. But Shannon, I was kind of surprised there's never been a catcher to get 50, and then I was sitting and thinking, well, who would it have been? Yeah. And I guess catchers, like power hitters just aren't catchers, right?

I'm not sure why, because usually a catcher's a big guy, you would think that would be your power hitter. So I was surprised to hear that as well. I didn't know that was the record. I guess the record was Johnny Ben. I should say Johnny Bench or Mike Piazza. They don't play as many guys. game, they get a break every once in a while. Maybe that's why.

That's true. Yeah. That is good point. Mike Piazza, that's, yeah, that's one I would have thought. That feels like he was a big home run here. But I was surprised to see. I had no idea that he was the only one. Didn't Pudge Rodriguez hit some bombs?

Yeah, Pudge Rodriguez, another Carlton Fisk, I guess, is a dude who had hit a lot of home runs, right? Trying to think other power hitting catchers. They're just not a lot of them out there. Yeah. But Shannon's right there. They tend to be big dudes. So you would think there would be.

there would be more than there are. Who's next? Justin. Justin. Go ahead, Justin. Yes, I think one thing that I see a lot online is a lot of Kentucky fans think that we are just guaranteed to get only two wins. Six wins is very possible.

You're three small opponents, then if we're going to be Kentucky football, we need to get back to beating Vandy. That's four. So then you just need two more between, I'm not going to say we're going to beat Texas or Tennessee, so I'm not even adding them. So then you get your other two wins between either Auburn, Florida, South Carolina, or... Oh, I can't remember the fourth one. Tennessee, but the other two is possible.

But you're acting like... If the O-Lond plays the way that they're supposed to. But you just mentioned eight teams. I mean, all those teams you mentioned except Auburn are top 25 teams. I mean, to say like... Not Vandy. Okay, so, yes, not Vandy. But we're going to be underdogs likely.

in eight of our 12 games, and if we're an underdog against Vandy, which is plausible, we'll be an underdog in nine of our 12 games. Now, that doesn't mean they can't. We beat Ole Miss on the road last year. From what I understand, they're not going to be as good this year because they don't have Jackson Dart and their defense didn't improve. Auburn's been on a downslide. Okay, but hang on just a second.

You can't sit there and say we beat Ole Miss last year, and then act like Auburn didn't crush us last year. So like if you're going to use the analogy of we can beat Auburn, or excuse me, we can beat Ole Miss because we beat them last year, then you have to say, is Auburn 25 points better than us? I mean, that's, that's, you got to be fair. You can't just say, well, we beat Ole Miss, so we'll beat them. But let's ignore that Auburn and South Carolina blew the brakes off of us. We'll be right back.

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We'll be here all week. And then, of course, Saturday as well. One person writes, Matt, we lost 24 to 10 last year to Auburn. They didn't beat the breaks off of us. We were up 10-0 after the first quarter. Well, yes. but we were up 10-0-0 of the first quarter didn't score again the rest of the game

Auburn was awful they were reeling that year and they won and now we have to go to their place when they are likely to be better now do I think we can win? Yes I think we can win do I think we can win at Vandy? Yes do I think we can win do I think we have to act like that

we I don't think you can make the case though hey we beat Ole Miss, they're not as good this year, so we should certainly be able to beat them this year and then ignore what happened in the games against South Carolina, Georgia, you know, all those teams last year. Yeah, I mean, you can't just look at the last year and repeat it, especially 50 new players, but I will agree with them that of the ones we have the best shot at winning,

Ole Miss at home is one of the better opportunities. I don't think we'll beat Auburn on the road, not just looking at last year. I think they're improved the road game. I'm looking at Florida and Ole Miss both been in Lexington as chances to win one. You're not really predicted to. I mean, hell, it's been two years since they've won a home SEC game. We've got to win one this year.

I think those are two that you're looking at. Yeah, the path to six wins is when two of the three road games of Auburn, Vandy, Louisville, when one of the home games, Florida, Tennessee. To me, that's the path to six wins. Two of Auburn, Vandy, Louisville, one of Florida, Tennessee. I'm not going to assume we beat Texas, Georgia, or even Ole Miss. I mean, Florida, Tennessee, or Ole Miss, win one of those. And Florida is coming here in mid-November.

They haven't done that in 35 years. They got quarterback concerns with Lagway, who's supposed to be this great thing, but his situation's been murky since he's been there. So even though it's Florida, I'm looking at that one is the one we need to take. One, like four out of five against them anywhere or whatever it is. Kentucky's 2 and 11 in their last 13 SEC home games. Two and 11. That can't happen.

But then you look at the schedule this year. We are 2 and 11. In the last 13 SEC home games. Beating Florida a few years ago was the last time we've won one. I mean, I knew that. But then when you say it, it resonates. There's something about the way like when you hear it like that. SEC home games.

As are home games. Do you think you try to kind of pull something out? Bandies beat you two times, the last two times here on your own field. You get sunglasses at Shadyrays.com. If you want premium polarized shades at a great price, check out Shady Rays. They got them in Louisville. They got them in Lexington, and they have them near you.

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What's up, guys? Drew, Shannon, I would have thought Javier Lopez with the Braves. I know he had a 40 home run. I'm going to read you the top catcher home runs ever. Cal Raleigh now has 50. Second, Salvador Perez with the Kansas City Royals. How many of you would have gotten that? No.

Then Johnny Bench with 45, Javi Lopez 43, Todd Hundley, and Roy Campanella had 41, and then Mike Piazza and Johnny Bench had 40. Only eight times in history has any player who's a catcher hit 40 home runs in a season. Someone wrote me that if you're a catcher, that's a great hitter, they'll move you to D.H. a outfit a lot, too, so it might change the position. That's true, Mike. But go ahead, Adam.

Yeah, I think when you look at what is the best version of this upcoming season? I think it's getting back to running the ball, you know, converting short. third downs, not being in so many third and longs. And then we don't need Calzada to be a Will Levis, Andre Woodson. We need him to be more of a Terry Wilson than Stephen Johnson. Just don't make crazy mistakes and just manage the game. I agree with that.

I appreciate the call. I mean, Will Levis won you games. But Stephen Johnson and Terry Wilson worked with others to manage victories. Calzada is probably a more of a quarterback like that. Would you agree? Yeah, but my big concern with him is that, you know, he's very open. This is my year to make the NFL. I worry he might try to do too much in circumstances.

I mean, that's just me speculate. I haven't played anything yet. But if he were going to, you know, hurt Kentucky, I think turnover is trying to do too much. No quarterback says, yeah, I want to be a game manager, but he just needs to make the short, immediate throws. Something Levis struggle with a little bit. And then when it opens up to throw the deep one, you know, try to put it on spot. I did like what Stoop said on his coach's show last night about Calzada. You know, all the talk about Cutter had it was not a reflection on Calzada.

He said Calzada has been great. He said Cutter just kind of exceeded our expectations. Kind of he elevated himself by his play. But Calzada has done nothing wrong. It just was more of a praise to Cutter, not a knock on Calzada. That's good to hear. Yeah, it is. That's good to hear.

Listen, all this talking in five days is going to be over. We're going to know if he's good or not. I mean, we're going to know when I do that post-game show that, going to start about 5 o'clock on Saturday, we're going to know a lot. I don't think we'll know everything, but we're going to know a lot. But we did win 41 to 6 last year against Ohio, and then that didn't. Well, our two, that was a little later in the year. Week 1, the Lightning Storm, we were killing Southern Miss, not probably to the level of this Toledo team,

but still a respectable team. I mean, Bush Hamden showed in game one he can be ready to score some points. It didn't continue the rest of the year. But Ohio and Southern Miss, they piled it on. That's true. Who's next? William. William. Go ahead, William. Hey, good morning. Matt, I wanted to call in a while ago, but in a small world, I actually had dinner with one of your Aspen Institute classmates, Chris Johnson.

Really? Mississippi. Yeah. That's the nicest guy. That might be the nicest person. He's an awesome dude. I'm glad to hear you say. I'm glad you did that. Yeah, yeah. I was working with the Mississippi legislature. Anyway, small world. As it relates to the football season,

Scott Van Pelt always says being optimistic costs the same. At least to start the year, I just, you know, I have no reason not to go into the season and be optimistic about, you know, I'm on Team Shannon making a bowl game. Might as well bet the over for the season and bet the cats to cover week one because why not, right? So just got to go into the season. At least that may change after week one, but going into it, I think you might as well be positive because it costs the same.

same. Totally agree with that. Yep. Appreciate the call. Might as well be positive this week as much as we can. I mean, I'm going to try to be realistic about our win total. But in terms of being excited about the games, why not? We're going to play it. Why not be excited? I mean, I'm looking forward to Saturday morning.

I mean, I'm looking forward to being in this place Saturday. I hope it has an electric atmosphere. I mean, we're opening for breakfast. I hope people come. I want to feel excitement during the game. I'd love to see that stadium. them be rocking. You know, you only get 12 football games a year.

We might as well enjoy them. I mean, this has been a long offseason, maybe the most boring off season I can remember in sports. We might as well enjoy this. We only get seven or eight where we really get to be a part of it here in Lexington. You know, the three game days and the KS bar days, there's not quite as many as not. What do you think about Dave Portnoy?

Dave Portnoy banned from being on Ohio State's field for the first. for the first game of the year. For people who don't know, runs Barstool. He works for Fox Sports, and Fox Sports is doing the Ohio State, Texas game. They are going to be doing their pregame show from the field, and Ohio State said Dave Portnoy cannot be on their field. He's a Michigan fan, talks a lot of trash about Ohio State. What I think is interesting about this, let's say that ESPN were to put

me on college game day. They wouldn't, but let's say they did. And Louisville said he can't be on our field. That's basically what you're talking about. Yes, it is. You think that's fair for Ohio State to do? I think

each school has the right to approve credentials and disapprove credentials, but anybody. So if you apply for Louisville and they know you're going to be on game day on their field, I can see them saying that guy ain't getting it. That guy is not getting a, you, probably the only person, they would probably signal like,

I think they would let me on now. When George was here, they wouldn't have let me on. No way. They would let. But don't you think that's petty? I mean, don't you think that, like, I think that's unbelievably petty to say, like, you know, that's part of his shit. Are you so, like.

Ohio State put out something saying, don't blame us. This is all Fox. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. For it to come out, I mean, it. I mean, the story came out last night, and then Ohio State didn't put their statement out until this morning. If it really wasn't them, they would have jumped on it early and said it wasn't us. Whatever the case it is.

I think they did damage control there. I think it's one. It's not game. No one watches that show. Who cares? Would anyone know what Dave Portnoy said on Ohio State's field? Do you think it seems soft? Oh, it definitely seems soft.

You think it seems soft, Shannon? Yeah. I mean, come on. You're making a bigger deal out of this if you're Ohio. state by doing that. I totally agree. I think you act like you don't even care that you don't even give them the opportunity to be that big. I'd be like who? Right. Exactly. That's exactly what you're making a big deal about it. Now everybody's talking about it. It is one of the, it is one of the lessons that over the years I've had to learn and that people should learn all the time. If you really want

something to not be a deal, don't ignore. That's why I think so much outrage in society, is fake because the reason they're outraged is for content and clicks. It's not because they're actually outraged. It's because it allows them to feed the machine. Same thing with this. If you really want Portnoy to seem irrelevant, don't worry about it. You have, by being outraged, made him much more relevant than he would have been if you had just ignored it to begin with. And if you're Portnoy, a content guy, we know if you're going to play this up. Oh, he loves it. I mean, It's only going to make you bigger and give you more confidence. You've got the school.

He completely loves it. I mean, the best thing that happened to Drew's post-game basketball recap show was UK kicking him out because we used it as a way to promote the show and it became a thing. Like, that was, if UK did not want Drew to get attention for his post-game recap, they did the dumbest thing they could have done, which was by saying he couldn't go there. Had you just been standing there on the court, you'd have. had to build it a different way. But by you being outside and us being, like, people searched him out. People searched him out, wanted to come on, say, go get him, Drew. And the worst of the weather,

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between the quarterback and the brother and his son outside the game in Dublin, Ireland? I did. What a wild scene to a father's son fist fight. You don't get that very often. No, you don't. You don't get that lot. So for people who don't know, Kansas State's playing Iowa State. Iowa State beat Kansas State after the game. The quarterback for Kansas State, the quarterback, his dad and his little brother get in a fist fight rolling on the ground outside of the stadium.

Kansas State fans have to break it up. Kansas State fans are trying to basically make it to where their own player's brother and son. and dad will not fight each other. They're rolling in the rain. It's a disaster. After it's over, the father released a statement saying, look, we just, you know, this is what happens in families. My bad.

No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. I don't think it does. I've had zero fist fights with my dad. And if I did, it would be my last fist fight. This was so embarrassing, embarrassing for the team, the family, the quarterback. I mean, it was awful. Both those men need to grow up.

Yeah, he said our bickering escalated. I mean, I've bickered with people. I haven't then rolled around outside of sporting event, having people trying to pull us off of each other. That's awful. It seems to really make you mad. I mean, I've done some stupid stuff in my life when it comes to a dad, maybe yelling at an official or yelling at a coach. But I'm not going to get into a fist fight with somebody in my own family over a football game. It's just awful.

And in a foreign country. Shame on them. Shame on them. People didn't see it. It's not like they're having a little dispute. I mean, it is taking a crowd to get them apart from each other. And you do wonder, like, if the people that are Kansas State fans, this is their quarterback. A good one. A good one.

They probably knew it was his dad, right? I'm sure they did. So imagine, you know, I'm trying to think of what the situation would be like. It would be as, like, can you imagine if you walked outside and, like, Will Levis' dad was fighting his brother, outside of Kroger Field and you were just there. And can't even imagine that. But Kansas State just got that. It's awful.

The huge black eye on your program. You're very angry about it, aren't you? It really kind of upset me. I mean, I felt bad for the quarterback. I mean, he didn't ask for any of this. He didn't sign up for this. His dad and his little brother getting to a fight outside the game. In Dublin, Ireland, his trip of a lifetime?

So what's the closest you've come to being, if not in a fist fight? something embarrassing with your sons in public. I got kicked out of that coach pitch baseball game one time when he was eight years old. That was not maybe the – my shot – But you weren't fighting with your kid. That was fighting on behalf of your kid. I was just yelling at the umpire, and he said, don't say another word. And I said, you know, don't touch him.

That's it. You're out. Don't touch him. Yeah. Who was touching him? The first baseman kind of pushed the kid off the bag. So you were yelling at an eight-year-old? No. I was yelling at the official.

Then when the official said, don't say another word, so I yelled at my first baseman. Don't touch him. What do you mean your first basement? My first baseman pushed the kid off the bag when he was tagged him a little hard. So it kind of pushed him off the bag. So you were yelling at an eight-year-old? I just said, don't touch him. Boom, out.

Hard for me to believe they would kick him out for that. They did. I mean, that explanation to me doesn't pass the smell test. Because I said one more word. I said, don't say another word. I said, don't touch him. Boom, you're out. Sounds like this umpire's your daddy.

We're actually friends now. Are you? Yeah. Okay. It's time for our draft kicks. Speaking of the night, you go to draft kings. You can bet who's going to hit a home run. You can bet who is going to do the most strikeouts, etc.

You know, again, we'll have football starting Saturday. The Reds lost seven to nothing. The good thing was they were down three nothing early, so I got to go to bed because I knew there was no way they were coming back for that. with Hunter Green pitching. Tonight, Clayton Kershaw goes against Nick Martinez. I don't like that matchup for my team. I'm going to be honest with you.

Maybe our worst pitcher against their best pitcher or one of their best pitchers. Who you got? Not just one of the best pitchers. One of the best pitchers in the history of the game. This is a Dodger win. Sorry, Reds stink. I'm going to go over. I was trying to pull up the number.

Both pitchers are just going to get absolutely knocked out of the park. Really? Oh, yeah. Give me the over. What is it? I'm going to say over. Nine and a half. All right, over nine and a half. Wow. Overn. You think they're going to get rocked.

Both sides are getting rocked tonight. High scoring game. All right. Interesting. What do you think? Reds lose. That's kind of thing. I think the Dodgers. I'm going to take the under. The Reds right now are not hitting at all. Did you see, however, I must say, even though we lost the behind-the-back double play by Hunter Green?

I did see that. Yeah. That's one of the best defensive plays you'll ever see. Guy hits a ground ball. Hunter Green catches the ball behind his back and then does a double play. That was one of the coolest things I've seen. And you know, it was just a blind swipe. Those guys, they did a blind swipe behind their back.

Oh, I caught it. The ball's right here in my glove. Double play. Thank you folks very much who came out here today. We very much appreciate seeing you, especially those of you that made a drive. We're here the rest of the week. Open tonight. Please come see us this week.

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