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Confronting the Stadium Karen
A woman demands a home run ball from a father who gave it to his child on his birthday, then flips off the booing crowd. We're calling this exactly what it is—a "Stadium Karen" moment that reveals uncomfortable truths about entitlement at sporting events.
The guys dive deep into this viral baseball controversy, sharing their own experiences with foul ball etiquette and what they would have done differently (spoiler: it involves standing your ground). We celebrate how the baseball community rallied around the young fan with memorabilia, locker room access, and World Series tickets while condemning the woman's behavior.
This leads us into a passionate discussion about how fan experiences are changing across sports. One host shares his frustration with tailgating at University of Kentucky football games, where officials seem more concerned with generator decibel levels than improving the actual product on the field. When families are spending upwards of $700 for a single game day experience, should administrators really be focused on noise regulations in parking lots?
We wrap up with our college football observations, including Florida's potentially disastrous season ahead, surprising performances from teams like South Florida and Oregon, and why some highly-ranked programs might not deserve their current status. Whether you're a baseball purist, a tailgating enthusiast, or just someone who enjoys authentic sports talk, this episode captures the passion, frustration, and community that define the modern sports experience.
Have you encountered entitled behavior at sporting events? We'd love to hear your stories and whether you think fan experiences are getting better or worse.
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Speaker 3:We're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer and a school superintendent and just like our personalities, our opinions vary and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around.
Speaker 2:I think I have tuned this. Uh, did you tune it? I think I tuned it effectively. I think we're tuned in effectively. So, um, uh, yeah yeah, you are so.
Speaker 1:So where are we at what?
Speaker 2:today, sorry. So, introing, we're going to talk about Karens, we're going to talk about other potpourri things. We're going to talk politics.
Speaker 3:Football Things that grind my gears.
Speaker 2:Grinding gears and football. A little potpourri. All right, let's talk about Karen first, karen, you've got to lead us in this All right, so I sent this to you guys.
Speaker 1:You ever, everybody has seen this at this point, everybody. So philly's marlins game guys there with his kid, it's his kid's birthday. They're out in the outfield. Philly's player hits home run yep, there's a not a scuffle for the ball, but there's people going after the ball. Nobody's got claim on it. The guy gets it yep, takes, walks down proudly to his child on his birthday, puts it in his child's gloves, hugs his child like the dude on the Coldplay video, yep. And this lady comes down in a Phillies uniform this is at the Marlins, yep, but in a Phillies uniform and basically demands the ball back. Yep, and says it's her ball and after about five seconds, yep, dude takes the ball out of his kid's glove. Yep, gives it to the lady.
Speaker 2:She walks back. Is that wrong? Should she not have done that? There's a lot of in my opinion my humble opinion, as always. Yep, I could tell that your gears were grinded Uh there.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of things. I got wrong with it. Yep, me first. First of all, I have been in a situation wrigley field yep, ball hit into the uh bleachers and it landed two rows behind where we were at. Okay, the guy didn't catch it. Yep, it fell down. It fell down one bleacher and I stuck my hand between a man's legs. Yes, as we were all, as we were all standing up and grabbed the ball, perfect. The next thing.
Speaker 1:I know there's another hand hitting mine, yep, but at that point it's mine I've got it yep, nobody in wrrigley field said that's my ball, I should have it because it hits somebody in the chest and he didn't catch it or anything along those lines, right? Now that's been four or five years ago. Yep Pre woke. But a couple of things. One where does the lady think it's her? She wasn't even close to it. Is the thing about it? When it's hidden to the outfield, she's at least three people away from it.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's what. What would Chris, what would you do if some lady come up to you like that and said it's my ball.
Speaker 3:So I've been in this situation, this exact situation with a different outcome, before.
Speaker 2:By the way, if this was Slick the manager from back in the days of WWF, he would say executive down at the New Orleans Baby Cakes.
Speaker 3:First of all I had to ask the usher why nobody was there. He says, son, this is New Orleans. People don't come to baseball games in. New Orleans, but we're sitting there in different sections Logan's in one section, I'm in the other and people are hitting balls right, Because there's nobody there.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 3:We just keep getting foul balls. And over closer to me, I mean halfway between me and this other dad, somebody hits a ball and we get, and we get up and we both go running for it and I'm kind of observing what's happening here and I see that he had a smaller kid with him. You know, logan was old enough to get his own ball.
Speaker 2:Logan was 26 at the time.
Speaker 1:Right, this was last week.
Speaker 3:So I thought you know what? I just stood up and thought you know what he's going to be there before I will, it's all good.
Speaker 1:Let him have the ball.
Speaker 3:You know what's happened to me at Reds games. When you're close enough and somebody hits a ball and 14 people go for it, I'm like I'm going to get in there. Okay, look, let somebody else have it. It's not a big deal, so you know when to back off. However, I've also been there when the ball would be hit at my feet and people jump in my lap, 100%, 100%, very inappropriate. That's where I'll throw arms, I don't care, you notice.
Speaker 3:I said arms, not hands, because I'm up to elbows by that time, so that experience for me was very different. So the one thing I will say that that guy ran a long way. It looks like he ran longer than the woman did to get to that ball no question, the ball was closer to her seat than he is, no question.
Speaker 2:Have you ever gone to a meeting with people you've never met with before and they're like we should establish norms. Normally, when I hear that, I tune out. However in a baseball game. Are there norms around getting a foul ball?
Speaker 3:No, it's up for game. It's a free throw. But yet again, if I'm sitting on an aisle and there's a guy in the section next to me on the opposite, further into the aisle, and a ball comes to my section, I don't want him running all the way through his section to get to mine.
Speaker 2:I say there's no norm for that. I say it's fair game.
Speaker 3:So my thing is it's rude but it's fair game. Yeah, but going back to the video, I think once the man ran over there and got the ball, my opinion was at that point he's got the ball. Protocol is congratulations, you got the ball.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, that's it.
Speaker 3:And when he gave it to his son, kudos, sure yep. Okay, I'm great. If I was the woman, I'd be like you know what. He came over and got that ball, but you know what he gave it to his son. I'm a grown woman, I'll go buy a ball. That kid's got a ball. That's a memory with his dad he'll remember forever, absolutely every minute?
Speaker 1:yep, okay, now what do you? What's?
Speaker 2:your thoughts, my, my thought is the woman afterwards. Then everyone starts booing her, flips them all off and she flips them all off. Yeah, I have zero respect for that person. I can't believe she went over and asked for it.
Speaker 3:I would have flipped her off.
Speaker 2:then she's a complete and utter Karen With an I. I understand that there's different ways of thinking about this. Blah, blah, blah. Nope, she's a Karen. Absolutely ridiculous. The kid deserved the ball. The guy got the ball fairly. I'm glad that they're taking care of the kid. Have you heard all?
Speaker 1:the stuff that's happening. He's getting paid care of it. I'm glad. I mean the Marlins started it out. They saw it. It was at their stadium. They brought him a goodie bag. The Phillies had him come down to the locker room. The guy who hit the home run gave him a signed bat. He's got tickets to the World Series now Things along those lines.
Speaker 2:And an RV from Camping World. Yeah, no kidding, yeah.
Speaker 1:Wow. But look, let me take my typical non-traditional approach to this. Of course I got some fault on the dad. Of course, for what?
Speaker 2:I told that woman to pound sand. Yes, first of all, you wouldn't have said that, you would have said something very different, a hundred percent, but I'll tell you what one of my kids would have walked out with the ball. I can tell you that Yep, yep. You would have walked out with the ball. I can tell you that, yep, yep, you would have said there's a you can write off.
Speaker 1:There's a zero percent chance. Yep, that I mean. I would have kept the ball at a spot at that point. Yep, um, yep, I would have give it to somebody else before I give it to her 100, uh, and I would have told her to where she can go. Yeah, I mean it would. I ain't putting up that's no 100.
Speaker 1:I agree with you he yep, I mean the look he gave. I mean he started flapping his arms, oh yeah, and seriously, like five seconds later, he's handing it over. Yeah, yeah, I mean I was like what the, what the?
Speaker 2:The only way I would have given the ball up is if the woman would have said see my husband over there. He's with the mob and we're going to kill you.
Speaker 1:He's going to order a hit on you unless you give me that ball, here's your ball, you know the only way I would have given that ball up, with that woman coming to me like that Yep, is if it would have been an opponent's home run in Wrigley Field, and then I would have threw it back on the field.
Speaker 2:That would have been epic.
Speaker 1:That's what I would have done, otherwise she can pay on sand, yep.
Speaker 3:So you guys both know me well enough to know that I'm relatively relaxed and laid back and things like that.
Speaker 1:Perfectly calm, dude. I would have called the woman a name of some type.
Speaker 3:I probably would have called her a name.
Speaker 1:Probably I could see that I'd call her High Decibel Betty.
Speaker 3:if I was, you Decibels as my professor used to say them. Yeah, so do. I think the guy was at a wrong for running over there. It was a little far, but he got it for his son.
Speaker 1:He didn't go across people to get it?
Speaker 3:No, he didn't, it was wide open. I mean, it was wide open. There was nobody in those seats.
Speaker 2:So again, he didn't push anyone out of the way, he didn't, george Costanza it? No, that woman.
Speaker 1:They're going to kill that poor woman.
Speaker 3:She should have just taken it and eaten it and been done. I mean it's ridiculous. Now, when he gave the ball to her, who knows what she told him. It could have been for my granddaughter. You don't know what the story was, because he's kind of like just go away. When he did his hands to me, it was like go away, get out of here, just whatever. Take the ball.
Speaker 1:I think that's probably true.
Speaker 3:And the thing is I would have said you've got. Then when she went over to talk to him, I'd kick her right in the rear end with her head over the, over the actually that's not a bad point, if.
Speaker 2:If the guy would have said you know what? I've given that ball to my son. Why don't you go ahead and address him and see what he says? And then as soon as she said something to him. I would have just thrown fists at that point. Don't you ever talk to my son? Exactly, but anyhow that's, I happen to have my young son in the car?
Speaker 1:nobody talks in front of myself. That's funny. Yeah, that was a good one, that was on. That was on television sunday night, by the way, just so y'all know, you know the worst part of that movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah the creek scene. The creek scene. I know the best line in that movie that yeah, the creek scene. The creek scene I know the best line in that movie. That doesn't get enough credit.
Speaker 3:Oh, there's up there. Go ahead please.
Speaker 2:No, koozie gonna leave me in no church.
Speaker 3:What was she doing up down that aisle?
Speaker 2:She was dancing up in the aisle.
Speaker 3:What happened? What's going on with her? I can't remember the rest of it.
Speaker 2:I happen to have my own son in the car.
Speaker 1:It sounds like we all agree that she overstepped her bounds. And the dad could have handled it a little better.
Speaker 3:You know again. I'm just glad to see that there are people of all ages and sexes that have entitlement.
Speaker 1:Is that a kick at Mark based on age, just because Cap?
Speaker 2:Anson was big. When Is that a kick at Mark based on age People of his advanced age? Just because Cap Anson was big when I was younger, just because I saw Hornus Wagner play, you know. Mordecai Three Finger Brown was my favorite pitcher.
Speaker 3:That's a name you don't hear anymore.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine?
Speaker 3:having a new child. How would you like to see my son, Mordecai Well?
Speaker 2:I tell you that in all, shifting topic a little bit, but the Simpsons. My favorite Simpsons episode is where Montgomery Burns has the bet with the Shelbyville power plant owner on the softball game and he goes out and he recruits a team of ringers to win the softball game and he first unveils to Smithers who he should get and he names off cap Benson Mordecai, three finger brow.
Speaker 3:And so.
Speaker 2:Honus Wagner, and so Smithers looks at him and says, well, Mr Burns, uh, uh, most of these players aren't. Uh aren't playing anymore, and most of them have been dead for over 130 years.
Speaker 3:So, he ends up going out and getting King Griffey. Okay, continuing on that.
Speaker 2:I've got another topic.
Speaker 3:Did you hear about the guy? I think he was in North Carolina, like Raleigh North Carolina that was really robbing people of their money. His name was Babe Ruth and he was convincing people to buy his. His name was Babe Ruth and he was convincing people to buy his autograph because he was Babe Ruth. I haven't heard of it it was on the news two weeks ago.
Speaker 1:I forget to tell you. How do people not know Babe Ruth's been dead for a?
Speaker 3:hundred years, I don't know. They named a candy bar after me.
Speaker 2:Seriously.
Speaker 3:I'll have to look it up. They caught him and threw him in jail because he was.
Speaker 1:That's bad, that ain't good, I mean was he out there trying to get in the Hall of Fame saying vote for me, vote for me, vote for me.
Speaker 2:So that brings up all kinds of other elements that we could be talking about in this issue. Hang on.
Speaker 3:This was on ESPN. Here we go. Man with the same name as Babe Ruth, charged in fraud cases, was August 25th in Greenville, tennessee. Sorry, even better.
Speaker 1:Greenville.
Speaker 3:Tennessee. A Tennessee man with the same name as New York Yankees legend, babe Ruth, is faking charges, alleging that he used the name of hundreds of dead or retired pro baseball players to make phony claims for payouts and class action lawsuits.
Speaker 2:Now is he faking charges or is he facing them?
Speaker 3:It says he is facting them.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:George Herman Ruth is charged with 91 counts in indictment handed down from the US District Court. Charged with mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, money laundering, making false statements to his probation officer and possessing firearms after having previously been convicted of felonies.
Speaker 1:Is that wrong?
Speaker 2:He obtained $550,000 through this scheme through autograph sessions.
Speaker 3:George Herman Ruth. You can call me babe. That's terrible. That's pretty funny. How dumb do you have to be? Oh my gosh, I've heard about you my whole life. I didn't realize you were 36.
Speaker 2:So, chris, what is grinding your gears? This evening you seem to have some grinding of the gears.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's just my general statement now everything grinds my gears I, I have something that grinds your gears. Yeah, can we talk about tailgating on saturday? I think?
Speaker 3:we should. I think we should, without giving a lot of details.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I had a loud decibel Betty reference earlier I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 1:You set the stage.
Speaker 3:Everyone knows when you go to the show and you can't take the kids along. There's a reference to the statler brothers a little ahead of your time yeah, oh, it's ahead of my time, see. See, I'm sorry, I don't understand everybody knows when you go to the show again. So university of kentucky does not have the what I would consider to be the premier sec anything it's not hottie toddy, if that's what you're saying nothing.
Speaker 2:Hot, I think I'm gonna pull that segment, what he just said, out, and clip it and and put it onto a pad. So university of kentucky does not have the prime sec anything football, uh, no, no you said anything. We're talking pulling out, it's going to be a pad button, baby, we're talking football, so.
Speaker 3:So we don't have our version of the Grove. We don't have where our stadium sits right in the middle of campus, like they do in Alabama.
Speaker 1:We don't have bars next door to the stadium, like the varsity club. Ohio State.
Speaker 3:University. You don't have the river that runs right by it, like you do in Tennessee. You don't have the old entertainment chamber.
Speaker 2:What's it?
Speaker 3:Tumor oh corner, Tumor's corner. You don't have a Tumor's corner like you do. We don't have that. So what we have is the area.
Speaker 1:We have a parking lot.
Speaker 3:We have a parking lot. Yep, and then some more parking lots and some more pavement. And then we have a few little grass areas at the University of Kentucky Commonwealth Stadium, aka Kroger Field, which I refuse to call it that.
Speaker 1:So you go up there, k Roger.
Speaker 3:Field, you're in the asphalt jungle and it's terrible. So they want your money so you can come and tailgate. They charge you a ridiculous amount of money which they say it's donations to the university, which, by the way, are not tax deductible to buy these passes to set up and tailgate.
Speaker 1:Seems wrong All of those charitable contributions you've got to make if it's to get tickets. It's no longer tax deductible.
Speaker 3:And they make them. And it's required as part of your purchase of your tickets, so no tax deduction whatsoever. So you have to do it if you want to do this. And you can't get the tailgate spots, the parking passes, without having tickets.
Speaker 3:And there's waiting lists miles long and they really don't care. So anyhow, long story short, I've season tickets and there's waiting lists miles long and they really don't care. So anyhow, long story short, I've had season tickets for 27 years and parking passes and all that and I added a new pass this year. Not a big deal. It's also in the asphalt jungle parking lot out there.
Speaker 3:Clark and so we have our big tailgate set up. We've expanded it this year, which it's moving. I don't know if you heard or not, it's all. So we have our big tailgate set up. We've expanded it this year which it's moving.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you heard or not, it's all going to be right there together this week. But one of my spots was about 50 feet away from my other one and of course I have generators running at both. And I'm at one of my spots, I look up and here comes a fine student grad assistant walking in the parking lot. I don't know, he was eating Panda Express or something. I guess it was lunchtime.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And he is carrying this thing that looks like a little microphone, and I see him walk up to my generator like he's interviewing it.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, he had to get some questions answered.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, having been around the block a few times and my career in engineering school up there, I come out and he tells me my generator is too loud per his decibel meter and that somebody complained and that somebody complained that my generator was too loud. So I have not. As you guys know, I've not felt well for the past week. I had just fallen asleep and I get out and I'm looking around and there's music cranked up loud. It's insanity. And I'm looking around everywhere.
Speaker 1:And there's nobody in unbiased view, there's nobody within 50 yards. Well, the one people with the radio is closer than that. But if you go straight back from the RV where the generator was, you've got to go two or three rows of parking before anybody else is there. They just weren't there. It was open empty spaces.
Speaker 3:And they told me that one guy in that row over and seven people back had complained. So I loudly asked if anybody had complained. Of course nobody could hear me because it's so loud. Everybody's got generators, everybody's playing music, there's people everywhere. It's a festive occasion, right? It's pregame.
Speaker 1:We hadn't lost yet.
Speaker 3:So everybody's happy, no big deal. And they proceeded to tell me that there's regulation that generators can only be 60 decibels. Okay, he showed me. On mine, Mine showed it was 72. Now, mind you, this is a Honda generator which is known for Greg being quiet. The quietest generators made Very expensive generators. They're known to be quiet.
Speaker 2:Is 72 more than 60? Lawyer no, no, no, here we go, prosecute the case. Well here's the thing.
Speaker 3:Here's where it gets funny. Well, it does get interesting.
Speaker 1:This is where it gets interesting.
Speaker 3:So for those out there in the listening world and Mark who don't know, 60 decibels is the sound of a conversation in an average restaurant. Well, what's? Interesting about it is Hang on, I'll come back to what we're doing, what you're talking about, what happened?
Speaker 1:No go ahead.
Speaker 3:70 decibels is the same as cracking your window a little bit, driving down the interstate at 70 miles an hour.
Speaker 1:Well, but what I was going to say is the regulation simply applies to generators. It does not apply it doesn't appear to apply to music or anything else. Yep, so I've not looked it up yet, but there was clearly music significantly louder than 60 decibels. So, and nobody said anything about that.
Speaker 3:So when I was able to get this pass, they said, oh, they should have told you. I'm like, no, they didn't tell me anything, they just wanted that shit.
Speaker 1:And I said. My exact response was pay me my money in cash. All they wanted was my money.
Speaker 3:They didn't know anything else and of course I know. You know ignorance of the law is not allowed to get around the law.
Speaker 3:I understand that, so I grabbed the guy. I mean, we had a nice conversation and we walked over to another generator that I had remarked on. To anybody that would listen this is the quietest generator I've ever seen in my life. It's a Westinghouse. It's the most incredibly quiet generator inverter I've ever seen 11,000 watts. This thing couldn't have been 40 decimals. He holds his little tester down and it said it was 75. And I'll bet you it's not 35.
Speaker 1:Well, and then, while we're sitting there, the lawyer looks it up online to see how loud it can possibly get to, and it said it was 67. It's the loudest it could be. It measured on his thing 90-something yeah so that's when we came back.
Speaker 3:The second time it registered it measured 90? 92. The second time we came back, do you know why? Wow, no, no, but it said the other one was loud.
Speaker 1:That's illegal.
Speaker 3:It had jumped 20, but the reason was it was raining outside and he had a little foam cover, so there was. So the loud rain got it. No, no no, anything hitting that right. So anyhow, you know, I didn't want to upset anybody, so what we did is we put a table around it and then I ended up shutting it off and just letting it go quiet the rest of the day. I really did, Yep. But since then, that generator, that Honda generator, Go back Honda.
Speaker 3:It's been returned. Honda Yep Yep. Okay, and it's been returned and I now have on.
Speaker 1:Thursday Did you get your other one?
Speaker 3:I'll be picking up Thursday. I have one of those Westinghouses that are incredibly quiet and it's at its loudest. It's supposed to be 60. Right. Ironically, I've already printed out the paperwork for it. I also went on amazon and found this amazing device called a decibel meter. That happens to be the exact same one that that kid was carrying.
Speaker 3:There was that high primed piece of sharp machinery 25, 20 so I ordered one too, just in case he wants to duel. And then I ordered 12 mylar balloons that I've since been told that I'm not going to be able to take, and fill, but I ordered them, so I've got them anyway.
Speaker 2:So have you planned your cooking for that particular day? Like what type?
Speaker 1:of food. Some of us you going to make followers. You know some of us are real followers, true some of us are not.
Speaker 3:Yeah, apparently and it's okay but in that situation and I'm a real follower, because I did I not turn that back, did I not return that genuine buy? You did, you did in that day, in that situation, in that exact situation. There was nothing else I can do no, so I would.
Speaker 2:I would think, then, that your response to this gentleman was probably.
Speaker 3:Pardon me, sir, I believe that your equipment is inaccurate, I think my exact words were is if his family had something to do with the manufacturing of that equipment.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah, and that's why your gears were grinding.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you were thinking about that.
Speaker 3:It it was pretty ground and I was think about it. I was feeling so bad. I'd been so sick since wednesday anyway. But to finish this story, yes, um, that just further goes to show that they're focused. You tell me, at ohio state they care about the noise of a generator in a parking lot.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what we were talking about. That's what Chris and I had a conversation about. Do you think the Grove at Ole Miss cares how loud things are? They want it louder.
Speaker 2:Correct. I remember someone at this table when we went to an Ohio State tailgating event. I remember someone walking right in to a private event and it's true it's taking sausages no just acting procured, procured and acted like hey, I'm part of the crew and the other two people at this table were in awe and enjoy, and enjoy the sausages and all were wonderful, and all that free food that was delivered to them.
Speaker 1:I have no complaints about that.
Speaker 2:I remember hey, how's it going, I'm Jim and receiving, or whatever. I mean. It was like yes, you were.
Speaker 1:That's what I told everybody. It was like you just owned the place. I mean, it was just that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, but think about it, but that further goes to show the problem comes to tailgating. They're focused on your generators too loud. Those are the same people. If there was a complaint and I still do not believe there was a complaint- I agree with you.
Speaker 3:I don't believe there was a complaint, no, no, no, he walked around to everybody else's generator too. They're focused on things like the loudness of a generator. They need to be focused on how to fill the stadium. They need to focus on putting a product on the field that can produce that people want to see.
Speaker 3:I don't disagree with that they need to focus on providing more to the people that are paying for those tickets and paying for this NIL and everything else they're doing now. They need to focus on giving that to the fan and all they're doing is continuing to take away from the fan day experience.
Speaker 1:Well, I told you, having had season tickets for the last two years and I did not renew them this year, and the reason why was the price didn't go down at all and they lost a game. And they had one less game, and that doesn't make sense, because the product on the field is terrible, right, I mean so it's not going to get any better until they can do something with the coach, and that may Stoops, droops.
Speaker 2:That may not happen.
Speaker 1:I mean dude, their offense is inept. I mean like in the 40s it'd been legit, yeah Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but now Wing team, baby, let's run the wing team. I mean, it's not good.
Speaker 1:So you get the number 21 team in the country coming in there and you can't fill up a 60,000-seat stadium. Yep, and you only lose by a touchdown.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, the game was fine, it was a competitive game, yep, but you can't fill up the stadium like that when it's on national TV.
Speaker 3:Well, let's face it.
Speaker 1:It was the SEC game of the week, because it was the only one To take a family of four to a UK game.
Speaker 3:If you're going to have, say, four hot dogs, four Cokes, four tickets and a parking pass, you're talking $700, $800.
Speaker 1:Well, for my parking pass, which is the worst lot that they have, and if you buy season tickets, it was $671 a game, and that's by nothing at the game, wow.
Speaker 2:well, and that's for the product on the field as a hard pass. Well, I do want to shout out one of our new listeners, who I had a great conversation with this past week about the fact that I've never been to a uk football game and he is trying to help me, help me out in that regard.
Speaker 1:I like that Getting to a. Uk football game Big shout out there. I like that.
Speaker 2:I'm actually excited.
Speaker 1:What about other football things? We've not talked about football. What about other college football things? Nfl started. I don't care.
Speaker 2:Can I talk about the team up north for a second and the second coming of God, their new quarterback, the freshman, who is the greatest freshman to ever be recruited as a freshman, I saw a shirt that they have now called underwhelming yeah, his name's underwood, so they put underwhelming you know how much money he's making this year as a freshman 12 million yes, over 10 million dollars.
Speaker 1:10 but wow, but no, he's not played great at 9 out of 24.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, thank you, drive have they lost?
Speaker 3:they all did all oklahoma, oklahoma. That's right, that's right, that's right oklahoma looked decent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oklahoma's defense looked good. Oklahoma's offense way better.
Speaker 1:The stadium was good.
Speaker 2:I mean, it was a good environment yep, and all of the the cheating Michigan men. They are just peeing down their legs right now. I know who else is.
Speaker 1:Can we talk about. Can we talk about? That's good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was good. Can we talk about?
Speaker 1:can we talk about South Florida? Let's do it, baby, go Bulls.
Speaker 3:All right, yes, so is Florida finally done.
Speaker 1:Are they done. He's 20 and 20 in his first 40 games.
Speaker 2:Wow, gotta go. He's gotta go, uh, but south florida's legit. Now, south florida's legit. I don't disagree with that. Bulls, south florida laid it on boise state. Shout out to our producer, rick mellon uh a uh. Graduate of the university of south florida. I have a bachelor's degree from the university of south florida and uh go, bulls baby, they look good.
Speaker 1:Can we talk about florida for a second? So yes, I thought they should have fired the coach last year.
Speaker 2:Yes, yep yes, I can't believe they didn't. They made him. They made him restructure his contract, get less money. How's?
Speaker 1:that working out for you. Okay, now look, it's a pip. So they're one and one right now. Yep, they go to Death Valley Saturday night Loss.
Speaker 3:Guaranteed.
Speaker 1:Okay, so one and two, Then they go to the University of Miami. Loss, that's one and three. Yep, then they have Texas in the Swamp. Loss, wait a minute.
Speaker 3:What Texas in the Swamp?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a home game, but they play the.
Speaker 3:I was missing Sorry.
Speaker 1:So you got them at one in four Yep. Then they go to Texas A&M loss. That's one in five Yep. Then they have the Mississippi state Bulldogs coming to the swamp. That's a chance for a win. Let's give them. Let's give them. The State looks better.
Speaker 2:Playing good.
Speaker 1:Yep, they beat the crap out of Arizona State. Yep, then they play the Georgia Bulldogs. So that's got them at two and six. Then they come to Commonwealth Stadium Loss they never win, that's a win.
Speaker 2:No by that time their coach is gone.
Speaker 3:They're in disarray. That's a loss.
Speaker 1:Yep. They're not winning four games okay then they got old miss in hottie toddy loss, then they got tennessee at home loss and then they play florida state loss. I'm telling you right now doing dan?
Speaker 2:look, here's the deal. Um, they've got the hardest schedule in america. No question they. They truly do. Um, having said all, there's no chance that he survives. No chance Watching them play, and just the discipline issues that guy spitting on the dude.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's bad. It's bad. I mean, yeah, I can't take the spitting no. That's twice in a row I played with a guy in high school that he would chew tobacco and when you would tackle somebody he'd spit on their face. Let the coach.
Speaker 2:Well, he chewed tobacco too, but that's shout out to the baseball coach, tom monroe, who had me go buy him a pack of levi every day as a senior in high school. Copy go down to the super crate, give me some, give me some levi send me out of this class, levi garrett.
Speaker 1:I'm chewing tobacco every day, our baseball coach. Let me get out of class for stuff too. Yeah, and by the way that chewing tobacco every day, our baseball coach, let me get out of class for stuff too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and by the way that chewing tobacco it was constant it was, you know. I mean always putting more in.
Speaker 1:What about the people? What about the baseball players who wrap chewing gum around their chewing tobacco?
Speaker 2:That's weird, I think that's weird, that's just disgusting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I uh, yeah, I think it's weird. So what else about college?
Speaker 1:football. It's awesome. It's back. That makes me happy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I haven't been able to enjoy it yet, but I hope this weekend will be a different time.
Speaker 1:I think there's some teams that are highly ranked, who I'm not sure they're as good as what we think they are yeah, I would agree uh, I mean like, for example I'll just give an example penn state and state was gonna be what I said, yeah penn state is ranked as high as they've ever been, basically.
Speaker 3:What do I say?
Speaker 1:And you say they shouldn't have a team but they do. And they're winning. They're winning easy but, they don't look great. But, you know a team that looks great that nobody's talking about is the. Oregon Ducks. Oregon they laid the absolute smack down on the 40-year-old man. Yes, they did.
Speaker 2:What was it 69-3?
Speaker 1:Or something like that he's a man, he's 40.
Speaker 2:He got beat by 66. And he's not long for that world.
Speaker 3:No, he's over.
Speaker 1:I agree with that they still got that T Boone Pickens money there.
Speaker 3:They can get rid of him in a heartbeat. What about?
Speaker 1:Carolina.
Speaker 2:Well, they got a win they did, they did, they did get a win um, but uh I since this is always about sec, you know I got I gotta throw in one more big 10 team. Indiana does not look as good as they did last year no, they were, they were talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they don't look good yeah, you know, a team for the big 10. That impressed me this weekend, though, and I bet on them and made money on them.
Speaker 2:Illinois oh yeah, Illinois looked good.
Speaker 1:But North Carolina. They looked great on the drive we watched here, yeah, and then they died.
Speaker 2:If they could have just packed it in after that. Right, yeah, then they died.
Speaker 3:Yeah, then it was over that was dismantling. I Then it was over that was dismantling. I don't know. I mean, there's no other way to put it.
Speaker 2:Who does the Ohio State have? This weekend, the plays Ohio University.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, the Bobcats ain't bad.
Speaker 1:They're good. Now they're not going to compete with Ohio State, but they're not bad. They're not a bad team.
Speaker 2:Look that line is way too much.
Speaker 1:There's no way that. I'm going to get what the line is right now.
Speaker 2:I can tell you what it is, but I'll let you pull it up. Let's see what it is.
Speaker 3:I got money, since the Bobcat takes down the Buckeye again.
Speaker 2:Well, the Bobcats are going to cover at that line. I'll tell you that because Ohio University always plays Ohio State hard. 31 and a half yeah.
Speaker 3:That's a lot of points. That's a lot of points.
Speaker 2:No way, no way. That's a lot of points. Yep V looked really good, but it was Grambling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they scored 70. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2:But OU is legit.
Speaker 1:You know who's the team we all want to lose still.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Clemson, yep, you know who else.
Speaker 2:Louisville. Clemson at least lost that one we enjoyed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Troy gave them a scare.
Speaker 2:Yep, troy, did you know what was it? 15 to nothing or 15 to six?
Speaker 3:They were up at one point what about JMU at Louisville? James Madison was up over Louisville going into the third quarter.
Speaker 1:Yep. They won by 14.
Speaker 3:The line was 14 and a half, you know, ironically, Ironically, louisville sent a thing over to Jared Lorenzen, who's a? For those who don't know Jared Lorenzen was a big time. Pillsbury throw boy. All of them Big time player out of Cove Catholic, out of Northern Kentucky, came to University of Kentucky. He was a hometown hero. His son, tayden, is a junior at Highlands. I didn't even go to Cove Catholic, he went to Highlands. What am I thinking?
Speaker 1:Lorenzo to Highlands and his son plays it.
Speaker 3:Tayden plays at Highlands and he's a junior now and the University of Louisville sent him a poster that had him and UofL Garb, number 22, lorenzo and just you know the UK fans are like, yeah, that didn't even look right.
Speaker 2:So I hope U I don't care how good the kid is you bring him here because his dad was probably one of the last great quarterbacks we had here. I don't know that Caleros guy what was that Calzado Cavallari yeah. Which.
Speaker 1:Italian Calzone. Calzone should never take another snap.
Speaker 3:Why did we get rid of a Cal and bring in a Cal? We should have known it was not going to work.
Speaker 1:I mean, when you're in your seventh year of college, that's also an issue and your fourth SEC school Third.
Speaker 2:Who was the guy last year?
Speaker 1:The kid from Georgia, georgia, georgia.
Speaker 3:He doesn't play anymore. We made him into football. He quit. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:That's what happens when you get with the V Vandergriff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the Vandergriff generator. Yes, oh, he didn't generate much. No.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but college football is back.
Speaker 1:It's a great Saturday when college football is on. I watched a lot of college football this Saturday.
Speaker 2:I unfortunately did not get to watch very much.
Speaker 1:I watched a lot.
Speaker 2:My wife's double nickel birthday. Happy birthday.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she said she's old now the boys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was good. It was an interesting tailgate.
Speaker 3:That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 2:There were about 11 different people that came up from down in Mississippi. From what I heard, there was a truckload. I counted at least 13, or heard there was a truckload of them. I counted at least 13 or 14.
Speaker 1:There was a carload of them.
Speaker 3:I did figure out where the term hottie-tottie comes from.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, not the toddy part, but anyhow, that's it, let's wrap it up it was good.
Speaker 2:I guess I got to find the music. I can't believe we made a whole episode and we didn't mention one thing.
Speaker 1:About Lima. You're right, we haven't mentioned Lima, not once. Look, just three more months.
Speaker 3:Yeah, is it really? It's three more months.
Speaker 1:Assuming it goes well, we're going to spend.
Speaker 2:New Year's Eve in Lima. Do you think Vivek Ramaswamy lives in Lima.
Speaker 3:He could Anybody got a sweaty leg right now. My leg's not hot, I'm good.
