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Speaker 1: Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington. Welcome's Michael pallisack me seventeenth

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Speaker 1: Lexington in nineteen eighty seven, and they're still bringing the

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Speaker 3: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 4: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: All right, good morning ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls. Crappall's,

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Speaker 2: Grandma's aunts and uncle did is Wednesday, May twenty ninth.

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Speaker 2: This is the Wednesday edition of Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan

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Speaker 2: Levandrew Franklin, and Shannon the Dude here and as always,

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Speaker 2: this edition of Kentucky Sports Radio sponsored by the T. J.

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Speaker 2: Smith Law Office.

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Speaker 5: What happened?

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Speaker 2: Shannon? Oh? There you go?

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Speaker 4: My MIC's working. Hey called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 2: Call TJ. He'll make them pay. We'll have our Kentucky

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Speaker 2: branded Call of Today. Which I think we forgot yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Sha may we'll do two today, okay, rough start, we'll

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Speaker 2: have the Whiskey Thief song of the day. And right

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Speaker 2: here in my right hand the brand new a vision

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Speaker 2: glass text machine, and I just messed it up. There

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Speaker 2: text came in all day, all night. But we're going

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Speaker 2: to start fresh today and it's ready. It's ready to go.

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Speaker 2: And the number is five O two seven three five

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Speaker 6: He remembered it. Shanny wasn't even looking at the back

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Speaker 6: of the phone right there. That was all from memory

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Speaker 6: I had.

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Speaker 3: I think the Ryan just sat in his bed last

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Speaker 3: night just just repeating that in his head so he

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Speaker 3: could get it right today.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you make fun. That's exactly what happened. Because look

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Speaker 2: it's got a little rhythm, you know. Michael Michael Matt

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Speaker 2: has his seven seven four seven seven two eight two

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Speaker 2: O two seven. I can just remember that. Then it's

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Speaker 5: Look at you I'm so proud.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Also, listeners, I want you all to know that yesterday

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Speaker 6: afternoon we got to text the show topics for today.

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Speaker 2: Yes you did.

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Speaker 5: We had homework. This guy over here, this is a

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Speaker 5: brand new man.

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Speaker 2: Well, today is the last day of school in Fayette County.

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Speaker 5: Okay, hallelujah.

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Speaker 2: I mean I used to celebrate this day like it

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Speaker 2: now instead of saying hallelujah, he's gonna be home all

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Speaker 2: Fake County, which means Fayette County graduation is this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Okay with real Bird this weekend, Real Bird with UK

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Speaker 2: Baseball Regional this weekend, it's gonna be a madhouse around downtown.

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Speaker 2: We do still have by the way we're talking about this,

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Speaker 5: It's all process.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just for those that want to come here

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Speaker 2: and you can go to any of our restaurants right here,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you're in charge of the tow truck. We already

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Speaker 6: He said, you can't linger all day. We need those spots.

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Speaker 6: Well, we figured he has the most experienced with needing

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Speaker 6: Actual certified driver, Ryan has the most minutes logged in

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Speaker 2: Well we're gonna do it. Don't think you can park

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Speaker 2: There are still some spots available, not many, but some

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Speaker 2: by at eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I like big announcements. Maybe all announcements big, small, medium.

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Speaker 5: This is big.

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Speaker 2: It's a big one at eleven.

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Speaker 4: Now you can't over sew, under deliver.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, this is this is gonna be over delivered.

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Speaker 6: Have an interesting predicament with parking. Our show ends at

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Speaker 6: eleven fifty five. Yes, as we all know, baseball is

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Speaker 5: Think about walking?

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Speaker 2: You can't get that.

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Speaker 6: I mean it'll add thirty minutes trying to get Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: So you're after the show Friday, you're going to the game.

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Speaker 6: Potentially sprinting, haven't decided yet, or one of those uh

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Speaker 2: Those little scooters, get you a little scooter.

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Speaker 6: Maybe I'll do that. Whatever gets me to uh section

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Speaker 2: Uh, I'm gonna stay here because we're gonna have a

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Speaker 2: watch the game. Here Friday. We're gonna pack it like

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Speaker 2: which first pitch is at noon. It's right.

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Speaker 6: If we get some good weather, maybe we can do

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Speaker 2: You want to do that Friday, We'll see. It's not

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Speaker 2: a bad idea. We're in charge. Today is Wings Day here.

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Speaker 2: Uh so come on out and have lunch with us

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Speaker 2: have to start with today's Today's Jackson Robinson Day. It

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Speaker 2: is today. The Jackson Robinson Watch wraps up. He's gotten

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Speaker 2: Uh the Pulley's name out of the NBA draft. As

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Speaker 2: He's got until midnight to night to pull it out

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Speaker 2: for the Jackson Robinson Watch. We'll be doing it all

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Speaker 2: day long. Drew your what's your projection?

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Speaker 6: with Jackson Robinson. Whatever happens today, if he stays in

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Speaker 6: but we will know by midnight what Robinson is doing regarding.

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Speaker 5: The NBA and then go from there.

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Speaker 6: He might even visit allse places again, who knows, but

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Speaker 6: it won't. It's not like if he returns to school,

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Speaker 6: we just have a parade. He's coming to Lexington. There

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Speaker 2: So if he does withdrawal from the draft, there's really

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Speaker 2: no timeline for him to pick a college right now,

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Speaker 2: right then. And I mean he can wait another month

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Speaker 5: I want to get it done soon.

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Speaker 6: But it's not he won't have his back against the

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Speaker 6: the NBA or college. Who'll have a little time to

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Speaker 6: weigh those three options. Hopefully no one else enters the mix.

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Speaker 6: That's plenty.

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Speaker 2: So Shannon, if you had to look into your crystal ball,

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Speaker 2: what do you think is gonna happen? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you what would happen. If it

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Speaker 3: were me, I would be looking to see how can

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Speaker 3: I maximize the amount of money that I can make? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and I think going to the G League would not

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Speaker 3: be a smart move, So I would probably come back

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Speaker 3: to college, make a ton of nil money with Kentucky,

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Speaker 3: all right, and then improve my draft stock in the meantime,

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Speaker 3: and then come back the next season.

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Speaker 2: And be a first round pick and make the right answer.

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Speaker 2: That's the right answer for sure, no doubt. What what's

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Speaker 2: your prediction?

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Speaker 6: Jack Pilgrim has been keeping up with it on our

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Speaker 6: and he mentions a lot about how the family worries

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Speaker 6: about going to yet another school because he's he'll be

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Speaker 2: I didn't answer the questions this morning, I wrote him,

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Speaker 5: I subbed in for Talers today. We could have used you.

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Speaker 2: I will do it again. He did it.

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Speaker 5: It's over.

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Speaker 2: Maybe for tomorrow you to send you some questions for tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: And the next day you're supposed to do it. You

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Speaker 6: Quest All right, Today's gonna be a big day of

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Speaker 5: And then it happened after midnight.

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Speaker 6: It was an unbelievable amount of traffic on our website Twitter,

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Speaker 2: Well, he admitted he forgot.

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Speaker 5: This was watching Netflix, all right.

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Speaker 2: Ryan Drew and Shannon, this is Kentucky Sports Radio, all right,

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Speaker 2: welcome back. Can take a sports radio, oh, Ryan Drew

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Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, today's your redemption day, though, Drew, so Shanny,

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Speaker 4: It's a new day.

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Speaker 2: They don't trust Drew anymore. They send him a script today.

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Speaker 6: And once again I did this. I tailed advantage of

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Speaker 6: It on that for you I told you about yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'll be doing TV commercials super Bowl commercials

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Speaker 2: I think maybe during the show yesterday, or mean right

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Speaker 2: I think Ben Roberts broke the story or got first

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Speaker 5: There was some incentives.

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Speaker 3: Pope's doing all right though it gets what a quarter

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Speaker 5: Remembering the equipment, that's a huge one.

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Speaker 2: her about the game. So it's a I sent Mat

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Speaker 2: to thank you know, I really appreciate him to let

445
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Speaker 2: us use these tickets because my was you know. It's

446
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Speaker 2: everybody has those memories with their dad out playing catching

447
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Speaker 2: the ball yard, you know, and so now I get

448
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Speaker 2: the experience baseball with my dad. Another way, in the game, we.

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Speaker 6: Got to do those father son trips. I saw your

450
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Speaker 6: Cardinals didn't take it easy.

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Speaker 2: On the route. No, they did not. That's what made

452
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Speaker 2: it even better. The weather was perfect for baseball. I

453
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Speaker 2: mean it was perfect, and the Cardinals end up winning

454
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Speaker 2: seven to one. They'll stinking good for nothing. Neither team

455
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Speaker 2: is very good. No, don't get me wrong, Shannon, neither

456
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Speaker 2: team is very good.

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Speaker 4: Neither one will be going to the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: But I'm glad you had to, uh or got to,

459
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Speaker 3: you know, the opportunity to enjoy a day out with

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Speaker 3: your dad and watch the Reds lose another game.

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Speaker 4: It's always fun.

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Speaker 6: I just did the PGA with my dad, so I

463
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Speaker 6: know which Yeah, going exactly with big golf fans. So

464
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Speaker 6: we were right when Xander hit that shot on eighteen,

465
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Speaker 6: would prist see us? It was just a few feet

466
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Speaker 6: from us. Normally when Mac goes to Cincinnati, though, you know,

467
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Speaker 6: he's throwing peanuts at somebody, or two people are fighting,

468
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Speaker 6: or he's not knowing where to park.

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Speaker 5: Did you just have it? It sounds like you just had

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Speaker 5: a great experience.

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Speaker 2: We were in and out of them. Oh no, all

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Speaker 2: that is a good question.

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Speaker 5: Because there's Matt always has some chaos from Red's game.

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Speaker 2: Well, I completely forgot. Remember when he pushed the old

475
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Speaker 2: lady over on open Do you remember that? That was

476
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Speaker 2: opening day? Yeah, it was opening day. Trying to get

477
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Speaker 2: to the ballpark, we parked that and I parked in

478
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Speaker 2: the parking garage right by the stadium. So walking back

479
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Speaker 2: to the parking garage, we unknowingly got on the wrong

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Speaker 2: elevator and got off on the wrong floor. So we're

481
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Speaker 2: walking around in this huge parking garage trying to find

482
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Speaker 2: the car. I'm like, it's kind of be right here.

483
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Speaker 2: So he starts hitting the alert button. We hear it,

484
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Speaker 2: but we have no idea where it is. We realized

485
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Speaker 2: it's in the floor above us, so we had to

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Speaker 2: walk up the ramp to get up to the floor.

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Speaker 2: Book we got to We not only took the wrong elevator,

488
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Speaker 2: we took the wrong got off on the wrong floor.

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Speaker 5: There we go.

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Speaker 2: It's never an easy process. A five two two eight seven.

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Speaker 2: That's our phone number if you want to call and

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Speaker 2: get on board. Shannon, who you got first?

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Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Glenn in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 2: Glenn in Pennsylvania. Go ahead, Glenn.

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Speaker 8: Hey, guys, how's going today? How are you Glenn doing?

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Speaker 8: Wonderful man, it's a wonderful day up here in eastern PA.

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Speaker 8: Sunshine and birds are singing.

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Speaker 2: Hey.

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Speaker 8: Hypothetical situation here if we were not next season, but

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Speaker 8: any season in general. If we were to go have

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Speaker 8: a really good season, stay in the top five all

502
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Speaker 8: year long, and go to the SEC Tournament lose it,

503
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Speaker 8: go to the NC Double A tournament losing the second round,

504
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Speaker 8: or have a mediocre season SEC tournament win and losing

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Speaker 8: the second round of the NC Double A, which would

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Speaker 8: be the most successful season in your guys opinion. All right,

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Speaker 8: So now I'll hang up and Unlett.

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Speaker 2: Glan appreciate it. It's kind of a good question because

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Speaker 2: I would just like to win one game in March.

510
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Speaker 2: Just one game would be an improvement for me. And

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Speaker 2: if they win the SEC tournament but maybe bow out

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Speaker 2: after the first weekend in the NCAA tournament. I mean

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Speaker 2: my initial reaction is I think I would be okay

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Speaker 2: with that.

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Speaker 5: Did you have a second round loss in both yes scenario.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, none, did not get to the second weekend.

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Speaker 5: I don't like that attitude. I don't know. That's tough.

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Speaker 6: So you know I missed the SEC tournament winning that

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Speaker 6: one lean that direction.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there is a little bit to the argument.

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Speaker 6: Doesn't really matter, but that's Kentucky's tournament that it has

522
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Speaker 6: been too long, So whatever it takes to be there

523
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Speaker 6: on Sunday and win that again. I missed that feeling.

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Speaker 6: I missed that confetti falling on us in Nashville. Ryan

525
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Speaker 6: got some of it a zip blog back at home.

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Speaker 6: It's it's got dust, it's evaporating.

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Speaker 3: Shannon, what would you say, Yeah, if you're gonna have

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Speaker 3: a mediocre season and go out on the second round

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Speaker 3: on the NCAA tournament regardless, at least have a title.

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Speaker 3: So I would take the option of winning the SEC

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Speaker 3: championship in the tournament we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: I think in most fans' minds, they would be happy

533
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Speaker 2: win the SEC Tournament and at least get to the

534
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Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen. I think in most fans' minds, for first year,

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Speaker 2: we're at throwing the roster together like he has. I

536
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Speaker 2: think that would be viewed as a success.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you want to just you want to be

538
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Speaker 5: better than you were the year before.

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Speaker 2: They want to just win a game in March is.

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Speaker 6: Much better, at least for the postseason. I don't want

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Speaker 6: to dismiss last year's regular season. That has a lot

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Speaker 6: of fun, but for postseason there's a no there's nowhere

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Speaker 6: to go but up.

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Speaker 2: Really, I think most fans would trade a maybe disappointing

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Speaker 2: regular season to have success in March, and a.

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Speaker 6: Disappointing regular season could mean you're growing along the way,

547
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Speaker 6: you take some early losses, you watch him get better,

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Speaker 6: and then it ends with the culmination of winning the

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Speaker 6: SEC Tournament.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, take our break, we come back. The

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Speaker 2: godfather of UK baseball. He's in the house, Keith Madison

552
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Speaker 2: talk about the Batcats and their big weekend coming up.

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Speaker 2: We come back on con Tacky Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back taking Sports Radio, Ryan Drew and

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Speaker 2: Shannon here, and it's a huge weekend for UK baseball.

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Speaker 2: Drew hosting the regional tournament for the second year in

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Speaker 2: a row as the overall number two seed.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I can't wait to get over there. I'm

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Speaker 6: excited for our special guest. I hope he was able

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Speaker 6: to get tickets. I think he's get hold of those.

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Speaker 2: He's talking about a lifetime pass. Joined now by the

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Speaker 2: You are the godfather of UK baseball, Keith Madison, head

567
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Speaker 2: coach for twenty five years, and I know you have

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Speaker 2: to be proud of a Peacock when you see what

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Speaker 2: this program, where this team is today, aren't you no doubt?

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Speaker 9: I mean what Nick Menzion has done, and then and

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Speaker 9: also what Mitch Barnhardt has done getting a new stadium,

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Speaker 9: and then Nick has just done it. He's done a

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Speaker 9: tremendous job with this program. And you know they hit

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Speaker 9: a lull there right before the pandemic and during the pandemic,

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Speaker 9: but everything was weird then, but they have done a

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Speaker 9: masterful job with the Transfer portal. They've gotten some great

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Speaker 9: They really do their homework on these guys. And when

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Speaker 9: you get guys like Grant Smith from Incarnate Word to

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Speaker 9: transfer in and he's probably the best short stop in

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Speaker 9: college baseball, and then you know, it's just amazing that

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Speaker 9: they've been able to attrack these guys. And not only that, Ryan,

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Speaker 9: but once they get them here in the fall, they

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Speaker 9: have the fall practice and to get all these guys

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Speaker 9: thinking together and playing together and pulling for each other

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Speaker 9: and being a team, that's a whole different thing. I mean,

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Speaker 9: you see you see different sports with the transfer portal.

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Speaker 9: They bring these guys in, but it doesn't always work.

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Speaker 9: You know, they there's egos involved and there's hey, I

589
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Speaker 9: want to play shortstop, No, you're playing second base. You know,

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Speaker 9: there's all those kinds of dynamics going on. But Nick

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Speaker 9: and his staff have done a tremendous job of getting

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Speaker 9: these guys that come together. And you watch him in

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Speaker 9: the dugout. They have so much fun. There's so much energy,

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Speaker 9: and they really pull for each other and they've been

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Speaker 9: a fun team to watch this year.

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Speaker 6: Is there a trick to that that blend, because he

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Speaker 6: does have a blend of guys that made huge plays

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Speaker 6: last year in the postseason, guys that started freshman and grown.

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Speaker 6: Then you have Nick Lopez who comes in his first

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Speaker 6: team all SEC. So he's got a hodgepodge of backgrounds there,

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Speaker 6: but they seem so close. As you said, is there

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Speaker 6: is there a secret you can reveal or in magic formula?

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Speaker 6: How he pulls that together?

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Speaker 9: You know, I think Nick, and you guys know this

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Speaker 9: about Nick. He is such a positive guy, you know.

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Speaker 5: He he.

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Speaker 2: You can't you can't be around Nick. Me and Jonah

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Speaker 2: be unhappy.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 9: He just has that energy himself. And I think it's

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Speaker 9: like John Maxwell the Great Leadership Group says, you know,

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Speaker 9: everything rises and falls with leadership, and so when they

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Speaker 9: see their head coach with this much energy and then

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Speaker 9: he's encouraging guys to to have fun in the dugout,

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Speaker 9: you know, that's that's an area where me and everybody

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Speaker 9: else they coached in my era, we messed that up.

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Speaker 2: Well, old school, you didn't allow it. No, no, you

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Speaker 2: didn't do that. That's that was you know.

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Speaker 9: It's like, boy, you gotta you better be locked in.

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Speaker 9: And if I ask you what the count is, you

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Speaker 9: better know it.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh and instead these.

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Speaker 7: Guys are over there having fun.

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Speaker 9: They're in the game and they're ready to play, but

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Speaker 9: they're still having a blast of the dugout.

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Speaker 2: So we get asked all the time, what has been

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Speaker 2: the difference this year? Why is this year they've been

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Speaker 2: so successful this year?

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Speaker 9: I think it's because they they win in so many

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Speaker 9: different ways. Like if if you know, if they're not

631
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Speaker 9: hitting the ball in the gap or hitting the home runs,

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Speaker 9: they can execute small ball. If they're not executing small ball,

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Speaker 9: they're letting Ryan Ryan walts Schmidt and uh my favorite player.

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Speaker 9: Oh he's that guy's a stud. Yeah, he is a stud,

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Speaker 9: but they're letting him and you know these other guys

636
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Speaker 9: swing it. Yeah, And so they can hit home runs,

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Speaker 9: they can do double steals, which I know you probably

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Speaker 9: were really good at at Kentucky west.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know why you didn't recruit me back at.

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Speaker 7: I know that's a huge miss.

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Speaker 2: Still, he lays awaken night, Drew, I knew miss I

642
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Speaker 2: missed out on that one.

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Speaker 7: I could have had this guy.

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Speaker 9: He could have broken a school record for stealing bases

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Speaker 9: at Kentucky instead of Kentucky Westland.

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Speaker 5: If there was a portal he would have gone and

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Speaker 5: gotten yefter one year.

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Speaker 2: I do have a funny story. We came over and

649
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Speaker 2: played you guys in fallball in nineteen eighty six. You

650
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Speaker 2: guys were loaded. I mean that was Terry Shumpert and

651
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Speaker 2: I think maybe Larry Lubers and Mark Thompson and I

652
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Speaker 2: had You had a great pitching staff. William van Landingham

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Speaker 2: may been on there. And you guys beat us the

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Speaker 2: first game nineteen to one. Yeah, second game, we threw

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Speaker 2: our best picture. You played all your second string guys

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Speaker 2: and we won. And you made him run. We broke down,

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Speaker 2: got in the van, and you're still making them run

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Speaker 2: out in the outfield.

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Speaker 7: Well that's that's old school. But yeah, you know.

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Speaker 9: One of the things about back in that era, we

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Speaker 9: would play teams like Kentucky State in Georgetown because I

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Speaker 9: wanted my young players to have an opportunity to play. Yes, absolutely,

663
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Speaker 9: and it was good competition. You know, you guys are

664
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Speaker 9: pretty good. Yeah, and I'm amazed we scored nineteen runs off.

665
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Speaker 2: Oh, you killed us the first game, but then we

666
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 2: threw our ace. We treated the second game as the

667
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: best game. And you did you threw you played your

668
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Speaker 2: second string guys.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know.

670
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Speaker 9: That's the thing about baseball, like it's different than football

671
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 9: or basketball. It's all about pitching. Yeah, oh yeah, And

672
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Speaker 9: I don't care who you're playing. If they're throwing their

673
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Speaker 9: number one and you're throwing your number five or six,

674
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Speaker 9: they got a great chance of beating you no matter

675
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Speaker 9: who you are.

676
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Speaker 5: Yeah, how could that help?

677
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Speaker 6: Like talking about going against a great pitcher? They played

678
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 6: well against Hagen Smith a day after one hit against LSU.

679
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 6: What can something like that, where you go up against

680
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Speaker 6: an elite pitcher that's top ten projected pick? How can

681
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Speaker 6: that help their confidence moving forward into this week?

682
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Speaker 9: That's a great question because you have guys like Walt

683
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 9: Schmidt and Grant Smith and and me and Petrie. These

684
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Speaker 9: guys face Paul Skeens last year, he's in a big

685
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 9: league existing yeah crazy, And I still remember Petrie going up.

686
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 9: I think he was leading off and Skiings is throwing

687
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 9: like a hundred miles an hour and Petrie just hits

688
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 9: a bullet, pulls it to right field.

689
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 2: And I'm going, my goodness, this kid's.

690
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 9: Got some bad speed, so Drew. When you face guys

691
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Speaker 9: like that, and then you know Smith this year and

692
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 9: we were able to punch out a few hits against them,

693
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Speaker 9: and then you bring in a guy that's throwing ninety three.

694
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 9: You're going, hey, there's no doubt I can hit this guy.

695
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 2: Now. We talked about this yesterday with Daniel Hager. Do

696
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 2: you throw your ace Friday? I mean, how do you

697
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: as a coach, because you know the SEC Tournament they

698
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 2: saved their ace till game two.

699
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Speaker 9: How do you handle your pitching roation this weekend? Boy,

700
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 9: that is a great question. I mean you have two

701
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 9: schools of thought there as you know, you know you're

702
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 9: playing Western Michigan.

703
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 2: First, yeah, you should handle them.

704
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Speaker 9: Yeah, but I've always said, for thirty years, I've said

705
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 9: that the MAC is the most underrated baseball conference in America.

706
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 9: Those guys can play. So if you throw a down

707
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 9: the line guy against them, you get beat. Now you're boys,

708
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 9: you know you're in trouble now the losers bracket. So actually,

709
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 9: I I was with all the coaches this morning and

710
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 9: uh we we uh we meet every Wednesday morning.

711
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 7: They let me come in.

712
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Speaker 9: I'm I'm I'm sort of like Joe Hall was to

713
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 9: John Caliperry. They let me hang out the old coach

714
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 9: around in practice.

715
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 7: Yeah.

716
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 9: So so sure enough, I mean Nick asked me, Hey,

717
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 9: what's your pitching rotation this weekend?

718
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I gave it. He ask you, he asked me.

719
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Speaker 9: But yeah, that doesn't mean they're going to go with it.

720
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 9: But so uh Nick said, hey, that's enough the one

721
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Speaker 9: I picked. I think you're You're right with uh, you're

722
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 9: right with Dan. You know Dan's a pitching coach. So

723
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Speaker 9: uh yeah, I mean, I'm I'm probably I'm probably gonna

724
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Speaker 9: go pooser against Western Michigan, and I want I want

725
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Speaker 9: to win that first game. He got to, Yeah, and uh,

726
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Speaker 9: I remember one time, Uh we were playing South Alabama

727
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 9: to open up our season, and that was back when

728
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 9: Paul Kilget pitched and you know Paul pitched in the

729
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 9: big leagues for ten years or something, and uh we

730
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 9: played I can't the name of the school we paid.

731
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 9: It played a team that wasn't very good the first

732
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 9: game while we were on that trip, and I went

733
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 9: with my number four pitcher and we lost this little school.

734
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 9: Then we played South Alabama. They were ranked in a

735
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 9: top ten that year, and I threw kill Gus and

736
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 9: we lost that game too. So we started off the

737
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 9: season oh and two. Because I didn't pitch kill Gus

738
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 9: in the first game. So ever since then, I've been like,

739
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 9: you got to go with your best in a tournament situation.

740
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 5: You were laughing about hanging around. But I was there

741
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 5: last year.

742
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 6: I think it was the after they won the regional

743
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 6: when Nick min jill And brought you on the up

744
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 6: to the podium at the press conference and talked about

745
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 6: how much bigger help you are, how he leans on

746
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 6: you for supporting advice. Just how much did that mean

747
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 6: for you in his special moment there to share it

748
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 6: with you in front of all the cameras.

749
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 9: You know, that was one of the most humbling things

750
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 9: that's ever happened in my life. To be honest with you,

751
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 9: I didn't know what to say. And you know, we

752
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 9: were all out there celebrating and and Nick comes up

753
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 9: to me and he coach's I want you to go

754
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 9: to the press conference with them. I said, oh, man,

755
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 9: this is your moment.

756
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 7: You go And he.

757
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 9: Said no, no, no, I really want you to go.

758
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 9: And so then he walked off.

759
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 2: And then.

760
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 9: Mitch Barnhart comes up to me and he said, Nick

761
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 9: really wants you to go back there, and I said, okay, okay, So.

762
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 7: I went back there.

763
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 9: The boss says, go, and I remember kind of sitting

764
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 9: over in the corner and thinking, why does he want

765
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,239
Speaker 9: me in here? And then he calls me up there

766
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 9: and I'm going, oh, man, I was not prepared for this.

767
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 9: I was I was more nervous than coming on KSR.

768
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 5: That was a very cool moment. Being it cool, you

769
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 5: can tell you where caught off guard.

770
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 6: But for him to be in that moment, just winning

771
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 6: the region for the first time for him and that's

772
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 6: his press conference to share it with you, I thought

773
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 6: that was very much.

774
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 9: Yeah, we have a really special friendship. And you know,

775
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 9: he he does things so differently than I did things,

776
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 9: And it just goes to show you that even though

777
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 9: you might have different philosophies, you can still be really

778
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 9: good friends. I wish our entire nation could grab a hole. Amen,

779
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 9: you know, and just hey, you don't have to agree.

780
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 9: I'm probably not going to agree with everything Drew says,

781
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 9: but you know what, we can be good friends.

782
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 2: Yes, And Drew's a good guy.

783
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's a good guy. I like you, Drew.

784
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 9: You know he he's probably going to vote differently than

785
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 9: me this year, but I don't care.

786
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 7: You know, that's his privilege. It's a free country.

787
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 6: That's right, Amen, talking about being so close min Jian,

788
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 6: did he Uh do you get a share of that

789
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 6: SEC Coach of the Year too? Does that get stay

790
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 6: on your mantle every once in a while. Since he

791
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 6: says you're such a big help, I feel like you

792
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 6: should get.

793
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 5: A look credit.

794
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 7: He told me I could come look at it. Okay,

795
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 7: that's it.

796
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 2: Uh, we'll take our break. We'll come back. If you

797
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: want to talk to coach Madison. You got a question

798
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 2: for him about UK baseball or anything. But Shannon, we

799
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 2: come back. You're gonna find out how coach Madison knows.

800
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: Randy Machelman said.

801
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 4: I cannot wait to hear this story.

802
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: This is just for you, Shannon the Dude. So we'll

803
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 2: take our break. Come back eight five nine two eight

804
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 2: oho two too, eight seven, Ryan Drew and Shannon with

805
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,719
Speaker 2: Coach Keith Madison here on Kentucky Sports Radio. Welcome back

806
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 2: Kentake You Sports Radio. Ryan Levan, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude.

807
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 2: We're joined by the godfather of UK Baseball, Keith Madison.

808
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: We got a special caller online for you. Want to

809
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 2: get to him a second, Okay, but you have to

810
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 2: tell Shannon the dude, how you know Randy Macho man

811
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 2: savage and like you got you know him? Well, yeah, we.

812
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 9: Doug Flynn and I came up through the Reds organization

813
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 9: together and when we were playing in Tampa in the

814
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 9: Florida State League, we had this catcher by the name

815
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 9: of Randy Poffo and he was an athletic looking guy,

816
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 9: left handed hitter, pretty good player. And so I remember,

817
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 9: I remember Doug Flynn, he and I were talking about

818
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 9: this the other day. He and a guy named Greg

819
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 9: Sinatra who was on the team. Greg Sinatra was a stud,

820
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 9: and so Randy would get on the bus, like we'd

821
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 9: be going down to Miami or someplace, and he get

822
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 9: on the bus and Greg and Doug Flynn would be

823
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 9: all over him because his dad was a pro wrestler,

824
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 9: you know, Randy's dad was Angelo Poffo, and so you know,

825
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 9: they would just hey, you know, don't you know your

826
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 9: dad's in the ring and it's fake and all this stuff.

827
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: And Randy just took it. He didn't get mad or anything.

828
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 2: He just took it.

829
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 9: And so about five years later, six years later, maybe

830
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 9: Doug is playing for the Mets and I'm finally coaching

831
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 9: here Kentucky and he comes. Doug comes to pick Sharon

832
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 9: and I to go out to eat with he and Oga.

833
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 9: And so he said, hey, you mind if I pick

834
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,760
Speaker 9: up a friend and I said, no, that'd be great.

835
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 9: So we pulled into this little brick ranch house somewhere

836
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 9: in Lexington, and Doug and Oga get out and Sharon

837
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 9: and I are in the back seat, and all of

838
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 9: a sudden, this big dude comes out of the house

839
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 9: and he's got this wild and crazy hair and he's

840
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 9: just humongous.

841
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 2: And I asked, seron, I said, who in the world

842
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 2: is this guy?

843
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 9: And so he comes over and the windows were down,

844
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 9: and he looks in the back in the back seat

845
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 9: and he says, Madison Poffo here, and he had gained

846
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 9: like forty pound, all muscle, all muscle, and he just

847
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 9: looked different and even talked different. It's like and so

848
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 9: I just I had to think it through for a minute.

849
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 9: This was this the same guy?

850
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 3: So I stayed in character even when you were just

851
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 3: hanging out or was he No.

852
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 9: Not when when we were hanging out, but when he

853
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 9: when he reintroduced himself, he just wanted me.

854
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 7: To know who he was.

855
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 9: And so it was. It was hilarious. So he gets

856
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 9: in the car. This is a funny thing. We go

857
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 9: down to Columbia Steakhouse and everybody in the restaurant was

858
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 9: wanting Randy's autograph, and nobody wanted dugs autographic. Doug was.

859
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 9: He just wanted to go glove for the Mets, and

860
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 9: nobody recognized him. Everybody knew Savage was. But no, Randy

861
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 9: was a good athlete.

862
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 2: Man.

863
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 9: He was a good player, and he he was a

864
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 9: catcher and he hurt his arm, so no, before he

865
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 9: went into wrestling. He signed with the Cardinals organization as

866
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 9: a left handed throwing first basement true story. He learned

867
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 9: how to throw left handed in the off season after

868
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 9: you got released by the Red Wow. And he he

869
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 9: told me he threw two hundred balls every day left handed.

870
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 9: And and uh he he made a minor league team

871
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 9: doing that. He was he was just an amazing athlete.

872
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 2: Uh and just like amazing athletes.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he was a really fun guy to be around.

874
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 9: It broke my heart when I heard if he passed

875
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 9: when he used that elbow for other reasons, well.

876
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 4: The elbow drop off the top rope.

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00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we've got a special caller for on

878
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: the line. He called specifically to talk to you. So

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00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 2: who we got Shannon Kentucky, Joe Kentucky, Joe coach Keith Madison.

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00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 5: A coach Madison.

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Speaker 10: It's it's it's a real honor to talk to you.

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Speaker 10: I might have talked to you once and maybe summertime,

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Speaker 10: you know. But I guess the big question, even Kentucky

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Speaker 10: can win on AM and probably probably be Tennessee for

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Speaker 10: all the marbles.

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Speaker 7: I sure hope.

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Speaker 9: So, I mean in baseball, it all, it all starts

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Speaker 9: on the mound, you know, if our if our guys

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Speaker 9: are competing well on the mound and making, you know,

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Speaker 9: executing pitches and the way we play defense. We have

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Speaker 9: a tremendous defensive club, probably the best double play combination

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Speaker 9: in college baseball with Grant Smith and the Median Petrie.

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Speaker 9: So yeah, I think we can. You know, we Tennessee

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Speaker 9: is really good. Now I'm going to say that they

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Speaker 9: they've got it, they've got it all. They've got the hitting,

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Speaker 9: the pitching, But our defense is better than them, and

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Speaker 9: I think I think our offensive execution is better than Tennessee.

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Speaker 9: So we definitely have a chance to to go all

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Speaker 9: the way and it would it be cool for Tennessee

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Speaker 9: and Kentucky to play against each other in the College

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Speaker 9: World Series.

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Speaker 2: I think we would take that. I do too, I

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Speaker 2: think we would take that. Got anything else, Kentucky Joe.

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Speaker 10: No, there's I shouldn't tell there's some there's something going

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Speaker 10: on with coach Mark pulpe through. Somebody's wanting to check

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Speaker 10: it out.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Coach Madison. That's okay.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 9: Hey, I'm a I'm a Kentucky Joe fan. I listen

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Speaker 9: to you guys all the time.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 8: You like all my songs.

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Speaker 7: I love your song.

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Speaker 2: Don't encourage it.

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Speaker 9: Encourage if anybody, if anybody listens that says that Kentucky

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Speaker 9: Joe doesn't bring a smile to their face, that they

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Speaker 9: don't have a pulse.

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Speaker 2: That's a good point.

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Speaker 10: Good point, and probably the final thing. I planned to

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Speaker 10: do a championship song when when the Cats win.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll take that. Yeah, cats win you Okay, thank you,

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Speaker 2: Kentucky Joe. Appreciate it. You'll take that if they win it,

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Speaker 2: We'll take a Kentucky Joe song. Absolutely about get.

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Speaker 6: Them over there for the seventh inning stretch. Don't encourage you.

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Speaker 2: Said, you one more. We'll try to squeeze before we

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Speaker 2: get out here. Who we got Lee, go ahead? Lee?

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Speaker 11: Uh, Guys, Coach Madison is one of the finest guys

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Speaker 11: you'll ever meet.

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Speaker 7: That's what.

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Speaker 11: And Nick's doing the same thing. But coach Madison sometimes

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Speaker 11: you tell you stories about him and John but I

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Speaker 11: had to do to get our baseball program going. And

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Speaker 11: coaches is Lee Rodgers and you have a great day.

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Speaker 7: Hey, thank you, buddy, I appreciate it. Lee. Uh. When

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Speaker 7: he when he mentioned coach Butler, I got a quick story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: So back when Rick Patino first came here to coach basketball,

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Speaker 9: you remember how Rick dressed and everything.

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Speaker 2: Man, he oh wow.

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Speaker 7: He always he looked like Frank Snatra all the time.

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Speaker 9: So we uh, we got a we got a call

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Speaker 9: one day in May, and it was from Lewis Staff,

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Speaker 9: the former oh yeah commissioner.

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Speaker 7: Uh State High School commissioner.

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Speaker 9: So he said, hey, Keith, we you know your your

946
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Speaker 9: field is the only field we can get a game in.

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Speaker 9: It's been raining and and your field drains better than

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Speaker 9: any field in the city. And we got to get

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Speaker 9: this regional tournament game in. Would you let us play

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Speaker 9: at your field? And I said, well, Louis, if we

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Speaker 9: can get it ready, you know, we'll play. So Coach

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Speaker 9: Butler and I went out there and we we we

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Speaker 9: did everything we knew how to do to get.

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Speaker 7: The water off the field.

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Speaker 9: I mean we were squeezing in and off and and

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Speaker 9: all that, and and finally we even got to the

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Speaker 9: point where we at third base we drug dug a

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Speaker 9: little trench in the grass to drain the water off

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Speaker 9: the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen that. And and and we we.

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Speaker 9: Had a little hole there and we were actually using

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Speaker 9: cups to get water out and put it in a

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Speaker 9: bucket in the hauling off. And so we're muddy and

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Speaker 9: we're dirty. And Coach Butler looks up at me and says, Keith,

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Speaker 9: do you think Rick Patino would do this for a

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Speaker 9: high school basketball game?

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Speaker 2: No? I don't think he would. No, I don't think

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Speaker 2: it would either. Listen, thank you very much for coming.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of thank you.

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Speaker 9: Appreciate fans come out this spring or this weekend and

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Speaker 9: support the Cats.

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Speaker 2: Uh are you in the booth? Would do with Darren Headrick? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm in the booth with Darren Heddrick.

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Speaker 9: The fans energize these guys, Yeah, you know, the fans

975
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Speaker 9: get these players going, so I'm hoping the fans will

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Speaker 9: be just I hope it's rocking and rolling out there

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Speaker 9: this week.

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Speaker 6: I think it will be such the big Keith Madison

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Speaker 6: bubblehead while you're.

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Speaker 2: There for good life, the life size Keith Madison.

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Speaker 7: Bubblehead, the empty head. That's what I'm all about.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, coach Keith Madison. We'll take our break, we

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Speaker 2: come back, we go back to the phone lines eight

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Speaker 2: five nine two eight o two two eight seven. Ryan

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Speaker 2: Drew and Shannon return on Kadecking Sports Radio