WEBVTT - Thom Brennaman -- 10/6/25 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.480 Want it, That's why we are delivering it. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.400 This is the Boomberg Money Minute on seven hundred WLW. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.240 All right, look, check in with Gina Cervetti from our 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:20.760 Bloomberg newsroom in New York. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:21.680 Good morning, Gina. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:26.040 Investors reacting already the big news Cincinnati based Fifth Third 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:27.720 buying Comerica Bank. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.280 That's right, Tom, So investors seem a bit split on 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.159 this news this morning. So far, Comerica shares are jumping 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.720 higher ahead of the opening bell, but Fifth Third investors 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.680 maybe aren't so sure. Those shares are moving a bit 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.360 lower here in pre market trading this morning. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:45.680 Okay. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.080 Meanwhile, Tesla has investors attention this morning with some online 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.880 posts that seemed to be pointing about a new product launch. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.880 Yeah, that's right. The shares are higher in pre market trading. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.840 Tom Tesla managed to peak the interests of investors with 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.120 a series of social media post this morning. Now, these 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.759 posts appear to be teasing a product unveiling tomorrow. When 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:12.400 did Tesla Yeah, so we'll see, very interesting. When did 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.520 Tesla last release. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:15.000 A new product? 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.680 Well, it was the cyber truck, which has been kind 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.240 of a disappointment for the company. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.920 Yeah, and it's an ugly truck too. Okay, how about 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.560 the futures. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.679 Well, it looks like we could push further into record 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.440 territory today. We've got the Dow futures up about a 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.479 quarter of a percent, SMP futures up about a third 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.280 of a percent. Now in those Nasdaq futures look the strongest, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.080 up almost one percent from Bloomberg. Genas Cervetti on news 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.000 radio seven hundred WLW. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.720 Alrighty eight ten. We do it the morning after is 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.080 what we call it. The morning after the Bengals play, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.680 and we're kind enough to kind enough to join us 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.360 is a former Bengal Great wide receiver and return man, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:05.240 Tim McGee. Tim, the last three games, the Bengals have 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.799 been outscored one hundred and thirteen to thirty seven. They've 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.079 been outscored in the first half sixty nine to nine, 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.440 and they've been outscored in the first three quarters of 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.120 those games ninety seven to nine. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.360 How does that happen? 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.239 Well, you lose arguably the best quarterback in the National 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.640 Football League, and you face the reality that when you 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.160 lose that that special, special player, and he is a 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.120 special player, maybe you know there may be three of 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.320 them out there. The whole dynamics of your team changes. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:47.120 The expectation levels should change if you're very realistic. But 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.799 when there's emotions in tax and that's your team, that's 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.320 your hometown team, that's your favorite team, you go, oh 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.480 my god, this team we're still going to do. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:57.560 It's not going to happen. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.040 And all you got to do, Tom, we talked about 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:00.840 this last week. What all you got to do is 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.400 when you take the emotions out, like say Baltimore last 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.120 week on the show, I said, if Lamar Jackson or 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.440 Josh Allen gets hurt, you'll be like, oh my god, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:10.960 this team they're done. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:11.359 Well. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.639 It's no different here. I mean they were not a 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:19.640 power broker team in the beginning, and now without the 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.720 Joe Burrow because he brings so much to the table. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.040 And we're talking about time clock management eating up the 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.679 clod scoring points, where now the defense is out there 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.480 so much that yeah, teams are going to score a 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.240 lot of points because the offense. You know, when you 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.480 turn the ball over the offenses on the football field 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:37.200 too much. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.520 If you're in that locker room today and they're off tomorrow, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.600 but they do come in today, are you expecting a 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:46.840 change at quarterback. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.680 No, no, you know that's that's another thing that people, you know, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.600 the the your fan base, they want you to get this, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.120 the management, to get this, this, fix this right now. Well, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.560 you know, there's a reason if a guy's on the street, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.480 there's a reason he's on the street. So to pull 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.600 someone off the street, you're probably not going to get better. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.480 Jake has been around, he knows the offense. Yes he's struggling, 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.280 there's no question about it. But you know, when you're 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.919 making that calculated guess, a guy that's been in the 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.360 locker room for the last three years is much better 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.560 than the guy that you're trying to get from Woming 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.880 that's sitting on a weak farm right now, and you're 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.400 going to throw him in there. So you just can't 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.799 play musical tears with the quarterback position. So it's just tough. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.039 It's really, really, really tough to evaluate the team that 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.440 lost their best player. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.160 But but Tim, I mean, look, I mean, I hear 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.000 you in ninety nine point nine percent of his situations 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.400 out there about another quarterback. But Russell Wilson is a 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.480 guy granted in recent years has maybe not been the 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.240 same guy, but in a game earlier this year, he 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.919 threw for over four hundred yards in a game on 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.800 a bad team. The guy can still move around. He 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.920 he's an accomplished, proven winner. I have to believe, even 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.279 though he's just sitting on the couch right now, that 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.800 he's at least an option to try and get you 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.560 a little bit better. We're five games into this year, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.360 with twelve games left to go, and a lot of people, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.720 maybe even in that locker room, are losing hope. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.440 Well they lost hope when they lost Joe Burrow. But 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.840 to your point, yes, there is a point in time 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.800 you do go look and see if you can kind 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.480 of energize the team with a different look but in 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.320 a different faith. Someone that comes in that can make 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.560 it a little bit fresher. However, it's too early, or 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.680 it was too early when you got a guy that's 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.159 when you looked at Jake Brownie's record from two years ago, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.640 You're like, Okay, we got a serviceable guy here. Maybe 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.040 he can you know, maybe we can go five Hundredcuse 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.200 the division is so bad right now, maybe we can 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.920 just hold on until Joe Burrow comes back. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:56.040 If he comes back. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.880 So to your point, yes, I get it, But now 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.159 time I think we're creeping very very close to that 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.960 time to go try to make that change and get 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.839 someone in the locker room. But where do you find 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.880 that guy? Where do you find him? 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:12.279 All right? 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.480 Let me ask you this though. Look, you know Mike Brown, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.200 you know him well. You and I have talked about 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.800 this before. You get together with him at least once 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.120 a year, if not more than that. We both agree 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:26.799 that he is a fine man. He is a good man, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:32.599 a really good man. But at the same time, he 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.920 owns a local football team, and you are five weeks, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.800 as I just said, into a season, and Tim, you 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.240 can't have your fan base lose hope. I mean, two 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.719 and three is not the end of the world, but 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:51.160 it just doesn't look like their show up for games 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:56.159 prepared to play the game. I mean they are getting 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:01.560 boat raced in the opening quarter of these games. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:03.080 Well, Tom, I. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:07.080 Don't think that's based on when you look at the record, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.840 the Bengals conceivably have not won a game. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:12.640 At this point time. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.800 I mean, you know, you look at the Cleveland game 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.080 missfield goal, okay, and you look at the Jackmanville Wild game, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:19.920 a drop pass. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:20.560 Those were the. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.000 Two plays that they ended up getting two wins out 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.040 of so again, it disappoints me, but it doesn't shock 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.280 me that these things are occurring. They're just not the 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.200 team that we thought they were going to be coming 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.760 into the season. But nevertheless, we didn't expect. We shouldn't 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.600 have expected a whole lot more. They didn't make a 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.720 lot of changes. You know, they resigned their top four 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.440 players obviously over the last couple of years, Joe Burrow, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.840 t Higgins, Jamar Chase, and Trey They resigned them. But 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.520 there's not been any additions that we can go, Wow, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.200 that offensive line is really good. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:55.200 Oh my god, that. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.920 Big defensive tackle we picked up from such and such 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.440 is really really really going to help us. We don't 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.160 have any of that. So again, I think we need 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.840 to manage our expectations and hope some changes can be 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.000 made and some improvements can be made, because right now 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.480 it's just not looking good for the home team. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:13.200 You know, offense. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:17.000 Inside, now, if Zach Taylor were to come to you 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.440 and say, hey, look, you know, look, I need some 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:25.240 help here, you know, tell me one thing that they 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.320 could be trying, that would be a little bit different 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.480 on offense and people getting worked up about the offense 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.120 showing up and Zach coming out. I'm really proud of 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.760 my guys. I mean, give me a break, give me 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.520 a break. What would there be one thing that you'd say, 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.960 you know what, let's at least try this. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.480 They have to run the ball. They have to run 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.760 the football, they have to keep the defense off football field. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.120 They have to establish run. We know what Jamar Chase 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.240 and t Higgins can do. But if they have these 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.920 explosive plays that don't lead to seven points, the defense 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.000 is given up seven points, that means that's a four 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:09.360 point difference in a scoring match to match the match. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.320 So I would try to really emphasize on running the ball. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.319 But that's just not Dak. Taylor's in the DNA. We 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.199 know that he wants to be creative. The offenses is 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.000 about him. So you know you have that maybe ego, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:30.480 maybe confidence, maybe creativity, but that alone is going to 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.360 be a major mountain to overcome to say, let's just 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.440 change our strips and let's commit to the run. No 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.559 running game equals no wins. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.320 Did you think the defense played better yesterday? I mean, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.600 let's face it, with all the turnovers, they were really 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.960 put behind the eight ball. But did you feel like 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.720 there was some improvement on the defensive side yesterday. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.320 I think we have to kind of narrow down what 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.360 was improvement. On one side, I think they hung in there. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.800 They you know, they were that ben but don't break. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.920 But on the other side, you see so many mistackles, 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.920 bad angles, bad calls, just you know. So I don't 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.120 think when you have a loss as sizeable as it was, 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.400 I think it was more of Detroit kind of lost 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.360 focus of their execution. But Bengals actually were taking plays, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.720 so you know, Trey made a couple of big plays. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.800 But all in all time, I just don't think it's 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.880 a very talented unit that you can really expect them 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.160 to really go out and perform at a high level 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.280 that well, that they can win football games. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.880 What would you say, Tim mcgehan, and you talked about 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.480 expectations and maybe that word is the answer. What would 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.800 you say to the Bengal fan out there? And there 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.240 are a ton of us, you and me included, that 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.679 we're excited about the season, thinking hey, okay, maybe this 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.040 would be a playoff team. But now, as you point out, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.160 your best player's gone down, what would you say to 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.840 the Bengal fan out there right now, and how they 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.679 should view games beginning this Sunday against Green. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:02.240 Bay manager expectation, this is not the team that with 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.240 Joe Burrow. More than likely, depending on your opponent, get 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.559 excited about the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Races and 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.880 the Cleveland Browns, because those are rivals that no matter 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.839 what the records are, they're gonna come out and they're 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.360 gonna play on a high level and it's going to 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.440 be competitive. But for the most part, when they're playing 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.400 as your top notch players, I mean top notch teams, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.480 they're probably gonna struggle. They just you know, it's a 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.120 scenario yesterday. Let's look at it this way, Tom yesterday 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.880 scenario for the Bengals to win. If Detroit had to 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.679 play below seventy percent of their capabilities and the Bengals 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.880 had to play above ninety percent, well, guess what, what 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.800 are the likelihood of that happening? So when you go 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.040 into a game as a former player, when you go 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.400 into a game, you're very realistic about your chance to 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:43.920 go win it. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:45.080 All. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.680 Right, Tim, you're the best joining us every single Monday, Buddy, 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.199 I hope you have a great rest of your Day, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.560 and we'll catch up with you next week. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.040 Thank you for your time, Tim McGee, all right, Tom, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:53.679 thanks for having me. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.560 All right, Tim McGee one of the Bengal Greats wide 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:57.760 receiver and return man. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.920 Love that dude. He's on top of his game. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.199 I'd tell you, I don't know if you're a subscriber 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:06.120 to The Athletic. If you love sports, it's worth the money. 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:07.960 And I'm not getting paid by these guys. I pay 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.920 my money, I don't get it free. There is an 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:17.520 absolutely incredible article in there about Ryan Day, the football 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.320 coach at Ohio State, and the way he goes about 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.440 his work week. You know, when the season began, you 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.360 had Clemson, you had Texas, and you at Penn State, 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.959 all ranked in the top four. They're a combined eight 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.080 and seven this year, and Ohio State's undefeated and they 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.440 can stub their toe anytime. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.360 We know that. I'm not suggesting that they're the be 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.280 all end all, but when. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:44.080 You read about what Ryan Day does with his team 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:49.520 every Sunday after they play on a Saturday, and they're undefeated, 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.640 their ranked number one in the country. But let's remember 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.800 they lost fourteen players to the NFL last year. Fourteen 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:03.120 of them, and they have a freshman quarterback who had 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.720 never started a game in his collegiate career, and right 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.559 now he is the number one rated passer in all 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:15.160 of college football, completing almost eighty percent of his passes. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.080 A lot of that has to do with how Ryan 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.200 Day handles a Sunday after a game. 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Adobe 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.440 credits by now pay Later fueling growth. Still, that's a 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.360 slower pace than last year's online sales gain of almost 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.520 nine percent. An Xbox game Pass subscribers may have been 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.760 caught off guard by Microsoft's price hike last week. The 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.160 company announced a fifty percent price increase for the highest tier, 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.120 boosting the cost to thirty dollars a month. Bloomberg spoke 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.240 with several current and former Xbox employees who think that 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.480 price hike, along with other game Pass changes, are assigned 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.120 the big streaming pushes still not paying off the way 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.360 the company would like to see, and it looks like 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.520 a higher Wall Street open this morning from Bloomberg, Genus 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.479 Cervetti on News Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.280 Alrighty eight forty four. We do it every single Monday. 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.280 We call it Mondays with Marty. Most of the time. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.200 He's joining us from his home right here in Cincinnati, 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:07.160 every now and again from Salisbury, North Carolina. But today 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.920 he is joining us, as they say, from across the pond. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.160 How is everything in London? 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.280 Everything in London is spectacular, As I've often said, it's 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.840 my favorite city in Europe. And we've had a very 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.440 enjoyable time here in and up the locales around the 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:28.360 United Kingdom. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.800 But you are just getting started on this trip that 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.440 began in New York, on to London, and then. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.640 And we leave tomorrow morning and fly out to Barcelona, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.960 spend two nights there, and then get on a cruise 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:49.480 ship and sail the Mediterranean, going into Lisbon, Portugal, and 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:53.360 then we go on to Morocco before coming home. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.520 I hear that Lisbon might be one of the top 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:57.920 five cities in the world. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:58.840 Have you ever been there. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.720 I've not been there, but as I said to some 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:09.600 folks this morning here, I've never had a negative reaction 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.960 to traveling Intusdain or to Portugal, but Portugal's kind of interest. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.119 I'm told that in the last decade it is the 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:23.080 city with the largest number of retired Americans of any 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:28.800 other country in Europe. Obviously, it has a lot to 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.639 do with the prices, which are relatively low compared to 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.080 other countries. That probably will change as more and more 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.760 Americans come over there to retire. But I'm looking forward 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.680 to going to both of them because of the great 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.320 reputation that people have had from traveling in there. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.360 Let's tire Ribbon and we'll talk, obviously through the off 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.880 season about what the Reds decide to do or not do. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.199 But you know, it's one of those where it's a 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.440 glass half empty, glass half full. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:56.800 Kind of thing. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:58.880 I mean, at the end of the day, they were 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.399 a five hundred team tea basically when all of a 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.600 sudden done they won in Milwaukee at the end of 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.840 the year to get in. We know about the Mets collapsing. 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.600 You add all those things up, the bottom line is 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.200 they made the playoffs. It was over in two quick games. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.240 How would you, at the end of the day view 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.080 this twenty twenty five Reds season. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.480 Well, I think they made strides in certain areas Tom 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.080 and I think they obviously continued to have problems that 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.680 so far they've not been able to address, most notably 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:39.200 the fact that their offense is brutal, and in order 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.119 for them to take another step forward, they've got to 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.560 improve the offense. And how they do that, I had 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.320 no idea, but there has to be a certain commitment 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.720 on the part of everybody there, ownership and baseball operations 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.600 that we have to go out and get a guy 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.640 who has a reputation for hitting balls out the ballpark 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:04.040 and also driving in runs. It's easy to overlook the 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.720 fact that it's a very young team, even though they 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:11.960 quote young players have in a large part have had 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.840 two or two or two plus years of experience in 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.320 the major leagues. I don't think this team has to 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.480 do a whole lot in order to improve itself. I 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.720 think they're pitching a solid I think that when they 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:30.560 traded for the kid from Key Brian Hayes from Pittsburgh, 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.080 they've solidified to a great extent their defensive play on 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.560 the infield. Their outfield is still somewhat shaky, but I 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.840 really believe that what they have to do this winter 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:47.280 is far, far far from having wholesale changes to cover 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.480 some deficits all over the ball club. I think they're 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.640 in pretty good shape now, but now you find out 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.840 whether or not they're willing to make a commitment get 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.359 a guy in here that can do what I was 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:57.960 talking about. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.080 Well, I have made the comment, You've heard me make it, 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:01.960 and I'll say it again right now as we sit 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.359 here in October. That another thing that is going to 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.080 be an issue for this team, and it has been 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.080 for the last three or four years, the inability of 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:13.199 their starting pitchers, primarily Lodolo and Hunter Green, of not 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.520 being able to pitch barely one hundred and fifty innings 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.120 in a season, and generally the you know, pretty much 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.280 thinking around baseball circles is you don't ask a guy 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.680 to pitch more than ten to fifteen percent more innings 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.120 than he did the year prior. Hunter Green spent two 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.199 months on the disabled list. Nick Lodolo finally got to 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.040 one hundred and fifty innings in a season, making twenty 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:35.880 eight starts. We'll see how that goes. But I want 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.760 to ask you about two topics in particular. Number one, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:43.159 do you think the Reds should move positions for Elie 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:43.919 de la Cruz. 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:50.840 I'm no question whatsoever they should. I mean, I think 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:55.919 everybody has seen enough of his play at shortstop, and 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.320 somebody commented me, well, go back and look at Barry 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.240 Lark and he had twenty eight errors first, Yes he did, 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.040 and then he made vast improvements from that point on. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:08.560 This kid has not made vast improvements defensively a shortstop, 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.160 and I think he hurts them more than he helps them. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.360 And I said two years ago that they should move 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.640 him to the outfield, and they have made a very 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.840 strong commitment to him playing the position. He has played 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:25.000 exclusively since coming up out of the system. But I 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.800