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Ryan Lemond
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Matt Jones
Wayne May 30 through June 1, then.
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Drew Franklin
Catch Eric Griffin June 5 through the 7th and don't miss club favorite Greg.
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Shannon The Dude
Morton June 12 through the 14th.
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Drew Franklin
Comedy Off Broadway opened in downtown Lexington.
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Shannon The Dude
In 1987 and they're still bringing the.
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Drew Franklin
The best in stand up comedy to.
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Shannon The Dude
The area 38 years later. Call 859-271-Joke or visit comedyoff broadway.com and you can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line. 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254 in this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. You call TJ. He'll make them pay for the first time. Ryan we well, we've done this once before where we've used two courses for the scramble, but this is the first. This is our biggest one we've had yet. 23 teams on each course, 46 teams out here. Unfortunately it has been pouring rain all day. It's supposed to ease up a little bit by noon and hopefully we can get relatively dry for the rest of the day.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, it's definitely gonna be A little sloppy out there. Mario talking before the show. I said, it's supposed to quit by noon. He's kind of laughed like, no, it's not.
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Shannon The Dude
Well, it's all right. We're gonna have a good time. These folks, I told them there's a lot of alcohol out there, for better or worse. So at five o' clock, this. This, I think this place will be. Drew, this is our. I was trying to think in. In Lexington. This is our, I think, eighth or ninth that we've done. Always been a lot of fun in our. I think our second one we've done here at the U. CL Yeah, it's.
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Evan
Good to pull up here. I'm a little disappointed my defending champion parking spot wasn't there. I guess this JB Holmes guy still has one, but I'm still expecting the. The treatment. I tried to have a champions dinner last night. You all didn't answer my text. But it's good to be back here. Yeah, I like this one because I have the fond memories of Ryan putting that year and us doing, hey, Kentucky out here.
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Shannon The Dude
Yes, we did. This is where you putts and had to go to jail.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, right.
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Shannon The Dude
Right out there on the island green. On the blue course.
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Ryan Lemond
I don't remember that. It must be. You guys must be making some story up. No, I got a little flashback when I drove by that island green. Like, oh, there it was right there.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah. So I played the blue course. Drew will play the white, and should be a lot of fun. And then people are all around them. This is. It's a nasty day. But you know what, Shannon? This is one of my favorite days because I feel like the KSR listeners, they kind of let their guard down. I see sides of some of the people that I don't usually see. There was a GU here last year. I hope he comes back because we had to help him get home last year. And I. I hope I told him. When they go to the Cornbread Hemp, the seltzer one, just be careful.
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Drew Franklin
Feel like all the Ubersu, for those.
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Shannon The Dude
Of you that are out there, all.
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Drew Franklin
The Ubers and lifts are just, you know, around five, six o' clock, just come out here to the parking lot. You're going to get a lot of business. I feel like I'm looking at all the sponsors. Maybe two or three aren't alcohol. The rest of them are.
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Shannon The Dude
Well. So, yeah, thanks to Clark's Puppet shop. Cornbread hemp minus 196 and on the rock Rocks cocktails, Stockton Mortgage and Penn Station, all here. Today, this. I want to tell you a story before we get started with some sports stuff. All right, you. First of all, everybody ride. Son graduated from high school last night. Josiah.
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Ryan Lemond
Clapping for me like I had anything to do with it.
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Shannon The Dude
I mean, he overcame a lot having you to. To be able to make it. So, yeah, my favorite story.
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Ryan Lemond
Like, in middle school, he's like, dad, can you help me with my science project? I'm like, yeah, sure. When's it due? He said yesterday, but he got through. Got it done.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah. All right. So yesterday, I was driving, and I was driving down. For those of you in Lexington, you got a picture where this was? I was driving down Versailles Road. Okay. And I was about to take a left on Oliver Lewis.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
And you know, that used to be, like, a shortcut. That used to be a way you could. Now forget it. Like, forget that. That Oliver Lewis is now as crowded as downtown is. It's a. It's completely packed with people. You try to turn there, there's a backup. And this dude is doing a move, Shannon, that I would do quite a bit. He doesn't know whether to turn left or to keep going straight because he wants to see how the lines go. And so he's hovering in both lines.
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Drew Franklin
I've seen that move.
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Shannon The Dude
I've seen that move. It's. I'm not going to pick a lot.
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Drew Franklin
I've seen you do that move.
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Shannon The Dude
That's what I was going to say. I can't get too mad because that's a line, a move I've done. But. But because I was mad, I was behind him, I was getting a little bit frustrated, so I was honking at him, like, make a decision. Make a decision. Honk, honk, honk. Finally, he makes a decision. I think he's out of my life. He ends up in front of me, and I start looking, and I can see through his back window, he is yelling at his wife or girlfriend or whatever. And I don't mean just yelling. I mean like, yelling arms. And his wife screaming at her to the point. I don't know this woman, but I'm starting to feel really sorry for her and actually starting to be like, okay, dude, you need to calm down.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
Now, of course, most people would mind their business, but, you know, Mr. Franklin, I'm not the kind of person to just see someone in need and just let it happen. So, I mean, he's yelling at her for, like, 20 or 30 seconds. We go to turn left there on Oliver Lewis. We end up in different lanes, and he drifts into mine, almost hits me. So now he's held me up, he's almost hit me. And he's yelling at his wife, right? So as the traffic goes, I end up pulling up next to him. We're stopped. Look into the car window. Still yelling at her, uncomfortably yelling at this woman who looks sad and is staring straight ahead. And at that point, Ryan, I felt like I had to get involved, and this is not necessarily the best thing in the world, but I honk. And he rolls down his window. Yeah. And I said, dude, how about you stop yelling? Or, excuse me, stop yelling and start focusing on your driving. You almost hit me twice. And he gets that look of anger, Drew. You've seen it before. And he goes, you don't know what we've been through today. You don't know what's happening. You don't know. And then all of a sudden, you can tell. A light clicks in his head.
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Evan
Get the crazy eyes.
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Shannon The Dude
And he goes, you don't know what's happening. You don't know what we've been through, Matt Jones. But. And then he just starts, like, he recognizes me.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
And he goes, matt Jones. And then he pauses and says, you still don't know what we've been through. You still don't know. And his wife kind of looks over at me and gives me, like, a thank you or something like that. And then I drive on. But watching him halfway through his argument, realize who I was, and then get right back to arguing, he did not stop, but he did. It was almost like, Shannon, he had a look of. This is going to be on the radio.
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Drew Franklin
Oh, yeah. He knew.
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Shannon The Dude
I can tell. He's almost like. He's probably listening right now. And, sir, you may be a wonderful person. You shouldn't yell at your wife like that in public, because that was. That was embarrassing. Otherwise, fine.
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Drew Franklin
Did you remember to get his picture?
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Shannon The Dude
I did not take his picture.
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Drew Franklin
Every time there's controversy pictures he had.
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Shannon The Dude
Let me say, he had a very distinct car. But I'm not gonna say what it is, Drew, because, like, then people might be able to know who it is. So I'm not gonna do that. But it was a very distinct car. But nevertheless, I just. It was the yelling and almost hitting me. I feel like I had to say.
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Evan
I like when there's any conference, confrontation, maybe a gas station, there's like, a matte light that goes up in the sky, like the bat signal, where it's like, it's calling you in to come help, come referee.
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Shannon The Dude
I've never seen Though a person like halfway through, be able to recognize me, but then keep on yelling exactly the same way.
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Ryan Lemond
I. I thought you were telling the story. He's gonna say, matt Jones here. Will you sign my book? Hand the book out across the way for you.
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Shannon The Dude
I don't think he was the guy who would have read that book, just looking at him. But nevertheless, I hope that worked out better than it did.
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Ryan Lemond
Standing up for that lady.
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Shannon The Dude
Well, I just. It was, you know, you see somebody, like. I get uncomfortable when I see somebody like that with kids.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
But when it's their wife, it's like, come on.
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Drew Franklin
Road rage, though. You gotta be very careful because you don't know who's in that car.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah. And I can't fight. I think we. All right, so also, in addition to KSR golf scramble here, in a little less than two hours, UK Baseball kicks off their NCAA baseball tournament. They play against Clint, Excuse me, West Virginia at noon on espnu. Kentucky is actually second favorite in the regional behind Clemson. Even though they're the third seed. They actually have better odds than West Virginia. They're favored to win today. How do you think they're going to do? I've heard. I actually listened to a baseball podcast on my drive down to McCreary County. They had Kentucky winning this regional as an upset pick.
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Evan
Thanks for the reminder. I need to get that bet in. I meant to do that before it starts because I do. I feel confident. The Cats, the SEC was such a grind and they led in so many games. You know, they're capable of it. They just can't close. And I'm hoping Mingyone had the message or whatever it takes. Hit the reset button for the NCAAs after they had those heartbreaking losses at Vandy left a lot on the table against Oklahoma. They. They have good baseball in them. They just can't close. And I feel like eventually that Lux got to flip the other direction. Let's have a good weekend.
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Shannon The Dude
31 SEC games they've played. Ryan, 31. This stat is amazing to me. They have led in 27 of the 31 games, even though they are 13 and 18 in the conference. Of the 13, even though they're 13, 18, they have led in 27 of the games, which means even in games they've led, they're 13 and 14. There has to be no team that's ever had that happen. You could either say, well, that means they can't close or they have bad luck. Which one would you say?
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Ryan Lemond
Well, I. I think they're starting pitchers. Their Weekend starters are really, really good and they got that lead. I think it's when they go to the bullpen, the bullpen's kind of not been able to hold that lead all season long.
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Drew Franklin
I'm letting my starter go the distance. I think of this, you know, pitch to his arm. If you're trying to be optimistic about it though, you can look at the other three teams and say none of these three teams are as good as what Kentucky has already played this season. And you know, the top seed, Vandy, they ropes all three games. They very well could have swept Andy.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah. So people who don't know if they, they play today at noon. If they win they would play tomorrow at 7. If they lose, they will play tomorrow at noon. So and then Sunday there's. They could play one game, they could play two games, but it will be going on all weekend. And then the second thing, UK's football team announced the times for all the. For the first three games. They're basically the first three home games. They're playing in all three slots. They are. The first game against Toledo will be 1245, which worries me a little bit. The game against Ole miss is at 3:30 on national TV on ABC. What if you remember is exactly where it was. We played at noon last time, but we played on ABC last time when we beat him last year. And then the game against Eastern Michigan is at night, Drew at 7 o' clock. So you get all three time slots in the first home games. Are any of those you particularly like or particularly don't?
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Evan
I'm fine with what they are. But the Ole Miss game, it is South Carolina last year all over again. That was 3:30 ABC week two. Kind of a similar SEC opponent we had SEC Nation. I think they'll be back this year for that game because it's the only SEC game that weekend. I mean it's copy paste that South Carolina game and we know what happens when you get drilled by South Carolina. That killed a lot of the excitement. Season was a disappointment. I worry you could be looking at a similar situation in week two this year.
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Shannon The Dude
Could be. I mean you don't know what again, you have no idea what's going to be. Could be hot like that could be at 3:30 on a Saturday in early September. Could be very hot. That 12:45 time for the Toledo game worries me a little bit. It is the first game of the year so you usually get a good crowd for the first game regardless. But playing a team that is good but that our fans may not Be amped up for playing it at noon now. You know I picked to win the.
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Evan
Mac by the way, and that's a good conference.
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Shannon The Dude
I know.
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Drew Franklin
I'm tired of hearing about Toledo. If we can't beat Toledo. This is going to be a long season. It's going to be a two or three.
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Shannon The Dude
So you're not worried about it?
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Drew Franklin
No, we're.
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Shannon The Dude
If you are. If we. If you. I guess you think if we gonna lose then the rest of the season's gonna.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I mean if you can't beat Toledo, look out man. Like just fold it in now. Like just quit the season if you can't beat Toledo.
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Ryan Lemond
I wish to start time for the Toledo Eastern Michigan at flip flop.
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Shannon The Dude
Me too.
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Ryan Lemond
I wish we had Toledo at night, Eastern Michigan at noon. I'm totally a little better about that.
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Shannon The Dude
Yeah, I wish Toledo was at night as well.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Shannon The Dude
But the good thing is I will say this. If they get blown out in that Ole Miss game, the Eastern Michigan game may just be friends and family there in week three after three in a row. I do think with the Ole Miss game it guarantees you'll have a crowd that's ready to for it, that's into it. You know, from a selfish perspective for me with the bar, I love 330 games because we get crowds before and after. But I do think for if you're really wanting to win that game, you're right. We lost to South Carolina last year. But I do think 3:30 is a good time.
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Evan
Yeah, I love the spot. And if you're like Shannon and assume Toledo is in the books, you got that one done. That can be a huge win to get fans back behind you. As we all know, fan supports a little dicey right now. But if you're two and oh and win that 330 game on ABC that set you up for an all day tailgate against Eastern Michigan, I think there's some excitement in the season.
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Shannon The Dude
Just out of curiosity, how many people here on the news that we gave an extension and a raise to our offensive line coach think that's a good decision? How many of you think it's a bad one? See, that's what I mean. That's a. We don't get 100% for a lot of polls. Ryan. I. Those. When I looked at that schedule, I just thought to myself those first two weeks, those first two weeks are Mark Stoop's UK career. Meaning you cannot lose to Toledo. And then if you beat Ole Miss, maybe you're going off on a year that gets you back on track. If you lose and it's close but if you get blown out against Ole Miss, then I think things start to be nick. See.
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Ryan Lemond
And I'm worried about that game playing. Lane Kiffin will try to embarrass Kentucky since Kentucky won down there last year.
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Shannon The Dude
And you made a good point that he's got all summer to play because I mean their first games get somebody terrible. So he's got all summer summer to.
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Ryan Lemond
Game plan against Kentuck Kentucky going into week two. So that I'm a little. No, I am worried about that game.
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Evan
And he doesn't like how Stoops beat him last year because Stoops broke character and went for it. Baron Brown on the bomb. I even heard Kiffin reached out to him after was like, what the heck was that Mark? Where's that been? So I think Kiffin definitely has.
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Shannon The Dude
Well, we can't remember we kept Ole Miss out of the playoff. They're in the playoff. If we, if they win that game and they. It's. It is that Ole Miss program is looked at completely different. If they could have just beaten us at home and they didn't. So I think they'll be, they'll be ready. 859-280-2287. We are here at the U Club. It is a KSR golf scramble that will be a little bit soggy, but still not soggy. All right. You don't have to. You're just gonna stand in the rain all day. It's no big deal. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Matt Jones
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Shannon The Dude
You got we talked about Cornbread Hemp Clark's Pumping Shop minus 196 cocktails. Whiskey Thief Club Blue Beer. That's the UK beer. Kentucky Eagle. I've got KS Bar. We've got alcohol out there as well. So that's seven holes just with that. And then there's food and other things. Bespoke and spirits. Eight holes on each. On each course.
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Drew Franklin
A lot of alcohol out there. I see also that OVW is going to be here. Do we have wrestlers coming out today?
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Shannon The Dude
Should. And speaking of that, on the text machine, one of the one person writes Matt, every time you have the KSR Golf scramble, I think of that scene in Wrestlers when you drove away from that guy on the golf cart.
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Drew Franklin
Poor Brian.
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Ryan Lemond
Poor Brian. All he wanted to do was spend time with his kid and you wouldn't.
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Drew Franklin
Let him get back to work. Now watch this shot.
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Shannon The Dude
First of all, I did not do the George W. Bush. Now watch this drive. I did not do that. You know I love that show. But that does show you the power of editing because, well, none of you were with me, so I don't even like to verify. That's what they say. When my team gets here, they can tell you I did talk to him for 10 minutes before they showed the scene of me driving off.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, they, the producers did you no favors the way they edited.
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Shannon The Dude
No favors. There were two, two things the producers did me no favors on that. And then the look at that cake date. They didn't have to do that to me either.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, you think they did you dirty. They didn't leave you on a mat with a drone shot going over top of you.
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Shannon The Dude
That is true. Actually, you know what? You did get it worse in that regard. Well, but you did get beat up so I think that makes it makes it fair. But that and it was hole two. It was hole two. It was right at the beginning. It was. It was not very nice.
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Ryan Lemond
Poor Brian. He just wanted to spend some time with his kids.
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Evan
Jones hates family.
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Shannon The Dude
Stop with. Stop with poor Brian. 859-280-2287 who's up first? Rick got Tim up first. Tim. Go ahead, Tim. This is Tim. One thing I did not expect to hear at the KSR Golf scramble was a screening scream. Crying child but that's okay. Everyone is welcome.
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Evan
Go ahead, designated driver, separate him from his dad.
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Shannon The Dude
Go ahead. Sir, can you hear me? You still got you. Okay. You keep saying the times of the.
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Evan
Football games, but you never say the date. And the second, like, talk about the.
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Shannon The Dude
New quarterback coming in, see if he's any good. Well, as far as the dates, they'll be this. They're playing the games this year, sir, on Saturdays. So they're on August 30, September 6, and September 13 are the Games. Far as the new quarterback. Appreciate the call, Nick. Nick. Zach, I'm gonna get it before the year's over.
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Evan
You're becoming Ryan with Will Wolford.
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Shannon The Dude
For some reason, I keep wanting to call him Zach Calzada. I did talk to someone this week, Drew, who said to me, I said, all right, I got to talk about this guy. I don't know anything about him. Please give me something to say. And they said that his strengths are he can. He can be mobile. Although he's had injuries at times and they like his decision making. It was basically. Here's what the person said to me, Think about last year. The strengths Brock had versus weaknesses now. Flip them. Those strengths now are what Zach has, are what Brock's weaknesses were. And Brock's weaknesses are. Are Zach strengths. Do you agree with that?
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Evan
A little bit. And I like that he has a. Won't say a ton of experience because he went to Incarnate Word, stepped down a little bit, but he has big game experience. I mentioned yesterday that game against Alabama where he led A and M back. If you want to get excited about Calzada, you should really just go watch that game because he has shown that he can do it in the SEC against a great defense. That was years ago, and he's been hurt, but at least it's in him. There's a lot of mystery around how to play at uk, but we know he's at least played at this level a little bit.
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Shannon The Dude
What are you?
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Evan
Incarnate Word? I may remind you, my Tennessee Titans, Cam Ward came from there. So it's like. It's not like they're just a nobody.
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Shannon The Dude
What are you hearing about?
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Ryan Lemond
He's got a good arm. That's the one. I think everybody says he's just, the kid has a good arm, but more.
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Shannon The Dude
Accuracy than strength, right? Probably.
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Ryan Lemond
And like you said, you mentioned his decision making. You know, we saw a lot of times Brock kind of just focused in on one guy and, you know, trying to force a few passes. So focused on one person. I think Maybe it's Calzada. Maybe be able to open it up a little more.
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Evan
His biggest difference with Brock is absolutely their personality. I think Brock wanted to go get in a tree and hunt when it's time off. Zach's got a little swag. He showed that in the Mic'd up video in the spring. He's big on the sidelines.
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Shannon The Dude
He is a little bit of a talker. He's kind of like Will Levis in that regard.
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Evan
He's kind of think he wants to be Johnny Menzel. Got some of that to win first.
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Drew Franklin
I'm not expecting him to get knocked down at all this season. Now that our offensive line coach just got a hundred thousand dollar raise. That better be the best offensive line in college football.
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Shannon The Dude
7Th highest paid offensive line coach in America.
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Drew Franklin
Let's see if we get the results.
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Shannon The Dude
That seventh highest paid offensive line coach in America.
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Drew Franklin
Well worth it, right?
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Ryan Lemond
Only one returning starter on that offensive line.
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Shannon The Dude
But I don't. I think that's good. Our offensive line was terrible last year. I'm fine with us not having any returning starters except one. We were, we were awful last year but I think that's going to be something. Drew that all year. If the offensive line does not play well. I mean I say some people it's going to be me going we're paying this guy. He's the seventh highest paid coach. And our offensive line, which was awful last year, it's got to have a market improvement.
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Evan
Now I want to be careful not to sound like I'm defending the Rays.
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Shannon The Dude
Because I hate that sounds like you are.
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Evan
But to give the guy credit, at least on paper what he did in the portal, it was hard to ask for much more than what's available. What he went out and got. Now they have to go do it in the games. I'm not saying he deserves $100,000, but he did load up on the best he could that was available. I think they're gonna be in a much better spot last year.
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Drew Franklin
If they're not good. It's going to be this year's version of Pony up. We're going to keep bringing that up.
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Shannon The Dude
That's interesting.
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Drew Franklin
You know so. Oh yeah. Oh, you just said it yourself. You're going to bring it up. If it doesn't work, I will do everybody. How can you not.
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Shannon The Dude
You know we talked about with Cal in that last year or two. I always said I am more. I feel like this show and me personally even are more of a reflection of the fan base than a driver of the Fan base. I don't think there's any question that when it comes to our fan base right now, the negativity about this regime is the highest, maybe the highest it's ever been. Because. Because in the early years, people still had optimism. There was that little time, Ryan, in the year before we made our first bowl where people were questioning it. And then of course, you had the Austin McGinnis kick against Mississippi State. But this fan base, when I go out in the state, I don't think UK realizes. Honestly, since I was gone last summer, I'm not sure that I realized how much negativity there was around the fan base. I think these first four or five games will decide Stoop's future here. I really do.
- [24:22]
Ryan Lemond
That's why you have to win Toledo. You have to cannot get embarrassed by Ole Miss. Those first two games could decide the rest of the season because where are.
- [24:28]
Shannon The Dude
You going to get six wins? I mean, Shannon, you were just saying next Friday we're doing a show in Somerset.
- [24:35]
Drew Franklin
Yes.
- [24:36]
Shannon The Dude
And then you have a concert that night. Somerset. And you don't want to drive back home. So what are you going to do for those eight hours?
- [24:42]
Drew Franklin
Well, you suggested Mr. G is all you can eat buffet. I thought maybe I'd waste at least three hours there.
- [24:47]
Shannon The Dude
Eight hours worth of it.
- [24:49]
Drew Franklin
Have you ever gotten kicked out of a buffet? I might be the first person to do that on the show I saw. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'll be second.
- [24:54]
Evan
I went with a Competitive eater to CC's Pizza to watch him train. It was incredible. They eventually just brought a box and set it down. You said you can fill it, but you have to leave.
- [25:03]
Shannon The Dude
One thing we should mention before we have a ton of fun today is some sad news that another tornado did hit in Kentucky last night. In Washington county, actually. Last night, early this morning. There's one fatality, lots of damage. So we don't know. Don't know all the specifics, but prayers to the people in Washington County. That kind of a surprise event Again, Ryan, that hit, you know, we are kind of, like I said, we become. We're Tornado Alley now, unfortunately. And it continues to show it. So prayers to all those folks in Washington County. One person writes. Mac Matt, with your inability to remember Calzada's name, I don't know how you think you could have run for political office. You would get crushed for it, I would say. I think with the last two presidents, it's been pretty clear that's not a disqualifier anymore as being able to remember or Say coherent things. I don't think that's. Apparently that's. That might actually help me.
- [26:02]
Ryan Lemond
Didn't you say one time like Bill Clinton has that ability to remember.
- [26:05]
Shannon The Dude
Everybody said that Bill Clinton could, like if he met you, he could remember your name from then on.
- [26:13]
Drew Franklin
I don't believe it. You don't now anybody. I mean, like people.
- [26:16]
Shannon The Dude
I mean, I don't know if he means. Yeah, I think he means people. Like, I don't think if he just. You said my name right, Joe, then he could see you in 10 years and remember you were Joe. But I think the theory is everybody would have a conversation with which I. I cannot do. I mean, there are people I've had 25 conversations with and that I like that I can't remember their name. So I mean, I. That I do not have that.
- [26:39]
Drew Franklin
I'm terrible at names. So when you met him, did you have a conversation with, with Bill Clinton or did. Was it like, like picture two minutes.
- [26:46]
Shannon The Dude
He came back and remembered my name? I would be pretty impressed.
- [26:51]
Ryan Lemond
Well, there is kind of. Some people just have an ability. You look somebody in the eye and you can kind of match their name with who they are. I've just seen people do that.
- [26:59]
Shannon The Dude
So Greg Sankey said yesterday, or excuse me, Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA said yesterday that they are trying to get all the conferences on board for the NCAA tournament to go to 72 teams, which is four more than they have, and that it could start as early as this year's tournament. The one, the one coming up. I don't love it. What do you think?
- [27:22]
Evan
I feel like it's happening. The fact that he wants it, others seem to want it. I guess now with revenue sharing, they got to find ways to make more money. I mentioned before that, sure, I like the idea of a noon game to gamble on Tuesday of NCAA tournament week, but I really wish they'd leave it alone. I liked it at 64, it's fine at 68, but I feel like we'll just do this and it'll be 76, it'll be 80, and next thing you know we're in the 90s.
- [27:46]
Shannon The Dude
Yeah. Baker said that if they did it, it would be four more at large teams. They would not, they would not make any more teams play in that are automatic bids. So it would be basically four, probably major conference or maybe one or two kind of mid majors that make it. You know, it does give you all day games all. I mean, basically, you know, you always say, Shannon, you love how Thursday and Friday you'd essentially have that Tuesday and Wednesday too. You'd have games all day starting on Tuesday. I do wonder if there's some point though where you start to make it a little less special if you keep adding that.
- [28:26]
Drew Franklin
Yeah, that's my thing. And the great thing about Thursday and Friday is you have upsets, but you can't really have an upset when you have 211 seeds playing each other in a playing game. So I think it takes away the excitement in that regard.
- [28:37]
Shannon The Dude
It was interesting to me. There was also a listing Yesterday of the 10 most watched first round games of all time or excuse me, since 2012 or something like that. It was the 10 most watched first round games and I looked at it and they followed a pattern. They were two sets of games. It was either two major programs playing each other. So like last year, Arkansas and Kansas when Cal went up against Bill Sell, that was an extremely high, highly watched game. Or it was Kentucky or Duke on upset alert. It was us against Oakland, it was us against St. Peter. It was Duke against Lehigh, it was Duke against North Dakota State. It was there were the two highest ranked first round games. Are major programs against each other, Duke and Kentucky on upset alert. I think Ryan, the theory is you can't make Duke in Kentucky be on upset alert every year. Like you can't plan that but you can plan two power teams playing each other every year if you want to. And I think the idea would be by adding four more teams you can get two major programs on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Like this past year, North Carolina played Texas. That was a very highly ranked playing game because it was North Carolina and Texas. I think that's what you're they're doing.
- [29:59]
Ryan Lemond
I think, you know, we're all not crazy about it but it's probably going to happen. I, I just kind of hope they leave it all in Dayton. I mean it's kind of.
- [30:05]
Shannon The Dude
I think the idea was it all being date See now I kind of.
- [30:07]
Ryan Lemond
Like that if you're going to add four more teams and you start on Tuesday night, let it stay in Dayton because they've kind of got a thing going on now. We're kind of used to it and I think it'll help it grow.
- [30:16]
Shannon The Dude
I just don't want this to Is it the end of the world if it goes to 72? No. But I just don't want it drew to be the step to 76, 96 because then you start to get a point where I do think it starts to ruin it. I don't know if one more Point, you know, two more playing games matter. But if you start, if you went from 64 to 96, then I do think you're starting to hurt.
- [30:38]
Evan
That's what I worry they're doing. They're going to see, okay, we made a little more money this step. All right, let's just do a little more next year. And eventually you're just letting everybody in. For so long it's been a measure that your team made the tournament. I mean coaches got fired and kept based on did they get into the field. But when the field gets so big, I think even some teams that don't deserve to be in the conversation or get an opportunity just have more games to watch.
- [30:58]
Shannon The Dude
Well, think about this for a second. Go back to 2013, that Nerlands Noel season. If there were 72 teams in. We're in.
- [31:06]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
- [31:07]
Shannon The Dude
Do you look at that year differently if there are four more teams and that Nerlands Noel after he got hurt, that Archie Goodwin team goes to the tournament and plays a playing game, do we end up looking at that year differently?
- [31:19]
Ryan Lemond
I mean, for me personally, I probably do. Just because the fact they were got in the tournament. I don't care if it was 72 teams they got in. That makes a difference for me.
- [31:26]
Shannon The Dude
And I think that's a big reason they want to do it. Coaches want to do this so that they can have more of them. Who said you can't fire me, I made the tournament.
- [31:33]
Drew Franklin
See. But then it means less though. You water it down to the point to where, okay, I made 20 straight NCAA tournaments, but we made it with 72 teams.
- [31:41]
Shannon The Dude
Yeah. I mean if you, if they had that as a rule, then Cal only misses one tournament. And he could have said, well, I only missed the COVID tournament. That was it.
- [31:50]
Drew Franklin
But there's always going to be a 73rd team or 74 team or 97 team.
- [31:55]
Evan
You know, participation mad, just going to invite.
- [31:58]
Shannon The Dude
Yeah. I mean Lenardi is still going to have a job either way because you're going to figure out which is the 73rd team. But. But it is. It does adds revenue and it helps coaches job. So I think they're going to do.
- [32:09]
Ryan Lemond
It and maybe starting this season.
- [32:11]
Shannon The Dude
He said they could start it this year, which surprised me. They could do it that quickly, but they would. Who's next? Rick Carson is up next. Carson, Go ahead, Carson.
- [32:21]
Evan
Hey, Matt.
- [32:22]
Shannon The Dude
My brother, my buddy and I broke.
- [32:24]
Evan
I roped into this.
- [32:25]
Shannon The Dude
Are going down to Clemson for the battle of coal mines. We're on 85. We'll have boots on the ground about 30 minutes to give you updates. I think we're the most dangerous 29 to 24 team in college baseball and I hammered the Wildcats. I'm sorry for robbing DraftKings and broad daylight but how do you feel about.
- [32:43]
Evan
Cleaver for the first game and instead.
- [32:46]
Shannon The Dude
Of going with Walker McLay, Walker McKay, do you think that's, you know, I'm not the person to ask. I think generally speaking the rule in UK base or in college baseball has been Ryan, if you're a two or three seed, it's very important you win that game. You pitch your ace in the first game. If you're a 1 seed, they usually try to save the ace until the second game. That's generally how it's gone. We're a two or three seed so I appreciate the call. I think you end up pitch trying to pitch your best guy today.
- [33:17]
Ryan Lemond
I thought you talked about, you know the guy that started on Friday night, Cleavers. The guy that started on Saturday night, Cleavers kind of had a better year. So do you flip flop them around and start Cleaver then tonight?
- [33:25]
Shannon The Dude
Today it is very, very hard. I think like only 10% or 5% of the teams that lose their first game end up winning the regional. So they, you got, you know, sometimes the one seeds can feel like they can hide their, their best pitcher until the second game but the two and threes can't do that.
- [33:41]
Evan
Yeah, we're not in a good enough spot to be trying to look ahead or game plan for other games. You got to throw your best at every opportunity. And I'm depositing the DraftKings now to get on that too.
- [33:49]
Shannon The Dude
Are you. What is that?
- [33:50]
Evan
What are minus 105 today that just like he said, we're stealing from them on this one.
- [33:56]
Shannon The Dude
Minus 105. Let's do it. DraftKings. That's gonna be our DraftKings pick of the day from Drew Franklin. Go to DraftKings. Bet five, win $300 on bonus bets. It is DraftKings. The crown is yours. Let's do one more. Who's next? Rick Carter is up next. Carter, Go ahead, Carter.
- [34:15]
Evan
Hey guys, my girlfriend and I are going to be coming to the bar for the first time and what do you all suggest that we order?
- [34:24]
Shannon The Dude
Wings, catfish, cheese logs, beer, cheese, queso. Those are the four. I suggest one of those four or two if you want but that's what I would do. And thank you for coming by this weekend with Rail Bird. Should be, should be quite an atmosphere there throughout the weekend.
- [34:41]
Evan
Have you seen Shaboozi around town yet?
- [34:43]
Shannon The Dude
I have not. I'm interviewing Shaboozi next Sunday.
- [34:46]
Drew Franklin
Oh, really?
- [34:47]
Shannon The Dude
I have no idea what to say to him. What do you say to Shabuzzi?
- [34:51]
Drew Franklin
Ask him about Lexington.
- [34:53]
Shannon The Dude
I've heard he's been here for a week. So you can go, hey, man, what'd you do in Lexington for the last week?
- [34:58]
Drew Franklin
There you go. Maybe invite him out to KS Bar.
- [35:00]
Evan
Hey, look at that.
- [35:01]
Drew Franklin
The sun's out.
- [35:02]
Shannon The Dude
Here we go. All right, let's go. Okay. You got to have more excitement than that.
- [35:07]
Drew Franklin
You guys want to play golf or not? Come on.
- [35:09]
Shannon The Dude
Come on now. You got to be excited about that. 8, 5, 9, 2287. Cornbread hemp. They are one of our presenting sponsors here. Along with Clark's Pump and Shop. They have the Seltzers, Peach iced tea, Raspberry Blueberry. A lot of these folks here are going to try them for the first time today. You go to cornbread hemp.com they've got them. They got them in stores all over and they will have them in our parking lot. Saturday and Sunday they'll be selling them in our parking lot. For Rail Bird, it is cornbread hemp and cornbreadhip.com, we'll take a break and be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.
- [35:42]
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- [36:52]
Shannon The Dude
Looking around this room, I'm gonna say, first of all, how much money Drew, did they make at the PGA Championship in Valhalla?
- [36:59]
Evan
Everyone.
- [37:00]
Shannon The Dude
Does anyone here? You guys got quail hollow gear? Like. Like, they must print money at the Masters? In the pga, maybe the US Open, too. But there are Valhalla PGA shirts and hats all over this.
- [37:13]
Evan
I can't judge anyone.
- [37:13]
Shannon The Dude
I gave them my head.
- [37:15]
Evan
Yeah, you too. I gave the Valhalla gift shop paycheck myself, so I'm not judging them on here. But it is everywhere.
- [37:21]
Shannon The Dude
All day yesterday, Shannon, I got messages from people in Lexington with their wonderful experiences with the roof company.
- [37:29]
Drew Franklin
Oh, it was my favorite story from the show yesterday.
- [37:31]
Shannon The Dude
I mean, all day, like. Like, literally all day. I. I thought I was the Kentucky Better Business Bureau. With how many? With how many? It was unbelievable.
- [37:39]
Drew Franklin
Were there people confirming what you heard?
- [37:41]
Shannon The Dude
I mean, not some of the, like, Reverend stuff and all that. Just a lot of these were just customers who had felt upset about. About whatever. But. And did you see the guy? The. The main guy? What was his name? His name.
- [37:56]
Drew Franklin
Rev.
- [37:57]
Shannon The Dude
Well, yeah, the Rev. Whatever. Exactly. Brad or something like that. Brad Pagel. He went on Facebook, made some comments about how now the shackles were off and he was free to do whatever he wants, which. Now, that's a little scary if making everybody call you Reverend and all that is with. With your shackles on.
- [38:15]
Drew Franklin
Yeah.
- [38:15]
Shannon The Dude
I don't know what it's going to be like with your shackles off, but I got a feeling this thing, this story is not over.
- [38:21]
Drew Franklin
I think it's got some legs.
- [38:22]
Shannon The Dude
I just feel like, you know, it's been on the front page of the Herald's website for three or four days. That means they're getting a lot of traffic on it. I feel like. I feel like they're not going to stop. That's just a guess, but that's how I feel.
- [38:33]
Ryan Lemond
Like I said, a lot of people have stories to relate to what has happened. So that is going to keep it. Keep it going out there, Keep it snowballing.
- [38:40]
Shannon The Dude
Yeah.
- [38:40]
Evan
I don't know if you had a chance to read any of his books yet, though. There's 12 of them. I was wondering.
- [38:44]
Shannon The Dude
12 books. As someone who's written one book, and I know how long it takes. 12 books. That's a lot of work.
- [38:50]
Evan
I'm waiting to see you at a Reds game reading Roof King or whatever about motivating roofers.
- [38:55]
Shannon The Dude
Well, if I go to a Reds game, I'm not going to get to see Ryan, Alexis Diaz anymore. I don't know how many Reds fans are here, but for two years the dude was unstoppable. Like couldn't be hit. I mean just. He was all. When he came in, you knew the game was over.
- [39:10]
Ryan Lemond
Game over.
- [39:11]
Shannon The Dude
And now can't even throw a strike. Just complete been. It wasn't great. Last year a disaster when they put him in this year. End up trading him to the Dodgers for basically nothing. Why do you. You're a baseball guy. I've never understood this. You look at pitchers, hitters, you know they'll get better, worse, but pretty much they kind of are what they are. They follow career trajectory. Why do closers. Why are they dominant for a year or two and then they just fall off the planet? Why does that happen with them? Is it just a mo. Is it their mindset or what?
- [39:46]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, there's something a little wacky about closers and kickers in football where their minds are just a little different than the normal people. And for. For a closer man, you got to have that mentality. You got to have a killer mentality. And I think it's tough to maintain that.
- [39:58]
Drew Franklin
You got to have short term memory loss. Forget about what happened the night before.
- [40:02]
Shannon The Dude
How many closers have there been that were like great for a decade? Mariano Rivera. Yeah, raw. This. Chapman's been good at a lot of different part. I mean he's gone but you know, he. He pitched for a long time. Cubs, Yankee. I think he won with the Cubs and Yankees was really good with the Reds. Reds.
- [40:20]
Ryan Lemond
Dennis Eskerley. There's been some guys out there that were.
- [40:24]
Shannon The Dude
Yeah, that was. That's a while ago. Yeah, but I. You just don't. I mean this dude, he was my favorite player pre Ellie for the Reds because he just was dominant and then literally cannot throw a strike.
- [40:36]
Ryan Lemond
You know something about baseball. Remember when Steve Sacks couldn't throw it from second?
- [40:39]
Drew Franklin
No, I can't remember Steve Sacks, Chuck.
- [40:42]
Ryan Lemond
Knobloch, Mickey Sasser I think was the catcher who couldn't even throw it to. Back to the pitching mound. Something to some. Some mental block.
- [40:50]
Evan
How high is the probability that he goes to the Dodgers and turns it back on though the Red.
- [40:55]
Shannon The Dude
One of the Reds accounts. I won't go too deep in the Reds, but one of the Reds accounts went and looked at all the players for the Reds in the last seven years who were good, that been then became terrible. And it's a lot like they've had a lot of guys like Christian Carson Strand. You barely even remember he exists like he was supposed to be like Ellie and then he's just gone. Little Spencer Steer, Matt Mcclain, like pretty much everyone but Ellie has gotten worse when they got bad luck.
- [41:24]
Drew Franklin
There's got to be some common denominator which I would think comes to the coaching maybe.
- [41:27]
Shannon The Dude
So who's up next? Aaron is up next. Aaron, Go ahead, Aaron. Hey, man. At the beginning of the show, you're talking about the guy yelling and you'd mentioned that or Ryan said, given your book and you said he didn't look like he could like, like you would want your book. I think that's fairly. I didn't understand what you meant by that. I think it's fairly fair. I think it's. It's pretty self explanatory. Sometimes you can tell that a person's not on the same wavelength as you are about certain things. It's not a criticism. It's just you can tell. So you can look at people. And yes, if you're. If you're trying to bait me.
- [42:05]
Evan
So yeah, you can look at people.
- [42:07]
Shannon The Dude
Rick, thank you very much. Who's next? This is the golf scramble. This is golf scramble, Matt. It is not argument.
- [42:13]
Drew Franklin
But what if that was that guy?
- [42:14]
Shannon The Dude
It may have been that guy. That was the temper that that guy had on yesterday. Who's up next? John is up next. John. Go ahead, John.
- [42:24]
Drew Franklin
I wanted to congratulate the Wolf County.
- [42:26]
Shannon The Dude
Wolves on their first ever 14th regional baseball championship. And I also had a question. Do you think the lack of denial has anything to do with the football program falling apart? And I'll hang up and listen. Let me ask you real quick before we hang up. The Wolf County High school. Their nickname are the Wolves. Yes. That's awesome.
- [42:51]
Evan
It's a good name.
- [42:51]
Ryan Lemond
Wolf County Wolves.
- [42:52]
Shannon The Dude
The Wolf County Wolves. The county and then the plural. I love it. I appreciate the call. Congrats to the Wolf County Wolves.
- [42:58]
Ryan Lemond
So you should be the Middlesborough Middles.
- [43:00]
Drew Franklin
They wouldn't let us be the Bullock County Bullets.
- [43:03]
Evan
I like the Campbell County Camels. It's not exactly the same, but it's got some alliteration to it.
- [43:07]
Shannon The Dude
The Middlesboro Middles would be a little bit different. As far as nil. I actually drew do not think the football programs. I don't think nil is. I mean, is nil the reason that we can't compete with Alabama? Texas? Yeah. But is nil the reason we lost to Vanderbilt or South Carolina? No, like rni. You tell me our nil was not better than Vanderbilt's in iow. Of course it was RNIL was comparable to Louisville's. We got run off the field last year against Louisville. So nil. If if you want to say nil's why we don't make the playoff, fair enough. But I'm not gonna say it's why we went four and eight.
- [43:49]
Evan
What have they lost, like eight straight Power four home games? Yeah, they've had enough nil money to win some home games.
- [43:55]
Shannon The Dude
Kentucky is probably 10th to 12th in sec nil. But it's not the reason we lost to Vandy.
- [44:02]
Ryan Lemond
Absolutely.
- [44:03]
Shannon The Dude
Two years ago, I guess we didn't lose. No, wait. But we lost last year. Two of the last three years. We lost two of the last three years.
- [44:09]
Matt Jones
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