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Shannon Dawson
Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Now here's Matt Jones.
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Matt Jones
Welcome back. Hour number two, Kentucky Sports Radio 859-280-2287 here at Shady Rays in Louisville. Great crowd. It's been awesome to see everybody out here. They now have prescription sunglasses. Old man Lemon here got some prescription sunglasses from Shady Rays.
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Ryan Lemond
You know, I noticed all the ladies kind of checking me out now. I know why because I got these prescription sun.
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Matt Jones
You know what, those look just. It just hit me. Who wears sunglasses like that? That's Joe Biden. That's exactly right. He is wearing Joe Biden sunglasses. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. My sister, you are exactly right. Those are Joe Biden sunglasses.
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Ryan Lemond
I'm just, I'm just an old boy from Scranton.
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Shannon Dawson
Those are thick too.
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Matt Jones
Those are thick. Exactly right. 85928022871 person right wrote last night. Matt, did you go to any sporting events in South Africa. So while I was there, their little rugby team, the Springboks, played a big game. So I went to a bar and watched it. That was awesome. But I did go to a South African soccer game. One of their pro leagues, the Orlando Pirates, which is one of their big teams. It was. And I'm not just saying this, Drew. This is not an exaggeration. This is not Matt hyperbole. And it was the wildest scene I've ever been in in my entire life, bar none. And I don't think they'll ever be one. Top it. An absolute. Yeah. What made. I don't. What made it crazy in the atmosphere. It was awesome. And again, like sports fans, like college basketball fans, we can have good student sections, but we did. We got nothing for overseas soccer. The singing, the dancing, the. It's just a whole nother thing. But it was wild getting into the stadium in the middle of Soto at night. Let's just say scanning tickets, Drew, is optional. In. In.
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Drew Franklin
So there's not like a clear bag policy.
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Matt Jones
There's no. There is no clear bag policy. There's not even a get through the gates policy. There's not a policy. There is a. If you can get in, you are in. And I go. And it was supposed to be me, one of the local gods and my tour guide. It was going to be a bros night out, right? Because I've been around eight women for 11 straight days and it was going to be me and these two locals and they. It was just going to be the three of us. And then some of the women in the group were like, we want to go. And you can't sit there and say no, you all can't go. So they went and they were. They were lovely. But it led to chaos because soccer in South Africa, unbeknownst to me, pretty much only men go, right? Had it just been me, I would have been the only. Literally in 30,000 people, I would have been the only white person there. We now had five, but they were all with our group, right? And it was awesome, but it was chaos. And this, you walk through the front entrance. There's only one entrance. There's not a southwest, southeast, northwest, northeast. It is one entrance. And they have tickets. But tickets, like KSR facts are optional because tickets are optional. People are just jumping through the gates. People are trying to push in. I looked down at one point and there was like a seven year old boy wrapped around my leg trying to have me like carry him in on my leg. I'm not. You think I'M kidding. I am not kidding. He was on my leg. And you know what? I kind of appreciated the tenacity. I was gonna let him just. Just because there were so many people in. It was a mob of people that the ticket takers were just trying to keep people from jumping over the thing. They weren't looking down. And I was going to just drag this kid in with me on my leg. And then he got kind of detached and he ended up not he snuck in somewhere else, but trying to take those women through the crowd and trying to get through there. And, you know, I'm like the biggest person in the country. For whatever reason. There's not a lot of tall people in South Africa. I think other parts of Africa have more tall people. Not a lot of tall people there. So I can see over everything. And I'm like, this is chaos. But it was awesome. But I'm not going to act like for about 10 minutes your boy Matt was not a little nervous. I would have been fine for myself. But then having those women and kind of feeling like Ryan, I needed to protect him, even though I probably didn't, but I kind of felt like I needed to. We had local guides with us. I could see in their face that they were like, we need to get out of these scenes. And it was just. It was just a lot and it was awesome. But it was one of those. Next time I hear people go, man, it's crazy down at LSU in a football game, I'm gonna say, well, it's crazy, but I've seen a different kind of crazy.
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Ryan Lemond
Once you got through the entrance, it was fine.
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Matt Jones
Once you got in, it's fine. They don't have the. It's a 40,000 seat stadium. No, like seats. You don't have assigned seating. Get in where you fit in. You know, you take the seat. Whoever gets there, that's who sits there. Which I kind of. I kind of appreciate. But it leads to a mad dash for tickets for seats as well.
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Drew Franklin
I was about to ask, is it like Cedric the Entertainer, like seats four and five? That's me. Get up. You don't have to move people around. No spot.
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Matt Jones
We find your spot. That's your spot. And that's where you're going to sit.
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Shannon Dawson
30 to 40,000 men and five women. I could imagine you got a lot of attention walking around with a group of five women. Yes.
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Matt Jones
A lot of whistling. Yeah, Lot of. A lot of attention. And some of the people in our group had decided they would drink a little bit before the expression herding cats. When you're trying to get, keep a group of people together and everybody's like, look, a flag. And then they go running out. Come back here.
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Drew Franklin
And then you've got to go get your hoodies from the gift shop.
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Matt Jones
I need you to come back over here. We're trying to stay together, like, quite, quite a seat.
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Ryan Lemond
Did the home team win? Was there?
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Matt Jones
They won and it was awesome. I mean, the singing and the dancing, like, they, they have songs for every single thing that happens. And like, I was singing them, I didn't even know, like, it was the language, but it didn't matter. I. Once it got going, it was, it was awesome. And by the way, no real parking. You just streets. People just like drop people off, you know. When we left, I said, where? How we getting home? And he was like, we'll, we'll, we'll get in a van. And then we did.
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Shannon Dawson
So. So what you're saying is the atmosphere was nothing like Kroger Field at all?
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Drew Franklin
I think you're.
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Shannon Dawson
Can we take some of those traditions.
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Matt Jones
The tradition of you sit down where like first come, first serve? Yeah. That may not help our donors, but it creates a better atmosphere because the people who want to be in it, they're down there next to the field and they're there being loud.
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Drew Franklin
While you were out, they sent out a survey asking for help with Kroger Field fans. What would you like to see added? I think you should suggest tickets. No. No admission. Just let everybody in and find a seat.
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Matt Jones
You. I guarantee you get a better atmosphere. All right. UK basketball, they announced yesterday. Six games this year, Ryan. On the computer. Yeah, six games on the computer. Big Blue Madness. What? The UK Georgetown exhibition game is on the computer, which surprised me. And then all parts of the BBN or whatever we're calling the BBN Classic. And then the game against Bellarmine. Six computer games. In years past, we've had one or two, Ryan. Now we have six.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, we met the new play by play guy. He came to the KS Bar. I can't remember his name. Noah maybe, or something like that.
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Matt Jones
What do you mean, new play by play guy?
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Ryan Lemond
They got to play, but their own play by play got to do these games on the computer. You know, the streaming games.
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Drew Franklin
You met him?
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, he was. He came into the restaurant. I thought you were there that day.
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Matt Jones
No, talking about.
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Drew Franklin
I don't know what he's talking about either.
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Matt Jones
The guy.
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Ryan Lemond
Not the radio guy? No, they're for their TV streaming.
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Matt Jones
Oh, okay. I was like, did Tom Leach get fired? While I was gone. A lot of big news while you were okay. Oh, so you're saying the guy to do the computer game? Yes.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
And it's just a random guy.
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Ryan Lemond
He's a permanent employee now for uk, I think. Remember last year they had campus, they brought this other guy and he's going to do like softball and some other game.
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Matt Jones
What's his name?
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Ryan Lemond
I have to look it up.
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Matt Jones
Okay, well, it sounds like he made a great impression on you, but besides the new play by play guy that you met but don't remember. What do you think, Drew, about the fact that Steve, six games are on the computer?
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Drew Franklin
Oh, I've already heard about it from a lot of fans. I, you know, I've gotten used to it and I expected to be a lot. Six still seems very high when the fan base is still figuring it out. And there are people who literally don't have that option. So I hate that it's so many. But as we've seen, they've been giving us just a little more each year for several years. We knew it was heading this direction.
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Matt Jones
Good for ks. Bar will be filled those games because people won't. They don't have the access to get it. That'll be the only way they can see it. They do get the blue white game this year. You'll get to watch last year. If you remember, it was not on streaming. You had to like, Well, I don't know. I don't remember how you could watch. There were people sitting there but they didn't show the game.
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Drew Franklin
It was really expensive to get in.
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Matt Jones
It was really expensive. You get to see the game. But this is going to continue happening. I mean, Shannon, like, I mean there are. They're NBA games this year. They're only on the computer. Like this is going to continue to happen.
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Shannon Dawson
It is like Drew said, I feel like they're just inching each year more and more towards eight, you know, probably next year. I wouldn't be surprised if they had that many. And then, you know, you look at the NFL, they want to watch NFL games. You got to have Amazon prime, you got to have Netflix, you got to have all these different streaming services just to be able to watch the game. And I feel like college basketball is probably going in that direction.
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Matt Jones
The only thing that makes me like, my question though is only what is the SEC network showing on a Tuesday night in November that's better than having a UK basketball.
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Shannon Dawson
They still never use that alternate channel.
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Matt Jones
They've never. But I mean, used to be all those games would be on the SEC network when we played Tennessee Tech. What are they showing Drew on a Tuesday night at 7 o' clock in November that's better than UK's basketball game. I don't understand, like, what's. What's going to be on?
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Drew Franklin
I really don't know. I mean, I know some of our computer games are the BBN United Tip Off Classic, presented by Kentucky Tourism. I know we're all very excited about that. What are they going to have, like volleyball on or a softball replay or show another school who's.
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Matt Jones
It's bbn. What's it called?
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Drew Franklin
The BBN United Tip Off Classic, presented by Kentucky Tourism. And we are going to run the table on that damn thing. I cannot wait. But it is part of the streaming package.
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Matt Jones
Sounds like an exciting event. Sounds like they got you.
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Drew Franklin
Last year, I'm the only one that tried to make something of the BBN Invitational. I asked the players why they didn't cut down the nets. They looked at me like I had five heads. But this year we're going to win the BBN United Tip of Classic, presented by Kentucky Tourism. And I hate that it's not on tv.
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Shannon Dawson
Well, at least they're getting their money's worth.
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Matt Jones
I was surprised. Kentucky Georgetown, like the real Georgetown. Yeah, the exhibition game. I was surprised as a computer game.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, they're trying to, you know, get people to buy those subscriptions. Right. So they're going to straighten it out and try to get as much money out of our pockets as they possibly can.
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Matt Jones
How many of you all just out of curiosity, how many of you have access to that service? Raise your hand. I mean, that's a lot smaller than you think. I mean, I honestly thought that was going to be like 70 or 80%. It was like 30 or 40.
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Drew Franklin
Well, just.
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Matt Jones
I mean, that's. That actually, that shows you, though, Ryan. I mean, you are, when you decide to do that, you are taking the game away from a significant amount of your fans.
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Ryan Lemond
I think just gambling that they're going to maybe people tune in, watch and play Purdue, get excited about the team, and then subscribe to get that Georgetown game.
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Matt Jones
I mean, yeah, I guess that's what you're hoping for, but I mean, we've had a lot of. If Shannon.
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Drew Franklin
I think everybody's going to just change their mind all of a sudden.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I mean, we've had a lot of games on there over the years. If they haven't subscribed yet, then they're probably not, in some ways, you know.
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Shannon Dawson
Probably not going to. But like you said, the good thing about it is come to KS Bar. We'll have all the games on there. Good for our business.
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Drew Franklin
We have Richie and Buck on earlier this week and Buck was talking about this like how upset it makes his dad. Like this is the state school, but you've got to have 11 apps and pay all this money just to support, you know, local team you've watched since birth.
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Matt Jones
That's. That's a really good point. Basketball team's been working out. I could tell you. I got one. Normally I text to get information in the text machine. So I'm a little drought information. Except I did email. Wow.
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Shannon Dawson
Mitch Barnhart. Yes.
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Matt Jones
I had to. I had to grandpa an email for some information and got it last night. A source tell me Drew basketball team in practice could not be more excited in terms of how they look as they said. As one person said to me, when the season starts, we're probably about on the level of the season starts we had last year, but that this team's upside was, quote, infinitely higher than the team's last year. They knew last year they had a ceiling that was going to be like what they were this one. They think the ceiling is significantly higher.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I keep hearing about depth. Like, you know, who knows if there'll be a national championship contender, but the floor is very, very high. I mean, they're going to be good regardless.
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Matt Jones
They're going to be good.
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Drew Franklin
So many pieces. And then another thing that keeps coming out is last year at this time it was, they look good. Pope's a good coach. But do they have an NBA talent this year? Seems to be several, you know, potential guys. They still have to go out and do it. But a lot of guys that are on NBA draft boards on this roster.
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Matt Jones
All year last year, I would say I love this team and I did love them and they're great and they're awesome, but there's no NBA player. And I took a lot of heat for that over the year. There really wasn't. I mean, Bray and Amari might make their teams, but they're not. They're NBA players on this year's team. They may not make it next year, but there are NBA multiple guys who can play in the NBA and I think you got to have at least a couple of those if you're going to win. You can get your picture with the Heisman Trophy at Don Franklin Lexington Nissan on Richmond Road Lexington, October 17th. That's pretty good, isn't it?
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, that's pretty good.
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Matt Jones
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Matt Jones
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wow. Liam's bringing the music here, Shannon, isn't he?
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Shannon Dawson
What do we got here? Who is this?
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Matt Jones
What is this?
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Shannon Dawson
Ricky Skaggs.
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Ryan Lemond
The old home place.
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Matt Jones
There you go, Liam. Getting some Ricky Skaggs in here. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-228. Said we haven't opened up the phones. I. I don't know if we'll get to it or not. We'll see. We got a lot of stuff going on. We do have some breaking news. Liam, do you have the button?
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Shannon Dawson
Just breaking news.
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Matt Jones
There you go. All right. Drew just saw this. Billy Gillespie has been put on administrative leave by Tarleton State for an unnamed violation. He will not be coaching. And in the interim, during his time is a name we're familiar with, Glenn Cyprian, former assistant coach with Billy Gillespie here at Kentucky. With will be the coach while Billy is on. Administratively. Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
It says they're investigating a complaint. So.
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Matt Jones
Unfortunately I probably have a guess.
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Drew Franklin
Might not be great for Billy there. Cyprian stepping in for him.
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Matt Jones
Sorry to hear that. You know, Billy's been obviously a troubled guy for a while and I, I wish him nothing but prayers and success. But I'm sorry to hear that. That's tough news for a guy who's, you know, been. Been up and down a lot.
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Drew Franklin
And then I little switching directions would stay with the Billy staff. Wasn't Alvin Brooks on his staff? Because the.
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Matt Jones
He was when he first was getting started.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, he was back at UK practice for. For young Alvin Brooks just. Just earlier this week.
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Matt Jones
Can we just take a second, sir? I know you and I talked about this to give a little shout out to my Reds, who waited till I got out of the country. Oh, come on, you could do better than that. For the real estate. They made the playoffs.
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Drew Franklin
Everybody put your brooms down and clap.
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Matt Jones
They. They did make the playoffs.
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Shannon Dawson
Thanks for coming.
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Matt Jones
It was very quick. It was a quick time. But you know what? They made it. The games would be in the middle of the night, so I wouldn't really get to see him, but I would wake up and be like, oh, they beat the Cubs again. Oh, they beat the Cubs again. Oh, they beat the Cubs again. Oh, we may have a chance to make it. And then I watched the final game. We lost, but then the Mets choked it away. And we. Here's what was amazing, Shannon. We ended up getting the tiebreaker over the Mets because of a game that I attended.
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Shannon Dawson
Oh, really?
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Matt Jones
Yeah.
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Shannon Dawson
You had a small part in this.
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Matt Jones
In July, they played the Mets up in New York. Okay. I was there. I was watching a guy named Frank the Tank. You all may see he's on barstool, right? He's this. We met him in Frank. He was complaining. He's a Mets fan. He was complaining about their season. And he said, we lost the season July 18 versus the Reds. And all his co hosts were laughing at him like, July 18th. But he's right, because I was at that game. The game was tied. They brought in this dude who they had just gotten for the minor leagues to pitch. He walked the first three guys, then he gave up three straight home runs to the Reds. Everyone was booing. They're like, why is he in? I stood up and gave him a round of applause as he walked out of the game. And they ended up. And the Reds won that game, which gave them the tiebreaker, Shannon. So that when they tied, they were able to make it. And I felt like I had a little piece of it because then I didn't get to see any of it during the two weeks.
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Shannon Dawson
It was a great choke job by the New York Mets getting the Reds in. Now that you didn't get to see them, I mean, do you at least want to go back and watch it on, like, YouTube and I would watch and Feel like they're in the playoffs.
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Matt Jones
I would watch the highlights every morning. I really like. When was his name? John Sadak. The. The play by play guy on the. I like. He gets so excited. So I did enjoy it. I hated that if there had been a home playoff game and I missed it, I'd been upset. But obviously I didn't have to do that. But yeah, it was still from afar. Ryan, exciting to watch him make.
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Ryan Lemond
I got two things I want to ask you about. One, it came out after Hunter Green got rocked that he was tipping off his pitches.
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Matt Jones
He did that earlier this year about this. He did. That's frustrates me because he tipped it off against the Dodgers and got rocked the last time. So if he didn't fix that, that's on him. He should have fixed that.
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Ryan Lemond
The other thing is, you know, the baseball fans are saying, you know, you left the country and UK baseball went to the World Series. You left the country in the red.
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Matt Jones
Winter clowns.
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Ryan Lemond
Will you please leave the country for March Madness this year?
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Shannon Dawson
It would save us a road trip to like San Francisco or some place.
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Matt Jones
That was really. That's rude, Drew. For them to say, but that is true. I guess my two baseball teams both did make a run when I was gone. That's right.
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Drew Franklin
I know you don't want a moral victory, but I mean the fact that they made the playoffs had to have been pretty fun. You don't, you don't get it very often. You get the excitement for a few days. Sure it was short lived, but hell, my team was a World Series favorite and we didn't make the playoffs.
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Matt Jones
So I'm excited about the future. I mean for Reds fans, we got a good staff, good rotation that'll be together for at least the next three or four years. With Green, lodolo Abbott, Chase Burns, Ellie tapered off as the year went on, but had a decent year. I love Marte, the young kid. I like key Brian. We need Matt Mcclain not to stink.
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Ryan Lemond
Yep.
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Matt Jones
But if you can go get one more good, really good bat and get McLean not to be so bad anymore, then I think they can make the playoffs and be good Ryan next year.
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Ryan Lemond
You mentioned my favorite player, TJ Friedel.
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Matt Jones
Man, he's been good.
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Ryan Lemond
He's been really good.
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Matt Jones
They need like one though. They need a power hitter. They need one big power hitter. They. They've met. I feel like if they had that, they would go from. I think they had 83 wins or 84 wins. I think you'd get up into the 90s if they had one Shannon power hitter, they need one.
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Shannon Dawson
Yeah, they're missing just a couple of pieces. But I mean that is enough to get you to renew your season ticket for next year, right? Are you excited about next?
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Matt Jones
I'm going to, I think I will, I think next year. Next year's the pitching staff gives them a chance in every game and so that, that's exciting. Exciting for me to see. Did you all, did you watch any of the games?
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Drew Franklin
While I was watching every baseball playoff game that has been played this week, I've been locked into baseball.
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Matt Jones
Did you see last night the Yankees and the Red Sox played? It was right after my plane had landed. The Red Sox looked to be starting a 13 year old in that game last night. Did you see that kid? He had just been in the majors for like two months and he looked like a child. I mean he looked like a child. And Shannon Place, he, he's been in the major two months. He's starting the clinching game. Yankees, Red Sox in the playoffs. Yankee Stadium.
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Shannon Dawson
I mean, I can't even imagine. Unfortunately they gave him zero run support, so it's kind of hard to win when you don't have any support.
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Matt Jones
And then the other guy like broke the all time Yankees record. He too was a rookie. Broke the all time Yankees record for strikeouts. That's crazy to me.
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Shannon Dawson
Playoffs have been great. They really have. I mean even the, the Tigers and Indians, that was talk about a meltdown. The Detroit lions having a 15 and a half game lead and then blowing it to the Guardians, but ended up getting the series.
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Drew Franklin
Also while you were gone, we could have used your Beth Page score in the Ryder Cup. We needed you out there.
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Matt Jones
Oh yeah. So yeah, talk about for the Ryder cup for a second. You're, you're a big golf guy. Looked like not only did our team choke, but our fans. What a bad performance by our fans. You can't be throwing stuff at people's wives.
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Drew Franklin
On Friday I was playing up to Shannon. I was like, you would love the Ryder cup because you actually get to cheer and heckle a little.
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Shannon Dawson
You didn't mention that I get to throw beer.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, well then on Monday I was like, we went too far, Shannon. That's not how it is actually supposed to be. You know there's rumors out there about Rory that might not even be true. But they're yelling that at him and his wife throwing the stuff. Just a lot of like fus. Which at least be creative and patriotic.
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Matt Jones
I saw that the woman who was the emcee Led a chant of blank you, Rory over the microphone. Yeah, she got in trouble, she'd get fired. How in the world did they let that happen?
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Drew Franklin
I don't know. I mean, I'm all for usa, usa Yelling a few things. Sure. Yell you choke Europeans, you know, stuff like that. But we were way out of bounds.
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Matt Jones
Anybody who travels knows well. All right, we'll talk about it later. We gotta take a break. We'll be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. T.J. smith, personal injury attorney.
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Shannon Dawson
Call T.J. he'll make him pay. Now, more Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.
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Matt Jones
Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Liam, your. Your music choices entertain me. Who is this? Vern Gosden. Who is this? Don Williams. Don Williams. Did not expect to hear Don Williams today here at shady rays. Buy one if you buy two sunglasses here in the next 30 minutes and right after the show, 50% off the entire purchase here at Shady Rays in Louisville, they got shadyrays.com and one in Lexington from the last night Instagram questions, one person writes. Matt, what about the food in South Africa? Pretty normal stuff. I have a new thing I like, though, and if any Lexington or Louisville restaurant will start serving it, you will have a regular customer in me. I guess we have a restaurant, so in theory we could do that as well. Peri Perry sauce. You ever had that?
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Ryan Lemond
What is it?
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Matt Jones
Have you ever had that? P E R I. P E R I. It's like this flavor of sauce you can put on chicken and stuff. It is the best. I. I'm addicted to it. Apparently there's a chain in America called Nando's that serves that. We don't have that in Kentucky, so I didn't know that it existed. But I'm not going to put out a franchise. One restaurant is plenty. But if anybody ever does, I will be you. Drew, you would like it. Great. Like, it's our kind of taste. Like, it's really good.
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Drew Franklin
We'll give Monique an assignment to try to copycat it.
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Matt Jones
I would love to have some. If we put Peri Peri on wings, like, that's not. It's not a bad idea at all.
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Drew Franklin
Like the Bobby Perry Perry.
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Matt Jones
Bobby Perry Perry sauce. That's right.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, that's one of the things you always talk about when you come on your trips is the food. What is it like in South Africa?
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Matt Jones
It's all right. It's not. It's not like when you think of African cuisine. That's not really how it is in South Africa. South Africa's got a strong, like, European influence. So the food is not, it's not what I would love to have in other parts of Africa, but it's still good, but it's not quite as spicy. And all the things that I was like, hoping it would be, that's not really what they do. A lot of Indian food there, which I do like. But yeah, that was, that was kind of that.
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Drew Franklin
On Cover Zero this week, where we were filling in without you, we had a big conversation about traveling without a phone. We thought about being there, but like the airport boarding pass hard. What do you just stare at the seat?
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Matt Jones
I just want. I just want you to think about your phone for a second because I did not realize how much of our life. Forget about just scrolling like doom scrolling. Just think about how much of your life is now online. So let me just use. For me, without having my phone, I'm locked out every social media app. In order for me to log into it from my computer, I had to log in. They now all send two step verifications and send it to your phone. I couldn't get the text messages, which means couldn't check my bank account. Couldn't check like, couldn't check social media. Uber. Locked out of Uber. So now you don't have an Uber. So when you go somewhere you don't know how to get back, you get to the airport, you don't have a boarding pass. Right. You don't get updates on where your, where, where your flight is when you go out in town. I'm old school. I'm having to go up to people and say, will you call me a cab, please? All right, old man. Like, I couldn't even call a cab. I had to ask someone else to call me a cab. Thankfully, I had turned on the setting on my iPad before I left. That allowed me to get imessages to my iPad. Otherwise, let's just say I didn't have my iPad. Yeah, I don't know what I would have done. I don't know anybody's phone number. Do you know people's phone numbers? No, I don't know. I don't know any of your phone numbers. I don't know my mom's cell phone number. The only phone number I know in my life is my mom's home phone because it was the same phone we had when I was a child. That would have been the only phone number I could have called. And even then I would have had to borrow a phone from someone else and make a phone call. And of course When I met people in South Africa. You can't just go up to a stranger and go, hey, can I make an international call from your phone? Like, you can't do that. Right. So if I hadn't had that imessage thing, I don't really know what I would.
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Shannon Dawson
And when you went out. When you went out in public, did you carry around your iPad?
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Matt Jones
No. I mean, you can't walk around with your iPad when you go places.
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Shannon Dawson
Yes, you could.
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Matt Jones
So, I mean, no, I just walked around, you know, naked. Was not naked, but naked makes you feel like you're electronically naked everywhere I went.
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Drew Franklin
So what other number you know you could have called? 859-280-2287.
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Shannon Dawson
That's right.
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Drew Franklin
Just surprised. It's like, guys, I need your help. I've been trying to get in touch.
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Matt Jones
With America all night. Great point. Called during the show. Shannon would answer. Go, Shannon. Will you tell my mom I'm okay?
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Shannon Dawson
Yeah, I could have relayed that message for you.
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Matt Jones
It's true. Same thing with email. Couldn't get into my email because on email it was. I had verification and it would send a text to my phone and I couldn't. I couldn't get it. So, like, I couldn't log on to anything at all.
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Shannon Dawson
So much of our life is just tied into our phone and you take it for granted. You don't think about it until you.
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Matt Jones
Run into a situation and then you're going, what about. What about Paul Feinbaum says he may run for Senate. Shannon, I wanted your take on that because I know you're a huge Paul Fine Bomb fan.
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Shannon Dawson
Well, I know there's a requirement in politics. You got to be at least 80 years old before they'll take you in. So he fits that requirement. You know, I was thinking maybe that KSR could slide into the SEC network and take over his spot.
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Matt Jones
Well, see, here's what I thought your reaction was going to be.
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Shannon Dawson
What's that?
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Matt Jones
You probably don't care who the senator for Alabama is going to be.
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Drew Franklin
No.
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Matt Jones
But now you might get a show on the SEC network that you actually might want. You might be replaced by somebody exciting.
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Drew Franklin
Or you could do the replacing, because.
- [30:40]
Shannon Dawson
God knows this show isn't exciting. It's like eating a dry salad. Dressing, you know, no croutons either. Just lettuce.
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Matt Jones
That's the qualified bomb show. Dry salad, no dressing, no croutons.
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Shannon Dawson
Yes, a bowl of. Bowl of lettuce. That's Paul. Fine.
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Matt Jones
Bomb.
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Drew Franklin
Could we get Fombom versus Pearl? Are we. Is this setting Up.
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Matt Jones
Oh, my gosh. That would be hilarious.
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Drew Franklin
Isn't that kind of what it would be?
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Matt Jones
I, what's, here's what's funny about Paul. And listen, it would be hypocritical of me as somebody who likes sports, who's dabbled in politics to say he shouldn't do it. He should do whatever he wants. Same thing with Bruce Pearl. Do whatever you want. But what's hilarious to me is watch these people I know just completely flip in order to get public approval. Fine. Bomb is a liberal and he has been forever, and now he wants to run for Senate and all of a sudden he's a conservative. In 2016, I remember having conversations with Five Bomb. I won't share them because they were private, but about Trump. And now he said, if Trump calls me, I'll run. Like, what, what, what are you doing? Like you. It's just, it is hilarious to me to watch people who just like the public thing is so important to them that they will just flip everything. I hope, I hope he runs. It'll be funny. Hopefully his callers will come to his, will come to his town halls and just start yelling.
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Drew Franklin
Sounds like he's a perfect politician then.
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Matt Jones
That's true.
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Drew Franklin
So you mentioned the calls. It's good for his constituents. He will take their calls and hear them out, let them talk. It's just, let them say just whatever they want as long as they want.
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Matt Jones
That's true. He'll have a town hall and he'll just hand the microphone. Microphone to the person. Just sit back, sit back.
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Ryan Lemond
Let him talk for five minutes. All right, great call. Next call.
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Matt Jones
Shannon.
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Drew Franklin
Here's Phyllis.
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Matt Jones
But now you might get, who knows, Shannon, maybe they'll even ask us now to, to, to replace it.
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Shannon Dawson
Well, you're still banned, so I don't know if you get to be on there.
- [32:35]
Matt Jones
Right.
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Shannon Dawson
Well, banned from the show or the network? Which one is it?
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Matt Jones
I've been on the network, so I, I have, I, I listen, Paul's been. In all seriousness, I based this entire gig, this entire thing, this entire network, the entire idea of what ksr, the radio show was. I based it on what Fine Bomb set up in Alabama before he was on the SEC network. Fine Bomb set up this model in Alabama where basically you had one station and then you took a lot of affiliates and you essentially just, it was a fan base show. Now he's very different than me, but, like the whole thing. And I went down there and I met with him and we talked about how you did it, and he's been a great help to me over the years. So I, I genuinely like Paul Fine. Bob. With that said, when the SEC network somebody at Missouri got mad, he didn't really take up for me. He would say that he was taken up for me and then he really didn't. And then I later found out that it flipped and the SEC network was cool with us and then he just didn't want to have me on, which is totally his right. It's his show. I wish him nothing but success. But I do think it would be kind of exciting, Drew, to have a different show there even if it wasn't us, just something else. Because the sort of him just staring into the camera for hours. It might be nice to see something else.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah. And the callers were fun when it was new to all of us who hadn't followed forever. But now it is kind of the same. People yelling at each other over and over. When I turn it on, the only time to ever catch it is after an Alabama loss, which luckily in the new era we've gotten a little more than we did in the past.
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Matt Jones
Ryan, you were never a fan when I made you listen on the road.
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Ryan Lemond
Whether you like that boring radio show or not, it is a success story as far as sports radio goes. But it is a boring, awful show to try to get to for four hours.
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Shannon Dawson
The callers are what makes four hours?
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Matt Jones
It is four hours. That's. That's a long time. Tell me about stock to mortgage.
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Ryan Lemond
Stock to mortgage. You know, rates have dropped a little bit so the real estate market has really picked up in the last couple months or so. So if you're thinking about you've been on the fence and you've been waiting for the time, now might be the right time. Get that closing in before the winter hits. So Stockton Mortgage can help you all every step of the way. There's Stockton Mortgages all over Kentucky. There's a bunch of them here. When matter of fact our corporate offices are located here in Louisville. So give them a call. Go on the website stockton.com nmls8259/equal housing.
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Matt Jones
We'Re excited when the interest rates dropped. I thought of you because you were like now here we go. Me and my Joe Biden sunglasses. I'll be able to start selling houses.
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Ryan Lemond
I actually had to put my realtor hat on in the past month or so cuz it's been a little busy the last couple weeks. So.
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Matt Jones
Yeah wow.
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Ryan Lemond
So maybe my maybe if I knew a friend that maybe was looking for a house in Lexington Maybe been shopping for about four years. Maybe now's the time to get looking.
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Shannon Dawson
For a house for a long time.
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Matt Jones
When I find it though, then we'll be ready to go. We'll take a break, come back. Final segment here in Louisville. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Matt Jones
Welcome back. Final segment here Kentucky Sports Radio. On my return show I will be hopefully don't have to miss a day from now until March. I don't have one plan knock on wood but you hopefully without a sickness or something won't have to do that. So I'm excited to be back. A couple things here at Shady Race. First of all thank you the woman who made me the is that was that a blanket or a throw? Either. Well you made it. Which one do you. All right. I'll just call it a blanket. Who knit it? It is wonderful. A Kentucky one. Thank you very much for for doing that. That is very very sweet one. Oh also tomorrow game is at noon. We we're gonna have it at KS Bar. Please come visit KS Bar this weekend. Come before the Eric Church concert tonight. We'll have stuff going the game tomorrow or after to watch the games or Sunday. Love to have you all out there. We haven't had some home games in a while so come see us and then next week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we will be there for the show. But we'd love to have you come out to KS Bar this week and come say hi to everybody before we get to big blue madness Saturday 3rd. And I wanted to note this, this happened while I was gone right after, right after I left. I want to note the passing of our friend Manny Robertson he's somebody who's been a friend of mine for a long, long time. He was part of the owner group of the place next door to us, but has been in our lives and people in Lexington for a long time. That happened right before I left. I hated I had to miss his funeral. But his brother Scotty is a good friend of ours and he also huge UK fan. I mean, if you watch uk, you've probably seen. You probably saw him in the crowd, sometimes just a few rows up, cheering. But I also want to say to him, he or say to his family, everybody knows he was a great friend to the people he was friends with, one of whom is standing next to me. You know, you gotta hope in life you have somebody that's as loyal to you as Manny was to his friends. Aaron Fleener, who's our friend, who's a caddy with J.T. poston, he traveled all over the world to go cheer that guy on in golf tournaments, the US Open, the British Open with our friend Kent Bull. When he played, Manny would be there cheering him and his. I've watched him over the years, how good he was to Drew, specifically one of maybe Drew's best friend as an adult. And I know it was difficult on you, Drew, but I wanted to say God bless Manny. God bless his family. No bigger UK fan. And to me, for people, there was no better way to be a friend than the way Manny Robertson was a friend to people.
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Drew Franklin
Thank you very much for saying that. We all love Manny. I got a chance to talk a little bit about him on this show. You're gonna get me teared up. I thought it was gonna cry tomorrow watching Kentucky football playing Georgia, but you got me in my feelings here. You mentioned Fleener. They're playing their first tournament right now since. Since Manny passed. They're wearing Manny ribbons, and last I saw, they're in fifth. So maybe Manny can pull them to a win.
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Matt Jones
That would be great.
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Drew Franklin
That would be pretty magical. But, yeah, we're. We're missing pretty bad. It's not gonna get easy for a while, but we're trying to just focus on the. The good times and how lucky we were.
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Matt Jones
Well, one of the things Manny would always talk to me about when it was time was he wanted to talk about the gambling for the weekend. So we might as well, in honor of Manny, do it right now. DraftKings sportsbook promo code is KSR. While I was gone, you all hit another KSR parlay. So we are now. That's two for the year. If you bet Them all. You would have money. Even if we lose every single one from now till the end of the year, you would come out in positive. So everything else is just a bonus now that we've hit two. But let's go ahead and do it. I'll pick mine first since I wasn't part of the last one. I'm going to take. Well, which one did I want? Miami. But what was the other one that came up in a minute later? Yeah, I'll stick with Miami. I'm going to take Miami to cover the four and a half again on the road at Florida State. I think Miami's legitimate. I think Florida State's living a little bit off that Alabama victory to start the season. Give me Miami to cover the four and a half against the Florida State. What do you got?
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Shannon Dawson
Florida has been awful this year. They're going to continue to be awful. They're going to lose tomorrow. Texas is coming into town and I'm going to take Texas to win at Florida.
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Ryan Lemond
Iowa State's ranked 14th in the country and they're on the road at Cincinnati and they're an underdog. So I'm taking Iowa State to win at Cincinnati.
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Matt Jones
They're going at Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Scott Satterfield. Scott's tots have been better than you would think so far this year.
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Ryan Lemond
Not tomorrow.
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Matt Jones
Okay. By the way, did you go to Dane Keys game against Nebraska? Michigan? How was that?
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Ryan Lemond
The atmosphere was incredible. Of course, it was an awesome game. He only had two catches and he's a little disappointed after the game because they lost. But it was an unbelievable environment.
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Matt Jones
Did you enjoy it?
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Ryan Lemond
Every second of it.
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Matt Jones
Cool. That's awesome. What about you? What's your game?
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Drew Franklin
I'm not gonna leave the city of Louisville. And I gotta be honest, I try not to bet Louisville games because I see through glasses with hatred. I don't actually look at the game.
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Matt Jones
They should have lost last week. That was. I actually got to watch their game and they should have lost, but go ahead.
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Drew Franklin
But they're hosting Virginia. Virginia just cracked the top 25. Six and a half points is too many. Maybe Louisville wins. But I'll take Virginia covering six and a half here in Louisville.
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Matt Jones
Wow. I don't like that pick. I think Louisville's gonna pound them. I think Louisville's gonna end up being like not 10 and 2, but not be very good. And then they'll get left out of the playoff and we'll have to listen to them whine all year because they'll get left out for some team that has three Losses and they're going to be really mad. That's my. You remember I said this? They go 10 and 2. They're not very good. They get left out of the playoff and then they whine about buys the entire offseason. Ryan, write that down. I would bet on that right now.
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Shannon Dawson
I would trade places with them right now, though.
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Matt Jones
Oh, for sure. No, they're better than us.
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Shannon Dawson
They could be in that situation. I'd love to be crying about that.
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Matt Jones
10 and 2 is probably going to be include a win over us. Don't get me wrong now. Kentucky and Georgia game tomorrow's at noon. Our pregame show will be at 9. We're going to do it from the studio, but tune in at 9 o'. Clock. We'll have more to say about the state of football. It's Jeff Pocoro's birthday today, by the way.
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Ryan Lemond
Happy birthday.
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Matt Jones
What do you think, Drew? Any chance or. I mean, there's not a chance for us to win down there, but what are the chances? It's a game in the fourth quarter.
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Drew Franklin
I actually, I said this about South Carolina, though, so here I am walking right into another bad take. But I. I will not be the least bit surprised if Kentucky is in the game for a little while. Being in the fourth quarter, I'll give that like a 10% chance, but this game's traditionally close. Last year was 13 to 12. I don't know if it'll be that ugly, but with the style of play, if Kentucky cannot turn it over four times in a quarter, I think it won't be a blowout. That being said, I don't see any scenario where Kentucky wins it, but I don't think we're going to be looking at like 47 to 7 and come home with something that bad.
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Matt Jones
All right, well, then, let's make a prediction. What's your score?
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Drew Franklin
47 to 10. No, I'm just kidding. 27 9. I think Kentucky cleans up the offense and just can't get into the end zone.
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Matt Jones
279 would be such a mark.
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Drew Franklin
I think.
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Matt Jones
We have three field goals, nine points.
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Drew Franklin
We have three drives where we threaten Cutter Bowley looks a little better. They protect the ball and just still don't find the end zone. That's how I got to the nut.
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Matt Jones
I will say in the first half, I did know Seth McGowan's dude. Like, I don't know if we're gonna get. I don't know if he's gonna get the props he deserves because we're not good. But Seth McGowan's a dude at running back. Like, that's a really good player that I wish we had. I want a better team because I think he's real. What's your score?
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Ryan Lemond
I'm kind of with Drew. I don't think it's gonna be a blowout because you know, Mark Stoops and, and Kirby smarter, like good buddies.
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Matt Jones
Krobi smart, Kirby smarter.
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Ryan Lemond
They're like buddies. And you know, they, they kind of play the same way. So I think in the spread's probably right on. So I'm gonna go 38, 13.
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Matt Jones
Wow. That's. That's all right. 38 13.
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Shannon Dawson
Kentucky is going to try to slow the game down, control the time of possession. I don't think it's going to matter, though. I think Georgia wins 35, 16. Aiden Laros is my MVP.
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Matt Jones
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Back to punt.
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Matt Jones
This is a, I mean, this is a huge game just to keep people even caring for the rest of the year. I mean, we, we go into a buy next week that will have Big Blue madness. This fan base is ready to shift its attention. The Reds have just finished, so to what extent people like that, that's over as well. I mean, everything is going to shift into basketball gear. And if Kentucky takes a big beat down tomorrow, especially an embarrassing beat down, it could be really, really bad. I mean, if they get pounded, then I think it's going to be bad. I don't think they're going to get pounded, but I also don't think they're going to be really competitive. I think it's going to be like 30 to 13 or something like that and we end up taking the defeat. But we will be here at 9am to talk about it. Thank you all very much here at Shady Race. It was awesome to come home and see an absolutely packed crowd. We appreciate it. We will see you tomorrow morning. This has been Kentucky Sports Radio.
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