WEBVTT - 2025-04-23- KSR PRE-SHOW 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:04.960 Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR Pre Show. 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 Today is Wednesday, April twenty third, and I'm Billy Rutlids 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:10.520 along with Shannon the Dude. You can give us a 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.760 call on the Clark's Pumping Shop phone line. That's eight 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.720 five nine two eight oh two two eight seven calling 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.880 b our Whiskey Thief Call of the Day. You can 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.440 also Texas at five oh two two sixty five six 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.279 six five six and is always The KSR pre Show 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.400 is brought to you by ital X Fine Italian Dining 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.520 in Lexington, open for lunch Wednesday through Sunday and also 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:35.120 a great dinner spot if you're in the city. Good morning, Shannon, 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:36.720 It's good to see you, buddy. What's up very Hey? 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:37.159 You doing well? 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:37.320 Man? 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.360 Got my silk socks on? Ready to go for another 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:40.280 pre show this morning? 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.440 Stop it? Why is that my first topic on my 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.479 list that I looked up bamboo socks yesterday after the show, Shannon, 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.400 come on, Pam read in my mind. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.479 Uh, you know, I bought a bamboo shirt before in 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.640 the past, and you know, it looked really cool. It 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.680 looked good enough to sell me on it. But then 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.000 when I got it and rent it through the laundry 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.000 recycle a few times. It got all these little bitty 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.000 like little fur balls on them, you know that pop 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:06.039 up when you do the laundry. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:07.679 Okay, I know, yeah, I know what you're talking about. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.360 Yeah, yeah, So I had to throw the shirt away. 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:14.360 So my thoughts on bamboo. I don't have bamboo socks, 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.240 but shirts. It's a no go for me because of 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.560 my one experience with that. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.120 But bamboo sheets, Oh yeah, we're talking. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:23.360 Let me ring the bell for you here. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.160 I've got some bamboo sheets. Those are good. I've got them. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.720 Yes. The fiance always hooks us up with the best mattresses, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.679 the best pillows, and she came home one day with 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.559 some bamboo sheets. Changed our lives. Shannon, So, I wanted 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.200 to start the show with saying what can't bamboo do? 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.520 But apparently you can't run it through the dryer too 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.240 many times or you'll get the fuzzy things. Yeah a shirt, yeah, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.600 Shannon said, But you know, bamboo is a substitute for 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.360 wood when you're building things. It's something that you can eat. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.400 It's also the fastest growing plant on Earth. It can 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.280 grow up to three feet a day, so it's incredible. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.080 All the things that you can do with bamboo. Did 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.600 not know that there was a market for socks out there, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.760 but it sounds like I think a lot of people 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.920 in Kentucky learned that yesterday when Matt talked about his 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:05.760 trip to Amsterdam. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.280 Yeah, three feet a day? Is that right? Like bamboo, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.760 I knew it grew quickly, but. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:10.440 Feet a day? 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:11.079 Wow? 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.320 Or it's possible to get up to three feet a day. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:14.000 Kind of varies. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.640 So if I put some bamboo in my backyard, like 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.480 within two days, I've got six feet of bamboo. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.480 Neighbors aren't going to be seen if you post it 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:21.880 on the fence. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:22.679 No, don't worry about. 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.320 I'm gonna chop it down and mix socks out of it. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.600 So there's a lot of purposes you can use it for. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.080 But it sounds like we need to get on the 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.960 bamboo sock train. Today is Wednesday, April twenty third, and 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:38.079 the transfer portal is closed. It's closed, folks. You can 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.920 no longer enter the portal. Now. There's going to be 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.680 plenty of movement still in the coming days and weeks, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.720 but Shannon, finally the portal has closed. It seemed like 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.120 a very long two and a half three week period, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.560 and we got some more movement in it yesterday that 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.160 we'll talk about in just a bit. But we just 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.080 live in crazy times, do we not. It's just this 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.000 transfer portal thing is odd, and we finally see it 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.880 to a close today, even though we'll still see some 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.000 movement in the coming days. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:03.320 Yep. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.320 That is college sports the way it is now, and 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.359 I think for the foreseeable future, it's just going to 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:14.600 be every off season dealing with literally thousands of players 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.080 jumping in the transfer portal. And you know, like I 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.079 was one that was always for the transfer portal. I've 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.919 always said, if college coaches can come and go as 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.320 they please, players should be allowed to do the same thing. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.640 But I'll tell you this nil situation on top of 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.880 it just throws in an all new mix. You know, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:35.400 not only are players leaving because maybe they're unhappy, but 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.400 they're also leaving because they can get more money. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.560 And you know, it's the free market. It's the way 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:40.040 of the world. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:41.560 You know, if you and I want to leave and 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.200 go get a better job somewhere with more money, you're 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.120 free to do it. So that's sort of what college 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:47.960 sports has become. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:49.920 Yeah, but I'm not really going to get paid money 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.960 to do one hour of work per day, Shannon, I 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.320 mean it might be tough for Billy Arschae. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.320 You got it made, You got it made. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.520 We're not going to get into that. But if with 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.360 the trans portal closing today, if you were to look 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.800 at most websites official rankings, Kentucky has get ready for 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:11.440 this in the number one transfer portal class number one boom. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:12.960 How about that, man? 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.160 Yeah, I mean you look at all the experience that 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.720 they've brought in. A guy from a national championship team, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.359 has that pedigree to go along with him, and another 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.600 transfer from Alabama, very good Alabama team. You get throw 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.840 on some of these mid major players as well. I mean, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.919 it worked out pretty well for Mark Pope in one season, 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.080 and that was throwing it all together very quickly. He 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.000 had an entire recruiting cycle to put this team together, 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.479 and you know, I think we should all be really 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.200 excited about what's ahead for next season. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.520 Now, teams will still sign players, so that is not 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.560 the final ranking, but as of right now, if you 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.880 were to looking on three starts, Kentucky is number one. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.880 There were still some movement in the final day of 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.039 the transfer portal yesterday Boogie Fland entered it from Arkansas. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.839 Walker Horn and Grant Darbyshire both have entered the portal 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:02.640 show I know to see them go, but also Travis Perry, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.080 the eleventh hour addition to the Transfer portal, will Live, 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.240 will be leaving Kentucky. Played in thirty one games, averaged 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.839 two point seven points per game in nine point seven minutes, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.679 but he was thrusted into a starting role at times, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.960 started three straight games during SEC play. Also started in 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.640 the SEC Tournament when Kentucky took on Bama. Obviously a 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.520 Kentucky kid in the all time scoring record holder in 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.159 the state of Kentucky for high school. But Shannon, what 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:30.800 were your thoughts when you heard the news that Travis 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.839 Perry would be leaving the Cats last night? 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.719 Slightly surprised, not like, you know, over the top shocked, 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.599 but you know, this is a Kentucky kid who knows 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.479 what it's who knows what it means to put on 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.040 that Kentucky jersey. And I guess he just saw the 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.240 writing on the wall, you know, with the guards that 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.720 Pope has brought in through the Transfer portal, looked at 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.600 it and said, well, my minutes will probably be really limited. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.520 But you know, again it comes down to I just 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.800 I see so many times players just entering the transfer portal. 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:02.680 It's the easy way out. I don't know, like whatever 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.040 came to, you know, whatever happened to fighting for your 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.679 spot on the team, you know, I don't know. Maybe 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.760 he just feels like he wants to go somewhere. Obviously 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.479 he does. He feels like he wants to go somewhere else. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.400 I just don't know where that somewhere else is going 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.240 to be where he's going to get more playing time 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.719 unless he takes a big step down to maybe like 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.159 a mid major type of school. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:23.960 Yeah. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.920 I mean, it's tough being a freshman in college athletics 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.960 trying to play at a blue blood nowadays, because you 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.360 can so much easier over recruit these guys, right, I mean, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.400 you can bring in a guy with national championship experience, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:40.279 was the sixth man on the national title winning Florida Gators, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.000 and you're gonna want to play him a little bit 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.000 more than a sophomore Travis Perry who was still adjusting 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.919 to the physicality of the game and still learning what 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.359 he is good at, even though we do know he 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.640 can shoot that damn ball, My funky rooster brethren is 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.560 leaving me. Shannon, No, hopefully he doesn't go far. I 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.839 think my first thought when he went to the portal 0:06:59.920 --> 0:07:03.200 was come on down to the Hilltoppers. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:03.400 All the Hilltoppers. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.280 I stared, Kentucky, come on down to Bowling Green. It's 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:07.800 not too far. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:08.200 That could. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.760 I don't know what Western Kentucky Basketball's roster looks like, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.480 but I could definitely see them making a spot for 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:14.000 Travis pier. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.600 We got a spot for him. We got a spot, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.840 no matter what. Okay, no, no matter what. I mean, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.880 this is the all time leave scorer. Shannon gets some 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.720 respect on TP's name. Now, I've seen a lot of 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.800 people say this is a bad move by Mark Pope 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.560 to force out Travis Perry. I don't think that was 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.200 the case. Some reporting by Jack Pilgrim on Kezar plus 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.840 seem to believe that this was a surprise too many 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.560 on the Kentucky coaching staff. They wanted to go into 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.000 the season with the role that they had Travis Perry 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.160 ready to fill. But like you said, Shannon, I kind 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.280 of get it. I mean, despite your love for a university, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.760 if you see the the quote writing on the wall 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.040 that you're gonna get maybe two three minutes of playing 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.280 time unless you have a ton of injuries to the 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.280 guard spot. Why not go play somewhere else and make 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.800 that money and do what you wanted to do at 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.160 that level. I get what you're saying. You know, the 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.280 kids don't stay and they're not going to fight for 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:07.320 a spot anymore. But in today's landscape, I can't blame 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.120 a kid for making this kind of decision, you know. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.600 I mean, if you look at last season, though, did 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.240 we really expect Travis Perry to play at all? 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.400 I know, I know, you know, injuries factored in, No injuries. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.920 Factored in, and you know, I think he took advantage 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.600 of those of those minutes that he had. But you know, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.960 let's not act like we're going to go through an 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.480 entire season without one injury. I mean, is there ever 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.600 a season that goes by where somebody doesn't get banged 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:29.960 up a little bit to the point to where you 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:30.840 have to go next. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:31.920 Man up on the bench. Never. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.080 I mean, you're gonna have to have depth. Yeah, that's important. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.120 But Kentucky's got like thirteen guys that. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.320 Can play now, Shannon, Yeah, So why don't you just 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.400 work on your game and improve your game to the 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.640 point to where you're not the thirteenth man off the bench. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.960 You know, you're a guy that's fighting for playing time. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.439 But now it's like you said, well, it doesn't look 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:52.880 like I'm going to get any minutes. Let me just 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.920 go over here instead. It's too easy. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:56.440 I don't know. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.760 I would think that the nil money, though, would be 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.839 better at Kentucky than anywhere else. I mean, you're a 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.760 Kentucky guy. You know, you got this in your blood. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.360 And now let's say you go transfer to I don't know, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.320 I have no idea. Let's just throw a name out there, Dayton, 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.760 Okay or Xavier. You're not gonna get the Nile money 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.960 there that you would get here as a Kentucky guy. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.600 So no, But these guys are competitors, right, and I 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.080 mean to a degree. I think you know, if you 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.560 ask the man to man when the lights aren't on, 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.120 they want to play right. The money's nice, and that's 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.200 obviously a sticking point with a lot of people, but 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.760 there's also a reason why people are like, how many 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.920 starting minutes are you gonna give me? Because these guys 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.679 want to go to a place where they can play now. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.640 You know, I think we could see a trend out 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.480 of this where freshmen probably start going to mid majors 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.199 because they're not going to play at the Saint John's right, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.920 They're not going to just start at Kentucky unless you 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.800 are a consensus top five pick in the NBA draft. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.560 So maybe that does help schools like Eastern and Western 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.520 and maybe even a Bellerman get some talent that they 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.000 wouldn't in the past. Hell, maybe Travis comes back, Shannon, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.800 maybe he goes to Western for a couple of years 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.520 and there's a spot at Kentucky when he's a. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.760 Little bit better to never know, it could always happen. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.120 That's why you never burn a bridge. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.160 If you're a coach or a recruiter, you know, you 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.040 see Vince Merrow, Vince you. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:12.760 Know, go out, go out and get guys. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.320 And you know always stays in contact with him. You're 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.520 always constantly recruiting that. You know, the recruiting season never ends. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.199 It's it's round the clock. Now three are sixty five 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.920 days a year, So you know, there's always a chance 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.240 he could come back. But you know, wherever he goes, 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.880 best of luck to him. But I don't know man 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.640 for a Kentucky guy playing at the University of Kentucky. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.600 I don't see how it gets any better than that. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.800 So, now, what was your favorite Travis Perry moment of 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.319 the season. I'll give you a couple. I think Trent 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.960 Noah had a no look past to Perry in the 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.080 corner who hit a big three at at one time. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.040 You know, he accidentally shaved off his mustache when he 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:48.800 was trying to touch it up a little bit, and 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.200 then he I think he had a pretty good game 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.280 the next day. You know, probably not many moments, but 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:55.920 what are you going to remember with TP in the 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:56.600 Blue and White Show. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.120 I don't know that there's like one specific moment. I think, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.080 you know, just to see and in general of him, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.520 like we said earlier, you know, kind of being thrown 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.839 into the spotlight and yeah, here you go, kid, let's 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.360 see what you got. I think he I can't remember 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.559 which games for me, it all runs together, but I 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.079 think he had one game where he knocked down to 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.040 two or three threes if I'm not mistaken. You know, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.959 I think he did a really good job given the circumstances. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.439 And you know, it's a guy that I hate to 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.120 see him go. But you know, I also understand that 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.200 he's got to do what he feels like. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:27.839 Is best for him. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.640 I don't know if it's a favorite moment, but there 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.520 was a time where he wasn't getting any calls, and 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.360 I believe Mark Sears would go down and throw his 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.640 head back and get every single call. And Jack Gibbons 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.320 is on the radio saying, man, he's he's not old 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.560 enough to get that call. You got to earn some 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.240 respect in the SEC to get that guy, Shandon, I 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.880 thought you were supposed to call the game the same 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:46.760 way for everybody. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.400 Yeah, I agree with that. I mean, come on, if 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.200 it's a foul, it's a foul. It shouldn't matter what 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.120 your age is or how long you've been in the league. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.480 And you see that you see some favorable calls. I 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.840 think in the NBA, you know, with a guy like 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.520 Lebron who gets some fair calls. But right you know, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.280 it should be if it's a foul, it's a foul. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:04.920 It doesn't matter who it is or what the name. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.560 When the back of the jersey says or the front 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.320 of the jersey, it fouls a foul. But you know, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.360 in reality, some of these guys probably do get favorable 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:13.600 calls just the way it is. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.120 Oh yeah, absolutely, And I'm not going to act like 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.920 the screaming at the referee for the entire game doesn't 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.200 have an effect either, Shannon. I mean, after I get 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.720 berated for thirty eight minutes, I might make a call 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.280 against your team. That may jeopardize my integrity, Shannon, But 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.720 I feel like that's just human nature. Yeah, and that's 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.400 the beauty of sports. A lot of times, that's the 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.120 beauty of baseball. And how beautiful was that baseball last night, Shannon, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.199 as the Cats beat Louisville seventeen to five and run 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:39.640 ruled them. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:44.640 Yeah, beautiful for Kentucky, ugly for Louisville. Eleven walks, six 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.400 hit batsman. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.120 Is that right? Eleven and six for walks and hit batters. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.120 That's crazy. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.079 I mean, how do we have six guys get hit 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.760 by a pitch and not have some sort of brawl. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.640 You think, just on paper rivalry game that should start it. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.959 But I was watching a Major League baseball game the 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.040 other night. Guy didn't even hit the person. He had 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.920 two pitches that came in really close, but they threw 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:07.440 the guy out. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.199 Didn't even hit the guy, what the pitcher They. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.880 Threw the pitcher out? Yes, I guess it was that 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.760 second time. He was like, man, you're not doing that 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.640 on purpose. But UK scores four runs in the second, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.840 four runs in the fourth, and seven in the fifth 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.280 to win seventeen to five to beat the Louisville Cardinals. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.440 Get a little revenge when Louisville beat them at Jim 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:29.440 Patterson Stadium earlier this year. Patrick Carrera, I mean, he 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.640 was a double short of the cycle, and if that 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.679 game would have went on a little bit further, he 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.040 might have gotten it. Had a basis clearing triple also 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.000 at home run, a big win for the Kentucky Batcats. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.240 You know what, do they say, it's hard not to 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.760 be romantic about baseball, And I find myself romanticizing about 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.960 baseball twice last night, Shannonck Can I tell you why? 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:48.319 Yeah? 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.599 Yeah, because I was listening to the radio call a 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.000 little bit. Darren was with the old ball coach Keith Madison. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.240 And there's not another sport where you can be in 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.040 the middle of the game and you can be talking 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.800 about something completely different. And there are some great announcers 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.120 throughout MLB history that are really good at this, but 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.600 Shannon like the scores what you know, fifteen to four, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.840 and Darren and Keith are talking about like the nineteen 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:15.079 forties and you know, like how many people use quarters 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.440 and like a thing that you would wrap around your 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.760 belt that you could have your quarters and dimes and 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.000 pennies ready to go whenever you needed to use them. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.000 We're in the middle of a game and these guys 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.800 are talking about that. But I absolutely love the storytelling 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.880 aspect of a baseball broadcast, and it's just different from 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:32.440 any other sport, you know what I mean. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:33.480 Yeah, yeah, it's slower. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.400 You got time to you know, talk in between pitches, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.200 and you see a lot of these guys. I don't know, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.400 does Darren do the call all by himself, because a 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.160 lot of these guys that are baseball guys will just 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:42.720 you know. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.080 A lot of road games you will buy himself. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.120 they'll just have to pontificate by himself in a booth. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.360 But it's also like the only sport well, I guess 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.080 golf could be like this a little bit, but you know, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:54.880 it's one of the few sports where you can have 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.920 a lot of downtime on the radio and it'd be okay. Yeah, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.400 I know, it's one two pitch ball outside and you 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.960 can just have a you know, ten to fifteen seconds 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.920 of dead air and just let the abbance, you know, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.720 sort of fill the air waves. And it's totally fine 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.280 to do that. As a matter of fact, you should 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.080 do that if you're a play by play baseball guy. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.040 Well behind baseball here. The producers hate that because you 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:17.680 think they may have went to break and called to 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.920 go to break and you don't know, but they're actually 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.640 just setting the scene a little bit. So you're right, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.080 it's like a two to one count. Let me get 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.160 back into my story about the last time I saw 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.440 a player hit the cycle, and it's timely because you're 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.800 watching a player almost hit for this cycle. So I 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.600 love that aspect about baseball. The other aspect that I 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.600 felt myself loving about it yesterday just listening to the game, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.720 was that the baseball game can can end early if 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.560 it's a blowout. Shannon, we need this more in sports. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.640 I mean, how about the NBA game where Okay see 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.400 recently beat the Memphis Greasly by how many points? Fifty 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.880 one fifty one points. I'm gonna argue that game should 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.920 have ended at thirty five, j Jen, And you know 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:54.480 what I mean. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.320 You think that there should have been like a towel 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.040 that we could just throw out there on the court, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.920 like you know, throwing the we're done, just quit. I 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:03.560 mean talk about making headlines. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.360 I don't want to subjective quit. I want a hard 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.440 number that a team could get to where the game 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:09.960 just ends. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.200 Okay, so what should that be? Then? 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:13.160 I don't know. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.520 You can't say thirty five or even around thirty because 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.440 well you're probably not old enough to remember. But Kentucky 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.080 was once down at LSU. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:22.280 Yeah, was how many was that? 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:23.680 Thirty one? 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.160 I think it was at halftime and came back and 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.040 won the game. So you know, if you were to 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.520 end that game, I mean it looked like the game 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:31.240 was over at halftime. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:32.760 Then Kentucky comes back and wins. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.960 So the baseball rule is you have to be up 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.880