Speaker 1: Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2: It is the KSR Pre Show, Wednesday, March nineteenth. I
Speaker 2: am Shannon the Dude being joined by Billy Relige and
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Speaker 2: Find Italian donning in Lexington and Billy the madness has begun.
Speaker 2: What a crazy finish to that first game last night.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that, and of course Kentucky gets things
Speaker 2: going on Friday night in Milwaukee and that is where
Speaker 2: we are heading today. I feel like I just unpacked
Speaker 2: my suitcase and now well I got to pack it
Speaker 2: and get ready to go because we're leaving this afternoon
Speaker 2: for Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Great to see you this morning, Shannon, as you start
Speaker 3: your road trip today with the guys headed to Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: But ultimately is it Chicago that you're going today or where? Now?
Speaker 1: We're going all the way?
Speaker 3: Oh, you're going all the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, it's only like, what six six and a
Speaker 2: half from Louisville, So I got seven from Lexington.
Speaker 3: I mean you're a veteran at this point, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I mean you say I'm a veteran.
Speaker 1: I mean all I gotta do.
Speaker 2: Is I just sit in the back seat and and
Speaker 2: ignore the Paul Finebaum show that's on, you know, the
Speaker 2: car radio as we're driving.
Speaker 1: Down the road.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got your little movie player in the back
Speaker 3: requesting bad Christmas movies to watch on the road, or
Speaker 3: whatever it may be. I guess the license plate game
Speaker 3: with Mario. So looking forward to. Some of the best
Speaker 3: KSR shows are when you guys are together on the road.
Speaker 3: So hope putting for a couple of those this week.
Speaker 2: We will continue to take your suggestions of things we
Speaker 2: can do in Milwaukee in our downtime. But you know, really, Billy,
Speaker 2: for me, I would just rather find a good sports
Speaker 2: bar and sit there and watch all the games. Like
Speaker 2: to me, that's how it's most enjoyable to take in
Speaker 2: the first two games or first two days of games
Speaker 2: in the tournament. You know, going to the game itself,
Speaker 2: you don't get to see all the other games. People say, oh,
Speaker 2: you get to go to the game. How lucky. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that's cool and all, but you don't
Speaker 2: get to see the other games. To me, the most
Speaker 2: fun part of these two days, which I think are
Speaker 2: the most two special days in sports all year long,
Speaker 2: is being able to watch all the craziness. Be able
Speaker 2: to watch all four games at once, and if you're
Speaker 2: at the game, you only get that one game that
Speaker 2: you're seeing.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, outside of the NCAA Tournament, this is
Speaker 3: the sports viewing experience in twenty twenty five, Right, Why
Speaker 3: would I go to the ballpark when I can stay
Speaker 3: at home and watch all the games on my comfy
Speaker 3: recliner with the beer that's free and not seventeen dollars. So,
Speaker 3: and I think you're hitting a nail when it comes
Speaker 3: to the viewer experience. But this is the NCAA tournament,
Speaker 3: and so rightly so you want to watch all the games, right.
Speaker 3: I've always thought of going to Vegas for the first
Speaker 3: this first weekend, at least at least once in my life,
Speaker 3: just to experience it all. But you know, if it's
Speaker 3: not your team, you're right, Shinnon, it feels like you're
Speaker 3: missing out on all the other action that's happening and
Speaker 3: it's already started. Man, kind of like you let off
Speaker 3: at the top of the show. I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: last night was great, was it not?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: The first game was North Carolina. I think they kind
Speaker 2: of came out with a chip on their shoulder. You know,
Speaker 2: everybody's saying that they don't belong, and you know what,
Speaker 2: they still don't belong. I don't care if they won
Speaker 2: the game by one hundred points last night, they still
Speaker 2: don't belong. And I don't care if they make a
Speaker 2: run to the Sweet sixteen or Elite eight, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: North Carolina still doesn't belong in the tournament. But they
Speaker 2: came out and won big last night. But of course
Speaker 2: the talk is all about Alabama State with that great
Speaker 2: finish over Saint Francis top ball game, just a few
Speaker 2: seconds left on the clock, and Alabama State does the
Speaker 2: I don't know if we call it the Latner pass,
Speaker 2: the long baseball football, the hell mary. Let's just call
Speaker 2: it that if it's basically a hell mary. They throw it,
Speaker 2: you know, all the players kind of go for the ball,
Speaker 2: it gets tipped, lands right into the hands of an
Speaker 2: Alabama State player, which is right underneath the basket, an
Speaker 2: easy layup, What a finish, and what a way to
Speaker 2: If this is any indication as to how exciting these
Speaker 2: games are going to be, We're in for a wild run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right in the bread basket, I think hell Mary's
Speaker 3: the right word. There was a defender on the inbounder,
Speaker 3: unlike maybe in past games, but.
Speaker 2: He wasn't aggressive enough though, Like if I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: defending that, I felt like it was kind of a
Speaker 2: e I'm gonna stand here and throw my hands up,
Speaker 2: but you're not gonna You're not gonna make this pass anyway.
Speaker 3: So well, I mean, this is what it's all about, right,
Speaker 3: I mean a school getting their very first NCAA tournament win,
Speaker 3: winning over a team that has twenty five hundred enrollment
Speaker 3: at their school total, Like it's that's march man. And
Speaker 3: don't let Seth Davis hear you too loudly though, because
Speaker 3: he'll say, well, why don't you want like four more
Speaker 3: of these playing games? Or how about six more of
Speaker 3: these playing games? No, I do not want to expand
Speaker 3: the tournament. I'm enjoying this first four. Don't make me
Speaker 3: have to think about more NCAA tournament games.
Speaker 2: What if there were two more games yesterday and two
Speaker 2: more today, Like would that bother you?
Speaker 1: Like two more?
Speaker 3: I mean if the basketball yeah, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to see teams that don't deserve to
Speaker 3: be playing in postseason play, and I think North Carolina
Speaker 3: is right on that borderline. And then they come out
Speaker 3: and score ninety five. San Diego State hasn't allowed a
Speaker 3: team to score ninety five autumns since two thousand and six.
Speaker 3: They're at actually a pretty good defensive team. They ranked
Speaker 3: number one in the country when it comes to field
Speaker 3: goal percentage against them this year. So credit to North Carolina.
Speaker 3: They I think they took that little personally shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they definitely had the emotional factor coming in trying
Speaker 2: to prove a point, and they did last night.
Speaker 3: So but I don't know, I mean the special it's
Speaker 3: special when the tournament starts right and all these games
Speaker 3: are going on at the same time. So I'm definitely
Speaker 3: excited for that in the coming day.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: We had a great hypothetical question yesterday by a listener, Billy.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you were listening to KSR, but
Speaker 2: the question was, if you had a bowl of one
Speaker 2: hundred grapes, and you won one hundred thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: each grape that you ate. But the catch is one
Speaker 2: of those grapes out of the one hundred is poisonous
Speaker 2: and would kill you.
Speaker 1: How many grapes would you be willing to eat?
Speaker 2: I think Matt's answer was like one, and then Ryan
Speaker 2: and I said, give me like ten of them.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go, you know.
Speaker 2: And then it came down to like the numbers game
Speaker 2: and trying to figure out, okay, well, what's the percentage
Speaker 2: for each.
Speaker 3: One one lost? Shit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, like you know, don't make me break down
Speaker 2: and carry the one to do math this early in
Speaker 2: the morning or really any point in time.
Speaker 1: I hate math.
Speaker 2: One listener gave like thirty eight percent is the answer.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's correct. I like Drew's answer. If
Speaker 2: I eat ten grapes out of one hundred, that would
Speaker 2: be ten percent, would it not? So regardless of what
Speaker 2: the true answer is ten and a half percent. I
Speaker 2: want to ask you, billy, if you had one hundred
Speaker 2: grapes in front of you, one of them is poisonous,
Speaker 2: but you get one hundred thousand dollars for each grape
Speaker 2: that you eat.
Speaker 1: How many are you eating?
Speaker 3: Well? You know, listen, I look, ten is a nice
Speaker 3: round number that gets you to a million, right, and
Speaker 3: that's a that's a great sum to live off of
Speaker 3: for the rest of your life. But I'm not risking
Speaker 3: ten shit, and I can't get to that number.
Speaker 1: What happened to get rich or die trying?
Speaker 3: Well? I understand that that cliche, that sentiment, but not me, man.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can live off of rob and noodles
Speaker 3: and twenty dollars pay check, so I think, you know,
Speaker 3: my life is pretty valuable. So you know I'm definitely
Speaker 3: going more than one. I think you give me like five,
Speaker 3: give me a full half a million. I think that's fine.
Speaker 3: That's not too much of a risk. You start getting
Speaker 3: a double digits chain and you're playing with fire. You
Speaker 3: are playing with fire man.
Speaker 2: Wait, come on, it's still a ninety percent chance you're
Speaker 2: going to live.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not. I'm not taking your word on any percentages.
Speaker 2: After the conversation, Like, when you wake up and go
Speaker 2: through life every day, what do you think your percentages
Speaker 2: of surviving the day?
Speaker 3: Just as true? I mean, there's there's inherent risk in
Speaker 3: just living so right, every time you go down the
Speaker 3: stairs every time you drive a car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would say, I don't know, like
Speaker 2: again getting into numbers, but you know, here's here's my theory.
Speaker 1: Something's going to take you out of this world might.
Speaker 3: As well be a great whether.
Speaker 2: It be sickness or a car crew or a plane
Speaker 2: crash that probably isn't very likely to happen. But my
Speaker 2: point is the old age, something's gonna take you out
Speaker 2: of this world, why not just have death by grapes?
Speaker 2: I mean, what a way to go. You remember that
Speaker 2: show that came on It was like thousand Ways.
Speaker 3: To Die or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I used the most ridiculous I know, but I.
Speaker 2: Used to love that show. It would come on late
Speaker 2: at night and it came on like Spike TV. It
Speaker 2: was called a Thousand Ways to Die and it just
Speaker 2: had like reenactments of the most bizarre ways that people
Speaker 2: have actually died in real life, and I found it
Speaker 2: highly entertaining. So I don't know that in the Thousand
Speaker 2: Ways to Die, the death by poisonous grapes was one
Speaker 2: of them. But just think, Billy, you could be on
Speaker 2: that show. You could be one thousand and one ways
Speaker 2: to die.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you mentioned that I loved that show just
Speaker 3: because of how ridiculous it was. But they were all true, right,
Speaker 3: I mean it was based off of true deaths that
Speaker 3: actually happened, and it'd be like a tire exploded and
Speaker 3: the nail flew from the tire into the forehead of
Speaker 3: Little Lucy and it's like, my god, that is a
Speaker 3: good throwback. No, but here's the difference. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: if you're walking down the stairs, you're driving a car.
Speaker 3: I mean, these things happen. That's a part of life.
Speaker 3: The grape question, You've got a choice, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's your decision, greed or death. So I'm just you know,
Speaker 3: I don't money isn't going to change my happiness that much, Shannon.
Speaker 3: But I think I'm talking to the wrong person when
Speaker 3: I say something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you can just tell who has the
Speaker 2: money and who doesn't on this show.
Speaker 1: I'm not on this show, but I'm talking about on KSR.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh like, yeah, I only have one compared to
Speaker 3: double digit Yah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well we see who's got money and who doesn't.
Speaker 3: Well, some you know, some of us has to door
Speaker 3: dash and we could use a couple extra grapes. To
Speaker 3: pay for something, so I understand that.
Speaker 1: Well, if you believe the numbers.
Speaker 2: While we're talking numbers, Kentucky statistically is the most likely
Speaker 2: three seed to lose in the first round of the tournament.
Speaker 1: Did you see this?
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 1: Evan mia Cowa?
Speaker 2: I think I tell you say this last name, but
Speaker 2: he's really good at crunching the numbers in college basketball
Speaker 2: and running this stats and like everything that could possibly happen,
Speaker 2: which would mean if you played the game five times,
Speaker 2: Kentucky loses this game. But you know, if you know,
Speaker 2: loses one out of five, I guess right. But luckily
Speaker 2: they're only playing at one, so I still feel good
Speaker 2: about this this game coming up on.
Speaker 1: Friday against Troy. What do you think about that?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: Does that give you any concern knowing that Kentucky by
Speaker 2: the numbers is the most likely three seed to lose?
Speaker 3: Not really, I mean statistically that there's got to be
Speaker 3: somebody that has that number as the highest of one
Speaker 3: of the three seeds. It just happens to be Kentucky.
Speaker 3: It does feel like there's a hump to get over, right,
Speaker 3: I don't you know. I heard Chris Fisher mention this
Speaker 3: like a feeling of dread that this fan base has
Speaker 3: a little bit for the first round game. Would you
Speaker 3: agree with that at all, Shannon? I mean, when you've
Speaker 3: lost two of the first three, I mean, is it
Speaker 3: like you're a little hesitant into going into this game,
Speaker 3: No more so than a decade ago where you're like,
Speaker 3: wh're Kentucky, we don't lose who was in the first round?
Speaker 4: Is there?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if a sense of doom
Speaker 3: is there, but there is like a let's just get
Speaker 3: past this first one. And I think a lot a
Speaker 3: lot of people would be happy with what the season
Speaker 3: has become at that point.
Speaker 2: If it were John Caliperry as the coach and we
Speaker 2: had one and dones again on this team, then maybe
Speaker 2: I would agree with you.
Speaker 1: But I feel like we have wiped the slate clean.
Speaker 2: You've got all new, completely different team, a new coach
Speaker 2: who goes by speaking of numbers, goes by the numbers,
Speaker 2: doesn't go by his gut, you know, and when it
Speaker 2: comes to making game time decisions. So I feel like
Speaker 2: that whatever you know, stank that we had on this
Speaker 2: team from the last couple of years has all been
Speaker 2: washed away. So at this point I'm not really concerned
Speaker 2: about what happened the last couple of years because none
Speaker 2: of those guys were here.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you know it's kind of how you look
Speaker 3: at it, right. So Lamont Butler coming back is huge
Speaker 3: for Kentucky. But let's say he's seventy percent lamant than
Speaker 3: he was as as a healthy player in Kentucky struggles
Speaker 3: and loses their first round game by ten points. You know,
Speaker 3: I feel like what we think of the season is
Speaker 3: completely different. Fair or not, but that's how That's how
Speaker 3: it happened the last couple of years with cal. You
Speaker 3: gotta remember Kentucky was still high seeds. Yeah, we're still
Speaker 3: high seeds. When they're losing to Saint.
Speaker 2: Peter, you gotta win this game, you know. I know
Speaker 2: that they're limping in, they're dealing with injuries, but you
Speaker 2: got to win this game.
Speaker 3: This one? You do?
Speaker 2: I think, you know, you win Friday, and then let's
Speaker 2: say you lose in the second round.
Speaker 1: I kind of.
Speaker 2: Feel like, what are we gonna think about the season?
Speaker 1: Eh?
Speaker 2: It was okay, if you win and you go to
Speaker 2: the sweet sixteen, that's the success for me. Gravy, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think at that point anything that happens. I kind
Speaker 2: of look at it the same way I looked at
Speaker 2: it in the SEC Tournament whence mart Pope got that
Speaker 2: first win against Oklahoma on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Whatever happened from there was house money.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like if you if you get to the
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen, anything that happens at that point is house money.
Speaker 1: But the main thing is, let's.
Speaker 2: Get past this first one, because I think if you
Speaker 2: win the first game, lose the second game, it's it's
Speaker 2: kind of a wash. You kind of look at it like, well,
Speaker 2: the season was fine, but it's disappointing we didn't go farther. Now,
Speaker 2: if you lose against Troy, that's a disappointment.
Speaker 1: It just is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, regardless even with wins versus Duke and Gonzaga.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not gonna call the season a failure.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to use the word failure. I will say,
Speaker 2: you lose against Troy, it's disappointing. That's a disappointment, a
Speaker 2: disappointing end of the season.
Speaker 3: And you say the regular season season was fine, I
Speaker 3: would argue it's one of the more memorable ones. You know,
Speaker 3: the seasons are remembered for what you do in the postseason.
Speaker 3: But I mean a first year head coach Mark Pope
Speaker 3: puts together roster in two weeks, He's able to beat
Speaker 3: Duke and Gonzaga, sweep Tennessee, beat Louisville with Lamont Butler's
Speaker 3: thirty three the game winner versus Oklahoma. So I mean,
Speaker 3: there were some great exciting moments. I'd love to remember
Speaker 3: the season fondly, Shannon, But for better or for worse,
Speaker 3: it did you know what you do in the tournament?
Speaker 3: I think dictates It's a lot of what you remember, right.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be a highlight again on somebody's
Speaker 2: one shining moment of Jack Golki.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about Jack Gokey for a second,
Speaker 3: because he's getting the celebrity treatment. You know, Jack Goldkie's
Speaker 3: filling out a bracket. Please. They won one game in
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament. He's trolling, right, well, so yeah, the
Speaker 3: everybody's trolling. They're all just trying to get under Kentucky
Speaker 3: fan skins. I mean, at least Doug Edar won more
Speaker 3: than a couple games. I mean, get that guy the
Speaker 3: Buffalo wad Wings deal instead of Jack Goldkie. The guy
Speaker 3: is like, I mean, he's going to be crunching numbers
Speaker 3: at as an accountant here soon. He's just trying to
Speaker 3: take his extra lap in the spotlight chain, and I
Speaker 3: don't like well.
Speaker 2: On the other end of that, did you see Bobby
Speaker 2: Witt Junior? Do you know who that is? The Kansas
Speaker 2: City Royals baseball player? I do?
Speaker 3: What did he do?
Speaker 2: Is he going to be BBN's favorite baseball player? Because
Speaker 2: in his bracket he picked Kentucky not only to go
Speaker 2: on a run, he picked them the win the tournament.
Speaker 2: Billy picked him to win the tournament in his bracket. Okay,
Speaker 2: what does your bracket look like? By the way, we'll
Speaker 2: get into that coming up after the break.
Speaker 3: I want to see. I hate it. I hate bracky. Well,
Speaker 3: hang on to it. Shock all right, all right, we'll
Speaker 3: talk about where I have Kentucky landing.
Speaker 2: Okay, eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: here we come.
Speaker 1: I want to hear your suggestions. What's you a cheese Kurt?
Speaker 1: Where do we go? What do we do?
Speaker 2: We're gonna go to the Haunit cigar bar. Now that
Speaker 2: I've heard about that, now I'm intrigued. I want to
Speaker 2: give it Drew with love that.
Speaker 1: I want to go.
Speaker 2: I want to go get a stogy and an old
Speaker 2: fashion and a ghost and hang out in Milwaukee. That
Speaker 2: sounds like a fun time to me. Eight five nine two,
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna try to find some fun in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, former NBA players would know, right. They
Speaker 3: go on these trips, go from town to town and
Speaker 3: a lot of times find the best party spots. But
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Speaker 2: Just give me a t like four TVs, you know,
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Speaker 2: have you picked your bracket?
Speaker 1: And if you have, what is your final four? Give me?
Speaker 1: Give me your upsets and your final four?
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Speaker 3: told you I hate my bracket.
Speaker 1: Why why'd you pick it? If you hate?
Speaker 3: Well? Yeah, you know, I just kind of I go
Speaker 3: into a zone and I make the picks. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm not looking at what j billis is doing or
Speaker 3: Seth Davis or anything. I just make my picks and
Speaker 3: I and I hate him this year I do. I've
Speaker 3: got all one seeds in the final four. Shan Auburn, Dudeeds,
Speaker 3: Florida Houston all one seeds. I couldn't even talk myself
Speaker 3: into Michigan State beating Auburn despite Auburn playing so poorly
Speaker 3: of late. But I think it's two SEC teams in
Speaker 3: the final four, a couple of upstates. I've got, Shannon,
Speaker 3: I've got High Point beating Perdue in a thirteen to
Speaker 3: four matchup. Shannon, I'm sorry, I don't have your Vanderbilt
Speaker 3: Commodore's winning.
Speaker 1: I don't either. I think St.
Speaker 2: Mary's is a bad matchup. They've got some guys that
Speaker 2: can shoot. Vandy struggles like anywhere away from Memorial Gym
Speaker 2: in Nashville. They can't even win in Nashville at Bridgetone Arena.
Speaker 2: So it's not like they you know, they only play
Speaker 2: well in Nashville. No, they only play well inside Memorial Gym.
Speaker 2: Outside of that arena, I don't have a whole lot
Speaker 2: of com well.
Speaker 3: I mean, even if they had a lead, they'd blow
Speaker 3: it in the final ten minutes. I mean, they forget
Speaker 3: how to dribble in a secon.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of issues.
Speaker 3: Colorado State beats Memphis in the twelve to five despite
Speaker 3: Colorado State being the favorite here as the twelve. I've
Speaker 3: got Drake being beating Missouri as an eleven and then
Speaker 3: beating Texas Tech the three. I've got Drake all the.
Speaker 2: Way, and I actually do have them in the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 2: I agree with that pick, but you didn't really go
Speaker 2: out on a limb when it comes to your final four.
Speaker 3: No, and I you know what, I'm sorry. You know,
Speaker 3: maybe hot take Billy. Our sports should be better than that.
Speaker 3: But I think that these are the four best teams
Speaker 3: in the country. And while there are upsets and we
Speaker 3: see cinderellas, most of the time we see the best
Speaker 3: teams competing for the championships.
Speaker 2: So, okay, that's your final four. Who's your championship game
Speaker 2: and who's your winner?
Speaker 3: My championship game is Florida versus Duke. And in the
Speaker 3: year that Todd Golden was allegedly stalking University of Florida students,
Speaker 3: he will stalk the young freshman at Duke. Gators will
Speaker 3: beat the Blue the Duke Blue Devils in the final game.
Speaker 2: Shannon, did she really just say that, what what's wrong
Speaker 2: with you?
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of young kids over there.
Speaker 2: Well, trauma Tracy Morgan speaking of what's wrong with people,
Speaker 2: was vomiting all over the floora the other day at
Speaker 2: a game. You're telling me during the break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he's okay. He actually went to the hospital
Speaker 3: and they said it was food poisoning, but if you
Speaker 3: saw the images, he was just yacking.
Speaker 1: I did see that.
Speaker 2: It was kind of like the the It was like
Speaker 2: the Exorcist of his projectile pea suit, vomit all over
Speaker 2: the floor, and I saw like a you know, as
Speaker 2: you scroll through social media, I saw it, but I
Speaker 2: just didn't like. I guess I'm just so desensitized by
Speaker 2: everything you see on social media.
Speaker 1: Me seeing a.
Speaker 2: Guy just vomiting, projectile vomiting all over a floor just
Speaker 2: didn't keep my interest long enough to find out who
Speaker 2: that person was.
Speaker 1: And you were telling me that was Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 3: It's Tracy Morgan. I mean he was court side. Man.
Speaker 3: You are right there, front and center, and you know
Speaker 3: it's one thing to spill your drink, right and everybody's
Speaker 3: got to stop. Yeah, they bring over some towels, but
Speaker 3: my man was going just chucking onto the floor. So
Speaker 3: glad he's okay, Shannon, I've been there. You get food poisoning,
Speaker 3: it's you know, you can't do much, but couldn't get
Speaker 3: him a bag or anything.
Speaker 2: If somebody vomits on you, Like, what's the protocol there?
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been at a concert like where a
Speaker 2: guy would like knock over my beer, and I think
Speaker 2: if you knock over somebody's beer, the protocol is go
Speaker 2: buy the person to beer.
Speaker 1: That doesn't always happen. Now, what if you get thrown
Speaker 1: up on a game? What do you do?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 3: Wow, this is a weird gray area because if I
Speaker 3: get puked on a much madder than if I get
Speaker 3: a beer.
Speaker 1: Spilt on me eighteen dollars beer versus puroser.
Speaker 3: But yet I also feel like it would be unintentional
Speaker 3: more so than a spilt beer, even though the built
Speaker 3: the spilt beer on you is unintentional, I'm sure most
Speaker 3: of the time, but nobody wants to vomit on somebody else, right, Oh.
Speaker 1: I don't think you want to know.
Speaker 3: The intentions aren't there for me to get really mad?
Speaker 2: But was this also the game that Vince McMahon was at.
Speaker 2: Did you see this, Vince, Vince?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if it was the same game, but
Speaker 3: they showed him on TV, which was a little a
Speaker 3: little surprised.
Speaker 2: I think about Vince mac man's hairstyle, it was like
Speaker 2: it it was white in the front and then like
Speaker 2: dyed brown, like the rest of his hair was dyed brown,
Speaker 2: but only the front part.
Speaker 1: He looked like a Cruella or something like that.
Speaker 3: He was going for a little different. I want to
Speaker 3: ask you about your bracket though, Shannon, I have the cats.
Speaker 3: I want to know where your cat the cats are
Speaker 3: in your bracket because I have them in the Elite eight. Shannon,
Speaker 3: I've got them beating Tennessee in Indy Optimistic, I know,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be a Jinx.
Speaker 2: I've got Kentucky in the Elite I've got them going
Speaker 2: to the Sweet sixteen. I've just got them losing to Tennessee.
Speaker 2: We talked about this. I think that if again, we've
Speaker 2: said it so many times. Hard to beat a team
Speaker 2: three times. I know Bama just did it to Kentucky,
Speaker 2: but Kentucky is not healthy. If Kentucky were healthy, I
Speaker 2: would say one hundred percent. They are in the Elite eight.
Speaker 1: It's a shoe in. But with what we've got, the situation.
Speaker 2: With the injuries, but the dirty Tennessee might not make
Speaker 2: it that far. We'll take a break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Ksrpre Show, Welcome back, ksrpre Show eight five nine two, eight,
Speaker 2: twenty two eighty seven. We just heard an ad for Sketchers.
Speaker 1: Did you see? Uh? This reminded me.
Speaker 2: Mark Pope and Kenny Brooks have their own shoe Have
Speaker 2: you seen those? Those are sharp?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: I want one of each I have I want.
Speaker 2: I want Mark Pope on the left foot and Kenny
Speaker 2: Brooks on the right, Even though they don't match, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter, right.
Speaker 3: Are you a shoe guy, Shannon, No.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I mean I used to.
Speaker 2: I used to wear sketchers. Tell you all, Skechers shamed me.
Speaker 1: Now I just wear like, I don't know, nikes or whatever.
Speaker 3: Wait, sketchers shamed you or you got shamed.
Speaker 1: For wearing skeers.
Speaker 3: You know both?
Speaker 1: Are I get more possible? I got shame for wearing skin.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that free throw shooting video that I did
Speaker 2: many years ago?
Speaker 1: Do you even remember that?
Speaker 3: I don't remember that. Yeah, Internet came after you for
Speaker 3: wearing Sketchers. Yeah were they slip ons? No?
Speaker 1: Okay, actual shoes.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I bring this up to talk about Mark
Speaker 2: Pope and Kenny Brook's shoes that was just released.
Speaker 1: I think they're really really cool looking. Have you seen
Speaker 1: them yet?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at them right now.
Speaker 2: You think we can get a pair of them. What
Speaker 2: are they going for like one hundred and fifty something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: Oh, probably not. I mean that's probably more reserved for
Speaker 3: you know, people that uh win a raffle with Commonwealth
Speaker 3: causes or things like that, or the you know, the
Speaker 3: players always have the coolest shoes on and a salute
Speaker 3: to the guy that puts those different or makes those
Speaker 3: shoes for the players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Shannon, I think true Blue Customs, right, it's True
Speaker 2: Blue Customs.
Speaker 1: I believe they do a really great job.
Speaker 3: They do they do, and I believe he's made some
Speaker 3: KSR shoes in the past as well, So those those
Speaker 3: are those would be cool.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Kenny Brooks and the UK women's team,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be playing Friday at noon, and you might
Speaker 2: think that, you know, Liberty is a good draw for Kentucky,
Speaker 2: but Kenny Brooks, you know, he's been pretty successful against him.
Speaker 2: He's notine and two overall, but he says they've always
Speaker 2: been a thorn in his side. We'll see if Kenny
Speaker 2: can make it ten and two all the time against
Speaker 2: Liberty on Friday. But I think this Kentucky women's team,
Speaker 2: you know we're talking about, can the men's team make
Speaker 2: a deep run. I'm expecting this women's team to make
Speaker 2: a good run here in March.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Really excited to put the cherry on top of this
Speaker 3: interesting first season for Kenny Brooks. You know, Georgia Amore
Speaker 3: gets two more games, hopefully at the historic Memorial Coliseum,
Speaker 3: and I know I'm excited as much as we are
Speaker 3: for the men's team to go on a run. I
Speaker 3: think it's very that's well that the women can.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones A five nine twenty two
Speaker 2: eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Brown is on, Hey brim.
Speaker 5: Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Good man?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 5: So I agree with the sentiment earlier you were talking
Speaker 5: about that the slate is clean for Kentucky this year,
Speaker 5: new coach, new team. I believe that the trepidation towards
Speaker 5: the tournament comes from the expectation. Actually, as Kentucky fans,
Speaker 5: we must have faith and believe that we can go
Speaker 5: far in this tournament. And I think that we can.
Speaker 5: If you look at the theme of the season this year,
Speaker 5: it's been sec SEC. Well, look at the teams that
Speaker 5: we've got in our region, it's it's Georgia. I don't
Speaker 5: think we're going to see Georgia in Tennessee, well we
Speaker 5: beat them twice, so if you look at the history,
Speaker 5: I don't think Tennessee's got it in them to, you know,
Speaker 5: make a deep run. So we got to be confident,
Speaker 5: keep the faith in, Go be Blue.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Brown.
Speaker 2: You know, let's let's talk about expectations, Billy, because you know,
Speaker 2: when Mark Pope was hired as the new head coach
Speaker 2: here at Kentucky, I think that our expectations were, let's
Speaker 2: just get it out of the first weekend, let's get
Speaker 2: to the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1: Was that fair with a healthy team?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that you know we have Lamont Butler questionably healthy,
Speaker 2: Jackson Robinson's out, Andrew Carr's health has been shaky with
Speaker 2: that bad back.
Speaker 1: Kerk Creas is out for the year.
Speaker 2: Does your expectations change given that fact or is it
Speaker 2: still we got to get to the sweet sixteen.
Speaker 3: No, it's still the second weekend, and especially after the
Speaker 3: draw that Kentucky's gotten. I mean it's setting up to
Speaker 3: where the Cats should be able to make that second
Speaker 3: weekend despite some of the injuries that they do have.
Speaker 3: Now I say that because I've seen this Kentucky team
Speaker 3: team win shorthanded, and that's been what it has made
Speaker 3: some of these wins incredible this year, right Tennessee, Right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: exactly right. So to that point, I think that the
Speaker 3: scheme is there that these players still can play without
Speaker 3: some without some or with some guys being out of
Speaker 3: the starting lineup. So to that point, no, my expectation
Speaker 3: has not changed. And seeing the bracket, I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: Shannon Illinois, tell me Orlando Antigua at Illinois is going
Speaker 3: to be the one that holds us from achieving that goal. No,
Speaker 3: it should not, but you know, Jackson is.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, like Kentucky has been in good situations
Speaker 2: for the bracket in the last several years, even when
Speaker 2: they had a bracket that maybe didn't look great going in,
Speaker 2: They've had years where the bracket just opened up for
Speaker 2: them continually, you know, and it still didn't work out.
Speaker 1: It all depends.
Speaker 2: Like I say, you know, Kentucky gets to the sweet sixteen,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be playing Tennessee.
Speaker 1: We don't know that.
Speaker 2: Maybe Tennessee gets upset early and then you play a
Speaker 2: team that you're completely not expecting to play, and who knows.
Speaker 1: Maybe you go out to that team. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's why the NCAA tournament is so great.
Speaker 2: So many upsets and so many unexpected things that happened.
Speaker 2: You know, we were kind of counting on Tennessee being
Speaker 2: there the Sweet sixteenth. Kentucky gets there, who's to say
Speaker 2: they're even going to make it that far?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Maybe it's Wafford that Kentucky meets in the week
Speaker 3: six sweet sixteen. Who knows? That's the beauty of the tournament.
Speaker 3: I want to ask you, Shannon, though, fourteen SEC teams
Speaker 3: made the field. It's the most ever. The previous record
Speaker 3: was eleven. Are you taking the SEC or the field
Speaker 3: when it comes to this tournament.
Speaker 1: To win the whole thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me the SEC SEC. Yeah, because I've got Auburn,
Speaker 2: and if Auburn doesn't win it, I would pick Florida.
Speaker 2: Duke would probably be my third pick, just because I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't even know, Like, have we heard anything about
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag and that turned angle?
Speaker 1: Like how I think he's expecting.
Speaker 3: Me to play. I think there is a sentiment that
Speaker 3: he will play in the tournament. But think of this,
Speaker 3: I mean, if BAM is able to beat Duke and
Speaker 3: either Kentucky or Tennessee come out of the Midwest. It's
Speaker 3: very possible you could have an all SEC Final four
Speaker 3: in Auburn, Florida, Kentucky slash Tennessee or in Bama, and
Speaker 3: that would just be that'd be That'd just be a
Speaker 3: great way to end the season, would it not? I mean,
Speaker 3: with the historic se four teams in the final four
Speaker 3: would be crazy. But uh, there's always one upset, right,
Speaker 3: There's always the NC State. Was it DJ Burns last year? Who?
Speaker 3: Uh who everybody fell in love with? So hopefully we'll
Speaker 3: have some more lovable characters here soon.
Speaker 2: Texas and Oklahoma those six and twelve in the SEC,
Speaker 2: I thought you'd have to get to seven to make
Speaker 2: it into the tournament?
Speaker 3: Is that their final conference record? Six and twelve?
Speaker 1: Six and twelve?
Speaker 2: Two six and twelve teams get into the SEC tournament
Speaker 2: or the I'm sorry, the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 3: Wow? Well, I you know, I think Oklahoma had a
Speaker 3: pretty good non conference record that allowed them to be
Speaker 3: able to play so poorly in the SEC. But you say,
Speaker 3: or I say so poorly In a lot of times
Speaker 3: there's just a couple point games against some of the
Speaker 3: best teams in the country.
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about one of those teams they're playing
Speaker 2: tonight in the playing game, Texas Xavier.
Speaker 1: They're the late game.
Speaker 2: Texas is actually a two and a half point underdog.
Speaker 2: Which team you're going with if I tell you you
Speaker 2: get Xavier and they're a two and a half point
Speaker 2: favorite or Texas?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm already going against the SEC here.
Speaker 3: I'm going against the Longhorns in Xavier. I just I
Speaker 3: think that's the team that I don't know much much
Speaker 3: about this matchup chain, and I'm not going to try
Speaker 3: to byes it for you. I think that is who
Speaker 3: will go through in this.
Speaker 2: But let's say Xavier wins, though, do you think any
Speaker 2: chance maybe they knock off Illinois and Kentucky ends up
Speaker 2: playing Xavier in the second round.
Speaker 3: I mean, certainly it's possible. Yeah, it certainly it's possible.
Speaker 3: But I think they're destined to play Illinois in Orlando.
Speaker 3: What's the other game tonight? Is there more Mounts?
Speaker 1: Oh, the one that everybody's gonna be talking about.
Speaker 2: But you know what, hey, you know, like we were
Speaker 2: dogging the first game yesterday, but then it turned out
Speaker 2: to be the game of the night. With Saint Francis
Speaker 2: and UH Frans in Alabama State. So this game tonight,
Speaker 2: the first one is Mount Saint Mary's versus American, a
Speaker 2: couple of sixteen seeds. And if you're wondering who's the
Speaker 2: favorite Americans A two and a half point favorite, give
Speaker 2: me St.
Speaker 1: Mary's.
Speaker 3: Are you giving give me Mount Mary I'll go with you.
Speaker 3: I'm going Mount Saint Mary's as well. And you know
Speaker 3: these games are those those school super bowls, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: when you're a sixteen seed, you just got to kind
Speaker 3: of chalk it up and say, hey, it's probably not
Speaker 3: going to be our tournament. But if they're able to
Speaker 3: win that game in Dayton and kind of continue the
Speaker 3: process there, I'm sure there's no better feeling. And you
Speaker 3: saw that in the Alabama State locker room.
Speaker 2: If you're the Alabama state coach last night, now you
Speaker 2: get the putt tournament went on your resume.
Speaker 3: I think so. I think that's all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it does. Let's go to Jake. What's up? Jake?
Speaker 4: Hey, Shannon showed out to the best call screener on
Speaker 4: on on Iheartberry are sports.
Speaker 1: He's much better than I.
Speaker 2: And you don't get call screen when you call the
Speaker 2: pre show I'm producing and hosting.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, where do you where do you have the
Speaker 4: Where do you have the Lady Wildcats falling into in
Speaker 4: the tournament? Shannon?
Speaker 2: Well, I haven't filled out my women's bracket yet, but
Speaker 2: I should get on that.
Speaker 3: I've don't got a one seed. They got to get passed, right,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean if they get all the way, if
Speaker 2: they get that far, yeah, and then their one seed
Speaker 2: is USC Southern cal correct.
Speaker 1: So thanks for the college Jake. I'd have to pull
Speaker 1: up the bracket and see.
Speaker 2: I don't know really how far I have them going,
Speaker 2: but I can see them making a deep run, like
Speaker 2: I said earlier, But you know, are they going to be?
Speaker 2: Are we talking final four for the women's team.
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I'm willing to say that. Billy.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing like that, there's not a lot
Speaker 3: of parody in the game of women's basketball. So these
Speaker 3: one seeds South Carolina, Texas USC, they are just sometimes
Speaker 3: head and shoulders above some of the other teams. And
Speaker 3: while Kentucky was able to successfully avoid Texas in South Carolinas,
Speaker 3: they did not avoid Southern cow So I think that's
Speaker 3: gonna be a very tough matchup for them to get pass.
Speaker 3: But you know who knows. I've talked about role players
Speaker 3: for this team. I mean, if tianni Key is just
Speaker 3: somebody that goes off in this tournament, if Clara strack
Speaker 3: it continues to block shots at the right that she has,
Speaker 3: and you know, I think they have a very high ceiling.
Speaker 2: Eight five nine, twenty two eighty seven. We've got to
Speaker 2: talk about Indiana. They hired a new basketball coach. In
Speaker 2: case you didn't see or if anybody even cares, I
Speaker 2: think it's laughable how far Indiana has.
Speaker 1: Fallen over the years.
Speaker 3: Chris Beard.
Speaker 2: No, and we'll talk about it coming up next. We'll
Speaker 2: take your phone calls. It is the KSR pre Show.
Speaker 2: Will be right back. Final segment of the KSR pre
Speaker 2: Show eight five, nine and two, oho twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Shannon the Dude and Billy Rutledge and Billy, there's a
Speaker 2: book that I think everybody should check out. It's by
Speaker 2: an author in Kentucky's from Henderson County, Stephen Hope, and
Speaker 2: the books called I Am Hope, and it's meant to
Speaker 2: share what it's like growing up with an addict and
Speaker 2: how it affects you and your life. And it's a
Speaker 2: book that I think is going to help out a
Speaker 2: lot of people who have grown up in situations like
Speaker 2: that in their home. Addiction has hit Kentucky harder than anywhere,
Speaker 2: but I think this book is something that can help
Speaker 2: people along if you're dealing with addiction or growing up
Speaker 2: in a home with people who are addicts. And that's
Speaker 2: what Stephen Hope wrote this book all about to help
Speaker 2: out people. He's, like I said, a guy from Henderson County, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: He shares what it's like growing up as a kid
Speaker 2: with math addicts in his home, the journey, the struggle
Speaker 2: of what it's like in that situation, and the resilience
Speaker 2: of trying to come out and make a positive situation
Speaker 2: out of growing up in a home like that. And
Speaker 2: you can find the book. It's on Apple Books. It's
Speaker 2: also on Amazon. It's called I Am Hope. It's available now,
Speaker 2: and there's even an audiobook that has exclusive bonus material
Speaker 2: as well that's by Stephen Hope. It's called I Am Hope,
Speaker 2: and I hope that if you're in that situation that
Speaker 2: you'll check it out. And I think the goal is
Speaker 2: just to try to help people know that they're not
Speaker 2: alone if you're going up in a home with addics.
Speaker 1: So check it out. I am hope, Okay, think it
Speaker 1: would be a really cool book to check out.
Speaker 3: So you're wedding a light on an important problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'll hear me talking more about that in
Speaker 2: the upcoming shows this week. All right, so let's talk
Speaker 2: about Indiana basketball. Billy, if I were to ask him,
Speaker 2: and be honest with me, if I were to ask
Speaker 2: you yesterday before he was announced as the Indiana coach,
Speaker 2: if I said to you, Billy, who is the West
Speaker 2: Virginia basketball coach?
Speaker 1: Would you know who it was?
Speaker 3: Yesterday?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Today?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of course he's in the news now. But
Speaker 1: at my point is like, you know after.
Speaker 3: You mean the West Virginia coach, right, Like, yeah.
Speaker 2: What West Virginia's coach who just got introduced as the
Speaker 2: new Indiana coach?
Speaker 5: Esh?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2: If I said to you, Darien, is it Devrees? Is
Speaker 2: how you even say the guy's name? Have you even
Speaker 2: heard of that guy? Until yesterday?
Speaker 3: I had not found out that he was at Drake
Speaker 3: for a little bit before going to West Virginia and
Speaker 3: being there one year before bolting for the Indiana job. Shannon,
Speaker 3: And you know, probably the right move, as Indiana and
Speaker 3: Baby is a little higher stature than West Virginia. But
Speaker 3: Indiana goes nineteen and thirteen and hires a coach that
Speaker 3: just went nineteen and thirteen. So I'm excited. Do you
Speaker 3: get for this? I'm not sure? You know, I thought
Speaker 3: Chris Beard was a shoeing for the job, but seems
Speaker 3: like he's going to keep building things over at Old Miss.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I mean, maybe they'll make an
Speaker 3: NCAA tournament. Now I don't know. It's they're just irrelevant, right,
Speaker 3: So how can you get really excited or mad about anything?
Speaker 2: We'll I have to wait and see what happens. I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy could turn out to be a good fit.
Speaker 2: But if I'm going look, man, you're Indiana. A lot
Speaker 2: of people would say that Indiana historically is a top
Speaker 2: ten program. Maybe not in recent years. We certainly not
Speaker 2: in recent years. But I mean, like, if you look
Speaker 2: at historical aspects of it, you know, some people can
Speaker 2: maybe put Indiana in their top ten. And I see
Speaker 2: that they hire a guy who, again I don't even
Speaker 2: know who he is okay, and you've got a potential
Speaker 2: a coach and Chris Beard. You tell me Chris Beard
Speaker 2: or Darien Dvrees. I'm taking Chris Beard all day now.
Speaker 2: Who knows that Chris Beard would take the job. We
Speaker 2: don't know that. But if you're Indiana, I mean, they
Speaker 2: just jumped right at the situation. So I guess he
Speaker 2: was the top guy on their short list, Billy, because otherwise,
Speaker 2: I don't know why you wouldn't take a little bit
Speaker 2: of time and see who else you could get.
Speaker 1: If you're Indiana, you don't have to just jump at
Speaker 1: the first thing available.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I would argue, like, how much time
Speaker 3: do you really have, Like you want to get to
Speaker 3: the transfer portal, you want to start building your roster
Speaker 3: for next year. That's why South Carolina declined their invite
Speaker 3: to the NIT. I think is because they want to
Speaker 3: start building next year's roster. But I mean, you're not
Speaker 3: waiting that long. I mean theoretically Old Miss could lose
Speaker 3: by the end of the week and then you could
Speaker 3: hire Chris Beer, right, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I would give it, you know, let's give
Speaker 2: it a week or two and see what happens here.
Speaker 2: Like you said, I mean, what if Old Miss loses
Speaker 2: in the first round, and then why would you not
Speaker 2: have the conversation with Chris Beer.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I were an Indiana fan, I would just be like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, We've feel like we've gone progressively gotten
Speaker 2: worse with our head coach hirings, and you're just going
Speaker 2: to hire the first guy that's available.
Speaker 3: It would have been funny if Indiana made the tournament
Speaker 3: this year, because you know, Woodson was already planning to
Speaker 3: step down, and then they kind of go on this
Speaker 3: winning streak and make a late surge. You know, imagine
Speaker 3: if he kind of goes on a run. I wonder
Speaker 3: if it'd be like a Kevin Keats situation at NC
Speaker 3: State where they were going to fire him until he
Speaker 3: made a run to the final four and then he've
Speaker 3: got you know, he coached this year and then they
Speaker 3: just let go of him after he signed a two
Speaker 3: year extensions. So you know, it's what have you done
Speaker 3: for me lately? And lately as a whole, Indiana hasn't
Speaker 3: done a lot. You'd have to go back to when
Speaker 3: Jerry Eaves was going back to Milwaukee. I as to
Speaker 3: remember a time when Indiana was.
Speaker 2: Somebody tweeted me and said, hey, don't trust Jerry Eves
Speaker 2: take on Milwaukee. He was playing in the NBA thirty
Speaker 2: years ago. So you know what, Hey, fair point. I
Speaker 2: wanted to ask you this. Did you see like after
Speaker 2: the selection show on Sunday there was this commercial that
Speaker 2: ran that was it was kind of a weird commercial.
Speaker 2: It was paid for by the NC Double A and
Speaker 2: it said stop harassing athletes. That was like the message
Speaker 2: of the commercial. It says in the advertisement that the
Speaker 2: NC double A claims, and I don't doubt this claim
Speaker 2: that every day somebody is going on social media and
Speaker 2: harassing athletes because they lost a bet due to a
Speaker 2: player having a bad game. And I'm going like, this
Speaker 2: is crazy that we're at this point in society to
Speaker 2: where it's so bad that now the NCAA has to
Speaker 2: put out a commercial asking people to stop harassing the
Speaker 2: athletes because you're going online and direct tweeting or messaging
Speaker 2: a player for having a bad game and you lost
Speaker 2: your bet for it.
Speaker 1: That to me is insane. Like if you're one of
Speaker 1: those people who lose a.
Speaker 2: Bet and your first inclination is, I know, let me
Speaker 2: find this guy on Twitter and send him an awful message, Billy,
Speaker 2: what the hell is wrong with these people?
Speaker 1: Like, I've had some bad beats. I've talked about it.
Speaker 2: I had a nine leg parlay where a guy didn't
Speaker 2: hit a three point shot. Who would average like to
Speaker 2: a game? And I lost the bet. You know I
Speaker 2: didn't think to do. Oh, let me jump in his
Speaker 2: DMS and harass the guy because he didn't hit my
Speaker 2: bet for me?
Speaker 1: Like, what is wrong with people?
Speaker 2: Like, if you're one of these people doing that, you
Speaker 2: need to take a long look in the mirror. If
Speaker 2: you're if you're tweeting college athletes and harassing the bet.
Speaker 3: Did It's crappy behavior. It's despicable, and you hate that
Speaker 3: the ugly side of people come out when things like
Speaker 3: that happen, when you don't win a bet and your
Speaker 3: team loses. I think more people feel empowered to do
Speaker 3: something like that now with college athletes because they make
Speaker 3: money on name, image and likeness. I don't even do
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