KSR - 2025-09-19- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

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and from TV and the movies, don't miss Kevin Farley. September 25th through the 27th, For tickets to all comedy off-Broadway shows, call E-5-9-271 joke or visit ComedyoffBroadway.com. All right, welcome in. Kentucky Sports Radio. Where's Matt? Matt, we'll do a roll call here, see if you can find him. This is Kentucky Sports Radio, as always, sponsored by the T.J. Smith's office, what happens when you call T.J. Shannon, he will make them pay.

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We already did the pre-show here, but we're going to kind of christen it. We've got a great crowd here, a lot of giveaways. Come on out and join us. If you eat an entree, you've got a chance to win a big gift basket. We've got Eric Church tickets to give away. We've got gift cards to give away, a lot of stuff to give away. So coming out and join us live here at Wild Eggs. Well, Shannon.

Yes. Let's do our little roll. call. Matt Jones? Not here. Drew Franklin? Absent. Billy R. Sports? Nope. Shannon the dude? I'm here. All right, yeah, Shannon the dude's here. Yeah. So we've called out of the bullpen from Channel 36, also

JMI, also the UK radio network, also a longtime Lexington resident, a Tate Creek Commodore. Ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up to Jeff Picoro. It is. Wow. You know, I went to school with T.J. Smith. Great friend of my. He was a cheerleader. Great friend.

Yes. And you were a football player. Yeah. So you made fun of him probably. Well, he was the wild cat. So yeah. He was the wild cat. Wait a minute.

I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. He was the mascot. I thought he was like the guy at the bottom of the pyramid. You're telling me he was the wild cat. I don't think he ever told me that. I didn't know that either. And also joining us this morning, ladies and gentlemen, the birthday boy.

Oh, yeah. Mario Maitland. It today is his birthday. Oh. I thought that was Cam Newton. Cam Newton? Yeah. There we go.

That's better right. You need to start wearing clothes like Cam Newton does, dude. Oh, with the hat. I could pull off the cowboy hat. I couldn't do it. You got the fit. I have the fit? It's a little birthday fit.

Thank you, man. So we wish you a very happy birthday. Come on out and wish Mario a happy birthday. So listen, guys, we got, I mean, we've already talked about it on the pre-show, but the number one topic, and it's my favorite topic of the week. Maybe my favorite topic of the month is the little dance, as you called it, between Mark Pope and Pat Kelsey that happened a couple weeks. So if you don't know the story, Jacob Policek from KSR on three sports kind of broke the story that a couple weeks ago at midnight the recruiting period open.

Like maybe it was like September 2nd, September 3rd. At midnight, the recruiting period opened. All right. So Taylin Kenney is this kid from Newport, Kentucky that has now playing for overtime elite in Atlanta. 6-7. 6-7-6-7. Take any. So Mark Pope had a schedule visit at 12, like, 10.

like 0 1, like a minute after midnight. Pat Kelsey had a scheduled visit like at 12.15, like right after that. So they want to get in first as soon as it turned to midnight. Well, the story goes that Mark Pope was running a little late. Shannon and I figured he must have got caught in Mount Vernon traffic. That happens. I was only two hours late for my show on Double Q yesterday. So it happens.

I understand. So since Mark Pope was late, Pat Kelsey was already there, Kelsey kind of cut the line. You can't do that. Cut her, cut her peanut butter. cut right in front of him. That's the third time we've already heard that this morning. That's what we used to say in Elm. You're listening to a free show.

And then so when Pat Kelsey came out, Pope and Pat Kelsey had, what was you called it, Jeff, a dance. A dance. They had had words. It did not get physical. They did not put hands on each other. All those reports were ridiculous. Take Kenny's dad did not get out and separate them. As a matter of fact, I think the report I heard from Jack Pilgrim this morning, they may have even hugged it out and it was over.

I don't want him hugging it out. I want him driving off and pointing at each other and telling each other who's number one. So when Pat Kelsey hugs Mark Pope, he just hugs his waistline. I guess so. So if any, you know, you know, 31 years I was in Cincinnati and used to do Xavier basketball. And I knew Pat when he played actually high school ball, LaSalle High School in Cincinnati. And then when he was at Xavier, when Skip Prosser was the coached out. And Pat Kelsey is one of the great kids.

I call him a kid. I'm 63 years old, so I'm allowed to call him a kid. But just one of the great guys in sports. He's a wonderful motivator. He's a sensational coach, great recruiter. He's everything you would want. And it's almost like what Mark said Stoops when Louisville hired Brom. He was like, oh, I like Jeff.

He's a really good coach. Pat is a really likable person. Now, that being said, Mark is kind of the same way. Yes. Great guy, wonderful person, great recruiter. but there are rules in the recruiting game, and you just can't break those type of rules. And Pope had the first, you know, 12 o'clock, he was supposed to be in there.

Kelsey and then were sitting in the car outside, looked at his watch, says 12 o'clock. I don't see any blue bandwagon here. Let's go, boys. And in they went. Hey, I got a hand to him. Now, what Mark says is he thinks he got in there before midnight, which is a violation.

So that's the great. area. That's a bigger story. And that's where Kelsey was like, no, no, no, no, we weren't. You weren't here at 12 o'clock. Our watch said 12 o'clock. We went to the door. So that's kind of the gray area where all the infighting starts. But it makes a great story for you guys at KS. Oh, that's a great story. And the guys in Louisville that are the Redbird reporter, where heck those guys are. So it's just going to be, and the fans love it. Love it. And we need to get back to where we were with Caliperi and Petino when those guys were just at each other. It's more fun for the fans. It's better for the robbery. But everything you said

just made me like Pat Kelsey. I'm trying to hate the guy. You know, I mean, not really hate the It's hard. It's hard. And both of these guys just have a likable personality. They're kind of goofy. They're lighthearted. So that's the complete opposite what we have with Petino and Calipari. Man, I thought honestly, I've seen so many stuff on social media with, you know, Mark Pope hugging Pat Kelsey and he's kind of like sunning him a little bit, you know, palm in his head and everything like that. I wish it was true. Like, I wish they actually did get in the scuffle. Obviously they did it. So, you know, I like to see they're kind of, you know, going back at each other a little bit. It's good. It's not where we really want it to be,

but it's headed in the right direction. Jeff, what you say there are rules? Is that like an unwritten rule or are there actual rules? Well, I mean, I was just going to ask you guys what you thought about that. I think it's the unwritten. We were supposed to be first. You know, you weren't supposed to be there to 12. See, now look, if it's unwritten, I'm saying rules like that can be broken. What's the difference? You're still going to give him your spiel. You are, you are, but it's probably midnight, it's getting late. He's like, I don't want to be here all night, so he just goes right on in.

I don't know. I mean, so Shannon brought this point up on the pre-show. One of the roles were reversed, and Pope cut the line in front of Pat Council, we'd all be like, y'all, that's good. It's coaching. Great job. A way to be assertive. Way to be forward thinking. Watch the kid go to North Carolina or something.

Kansas, Kansas is the leader. This is like the big leader right now here with our final. But I'm with you guys. The rivalry, we need this. I don't want to like Pat Kelsey. I mean, I don't care if it's a nerd fighter, geek fighter, whatever. I need this. So why Kansas, though?

I know that he's the leaderboard. Well, probably the NIL has a lot to do with that. I don't know that they have significantly more money to offer than Kentucky or Louisville does, but that always factors in. Yeah, they offer me more money. They're an Adidas school. Adidas school. And overtime elite is an Adidas school.

That makes sense. Yeah. That makes sense. The buy overall takeaway on it is, though, if it's an unwritten rule and Mark Pope's not there, I don't know. If we took the names out of the scenario and I'm there and the other coach isn't, I'm probably going to walk on in too. You know, it's like, well, if you don't like it, don't be late.

Exactly. I agree 100%. But you call, so you called it a dance. It's kind of, I guess, Miller, a little bit of an argument. But I think not only does the fan base need it, I think the announcers need it. We need that not, we don't want to like him. He's been likable up to this point. They're both so likable.

How do you like somebody cuts? Cuts line, man. Nobody doesn't like the line cutter. But Pope wasn't there, though. That's the problem. Pope wasn't there. It's not like... There was no line to cut.

It's not like... Here's Tay Kenny's apartment door, and there's a line, and there's Mark Pope, and there's all these other people. And then Pat Kelsey just went up and opened the door and walked in. Pope wasn't even there, though. That's the thing. I think that's what makes it different. You know, for a long time, Kentucky and Louisville were probably the leaders for this kid. You know, he grew up in Newport.

Then he's played for overtime elite the last two years. Kansas kind of snuck in and got him, but yet, you know, I mean, Pope's not going to give up and quit recruiting the kid. Yeah. Does this... If you're a recruit, does it make a difference at all if you look out, you look out your living room window and there's two coaches pointing their fingers and arguing with each other out in your driveway. I actually would think, how would you for you? I would like Josiah.

If you're at home with two coaches, you sit at the look and you're like, damn, well, somebody. Yeah. Put it like this. It's worse if there's nobody. What if you're in your apartment, you look out and there's two beautiful women that you love? And they're both arguing over you. Right? I'm like, hey.

I'm sitting here eating my popcorn. That makes me feel special. That happens all the time in his house. I'm kidding me? I'm sitting, I'm eating my popcorn watching it go happening. But if you're a recruit and you look out your window, I'm loving it. Two coaches fighting over me? I think so, too.

Oh, yeah. I'm that dude. The bigger takeaway is now we at least have a little bit of fire between these two coaches, and that's the thing I think that this rivalry needed. And if it comes down to one person cutting in front of another to get that spark going, then I'm for it. And we're talking about two teams that Jeff Goodman said earlier this week. Final four bus kind of for both programs.

I mean, both teams are going to be really, really good this year. And Kentucky's got to play at Louisville in early November. Before the football game. Before the football game is the basketball game. You got to not like that, right? No, I think it's really weird the way that the fall schedules are set up, because, look, football is a beast all across the country. Basketball is a beast.

Why would you overlap those? Why can't you just back that up two weeks until football ends and then basketball starts? Well, Pope blames Kelsey, so maybe there's another thing. You know, just kind of just nudge at the other one. So we're going to be here at Wild Eggs. We've got a lot of free food to get, well, free gift cards to give away. Look at Travis. Did you see him look up what you said free food?

Free gift cards that you can buy the food with, Travis. That's the best way to do it. We've got a big gift basket here. If you order an entree, you get in the running for the big gift basket. We got Eric Church tickets to give away a lot. I do need to say, for we go to a break. Drew was going to try to make it today. He was a strong maybe.

He woke up this morning. Heart's still hurting. If you have Instagram, go to what Drew posted on Instagram yesterday about his buddy. Mani that passed away. It's, if you don't tear up, get you some Kleenex before you read it, but it's just a great testimonial to a dear friend who passed away way too early, way too young. So Drew sends his regards. Sorry he couldn't make it, but I know I speak for everybody.

We all completely understand. He's got to take care of himself. All right, well, take our break. Come back. Go to the phone lines. 859-2-287. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Last night, a blown call changed a game.

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I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio, live from Wild Eggs in Tatech Creek. This is their new location. They're located by the neighborhood Walmart here in the Tatech Creek area. And now they're at third location. They've got one in Hamburg. They got one in Palomar.

Now, this one in Tate's Creek. This is probably maybe their biggest one. Is this your biggest one, Travis, I think? And they've got a big, nice bar here. Got the garage door open. The garage door is awesome. How cool is that? Right behind us.

So come on out and join us this morning or whenever it's breakfast, brunch, and lunch with the bar. That's right. Wild Egg. I didn't know this place existed until this morning. I went to the wrong location. You know that? You went to the wrong location? Rolled in here like two minutes before the show started.

How did you go to the wrong location? I don't know. I mean, we don't have communications. I mean, we're communications business, right, company, and we don't communicate. Nobody told me where to go, so I just assumed it must be where we did the last one at, but I was wrong. I walked in there and she looked at me. Nope, no show here today.

We only said it on the show this week four or five times. We're the new one in Tate's Creek. But you got to keep in mind. I don't live in Lexington. So when you say Tate's Creek, that doesn't mean anything to me. What did you leave this morning? Doesn't matter. Six.

What time did I leave? 7 o'clock this morning? Yeah. Well, we've got some specials on the fall menu. We've got pumpkin pie pancakes and apple cider mimosas if you want to come on in. Are we doing a pancake flipping contest? We're supposed to do a pancake flipping contest with Mario back in the kitchen. I'm winning it.

I'm the best cook out of everybody on the table. Have you been a cook at a restaurant before, Mario? Have I been a cook at a restaurant? Yeah. No. Okay. Ryan, I assume you haven't. I have not, but I am an excellent cook.

Okay. Well, we'll see who wins that later on today then. From the avians and glass text machine, the Pope versus Kelsey thing is funny. Now, what if it was Matt Jones versus Captain Suntan? What would Matt have done? Oh, wow. Take a picture of him. He would have taken a picture of him.

Yeah. I mean, those two have had their run-ins over the years. They have. That's a dude on TV and Louisville, right? Yeah. Yeah. John Ramsey. Yeah, Ramsey.

Yeah. I think Ramsey challenged Matt to a fight. He did one time. I think Matt backed down from that. I don't think Matt wanted to fight anybody. But I would like to see it. though I don't think that robbery really exists anymore though kind of it kind of died down we got a lot of football stuff we want to get to with Jeff since he's here but I kind of

read this one talk more about Captain Sunday oh Henson one time in the press box at Krogerfield it got a little icy really between the two guys yeah how about I'll give him that credit he was completely innocent he was not I was right there I'm sure he's completely I was right now yeah no no longer But the crazier thing for me, though, is, you know, back in the early days of KSR, Matt had his list of enemies. And he would go through them every day and just whatever the topic was, it was Jeff Goodman's fault. It was Jeff Goodman's fault every day. And now Jeff Goodman works under the same umbrella as KSR with On 3.

So now those guys are buddies all these years later. But Tino came back on the show. They kind of made nice, nice. Jeff Goodman's made night nice. I guess we all get older and a little more soft over the years because he doesn't have those, I guess, robberies on, through media anymore like he used to. So this on the aviation glass text machine. Ask Jeff about the music at Krogerfield. Piccoro even said during the broadcast, what is this?

Yot Rock, referring to the music in Kroger Field. The thing that kills me is before the game, if you're a player and you're getting ready to come out, what do you want? I want, you know, flirting with this aster. I want something that's going to charge you up, right? Molly hatchet? Look at you pulling that out. I'm going to boy. I want something like that where I'm getting ready to run through a wall, right?

You know what we play at Kentucky? You're like, yeah, yeah, through the hills of Kentucky all the way from Ashland and you're like, what is this? Yeah, somebody reading poetry? Yes. And it goes on for like for Lexington. All roads lead to Lexington. And the players are like, yeah. Well, we've talked about this.

They need to play the music. That the players want to hear. You know, Mario's talked about this. You know, the hip-hop, the rap music, the... They don't even got to be hip-hop. It's just something that you got to, like, that'll pump them up. Get them going. Get the student section, like, riled up.

But it was Yacht Rock, right? They were playing some, I don't know, it was Christopher Cross or something. I'm like, what he says? Well, they always mix in a Cotton-Ey Joe. Which is fine. But they always mix in, what's the... Dulus Walker. But if that's after the game, though,

I think it's okay. I'm talking about before the game, especially, and then end the game, too. So what can Kentucky do about? This has been a theme for many years, but it's really kind of come to a head this year. What can they do? You know what else I hate? I hate it every time I'm at especially basketball games. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, the 80s jock rock. Jock Jam. Hey! And I'm like, it's got this crowd going. And then when they do that thing where they, they just make a pyramid standing there, the cheerleaders. And it's like the greatest thing in the history of half time. They play 2001 of space, obviously, because they're holding a flag.

Yeah. And you're like, well, why is this? So what can we do at Krogerfield to help? Do you have any ideas? Get a better playlist, maybe. See, you're trying to get me in trouble. Okay, take your JMI hat off. He can't.

He can't, though. Why, you take that Kentucky hat off? Because the administration in Kentucky, I think, is the one that says, this is what we're doing. Well, the rumor, and I also believe this thing, most people feel like it's gotten better to the Toledo game. The last game was much better. Could you imagine if he was running it? Well, Matt has said that for years, and he just let Shannon do it. Hey, I mean, I've already got seven other jobs.

Why not? Hey, money talks. They'll pay you like they pay me 25 bucks a game. Hey, JMI, Kentucky, whoever you are, whoever's listening out there for the right price. Yeah, I'll come. I'll come to Crograph. Well, the best Jeff Baccaro is when Jeff Bacorkel takes off his broadcaster hat and wears his Kentucky hat. And you can tell you as if you become a fan sometimes during the broadcast.

I love that. I love that when you become Jeff the fan. I just think for me growing up, the guys that I like, the Harry Carries, the Summeralls, and guys like that just, it was like two of us sitting at a bar watching a game on TV. And that's the way. Because look, I could sit out there and tell you guys they're running cover seven and they're doing a double roll up zone and they're bracketing. And everybody's going to be sitting there going, what is he talking about it? The average fan has no idea what that is. Nobody wants to hear that.

All they want to hear is Shannon missed that block, and that's why that guy is on a gurney being taken off the field, you know? Yeah. That's all. Some of the best Jeff McCorrell, though, is like during the commercial break. That's when fan Jeff really comes out sometimes. I'm so happy they get frustrated just like we do. I'm so happy they don't have the old sub, whether is that called on the satellites?

Oh, yeah, I know what you're saying. There used to be feeds back. the day where you had the giant satellites and you could just go around on your TV channels and you would find a feed that was live. Even when it was off the air, you can still hear what the commentators were saying. And this is like

an old 90s thing. I don't know that even still exists anymore. But yeah, if they had that well it existed in Cincinnati when I was there. He still doesn't have a job. Oh no, he is. He's on WLW radio right now. That's right. Tom Brennamet? Yes. I didn't know that. Yeah, that was interesting. Before we really

get into the weeds about football and stuff. What are your thoughts about what you've seen just so far, the first three games? I'm very disappointed, and Brad will be the first one to tell you. The defense I thought was going to be fantastic, and I think in the first three games it hasn't been. Yeah. And I'm like, wow, what's a problem? And DJ Waller was playing great. He'll probably play next week.

Okay. I hope. But, you know, he's a cornerback, and they're getting killed on the outside. side because they know that Terrian and some of the younger that are playing out their corner, they don't want to get beat deep, right? So they're eight yards off the ball and what's killed Kentucky, six yards, stop, turn around, and miss tackle. And that's all Ole Miss does.

I mean, Ole Miss's whole game is just a little five, six yard passes and hope that one out of every eight of those, they're going to break it, and it's going to be what coach calls a chunk play. But to me, the defense just hasn't lived up to a, what I thought it was going to be. I think Zach tries to be too perfect when he's out there. He wants the perfect play. Calzada.

Safe like to play. Safe. Yeah. Yeah. And again, Cutter is, it just seems so much more comfortable now, bigger, stronger. His second year in the offense, I think he knows it pretty well. And you saw there were, he only completed 12 passes, but 240 yards. So that means he's going down the field.

And that's exactly what this offense needs, because now the safeties can't play eight yards off the ball. you're going down the field. They've got to play 12 to 15, and that opens up the running game. Do you feel like this is Cutter's job to lose at this point in the season with Calazada still nursing that injury? Or do you think that maybe Stoops would go back to those other? Do you want me to answer this with a Kentucky hat on or as a broadcaster? Just honestly, as honestly as you can. I really think that when you spend seven figures to bring someone in, that person's going to get every chance to fail.

And I think that's in every sport now in college. And it's unfortunate. it, but if I'm the coach, and I'm looking at the production I get, and again, you have to, you have to temper it a little bit because it's Eastern Michigan. Hell, we could take nine of you guys and us up here and beat Eastern Michigan. But, you know, let's see what happens. Look who you're looking at here. Yeah, look, that's my left tackle.

He's my right guard. Pat right here. Yep, yeah. Tight in right there. He's even got a Red's head on, so I know he's a big fan. But even if Cutter, maybe looks better than Calazada. You think that he's still going to stick with Calazada because of the NIL money

and he being the guy that you brought in originally to be QB1? Well, it's really interesting to me with this program that they can't manufacture a quarterback, right? Yeah. This is the fifth straight year they've had a transfer in a quarterback. And they spent a lot of money on Leary and Griff and Calzada. Yeah, and Cutter is a guy that's from here. He's been here since he's a freshman. He's getting into it, and he's playing better.

I go with the hot hand until he falls on his face. You know, you've always got Zach as the backup. I go with the hot hand and just run with him. If he's your quarterback for the future. That's the thing. If you're calling him your quarterback of the future and you truly mean that, then show him that and give him that. If you're only going to win, and again, coming into the season,

a lot of people are saying four or five wins. If you're going to win four or five, then get some young kids in there who are going to grow. And next year, you've got a chance. He's got to throw everything he's got against the wall this year to prove everybody wrong. All right, we are live at Wild Eggs out here in Tatech Creek. It's the new Wild Eggs location.

They've got one out at Hamburg, one in Palomar. Now they've opened this one up here in Tate's Creek. Coming out, we've got a great crowd, and the food is fantastic. You won't be disappointed. So we'll take our break. Come back. Ryan, Mario, the birthday boy, Shannon, and Jeff Picorrell on Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio.

Live from Wild Eggs in Tatech Creek. Of course, wild eggs is the official breakfast of KSR, breakfast and lunch tomorrow, wild eggs. So come out and join us. We'll be out here for the rest of the day. Well, the rest until until noon. Yeah. Speak for yourself.

You can stay at here all day if you want to. Yeah. I love their workers. I love Travis and Scott that run the place. Josiah works at Wild Eggs. Who doesn't like Wild Eggs? But there is one of their servers walking around wearing a Louisville shirt. What?

I did see that early. Oh, wait to you see. He's hiding. I don't know where he is. When he comes back out, we all have to boo him. And here's the catch. His name is Sam Mitchell. It's Mary Joe Perino's son.

What? Whoa. Mary Jo Ford. It's her son. Walk around with the Louisville shirt. home back here. So when he walks out, we'll all boo him when he comes. He's back in the kitchen right now. Well, Shannon's got a Louisville shirt on. Double Q.

That's not a Louisville shirt. That's Lexington, baby. WKQQQ. All right, that's our Clark's Publishaw phone number. We've got some calls on right now. Let's go ahead and take oh, there he is. There he is. He's handling it like a champ. I thought that was a QMF shirt. Double Q. Well, I'm on QMF and double Q. You know I do like seven jobs.

The show with no name, one of the greatest shows in the history of radio. Was that Terry Miner's? Terry Miners and Ron Colley. Way back in the day. Way back in the day. What's going to call, Rick? Who we got first? Rick.

Corey is up first. Go ahead, Corey. Whatever you're ready. What's up, guys? So I'm with you guys on the all roads, lead to Lexington. So we had a good run in Commonwealth, but it's more of like a mall walk now. So I have an idea to kind of upgrade that. So you know how Tennessee took Rock.

Rocky Top and slowed it down and made it kind of creepy before the team runs out. We could do the same thing with Never Leave Harlan Alive. Put that with the blue light. Is it not slow enough already? No, like, make it, you know how Tennessee makes Rocky Top the creep, kind of creepy? Yeah, but that's an update song. Never Leave Harlan Alive is already slow. Yeah.

And slow it down in the dark. Maybe it. Yeah, maybe it sounds better in my head. But, yeah, like, make it kind of dark before the team runs out. I would just speeding it up. Dude, I don't want to get in Corey's head if that's what he wants, slowing it down. Appreciate it, Corey. I mean, people, I think, love that song.

I don't know when you play it at a football game at an event like that, you know. I think the first time they did it, like in between the third quarter and fourth quarter, I remember when they did it, it was cool. I got goosebumps. Because it still work now. I think you can use that song if you use a clip of it and then go into, like, a grow street party. Uh-huh. Like, you can intro it with that.

And then, like, hey, it's a party. You know what I mean? Like if you, you kind of mesh those two together, or I guess it's called a mash-up. You know, if you do something like that, it could work. You know, I think every college in America is trying to find the perfect, like Virginia Tech and Sandman. Yeah. The entire stadium, 75,000 people. And when that starts, they all, and it's all, I mean, I get goosebumps because if you've ever been there live, it is ridiculous.

Sweet Caroline. Yeah. I mean, all these different schools, we've got to find that, that song because we haven't. Roast Street Party, that's the song, right? And then they didn't play at the first game. But that's our only thing we've got close to that, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, he's been here, right? He was in the game a couple times.

I think he's coming to a game this year. You got a concert on a Friday night in Lexington. I would say he'd be there in the next game on Saturday. Even Florida taking, I won't back down by Tom Petty before the fourth quarter. It's just, you got to find that song that just gets everybody and raises the energy of the stadium. This is from the A Vision Glass Tech Machine. The Reds, the Cincinnati Reds have made a lot of dumb moves over the years, but the worst one was moving Jeff off the broadcast. I hear a lot of that.

They loved you doing the Reds broadcast back in the day. Well, there was a situation where Fox had to sell because it would have been a monopoly with ESPN and everything because Disney bought Fox. So when Ballies took over, it was a really bad situation only because it was 2020 and it was the, what, What the heck do we even call? COVID, the COVID. Yeah, whatever it was called. The COVID. So we didn't travel and, yeah, the COVID.

You know, there was no travel. We did the games out of a studio downtown. Even, you know, we couldn't interview the player. It had to be, we were interviewing them on a computer. So, I mean, I was 60 years old. It was time. I mean, 26 years is a long time. And I had a blast doing it.

But, you know, I'm getting old. People, I think, miss you on the broadcast, though. Well, I just, like I said, I just tried to have fun. Baseball is, is, you. is a lot of, I don't, you know what, I don't miss the games. I miss everything around the games. I miss spring training. I miss hanging out with the, you know, Bronson Royos, one of my good friends,

and he lives my house in northern Kentucky. He lives in the two streets over for me. He's, you know, going out on his boat and stuff like that. I mean, those guys, you're, to me, it's the greatest job in all of sports. And Bob Trumpy and I talked to one time, and he said, you have the best job in all the sports. And Trump, he did the master's he did. NFL football, Notre Dame.

He did everything. the Olympics, and he said, when we do football, and I know that, you fly it on on Friday, you meet with the coaches, if you're doing a national broadcast, you meet with the coaches on Friday. The athletic director of the home team takes you all, the broadcast crew out to dinner. You go to your hotel. You wake up in the morning. You go to the stadium. As soon as the game's over, boom, you're on a plane, you fly home.

Baseball, you've got a four-game series, so you're spending five nights in that city. We were allowed to bring our golf clubs, me, Chris Well, Jeff Brantley, Marty Brenman. When Joe was alive, Joe and Marty, Joe was the greatest guy in the world. Just the greatest guy. But we would go play, and I played six Rider Cup courses. I played some of the best golf courses in the country, and all for free, which is ridiculous. Even better. That's a great perk.

Which is unbelievable. But that's what I miss about not doing baseball. But it was a lot of fun, and I appreciate that. Now, are the Reds going to make the playoffs? They're two back with nine to go. They've got to, look, the problem with them is they just can't keep Hunter and Nick Ladolo healthy. Healthy last night for Hunter Green and what's he doing? Won the game.

He throws a shutout. Yeah. Complete game. That kid could be awesome. But they've got to keep, they've got to get 30 starts from each of those two somehow. Ladolo is, we call it like a guy with a glass jaw. I mean, you go like that and he's out for two weeks, you know? Yeah.

But when he's, when his bitch and he's on. Blister on his finger. He had a blistery, at a groan pole. I mean, it's just little things. If they could stay healthy. And I think the one thing that they're missing on this team is they don't have a veteran leader. They don't have a guy that wears the sea on a shirt that's been around to tell these guys the magnitude of a game against who wasn't to just swept them a week ago or whatever it was. You're like, it wasn't Ryan's Cardinals.

How do you lose to, you know, Miami three straight games to turn around? You know, it's just, it's weird, and I think that's all, they're missing a veteran presence. 859-2-8-7 to get on their phone call, Rick. Who we got? Alex is up next. Alex, go ahead, Alex. Hey, guys. This is Alex Green Ryan.

I'm the one that timed your work. Oh, I know you are. You're running at Johnson Central that year. Okay. Yeah. I'm calling to give some publicity. How fast was it? It was a Johnson Central Bell free Halloween game.

the University of Kentucky wrestling team. We have some SEC champions. We have some NCAA All-Americans. We had two SEC championships back in the 70s. And I would love to get up with like Tyler or Drew or Nick or one of the KSR riders and just give them the information, the sport of wrestling in our state to Gromans. We have the Rainey Twins, the Jaden Rainey just. competed this week in the World Championships in Croatia.

I think the Big Blue Nation would really enjoy some of the history that we have with Joe Carr senior. Alex, we appreciate. Yeah, Joe Carr from Woodford County. Fletcher. Fletcher was the coach. Appreciate the phone call, Alex. There you go, Tyler, if you're listening, get to work. Write that article for us.

There we go. You know, he did mention the rainy twins from Union County. They're pretty the best wrestlers ever come out of this state. They're world champions right now out of Union County High School over there. I feel like volleyball is taking over right now. We've got to talk about the volleyball game. What a match last night. It was awesome.

Volleyball team goes to the Yom Center to play Louisville. Louisville ranked third in the country. Kentucky ranked sixth in the country. It goes to the fifth game. That fourth game and fifth game, Kentucky just dominated. Offense. Their offense was ridiculous. 444 is what they hit in the fourth game, which is ridiculous.

Most teams said about 275. 444. And then in the fifth game, when you only go to 15, they hit over 500%. It was over early. It was 15 to 7. I mean, that's like a 62 to 7 game in football. I'm sitting by Mario last night at KS. Barr, I had the game on. That fifth game went by so fast, he looked up like, is it over?

Like you didn't even know when it ended. They were down for a little bit in the series like 2 to 1, right? Yeah, 2 to 1. Came back, Brooklyn Delays. She had a few big plays. Huge plays. 24 kills. Big time went for Kentucky.

We got to talk about, we watched the game with an older gentleman. Yeah, who was that? I don't know who he was. But he was living and dying with every point. He was definitely carrying all the. the energy in the bar. He was leading the shit. He was parked right in front of the big screen and had the game on, living and dying every point, doing his own Jeff Piccaro commentary, fanboy commentary during the game, but it was kind of fun to be there and watch it with

somebody who was such a big fan, wasn't it? I didn't even really need to look up. I would just hear him and whatever he would say I would learn from whatever is going on in the game. It's got another call, Rick, who we got? Ryan is up next. Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. So on Calzada, he's a guy that we were going after. and we paid him that money because that's what he was worth, or is he a guy that just kind of fell to us? We ended up paying him, you know, that rate because we hoped he would live up to it.

Fair question. Appreciate the phone call, Jeff. Well, I think that there's tears when you're talking about some of these players. For instance, the kid that was Georgia's quarterback last year is now at Miami. I mean, he's making obscene money. Carson Beck. to go to Miami. I mean, he's making like $4 million this year.

That's why he went. And that's why Kentucky doesn't have that kind of money. So you're not going to get the tier one guys. So now you get to tier two and you say, okay, which of these guys fits our offense? And they sift. They actually have three or four coaches that they're called coaches. Maybe GA's, I'm not sure. But all they do all day is sit there and sift through the transfer portal and each of them have different positions.

Okay, Ryan, you've got the defensive backs. All right. And Mario, you've got the defensive line. And Shannon, you've got the offensive. So these guys every day are going through and seeing who the fits would be next year to guys that they think will be going or who are in the portal. So they sift through that tier two or tier three and they say, okay, like this guy's got a chance, this guy's got a chance. Okay, now how much is it going to take for us to get this guy or this guy? And you can price yourself out of a market or maybe you overpay somebody to come.

but that's why I'm just kind of leery of this. And you look at like Nico is a great example of this. I mean, you know, $8 million to go to Tennessee. And now he's at UCLA and he's only making one. So, you know, he thought he was going to get a ton of money and he's getting half of what he was getting at Tennessee. He was getting $2 million a year for four years, and now he's only getting a million.

I just, it blows my mind and people are looking at me at here, like, with their eyes open. It blows my money. I mean, we got $20 on the weekend. and that was to eat because our training table was only up Monday to Friday so we get 20 bucks and Derek Ramsey I'm only got 15 so what a bump was 20 80 yeah yeah but you know we couldn't have a job or anything like that you don't have any money yeah I couldn't I couldn't fathom walking around campus with a bank account that has $7 or or six figure five figures yeah and they all do it and like the other day I went I was at you know you.

I lived right over here off Tate's Green. I went into the Malones at Drake's, and the whole offensive line was in there, and they're eating like kings. We used to go to Loudwood buffet for $3.99, man. If somebody bought you a sandwich or anything, now you're breaking a violation. And how about did you see where Wofford got six players suspended?

I saw that. And some of it was for less than $80, and you're paying, And it was for impermissible. What does that mean now? What's impermissible in this day and age? It's the Wild West right now. It is. Well, you know what?

If that Wofford was Ohio State, you think those guys? No. No. It's like, see, this is what you can't do. Oh, no. Kentucky, see? Yeah. See, you can't do that, but you can do what you're doing.

It's okay. That's just wrong. That's the NCAA in a nutshell. It's been like that for a long time. I think that's the frustration with the NCAA. AA. They treat. It could be the same situation, different school. You get different punishments, depending on who you are. We are live at Wild Eggs and Tate's Creek, kind of the grand opening and the new Wild Eggs here at Tate's Creek. We appreciate you guys. Everybody came out to join us.

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Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio, live from Wild Eggs in Tate's Creek, the new Wild Eggs location out here in Tate's Creek. It's a really nice facility, probably their biggest one of all of them. The bar here is fantastic here. You can get your apple cider mimosa, your Bloody Mary's. So it's breakfast, brunch, and lunch with the bar. Wild eggs. Ryan Lemon, Jeff Picoro, Shannon the dude, and Super Mario on his birthday today. But how about my boy Chris out here?

Chris is turning 50 years old today. Happy birthday, Chris. Yeah. Twin. We have our sources, Chris. They call me Scoop Lemon for a reason. You gotta like his t-shirt, don't you? He has a teacher says, I still hate lateener.

So happy birthday to Chris, 50th birthday, and to Mario as well. We want to give a shout out, too, to a guy, a friend of ours, Gary Ball. Oh. Gary Ball has been doing the Scholastic Ball report in Lexington for 23 years. He's going to retire. But he helped kind of get the high school sports scene back in the forefront here in the Lexington area the last several years and kind of heals.

I think we owe him a lot of credit for what he did for high school sports. Oh, he's a guru in that. I mean, you're asking about any, that's something that's really. hard and you have to really study that. Yeah. And he knows the schools. He knows the superintendents. He knows athletic directors, coaches. He's just done a fantastic job. You know, he's had

some health issues and he's just powered right through it. Yeah, a guy that single-handedly, you know, got that network going. This classic ball report he started out on the radio, ended up a TV show out there at KYT. So a little tip of the cap to Gary Balls. He'll rides off into the sunset.

859-2-802-287. That's our Clark's Publishop Phone number. They're going to to announce Kentucky's permanent SEC opponents next week? Tuesday. Tuesday next week. Who do you for all I call three you guys? Who do you want and who do you think that they're going to get? Well, what do you mean permanent?

I think football. They're going to have three permanent six rotate. Okay. And I guess Tom Leitz said this morning that will be re-evaluated every four years. Yeah. So they will rotate. You may get different, you may get three teams for four years and then rotate and get another three years. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I guess Vandy would obviously be. the first one you would pick. I love the Tennessee robbery. So, I mean, even though they beat her brains in, it feels like every year, I'm still like to play them every year. And then, I don't know, like we're talking on the pre-show. Missouri looks at Kentucky like we're a rival. I don't look at Missouri as a rival.

I would rather play a team like Florida every year. But if we're ranking them in the tiers, the top tier team, middle tier team, bottom tier team, I think Georgia would probably be your top tier team. Yes. For your permanent opponent. I agree. I think South Carolina would probably. probably be your middle tier.

And then maybe, I don't know how Vandy's situation works out, but possibly Vandy as your bottom tier team or, I don't know, maybe Mississippi State. I'm not really sure on that one. Yeah, I think for sure it's Georgia. I think when you do this, you have to look at the other team's rivalries. Tennessee's got, Tennessee, Florida is a huge game every year, right? The Georgia, Florida is a huge thing. Alabama Army, you know, so those type of things you've got to, okay, that's there.

Mississippi, Mississippi State. You know Tennessee is going to get Vandy. Correct. Correct. So I think it's Georgia and then either a combination of these two, either Missouri or South Carolina, would be the middle tier. And I think Vanderbilt would be the other one that Kentucky gets. Oh, Georgia.

Both of you guys think it's going to be Georgia. I don't want to. I mean, it's got to be somebody. I'd rather be Georgia. Well, I mean, it's Georgia, Alabama. I mean, it's going to be somebody. One of those two you get a player. Who do you think, Mario?

I want to switch it up a little bit. You want Alabama to be our permanent opponent for the next three years? I feel like we never really play Alabama, though. Like, we played a lot of Georgia. They've been disappointing. I mean, you can switch it up a little bit, playing Alabama. So if you had to pick your three teams, who would it be? I'd probably go Alabama, Florida, Florida for sure.

I don't want Alabama. Lastly, I'll probably go Mississippi State. I'd be Arkansas, Mississippi State. Mandy. Yeah, yeah. Let's go. Yeah. Well, I did see that one guy projected kind of what Mario just said.

I think he said Georgia, South Carolina, and Vandy. Yeah. I think that's a strong possibility. Here's the thing. You know, there's 18 teams, and you're playing nine every year, so you're going to play every team within a two-year span. And home and away every four years you'll play. So we've been to Texas A&M one, we played Texas A&M once since they've been in a league.

They've never been here ever. One time. They've never been here. Never been to Lexington. Yeah. We've already, we're going to play Texas twice. They've only been in a league for two years. And we've only played Texas A&M one time in the whole time they've been in.

So we're going to take our break. Come back. We're live here at Wild Eggs in Lexington. Of course, they just got their just in their pumpkin pie pancakes, their apple, cider, mimosas. It's breakfast, brunch, and lunch with the bar. They're also known for their other signature breakfasts. It's really good. Omlets. Their omelets are really good.

Fantastic. So I appreciate you guys coming in. We'll take our break. We've got a pancake flipping contest. Draft King's Odd says I am the favorite by far. We're doing that now. We're doing that now. We're right back.

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