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Speaker 3: seven hundred WLW Welcome into RNAL Carrier Sports Talk presented

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Speaker 3: Am I glad you were here?

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Speaker 3: You have some Reds conversation to get to and who better?

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Speaker 3: When this news broke yesterday I said, I gotta get

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Speaker 3: him on and he's my leadoff hitter. Tonight. My first

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Speaker 3: and check out the latest in reaction to our topic

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Speaker 3: tonight about Auheo Suarez. Let's go straight to the source

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Speaker 3: and welcome in Charlie Goldsmith and Charlie nobody signed this

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Speaker 3: late in the game is going to be perfect, But man,

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Speaker 3: in terms of a need fill au Inio Swerez certainly

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Speaker 3: fills a big one for this team? Doesn't he.

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Speaker 4: The moments I keep going back to from the twenty

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Speaker 4: the season when they didn't have a single late game

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Speaker 4: more of those during the second half of the year,

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Speaker 4: but not as many as you'd like. They were the

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Speaker 4: worst extra inning team in baseball. And then against the Dodgers,

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Speaker 4: they kept stranding the bases loaded. You win in those

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Speaker 4: moments with power threats. Who won out of every five

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Speaker 4: three ten times? Just give you that big hit. It

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter how to lead the picture you're facing. It

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter who you've got on deck. You've got that threat.

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Speaker 4: The pitchers are scared about. And Gino isn't perfect, but

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Speaker 4: boy does he fill that.

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Speaker 3: Need for the Reds surelye What are the flaws or

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Speaker 4: A lot of That is a big part of the

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Speaker 4: reason why his market was about half of what I

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Speaker 4: expected to be During the offseason. His defensive third really

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Speaker 4: the Mirrors until now, who really needed for or who

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Speaker 4: really needed third basement. That's not Suarez anymore and then

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Speaker 4: the strikeout rates. You know, teams that want to have

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Speaker 4: a more balanced, consistent lineup across the board and already

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Speaker 4: had power, they didn't need a guy like Geno either.

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Speaker 4: But Gino was still a fit for the Reds because

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Speaker 4: they had versatility. They had the versatility to move things

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Speaker 4: with the shrikeouts in the lineup that has a doctor Melly,

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Speaker 3: Surelie, with Auheo Suarez as mostly a DH. How did

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Speaker 4: With it sounds like a Brian Hayes is still going

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Speaker 4: to be their primary third basement. Obviously, they made an

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Speaker 4: aggressive investment to get him, and they're not backing off

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Speaker 4: that he's the guy they've invested in. Sal Stewart I

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Speaker 4: still expect Or, I really do expect consistently to play

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Speaker 4: Fencer Steer now to play more left. Because the Reds

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Speaker 4: So if Steers in left Sala first, that's your best lineup,

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Speaker 3: Trading, everybody loves a good batting order debate. Where would

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Speaker 3: you see Suarez slotting in from that standpoint?

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Speaker 4: From what I think they'll do clean up the lineup

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Speaker 4: is Harry Francona's baby. I don't know that there's a

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Speaker 4: when he was healthy. So Suarez slots and is that

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Speaker 4: ideal guy. I think it will be a fun debate

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Speaker 4: Polish an old school approach and on base that Steer

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Speaker 4: the cat and mouse game. Having Ellie's second verse third,

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Speaker 3: Half Charlie in terms of clubhouse vibe his impact from

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Speaker 4: I remember Joey v Otto calling him one of his

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Speaker 4: he apologized to Suarez because she said Suarez might catch Bruce.

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Speaker 4: The most devastating scene I've ever witnessed in my in

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Speaker 4: my sixty years covering the Reds was the day they

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Speaker 4: traded Suarez, and it was a part of that trade too,

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Speaker 4: but the devastation of him to be leaving, the devastation

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Speaker 4: even though they weren't the Mariners organization together for very long,

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Speaker 4: SWAZ made a very positive impression on Noel Vie Marte

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Speaker 4: so some good connections. Frankly, Suarez is just one of

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Speaker 4: the most universally loved human beings in all of baseball.

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Speaker 3: Not to be lost at all, This is your fantastic

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Speaker 3: reporting in the story you wrote yesterday with the backstory

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Speaker 4: To me might even be kind of the real story

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Speaker 3: Surely on the on the I don't know how to

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Speaker 4: So I knew all off season they were looking for

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Speaker 4: the end of the day, it's it's an ownership question.

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Speaker 4: it's not like they they're now one of the tough

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Speaker 4: testament to this being a good deal for the Reds.

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Speaker 3: Charlie, do they still need a utility infield or a

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Speaker 4: I think they're set. The super utility stuff with Speer,

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Speaker 3: Have last question. Thirty six hours ago, I would have

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Speaker 4: Yes? I really think they are. The fact that they

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Speaker 4: So that clear identity, plus the lineup that looks deep

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Speaker 4: still pick the Cubs, and then the Brewers, but certainly

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Speaker 4: the Reds belong and are now in this conversation.

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Speaker 3: You are all over this, as you always are. Tell

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Speaker 4: It's there on Fox nineteen on Substack on Power Stack,

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Speaker 4: my podcast with Brian Desness. While we're hitting the ground

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Speaker 4: running now and then I'm heading to spring training next week.

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Speaker 4: I'll be there all seven weeks. I'm fired up. I

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Speaker 4: love spring training. This team's fascinating and I couldn't be

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm very excited about that. The hairs now standing

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Speaker 3: up on my arms after you told me that. Enjoy

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Speaker 3: you go, Charlie goldsmith Man. How good is that to

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it has been amazing. From the time

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Speaker 3: What is it about Travis that jumps out to you?

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Speaker 3: Steve, you you've seen what Travis has started building from

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Speaker 3: Ron Harper is Miami Royalty a legend. How cool was

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Speaker 3: I got chills here and you say that we're talking

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Speaker 2: Oh, this is a big week. This is at absolutely

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Speaker 2: I mean, this this team is, you know, put together

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Speaker 3: I know you've heard all the talking points surrounding this team.

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Speaker 2: You know what, I respect all of the folks who

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Speaker 2: And in addition to maybe taking the loss, you don't

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this. I'm

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Speaker 3: I hope I can bug you again later in the season.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for making time tonight.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Lance, Absolutely give me a call anytime. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate time on the big one.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thanks Steve. There you go. Steve Baker, voice

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Speaker 2: Did he get it out? Can you believe that?

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Speaker 3: What day is this? I was out Thursday Friday last week.

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Speaker 3: I could tell I was going down earlier of the week.

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Speaker 3: I thought the uh the medicine ball recommendation from Austin

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Speaker 3: Ellmore passed along by Dan Horde, the uh, what is it?

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Speaker 3: The honey lavender mint tea concoction from Starbucks might save me.

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Speaker 3: It was a momentary save and then it was downhill.

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Speaker 3: And I hate being sick and I love being back tonight.

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Speaker 3: And we've got plenty to talk about, So let's get

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Speaker 3: to it. And you, Oh, by the way, they're listening.

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Speaker 3: What do we always say, love the iHeart Radio app.

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Speaker 3: iHeart Radio App. All right, now to the moment of

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Speaker 3: the weekend top of gate tonight, you talk about a

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Speaker 3: move to change a narrative, a move to move a needle,

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Speaker 3: a move to a night of fan base. I give

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Speaker 3: you this one my thoughts on au Hanio Suarez in

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Speaker 3: no particular order, wrote about this earlier today as well.

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Speaker 3: He wanted a bat. We you me, we we wanted

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Speaker 3: a bat. The Reds got a bat. Not just any bat,

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Speaker 3: They got the best remaining free agent bat. On the

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Speaker 3: free agent market. We wanted the Reds to spend money.

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Speaker 3: They spent at least fifteen million per reports. He offers

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Speaker 3: a presence that pitchers are certainly going to have to

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Speaker 3: think about each time they go through this Reds batting order,

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Speaker 3: and he will, without question provide protection to La Da

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Speaker 3: la Cruz. It's it's the equivalent of you know, when

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Speaker 3: you when you're preparing a game playing in football, what

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Speaker 3: player on defense? You know you always worry about the

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Speaker 3: guy who might wreck our game and what are we

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Speaker 3: gonna do with him? The Reds have needed somebody that

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Speaker 3: would cause pitchers, somebody else in addition to Ellie, to

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Speaker 3: cause pitchers to pause, to maybe cause the manager to

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Speaker 3: turn to his pitching coach and say, all right, what

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Speaker 3: are we doing here? That's Auhenio Suarez. He offers a

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Speaker 3: veteran presence, someone loved and respected by his teammates in

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Speaker 3: every stop, in every major league city he's played, he

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Speaker 3: played in. He has always been a willing mentor to

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Speaker 3: young players, and we'll offer again a strong clubhouse presence.

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Speaker 3: If you were listening. When Charlie checked in, he told

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Speaker 3: the story he will never forget the emotional day of

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Speaker 3: his trade and the impact it had on this team.

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Speaker 3: Continuing thoughts on Eugenio Suarez. His contract only commits the

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Speaker 3: Reds to twenty twenty six, with a mutual option both

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Speaker 3: sides have to agree for twenty twenty seven. I like that.

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Speaker 3: I like the fact he's been durable knock on wood.

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Speaker 3: Last four years. He's played one hundred and forty five,

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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty, one hundred and sixty two, one

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty four and one hundred and fifty nine games.

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? Now? Understand, while I sound excited,

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Speaker 3: I'm not here to tell you he's perfect. He's not.

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Speaker 3: The fact is you don't find perfect players. In February,

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Speaker 3: a week from pitchers and catchers reporting he has flaws.

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Speaker 3: That's why he was still out there. I get that

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Speaker 3: he's a strikeout machine. Last four years, one hundred and

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Speaker 3: ninety six, two hundred and fourteen, one hundred and seventy six,

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Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety six. And yes, yes, I'm entering

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Speaker 3: all this into evidence. I'm not running from it. He

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Speaker 3: had one hundred ninety six last year and Eli had

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Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty one. My butler, Matt, tells me

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Speaker 3: those two combined for three hundred and seventy seven strikeouts.

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Speaker 3: But if for being fair, for all the handwringing over strikeouts,

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Speaker 3: one breaking news, it's not nineteen seventy anymore. The game

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Speaker 3: has changed dramatically. And oh, by the way, Kyle Schwarber

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Speaker 3: had one hundred and ninety seven strikeouts this past year,

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Speaker 3: more than au Andiosuarez, and perfectly willing to concede. He

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Speaker 3: didn't get on base much. His on base percentage was

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Speaker 3: too ninety eight. I mean, it's it's awfully hard to

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Speaker 3: have a sub three hundred on base percentage, and that

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Speaker 3: was coming to the plate like six hundred and fifty

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Speaker 3: times last year. His on base percentage of two ninety

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Speaker 3: eight was lower than any red that came to the

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Speaker 3: plate at least one hundred and fifty times last season.

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Speaker 3: He turns thirty five this coming season, and I would

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Speaker 3: certainly tap the brakes on projections of fifty home runs.

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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, settle down. I tapped the brakes

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Speaker 3: on forty meant to be realistic. He's topped forty twice

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Speaker 3: in twelve years. He'll be thirty five. But I think

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Speaker 3: hitting home runs in the thirties certainly doable, and think

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Speaker 3: just for a second, Well, you've been thinking for how

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Speaker 3: many years about what adding a thirty plus home run

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Speaker 3: guy would mean and do for this lineup. Last season,

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Speaker 3: when they simply scored at least four runs, the Reds

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Speaker 3: were forty games over five hundred. They went sixty five

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Speaker 3: and twenty five. Last year when they scored at least

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Speaker 3: four runs, when they scored less.

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Speaker 1: Than that.

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Speaker 3: Eighteen and fifty four. Think of the frustrations, the droughts,

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Speaker 3: the homerless games. When they homered last year they went

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Speaker 3: fifty eight and thirty six, they were twenty two over.

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Speaker 3: Yet there were a lot of games they didn't homer.

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Speaker 3: There were seventy eight games last year they didn't have

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Speaker 3: a home run. They only won twenty five of those.

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Speaker 3: That's just my starting point, my observations on this. Let's

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Speaker 3: do this sweet turn an hour two, let's open up

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Speaker 3: the lines. Your chance now on the home of the

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Speaker 3: Reds to talk about it. Five one, three, seven, four nine,

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Speaker 3: seven thousand, one eight hundred. The Big One swore his

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Speaker 3: reaction and good vibes only when we continue after a

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Speaker 3: check on news, Arnell Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey

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Speaker 3: Chevallet seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: The following takes place between seven pm and eight pm.

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Speaker 3: Are right now, were two of three unfolding tonight on

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Speaker 3: the show we call RNL Carrier Sports Talk. It is

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Speaker 3: presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. My guys, I'm Lyonce Macalist, you're

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Speaker 3: your host, Drew western Hide your producer, and we thank

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Speaker 3: you for being our listeners tonight where we have jumped

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Speaker 3: knee deep into the au HEEO Suarez conversation off the

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Speaker 3: top one hour ago Charlie Goldsmith all over the news.

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Speaker 3: We also talked Miami Redhacks basketball with the long time

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Speaker 3: legendary voice of the Red Hacks, Steve Baker. Now we

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Speaker 3: get into au HEEO Suarez. You know, in terms of

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Speaker 3: adding a bat, a big bat, and a clubhouse presence

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Speaker 3: and a leader. How how funny it is that as

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at my notes to begin the day, on

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Speaker 3: this date, on this date in nineteen ninety nine, the

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Speaker 3: Reds added in trade a big bat that was an

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Speaker 3: immediate clubhouse presence and leader on the team. It was

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Speaker 3: this date, nineteen ninety nine they acquired Greg Vaughan from

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Speaker 3: the Padres. It was Greg Vaughn and Mark Sweeney for

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Speaker 3: Reggie Sanders, Damian Jackson, and Josh Harris. Vaughn had hit

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Speaker 3: fifty home runs for the Padres the year before, was

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Speaker 3: going to be a free agent. Padres knew they couldn't

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Speaker 3: afford him, so they traded him, and in his one

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Speaker 3: season with the Reds, Greg Vaughan hit forty five homers,

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Speaker 3: drove in one hundred and eighteen, stole fifteen bases, walked

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Speaker 3: eighty five times, scored one hundred and four runs, and

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Speaker 3: immediately became a presence in the clubhouse. They changed their

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Speaker 3: facial hair policy and he had one of those looks.

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Speaker 3: It didn't even take words. He was like a man

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Speaker 3: of few words. But if you weren't doing something right

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Speaker 3: and considered this was the new guy walking in who

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Speaker 3: established this. If you weren't doing it right, you better

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Speaker 3: start doing it right. And that came through a look.

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Speaker 3: You did not want to challenge the look of Greg

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Speaker 3: Vaughan when he became a presence in that Reds clubhouse.

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Speaker 3: Earlier this morning, I'm drinking coffee in my office at

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Speaker 3: homeworking on the show, and I eagerly anticipated the arrival

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Speaker 3: of Marty Brenneman at eight thirty five for his weekly

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Speaker 3: Mondays with Marty conversation that Tom Brenneman has talks with

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Speaker 3: his dad every Monday about a variety of subject matter,

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Speaker 3: current events, and of course today front and center was

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Speaker 3: the acquisition of Euenio Suarez. Here is the Hall of

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Speaker 3: Famer Marty B on what he thinks of Auanio.

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Speaker 6: I think it's a move that most Reds fans wanted

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Speaker 6: to see, because I mean, we've been talking about this

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Speaker 6: for three years, since twenty twenty two, at twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 6: about the need for an accomplished veteran with numbers not one,

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Speaker 6: you hope, the guy that you know, because of what

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Speaker 6: he's done in his career three hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 6: home runs total to take heat off of a young lineup.

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Speaker 6: And they went out and they did it, and I

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Speaker 6: congratulated for doing that. I texted Nick Crawl last yesterday

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Speaker 6: afternoon late when I found out about it, and you know,

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Speaker 6: it's something that I think Red fans should be excited about.

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Speaker 6: This guy can do an awful lot for this club,

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Speaker 6: and you know, you're going to have to live with

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Speaker 6: the strikeouts.

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Speaker 2: It was like that when he was in Cincinnati before.

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Speaker 2: It's like that now.

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Speaker 6: Which you can deny the home runs and the RBIs

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Speaker 6: and on top of that, and we talked about it Tom,

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Speaker 6: the ballpark that he's going to come back to.

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Speaker 2: Playing in again.

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Speaker 6: I mean, let's face it, it's one of the launching

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Speaker 6: pads of all launching pads in baseball. And with a

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Speaker 6: guy like him who has all fields power and can

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Speaker 6: do what he's capable of doing, it's kind of exciting

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Speaker 6: to think he's going to be in a Red uniform.

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Speaker 3: Marty Brendeman This Morning with Tom Monday's with Marty here

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Speaker 3: on seven hundred WLW. That entire segment that Tom Bredaman

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Speaker 3: podcast available certainly at seven hundred WLW dot com and

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Speaker 3: through the iHeartRadio app. A couple more observations than to

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Speaker 3: the phones. One positionally he locks down the DH spot,

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Speaker 3: and that would be different because the Reds to this

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Speaker 3: point have not locked down the spot with one guy.

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Speaker 3: It's been rotational. It's been based on lefty right of

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Speaker 3: who needed rest, you name it it was. They would

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Speaker 3: rotate and use multiple guys there. Now it being a

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Speaker 3: path they haven't taken before that that means that South

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Speaker 3: Stuart likely plays mostly first base, a spot he's still

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Speaker 3: learning and that means Spencer Steer plays mostly left field,

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Speaker 3: moving off first where he was a finalist as for

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Speaker 3: a Gold Glove last year. So that means the Reds

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Speaker 3: take a step back defensively at first base and in

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Speaker 3: left field. Again, I am not presenting this as the perfect,

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Speaker 3: be all, end all signing. I'm excited about it, but

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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to convince you there's perfection in this move.

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Speaker 3: There are ramifications that come with this. There are dominoes

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Speaker 3: that fall as a result. But if you're telling me,

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Speaker 3: for one year at that money, they drop him that

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Speaker 3: bat into this lineup, get you up. And I again

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Speaker 3: not to bury the lead here one of the leads.

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Speaker 3: As Charlie reported, the Reds changed their payroll plans. They're

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Speaker 3: expanding it. This adds at least another twelve million dollars.

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Speaker 3: They were within a couple of million of last year's

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Speaker 3: number that had been the budget the payroll. I don't

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Speaker 3: want to say they blew it up. They expanded it

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Speaker 3: to get this deal done, meaning they don't have to

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Speaker 3: trade Brady Singer to make the dollars work. They don't

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Speaker 3: have to trade Tyler Stevenson and somebody else to try

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Speaker 3: to cover the difference. That is huge. And I will

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Speaker 3: say this at the risk of alienating all the card

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Speaker 3: carrying members of the Kyle Schober fan Club. I'm a member.

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Speaker 3: I'd certainly rather have au Haanio Suarez for a season

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Speaker 3: at fifteen million with an option than Kyle Schwarber for

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Speaker 3: five years at one hundred and fifty million. No disrespect

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Speaker 3: to Kyle Schwarber. But if you're telling me, I can

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Speaker 3: get au hade O one year in an option at

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Speaker 3: fifteen versus five years on the hook at one hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty for Kyle Schwarber, who will turn thirty three

646
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Speaker 3: in the season next month. No brainer, no brainer. And

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Speaker 3: that doesn't mean I think au hitters Worries is better

648
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Speaker 3: than Kyle Schwarber. He's not. He doesn't walk nearly as

649
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Speaker 3: much as Kyle Schwarber. I wish he did, but that

650
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 3: would make him more perfect. But five years, one fifty

651
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Speaker 3: one at fifteen you kidding me? To the phones? Five one, three, seven,

652
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Speaker 3: four nine, seven thousand, one eight hundred, the big one

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Speaker 3: independence we go.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Mike, Hey, Lance, how you doing?

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Speaker 3: I am fired up tonight, Yes, sir, I.

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Speaker 7: Was fired apart herd yesterday too, so a couple of things.

657
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Speaker 7: I'll try to make us all make sense. But back

658
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Speaker 7: in the nineties when he had Rio and Larkin and

659
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 7: Griffy and you know how more Son and the team's

660
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 7: had fun, and twenty twenty three the team was loose,

661
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Speaker 7: they had fun. So I think that he could take

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Speaker 7: the pressure off this lineup, the pressure off this staff

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Speaker 7: and lous Derbeba a little bit more, not pressing to

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Speaker 7: get hits all the time, not pressing to make a

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Speaker 7: perfect pitch. So to me, he's a pressure cooker reliever

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Speaker 7: in my in my personal opinion, that's a.

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Speaker 3: Great way to put it. And I love the fact

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Speaker 3: his impact and influence comes in the lineup to what

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Speaker 3: it means for everybody else and on the benching in

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Speaker 3: the clubhouse for what it means to everybody else. There's

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Speaker 3: not many players who are able to do it from

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Speaker 3: both standpoints, and that is au Andy of Suarez absolutely

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Speaker 3: and Mike Good hearing from you, I appreciate you checking

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Speaker 3: in now. He's a poor fielder, that's why he's not

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Speaker 3: going to play third base, and he's only played six

676
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Speaker 3: innings in his life at first so that'll be a

677
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 3: work in progress when they do on an occasion slide

678
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Speaker 3: him into the actual field at first base. But man,

679
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 3: the Reds were twenty first in home runs last year.

680
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:17,479
Speaker 3: They hit one hundred and sixty seven. The average major

681
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 3: league team hit one hundred and eighty eight. The reads

682
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 3: were twenty one below the average major league team. And

683
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Speaker 3: do you know the last time they had a thirty

684
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Speaker 3: home run guy twenty twenty one. This is twenty twenty six.

685
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Speaker 3: That year that Joey hit thirty six, Nick Costiano's hit

686
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Speaker 3: thirty four, and Au Eightyo was there and hit thirty one.

687
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Speaker 3: They had three guys do it, and I haven't had

688
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Speaker 3: one to it since. And again, if you're and I

689
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 3: hear this a lot. Oh that that ballpark, he's gonna

690
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Speaker 3: hit fifty. Tap tap, tap your brakes. If he hit thirty,

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Speaker 3: it will have a significant ripple effect on this lineup

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Speaker 3: in Cincinnati. We go, Hey, Bryce, welcome back to sports talk.

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Speaker 4: Hey.

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Speaker 8: I mean last Tuesday, I practically called the signing.

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Speaker 3: I remember when you called it, and it is.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely amazing, And there's gonna be a ripple effected Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: He can have a down grade year.

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Speaker 8: But this signing was just so cost effective, arresting so

699
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Speaker 8: much money a guy like Kyle Schwarver or a guy

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Speaker 8: like pet ardor recently they hit left home runs at

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Speaker 8: forty nine home runs and they're begging teams, they're just

702
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Speaker 8: gonna booet if they don't get thirty five million dollars

703
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Speaker 8: a year for some kind of crazy number. It was

704
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Speaker 8: more like a friend's guarantee, like a friend's discount with

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Speaker 8: the au Hano Swarrez signings. Leader in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Bryce, I mean, I gotta believe there's teams

707
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Speaker 3: around Major League Baseball they're going a little bit. Wait

708
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Speaker 3: a minute, the Reds got him for one year at

709
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Speaker 3: fifteen because the projections for him at the start of

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Speaker 3: free agency a big time money and the Reds getting

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Speaker 3: for one fifth to for one for fifteen, I will

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Speaker 3: take it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely amazing. And you've got an established leader in

714
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Speaker 8: the club bause he's been there, done that in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 8: especially coming from Key Mobile Park, one of a pitcher

716
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Speaker 8: friendly ball versus Major League Baseball. Going into the GAVP.

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Speaker 8: I mean, are you to mean he's gonna absolutely love

718
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Speaker 8: it there, and I mean he's just a leader now

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Speaker 8: good vibes only Terry Fray Coney. He's created such a

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Speaker 8: great culture there in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: He can only do so much.

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Speaker 8: He's not gonna strap up, stewed up in a baseball uniform,

723
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Speaker 8: step up to the plate and hit one ant the

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Speaker 8: Ohio River.

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Speaker 4: That's that's what Auhano Suarez.

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Speaker 8: Is gonna do, and he can be that leader on

727
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Speaker 8: the field. He's gonna push these other hitters, especially Li

728
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Speaker 8: de la Cruz as spetchers here for the most part, to.

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Speaker 5: Short of match him.

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Speaker 8: I think Elie de la Cruz specchers here could both

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Speaker 8: go for twenty plus and South Stuart if they really

732
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Speaker 8: play him.

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Speaker 4: He hit five.

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Speaker 8: He had five home runs in eighteen games. Y elite,

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Speaker 8: elite numbers.

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Speaker 3: I love it. That's a that's a strong return, Brice.

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Speaker 3: Keep them coming good. Hearing from you, Thank you?

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Speaker 9: Ed?

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Speaker 3: All right, there you go?

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Speaker 2: All right?

741
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 3: He called it last Tuesday night, he was on the show.

742
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 3: He got done. I said, WHOA, who was that? Mark

743
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 3: that down? He should call again? Give be an executive

744
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 3: in the Reds front office. I'm looking at I'm scrolling

745
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 3: through looking at projections earlier in the offseason. I see

746
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 3: one for au Ani at two years, forty five million,

747
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 3: two at forty five. I saw one on January eighteenth,

748
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 3: the projection of one year at twenty. On February first,

749
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Speaker 3: the Reds got au Anio Suarez for one year fifteen

750
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Speaker 3: million with a mutual option. Need a bat check, spend

751
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 3: some more money to get one check. Now, there will

752
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 3: be moments, there will be stretches when au Henio Suarez

753
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 3: will not hit water from a boat, and you'll want

754
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 3: to throw your hands up. But I guarantee you this,

755
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 3: you will not throw your hands up as many times

756
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 3: as you did last season when the Reds were being

757
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 3: shut out thirteen times, scored one run twenty one times,

758
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 3: scored two runs twenty times, and scored less than three

759
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 3: runs a third of their games last season. RNL Carrier

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Speaker 3: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevalet seven hundred wlw X

761
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Speaker 3: Atlance Bacallister. If you follow up, man, thank you. If

762
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Speaker 3: you don't, Man, you should join us. You get the

763
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 3: vote in the ball lash. Did the Reds move your

764
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 3: needle with the Aohanio Suarez signing? Did the Reds move

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Speaker 3: your needle with the siding of swarrehands? Eighty six percent

766
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Speaker 3: say yes, fourteen percent responding no. Who would have thought?

767
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Speaker 3: I mean, going back a week ago and I'm looking

768
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Speaker 3: during the break, I found MLB Trade Rumors. Fantastic website.

769
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Speaker 3: The start of the offseason had projected a salary and

770
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Speaker 3: a contract of three years sixty three million for Suarez.

771
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Speaker 3: ESPN had projected two years at forty five. Red's getting

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Speaker 3: one at fifteen. The other question I ask you in

773
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Speaker 3: the poll question, if you're on x go, vote how

774
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Speaker 3: many homers do you anticipate Square is hitting for the

775
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Speaker 3: Reds in twenty twenty six? Your options fifty or more,

776
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 3: forty to forty nine, thirty to thirty nine, or fewer

777
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 3: than thirty. I'll give you what the public has said

778
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Speaker 3: in just a bit. Let's go back out to the

779
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Speaker 3: phones in Indiana, where I'm wearing my brand new arrived

780
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Speaker 3: over the weekend, says college Football Playoff national champion Indiana.

781
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Speaker 3: Hoo's your twenty twenty five hat. A nice hat add

782
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Speaker 3: to my collection, black with red lettering. Oh slick look, Indiana,

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Speaker 3: we go. Kim, you were on seven hundred WLW awesome.

784
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Speaker 10: Thank you for giving the shout out to the au

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Speaker 10: Hoosiers football team.

786
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Speaker 5: Yes when after a great, great.

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Speaker 10: Re confirmation of getting all of you, but with these

788
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 10: in there, and it's not about basketball. It's now about

789
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Speaker 10: the football that I absolutely.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 10: So I originally say I had two things, but there's

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Speaker 10: coming three. Okay, so I'm gonna say slightly on the

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Speaker 10: first thing, I've never understood the Reds Cruise came in

794
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 10: and he was the glory of the god and he

795
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 10: had the most errors ever last year last season. But

796
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Speaker 10: you know, there's it's all the hype, you know, Ella

797
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Speaker 10: du Cruz.

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Speaker 11: Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 12: Got it.

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Speaker 4: And then.

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Speaker 10: You know, I just recently asked my husband, how often

802
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 10: does a team let a player go tray them and

803
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 10: then bring them back and literally within a.

804
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Speaker 4: Day Schorez and never got rid of him. I would

805
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Speaker 4: never know. I'm on the female.

806
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 10: I mean, I don't I don't get to go to

807
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 10: the games.

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Speaker 4: I don't. I don't get it.

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Speaker 10: But I feel like I got this inside niche of like, why.

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00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 2: Would you do that? Right?

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Speaker 3: You are a keen observer of very interesting things in

812
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 3: the game of baseball. I will give you that extremely And.

813
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 10: Then you know, and then there's like, okay, the Joey

814
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 10: Vano thing, why did they let him go? Yes, you

815
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 10: know he had you know, some issues whatever, but he

816
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 10: was betting relatively okay. And they bring in these new

817
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 10: players and they get rid of him, they get rid

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Speaker 10: of Jonathan Hendy to bring in this elegant fruz from

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Speaker 10: an outside country and all he's yeah, he get hit

820
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Speaker 10: it and then and then happened last year all the

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Speaker 10: earth and they s don't like put him on the side.

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Speaker 12: I don't understand it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 12: I don't know if this works in the.

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Speaker 10: Bingle, like I'm going back and forth, but it literally

826
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Speaker 10: drives me crazy.

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Speaker 3: Well, Kim, do me a favor. Continue to be inquisitive,

828
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Speaker 3: continue to listen, and you check in anytime. I like

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Speaker 3: these questions, and I'm gonna see what I can do

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Speaker 3: about answering some of them as we go.

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Speaker 10: How's that that would be greatly appreciable.

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Speaker 3: All right, have a great night, you too. All right,

833
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 3: First things first, Joey Voda, remember he had hurt his

834
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 3: shoulder and couldn't come back from it and then eventually retired.

835
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Speaker 3: Ellie is only twenty four. I know people point to

836
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Speaker 3: the errors. I can give you a long list of shortstops,

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Speaker 3: including Dave Concepts, you and Barry Larkin and Derry Jeter,

838
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 3: who made as it many, if not many, many more

839
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Speaker 3: errors early in their career. Young shortstops tend to make

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00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 3: a lot of errors. I believe he will grow into

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00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:49,959
Speaker 3: being a better shortstop, and I think he'll be better

842
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 3: this year because, as the Red's even admitted, he played

843
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 3: a lot of last season with an injured partially torn quad.

844
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 3: As for auhning on trade the first time, I think

845
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of revision his history. His final

846
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 3: two years in Cincinnati he hit one ninety nine. I mean,

847
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 3: people were clamoring for the Reds to move on from

848
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 3: au Haano Suarez, and some of that was shoulder related,

849
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 3: and he has been better since he left. But twenty

850
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 3: twenty one with the Reds, he hit one ninety nine

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Speaker 3: and I remember the calls, what are they doing running

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00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 3: out Suarez every day. I'm very happy he's returned. I

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Speaker 3: also want to preface this we continue. I want to

854
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 3: get into this and understand this that it's not the

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00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 3: nineteen sixties or seventies anymore. If you, in fact want power,

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00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 3: you you you right there, You're gonna have to learn

857
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Speaker 3: to be more comfortable with strikeouts. It's just the reality

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Speaker 3: of this day and age and this is RNL carrier

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Speaker 3: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey cherbla seven hundred WLW from Billings, Montana. Tonight,

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Speaker 3: Billings Hello. Shout out to those listening in Wichita, Kansas

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Speaker 3: through the iHeart Radio app. Download it, enjoy it, embrace

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00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 3: it today. Keith Law, longtime baseball analyst prospects, a front

863
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Speaker 3: office person who covers prospects for the Athletic, used to

864
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Speaker 3: do it for ESPN, was a guest of ken Brew

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Speaker 3: yesterday morning. On Sunday Morning sports Talk set a couple

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Speaker 3: of things that caught my ear about a couple of

867
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Speaker 3: Red's prospects I thought worth tossing into the mix as

868
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Speaker 3: well as we prepared to grab some more calls. He

869
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Speaker 3: was asked by ken Brew yesterday, was Keith Law of

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00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 3: the Athletic his thoughts on sal Stuart Here is Keith Law.

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Speaker 5: Stuart has pretty much done everything you could have asked

872
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Speaker 5: of a hitter all the way up through the miners,

873
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Speaker 5: and he has continued to improved as he has moved

874
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Speaker 5: up at each stop. And he did look quite comfortable

875
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 5: facing Biglan pitching in that little stint last year. He's

876
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 5: got a doubt all the indicators who could possibly want

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Speaker 5: to predict short terms success, and I would hate to

878
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Speaker 5: see them make some kind of move that would end

879
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 5: up blocking him. I mean, I think ultimately I would

880
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Speaker 5: really like to see him be the first baseman.

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Speaker 2: And I know everyone from.

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Speaker 5: The Spencer Steer one of gold Glove last year was

883
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 5: the finalist or something like that, and you Star is

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Speaker 5: not part of the future. Salth Stewart is put Sal

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Speaker 5: Stewart in the position that he needs to be at

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00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 5: to best develop him for the next six years. That

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Speaker 5: means putting in it first and putting Steers in the age.

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00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 4: Even if there is.

889
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Speaker 5: A short term hit on your first state defense, who

890
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 5: will make Stewart a better player in the long run.

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00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 3: And that's now what they've done that obviously, that interview

892
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Speaker 3: taking place prior to the news yesterday in Sal Stewart,

893
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Speaker 3: when I'll be the first baseman in most days for

894
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 3: this Reds team. Keith law on Sal how about Keith

895
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 3: on the Reds top catching prospect, one of the top ten,

896
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 3: trying to remember where he wound up inside the top ten.

897
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Speaker 3: One of the top catching prospects in the game. Twenty

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Speaker 3: year old Sal Duno or Fredo Duno should start at

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Speaker 3: dating this year for the Dragons. Here is Keith on Alfredo.

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00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 5: I leaving attacker as long as I possibly can. You

901
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 5: do worry about it and getting hurt that much weight,

902
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 5: going up and down constantly, the extra movement, just normal

903
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 5: wear and tear.

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Speaker 11: Of the position that might be special.

905
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Speaker 5: There's a possibility I had don a rank too low,

906
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 5: not because I doubt his position, but because I'm too

907
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 5: white on the back. He might be able to go

908
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 5: to first base in DH and still be a starf.

909
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 3: Alfredo Duno just turn twenty. He was the Florida State

910
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 3: League MVP playing for the Daytona Tortugas this past season.

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00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 3: All right back into this and it's it's something that is,

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Speaker 3: it's it's part of what makes this not perfect. The

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Speaker 3: elements of au Haneo on the minus side are the

914
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 3: defense or lack thereof, and the swing and miss. But

915
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Speaker 3: if you want power, you're going to have to learn

916
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 3: to be more comfortable with strikeouts. I went back and

917
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 3: look today and seven major league hitters this past season

918
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 3: hit at least forty home runs. Swear As obviously one

919
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 3: of them. Those seven hitters who clubbed at least forty

920
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 3: homers struck at an average of one hundred and seventy

921
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Speaker 3: times one hundred and seventy times. Two of those hitters

922
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 3: struck out over two hundred times. I went a little

923
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Speaker 3: bit further. There were thirty three players last year the

924
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 3: hit at least thirty home runs. Those thirty three players

925
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 3: averaged one hundred and fifty five strikeouts last season. Only

926
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Speaker 3: one from that group struck out fewer than one hundred times.

927
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Speaker 3: That was Jose Ramirez, the clare unicorn and outlier. It

928
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Speaker 3: only struck out seventy four times. And I thought, all right, well,

929
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Speaker 3: let me take the home run element out of it.

930
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 3: And I started looking and I actually laughed. There were

931
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Speaker 3: ninety four batters last year in baseball that struck at

932
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Speaker 3: least one hundred and twenty times. Are you ready for this?

933
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 3: There were one hundred and fifty three batters that struck

934
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Speaker 3: at at least one hundred times in Major League baseball.

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Speaker 3: One hundred used to be the demarcation of embarrassment. Nobody

936
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Speaker 3: wanted to strike out one hundred times, because they make

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Speaker 3: fun of you if not, send you a like to

938
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Speaker 3: the minors or something. One hundred and fifty three guys

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Speaker 3: last year struck out one hundred times. Here's the top ten.

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00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 3: You ready, James Wood National struck out two hundred and

941
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Speaker 3: twenty one times, Riley Green two to oh one, Kyle

942
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 3: Schorber one ninety seven, AU eight O one ninety six,

943
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Speaker 3: Rafael Devers one ninety two, Randy A. Rose Arena struck

944
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Speaker 3: out one hundred and ninety one times, Ryan McMahon one

945
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 3: eighty nine, cal Riley one eighty eight, show Hey Otny

946
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 3: struck out one hundred and eighty seven times, and La

947
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 3: struck out one hundred and eighty one times one hundred

948
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Speaker 3: and eighty one. By the way, Ellie reduced his strikeout

949
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 3: rate by six percent, which is beyond substantial. He lowered

950
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 3: his strikeout rate for the second straight year. And would

951
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 3: you believe that Ellie struck out thirty thirty seven fewer

952
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 3: times than the year before. Let me repeat that, he

953
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 3: reduced his strikeouts by thirty seven And oh, by the way,

954
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 3: he's just twenty four years old. And oh, by the way,

955
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 3: his walk rate is above the league average. He walks

956
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 3: more than the average hit are in Major League Baseball.

957
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 3: Just some things to ponder. And I know, I know

958
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 3: how I was a kid in the seventies. I know

959
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 3: how we viewed strikeouts, but he's no longer the seventies.

960
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 3: It's twenty twenty six. And if you want power, you're

961
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 3: going to have to become more comfortable strikeouts because they

962
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 3: go hand in hand. I don't know how else to

963
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 3: to lay it out anymore clearly. We head to Brian

964
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 3: and then we head to Montgomery. Tyson, Welcome to sports Talk.

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00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 11: Hey, I just want to talk about Marte.

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00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 2: Man, He's just.

967
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 3: Marty. Know what you want to talk about Noeve Marte?

968
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 3: Oh well, what did you think about Suarez?

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00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 11: I love Swarez. I think Mark. I think swar is

971
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 11: gonna help Marte step up into the next role.

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00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 3: I think there's something to that. I would agree.

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00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 11: Yes that, Yeah, I think he's gonna do the same

974
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 11: thing with Stevenson. Don't think about that. We don't.

975
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 4: We don't just get We don't just get.

976
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,439
Speaker 11: His bat and the strikeouts, strike ups will come. They

977
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:49,839
Speaker 11: we should be used to strikeouts. But when you look

978
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 11: at his knowledge, he knows how to hit home runs.

979
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 11: What's it gonna do to Marte? What's it gonna do

980
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 11: to Friedel? You know what's it gonna do with Stevenson?

981
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 3: In going to go up and he's always been a

982
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 3: guy in his twelve years who, as he's grown older,

983
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 3: has been a a willing mentor to younger players, taking

984
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 3: them under his wing. He's always been one who was

985
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 3: willing and able to share his knowledge of the game,

986
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 3: his enthusiasm for the game. And to your point, I

987
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 3: think that rubs off all over the place in that clubhouse.

988
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 11: Yeah, then he's gonna get to Ellie. Ellie is a superstar.

989
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 11: He's twenty four years old. Bore his numbers. Yep, he's

990
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 11: he'sially gonna be a thirty thirty guy this year.

991
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait.

992
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 11: It's gonna be exciting. I mean, I can just about

993
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 11: imagine Opening Day. I can't wait.

994
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 3: Well, there will be a Hedeo comes to the plate

995
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 3: for the first time on opening Day. There will be

996
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:48,240
Speaker 3: a standing ovation a great American ballpark.

997
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, I can't wait. It's gonna it's gonna lie.

998
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 3: It's the whole city, Tyson. I enjoyed this call again sometime.

999
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 11: Right, Yeah, I will, I will, all right, thank you,

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00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 11: all right.

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00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,760
Speaker 3: You can hear it in people's voices. Montgomery, we go, Mark,

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00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 3: you are on seven HUNTERD W LW.

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00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: Hey, Lance, good evening.

1004
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,720
Speaker 12: Hey, I you know, I like the trade or trade,

1005
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 12: I like the signing. I think, you know, I think

1006
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 12: it's a good signing. I still think, you know, the

1007
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 12: key with this ball club and Swores is a great

1008
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 12: guy to have in that middle of that line up

1009
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 12: in a close game, even though he strikes out a lot,

1010
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 12: and he's always one swing away from hitting one over

1011
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 12: the fence, and that's something this team needs.

1012
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 1: Uh.

1013
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 12: I still think the biggest need though, is they have

1014
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 12: to find somebody in the middle of that order that

1015
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 12: can consistently hit with men on base and drive in runs,

1016
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 12: because that that's the biggest issue I've seen with this

1017
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 12: team and lack of and too many strikeouts. You know,

1018
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 12: you've got to make contact with men men are on base,

1019
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 12: and I suspect now another year with Tito and whatnot,

1020
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 12: that I think that will get better.

1021
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 2: Uh. You don't want to be one of the worst ten.

1022
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 12: You want to be one of the best ten. As

1023
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 12: far as limiting the strikeouts.

1024
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 3: Yes, no doubt, and they were. In fact, I looked

1025
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 3: it up before the show. I think only six teams

1026
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 3: in baseball struck out more times than the Reds last year.

1027
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 12: I thought when I looked at the numbers, they had

1028
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 12: the ninth most strikeouts in baseball. You know, and I think,

1029
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 12: you know, interesting stat that I think people are, you know,

1030
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 12: get fascinated with home runs. The Brewers and the Reds

1031
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 12: had almost the exact same number of home runs.

1032
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 3: Absolutely great point.

1033
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 12: Yeah, And the difference is that if you look at

1034
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 12: the Brewers, they were one of the least strikeout teams

1035
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 12: in baseball.

1036
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 3: The Reds are one of the most.

1037
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 12: And you know, I think that's a big deal. You know,

1038
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 12: hitting you're striking out a lot, you're probably hitting with

1039
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 12: two strikes a lot, and you're swinging a lot.

1040
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 2: Of balls you shouldn't swing at.

1041
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 12: So you improve that aspect of the game. And I

1042
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 12: think this offense gets better very quickly.

1043
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 3: I would agree with that, no question mark, Thank you,

1044
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 3: Thanks all right, appreciate you checking in. Yeah, and the

1045
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 3: hope would be, you have other guys, Well, you're not

1046
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 3: going to expect au and you to get on base more.

1047
00:58:58,200 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 3: He is what he is at this point in his career.

1048
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 3: The hope would obviously be other guys are getting based

1049
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 3: on base Moore, Matt McClain elli gets on base more,

1050
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 3: and there are more than RBI Opportunities presented back to

1051
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 3: Marks point about all of this, U, let's do this,

1052
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 3: take time out, head down the stretch in this hour,

1053
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,439
Speaker 3: squeeze in a little college basketball as well. Can't wait

1054
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 3: eight o'clock. He's twenty one years old, he's from Sharonville.

1055
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 3: He's going to the Olympics. Connor Curran my guest coming

1056
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 3: up at eight oh six. As we continue with RNL

1057
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Speaker 3: Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WLW

1058
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 3: Oh you're cruising. I have to wrap up our two

1059
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 3: of three. Thanks for being here tonight. Stick around after

1060
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 3: me at nine Gary Jeff Walker serving up the nightcap.

1061
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 3: Let's serve up some college basketball before we talk with

1062
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 3: our olympian from Sharonville, coming up at eight oh six.

1063
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 3: Bearcats fall over the weekend seventy six fifty for the

1064
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 3: final falloing by twenty two. They trailed by thirty with

1065
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 3: six minutes to go. They committed nineteen turnovers and forced

1066
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 3: Houston into Jai four turnovers, so they were outscored on

1067
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 3: turnovers twenty six to two. They scored twenty points in

1068
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 3: the first half on Saturday, lost drops them to eleven

1069
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 3: and eleven over all. Three and six in the conference.

1070
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 3: Last time they were this poor record twenty two games

1071
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Speaker 3: in was the two thousand and seven, two thousand and

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Speaker 3: eight season. That was you see senior class of Mervin Gentry,

1073
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 3: John Williamson, Jamal Warren, Adam H. Remember Adam a rich Newick.

1074
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 3: How any that Adam H and deontay Von was a

1075
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 3: sophomore that year. Wes has now lost all eleven games

1076
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 3: against the Houston Cougars. You see, has lost fourteen straight

1077
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 3: overall against the Houston Cougars. Here is Wes after the

1078
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 3: game with Dan and Terry. This ain't excuses at all.

1079
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 3: I don't believe in that craft. But we've been in

1080
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 3: three time zone since six days. We're down a bunch

1081
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 3: of bodies.

1082
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 9: That was a strange deal to go from Arizona Monday

1083
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 9: Baylor Wednesday night and they'll play a morning game here.

1084
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 9: And that's not an excuse. But I'm saying all that

1085
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 9: because our kids are fighting. If you heard them in

1086
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 9: the last two timeouts, they're like, we got to finish

1087
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 9: this thing.

1088
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 3: We can't have any plays, we don't go after the ball.

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Speaker 9: We got come on, we got to play with better

1090
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 9: effort like you people would be really proud that support

1091
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 9: our program to hear how they're handling a night like tonight.

1092
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 9: Not the results. Not okay, I'm not I'm not happy

1093
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 9: about it, proud about it. But our kids got a

1094
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 9: lot of fight and a lot.

1095
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 2: Of heart and.

1096
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 3: I that dude, Oh my goodness. In Quad one games,

1097
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 3: he's now ten and forty seven at UC. If you

1098
01:01:57,120 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 3: take out the Quad four games, those are the those

1099
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 3: are the worst teams in the in the country. If

1100
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 3: you take out the quad four games in his time,

1101
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 3: that you see his record is forty seven and seventy

1102
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 3: at UC, forty seven and seventy minus the Quad four games.

1103
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 3: But for the record, he doesn't believe in excuses. This

1104
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 3: Naviry Musketeers rallied from eighteen down. They answered the booze

1105
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 3: that were raining down at Sentas on Saturday and rally

1106
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 3: to beat De Paul sixty eight sixty six. How about

1107
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 3: the final call from Joe and Byron six seconds ago?

1108
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 3: Games tied six six sixty six, bor of each and

1109
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 3: it drives the baseline. He spends, he shoots, he's.

1110
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 10: Got it, pay hexon times expired, Xavier wins it sixty

1111
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 10: eight sixty.

1112
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 11: Six and bor reaching and his mob by his teammates.

1113
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,760
Speaker 3: What a shot, what a comeback? Twelve and ten overall,

1114
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 3: four and seven in the Big East. After the game,

1115
01:02:55,120 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 3: here is Richard Bettino with Joe and Byron amazing.

1116
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 13: Be down what was it nineteen eighteen in the second

1117
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 13: half out of timeouts. Everybody was clearly in the stands

1118
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 13: frustrated with our team, and for us to be able

1119
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 13: to block that out not really sub a whole lot.

1120
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 13: To have that group with a little bit all really

1121
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 13: really proud of our guys, be as proud as I've

1122
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 13: ever been. Just the will of our guys to go

1123
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 13: win that game when nothing was.

1124
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 2: Really going our way.

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Speaker 13: I mean, I challenged them and they certainly answered.

1126
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 3: Richard Patino Saturday with Joe and Byron Oh to close

1127
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 3: the hour. A sad note. You know we're big into

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Speaker 3: visiting breweries. Kelly and I started a brewery tour around

1129
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 3: the area and we hit seventy five breweries within fifty

1130
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 3: miles of our driveway in Independence, Kentucky. I counted up

1131
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 3: over the weekend. Now there are fourteen of those seventy

1132
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 3: five that have closed. We started late twenty twenty with

1133
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 3: our travels and the latest is bad. Tom Smith Brewing

1134
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 3: which closed on Saturday, but now fourteen have closed. That

1135
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 3: includes Rebel Metal, which is the first one we went

1136
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 3: to that was located just up from Paul Brown Stadium

1137
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 3: or pay Corp now North High and Hyde Park. Taffs

1138
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 3: aalehouse over the Rhine. Crescent Brewing in Aurora, Indiana, the

1139
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 3: brew Dog Cincinnati location High Wire Norwood Dog Barry in

1140
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 3: Westchester that was one of our first visits years ago.

1141
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 3: Humble Monk Coleraine Avenue, Listenman Brewing, of course, Dana Avenue

1142
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 3: sixteen lots two locations. They're a Voodoo Brewing the Cincinnati location.

1143
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 3: Firehouse Grill in Blue Ash no longer does brewing. They're

1144
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 3: certainly still open at Bad Tom Smith in Madisonville. And

1145
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 3: the Woodburn makes up fourteen of the seventy five, but

1146
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 3: that means sixty one still going strong. We're always bubb

1147
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,920
Speaker 3: when we hear a place that we visited and enjoyed

1148
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 3: the beer and the people there. And the fourteenth has

1149
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 3: closed officially, all right, So when we turned the corner.

1150
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 3: He's twenty one, he's from Sharonville. He's a member of

1151
01:04:55,600 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 3: the US Freestyle ski team and he is bound for

1152
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 3: the Olympics. We will talk with counter Current. Do we

1153
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,360
Speaker 3: check news? RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet

1154
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 3: seven hundred WLW.

1155
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.

1156
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 3: All right, let's do this. Eight O eight seven hundred

1157
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 3: WLWRNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. I'm Lance Pacallister. Man,

1158
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 3: I'm fired up to talk with our next guest. What

1159
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 3: an amazing and cool story. My next guest is a

1160
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 3: Sharonville native. He's twenty one. He's headed to Milan, Italy

1161
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 3: to represent the US as a member of the US

1162
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 3: freestyle ski team. Think think skis like down a slope,

1163
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 3: flying off a ramp, twisting and twirling and flipping multiple

1164
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 3: times and then sticking the landing. Makes me nervous just

1165
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 3: saying that. Let's go straight to him and welcome him

1166
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 3: in before he leaves for the Olympics. What a treat

1167
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,919
Speaker 3: to welcome in, Connor Current Counter Lance, McAllister, how are you?

1168
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 14: I'm doing awesome?

1169
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 2: How are you?

1170
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 3: I am fantastic? Man? Congratulations?

1171
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 2: What is it?

1172
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 3: I mean the obvious question? What does it mean to

1173
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 3: be going to Italy to represent your country?

1174
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 2: Oh?

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01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 14: Man, it's an honor. I've dreamed my whole life for this,

1176
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 14: and yeah, I'm just excited to go represent tam Usa

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Speaker 14: at the Games.

1178
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 3: Boy and the fact and you probably reflect on this

1179
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 3: in these times, the hours, the commitment, the sacrifice, the

1180
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 3: number of times you probably had to move to get

1181
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 3: it all to this point in your life.

1182
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

1183
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 14: I've moved two times now solely for competing in my sport,

1184
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 14: freestyle aeros and it's been an incredible journey, made some

1185
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 14: really good friends along the way, and it's a lot

1186
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 14: of hard work.

1187
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to make your dad the assistant

1188
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 3: producer of my show tonight, because we were trading text

1189
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 3: back and forth this morning. It had a hole tr information.

1190
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 3: Is it true that he was and he was a

1191
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 3: former ski instructor. He was teaching you at age two

1192
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 3: to ski?

1193
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 2: Yep, that's right.

1194
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 14: We have a small hill in our backyard and he

1195
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 14: got me on skis when I was two years old

1196
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 14: and the rest is history.

1197
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 3: Oh man, all right? The other question, and the more

1198
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 3: I watched you do these moves, the more nervous I got.

1199
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 3: Why aerials? What led you to this aspect of all

1200
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 3: of this?

1201
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 14: I think I liked you know how terrifying it was. Yeah,

1202
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 14: I've always been a skier, like my dad said, and

1203
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 14: I also did gymnastics for a little bit, and I

1204
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 14: always like slipping around and skiing around, so I said,

1205
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 14: why not do both? I love That's what kind of

1206
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 14: led me here.

1207
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 3: I love that we're talking with Connor current tonight. He's

1208
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 3: headed to the Olympics. So I know you spent time

1209
01:07:58,480 --> 01:07:59,959
Speaker 3: at at Perfect North.

1210
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 2: Correct, that is correct?

1211
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,360
Speaker 3: How cool is How cool is that place? How helpful

1212
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 3: was that along the way?

1213
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 14: Very extremely helpful. We have two two more guys also

1214
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 14: from Perfect North Slopes that are going to be at

1215
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 14: the Games, and it's going to be fun competing with them.

1216
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 3: You mentioned tumbling in gymnastics. I want to ask you

1217
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 3: about both because I understand you were doing the trampoline

1218
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 3: and tumbling at Queens City Gymnastics. Tell me about that.

1219
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 14: Yeah, so that's what kind of helped, you know, jump

1220
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 14: start my ariels career.

1221
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 2: I learned a lot.

1222
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 14: Training there, learned how to do backflips and double backflips

1223
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:43,559
Speaker 14: and all that fun stuff. And I did that for

1224
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 14: about two and a half three three iss years before

1225
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,640
Speaker 14: finally moving out here to do it on skis.

1226
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 3: Man oh Man. I was my My wife was a gymnast,

1227
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 3: and I was asking here about the former elite US

1228
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,679
Speaker 3: gymnast Amy Shear, who's from Cincinnati, and you to train

1229
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 3: with her for a point. What was that, like, how

1230
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 3: important was that in your development?

1231
01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:08,719
Speaker 14: I would say that was probably the most important part

1232
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 14: of my development. I would show up at her gym CGA,

1233
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 14: Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy to the yeah, one to two times

1234
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 14: a week, and she would just coach me and really

1235
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 14: give me drive and discipline to continue into this sport.

1236
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:29,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I heard. She she she wouldn't go

1237
01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 3: lightly on you. She was she was pushing you, didn't she.

1238
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, Amy, Yeah, she's tough.

1239
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 2: She's tough for sure.

1240
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:39,120
Speaker 14: But I'm thankful for the opportunity that she gave me

1241
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 14: in I wish she were she could come and watch.

1242
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,600
Speaker 3: I was. I was watching some videos earlier today and

1243
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 3: I saw a lot of practice in in water, in

1244
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 3: swimming pools. So take us through for those wondering like

1245
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:55,640
Speaker 3: how you do all how you practice all these with

1246
01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 3: so much on the line and you're flipping and turning

1247
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 3: and twisting all that. Do you do a lot of

1248
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 3: of swimming pool work from that standpoint of just having

1249
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 3: the water to land in.

1250
01:10:05,400 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

1251
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 14: So we hit the same size jumps on artificial snow

1252
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 14: into a pool, and we replicate what we do on

1253
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 14: snow into the pool.

1254
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 2: If that makes sense.

1255
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:24,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. How how often do you how often

1256
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 3: you get back here?

1257
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 5: Are you?

1258
01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 3: Are you in town much?

1259
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 14: I'm not really I would say four to five times

1260
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 14: a year. I can get out for a weekend to

1261
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 14: spend with my family. I obviously try to get out

1262
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 14: as much as I can, but it's usually never more

1263
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:46,120
Speaker 14: than a week and yeah, with not very much.

1264
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, as we get this close to it, how mentally

1265
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,759
Speaker 3: and physically, how do you feel right now?

1266
01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 14: Mentally I'm feeling pretty good.

1267
01:10:56,439 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 2: And physically I'm in the.

1268
01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 14: Best physical shape I've been in my whole life, So

1269
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 14: feeling pretty good about that as well.

1270
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:06,600
Speaker 2: So it should be a should be a fun competition.

1271
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 3: When do you leave?

1272
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:13,600
Speaker 12: We leave the fourth so in two days.

1273
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 3: And I assume the opening ceremonies are are Friday. Are

1274
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 3: you walking in the opening ceremonies?

1275
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:21,599
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I will be there.

1276
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:25,519
Speaker 3: Oh man, I mean I like the hair standing up

1277
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:27,599
Speaker 3: on my arms just thinking about that. I mean you

1278
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 3: you got to just be blown away with excitement for that.

1279
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm a little bit in shock still.

1280
01:11:34,160 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 2: It all doesn't feel real, but you.

1281
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 14: Know, it should be fun, should be a very good experience.

1282
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 14: And I'm excited is.

1283
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 3: Your I understand your family's gonna get to go. How

1284
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 3: cool is that? How important is that for you?

1285
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 2: It means the world to me.

1286
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 14: They've been my number one supporter since day one, and

1287
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 14: really excited to have them come watch me at the games.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I can't imagine how crazy your life is right

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01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 3: now and how busy you are. And I had a

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01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:06,439
Speaker 3: listener to the show Mo Shaw who passed along an

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01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 3: email and dropped your name and said, hey, you should

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01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 3: try to get him on and from that to your dad,

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01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 3: to you now, it means a great deal that you

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01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:16,639
Speaker 3: took time out to uh to talk tonight. I'm really

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01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 3: happy for you and your family. Best of luck, enjoy

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01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 3: this and I hope I can bug you when you

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01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 3: get back after all this is over and done and

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01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:26,559
Speaker 3: we can talk about that and talk about a metal

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01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 3: how's that sound That sounds awesome?

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Speaker 2: All right? Coner, Thanks for.

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01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 3: Having me, you got it, You're the man. Best of luck,

1302
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 3: have a safe trip and enjoy this all right.

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01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I will thank you.

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01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 3: There you go, Connor Kurr and what just an amazing story.

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01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:43,680
Speaker 3: He's twenty one and he's going to the Olympics as

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01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 3: part of the US freestyle ski team. In those areas,

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01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm watching, I'm like how I mean, I like,

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01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 3: you get up and you start turning and twisting and

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01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,760
Speaker 3: flipping and I have no idea where you where you

1310
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 3: are at that point, or how you would stick a

1311
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 3: landing and he doesn't. And again, thank you to mo

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01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 3: Shaw who first reached out with the email, and then

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01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 3: he got me in touch with his dad John. Shout

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01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 3: out to John, and we probably text back and forth

1315
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 3: like eight text this morning because I said to him,

1316
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 3: we're trying to line up a time, and I said,

1317
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:14,200
Speaker 3: the last thing I want to do is like bug him.

1318
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 3: I said, if he's got ten minutes, I'd love to

1319
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 3: get him on, but I would totally understand if you

1320
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 3: want to wait until after he's back, that would be great.

1321
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 3: And he gave me a time and I said, by

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01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,520
Speaker 3: the way, if you if you got any like backstories

1323
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 3: or anything fun I could ask him about. And then

1324
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,280
Speaker 3: like boom, boom boom boom. We're texting back and forth

1325
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 3: and he says, and then there's this, and then there's this,

1326
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 3: and then there's this, Like you're the assistant producer tonight.

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01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 3: He's told me about putting foam styrofoam on his skis

1328
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:38,760
Speaker 3: when he was two to help him out in the

1329
01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 3: learning process and just had a blasketting ready for it.

1330
01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 3: And man for all he Connor has gone through, and

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01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,919
Speaker 3: the again, the hours and the commit it's the classic

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01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 3: Olympic story. The hours, the commitment, the sacrifice and everything

1333
01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 3: that goes into it for the opportunity to represent your

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01:13:55,800 --> 01:14:00,920
Speaker 3: country in Milan. Very excited for it. Uh. And if

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01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 3: you uh, if you are inclined to like mo did

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01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:07,559
Speaker 3: I always say this and I mean it. This is

1337
01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 3: the evidence. If you have a topic or a guest

1338
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 3: an idea for the show, absolutely email me. I'm always

1339
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 3: looking for different stuff Lance at lancepacallister dot com. Give me,

1340
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 3: give me a topic, give me a guest. Uh, it's

1341
01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 3: much easier if you give me contact information about that

1342
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 3: that that guest or I'm just looking for angles on

1343
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 3: things that I can bring uh to the table. Is

1344
01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:35,720
Speaker 3: something different and uh and something we can kind of

1345
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 3: kick around. So thank you again to to Mo. When

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01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:44,080
Speaker 3: we come back. Oh, I saw a stat about a

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01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 3: local product, none of the local product who played high

1348
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:52,639
Speaker 3: school basketball here, who's starting college and now is doing

1349
01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:57,360
Speaker 3: something unbelievable in the NBA. I will give you that

1350
01:14:57,720 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 3: and more as we continue with RNL Carriers. It's Talk

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Speaker 3: presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WW. We continued to

1352
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 3: pick them up and lay them down on this Monday night.

1353
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 3: They're listening in Fort Smith, Arkansas. I love the iHeartRadio app.

1354
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 3: They're checking in in Montgomery, Alabama. If you are listening

1355
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:26,040
Speaker 3: with the iHeartRadio app, please check in where you are

1356
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 3: sometime on X at Lance Pacallister or I'm on the

1357
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:34,040
Speaker 3: email Lance at lancepacallister dot com. Love hearing people listening

1358
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 3: around the country and even at times around the world.

1359
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:39,799
Speaker 3: I heard from my guy Josh Wilking over the weekend

1360
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:42,799
Speaker 3: from Kelsey Chevrolet. This is RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented

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01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 3: by Kelsey Chevrolet. By the way, they've got a new

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01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:47,559
Speaker 3: pre owned deal of the week. It's a twenty twenty

1363
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:50,880
Speaker 3: two Ram fifteen hundred Big Horn quad cab four x

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01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,839
Speaker 3: four only forty four thousand plus miles priced at twenty

1365
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:58,719
Speaker 3: seven four ninety nine. We're talking one owner, no accident,

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01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:02,320
Speaker 3: four wheel drive, automatic E torque V six engine. It

1367
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:04,719
Speaker 3: is the best price in value within one hundred miles

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01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 3: of all twenty twenty two RAM fifteen hundred trucks, and

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01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:11,120
Speaker 3: I'm told number one out of twenty plus trucks, average

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01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:14,759
Speaker 3: market price is thirty thousand, four hundred. They have theirs

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01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 3: priced to sell this week as the Kelsey pre Owned

1372
01:16:18,080 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 3: Deal of the week on Sports Talk Forget this twenty

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01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 3: seven four ninety nine, twenty seven four nine nine, Go

1374
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,479
Speaker 3: to kelsey chef dot com. Shout out to all my

1375
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:30,840
Speaker 3: guys at Kelsey Chevrolet. Love being a part of what

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01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 3: they are doing and love the Kelsey Chevrolet pre Owned

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01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,760
Speaker 3: deal of the week. He sent me to last week? Well,

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01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:38,519
Speaker 3: ans waddy did he sent you to last week? If

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01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 3: it's one? Well, the first deal like sold boom and

1380
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 3: he said, I got to send you a note. I said,

1381
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 3: keep them coming because if you're keeping a gun, that

1382
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 3: means you're keep selling them all right. This to add

1383
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:53,400
Speaker 3: to the mix, and I want to welcome back in

1384
01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:56,439
Speaker 3: conversation on Auhinu Suarez as well at five one three

1385
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,960
Speaker 3: seven four nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred, the big one.

1386
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:03,840
Speaker 3: But I love stats, and I saw stat last week

1387
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 3: that relates to a local product even better, Luke Canard.

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01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:13,639
Speaker 3: Prior to Franklin High School man Luke Canard his senior year,

1389
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 3: I because he was such an attraction to go see

1390
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 3: him play. I drove. I don't even know where. It

1391
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 3: was a road game. It may have been his last

1392
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 3: like road game or one of the last games of

1393
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 3: his regular season, of his senior season, and I drove

1394
01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:31,759
Speaker 3: to that game, stood in a line that was around

1395
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 3: the building to get in that night to see Luke

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01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 3: Canard play for Franklin High School. And I'll never forget.

1397
01:17:36,920 --> 01:17:38,599
Speaker 3: I'm getting a little bit off track, but I'll never

1398
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:42,720
Speaker 3: forget watching him during the JV game. He's sitting in

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01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 3: the stands and it was non stop the number of

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01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 3: people coming up to him wanting an autograph or to

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01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:55,960
Speaker 3: take a picture of kids, men, women, grandma's, grandpas. And

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01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 3: the grace that he showed each and every individual non

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01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:03,519
Speaker 3: stop blew me away. And then of course he went

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01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 3: on to Duke and Start, and then he was drafted

1405
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 3: in the first round. Luke Canard is in his ninth

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01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:17,000
Speaker 3: year in the NBA this season, he is shooting fifty

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01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:22,439
Speaker 3: four percent from the field, forty nine percent from three,

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01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 3: and ninety four percent from the free throw line. Nobody,

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01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 3: nobody in the history of the NBA has reached all

1410
01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 3: three of those levels in a season. Nobody has ever

1411
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 3: shot collective fifty four percent from the field, at least

1412
01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 3: forty nine from three, and at least ninety four from

1413
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 3: the free throw line. That's what Luke Canard is working

1414
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:51,599
Speaker 3: on right now. In fact that the tweet I saw

1415
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 3: from Underdog Is the sports site said he's working on

1416
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:00,479
Speaker 3: the greatest shooting season in the history of the NBA.

1417
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 3: Lucas played over five hundred games now five hundred and

1418
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 3: five going into the weekend. But I bring this up

1419
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 3: because it then I'm always trying to like take something

1420
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 3: and make more of it. And I started thinking about

1421
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 3: where his NBA career. If you were to put together

1422
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,799
Speaker 3: a list of the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky high school

1423
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 3: players that went on to play in the NBA, where

1424
01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 3: would his career stack up in terms of like the

1425
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 3: conversation of the best from Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky high

1426
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 3: school that went on to play in the NBA the

1427
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 3: best careers, and you know obviously the the Jerry Lucas

1428
01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 3: Middletown and averaged in the NBA seventeen points and sixteen rebounds.

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01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:50,559
Speaker 3: He's like in his own category along with I would

1430
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 3: put Dave Collens pribe to Newport Catholic in his own category.

1431
01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 3: Dave cowns seventeen points a game, fourteen rebounds a game

1432
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 3: for a sisper game, MVP, you name it, and I

1433
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 3: think those two would like be on like tier one,

1434
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 3: it would be Jerry Lucas and Dave Cowens, and then

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01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 3: probably the next tier has some combination of guys like

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01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 3: you know, Kevin Greevy Hamilton who played almost seven hundred

1437
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 3: NBA games and averaged over eleven points. You'd probably put

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01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 3: t Hill Tyrone hill of Withrow in that second tier.

1439
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 3: Probably put Louis orr Of with Row played almost six

1440
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:28,720
Speaker 3: hundred games and averaged almost ten points and four rebounds

1441
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:32,600
Speaker 3: and two assists. Those would probably be Tier two. But

1442
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:37,719
Speaker 3: I'm thinking Luke Canard goes in if this very subjective tier,

1443
01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:40,680
Speaker 3: I think he'd go into the very next tier in

1444
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:44,599
Speaker 3: terms of all time guys from Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky

1445
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:48,760
Speaker 3: that had NBA careers. I think I dug around over

1446
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:50,840
Speaker 3: the weekend and really became like a rabbit hole thing.

1447
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:52,680
Speaker 3: I went down like I could not get out. I

1448
01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:54,840
Speaker 3: just kept going deeper and deeper, and I'm looking up

1449
01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:57,559
Speaker 3: like Bob Earns and of Saint X and his one

1450
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 3: hundred and eleven game NBA career. And then I I thought, oh,

1451
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 3: Darius Basley Princeton, and don't forget Ricky Callaway at Wthrow

1452
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 3: and Butch Carter Middletown, and then said, well, then you

1453
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 3: can't leave out Eric Daniels and Princeton, or Derek Dickey, Purcell, Marion,

1454
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:15,040
Speaker 3: Vince Edwards Middletown even played a couple of games in

1455
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 3: the NBA. Jackson Hayes currently in the NBA representing Mohler,

1456
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 3: Robert Height, Wentton Woods way Back, Jim Holstein, Hamilton Catholic,

1457
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:27,920
Speaker 3: Rick Hughes, Walnut Hills, Brandon Hunter, who was a beast

1458
01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 3: in Ohio for the Bobcats, played sixty seven games in

1459
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:37,640
Speaker 3: the NBA. Curly Jones Aiken, Miles McBride working on a

1460
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 3: really nice NBA career, still going to young and continuing

1461
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:45,120
Speaker 3: to rise the pride of Moler and OJ Mayley. You

1462
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:48,719
Speaker 3: got to count from North College Hills. Certainly Bob Quick

1463
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 3: who went to Hughes, Bob Nabor went to Covington Catholic.

1464
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 3: Larry Staverman, Newport Catholic boy. I get my dad going on.

1465
01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:59,640
Speaker 3: Larry Staverman, you can tell me all about him. Greg Stokes, Hamilton,

1466
01:22:00,680 --> 01:22:03,840
Speaker 3: uh Tom Thacker went to William Grant High School in

1467
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:06,519
Speaker 3: Northern Kentucky. La South Thompson at with Throw had a

1468
01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:09,280
Speaker 3: really nice care Lasuth Thompson played almost a thousand game.

1469
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 3: I probably put him in Tier two. Played almost a

1470
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,719
Speaker 3: thousand games in the NBA. Eight points a game, almost

1471
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 3: seven rebounds a game. Back a little bit from Dan

1472
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:23,080
Speaker 3: Teeman CUVCAF, Jack Turner, Newport, Billy Walker, North College Hill

1473
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 3: teaming up with Oj Mayo, Bob Weisenhan mcnick. And that

1474
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 3: doesn't even scratch the service. If we expand whatever boundaries

1475
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:34,360
Speaker 3: we have for greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky to expand, go

1476
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 3: North Dayton. That's Ron Herper territory at Kaiser, that's the

1477
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 3: Packson brother territory at Altar, Derek Brown, Shamana Julian. If

1478
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:50,320
Speaker 3: we went further south into Kentucky, then you're talking Brian Hill,

1479
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 3: I mean Brian Grant. So it was really cool, just

1480
01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 3: digging it. And then I sent a text to Tom

1481
01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 3: Gamble and I said, all right, who give me a name?

1482
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:00,880
Speaker 3: And then I sent a text to Skinner. I said,

1483
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 3: am I leaving anybody out? We were kicking around so

1484
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 3: many names with dang Luke Kennard who's working on one

1485
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 3: whale of an NBA career. Good for him, and Haunt

1486
01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 3: pays to do something that's never been done before. Let's

1487
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:15,960
Speaker 3: reach the bottom of the hour for news. Let's slide

1488
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 3: in a little more Reds conversation on the other side,

1489
01:23:18,439 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 3: more of your thoughts on au HEEO and more with

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01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:24,720
Speaker 3: RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey cheval Lite seven

1491
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:35,479
Speaker 3: hundred WLW Height thirty seven seven hundred WLWRNL Carrier Sports

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01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:38,600
Speaker 3: Talk presented by Kelsey, Chevrolet Lights bacatmister Hey, thanks for

1493
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 3: hanging out tonight, no show tomorrow night because Red's Hot

1494
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:49,320
Speaker 3: Stove and then Xavier Basketball. First part of Red's Hot

1495
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 3: Stove starts here, then slides over to I have to

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Speaker 3: check I think fifteen thirty into thirteen sixty Fox Sports

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Speaker 3: thirteen sixty Thanks Drew Wester Hetty and then Xavier basketball

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01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:01,320
Speaker 3: Joe and Byron here with the Musketeers on the road

1499
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Speaker 3: against number three Yukon. By the way, while I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: of it, and this is this is pretty and Dave

1501
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:13,720
Speaker 3: Baker mentioned it, or Steve Baker mentioned it earlier the

1502
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 3: Voice of the Miami RedHawks. We were talking about the

1503
01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:19,920
Speaker 3: basketball program, and just In Passing mentioned the success of

1504
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 3: athletics at Miami, and I jotted down some notes over

1505
01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:27,240
Speaker 3: the weekend, and you know by now the Miami RedHawks

1506
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:29,840
Speaker 3: the basketball team, they're one of two remaining unbeatens in

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01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:34,759
Speaker 3: the country. They're twenty two to zero. They're the story

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01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 3: in college basketball this year. Well they're not the only

1509
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 3: story in Oxford. Now follow me here, And David Saylor,

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01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 3: the athletic director at Miami, he probably if there is

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01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:49,519
Speaker 3: such an award, he's probably should be up for like

1512
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 3: the Director of Athletic Director of Athletics of the Year

1513
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:57,799
Speaker 3: award winner for the year. This is just a sampling

1514
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 3: of what else is going on with Miami athletics right now.

1515
01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:07,320
Speaker 3: The women's team hit seventeen to three pointers on Saturday,

1516
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 3: winning the Battle of the Bricks over Ohio. The women's

1517
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:15,599
Speaker 3: team has won eleven straight. They have a record of

1518
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 3: eighteen and four under their coach, Glenn Box. They're ten

1519
01:25:19,520 --> 01:25:21,719
Speaker 3: and zero in MAC play for the first time ever.

1520
01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:25,360
Speaker 3: They're nine to zero at home. I think all five

1521
01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 3: scored in double figure Saturday. Their eleven game winning streak

1522
01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 3: is the fifth longest in program history. And I was

1523
01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:33,720
Speaker 3: looking up info on this coach, Glenn Box, and he

1524
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:37,640
Speaker 3: came to Miami after seven years on Indiana's staff the

1525
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:40,839
Speaker 3: women's basketball program there the last four is an associated

1526
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:44,120
Speaker 3: head coach there. Their roster this year, the Miami women's

1527
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 3: roster has players from you know, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Arkansas. Okay,

1528
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:54,920
Speaker 3: they also have a player from Barcelona, from Israel, the Netherlands,

1529
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:59,400
Speaker 3: and Japan. They will host Georgia Southern in the MAC

1530
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 3: SBC Challenge on Saturday at one. So they're having an

1531
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:07,960
Speaker 3: amazing season. And then this this is like an ESPN

1532
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 3: thirty for thirty. Like what if I told you a

1533
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:14,680
Speaker 3: college hockey program rose to the ranks of a consistent

1534
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:18,599
Speaker 3: force number one in the country, then changed conferences and

1535
01:26:18,640 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 3: it all fell apart and then came back together. Do

1536
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:28,360
Speaker 3: you realize what Miami hockey is doing? They won on Saturday,

1537
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 3: beating Number twenty Cloud State. They've won four to row.

1538
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 2: Now.

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01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:41,639
Speaker 3: Their coach is Andy Noreen. He's in his second season. Now,

1540
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 3: let let's backtrack a little bit twenty years ago, or

1541
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:49,640
Speaker 3: for twenty years, Rico Blasi was the coach of the

1542
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 3: Miami Red Hawk hockey program and consistently made the tournament

1543
01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 3: number one team in the country. A regular guest on

1544
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:02,719
Speaker 3: the show, and they played in the Central Collegiate Hockey

1545
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 3: Association and Rinko had played at Miami and then went

1546
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 3: on to coach there and won almost four hundred games.

1547
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:10,599
Speaker 3: He was five time Conference Coach of the Year. He

1548
01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:13,280
Speaker 3: was the national Coach of the Year. They made ten

1549
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 3: national tournaments. They went to two Frozen four appearances, the

1550
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 3: Final four for hockey. They went to a national championship game,

1551
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:24,640
Speaker 3: the eight Toho nine. One of the most heartbreaking moments

1552
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 3: in sports around here that you'll ever want to experience.

1553
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:29,960
Speaker 3: And I'll never forget watching it in my office at

1554
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 3: home and calling my wife and kids in to watch

1555
01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:36,800
Speaker 3: because they were this close to claiming the national championship

1556
01:27:36,800 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 3: in hockey and then lost to Boston University in overtime.

1557
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:44,559
Speaker 3: And I want to say don't quote me. I want

1558
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 3: to say Boston scored like three goals in the final

1559
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:51,280
Speaker 3: two minutes of regulation to force overtime or something like that.

1560
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:57,639
Speaker 3: And then Miami Hockey moved into a new conference, which

1561
01:27:57,680 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 3: is the nc h C, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference,

1562
01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:07,679
Speaker 3: and it's a big time, big time conference, and Miami

1563
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:14,920
Speaker 3: got hammered, I mean hammered. And six years into the move,

1564
01:28:15,439 --> 01:28:20,719
Speaker 3: Rico got fired. They've gone like forty five and eighty four.

1565
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:25,800
Speaker 3: And then Miami turned to another former player, I think

1566
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 3: it was Chris Bergeron and for five years they went

1567
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:35,719
Speaker 3: thirty five at one hundred and sixteen, and so we're talking.

1568
01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:43,240
Speaker 3: For eleven years, Miami Hockey sank to the depths and

1569
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 3: it was mean, it was rough, it was bleak. And

1570
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:52,439
Speaker 3: this Anthony Noreen has come on to be their coach.

1571
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 3: He's in his second season. They've won sixteen games this year.

1572
01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 3: Last season, in his first year in Oxford, they won three.

1573
01:29:05,520 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 3: They didn't win a conference game. They went twenty three

1574
01:29:09,280 --> 01:29:13,559
Speaker 3: and one in the conference, and in the previous two

1575
01:29:13,640 --> 01:29:21,799
Speaker 3: years they've been won forty four and three in conference.

1576
01:29:21,920 --> 01:29:27,240
Speaker 3: They won one of forty eight conference matches and this

1577
01:29:27,439 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 3: Noreene has resurrected the program. And I don't want to

1578
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:33,880
Speaker 3: speak like I'm an expert. I'm not. I'm just digging

1579
01:29:33,880 --> 01:29:36,920
Speaker 3: around looking because the more I notice them getting like

1580
01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:39,800
Speaker 3: national public at the turnaround of Miami Hockey, the more

1581
01:29:39,800 --> 01:29:42,479
Speaker 3: I'm digging into it, going, my goodness, what is going

1582
01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:45,600
Speaker 3: on in Oxford? I was texting with Greg Guadell, the

1583
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 3: play by play voice of Miami Hockey. I said, I

1584
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 3: still haven't been to a game at gog Gon Arena,

1585
01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 3: and Kelly, I've got to get up there to see

1586
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:58,200
Speaker 3: a game. But what he has done. They were ranked

1587
01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:01,120
Speaker 3: earlier this year and it's probably gonna be ranked again.

1588
01:30:03,120 --> 01:30:06,360
Speaker 3: And I'm digging around looking at where this Noreen came from.

1589
01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:09,679
Speaker 3: And he was coaching in the United States Hockey League,

1590
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:13,799
Speaker 3: the Tri City Storm, and I read he had coached

1591
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:18,600
Speaker 3: thirty four players who were NHL draft picks in his

1592
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:22,840
Speaker 3: time there and produced more than one hundred Division one

1593
01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 3: players in his time there. And prior to that, he

1594
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 3: was coaching in the ECHL, that's the Cyclones League. He

1595
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:34,080
Speaker 3: was coaching the Orlando Solar Bears. I think it was

1596
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen, sixteen seventeen, so the success there and then

1597
01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:43,679
Speaker 3: the opportunity to again. I go back to David Saylor, like, man,

1598
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:46,760
Speaker 3: this guy's got like the magic touch hiring people. And

1599
01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:50,960
Speaker 3: the softball the girl softball program, women softball had been

1600
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:55,519
Speaker 3: has been lights out. But to be able to peg

1601
01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:00,040
Speaker 3: Anthony Noreen to lead this turner ahead and what the

1602
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:04,720
Speaker 3: doing I probably haven't even done it justice, but I

1603
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:08,680
Speaker 3: just know where Miami hockey was and where it dropped to.

1604
01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:15,400
Speaker 3: And now the stirring of the resurrection of Miami hockey

1605
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:17,880
Speaker 3: and the attention they're getting nationally is just a really

1606
01:31:17,960 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 3: neat I go back it is. It is truly a

1607
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:24,639
Speaker 3: thirty for thirty ESPN story. And they've won, They've won

1608
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:27,439
Speaker 3: four in a row. Now for the season, they're sixteen

1609
01:31:27,479 --> 01:31:31,800
Speaker 3: eight and two overall. I don't know. I'm not deep

1610
01:31:31,880 --> 01:31:33,519
Speaker 3: enough into this to know if they're like on the

1611
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 3: bubble for making the tournament or it could make the turn.

1612
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:39,639
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just blown away by the good

1613
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 3: things that are now happening for Miami hockey. So thanks

1614
01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 3: for allowing me a couple of minutes on that oh

1615
01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:47,800
Speaker 3: oh oh before I run out of time, let me

1616
01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:50,920
Speaker 3: finish up on the Keith Law, who joined at ken

1617
01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:55,640
Speaker 3: Brew yesterday morning. Keith Law covers major League Baseball prospects

1618
01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 3: in the minor leagues for The Athletic. Former front office

1619
01:31:58,080 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 3: person in Major League Baseball heard from him earlier talking

1620
01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 3: about and he came out with his top one hundred.

1621
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,439
Speaker 3: Recently top one hundred prospects. We heard him talk about

1622
01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:09,040
Speaker 3: Sal Stewart and now afraid of Duno, a couple other

1623
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:11,400
Speaker 3: things he said, I can squeeze in here. I think

1624
01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:15,360
Speaker 3: I've got time related to the Reds minor league system

1625
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 3: and their development of prospects. Here's Keith Law with ken

1626
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:22,559
Speaker 3: Brew yesterday Sunday Morning Sports Talk talking about the bats

1627
01:32:22,680 --> 01:32:25,960
Speaker 3: in the system and the Reds drafting and developing of

1628
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:28,280
Speaker 3: bats recently. Here's Keith Law.

1629
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:34,080
Speaker 5: They clearly focused more on identifying that in international and

1630
01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:36,120
Speaker 5: even the draft, and.

1631
01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:36,799
Speaker 2: I think done a much.

1632
01:32:36,640 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 3: Better job of developing them. And they even had a

1633
01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:38,600
Speaker 3: couple of.

1634
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:40,360
Speaker 2: Guys last year sort of mixed years.

1635
01:32:40,439 --> 01:32:42,800
Speaker 5: Can Collier breaks his FuMB, He's not right the entire

1636
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:45,240
Speaker 5: rest of the year, So I think come back and

1637
01:32:45,280 --> 01:32:48,479
Speaker 5: have better years this year, and in general, I praised

1638
01:32:48,520 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 5: the Reds drafting and development. I think over the last

1639
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 5: ten years I thought last year was just maybe a

1640
01:32:53,080 --> 01:32:54,560
Speaker 5: little more of a mixpect.

1641
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:57,719
Speaker 3: Keith Law yesterday with ken Brew. Now there's one other

1642
01:32:57,920 --> 01:33:01,400
Speaker 3: thing I'll leave you with. The Reds first round pick

1643
01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:06,120
Speaker 3: last year was a shortstop Steel Hall. Great name. I

1644
01:33:06,160 --> 01:33:08,960
Speaker 3: want to say. Steel Hall is only seventeen years old.

1645
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 3: He reclassified and should be a senior now in high school,

1646
01:33:15,320 --> 01:33:19,280
Speaker 3: and he's a Red's minor league prospect. So there is

1647
01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:22,759
Speaker 3: there's a lot of projection with somebody like that. Obviously,

1648
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:27,280
Speaker 3: when you're taking somebody in the first round who reclassified

1649
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 3: and should be in high school right now, then you're

1650
01:33:31,479 --> 01:33:35,320
Speaker 3: looking at what he is and projecting what you think

1651
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:38,200
Speaker 3: he's going to be and taking a rather significant leap

1652
01:33:38,240 --> 01:33:40,880
Speaker 3: of faith with anybody in a draft, let alone a

1653
01:33:40,920 --> 01:33:45,120
Speaker 3: seventeen year old. And it leads to this scating report

1654
01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:48,120
Speaker 3: that at least sends up a bit of a red

1655
01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:51,960
Speaker 3: flag from Keith Law on first round pick Steel Hall.

1656
01:33:52,040 --> 01:33:52,639
Speaker 3: Take a listen.

1657
01:33:53,000 --> 01:33:54,040
Speaker 5: Oh he is fast.

1658
01:33:54,160 --> 01:33:54,680
Speaker 3: I saw it.

1659
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:57,840
Speaker 5: He's run on the top of the scale and he's

1660
01:33:57,880 --> 01:34:00,720
Speaker 5: a real shortstop. He cannot hit a great mall right now,

1661
01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:02,200
Speaker 5: and it's going to take a lot of time. He

1662
01:34:02,280 --> 01:34:04,160
Speaker 5: was super young, and then one of his two best

1663
01:34:04,200 --> 01:34:06,560
Speaker 5: guy attributes with you was eighteen and I think he

1664
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:09,960
Speaker 5: was the second youngest player among the major prospects in

1665
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:12,599
Speaker 5: the draft. He's got more time. There is a lot

1666
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:14,639
Speaker 5: of work ahead of him to make him a major center.

1667
01:34:15,040 --> 01:34:19,599
Speaker 3: Keith low yesterday. Yes, Steele turned eighteen July the twenty fourth.

1668
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:23,280
Speaker 3: He was the ninth pick in the first round of

1669
01:34:23,280 --> 01:34:28,520
Speaker 3: the draft out of HEWITTT. Trustville High School in Trustville, Alabama.

1670
01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:31,360
Speaker 3: But a great name. All right, let's head down the stretch.

1671
01:34:31,840 --> 01:34:34,280
Speaker 3: We need to close this out. I'll leave you with

1672
01:34:35,040 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 3: on this date and I got I think I got

1673
01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 3: time on the other side. Maybe a final thought or

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1682
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Speaker 3: event happening on Saturday if you're looking for some baseball conversation.

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Speaker 3: Reds reliever and all around good guy Jay J. Hoover

1694
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Speaker 3: Saturday Night, MKU Baseball. In the First Pitch Dinner, I

1700
01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:22,160
Speaker 3: was mentioning Red's prospects ESPN released I think it was

1701
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:23,920
Speaker 3: on the tail end of last week their top one

1702
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:26,920
Speaker 3: hundred prospect. Lis salth Stewart comes in at number seventeen,

1703
01:36:27,280 --> 01:36:30,759
Speaker 3: Alfredo Duno the catcher at number twenty nine, Rhet Lauder

1704
01:36:30,840 --> 01:36:36,920
Speaker 3: at seventy two. ESPN also has Mike Saroda of the

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01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:41,000
Speaker 3: Dodgers at number fifty five. Mike Saroda is a twenty

1706
01:36:41,040 --> 01:36:43,880
Speaker 3: two year old center fielder who the Reds gave up

1707
01:36:44,040 --> 01:36:47,200
Speaker 3: in the Gavin Lux trade. When they got Gavin Lux

1708
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:50,519
Speaker 3: from the Dodgers, they gave up Mike Saroda, a third

1709
01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:56,200
Speaker 3: rounder out of Northeastern University who dazzled in his first

1710
01:36:56,280 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 3: season at low A and high A. In his debut

1711
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:03,479
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers, had an OPS for over a thousand.

1712
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:05,320
Speaker 3: All Right, we close it out with on this date

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01:37:05,479 --> 01:37:09,320
Speaker 3: in sports history? How about eighteen seventy six, On this

1714
01:37:09,439 --> 01:37:12,960
Speaker 3: date they gathered and the National League was formed. The

1715
01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:19,559
Speaker 3: team's Philadelphia, Hertford, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, Saint Louis, and

1716
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:23,760
Speaker 3: New York became the National League eighteen ninety two on

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01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:27,680
Speaker 3: this date. I can't even fathom. This the longest boxing

1718
01:37:27,880 --> 01:37:32,759
Speaker 3: match under modern rules at that time modern rules, seventy

1719
01:37:32,920 --> 01:37:38,560
Speaker 3: seven rounds in Nameki or name me? Is it Namoki

1720
01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:44,639
Speaker 3: nami Oki, Namoka, n am e Oki, Illinois. I've never

1721
01:37:44,680 --> 01:37:48,840
Speaker 3: heard of that. The fight between Harry Sharp and Frank Crosby,

1722
01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:54,120
Speaker 3: seventy seven rounds. I don't know who won. I assume

1723
01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:58,840
Speaker 3: both survived seventy seven rounds. This date, nineteen forty nine,

1724
01:37:58,920 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 3: Holy cal goll flegend. Ben Hogan seriously injured in a

1725
01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 3: car crash. Suffered a broken left ankle, contusions to his

1726
01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:08,680
Speaker 3: left leg, a broken collar bone, a cracked rib, a

1727
01:38:08,720 --> 01:38:12,879
Speaker 3: double fracture of his pelvis, a head abrasion, and internal injuries.

1728
01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:17,400
Speaker 3: Escaping death as the engine of his car had pushed

1729
01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 3: into the steering column, which in turn was propelled through

1730
01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:25,760
Speaker 3: the driver's seat, missing him. Spent fifty nine days in

1731
01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:29,360
Speaker 3: the hospital. Returned to golf less than a year later,

1732
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:35,360
Speaker 3: lost a dramatic eighteen hole playoff to Sam Snead at

1733
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:38,479
Speaker 3: the LA Open, but he went six more majors and

1734
01:38:38,600 --> 01:38:44,519
Speaker 3: eleven of his sixty four titles after the crash. This

1735
01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:47,719
Speaker 3: date nineteen fifty four. Oh, my dad can tell stories,

1736
01:38:48,120 --> 01:38:52,280
Speaker 3: Bevo Francis, I never remember. Is it Ryo grand? I

1737
01:38:52,280 --> 01:38:54,519
Speaker 3: think it's Ryo. It's not. It looks like Rio, but

1738
01:38:54,560 --> 01:38:58,640
Speaker 3: it's pronounced Ryo Ryo. Grand College BiVO Francis scores one

1739
01:38:58,720 --> 01:39:02,439
Speaker 3: hundred and thirteen points in a win over Hillsdale. Francis

1740
01:39:02,439 --> 01:39:05,320
Speaker 3: breaks his own record for small college points in a game,

1741
01:39:05,640 --> 01:39:09,360
Speaker 3: set two weeks earlier. That school was about one hundred

1742
01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:15,200
Speaker 3: and seventy five miles southeast from here in Gallia County.

1743
01:39:15,720 --> 01:39:18,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say this date in nineteen seventy man, I

1744
01:39:18,640 --> 01:39:20,320
Speaker 3: wish I'd seen him play. It was only four and

1745
01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:22,880
Speaker 3: I just I didn't have an appreciation. Obviously an understanding.

1746
01:39:23,280 --> 01:39:27,040
Speaker 3: LSU's Pete Maravich becomes the first college basketball player to

1747
01:39:27,080 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 3: reach three thousand points in a career. He did it

1748
01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:33,320
Speaker 3: in an era without the three point line and with

1749
01:39:33,479 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 3: freshmen ineligible. He scored thirty six hundred and sixty seven

1750
01:39:38,200 --> 01:39:42,000
Speaker 3: points in eighty three games. He averaged forty four point

1751
01:39:42,040 --> 01:39:46,000
Speaker 3: two points a game. Oh to have seen pistol Pete play.

1752
01:39:47,200 --> 01:39:49,439
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety nine, to wrap it up, the Reds

1753
01:39:49,439 --> 01:39:52,120
Speaker 3: acquired Greg Vaughan, as we mentioned earlier, in a trade

1754
01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:55,360
Speaker 3: from the Padres. He would have an immediate impact and

1755
01:39:55,479 --> 01:39:58,280
Speaker 3: presence on the Reds lineup the clubhouse and oh, by

1756
01:39:58,320 --> 01:40:00,840
Speaker 3: the way, would hit forty five five home runs and

1757
01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:03,519
Speaker 3: drive it one hundred and eighteen in his only season

1758
01:40:03,880 --> 01:40:06,160
Speaker 3: with the Cincinnati Reds. All Right, I'm out of time, man,

1759
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:08,920
Speaker 3: I can do this for another hour. Thanks for hanging

1760
01:40:08,960 --> 01:40:11,559
Speaker 3: out and spending your time here tonight. Thanks to Drew

1761
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:14,759
Speaker 3: wester Hattie for producing Let's Do It Again on Wednesday

1762
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:19,040
Speaker 3: Night six o six. Stick Around the News is next,

1763
01:40:19,080 --> 01:40:22,240
Speaker 3: and then Gary Jeff Walker. This has been Rnel Carrier

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Speaker 3: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WLW