2025-08-05- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

KSR Podcast Episode Summary
Episode: August 5, 2025 - KSR - Hour 1
Released: August 5, 2025
Hosts: Matt Jones and the KSR Crew
Platform: iHeartPodcasts and Sports Talk 790 (WKRD-AM)
Duration: 51:44 Minutes

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Introduction and On-Air Challenges

Matt Jones opens the episode by discussing the challenges the team faced getting the show live from the Louisville studio.

"It was very difficult. He just got headset with two earpieces because for a while he only had one earpiece because the Louisville equipment didn't really work very well." [02:00]

Despite technical hurdles, the team celebrates being able to broadcast locally, highlighting a special recognition during iHeartRadio's annual Local Radio Week.

Blisters in Baseball Pitching

A significant portion of the discussion centers around an incident involving pitcher Nick Lodolo and a blister that affected his performance during a game against the Cubs.

Matt Jones expresses frustration over the inability to prevent blisters despite advancements in sports medicine.

"How do we not have a cure or a prevention for blisters? People have quadruple open bypass surgery, right? They are taking people's brains and putting them in other people. I don't know if that's true, but they're doing amazingly crazy things in medicine." [14:02]

Shannon provides insights into the causes of blisters, attributing them to how pitchers grip and handle the seams of baseballs.

"A lot of it is how they put their fingers on the seam... sometimes the seams are a little bigger than the seams of the baseball and the game ball." [12:42]

A listener, Sean, calls in to confirm that the blister on Lodolo was real and did not impair his movement significantly.

"He did have a boot on. And he was moving around fine... the guy was walking fine." [25:42]

Kentucky's Football Schedule and Recruitment

The team delves into the challenges facing Kentucky's football team, particularly their tough schedule that includes multiple top-ranked opponents.

Matt Jones highlights the difficulty of playing six teams within the top 18 in the preseason rankings.

"I think we have the third toughest schedule in the country." [23:20]

Drew discusses the impact of this challenging schedule on the team's potential performance, stressing the importance of winning against highly ranked teams.

"Even though this football team may be better than last year, the schedule is so hard the record may not reflect." [10:04]

The conversation shifts to recruitment strategies, comparing the football team's approach to basketball's successful strategy under Mark Pope.

"Mark Stoops has brought together a lot of journeyman football players that have done a lot of experience in college football." [36:10]

Matt Jones emphasizes the significance of recruiting experienced players through the transfer portal to build a competitive team.

"We've taken a completely different tact in the transfer portal. We're putting together a team that's greater than the sum of its parts." [37:02]

Listener Interactions and Calls

Several listeners call in to share their thoughts and experiences:

• Ozone discusses the Dirt Bowl basketball tournament in Lexington, highlighting its long-standing history and current playoff excitement.

  "We've been running it for almost 50 years... tonight, we play, then a day off, and our final four is Thursday evening." [47:24]

• Jamie shares her plans to attend the Dirt Bowl and the enjoyment of live music and food at the event.

  "The food is spectacular... live music in the front of the park." [48:37]

• Sean provides first-hand information about Lodolo's blister, confirming it was genuine and detailing his limited participation in the game.

  "He pitched... one pitch of the second inning." [34:08]

• Caller asks about top players from the recruiting class, prompting a discussion on potential standout athletes for the football team.

  "I think Tyron Stokes since he's the number one player in the country and Louisville wants him." [45:03]

Upcoming Sports Events

Matt Jones promotes upcoming local sports events:

• Dirt Bowl Basketball Tournament:

  "It's a basketball tournament with all age groups playing. They have live music and food vendors." [41:07]

• Lexington Sporting Club vs. Phoenix Rising FC:

  "Lexington Sporting Club will face Phoenix Rising FC on August 9th at 6 PM. Bring the kids to the end-of-summer bash supported by Chick-fil-A." [38:16]

Media and Entertainment Discussions

The hosts touch upon new media releases affecting the sports community:

Matt Jones mentions the release of Hard Knocks on Netflix, anticipating its portrayal of their team may not be favorable.

"Sec Hard Knocks starts tonight on Netflix. It’s not going to be pretty for us." [42:13]

Drew expresses skepticism about the show's accuracy, especially concerning the team's performance during recorded games.

"I know the games that they went to weren't good, so I don't know how they can paint it too good of a light." [42:54]

Conclusion

As the episode wraps up, Matt Jones reiterates key topics discussed and teases upcoming segments, while listeners share their plans to attend local sports events and engage with the team.

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Notable Quotes:

• Matt Jones on recruitment strategy:

  "We've taken a completely different tact in the transfer portal. We're putting together a team that's greater than the sum of its parts." [37:02]

• Shannon on causing blisters:

  "A lot of it is how they put their fingers on the seam... sometimes the seams are a little bigger than the seams of the baseball and the game ball." [12:42]

• Drew on schedule difficulty:

  "I think we have the third toughest schedule in the country." [23:20]

• Ozone on the Dirt Bowl:

  "We've been running it for almost 50 years... tonight, we play, then a day off, and our final four is Thursday evening." [47:24]

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This episode of KSR provides an engaging mix of local sports analysis, listener interaction, and insights into the challenges faced by Kentucky's sports teams. From discussing individual athlete issues like blisters in pitching to broader topics like recruitment strategies and tough schedules, Matt Jones and the KSR crew deliver comprehensive coverage for sports enthusiasts in the UK community.

Transcript

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[Kentucky Sports Radio]

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[Matt Jones]

Now here's Matt Jones welcome, everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio. Tuesday, August 5th. I met Jones here in Louisville, Kentucky, where the whole team is here. And it's been a scramble to get on the air, but we are on the air, and it's Clark's puppet Shop phone line 859-280-2287. Avision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office, you call TJL. Make them pay. You would. You know, for people who don't know, we work for iHeartradio. And this is a big day for iHeartradio. First of all, getting us on the air, you would think a company like this getting on the air would be the least of our worries. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's very difficult. He just got headset with two earpieces because for a while he only had one earpiece because the Louisville equipment. Nobody uses this studio, so it doesn't really work very well. And we had to scramble to get it. But we're here, and we very rarely have a day that we're all in Louisville in studio. But, Ryan, today is that day. There was wild eggs breakfast for us, and now we're ready to rock.

[Shannon]

You know, Shannon was crying and whining and complaining on the pre show about how he never gets any food. We walk in here and it's like a smorgasbord of wild eggs out there.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Food in here, we have ramen noodles and nuts. That's normally all we get. Today, the big bosses, big breakfast.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. This is a big, big day. So here's what's happening.

[Shannon]

Okay?

[Matt Jones]

I heart radio does a once a year local radio week nationally. All right, so it's all about local radio. And this year and every year, they sponsor, they spotlight three hosts as like their. Watch these people. Yeah. One in music, one in entertainment, and one in sports.

[Shannon]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

This year, I'm the sports.

[Shannon]

Whoa, slow down, big fellow.

[Matt Jones]

So, like, everyone's freaking out. Like, the regional bosses are all here. Mario and Billy are trying to set up the cameras. They both look like they're going to cry. Okay. Because they're in charge of making this work. Terry Miners is interviewing me for it.

[Shannon]

Oh, that is big time.

[Matt Jones]

And people here are all freaking out.

[Shannon]

And so that why Tony Vanetti was so nice to you while ago?

[Matt Jones]

Well, Tony Vanetti was supposed to interview me, but he backed out. So I was asking him why, and he said, because he just bought a truck. I don't know how those two things. I don't know what those two things have to do with each other, Drew. But that's why he said he couldn't do it, because he bought a truck.

[Drew]

Yeah, I don't think that's an excused absence. I mean, congrats on the truck. But good for you. You bought a truck to hear. You know that. It's Terry. But, you know, Tony was. Was in that spot. He bells on you.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. So Tony. So drone Tony Vale. So. So Terry is interviewing, but everyone is nervous about it because they're like, the whole country is going to see this. Now I'm going to make the argument no one's going to see it. Who's going to watch this? Radio nerds. But who are those people? Who's going to watch.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Where do you even watch it?

[Matt Jones]

I don't know. I don't think it's on. I don't think it's on espn.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

No.

[Shannon]

Well, at least you got cleaned up for it. Wore some nice clothes.

[Matt Jones]

I know. I told them I was going. They wanted me. I was going to dress like I dressed. So I have a hoodie and a hat on. That's what they. That's what they said. Be who you. Because the point is to show who you are. If I come in here wearing. Wearing a suit, that's not who I am. So now you're the local radio spotlight.

[Shannon]

So you're the face of I Heart Lexington and Louisville today. And you're.

[Matt Jones]

No, I'm the face of sports local radio nationally today.

[Shannon]

And so we can look at you and say, that's what our sports guys look like.

[Matt Jones]

This is what you want, right?

[Shannon]

This is what we want. You need to wear the headphones with just one ear on it today, too.

[Matt Jones]

This is what you want, Drew. This is what. This is what you're looking for.

[Drew]

They needed were the five minutes getting this show together to show what a real host you were. As we're screaming, are there headphones in this building?

[Matt Jones]

Who is gonna watch this? Like, they are treating this like we are making Godfather 2? But who is gonna watch this?

[Shannon]

Well, I'm pretty sure Karen Blondell will watch it.

[Matt Jones]

I don't think she has access to it.

[Drew]

I still don't know where it is. If you tell me, I'll watch it.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

What it is, where it's at, who's even filming it?

[Matt Jones]

It's the local. Well, Billy and Bill like all the tech people here. That's why you see all these people running around is they're trying to get ready. That's at 130 today.

[Shannon]

Well, we were really prepared to start this show with no headphones at work and we got ready to go in the air.

[Matt Jones]

So for your local radio spotlight, get ready. Now, I was thinking when I was pulling up here, the. I have long maintained that the hardest time to do radio in, in Kentucky is early August. Yeah, always believe that because people are ready to move into football. But there's nothing to talk about. I mean, there's nothing to talk about. We don't know anything. True. We don't. We have done the. Okay, who are we going to beat already? This is the. These two weeks, really the first full week of August, which is what we're in, I have always said is the hardest week to do sports radio ever. Now, last year I had just come back true from Europe, so I had all that excitement. So because that the reason I say all this is I'm going to take your calls. 859-280-2287. But this is one of the more random shows you're going to hear because I don't mean I was sitting there. What am I going to say about basketball? Like, like literally, what new can we say?

[Shannon]

There's no new news.

[Matt Jones]

There's really nothing. I mean, Jaden Quaintance apparently is able to jump now. That's nice, but that's really.

[Drew]

It always got a boot on.

[Matt Jones]

Does he?

[Shannon]

Is that a real picture, though?

[Matt Jones]

I thought that was an AI picture.

[Drew]

I'm just saying that's the news. Even if it's not AI, it's a boot. Who cares?

[Matt Jones]

I mean, but you know, he has a boot on.

[Drew]

Well, I saw the picture.

[Matt Jones]

But that could be AI.

[Drew]

That's the talk of the.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but that could be AI. You can't just believe it.

[Drew]

I mean, is it AI? It looks like a real picture to me.

[Matt Jones]

I'm asking you, you're the reporter.

[Shannon]

Like you said, even if it is, it's early August, it shouldn't affect us at all by the time Octo starts.

[Matt Jones]

So you think it is real?

[Drew]

I mean, it looks real to me, but I'm not concerned about it. But I'm saying if there were anything to talk about, that would be it. But also, my wife's in the boot and my dad's in a boot and they take them off and walk around the neighborhood.

[Matt Jones]

I'm not expecting your wife and dad to play big minutes on a final 14.

[Drew]

Boots aren't as big as they seem. Also, the season isn't until November, so there were some overreactions to that.

[Matt Jones]

But you're sure. It's true. Person's account. Yeah.

[Drew]

That looks like a real photo to me.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. All right. I'll. I'll take your word for it. See, this was the one basketball conversation we could have. Is. Is the boot.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Do you believe that quite as jumping, though? Then you got to believe that that's a boot.

[Matt Jones]

I had heard he was, like, doing stuff before this. I don't know if that picture is real or not, but that's true. Shannon, you can't think that jumping half of it's real and the other half of it's a. That's. That's. That. That. That's a good point. By the way, it feels like people wear boots more now.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Is that just a thing that people like? They assign you boots more now?

[Drew]

I think players have been wearing boots a lot more than we even realize, but you see them on campus, and naturally you don't want to see your star player in a boot. But I don't know anything about Ortega in the moment, but that is done often for precautionary measures.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And then on the football side, the biggest whisper is what we talked about, which is the whole, is Cutter Bowley playing better than Nick Causada practice? You're starting to hear that more and more. Yeah.

[Shannon]

And I think a lot of it is, you know, this is Cutter second year with Bush Hampden. You finally got an offensive coordinator stick around for more than one year. So he kind of knows the system, kind of understands what he wants. And then Cutter, all. Everybody says Cutter was, like, great in the classroom, in the film room, all the stuff he needed to do off the field to get ready for this season. So I think that maybe it's why he is a little. A little ahead in that aspect of Zach.

[Matt Jones]

So if you call 859-280-2287 or you text, I'll go in any direction you want. The only thing I'm not going to do is rank the Cal teams again. Okay. That's the one thing I'm not going to do.

[Shannon]

You did a pretty good job with that, though.

[Matt Jones]

But I feel like we've done it a lot. I feel like I get asked about once a week, and I have to make the same cases, so I'm not going to do that. So if it doesn't. If it feels like we're going in weird directions, I am just going to do this in the order that I wrote them down, which is not necessarily the order of import. Do you understand what I'm saying? So that's What? That. Okay, so let's start with number one. This is just the thing I had written down.

[Shannon]

All right.

[Matt Jones]

Because I was watching and I needed my baseball people to help me.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Oh, we're here.

[Matt Jones]

I was watching the Reds and the Cubs, and we had Nick Lodolo pitching. He's like 7 foot 6.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

He's a big man, and he throws like a slider. And he has been really good in the last few weeks.

[Shannon]

He really has.

[Matt Jones]

So we're playing the Cubs, and we're like, here we go. And the game starts, and he throws one pitch, and then they take him out, which feels like. Feels like you're supposed to go more than one pitch.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

I mean, I know they're strict on pitch counts.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. But that feels like the pitch count can at least be two. They take him out and then it comes out there. They take him out because he has a blister. They said he had a blister. He had to go. Now, luckily, the Reds still won. I don't know how, but I became frustrated with the idea of a blister. Now, you all are baseball players. How is it that a pitcher, who presumably does the same thing every day, how do you get a blister? And how debilitating is the blister?

[Shannon]

Shannon's the pitcher. He's got an answer, and I got an answer. I'm sure.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Well, as far as how you get the blister, that's a great question. I don't know. Maybe he got the blister doing.

[Matt Jones]

He's had this before. Well, whatever he's doing, he shouldn't do.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Carrying his luggage or something.

[Matt Jones]

He's had like, he was out for part of last year with a blister. So I guess what I'm saying is, you know, it is 20, 25. They can take your arm ligaments, take horses faces, and put them in your arms.

[Shannon]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

And it'll make it better. How do we not have an answer for a blister?

[Shannon]

A lot of it is how they put their fingers on the seam. And sometimes the seams, like maybe when he's warming up. Or maybe a little bigger than the seams of the baseball and the game ball. What, the scenes on the ball?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

You know, the ones you throw in the bullpen made the scene. May be a little thicker than those seams you play with in the game.

[Matt Jones]

Say may. Are they?

[Shannon]

I'm sure they are.

[Matt Jones]

Why are they?

[Shannon]

Because, you know, each. Each baseball is a little different when the way they're made, they're not all exactly the same.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

I'm not buying that. Here's the thing.

[Matt Jones]

So you're telling me the baseballs have different blister or have different scenes?

[Shannon]

Yeah. And I guess, why? You'll see if they throw a ball out and a pitcher will look at it and get rid of it. He didn't like the way it feels because the.

[Matt Jones]

Tell me they don't make the same baseball.

[Shannon]

No, they're all. They're all a little different.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon, do you buy that?

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

I don't know.

[Shannon]

Well, you guys are wrong.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Well, how many games have you pitched?

[Matt Jones]

One.

[Shannon]

I was undefeated.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

So I would say, why not pop the blister, put a band aid on it and go.

[Shannon]

You can't do that on your pitching hand.

[Matt Jones]

Why not?

[Shannon]

You can't have a band aid on your pitching hand. You're trying to grip a baseball to make it spin coming out of your hand.

[Matt Jones]

Why?

[Shannon]

You just can't. That's not really solid baseball. If I got a bandaid on your finger and you're trying to spin it.

[Matt Jones]

When I go for these long walks, and this is the same thing, Drew, basically the back of my shoe will rub against my heel and I will get a blister. But I persevere. I don't stop the walk exactly. I keep going.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Why can't Nick lodolo do the same thing I do when I'm walking through Louisville?

[Drew]

Drew, I mean, he is pitching to get to the playoffs, and you're walking home from Skyline. There's a little bit of difference here.

[Shannon]

Not really.

[Matt Jones]

I grew.

[Drew]

I don't know how he could get the blister, but I don't think a pitcher would want to throw the blister. That throws off your control, like rides at the spin. You could worsen it. You're trying to get it to heal. That will only make it worse as you pitch.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Okay. My guy probably threw 50 pitches in the bullpen. Did he not know that he couldn't go when he was warming up? Like, why would you go into the game? Why wouldn't you tell your manager, I can't go. I got a blister. Don't start me.

[Matt Jones]

I just. It feels like to me. And again, I know nothing, but it feels like to me, the blister. It is 20, 25. How do we not have a cure or a prevention for blisters? People have quadruple open bypass surgery, right? They are taking people's brains and putting them in other people. I don't know if that's true, but they're doing. They're doing crazy amazing things in the medicine. Listen, how can you still miss for a blister? How do we not have blister cure?

[Shannon]

Well, you know, back in the the 70s and 80s, pitchers, when they get blisters on their fingers, I'm not kidding. They used to soak them in pickle juice. They said pickle juice would helped heal the blister.

[Matt Jones]

Didn't people tell me when I got a sore throat to drink pickle juice?

[Shannon]

Pickle juice must be magic.

[Matt Jones]

What's in pickle juice?

[Shannon]

I don't know. I guess we need to find out.

[Matt Jones]

So they would soak their fingers in pickle juice.

[Shannon]

Yes. Yeah, this has been.

[Matt Jones]

Well, he didn't even try that.

[Shannon]

He's like, I'm out.

[Drew]

Yeah, should have started there.

[Matt Jones]

He just went away and I was very upset. They also confirmed that at the baseball game Saturday, there were 91,000 people here at the game. It broke an all time attendance record for a major league baseball game. But here's my question. They didn't play the game. So do you count, do you break. Does it count as an attendance record for most people to see a game if they don't play the game?

[Shannon]

They did play one inning.

[Drew]

Yeah, they got in an inning.

[Matt Jones]

I think they got half an inning if they have to break the attendance record.

[Drew]

If they had never gotten an inning in, I'd say no, that's just a bunch of people sitting around for Pitbull. But they did get the inning in. So I think you got to count it.

[Matt Jones]

The biggest pit bull concert of all time.

[Drew]

The biggest Tim McGraw featuring Pit Bull concert.

[Matt Jones]

You think that counts as a game? If you play a half an inning in the record books, it didn't count.

[Shannon]

I think you count it. Maybe you put the asterisk by it. This game only lasted, I mean, half.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

An ending of all time.

[Shannon]

There you go.

[Matt Jones]

The most attended inning of baseball of all time.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Right.

[Matt Jones]

Because the next day they only had like 37.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It makes me.

[Shannon]

That's why I said this yesterday. Feels me feel bad for Bristol and baseball. This could have been a really awesome event and mother nature decided to poo poo it.

[Drew]

And I think the event was tickets sold. So like that's what they're counting as the record.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, we do that for football. They do the tickets sold. That's the new thing. Don't say how many people actually came. Just say tickets sold. Louisville got away with that when Kenny Payne was here. And they'd be like eight people in the crowd. And they go, well, the ticket Sold.

[Drew]

But if I'm Cleveland Stadium that had the record for 70 years, I'm arguing you're suing because I had butts in seats in 1920. Whatever.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so if you're a blister expert. 772-7745-254859-28022 we will take a break. That's number one we're going to go through here. Hopefully all of our stuff will work throughout the show. This is Kentucky Sports.

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[Matt Jones]

All right, tell me what. Tell them what you just said to me.

[Drew]

I was on Kentuckysportsradio.com my favorite website. And a little pop up ad popped up with some shoes that help feed the blister feet. The blister help when your feet blister. Some shoes that help.

[Matt Jones]

See, these computers are listening to us.

[Shannon]

Of course they are.

[Matt Jones]

Yep. And I, I personally, I think that should be illegal. I'm not, I'm not even kidding. That's not a joke. We, it is clear that these phones listen to us and that should be illegal. Did anyone. Do you want your phone to listen to you? No, no, no. I say bad things sometimes. I don't want it to know, you know, I shouldn't. And it does because there's no way you would just randomly have a blister.

[Drew]

I haven't searched anything. Blisters?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean no one searches blisters. I learned two things during the break that I didn't know. 772-774-5254 See, this is where when people complain about. Oh, you're talking about random stuff. We learn things.

[Shannon]

Yes.

[Matt Jones]

Did you know in baseball you can't have a band aid on your hand?

[Shannon]

I make sense. I didn't know that a foreign object.

[Matt Jones]

You can't have a band aid on your hand. It is illegal in major league Baseball to throw a pitch with a mandate.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Makes total sense.

[Matt Jones]

Does it?

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Not really.

[Shannon]

You could hide some pine tar or something maybe underneath the check.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Come on.

[Matt Jones]

Secondly, they say that in Major league Baseball they still sew the stitches, the seams by hand.

[Shannon]

That's why each baseball is just a little different.

[Matt Jones]

They still do that?

[Shannon]

I think so every Major league Baseball.

[Matt Jones]

Where are they made?

[Shannon]

The baseball shop?

[Matt Jones]

I mean what do we not. Is it in America first of all not put a tariff on it? No, but I mean is it, is it, where is it made?

[Drew]

I would hope in America, but I have no idea where baseball.

[Matt Jones]

That's shocking to me that in 2025 there's still a little old lady going, hey pet. Like I can't believe that's still how they make baseball.

[Shannon]

And I just, I just read us a little story during the break that the seam height on the baseball has been shortened in recent years probably by demand. And that's what causing more blisters.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Okay. This is. They're made in a factory in Costa Rica.

[Shannon]

I think they're probably all the same Major league baseballs.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Yes. We're talking about.

[Matt Jones]

So they're made in a factory in coast, but there could still be people sewing them in the factory in Costa Rica. Yeah.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

But I lean towards machinery. Come on.

[Matt Jones]

All right. Well, There you go. 859-280-22-2,87. Again, I'm just going to these in order. Number two, the AP football top 25 came out. We play four of the top. Or, excuse me, two of the top five. Four teams, four of the top 10, and six of the top 18.

[Shannon]

Well, that tells you what you've been saying all summer, how tough this schedule is. Like, it's a crazy hard schedule.

[Matt Jones]

So prove it. We play. I think just off the top of my head, I think George is one. Excuse me, Texas one, Georgia's four. Then the next highest team, I think we play South Carolina maybe. Yeah, 13, 11, maybe something like that. They're overrated. And then you've got what, Florida, Tennessee and Ole Miss. Those are the ones that we play that are ranked.

[Shannon]

That's crazy. That's why they. Even though this football team may be better than last year, the schedule so hard the record may not reflect.

[Matt Jones]

Do you like playing six out of the top 18, though? I mean, you're good to get to see. And that, like Louisville's not ranked.

[Shannon]

Louisville's unranked, and they probably will be ranked before the season.

[Matt Jones]

Do you like. You like playing the best?

[Drew]

You know, you want a little bit of a break. I mean, half your schedule being in the preseason top 25 is a bit much. Kentucky has to have one of the toughest, toughest schedules.

[Matt Jones]

I think we have the third toughest schedule in the country. Got to be.

[Drew]

I would like maybe like a South Carolina to not be as high as they are. Yeah, but I mean, it is exciting to have a Texas or a Georgia that's going to be playing for national championship. I mean, we can all dream going into the. Especially now when we don't know what product we're going to roll out.

[Matt Jones]

But if you're decent, you should be one of those teams, wouldn't you say? Like, I think if you have a decent team, you play six teams in the top 18, you should steal one. Is that fair?

[Shannon]

Well, and that's kind of been Kentucky's MO in recent years. Like, they get one of those games they're not supposed to. You know, the thing is, though, they got to stop losing games that they sure are supposed to win.

[Matt Jones]

You can't lose at Vandy. You can't lose. I mean, but the problem is, okay, we play six games against teams that are ranked. Then team seven, eight, nine, we play those games, two of them on the road and one of them is against Van. You know, What I mean, like, it's hard to. The schedule just has no breaks for.

[Drew]

You in your home opener. They're the Mac favorite. The Mac is a tough conference. Toledo return. A lot of. A lot of players changed.

[Matt Jones]

It was 12 and a half. Now it's down to 10 and a half.

[Drew]

It's even down to nine and a half.

[Matt Jones]

It just keeps going down to nine and a half.

[Drew]

So I mean, even a game that we call cupcakes to open the year, Toledo is not a cupcake cupcake at all. It's now. You should win that.

[Matt Jones]

Us in Toledo is nine and a half.

[Drew]

Yeah. People are very high on Toledo. I still think we're all right, though.

[Matt Jones]

What if we lost?

[Drew]

I think of the, of the ranked teams. Tennessee, I mean, they're blurring their damn quarterback because he's throwing so many interceptions and videos like that. I don't know that Tennessee. I think they're over.

[Matt Jones]

Tennessee is, is. Is going to be overrated.

[Drew]

And Florida's got issues with lagway. We don't know what they're going to be.

[Matt Jones]

But we play. I mean, none of this matters if you lose to Toledo.

[Shannon]

None of it matters. But if you like, if we can get one of those home games. I think they've got to steal one of these home games this year and then win maybe at Auburn, at Vandy. You know, you got to choose.

[Matt Jones]

Well, we play Vandy at home. Right. Or on the road.

[Drew]

Now we're there. They beat us at home last year.

[Shannon]

Yeah, they beat us at home.

[Matt Jones]

We're going to be. We're going to beat Vandy. We've got four. The question is, can you find two more?

[Drew]

The one I like is Florida at home. It's in November. I don't think they're good. When do we play Florida? November?

[Matt Jones]

Never. Yeah.

[Drew]

If it is lag way, he's going to come up here. I hope there's snow everywhere because he will have never seen that.

[Matt Jones]

We need it to snow. You're right.

[Drew]

I'm watching Florida as a big. As a win.

[Matt Jones]

Let's go to Sean. Go ahead, Sean.

[Caller]

Hey, guys.

[Matt Jones]

Go ahead.

[Caller]

Oh, hey. I know. I just want to say on the OA thing, I was at Douglas park here in Lexington last night for the Dirt bowl and it's not AI. He did have a boot on.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Caller]

Since some other guy showed up.

[Shannon]

It was real.

[Matt Jones]

Was he walking with a limp or anything?

[Caller]

Oh, no, no. What's funny? And I even told a couple buddies last night because I know it sounds stupid, but to have a boot on the guy was moving around fine. Getting shots up acquaintance on another court to have a boot on, the guy was walking fine. I know that sounds dumb.

[Matt Jones]

No, that could be. That could be true. All right. I appreciate it. Good. See, that's. That's reporters on the street. Information.

[Shannon]

Like I said, a little ankle tweak anymore. Just a precautionary measure. Like Drew said, they put these boots on now and let them wear it for a couple weeks.

[Matt Jones]

Have you. Do you go to the Dirt Bowl? No.

[Drew]

I would like to. I mean.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so where is it? I've never been. Is that on Georgetown Road?

[Shannon]

Yeah. Douglas park sits right on Georgetown Road.

[Matt Jones]

When Georgetown Road and Newtown split. And then it starts right there.

[Shannon]

It's across from Grimes. You know the Grimes restaurant? Yes, right across from Grimes.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so that's. I drive sometimes on Sundays on that road. And there are so many. It's. It looks like the biggest. It looks like a party and I want to go.

[Shannon]

It is festival.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, but there's like no white people there.

[Shannon]

No, but they've got like food. A lot of food, a lot of music.

[Matt Jones]

I'm going. Will you go?

[Shannon]

I've been many times.

[Drew]

There's versions in Western Kentucky. I go the Dust bowl and it's awesome.

[Matt Jones]

They have one of these in Lex in Louisville too. What's that called? The. Where. Where Myron saw a guy on a horse with a boa constrictor around his neck.

[Drew]

I probably would have gone yesterday if I'd even known about it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, when did. Is there a schedule?

[Shannon]

Oh, no, it goes like. It's like two weeks long.

[Matt Jones]

Is it going on right now?

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So is it all week?

[Shannon]

Yes, probably is every day of the week.

[Matt Jones]

So when. What is it?

[Shannon]

It's a basketball tournament and they have all age playing. They got like 5 year olds all the way to like.

[Matt Jones]

When did the non 5 year olds play?

[Shannon]

I don't know the schedule.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I want to go. All right. We'll be right back. T.J. smith, personal injury attorney.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so we have a. We have a definitive thing. They make the balls in Costa Rica the core. And all that is done by machine. But the balls are hand sewn? Yeah, every ball is hand sewn in Costa Rica. Can you guess how many balls in an average major league baseball game are used?

[Shannon]

In an average game?

[Matt Jones]

Not in the warmups in a game. What is the average amount of baseballs used? Everybody Take a guess.

[Shannon]

I'll say 62, 72.

[Matt Jones]

Shannon 56, 108.

[Caller]

Wow.

[Matt Jones]

You can double count the foul balls. Yeah, guys. Sometimes the pitchers just look at them and throw them into the ground and make the little bat boys spend all.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

That time sewing a ball and the guy just spikes your ball into the ground.

[Matt Jones]

Or what if you're. You make all that time selling a ball and they use it in warm ups. Yeah.

[Shannon]

And then, you know, there's a guy, you've probably seen him, he sits in the dugout. He's the authenticator. Authenticator. Authenticator. Every ball he writes, he puts a little sticker on it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Because they use that when something important happens. Yeah.

[Shannon]

And then they sell them in the gift shop, you know, a game. But use ball.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. All right, I'm gonna do this every segment. We're gonna go to number three before I go to the phones. All right, this, I'm using this. I don't want you arguing in on the. On my text machine about the political part of this. That's not what I'm bringing this up for. I'm bringing it up for the secondary part. You know, I don't know if you followed. The Texas legislature wants to gerrymander the thing to take seats away from Democrats for Congress and give them to Republicans. Republicans basically, you know, forget about that part. But they have to have a quorum to vote. And so the Democrats don't want to let them do it. They say that's cheating. So the Democrats have escaped the state, some of them, and gone to Illinois. And they're basically like, until you all agree to stop this, we're not coming back. And there are like 14 of them that have left. So here's my question for you. They apparently some of the Democrats have jobs where they couldn't leave. So they got the ones that either their own businesses or they do something where they could be gone. So here's my question for you, Ryan, Drew and Shannon. Let's say how far Texas to Illinois would be the equivalent of like, here to what, Denver maybe?

[Drew]

Sure.

[Shannon]

Probably close.

[Matt Jones]

Let's just say Denver.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

If I said to you tomorrow, you have to get in your car and go to Denver, you'll keep your job. All right? You're not gonna get fired. You have to go from here to. And you can't come back until I say, how long do you think you could go packing one bag going to Denver until. Cause they're say. They say, we'll stay as long as we need to. So how long could you go to Denver and not return.

[Shannon]

You go first because you've got connection.

[Drew]

Yeah. I have a brother in law in Denver, so it's a little easier for me, but just in general. Three months.

[Matt Jones]

You think you could go for three months?

[Drew]

I think I would enjoy it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew]

I'd be like, I'll see y' all.

[Matt Jones]

When I get back.

[Drew]

I'll figure it out.

[Matt Jones]

You can't.

[Drew]

As long as I'm not losing a job.

[Matt Jones]

But here's the thing. You can't. Your folks, if they're going to see, you're going to have to come to you. Nobody, Everybody's got to come there.

[Drew]

That's why I said three months. After a while, I'd miss family.

[Matt Jones]

So you think you could go to Denver for three months? Months, yeah.

[Drew]

Can we make this a challenge?

[Matt Jones]

But you, like, lose your. You can't take. You're basically taking one bag and heading to Denver in three months. Okay. Shannon.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Six years. No, probably one. I could probably stick it out for one year as long as I don't get into the gummies.

[Matt Jones]

A year?

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Yeah, I think. I think one year.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. What about you? Yeah. You couldn't do it.

[Shannon]

I was only like maybe a month.

[Matt Jones]

Max. I was going to say five days maybe.

[Shannon]

So I got. Yeah, but your kids, you don't have to be here.

[Matt Jones]

Like, they're going to college. They don't. They don't want you here.

[Shannon]

They may not want me here, but I'm going to miss them.

[Matt Jones]

Well, but I mean, they don't want you here.

[Shannon]

My parents. I'm not.

[Matt Jones]

Parents can come to you.

[Shannon]

Yeah. They're 80 years old. I'm thinking a month is all I could do.

[Drew]

If not for checking on family, I think I could do something extreme, like maybe never come back.

[Matt Jones]

You know, I mean, I was thinking about that. If it were not. Not for my parents. Yeah. I think I could just live in Denver.

[Drew]

I'm pretty sure I could pull that off.

[Shannon]

Our parents a little older. You don't want them to travel out to see you. You need to come back and it'd.

[Matt Jones]

Be good for them. Well, honestly, why can't they come to Denver? Good point.

[Drew]

We got to do that.

[Matt Jones]

Just live in Denver.

[Shannon]

That United flight out of bluegrass, they could do it once a month maybe, but that's a lot.

[Matt Jones]

I'm kind of. I'm kind of, though, with Shannon and Drew, that if you assume I can still do my job, my jobs don't require. The only thing that really requires me to be here is trying to. Is the KS Bar part. I would miss my friends and stuff. But like, I feel like I can just go to Denver.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Yeah. Dsr. Start your own restaurant out there.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Dsr.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Yeah.

[Drew]

I love Colorado actually. Can. Can this be my summer challenge? Can I leave right now?

[Matt Jones]

And I wonder if any of the legislators in Texas will be like.

[Shannon]

Like, why'd they pick Illinois? They going to Cubs games?

[Matt Jones]

I think because. I don't know. Actually, I think maybe because it's run by Democrats, because he's threatening he's going to have them arrested. And so I think their thought was probably we'll go to someplace that won't arrest us. I don't know that. I'm not sure. But that's. That's my guess.

[Shannon]

See, when I heard this story, well, I thought of can they get fired? I mean, they're supposed to show up.

[Matt Jones]

He says they can, but I don't know. I don't. It's in the Texas legislature. I mean, you know, congress people. That's one of the interesting things. You can elect like a senator and they could just never do anything. And you really can't do anything about fire.

[Shannon]

Em. Can't get him fired.

[Matt Jones]

You can never do anything. Like, like they could just be like.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Eh, just don't reelect them.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, that's the. What they. That's in theory what you could do is not, is not reelect them. But I.

[Shannon]

So these 14 Democrats got in a van. They're partying all the way in a van.

[Matt Jones]

I think they probably flew. I don't know. Maybe they did take a van. I don't know.

[Drew]

Is this like Billy Gillespie when they're trying to fire. Yeah, they just think if we're hiding, we don't have to protect.

[Matt Jones]

They've done this before. Like this is the way. Because you have to have a quorum. And they're not the first people to do it. I mean other people in, other legislators have done it. But this. What I found interesting about this is they called the vote. You have to call it in 20. So they had to get out in 24 hours. So they just had to have just packed a bag and get out of the states. Had to get out. Yeah. So anyway, I, I think the three of us could go a long time. Eric. Go ahead. Eric.

[Ozone]

Hey, what's up, guys?

[Matt Jones]

What's going on? Hey.

[Ozone]

So lodolo is. I'm a Cubs fan, so I listen to the pregame. He got a blister within like 30 minutes of the game starting. Therefore they couldn't scratch him. Therefore he had Throw one pitch where they could take him out.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

That makes sense.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, see, I didn't realize that. All right, that makes sense. That makes sense. Apparently he pitched. I. I turned the game on in the third inning. Apparently he maybe pitched. Appreciate the call. The first inning and then one pitch of the second inning. I thought it was just one pitch overall, but still, that makes sense. If you can't scratch him. Well, what do they do? Like, if someone has a heart attack, Shannon, in those 30 minutes. Sorry, go out there, you're going to have to throw one.

[Shannon]

Yeah, throw one pitch.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

We can't scratch it in there after that first.

[Matt Jones]

That's interesting. After the first 30 minutes. You might have a Weekend at Bernie situation if you went ahead and put them down.

[Drew]

I wonder what the worst injury that's happened where they had to, you know, do the 30 minute.

[Matt Jones]

That's a great question.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Broken leg.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, exactly. They have like a. Like they get run over by the little golf cart, and then they're like, listen, man, but can I please go to the hospital? No, shut up and pitch. So he got it 30 running.

[Shannon]

If he got it 30 minutes before the game, he obviously was warming up and probably the stitching in the ball was a little different. Maybe he's rubbing it, spinning it out of his hand.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, well, that's what people who pitch say. Since. Since you and Shannon didn't. It's the breaking balls or whatever that makes you rub against the.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Okay, so throw fastballs.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, exactly. Throw fastball.

[Shannon]

Change up.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Throw a circle. Change.

[Matt Jones]

Jay, Go ahead, Jay.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt. What's going on?

[Matt Jones]

What's up?

[Caller]

Hey, I got a thought I want to run past you. You know how when Mark Pope assembled last year's basketball team, he did so with a lot of, like, journeyman basketball players, guys that have been in college for a while. They weren't, you know, overly talented, but they were very experienced, and they turned out to be a really good team. Like you said, the whole was greater than the sum of the parts, right?

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Caller]

Okay. I think in my. And just. This is just me, but I think that's what Mark Stoops has done. I think he has brought together a lot of journeyman's football players that have done, you know, they've got a lot of experience in college football. They're not going to be surprised by a big stage or anything like that. And the. The hole can be greater than the sum of the parts. They might not be the most talented team, but they could turn around and win some games. We're just not Expecting them to win, I think.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you're. You're making the case and I appreciate the call that. I bet you if you were to get the PR people for UK Drew, they would make that same case right now. Does that work in football, in basketball? You know, whatever physical limitations that Andrew Carr might have, he could make up for with shooting and football. Can you make up for the fact that the other dude's just quicker than you? I don't know. We'll see.

[Drew]

But I do think that was Stoop's intent when he hit the portal this year, was to get a guys that have played a lot of football wherever they come from. I mean, I think the best defender might be Gusto. Where they from? Like Washington State. You got Pete from New Mexico. I mean, they are literally all over. You got Braun that played a little in the SEC there. As Pete said, they're the beasts of no nation. And that was what UK was trying to put on their roster. Because I think the. That experience was lacking a little bit.

[Matt Jones]

There's no doubt they took a completely different tact in the transfer portal. Before this year. The tack was go get the guys from Georgia and Alabama that were second string, have them come here and then they'll let them play. It didn't totally work. So now it's go get the guy from New Mexico State and from Akron and from Washington State and get just. They were their best player. Now bring them here. That's what. And that's what Pope did for basketball. To be fair, that was the same thing.

[Drew]

You got Western, Marshall, I mean, all kinds of levels, but guys that play a lot of football.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

So that theory we are given a lot more important to the transfer portals. Kind of maybe one of the reasons Vince left. Right.

[Matt Jones]

Because they put no doubt that if you were. I mean, if we. Vince believe. Vince was not given total control over the portal. He had, I think some say, but he didn't have total control. He kind of did have total control on the high school recruiting. And I think as we moved more and more to the portal, Vince got pushed a little more and more to the background. And that's. I think that probably was part of it. I've been told Louisville's kind of given him close to total control over the portal, which I don't think Stoops, for whatever reason wanted to do at Lexington. Lexington Sporting Club is taking on Phoenix Rising FC on Saturday, August 9th at 6pm Bring the kids to the end of summer Summer back to school Bash Chick Fil A Help Chick FIL A will help Kentucky Fayette County Public School students prepare for the first day of school and you can as well by dropping off off school supply donations. It's Lex Sporting.com support your team. They play the Phoenix Rising Lexington Sporting Club. Go by else SC Stadium or get tickets@LexSporting Club.com couple open lines 859-280-2287 take a break. Go over what's next on my list.

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[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio 8592802287 the Dirt Bowl I just got to ghost Tonight and Thursday and the playoffs are Friday and Saturday.

[Shannon]

I mean, some of the best players around playing it like ex college players. They've had ex NBA guys playing that out there.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. Otago, according to On3Sports, Kentucky Sports Radio hurt his ankle at the Jason Tatum CP3 camp. But he's going to be okay. But has. That's why he wears the boot and why. And another person writes, why is Jaden Quaintance dunking in slides?

[Drew]

It's my biggest takeaway in the photo. I didn't notice. Always boot. I'm like, why is our lottery pick who's recovering from injury dunking on a street ball court without even wearing tennis flops?

[Shannon]

Maybe that's a great sign. Maybe he's farther along.

[Matt Jones]

But still, I don't know that anyone should dunk in flip flops when you can. Yeah. While they're rehabbing to her, I think I'm going to go ahead and say get some padding in there. That's what. That's what. What I'm going to ask for. Okay. Next thing on my list, Sec Hard Knocks starts tonight on Netflix. Maybe out right now. You're going to watch it. It's not going to be pretty for us.

[Drew]

I tried to start it this morning. Had to drive to Louisville. I got to see a little bit, but yeah, it's out. Jack Pilgrim even wrote a little recap. I guess he stayed up all night watching it and working on it. Of the UK parts. But good or bad, I haven't seen the. I haven't seen everything that's been out there yet. But I know the games that they went to weren't good. So I. I don't know how they can paint in too good of a light.

[Matt Jones]

How many episodes are there?

[Drew]

I looked right at and can't even think. I don't know the exact number I'm gonna watch it.

[Matt Jones]

But it's. I feel like it's gonna be.

[Shannon]

Well, especially if you said episode one is the South Carolina game at home and then.

[Matt Jones]

And we got destroyed.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I don't know. So you're gonna watch it?

[Shannon]

Yeah, I'm gonna watch it.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I'll watch it. I like the wwe. Unreal thing. Shannon, have you seen that?

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

No, I've heard about it.

[Matt Jones]

Pretty good.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

Seen it yet?

[Matt Jones]

It's pretty good. I mean, I completely stole it off us, but otherwise it's pretty good.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

That's on Max.

[Matt Jones]

No, it's on Netflix.

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

On Netflix. Okay.

[Matt Jones]

It's pretty good. It's worth. It's worth watching. It's kind of cool to see the behind the scenes and see how things go.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you don't know how much of it's like how much of even that is staged. But then again, you know, I mean, there are people who think in wrestlers it was that. I can tell you it wasn't. I mean, I lived through it.

[Shannon]

So I wonder what you guys thought, because I saw part of the trailer where they're actually going to the. Into the writers room. Writers.

[Matt Jones]

That's the one thing Al didn't want to do. I didn't want us to. To now. I mean, they filmed some of it and they. But I was kind of. When I told Al about it, that was the one thing. He was like, I don't want us to do that. And I go, well, somebody's gonna do it one day. And he was like, no, they won't. And then a couple years later, they did it. But they filmed us in that room. But I don't think they, they didn't air it. I don't think it's in there.

[Shannon]

I mean, there's pulling back the curtain and then they're pulling it back all the way.

[Matt Jones]

Pulling it back. Yeah. Yeah. So I, I, I, I liked what I've seen so far. I've only seen one episode. Jamie. Go ahead, Jamie.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt. Right now, all of the boys are on the way to Wrigley Field to watch the Cubs and the Reds.

[Matt Jones]

Oh, that'll be fun. You ever been?

[Caller]

Yeah, I have not.

[Matt Jones]

You'll love it. It's cool.

[Caller]

Cramped in an acadia right now with no air conditioning.

[Matt Jones]

That sounds awful, but it's fun. Like, give yourself time to walk around the neighborhood. I mean, in, in the environment, like, you'll, you'll love it. I mean, the Cubs, Wrigley Field, you'll enjoy. It's, it's a very unique place. Yeah.

[Caller]

My question is, if you could pick three players out of this upcoming 26 recruiting class, who would they be?

[Matt Jones]

Well, I'm not the best person to ask. Cause I don't know. And I appreciate the call. I don't follow it enough. I'll defer over here to Drew. I do want Tyron Stokes since he's number one player in the country and Louisville wants him. It'd be nice to beat Louisville for a kid that grew up in Louisville for the number one player in the country. So that one I want. Who else should I want?

[Drew]

Well, they're that point guard you got. They're looking at Darren Rippey. He's second ranked second in the class.

[Matt Jones]

So you could get one and two.

[Drew]

So he's the second ranked point guard. Excuse me. Overall though, he's still in the combo. He's a five star.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Drew]

1011 overall. But secondary, point guard. And then the Kentucky kid, Tylen Kenny.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Are we. But I thought he was going to Louisville.

[Shannon]

I don't know if he's committed anywhere.

[Matt Jones]

Yet, but I mean that's where people think he's going.

[Shannon]

Oh, I don't know. Not sure.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I would love to see.

[Shannon]

He's good friends with Jasper. I think one of the things I.

[Matt Jones]

Want to see is how does. How does Pope do with freshman? You know, we still don't know yet. Right. Like, I mean, we still don't know is this. Let's see how things go with Jack. But you do it. Do you? If the number one player in America wants to come, do you want to get him? Yes, of course you do.

[Drew]

Of course you do. Been counting him.

[Matt Jones]

Louisville's thought they've had him him for years and if we could take him and then just be able to just make them weep, that would be amazing.

[Shannon]

Yeah. Not only is he the number one player, he's a Kentucky kid that grew up like Louisville grew up liking Louisville. So if you can steal him away, that's a big.

[Matt Jones]

That's a bed. That's a huge gift.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

So that's my one. As far as everybody else, I'm not going to say I don't follow it. I. Well, I don't call it like I used to, but I still think the majority of our teams in the future will be built in the portal or with guys we have. So I think we're back to the days where we need like three guys instead of we need like eight guys when it was with Cal.

[Drew]

And I think this upcoming year, especially if they play the way we're all expecting them to, I prioritize a lot of that roster. You want low back, you probably want Chandler back, you want Trent, Noah back, Marino back. If Jasper doesn't go pro, you want Jasper back. I mean a lot of the guys that are on this current team or we're hoping they're two year guys even more.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, the. The Croatian kid. Right.

[Drew]

Really most of the roster outside of away and I don't know who's seniors.

[Matt Jones]

But seniors like Cam Aberdeen. Aberdeen. Diabate Ozan. Is that right? Ozon?

[Kentucky Sports Radio]

That's right. Yep.

[Matt Jones]

Ozon, how are you?

[Ozone]

I'm good. How you guys doing?

[Matt Jones]

Good. I hear you're from the Dirt Bowl, Is that right?

[Ozone]

Yes. I am.

[Matt Jones]

I've got like a minute explain to people that don't know what it is.

[Ozone]

What it is. It's me and summer league basketball. Me and summer basketball league. It started back in 1967. We've been running it, man, for over almost 50 years, I guess. Over 50 years. So what we do, we have a lot of guys who play college ball, high school ball, and some professional guys who come back in the summer to work on their games and stuff. So right now we're in the semi final quarterfinals of our playoffs and the final four is Thursday and our championship games are Sunday.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so you play tonight?

[Ozone]

Yes, we play tonight. Then we have a day off tomorrow and then our final four is Thursday evening.

[Matt Jones]

I may go Thursday. Yeah, I hear you. I hear there's food. Is there good food?

[Ozone]

I. The food is spectacular. We have plenty. Thursday nights is probably the best night to come up in the front of the park. We have live music in the front of the park and then we have a lot of food vendors out there. And the food is spectacular. You have to come out, get you a friedfish sandwich.

[Shannon]

Oh, dude, man, when you pull up.

[Drew]

This, will you go Thursday?

[Matt Jones]

Go Thursday, get some fish.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

And then watch a little basketball dog. Ozon, can I dance with the music?

[Ozone]

Oh, yeah, most definitely.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Ozone]

Most definitely. As long as I can dance, man. They give you all type of music, anything you want, man. It's pretty dope.

[Matt Jones]

Well, all right. You sold me. Appreciate it. Ozone.

[Ozone]

All right, man. I hope to see you guys out there.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, I'm gonna go Thursday. I can walk from my house.

[Shannon]

You need to because parking's tough.

[Matt Jones]

Yes. So just walk.

[Shannon]

Yeah, just walk.

[Matt Jones]

That's right. 859-280-2287. We'll come back, take your calls, go through the rest of this list. Kentucky Sports Radio.

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