With Matt Jones out for the day as his father undergoes surgery, Tom Hart stepped up to the KSR host plate and knocked it out of the park. He hosted the entire show by phone (a first in KSR history) from his house in Atlanta with the rest of us dialed into the broadcast from Lexington and Louisville, a real mess of a technical issue on the back end but none of you would’ve known that had I not just told you.
We also heard from UK great John Pelphrey in the first hour, as well as Hart’s producer in the XFL, Mandy Cohen, who produced the Chicago Bulls broadcasts in the 90s and knows that era better than anyone we could’ve called to talk about “The Last Dance.