WEBVTT - 2025-05-27- KSR PRE-SHOW 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome everyone. It is the KSR Pre Show. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.760 It is Tuesday, May twenty seventh, Shannon the Dude being 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:09.560 joined by Billy Rutliche give us a call on the 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.000 Clark's Popping Shop phone liner at eight five nine two 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.000 eight oh twenty two eighty seven be our a whiskey 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.480 Thief call of the Day, and you can also send 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.360 us a text at five two two six five six 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.840 six five six. KSR Pre Show is brought to you 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.319 by Italics Fine Italian Dining in Lexington. And after a 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.520 three day weekend, we are back. We are live here 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.199 on a Tuesday where I am looking at a hopefully 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.879 less grumpy Billy r Sports He was he had his 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.360 grumpy pants on Friday at the Mountain Laurel Fest. I 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:40.760 don't know what was going on with you, buddy, but 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.160 you sound like you're in a little bit better mood today. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.159 All right, everything, Oh, I'm good man, I'm good. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.240 Everybody has those days stuck my foot in my mouth 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.839 a little bit talking about engagement photos on Friday. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.920 So we're not getting into any of that today. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.640 But I could get used to four day workweek, Shannon. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:58.720 They want to give us more three day weekends. I'm 0:00:59.360 --> 0:00:59.880 here for it. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.880 What did you do on your time off? Anything fun? 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.720 I did a little grilling on the gas grill. That 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.080 thing is so easy to start that you just make 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.520 a little chicken fajeta whenever you're feeling hungry. So I 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.240 did a little bit of that, did some golf and 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.199 shinn and actually played two rounds as I get ready 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.720 to play Matt Jones on camera one of these days 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.400 at the very nice TPC Tates Creek here in Lexington, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.840 and just kind of hung out Shannon. You know, sometimes 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.640 the best times are when you don't have anything planned, 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.160 and so just relaxed a little bit, watched the Crazy 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:30.240 Indie five hundred. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.160 So did some fun stuff this weekend. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.640 What about you, man, Well, you know, I had to 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.920 make it a tough choice. Either I sit at home 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.000 and do nothing. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.520 Which sometimes with my schedule, that's the best thing to do. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.160 That's what I'm saying, just sit home and. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.000 Do absolutely nothing. But I go, you know what, it's 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.280 Memorial Day weekend. People are going to be traveling. I'm 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.880 one of these people that have really bad fomo fear 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.560 of missing out, you know I'm talking about so if 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.280 I feel like other people are having fun, and I'm 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:53.920 sitting at home. 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:54.360 I can't. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.920 I can't stand it, Billy. So I decided, you know what, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.800 We're gonna do a little quick road trip. We're gonna 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.920 go to the place where dreams were made, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.359 PROMPTU trip to gatlin You know all the talk about 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.120 the Gatler, all the talk about Gatlinburg and Ryan getting 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.760 married in a Gatlenburg chapel. I didn't want to get married, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.360 but I was like, you know what, let's go to Gatlinburg. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.480 It sounds like something that's not too far away and 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:21.560 maybe we could have some fun. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:22.880 And it wasn't bad at all, Billy. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.640 I got thought that, you know, Gatlinburg Memorial Day weekend 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.560 would be crazy. Wasn't actually that bad at all. Traffic 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.320 wasn't that bad. The strip wasn't all that crazy with people. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.360 Actually ran into a listener on a trill while I 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:37.799 was walking. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:39.440 Yeah, no, I did. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.440 I got a selfie with them. So yeah, I had 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.440 a good weekend. Man. You know, It's it's not all 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.200 taffy and go karts down there. There's like some decent 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.079 little restaurants you can go have dinner at. Had a 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.920 nice steak dinner one night lift. 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:56.160 And I didn't do the lift tub and your cabin, Yeah. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.359 No, didn't do it cabin. That was the other thing too. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.320 I was like, how are we going to book something 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.239 that you know two days before? 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:02.360 How are you going to book something? 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.880 But we were able to find a nice little hotel 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.000 right there on the strip, So I'm like, you know 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:08.440 about that. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.120 I had a good time. Look, I know people give 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.440 Gatlinburg a hard time. I actually enjoy it. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.320 I think it's you know, for a day or two, 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.800 it's fine, but then after two days couldn't do it. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.880 I ran into a guy that was a local set 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:19.720 there at the bar with him. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:24.200 It was like, man, how do you stand living in Gatlinburg, like, 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.120 you know, being a local around here with all these 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.400 people that were coming around? And his answer was, you 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.919 know what, it's really cool because I get to talk 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.880 to people from all over the world anytime I come 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.320 in here. Because everybody's always on vacation, everybody's always having 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:38.960 a good time, so I get to meet people from 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:39.560 all over the world. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:39.839 He said. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.920 The only drawback is if I want to go to 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.920 like a home depot, it's a four hour road road trip. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.000 It's like you know, because traffic is so bad. He's like, 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:49.320 you know, if I got to go to home Depot, 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.200 I got to leave like on a Tuesday at six 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.520 am and get there and get back in a reasonable time. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.280 So that's great perspective to have living in a tourist 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.080 trap and you get to see people from all walks 0:03:59.080 --> 0:03:59.520 of life. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.360 But you know, I'm kind of with you, Shannon. It 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.160 gets a lot of hate, but you can have a good. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.760 Time in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. I mean, you get 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.360 me to the Moonshine Tasting of the Little Wine Tasting. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.960 We don't think we didn't that. Come on, don't think 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.200 we didn't do that one, two, three times exactly three 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:14.920 different times. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:15.960 That is so much fun. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.400 But speaking of drinks, I had some of the corn 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.920 Bread Hemp seltzers. They were nice enough to send them 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:21.400 over to me. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.080 Shannon. I don't know if you've had these yet. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:24.839 Oh yeah, I had one over the weekend. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.320 It's really good, man, really good. Shout out to Cornbread 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:28.680 Hemp and all the great things that they're doing. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.279 Yep, you can get those in liquor stores throughout Kentucky. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:32.159 So check that out. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:32.960 Billy. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.120 The big news for Kentucky. Kentucky baseball makes the NC 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.719 Double A Tournament. That is three straight trips to the 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.359 NC DOUBLEA Tournament, the first time in Kentucky baseball history. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:43.839 Billy. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.920 They've made three consecutive trips to the NC DOUBLEA Tournament, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.280 So a bit congratulations to Coachminge and the the Batcats. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.560 They'll be playing in the Clemson Region and they'll be 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:58.839 playing West Virginia at noon on Friday on ESPNU. You 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.320 might remember they played West Virginia just a couple of 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:06.160 years ago in the NCAA tournament. So congratulations to Kentucky 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.400 making the NCAA tournament. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:07.719 Billy. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.560 Well, I don't think we're gonna get to see it though, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.680 because Friday at noon, we're gonna be out at the 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:12.920 KSR Golf Scramble. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.720 Yeah, we're gonna be at the KSR Golf Scramble. If 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.200 they pull me off the golf course to work that 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.080 baseball game, Shannon, I'm gonna be livid, But I am 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.200 happy that the baseball team made it, like you said, 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.119 the third straight year, and that is such a great 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.960 accomplishment and a necessary accomplishment to keep this momentum building, right, Shannon, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.680 I mean so much excitement off the back of making 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.440 the College World Series and winning a game versus NC 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.560 State and walk off fashion. But then you lose seven 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.960 of your nine starters and you wonder if nickmn jone 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.000 can go to the transfer portal and do this again. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.760 And with thirteen teams making. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.880 The NCAA Tournament field from the SEC and Kentucky only 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.400 winning what less than half of their series this year, 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.720 it was they were squarely on the bubble, but maybe 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.840 a little safer than we thought. They weren't one of 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.440 the last four teams in so it's great to see 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.880 Kentucky will be competing in the Clemson Regional. They take 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.760 on West Virginia and double elimination, so even if you 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:09.400 drop one. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.520 You can still make some noise. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.400 I do want to shout out my Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.920 as well. It's the first time in sixteen years that 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.640 they bring AGAINCACA Tournament. I had to get it in Shannon, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.800 come on. Some congratulations to both teams Western and Kentucky. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.119 Also Murray I think is in the NCAA Tournament field, 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:30.200 So Kentucky is representing very well. But excited to get 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.160 this thing started. On Friday for UK Baseball. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.560 You mentioned that record in the SEC. Part of the 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.039 reason why you can get into the NCAA Tournament with 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.320 a record like that in the SEC is because, like 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.120 you said, yet, what thirteen teams that made the NCAA Tournament. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:48.200 Your top four seeds overall are SEC schools. Vanderbilt, Texas, Arkansas, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.680 and Auburn all your top four seeds in the NCAA 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:52.920 Tournament from the SEC. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.679 So it's gonna be tough for Kentucky. 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.680 West Virginia, a team that comes in at forty one 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.799 and fourteen overall this year, Kentucky's gonna be the underdog 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.599 going in. But like I said, it's double elimination. And 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.880 when you get into pitching matchups, it all comes down 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.600 to that you know the strategy right of pitching matchups 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.920 because you watch you know some of these games, same 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.280 two teams play, you get two completely different results. It 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:15.920 all starts with who's on the hill. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:16.560 Yeah. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.480 I heard Darren talk a little bit about this morning 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.960 on the Leach Report talking about West Virginia, how they 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.040 they played so well to start and they've calling fallen off, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.800 maybe just a little bit lost in the Big twelve tournament, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.040 So maybe not playing their best. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.640 But you know, Shannon, we've seen this Kentucky team have. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.920 So many leads throughout the year and then it gets 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.000 to the bullpen and it just kind of gets away 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.960 from them. So, you know, and a lot of times 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.920 we say a team blows a game, but sometimes you 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.640 just got to tip your cap and say, you know, 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.560 a good SEC team went out there and hit good pitches. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:47.920 Right. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.760 Well, I mentioned those SEC series. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.760 Kentucky lost six of their ten SEC series this year 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.640 and we're swept twice, but then you see them win big. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.400 Series versus Tennessee. They suite Oklahoma late, so it's definitely 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:00.800 in them. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.720 But you know, you know baseball, Shannon, it's it's any 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.600 given day, right Like you go out there and Ben 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.760 Cleaver could go out there and throw you eight shout 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.040 out innings. Another day you're gonna have to have a 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.640 bullpen game. So it's I trust in Menjie and they've 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:16.400 been there before. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:17.160 This is the. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.560 Standard to make the NCAA tournament. So now that they've 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.400 made it, you know, you can kind of throw the 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:21.880 records out. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:22.520 Anything can happen. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.880 I just don't know that I trust the bullpen. I mean, 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:26.080 Kentucky coming out. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.000 On a gym, but not the bulls. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.560 I don't know, Like you know, if I'm men, I'm 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.000 trying to get every single out that I can out 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.880 of my starting pitchers just because we've seen the bullpen 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.959 shaky at best. I mean, we're coming in off of 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.000 a four game losing streak, but three of those games 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.320 that the entire series against Vandy, it could have swept Vandy, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.400 I know, yeah, you know, and it all came down 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.680 to blowing leads and all three of those games and 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.439 when he went to the bullpen, things just kind of 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.360 fell apart. Now, speaking of Vanderbilt, they won the SEC Tournament, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.160 but I got a fair or foul I want to 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.600 ask you about for Vanderbilt. Did you see I don't 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.120 know if you watched any of the game, you probably did, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.800 and Vanderbilt ole miss in the championship game. But former 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.400 Vandy football coach James Franklin was hanging out in the 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.959 Vanderbilt dugout and he's buddies with Tim Corbyn, the Vanderbilt 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.800 baseball head coach. But to make things even more awkward, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.839 Clark Lee, the current Vanderbilt football coach, is sitting out 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.240 there in the stands while a former football coach is 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.319 in the dugout during a championship game. I mean, I 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.360 would think that would be a little bit distracting. It 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.440 turned out not to be, but I mean bringing in 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.560 a former coach into the dugout during. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.200 A championship game. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:44.000 Let's be like Kentucky, Let's say playing in the championship. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.960 Game and yeah, I don't know, like. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.640 I guess not Joker Phillips because it's been so long 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.959 since Joker Phillips was the head coach. Let's say that 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.280 Kentucky's playing in the championship game for baseball and John 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:55.959 Caliperry's in the dugout with MinJe On. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.160 That would that be a little awkward? 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.800 I mean maybe, But I mean I think we're all adults. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:03.400 You know. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.920 I don't think Clark Lee and James Franklin are going 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.840 to get in a cat fight about him being in 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:09.920 the dugout and it's. 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:10.840 The championship game. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.319 Maybe it maybe it would be served as a distraction. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.520 I would say more foul to have anybody in the 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.000 dugout than it is to have James Franklin, specifically, because 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.240 I'm fine with welcoming back older coaches, right, I mean 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.640 we Kentucky fans welcome back Rick Patino to rep Arena recently. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.560 I mean, if you wanted to continue that example. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.000 Team, I was not sitting on the bench during a game. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.439 No, No, he's not. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.800 I feel like I'm not saying he's you know, is 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.520 it awkward for him to be at the game? No, 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.240 of course not in the It's like the equivalent of 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.760 a guy sitting on the bench in a basketball game, 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.240 a former coach just showing up and just sitting there. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.400 Yeah, I guess I'm not. I mean, I'm not angered 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.840 by it by any means. I guess Tim Corbin, the 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.439 baseball coach, and James Franklin had a good relationship back 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.760 when James was back at Vandy. And look, James Franklin 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.880 did a lot of great things for Vanderbilt. He should 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.920 be remembered fondly there. So I think he comes back 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.199 as a I don't know if conquers the right word channel, 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.640 but somebody that should be revered, right, I mean, like, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.640 this is a guy that's actually done good things for 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.280 the program. So it it didn't end badly, I'm okay 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.360 with the situation. Did you look at it differently? Were 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:18.760 you like get the hell out of that. So I'm like, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:19.800 why are you in here? Man? 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.600 I mean, first of all, it's not just a regular 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.240 season game. We're talking about the SEC championship and this 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.199 guy has to hang out into the dugout, Like, go 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:28.720 back out there and sit with Clark Lee? 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:29.960 What are you doing in this a little? 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:30.600 Do you know who? 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:31.000 I am? 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:32.480 Like, I need to go see my guys. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.800 They were interviewing they were interviewing him on TV. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.640 I'm like, this is just weird, Like why are we 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.480 making this about James Franklin and Pence Date in an 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.360 SEC Baseball championship game? 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.840 We were talking about pitching there for a second. I 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.400 want to take you back. Let's go back to Lindsay 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.840 Wilson or Bellerman. Is Shannon the dude coming out of 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:49.320 the bullpen? 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.720 Like? Is he a setup guy? Is he a closer? 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.480 It was a mop up guy? What are you talking 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.120 about when the game was fifteen to one? 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.640 Well, no, that's like position players coming in to pitch. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:01.400 Is Shannon the dude coming in? 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:02.040 Like, I'm just. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.079 I've just told you like I you know, like it 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.480 at Lindsey Wilson, I think I started a few games, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.559 you know, like but we had a JV team. I 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.120 think at that point we had a JV team. So 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.319 I started some JV games at Lindsay Wilson and then 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.880 my it was my sophomore year. I think I completely 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.120 screwed up my shoulder and that was when I had like, yeah, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.280 that that sophomore year, I think I came in, you know, 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.120 like sixth seventh inning type of. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.120 Reliever, like a middle reliever, a little setup guy, middle reliever. Yeah. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.440 Yeah, And then after that it was it was mop 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.440 up because I had nothing left in my arm. I 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.400 was a mop up of a player at that point. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.880 I was out there throwing you know, sixty miles. No, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.880 I wasn't throwing that slow, but it was it was bad, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.240 you know, So I was I was basically playing injured. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.040 Junior year, I didn't play at all. I was out 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.040 injured the entire season. Senior year that had a. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:50.800 Zero e r A. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.600 But just had spot ending injuries kind of caught up 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.400 with you near the end of it. But you know, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.480 those first couple of years, maybe sixth inning, seventh s guy. Yeah, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.600 I just like to think of you as Edwin Diaz 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:02.360 coming out of the Bowl. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.840 Oh no, God, no, I didn't have that kind of 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.720 that kind of arm. I was the type of pitcher 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.640 where I had to like spot you know, like inside corner, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.960 outside corner, breaking ball, you know, like throw the junk stuff. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.960 Yeah, and are you calling your own pitches or was 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.280 that the coach is doing that back? 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.360 Well, I mean it was. It was a little of both. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.559 Like coach would give, you know, the signal to the 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.280 the catcher. Catcher gives it to me and then I 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:26.640 could shake it off if I wanted to. 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.400 So if I wasn't filling that pitch, shake it off. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.440 I always thought that was a little bizarre. I read 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.560 an MLB peacher set. MLB pitcher said that he never 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.320 shook off a pitch. He just realized the pitch that 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.440 was given by the coach was the best in the situation. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.720 Sometimes, you know, but you know how you're feeling like 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.400 you know better than the coach. If that breaking ball 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.280 is not breaking today and you're calling it and it's 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.959 a three to two count with bases loaded, I need 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.600 to throw something over the plate, right So I think 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.680 now though they all have like these in ear pieces 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.320 right where they can just be I guess told through 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.640 the in air piece what pitched to call. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.920 Well, the catcher has that right, the catcher has the 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.480 in air piece, and then he's able to give the 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.079 single to the picture. I don't know if the pitcher 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.960 has the in air piece yet. I think they do, 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.839 because isn't there still like Stein stealing, Like if you're 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.960 on second, you could still steal signs from the catcher 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:15.760 if you're leading off. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.000 I don't know. I thought, I thought, like the pitcher 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:18.800 actually has it in air. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.120 The game does not resemble that we played in our childhood, Shandon, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:24.920 So I think it's fair for us to not know 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:25.760 what's going on to. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:26.680 A degree at least. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.480 Hey nine twenty two eighty seven will take your calls. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.160 Coming up next, and it is decision day for o 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.800 tega Oway. Is he gonna go or is he gonna 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.040 come back to Kentucky. I think he's coming back to Kentucky. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:38.760 But today? 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:44.000 Is it today? Or tomorroworrow? Tomorrow? Tomorrow night at midnight, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.440 I think it is either. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.040 Today or Tomorrow's got to decide. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:48.360 Yes. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.480 If it's not today, it's coming soon, all right, Decision Day, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.760 D Day is coming up. We'll be right back on 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:58.600 the KSR pre show. It is the KSR pre show eight, five, nine, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:03.600 two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. First of all, Billy, Yes, 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.440 you're right, is tomorrow. I don't know what day it is. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.520 It's it's Tuesday, right, Yeah, the three day weekend is 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.040 is throwing me off. I don't know what day it 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.520 is anymore. So, yeah, that's tomorrow night for otega Oway. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.280 He's going to decide he's projected from what I've seen, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.440 Billy anywhere between like fiftieth and the fifty fifth pick, 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.400 depending on which you know, which website you go to 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.280 to look at for your draft information, your mock draft. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.520 So I mean, I think all signs point that he's 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.440 coming back, but you know, the longer he waits, I 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.800 think that builds up some anxiety for fans thinking that 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.200 maybe he will stay in the draft. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.960 Uh. Yeah, I would doubt it though. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.040 I mean, if you were a late second round pick, Shannon, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.280 You're getting on the bus and going to a G 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.800 League game, right, I mean, not a lot of guys 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.600 drafted in that slot, you know, have these big guaranteed contracts, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.320 which I think otega Oway or any player would be 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.480 looking for, especially when you can go back to college 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.320 and make so much money with nil, so I would 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.600 be shocked if he were to stay and get drafted 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.320 late in the second round like that. I think he's 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.400 got a pretty big role carved out for him back 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.760 at Kentucky and could possibly be a preseason SEC first 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.320 team player if he stays in college. So a lot 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:16.400 of excitement still, and. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.520 I think he's a guy that can, without a doubt, 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.600 improve his draft stock. Right, there's no doubt that this 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.720 is a player that could, you know, maybe work his 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:30.120 way up to a an early second round pick instead 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.080 of on the fiftieth and fifty fifth range. I mean, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.240 there's no doubt that next year he can come back. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.960