Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR pre-show.

Today is Wednesday, September 24th.

I'm Billy Rutledge, along with Shannon the dude.

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And as always, the KSR Pre-show is brought to you by Italics. Fine Italian Dining in Lexington, Kentucky at the city center in Lexington. My co-host, Shannon, the dude, is in a Louisville Bats hat today. He's in Louisville. What's up, Shannon? Good to see you. Hey, what's going on, man? Yeah, just my way of supporting the Cincinnati Reds who are now a game back from the Wild Card. I don't have a Reds hat, but I've got a Louisville Bat's hat on. And I've got no ill will against the Reds, although the Reds fans seem not to like me because, you know, I was at that Braves game and I tweeted out some things. Oh, that's when you were standing and mocking people as the Braves were winning, right?

Reds fans were just attacking me. And here I am actually trying to root for the Reds to get in, just to show that there's no ill will I've got the Louisville Bats had on today, whose season just ended. Wow, what a guy. Yeah. What a guy you are, Shannon, supporting the Reds, even though they lose to the Pirates last night.

While the Mets come back to beat the Cubs, so they have lost control of the Wild Card spot as of now.

Well, here's the thing.

The Reds have the tiebreaker.

So they don't necessarily have to win the Wild Card.

All they have to do is just tie for the wild card, and they'll still get it by default because of the tiebreaker. The Mets on the other hand have to win it outright. They can't finish tied with the Reds, otherwise they'll be out, the Reds will be in, so they have to finish a game ahead. So the pressure is still on the Mets. Yeah, and as baseball winds down to the postseason last week of the regular season, a lot of sports going on.

And we'll talk a lot of sports today, whether it be Kentucky men's basketball, some of the practice clips that they've been releasing.

Kentucky football and the season schedules for the next, what, three to four years have come out for common opponents or at least conference opponents.

Yeah, we'll get to all that. But I just want to say one other thing about baseball real quick, because I know we probably won't come back to it. But have you seen this epic collapse of the Detroit Tigers? No, no, what happened? So the Guardians just beat the Tigers yesterday. The Guardians were down 10 and a half games on September 1st and are now tied for the NL Central.

What?

Let that sink in for a minute.

They were down 10 and a half games on September the 1st and now tied.

That's crazy.

The guardians are, I think, 9 and 1 in their last 10.

The Tigers are 1 and 9 in their last 10. So that's how quickly it can flip. Wow. I know the Tigers were pretty good all year. And so I collapsed late in the year. You've got to be playing your best baseball in the fall. It's crazy. And they are not doing that. I got a couple more baseball notes we can get to today, Shannon, including the implementation of the automated ball strike challenge system starting in 2026 as we get closer to

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