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Speaker 1: Is Tony Pike Cincy three sixty about Cincinnati from Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: sponsored in part by Skyline Chili. Stop by Skyline Chili

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Speaker 1: for a three way or cheese coney today. Feeling good,

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Speaker 1: It's Skyline time. This is ESPN fifteen Birdie Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: All right, good afternoon, Welcome in. It is the latest

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Speaker 2: edition of Cinty three to sixty. In a special edition

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Speaker 2: of Cinty three to sixty because it's opening day in

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Speaker 2: the city of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: And the city of Covington. Yeah, coming three party today

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Speaker 3: in the cup.

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Speaker 4: Come the cub blocking a bridge, baby, small justice.

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Speaker 5: Some people are saying it's a clock in a bridge.

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Speaker 5: It is a clock in a bridge.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to Kevin in Northern Kentucky for giving us

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Speaker 3: that one. Very well done. Is there excitement in the

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Speaker 3: room today? Yes?

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Speaker 4: Okay, that didn't sound very sounds like seventy nine win excitement.

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Speaker 4: That sounded like three plus decades of not advancing in

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Speaker 4: the postseason.

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Speaker 3: And we do this every year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, eighty and a half over win excitement today? Okay,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: We'll work on it. Yeah, the day is young, the

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Speaker 3: show is young. It's This is awesome. It's the best.

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Speaker 4: The best part of my day is two forty five

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Speaker 4: when I'm with you guys, but I get like three

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Speaker 4: hours of it today.

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Speaker 3: It's the best. And then I don't have to do

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Speaker 3: three more hours after it we're done, we get to

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Speaker 3: go watch a game.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is a big day. Richard Dickman's in the

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Speaker 2: house today at Smoked Justice.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense. He told me he got here at

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Speaker 3: four in the morning to start setting up.

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Speaker 4: Oh my good our show. Yes, four am for our show.

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Speaker 4: Richard started setting up today. Yes, just took his first break.

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Speaker 3: It's noon. I don't really believe that that's what he said.

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Speaker 3: I don't really believe that there is a There's a.

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Speaker 2: Lot that obviously we'll get to over the next three hours.

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Speaker 2: If you are listening, you still got plenty of time

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Speaker 2: to get here to Smoke Justice.

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Speaker 3: If you're not listening, they're not hearing you. Right. What's

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Speaker 3: the easiest way makes sense to describe what's ahead of us?

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Speaker 3: Right now? What's in front of us. We're just gonna

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Speaker 3: have a blast, man, I mean with this bourbon.

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Speaker 4: Oh, so there is a If you haven't been to

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Speaker 4: the bourbon room, which is where we are broadcasting from.

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Speaker 3: It is a wall of bourbon. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And what I always love is, you know, we have

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Speaker 4: folks that we work with, or that we know, or

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Speaker 4: And I like to see how high up the ladder

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Speaker 4: somebody's willing to go for us.

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Speaker 2: My goal today is to get Richard to climb this

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Speaker 2: ladder to get us a drink.

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Speaker 3: There are other people I like to see climb the

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Speaker 2: Him, a lot of baseball to get to today. There's

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Speaker 2: also Sweet sixteen, which makes this day that much better. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen action tonight.

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Speaker 4: You know what's gonna happen today. Oh, I don't want

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Speaker 4: to interrupt. You know what's gonna happen today, Go right ahead.

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Speaker 4: About one fifteen or so, Bengals will sign a linebacker.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, sign me up. Make this day no matter

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Speaker 3: and we don't no, I just this is how it works.

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Speaker 4: Duke Tobin's gonna like show up at the ballpark and go,

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Speaker 4: hey man, I got your Flaco back.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the linebacker, Duke Tobin's good for the next month.

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Speaker 2: Because Joe Flacco is a Bengal.

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Speaker 5: If he signs a linebacker today. I'm okay with him.

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Speaker 5: I'm throwing out the first bitch. Oh, I'm okay with

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Speaker 5: that the linebacker Duke Duke Okay, yeah, alright with that.

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Speaker 4: About Joe, we already had to watch him play the

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Speaker 4: dumb flag football thing.

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Speaker 3: No, we're good. No, I meant Joe the linebacker, Jacko.

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Speaker 2: If you are, if you're coming down today, if you're

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Speaker 2: already here, we've got awesome prizes as well. You got

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Speaker 2: to sign up, YEP for some of our awesome prizes.

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Speaker 2: Concert tickets over the course of the break, sports memorabilia,

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Speaker 2: Eric Clapton tickets. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: That's a big ticket from what I hear from the

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Speaker 4: big ticket. Plus we got smoked meat, Yes, we got bourbon.

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Speaker 4: We got the street party outside, live music. So if

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Speaker 4: want to listen to these clowns, Yeah, I want to

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Speaker 4: go outside and listen to music and enjoy this eighty

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Speaker 5: And I can feel the vibrations in my feet from

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Speaker 3: And of course just to block in a bridge from

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Speaker 2: Uh, Opening day, I feel like we start this show

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Speaker 2: each year that we have an opportunity to be here

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Speaker 2: at Smoke Justice. We know what opening Day means to

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Speaker 2: the pictures every year, and we'll get into what this

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Speaker 2: day means for the start of one sixty two for

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Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Reds. For you personally, Mo, what does Opening

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Speaker 4: You know, it's it's really corny. But there's just not

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Speaker 3: But today does? I mean today?

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Speaker 4: Like, ain't nobody out there talking about the price of

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Speaker 3: And so like that.

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Speaker 4: What I love about today is the centerpiece of the

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Speaker 3: And like, personally, for like us, we've got cool jobs.

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Speaker 4: Man. You know, there's there's folks who took the day

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we get to.

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Speaker 4: Sit here in the middle of all this talk about

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Speaker 4: Those are the two things that Opening Day is all.

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Speaker 5: I think back to my first Opening Day, which was

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Speaker 5: And then we go to the ballpark and that's the

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Speaker 3: And I'll never forget that day.

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Speaker 5: We went up to the Kreu Tower observation deck, God

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Speaker 2: I think the piggyback off what you said, Mo, it's

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Speaker 2: like radio for me was just as much part of

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Speaker 2: you think of listening to Marty and Joe.

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Speaker 3: You could have done that this past season very I used.

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Speaker 2: Speak of stuff galvanizing. That's like Jared. This is like

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Speaker 2: But it was the same thing with Marty and Joe,

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Speaker 3: Growing up, it was jose Rehil for me.

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Speaker 2: When I would go to Red Gains, I wouldn't We

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Speaker 2: And to be up here and be able a chance

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Speaker 2: just brings some sense of optimism. Yeah, every single year,

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Speaker 4: And maybe today when that bullpen gate flings open the

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Speaker 4: ninth to day, Ian Jabo ain't gonna come charging up.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's the thing, Like there's been years in

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Speaker 5: Like there's plenty to actually be optimistic about with this.

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Speaker 4: Club, And to me, that's reflective of how a large

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Speaker 3: But I think when you look.

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Speaker 4: At the overall composition of the club, there is an

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Speaker 4: amount of depth that has been absent in recent years,

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Speaker 4: and that, to me is exciting. Not that they're without issues,

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Speaker 3: Roster, not that there's not holes.

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Speaker 4: But you feel like, you know what they didn't They're

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Speaker 3: Instead, there's some dudes in Louisville.

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Speaker 4: Who I'm sure is sitting there today going I should

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Speaker 2: Which really then puts the magnifying glass on what Tito

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Speaker 2: the Magnificent will be able to do with this squad

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Speaker 2: Strings that he's able to pull, Like that's the thing

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Speaker 2: for like weeks ago, we talked about how are they

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Speaker 2: And then a six man rotation and then the Hunter

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Speaker 2: Green news happens, and the Nickelodolo news happens. But yet

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Speaker 2: you still find optimism because you still feel like there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of depth at the pitching spot, especially the

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Speaker 3: That was a major flaw in this team.

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Speaker 4: And I also think, like last season, it's not like

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Speaker 3: All the while we're hitting the ball out of the

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Speaker 4: If those two things happen, then I think, offensively, this

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Speaker 2: Earlier in the week, Austin mentioned, can you get ninety

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Speaker 5: Is this prior to the Hunter Green injury, it was

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Speaker 5: And if you do, that's gonna equal ninety wins? That

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Speaker 5: Reds opening day lineup for today against the Red Sox.

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Speaker 3: Jacob Herdabee said it.

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Speaker 5: In case you didn't know, the Reds play game today

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Speaker 5: playing first base, Sal Stewart. The fifth batter is the

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Speaker 5: d h a u Haneo Suarez. Sixth batter is left

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Speaker 5: fielder Spencer Steer. The seventh batter is the catcher Tyler Stevenson,

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Speaker 5: batting eighth in right field Noel V. Marte and batting

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Speaker 5: ninth is key Brian Hayes at third base with Andrew

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Speaker 5: Abbott on the mound. Once more, it's freedom McLain, de

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Speaker 5: la Cruz, Stevenson, Marte, Hayes, swift carabbit on the mound.

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Speaker 2: Who gets a bigger ovation today? Ellie or Suarez. That's

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Speaker 2: the first played appearance except anything like get here.

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Speaker 4: Except that guy who called your show last week man

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Speaker 4: about the World Baseball Pass.

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Speaker 5: He's coming to the ballpark to boot man. Yeah, he

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Speaker 5: had the wrong station. I saw him those guys.

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Speaker 2: Out of Out of all of this, what stands out

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Speaker 2: to me? I feel like your lineup's in pretty good shape.

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Speaker 2: If Noel de Marte's hitting eighth for you, yes, I

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Speaker 2: mean that's with the upside that he possesses. Sure can

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Speaker 2: you get anything out of key Brian Hayes this year,

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Speaker 2: but Marte hitting eighth, I think it's a pretty solid spot.

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Speaker 2: But what do you make of the decision. I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of people assumed Ellie and Suarez three four?

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Speaker 2: What do you make of the move from Tito to

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Speaker 2: put south Stewart in the fore hoole?

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Speaker 3: His explanation made sense.

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Speaker 4: I want to break up the strikeouts, and I also

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Speaker 4: want to have a level of protection for Sal Stewart

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Speaker 4: in his first full season, in his first opening day

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Speaker 4: that a Uhanio Suarez can provide. I think Noel de

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Speaker 4: Marte is interesting and I I ran this past Tommy

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Speaker 4: thrawl yesterday half expecting him to shoot it down. But

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Speaker 4: you know, felt like midway through spring training Tito kind

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Speaker 4: of challenge Noel Marte a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And he responded, I wonder how long the leashes?

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Speaker 4: Because they did get JJ Bledey this offseason yep.

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Speaker 3: Not here.

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Speaker 4: Reese Hines, which one about him, had a great camp,

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Speaker 4: not here, Noel they is not a natural right fielder,

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Speaker 4: so that's still a little bit of a work in progress.

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Speaker 3: And it felt to me.

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Speaker 4: Like midway through spring training there was a sense of like, hey,

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Speaker 4: big boy, like your spot's not guaranteed. And now again

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Speaker 4: he responded the last couple of weeks of the Cactus League.

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Speaker 3: But I wonder how long his leache is. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: do too.

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Speaker 5: And those two guys you mentioned the defense, I mean,

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Speaker 5: Reese Hines has turned into a plus defender, yeah, and

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Speaker 5: has worked really hard at being that and has also

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Speaker 5: turned into one of the fastest guys in the organization.

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Speaker 3: And on top of that, I don't think that they're

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Speaker 3: afraid to move TJ.

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Speaker 5: Friedel to one of those corner spots and put Dane

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Speaker 5: Myers in centerfield.

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Speaker 3: He had a very good spring as well.

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Speaker 5: I thought Dane Myers would be starting in center field

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Speaker 5: today just based off the matchup.

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Speaker 3: But I think most point is correct.

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Speaker 5: It feels like there's a balance that the Reds are

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Speaker 5: trying to figure out with to give Noel vi Marte

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Speaker 5: this runway to be this guy and to be this superstar,

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Speaker 5: but also trying to keep him on the tracks to

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Speaker 5: learn how to be a professional.

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Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people patch you on the

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Speaker 3: head or the shoulders a lot of times. I get that.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's similar anytime anyone has criticized much

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Speaker 2: of Andrew Abbitts spring. Oh, it's just spring training. There's

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Speaker 2: nothing to worry about. They're just working on things. But

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Speaker 2: yet we praise a lot of what Matt McLean has

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Speaker 2: done during spring training. So you can't have it on

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Speaker 2: both sides. So what about the importance of today? We

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Speaker 2: know Hunger Green's not going to be here until at

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Speaker 2: least July. We know Nick Lodolo has moist hands and blisters.

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, you are two from holding that drink.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, you now need a lot more

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Speaker 2: out of Andrew Abbott, and he didn't show much of

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Speaker 2: that at all in spring. So is there a concern

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Speaker 2: leading into today when you're watching Andrew rabbit on the

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Speaker 2: mound and if it doesn't go well for him based

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Speaker 2: on the spring he had.

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Speaker 3: Sure a little bit. I mean, I don't know that.

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Speaker 4: Andrew Abbott in the first half of the season last

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Speaker 4: year was awesome. Was an All Star, deserved to be

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Speaker 4: an All Star, appeared in the game, big reason why

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Speaker 4: this team got to the postseason, and it wasn't like

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Speaker 4: he was terrible in the second half, but his performance

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Speaker 4: did drop off, and so his era at one point

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Speaker 4: in the spring was like eleven, I'm not concerned that

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Speaker 4: he's gonna be that bad, but number one, I'm not

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Speaker 4: sure he's yet earned the benefit of the doubt to

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Speaker 4: be one of those guys that what they do in

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Speaker 4: the spring just doesn't matter. Also, you wonder how much

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Speaker 4: of his spring is reflective of him pitching more like

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Speaker 4: the way he did in the second half than the

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Speaker 4: first half when they need He's look, he's replacing. Say

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Speaker 4: what you want about the dude, and there's very fair

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Speaker 4: criticisms about Hunter Green. Hunter Green's their best picture now.

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Speaker 4: Chase Burns may change that conversation. Nicolodolo may change that conversation.

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Speaker 4: Andrew Abbott may.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, there's a little concern.

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Speaker 5: They have a lot of guys in the back of

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Speaker 5: the rotation who don't have a lot of experience, who probably.

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Speaker 3: Aren't gonna go that deep into games.

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Speaker 4: They need Andrew Abbott to shoulder a heavy load early

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Speaker 4: in the.

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Speaker 2: Sea all of a sudden, when you're the number one

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Speaker 2: what's the start of your season, look like the runner

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Speaker 2: up in the cy young Garrett Crochet and then you're starting.

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Speaker 3: Number two false skeins.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so like that's the added pressure now to

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Speaker 2: Andrew Rabbit to say, Okay, we don't just need you

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Speaker 2: to go six innings and three runs, We kind of

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Speaker 2: need you to maybe give up zero or one run.

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Speaker 2: That pressure now picks up because of who you're going

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Speaker 2: to be going against with other teams aces.

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Speaker 5: And I think Nickelodolo just got another blister gripping the

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Speaker 5: steering wheel on his way to the ballpark this morning.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know if the expressed my way able

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Speaker 3: to pitch it all.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, what was their greatest strength two

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Speaker 5: weeks ago, three weeks ago has turned into their biggest weakness,

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Speaker 5: their biggest question mark. That's their starting pitching. And I

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Speaker 5: think mode brings up a great point Andrew Abbott. Maybe

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Speaker 5: not at that point where you're like you get the

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Speaker 5: benefit of the doubt if you do whatever you want

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Speaker 5: spring training. I'm a little bit concerned about him again.

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Speaker 5: The back end of the rotation.

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Speaker 4: There's a world of upside, Burns, Williamson, Louder, there's not

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Speaker 4: a world of experience.

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Speaker 5: Louder didn't pitch last year. Williamson hasn't pitched in two years.

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Speaker 4: Burns, toward the end of spring training they were lessening

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Speaker 4: his Workler, So like early in the season, you don't

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Speaker 4: want to tax her bullpen, which by the way, is

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Speaker 4: without Caleb Ferguson.

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Speaker 3: And also they still hun they do.

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Speaker 4: But like a whole lot of dudes in spring training

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Speaker 4: in the bullpen did not pitch all that well. So

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Speaker 4: like you look at your top two guys, you look

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Speaker 4: at Brady Singer, you look at Andrew Abbott. Now if

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Speaker 4: Andrew Abbott rises to the occasion, pull me an all

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Speaker 4: star again. And he's got that capability. But there are

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Speaker 4: certain pitchers that you go, you know what spring training.

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Speaker 4: When I was a kid, Tom Browning used to get

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Speaker 4: shelled during the spring, I mean shell, And I listened

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Speaker 4: to him, you know, after his playing days were through,

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Speaker 4: and talk about like, you know, half of the time

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Speaker 4: it was a one o'clock game, I was hungover, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, I mean, but he's like I just I

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Speaker 4: just wanted to throw. All I cared about was throwing

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Speaker 4: getting my work in and that was it, And so

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Speaker 4: I didn't care if I gave up three homers.

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Speaker 3: It didn't matter. Well, a year after year after year, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, he'd lead the team in games, innings and win

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Speaker 4: a lot of games whatever, and every springer're like, you

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Speaker 4: know what, that's Tom Brown and getting shelled.

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Speaker 3: Andrew Rabbit's not there yet.

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Speaker 2: And on the other side of that, though, Garrett crochetes

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Speaker 2: Ra was seven three nine. This for sure so working

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Speaker 2: on stuff. But for so long the conversation around the

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Speaker 2: Reds is just score some runs because the rotation is

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Speaker 2: so good. All of a sudden, if Abbott resorts to

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Speaker 2: the Abbot of the second half and you don't have

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Speaker 2: Hunter Green until July and Nikolodolo is dealing with his stuff,

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you put an immense amount of

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Speaker 2: pressure on Louder and Williamson and Chase Burns. And you

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Speaker 2: don't really know going into the season how many innings

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Speaker 2: you'll even get out of those guys.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you just hope that one of those guys

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Speaker 5: into Andrew Rabbits from a couple of years ago, this

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Speaker 5: pleasant surprise that is as dominant as they've been. I

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Speaker 5: think everybody feels confident in that ability of those guys

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Speaker 5: to be able to do that, and yeah, is I

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Speaker 5: think the other interesting part there too is Jose Franco

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Speaker 5: made this roster for the time being. That's a dude

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Speaker 5: who really flew through the minor leagues last year, pitched

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Speaker 5: ok during spring training, and is a guy who can

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Speaker 5: kind of be that hybrid role, almost like a Nick Martinez,

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Speaker 5: at least in this early part of the year.

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Speaker 3: That makes a lot of sense for them.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, as long as Graham Ashcraft isn't walking guys,

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Speaker 5: I like the chances of the bullpen.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned a name that nobody's talking about, and that's

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Speaker 4: Nick Martinez. Yeah, and Okay, he made a lot of

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Speaker 4: money last year, but it's kind of nice to have

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Speaker 4: a guy like that. You like, dude needs you to start,

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Speaker 4: needs you to open, needs you to come in the

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Speaker 4: third inning and pitch four innings, and he did that

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Speaker 4: for him relatively effectively.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, can Jose Franco be that guy?

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Speaker 5: And that's also turned into a trend across Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 5: I know Charlie wrote about this as well, Like that

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Speaker 5: type of guy, that type of hybrid pitcher has become

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Speaker 5: a thing that teams are leaning on just based off

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Speaker 5: the way that the game works.

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Speaker 2: These days, the energy is picking up. You can tell

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Speaker 2: outside near record highs today. Yeah, this is I wish

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Speaker 2: we were brought I love it in here. Yeah, it'd

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Speaker 2: be cool to be broadcasting from outside.

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Speaker 3: What a beautiful day.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of time to get down here to smoke, to

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Speaker 2: smoke Justice, sign up for some awesome prizes. We'll get

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Speaker 2: ourselves a break, we'll come back. Let's look at the

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Speaker 2: pros and cons going into this year. There are a

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Speaker 2: lot that have a lot of reason for optimism. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's maybe some reasons on the other side of this

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Speaker 2: as well. Let's figure out where we land next. ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: Here we go, Welcome back, Opening day at Smoke Justice.

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Speaker 3: Is the excitement building at all? The excitement is building.

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Speaker 4: I also see some folks out there where the confusion

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Speaker 4: is building.

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Speaker 3: If they just stare at us as if to go

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Speaker 3: like that is what is going on?

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Speaker 5: On?

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Speaker 3: What's happening? Yeah? Why are they talking? Who are they?

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Speaker 3: It's not that different from being in the office, honest,

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Speaker 3: that is a.

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Speaker 5: It's true, pretty damn similar. Yeah, it's true, what's going

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Speaker 5: on there?

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Speaker 3: Who? What? Why?

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Speaker 5: Why? Amount of people this week that came up to

658
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Speaker 5: me at work and said, where are you guys at

659
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 5: on Thursday.

660
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 3: Every year every year? Who have been working there for decades?

661
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 3: Right here? Where are you guys gonna be? What station?

662
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 3: Long spoke? Justice is the best I'd rather be than

663
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 3: right here right now, one block in, one bridge away,

664
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 3: one clock in one bridge away. The clock. Can we

665
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 3: talk about the clock. Let's do it. I don't want

666
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: to make mo mad well. The clock is great. No,

667
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 3: it's not. You don't like the clock. I don't dislike

668
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 3: the clock at all. Like the clock. I like the clock.

669
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. Okay, it's what's your beef with the clock?

670
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 2: Why do you hate the clock? It's a Joey Vato?

671
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: What's the deal?

672
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 4: Yeah?

673
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 3: Which one do you not like? Why do you not like? Joe?

674
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 4: Joey Votto is one of my five favorite all time reds.

675
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 4: The clock is beautiful. I may sucker for a good

676
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 4: time piece, Okay, Right. If if I had a a

677
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 4: clock with that face, a watch with that clock face

678
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 4: on it, I would wear it all the time. But

679
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 4: you would have thought that, like the the clock was

680
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 4: given away like free orgasms. The way people were talking

681
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 4: about it, like oh my god, it's so like, oh

682
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 4: I can't wait to go.

683
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do?

684
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 4: You're gonna it's it's a six forty two first pitch

685
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 4: twenty eight minutes.

686
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 3: Like it's a clock. It doesn't become like you gotta

687
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 3: tap the clock in a good luck let's fine, do that.

688
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 4: I might do that today, but like on social media

689
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 4: the other day, like social media is a big like

690
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 4: one upsman club. Everybody had to like one up the

691
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 4: next person with their take on how awestome the clock

692
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 4: was the first thing I had to do a show

693
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 4: downtown yesterday. The first thing I did is I went

694
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 4: and checked out the clock and I said, it's nice clock.

695
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,719
Speaker 3: I was like, I didn't think I was gonna give

696
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 3: me eternal life. I think it means a lot. Did

697
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 3: you feel anything inside?

698
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 4: No, I like, that's a really nice clock. Joey, that's cool.

699
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 4: That get I love Joey Evado. Nice clock great.

700
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 5: I think it means a lot to fans to get

701
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 5: something from a star player, like even like obviously we

702
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 5: don't get to take the clock home and you know,

703
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 5: take it home with us, But like those type of gestures.

704
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, even small U huh don't happen very often. And

705
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 3: I think that's cool.

706
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 4: You know what, what meant more to me? Joey Vado

707
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 4: shows up here, buys everybody a drink.

708
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 3: I could do something with that. That's fine. Different strokes

709
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 3: for different foms.

710
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 2: Right now, if I like, if you had those type

711
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 2: of funds that you could make, do you have something

712
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 2: else in mind that maybe you would have well put

713
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 2: out because eventually, because he's gonna have a statue outside

714
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 2: of the ballpark.

715
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 4: I would have put up a big banner that said

716
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:35,479
Speaker 4: you're welcome. That's the only reason to watch his crummy

717
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 4: tea for years.

718
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 3: You're welcome. Here's here's my other beef with it. Okay.

719
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, Not everybody goes through the ballpark in that front entrance,

720
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 4: So people who come in from the arena side don't

721
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 4: need to know what time it is. Folks down the

722
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 4: right field line don't need to know what time it is. Sure,

723
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 4: it's only for the people who happen to gather on

724
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 4: Crosley Terrace.

725
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 5: I think you're missing the point of the clock. The

726
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 5: clock is not there to tell the time. It's obviously

727
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 5: it's I know, but that's not the point of that clock.

728
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: Why do you trade out the clock and put like

729
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 2: a countdown or tend on what days since a playoff win?

730
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 3: Well, that would be interesting.

731
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 5: What about so the clockass speakers in it, it plays

732
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 5: a chime?

733
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 3: Okay, what if it played the radio broadcast during the game.

734
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 3: That would be awesome. I think they can do that that.

735
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 3: I'm not opposed to the clack clock. This is what

736
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 3: it is, Tony.

737
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 5: He is remembering of when he was a child, when

738
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 5: his parents gave him a gift before they divorced.

739
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 3: You told the story recently. This is bringing back bad memories.

740
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 4: For you that Joey Vada's about to announce like he's divorcing,

741
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 4: the referends you're gonna leave town or something.

742
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 3: This is that TSD for you.

743
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 4: Already happened, So it's not I have no issue with

744
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 4: the clock. I get amused and then annoyed when it

745
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 4: feels like it's not enough to just say that's a

746
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 4: nice clock. It's like, oh, you don't appreciate it enough,

747
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 4: Like what are you gonna do? Like I have relatives,

748
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 4: like they buy a nice sweatshirt, that's a niceweatshirt.

749
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 3: Patty, Oh, you don't really like it.

750
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 4: I said, it's a nice sweatshirt. I'll take it back,

751
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 4: but I like the sweatshirt. And then you're driving home

752
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 4: and your mom's like you really didn't, you know, go

753
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 4: overboard with how happy you are about the sweatshirt, Like, Mom,

754
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 4: it's a sweatshirt. What do you want me to do?

755
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 4: I feel the same way about the clock. It's not

756
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 4: enough to say nice clock, thanks, Joey.

757
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 5: This is why I wanted to have this conversation. I

758
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 5: wanted to drill down into what really is bothering you?

759
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 5: Says like the people's reaction.

760
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 3: To the clock. I felt like there was a your

761
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 3: problem is with.

762
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 5: Humans and not with clock. People were bury being very inauthentic, like.

763
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 4: You said you said to me at work, like that's sick,

764
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 4: and I said, yeah, it's cool, exact words.

765
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 2: Now, there's there's people that are at the ballpark or

766
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: around the ballpark right now, and there's a line of

767
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 2: about thirty people deep just to get.

768
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 3: A picture with the clock. That was happening yesterday.

769
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 4: There were these two young women as I waited for

770
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 4: my clock selfie, there were these two young women, I mean,

771
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 4: honest to God, like five to seven minutes.

772
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 3: Just every post, it's like, give me your damn phone,

773
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 3: I'll get the clock in it. I think it's a

774
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 3: big part of the day. Now, you know what.

775
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 4: I like authenticity. I like authenticity with people. I like

776
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 4: authenticity with everything. And I think there was a lack

777
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 4: of authenticity with folks who were like, oh man, I'm

778
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 4: gonna bring the family down, We're gonna camp outside the clock.

779
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna hug it. Nobody did that, Oh

780
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 3: dudelet me. Nobody was acting, Oh.

781
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 4: My goodness the feed because I get the forer youtub sometimes.

782
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 3: Oh that was rough. I mean it was.

783
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 4: Take it this year, I'm not gonna bring my phone

784
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 4: to the game because I want to look at that

785
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 4: clock not knowing what time it is, so I can

786
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 4: thank Joey for letting me know.

787
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 2: It's out a whole game this year. Do they do

788
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 2: a commemorative clock bobblehead giveaway?

789
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 3: They should?

790
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 5: They should now that they should do if it works,

791
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 5: if it's a functioning clock and perfect, great gift, and

792
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 5: everybody's gonna take it.

793
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 3: Home and put another man joe bring this clock is

794
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 3: just that's that was my issue, not you.

795
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 5: I mean, I know, I just although I've said this

796
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 5: to you recently, you're getting a little curmudgeon on it.

797
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 5: Every time I passed you in the office, including when

798
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 5: you were on the air, you were talking about the

799
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 5: damn clock, like, holy crap, is or anything going on

800
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 5: with the team besides that.

801
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 3: So your problem is with me? Well, that goes beyond

802
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 3: the car. Well, I think it means this, Tony.

803
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 5: I think the clock signifies that it's time to win

804
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 5: a damn playoff series and get back to the World

805
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 5: Series and bring winning baseball back to Cincinnati. Clock talk,

806
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 5: we needed a clock, But there must be asleep. Nobody

807
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 5: heard that. I don't know, right, good we eat? Yes, yep,

808
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 5: all right?

809
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 3: Anything anything to bring winning baseball back. Clock conversation put

810
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 3: them to sleep.

811
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 4: I wish Joey Vado would pay for the power stack

812
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 4: section in the ballpark to.

813
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 3: Continue to be standing for moment.

814
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, if Joey Vada wanted to give a gift to

815
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 4: fans who already have phones and watches so they know

816
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 4: what time it is, it would have been.

817
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 3: You know what.

818
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,439
Speaker 4: I will pay whatever that company is payed to put

819
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,439
Speaker 4: that thing there where rich people are gonna go watch

820
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 4: the game, and we're gonna make this about standing room only.

821
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 4: And you know what, We're gonna bring back the guy

822
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 4: who threw punches in this power stack. Yah, the copper fan,

823
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 4: the guy who acted like macho man savage, and that

824
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 4: was the dude with a broom even though they were

825
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 4: ready just keep the power stacks area the way it

826
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 4: has been since they opened the ballpark. If Joey were

827
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 4: to do that, that would be that would be more

828
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 4: meaningful to me and I love Joey Vanni.

829
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 2: For fans instead of the power stacks, the bottle Cross.

830
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 4: Instead of any one of the nine statues out there,

831
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 4: instead of the Hall of Fame, or yeah, thank god,

832
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 4: the Reds.

833
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 2: We'll cash in on a dope because there will be

834
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 2: a clock giveaway.

835
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 3: At some point, let me tell you. And good for them.

836
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 3: They should.

837
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 4: They should. Let me tell you something. Okay, here's what's

838
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 4: gonna ruin it. You and I both know this is

839
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 4: gonna happen within a year. There's gonna be a corporate

840
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 4: logo on that clock.

841
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 3: Oh, it's it's the clock.

842
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 5: On the back side of the clock. The clock company

843
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 5: did have a little plaque on it.

844
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 3: It's the clock cup. That's fine.

845
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 4: But you know there's gonna be like a you know,

846
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 4: a local bank or somebody like that. We you know,

847
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 4: we we gotta we gotta pay players, and you know, so.

848
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 3: They're major League Baseball nio.

849
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 4: So sorry, it's it's it's now the clock brought to

850
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 4: you by the Spectrum Cable or something.

851
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 5: What I think is cool is the idea of whenever

852
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 5: the Reds don't play at that ballpark anymore.

853
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 3: Uh huh, that clock can move, that clock can the baby?

854
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 5: No. I think that, like you can make that a

855
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,959
Speaker 5: part of of any future ballpark to have that clock,

856
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 5: and like people remember Joey Vado for that clock.

857
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 3: I think that's I think.

858
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 2: I mean, there's other ways we'll remember Joey Vada.

859
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 5: He'll have his number up on the on the facade,

860
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 5: his production or the clock.

861
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 3: When he guys just think it's cool.

862
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 4: When he goes into the Hall of Fame, I'll go, Man,

863
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 4: here's a guy who is the best Reds hitter of

864
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 4: my lifetime. Here's the guy was the twenty ten NLMBP.

865
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 4: This guy was the best player on some really good

866
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 4: teams and the only reason to watch some really bad teams.

867
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 3: And someone's gonna go, what about the clock, and I go,

868
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 3: clock was cool.

869
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 5: I was about to say that Barry Larkin get us

870
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 5: any gifts, and then I remembered he won a World Series.

871
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 3: He was also an m VP. I would accept that

872
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 3: we won a world series. We have to get back

873
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 3: on our clock.

874
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 4: Now out like that long But see like that, now

875
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 4: that you've got going, the president has been set. So

876
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 4: now every time a good player leaves, it's gonna.

877
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 5: Be a gonna in today's baseball, nobody's gonna be here

878
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 5: long enough. Yeah, but like now down the street, like

879
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase retires, m gonna good us?

880
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 3: What's Jo gonna give us? What's joking? Good?

881
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 5: Is?

882
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 3: We get a clock over there? Huh? I'll take a linebacker.

883
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 3: I got yeah, linebacker hour number one from Pay for

884
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,399
Speaker 3: a Backer on the ESBN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Day's

885
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 3: a nice clock.

886
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 2: Welcome back since he three sixty Opening Day? Smoke Justice.

887
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 2: How's the energy feeling?

888
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 3: The energy is great? Can I just I don't want

889
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 3: to talk about the clock anymore? Picking up? Well, we

890
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 3: had we had one.

891
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 2: We had one question over the break between now and three,

892
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 2: we make a Red's.

893
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 3: Wager with you on the season.

894
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 2: Okay, if Austin and I win the wager, you have

895
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 2: to do a show.

896
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: We all want them to win from the clock. I know.

897
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 3: That's what that's my issue with this. I'll let you

898
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 3: guys put your heads together.

899
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 4: I said before the break that I love authenticity, I

900
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 4: love transparency.

901
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 3: There is a person here, sure, young lady, who has

902
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 3: a tattoo over her eyebrown. Yes, the tattoo is the

903
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 3: word crazy.

904
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is the greatest tattoo of all time because

905
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 4: if you meet her, no guess work.

906
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah. I like that half of the dating life

907
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 3: is trying to figure out this person is crazy.

908
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 4: I mean, just forget all the pretense, like that's that's

909
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 4: the first thing you're trying to figure out. Is this

910
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,399
Speaker 4: person crazy? That young lady just tell you upfront here

911
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 4: it is.

912
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 3: You don't have any tattoos? I do not? Why not?

913
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 3: Not crazy? No interests? Definitely crazy.

914
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 2: If you had to get one, what would you get

915
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 2: one of the clock? I don't know, man, You get

916
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: the clock right in the middle of your back.

917
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: So you talk about a time piece.

918
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 4: And in two thousand, my friend, the late great Rich

919
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 4: Wahlberg post for a day coming up April first. We

920
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 4: promised to get Sea Paul tattoos that the Barricads won

921
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 4: the national title and Rich passed away four years ago,

922
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 4: and I told my wife I will.

923
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 3: Still do that. Okay, so you should. I mean, coach Calhoun,

924
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 3: let's go.

925
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 2: You're talking about basketball or any sport either, I'll jump

926
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 2: in on that hat.

927
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

928
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will get the Sea Paul tattoo, and I'll like,

929
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 4: let somebody name the place of my body. No, I

930
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 4: don't have any tattoo. There she is love, It's just here,

931
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 4: it is. Here's who it is. Yeah, no you don't.

932
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 4: You could just take her leave because you can walk

933
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 4: up to her and go, boy, this is gonna be fun.

934
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

935
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 5: I've always said I have one tattoo. I have one

936
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 5: more scheduled. But I've always said I'm gonna get.

937
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 3: The Roman numerals of whatever Super Bowl the Bengals win.

938
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 3: That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. Don't know if I'll get

939
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 3: it on my eyebrow.

940
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 4: You better hope that you're a tattoo artist knows what

941
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 4: the hell they're doing.

942
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I.

943
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 4: Couldn't tell you what like the Roman numeral for seventy

944
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 4: five days, I don't know.

945
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you I know five is v okay,

946
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 3: that's nice? Is LXV? I don't know. No.

947
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 2: Anytime the Super Bowl logos out there, I've got to

948
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 2: resort to google.

949
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 3: What do these Roman numerals mean?

950
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 4: So I just call it like the Bengals Super Bowl,

951
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 4: which I know is twenty three, And when I was

952
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 4: a kid, I just called it nineteen eighty nine super Bowl.

953
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 3: That's how it's how I remember that.

954
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 5: See that causes confusion for me because it was the

955
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 5: eighty eight season, right, and just played in January January

956
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 5: twenty second, nineteen eighty nine, Joe Robbie Stadium.

957
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 4: Just again, hat tip, hat tip to the young lady

958
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 4: I on behalf of every Man Alive.

959
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 3: I think that's awesome. What do we want to finish

960
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 3: the hour with?

961
00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 2: Who's closer today to that championship? Reds for the Bengals.

962
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 3: The Bengals aren't any linebackers.

963
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 4: They have Joe Burrow. True, they played a salary cap league.

964
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 3: Red's got Ellie, I do. Bengals aren't going against the Dodgers.

965
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say.

966
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say today the Reds just because the World

967
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 5: Series is before the Super Bowl.

968
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 3: Fair you're gonna go both just from a calendar stand,

969
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 3: the Reds have made the postseason more recently true. Yeah,

970
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 3: and just stick with the you know the time theme?

971
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, well the clock is ticking, so if the

972
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 4: Reds win one, dude, they then have to take the

973
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 4: clock and move it.

974
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 5: Should I get a tattoo if the Reds win of

975
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 5: the clock right here, right now, No, March twenty six, myself,

976
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 5: all three of us, right now, the Reds win the

977
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 5: World Series this year, we get a.

978
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 3: Tattoo of the clock. I'm in done. We all in.

979
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 4: We all in pack tattoos and a crazy tattoo over

980
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 4: our eyebrown.

981
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no now.

982
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 3: Two hours remain. That was one hour week went fast.

983
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 3: We put that on the radio. That was a lot

984
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 3: of work. Better than listen to commercials.

985
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 2: Since e three to sixty. Here at smoke, Justine, Here

986
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 2: comes some coming. At some point, I've tried the bourbon.

987
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:14,720
Speaker 2: At some point I'm gonna try the burger.

988
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 4: It ain't good when the owner of the place is

989
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 4: standing right in front of shaking his head.

990
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 3: Yeah. At some point, I'm gonna try the cheese.

991
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 5: No no, if we're gonna get invited back next year,

992
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 5: half an hour on a clock and another twenty on tattoos.

993
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 3: Hour two is next. ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.

994
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 6: Station WCKY, Cincinnati, make us the number one pre said

995
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 6: on your car radio and on the free knew it improved.

996
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 6: iHeartRadio ad free never sounded so good. ESPN fifteen thirty.

997
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 3: I have heart failure and being out of breath all

998
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 3: the TN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports station, Welcome back sincey

999
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 3: three to sixty. Look at this.

1000
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 4: Look at this Liam Tomlinson opening day after twelve o'clock.

1001
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 2: So dam's got a sure not that a reds hatter. Okay, okay,

1002
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 2: we're here at Smoked Justice in the Bourbon Lounge.

1003
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 3: Came to this show late too.

1004
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 2: He's gotta he's taking a picture of the day, a

1005
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 2: Cincinnati badge.

1006
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 3: You got a rich Ritz camera before that? What do

1007
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 3: you tell you? What I think? A snap out of polaroid.

1008
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 5: When you're done, you want to talk about somebody who

1009
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 5: needs a clock. That guy right there right outside the

1010
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 5: ballpark called Joey Vono get Lea Thompson the clock that

1011
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 5: being said that is maybe my favorite co worker of

1012
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 5: all time right there.

1013
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 3: Wow, am, Yeah, that's that's sayings, I love him with

1014
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 3: a bunch of co workers. Here, where do we through well?

1015
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 3: Where do we find around? Where do we fit in

1016
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 3: the rankings? Oh he's too If he's giving up money,

1017
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 3: that's my favorite too. I mean this is Mount Rushmore

1018
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 3: right here.

1019
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 4: He's got to go to the back and change the

1020
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 4: film on that camera where it's dark.

1021
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 3: Put in the twenty four exposure before we dive into

1022
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 3: the NL central. What do you have? It gets upside down?

1023
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 3: Letters on hats have nothing to I just don't understand them.

1024
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 4: We've existed as a society for thousands of years with

1025
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 4: people reading letters that are right side up. And now

1026
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 4: this hat company, and I'm sure they're lovely people. They

1027
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 4: employ folks, they do well. They make hats with the

1028
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 4: lettering upside down. You are wearing one, it's the and

1029
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 4: this one belonged to the REDS acronym and it's upside down,

1030
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 4: and I just I'm not opposed to it. Like to

1031
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 4: each their own man, like I am the ultimate, like

1032
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 4: you do you And.

1033
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,479
Speaker 3: As long as you're not hurting anybody, cool.

1034
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, as long as you don't have any opinions about

1035
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 5: clocks or anything like that.

1036
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 3: You should be fine.

1037
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 4: But I don't understand the upside down hat thing, and

1038
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 4: I see it all the time.

1039
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 5: To be honest with you, I agree, I don't understand it,

1040
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 5: but I think it looks good.

1041
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 3: I had this, that's a cool looking hat.

1042
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 2: Austin had gifted me a Mitchell and Ness very nice

1043
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 2: reds hate which I wore today.

1044
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 3: Trash as soon as he got that one.

1045
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 2: And then I walked in today and our guy Josh

1046
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 2: Need from CINTI shirt said hey, do you want this hat?

1047
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 3: I said absolutely, that's fine.

1048
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 4: I just like you see him at Bengals games all

1049
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 4: the time. It's upside down?

1050
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 3: Who day? Yeah? Yeah, what's wrong with right side up?

1051
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 3: Who dai?

1052
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 5: Do you know Ben Denucci the quarterback? The quarterback, he's

1053
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 5: the guy who like started that. Wow, that like most

1054
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 5: of the upside down hats, that's his.

1055
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 4: So like I would have loved to have been in

1056
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 4: the room. And it's like, guys, we're gonna start selling hats.

1057
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 3: Cool, what's gonna be on them team logos?

1058
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 4: Sort of We're gonna take popular sayings and turn them

1059
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 4: upside down because like illiterate people like me have to

1060
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 4: walk up to folks and be like what, oh yeah,

1061
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 4: it says, Cincy, Okay, that's cool. What's wrong with sincey

1062
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 4: right side up?

1063
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just don't understand you can't be

1064
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:39,720
Speaker 3: careful with hats.

1065
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 2: The guy, a guy that I used to play football

1066
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 2: with that messaged me. He said, hey, my boy and

1067
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 2: I are doing hats. Can we make some hats for you?

1068
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:49,439
Speaker 3: Sure?

1069
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 2: He said it to me, and I appreciate it. But

1070
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 2: the Pike's the hat said pike nasty. Oh, which I

1071
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 2: don't know how much. I don't know how much where

1072
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna.

1073
00:46:58,120 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 3: Get out of that kind of fitting. To be honest,

1074
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,760
Speaker 3: how much were I'm gonna get out of that Pike nasty?

1075
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 3: At this stage of my life? Who was this? Travis Kelce? No,

1076
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 3: I would wear that anyway. That hat looks great. I

1077
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 3: like it. It just it looks like a misprinted hat.

1078
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 4: Like it looks like, oh this one somehow got misprinted

1079
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 4: and now you're wearing it.

1080
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 5: Like what I'm offended by is he took my hat

1081
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:23,839
Speaker 5: off for that hat.

1082
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 4: So I have a cooler. I have a bud like

1083
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 4: cooler Bengals branded cooler, and I.

1084
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 2: Got your Dickman's drinking kool Aid. Today Purple drank it's

1085
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 2: a great kool aid.

1086
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 3: It's like that looks like the sort of thing he's

1087
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 3: gonna take it shirt off. We got right here. Nobody

1088
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 3: wants to see that. But anyway, this Bengal's cooler.

1089
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 4: I got it for free because the Bengals logo they

1090
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 4: put the sticker on upside down and so like it's

1091
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 4: they weren't gonna sell that. It makes sense to not

1092
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 4: sell that, so I got it. But like they sell

1093
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 4: the hats with the upside down lettering, and I get it.

1094
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 4: I'm old, I find whatever, But like I just I

1095
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 4: need someone to explain to me what the lore to

1096
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 4: that is. And I don't think it's going to be

1097
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 4: either a UTI definite.

1098
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 3: It will be me and l Central. Yeah.

1099
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 2: A lot of buzz around the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yeah, added

1100
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 2: some offensive pieces. We know what the pitching staff is,

1101
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 2: headlined by Paul Skins. A lot of people out there

1102
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 2: that think the Pittsburgh Pirates can take a major step forward.

1103
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 2: It really doesn't matter what happens in the offseason. People

1104
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 2: just kind of assume Milwaukee's gonna show up and win

1105
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 2: eighty five ninety baseball games. Saint Louis wants no part

1106
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 2: of winning right now, and the Chicago Cubs are projected

1107
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 2: by many to be the top team in the NL Central.

1108
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 2: They went and got Alex Bregman. How do you view

1109
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 2: the landscape of the NL Central and where the Reds

1110
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 2: slot into this.

1111
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 3: I think the Pirates are due to be better.

1112
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 4: I don't buy the eighty five win hype to whatever

1113
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 4: degree it's out there. But Ryan O'Hearn, Brendan Lowell, Marcelo Zuna,

1114
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 4: they still have O'Neal, Cruz and Skeens, Ashcraft, Chandler, they

1115
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 4: still have Mitch Keller like, they got some dudes, and

1116
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 4: what's the last time he could say that about the

1117
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Pirates.

1118
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 3: They got some dudes.

1119
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,720
Speaker 4: To go from ninety one win from ninety one losses

1120
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 4: to let's say ninety one wins seems implausible. But for

1121
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 4: them to be this year's version of last year's Reds

1122
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 4: isn't that far fetched to me?

1123
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe the hype on Pittsburgh.

1124
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 5: I mean, after they fired Derek Shelton last year, that

1125
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 5: was a team that played really at a five hundred level,

1126
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 5: right and they got off to an abysmal start. And

1127
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,760
Speaker 5: I think they are an organization that feels the pressure

1128
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 5: to build around Paul Skeens before he gets to the

1129
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 5: open market, and I think they're trying to maximize this

1130
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 5: unicorn that they have, and I think they've done a

1131
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 5: good job of adding pieces. I don't know that it's

1132
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 5: enough to win the NL Central. I don't know that

1133
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 5: it's enough to make the playoffs. But that's a team

1134
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 5: that the Reds had a problem beating even when they

1135
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 5: weren't that good, and especially with Skeens, and so for

1136
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 5: that reason, I'm buying the hype on those guys.

1137
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 3: And they're winning two nothing in New York over the Mets.

1138
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 3: All right, I'll just call that on that game's over. Yeah,

1139
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 3: I got enough.

1140
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 2: So where do you slot Where do you slot the

1141
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,839
Speaker 2: Reds in right now? Because I look at some point

1142
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 2: you mentioned earlier, will the floor give out on the

1143
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Brewers?

1144
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, usually it gives out him on the playoffs.

1145
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 2: I'm buying into the Cubs because I think Bragman is

1146
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 2: a difference maker for that lineup. I think they're the

1147
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 2: favorite in the NL Central. Outside of that, I think

1148
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 2: it's Eddie Team's race for number two. Outside of like

1149
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 2: I have Chicago and I have Saint Louis Book any things.

1150
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of wiggle room as to

1151
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 2: who two.

1152
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 3: Three four is.

1153
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you can. You could almost pick him

1154
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 4: out of a hat. Chicago did win ninety two games

1155
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 4: last year, and they lose Kyle Tucker. They added Alex Bregman.

1156
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 4: I think the thing about Chicago's team that stands out

1157
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,320
Speaker 4: more than anything is they went to work on their bullpen,

1158
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,280
Speaker 4: which was not very good last year. There are reasons

1159
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 4: to believe the Cubs should be the favorite, and they are,

1160
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 4: and I get it. But you know, Austin talked about

1161
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 4: this before Milwaukee won ninety seven last year, and ran

1162
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 4: I don't weigh in hid.

1163
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 3: Nobody's doing that in this division.

1164
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 4: I don't think the Cubs are gonna go from ninety

1165
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,240
Speaker 4: two to ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety nine, one hundred.

1166
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 4: I could certainly see them winning the same number of

1167
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 4: games they did last year. I can also see them

1168
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 4: being a game or two worse than that being enough.

1169
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 4: Milwaukee still has, you know, Austin said before they mash

1170
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 4: that lineup is still largely intact. They still have wood Drift,

1171
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 4: don't have Fralts anymore, have Misraowski, who's gonna pitch today

1172
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 4: against Chicago. But you do keep waiting for the attrition.

1173
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 4: You know, all the guys they've lost over the years.

1174
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 4: At some point and has to catch up to them.

1175
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 4: And it may, and they may win ten fewer games

1176
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 4: than they did last year, win eighty seven and be

1177
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 4: in the hunt. Pittsburgh is an X factor, And like,

1178
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 4: I have a hard time believing the Reds are gonna

1179
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 4: be worse, Like I don't. Projections have them winning seventy six,

1180
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 4: seventy seven to seventy eight games. I don't really see

1181
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 4: that happening. Yeah, I have a hard time believing they're

1182
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 4: gonna be substantial better. I think they're an eighty three

1183
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 4: win team. I don't think that's gonna be enough to

1184
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 4: get into the postseason, but it might be good enough

1185
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 4: for second of.

1186
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 3: The Al Central. Yeah.

1187
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 5: I think Pat Murphy is the best manager in baseball.

1188
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 5: I don't think there's anybody in baseball that does more

1189
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 5: with less than him. And unfortunately, because of that, the

1190
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 5: Brewers are always gonna get the benefit of the doubt

1191
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 5: as far as I'm concerned, Like I expect them to float.

1192
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 3: They might also have the best GM in DA Yeah.

1193
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And They're gonna flirt with ninety games ninety wins

1194
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 5: no matter what. And that is maddening because I would

1195
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 5: love for the Reds to be able to do that.

1196
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 5: But because of that, because of what you just mentioned

1197
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 5: with Chicago, they did fix and at least attempt to

1198
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 5: fix that bullpen I mentioned earlier, I'm buying the hype

1199
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 5: on the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1200
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 3: I agree.

1201
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,919
Speaker 5: I mean not to kind of to repeat what you said,

1202
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 5: but like you can draw him out of a hat.

1203
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 5: I think it's that close. And I don't think the

1204
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 5: Cubs win this division by five or six games. I

1205
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 5: don't think they win it by four games. Like this

1206
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 5: could come down to the last week of the season

1207
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 5: and any of those teams can win the division.

1208
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 3: And a fast start and a.

1209
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 2: Fast start like you just can't like in this division,

1210
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 2: we talked fast start all the time, like you just

1211
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 2: can't get to the second month of the year and

1212
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 2: you're already seven out of the Nlcenter.

1213
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 5: And the other thing about that is once you get

1214
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 5: to the second month, that's when you start playing a

1215
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 5: bunch of Nlcentral Rex.

1216
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've gotta put yourself in a better position.

1217
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 5: They play I think two series against the Pirates in

1218
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 5: the first month. Yeah, they don't play the Cubs, they

1219
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 5: don't play the Brewers, Saint louis Is. They're trying to lose,

1220
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 5: which is a shame. But that's you know, I don't

1221
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 5: mind seeing Yeah, but that was like but.

1222
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 2: But that was a talking point for years on this show.

1223
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 2: You gotta beat the bad teams in your division two.

1224
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 3: There's not as many. I feel like Pittsburgh is a

1225
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 3: They struggle already with Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's better.

1226
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 4: So two things about last year they were twenty two

1227
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 4: and twenty two in one run games.

1228
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,439
Speaker 3: They're either gonna be much better and much worse.

1229
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 4: Yep. If they're much better, they're gonna win more than

1230
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 4: any three games. If they're much worse, they're gonna win

1231
00:53:58,640 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 4: fewer than any three games.

1232
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 5: Like that.

1233
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 3: And also, you know, I know I referenced this before.

1234
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 4: We kind of laughed about, you know, like, oh, they

1235
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 4: they never get swept, they never get swopped. But there

1236
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 4: was something to that, because you never get swept, you're

1237
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 4: never gonna lose ten in a row. The longest losing

1238
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 4: streak was five, the longest winning streak was five. What

1239
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 4: they didn't do last year, which they did in twenty

1240
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 4: twenty three when they won twelve in a row.

1241
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 3: You don't have to win twelve in a row. But

1242
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 3: who among those.

1243
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 4: Three teams has the eighteen out of twenty Who among Milwaukee,

1244
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh and Cincinnati has a month where they go twenty

1245
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 4: two and seven.

1246
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 3: They didn't do that at all last year.

1247
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 4: If you look at month by month, I think there

1248
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:42,720
Speaker 4: were always like a game or two above five hundred,

1249
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 4: a game or two under five hundred. They never took

1250
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 4: off and they never sunk. Chances are they gonna do

1251
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 4: one of one of those two things this year? Again,

1252
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:51,919
Speaker 4: if the offense is much better, I think they take off.

1253
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 4: If not so much, then I think they're subject to sinking.

1254
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 4: But which of those three teams takes off and.

1255
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 2: Goes just over the hand point? We're here till three

1256
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,359
Speaker 2: o'clock still got to get in the rest of Major

1257
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 2: League Baseball. We'll talk about some bets that we like.

1258
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 2: We'll talk about some teams of paraletives. For the Cincinnati Reds.

1259
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 2: At some point, maybe a few minutes on the Sweet

1260
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 2: sixteen action got to tonight, got tomorrow.

1261
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 3: Got to n Sweet sixteen next year, when Jared Calhoun

1262
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun, Babies coach Gerard.

1263
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 4: And you and I are broadcasting from opening day and

1264
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 4: then jumping in a car to drive to the Sweet sixteen.

1265
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 3: You're right.

1266
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 2: And at the end of this year, when we're deciding

1267
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 2: where we're gonna get a clock tattoo.

1268
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

1269
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 4: I'll do you one better on the clock. We'll get

1270
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 4: clock tattoos if they win the World Series. Okay, if

1271
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 4: they go to the World Series. I will buy us

1272
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 4: hats let's say Cincinnati Reds Nationally champs and upside down

1273
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 4: lettering for us to wear to the World Series.

1274
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. I like this though.

1275
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 2: Next year, on this show, we do the show. See you,

1276
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 2: we drive to the Sweet sixteen. Up there the ten

1277
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 2: o'clock tip off ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1278
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,320
Speaker 6: I have heart failure miss an episode of Sincy three sixty.

1279
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 6: Here every show at ESPN fifteen thirty dot com.

1280
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 7: Somebody gonna start talking about sixty three six trying to

1281
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 7: swallow your last time, not my show, technically.

1282
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 3: Sinty three sixty ESPN fifty thirty bus hits. I don't

1283
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 3: I can't wait. I know you're excited. I just during

1284
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 3: that break, I went to the Ben's room.

1285
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of dudes in there. Sure makes sense.

1286
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 4: Two guys in there who are clearly hanging out with

1287
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 4: each other. I don't know which woman here they were

1288
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 4: talking about. Oh, but whoever she is is about to

1289
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 4: get full court pressed. Oh boy, in ways that Kentucky's

1290
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 4: opponents in the mid nineties never were. I don't I

1291
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 4: don't know which woman they were talking about. But ma'am,

1292
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 4: there's two dudes in reds gear. There were the press on.

1293
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 4: They're about to have a competition and you're the trophy.

1294
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 4: I he I mean they are. They are mapping out,

1295
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 4: They're mapping out their strategies, knowing they're going to oppose

1296
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 4: each other. Wow, so some game is being spit somewhere

1297
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 4: in this bar. The two both guys wash their hands.

1298
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 4: So that man, man, you're you're certainly willing and capable

1299
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 4: of saying no, but it's coming.

1300
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 5: I overheard someone this morning, actually was our our guy

1301
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 5: Todd overheard someone this morning say that Moe Eggers from

1302
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 5: thirteen sixty was going to be here. Which one Those

1303
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 5: are co workers, I mean somebody we work with, Yes,

1304
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 5: the sales department over there on the sports animal on

1305
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 5: the Homer, Yeah, on the Homer.

1306
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 3: Whoa here, you're on the Homer all the time.

1307
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, breaking things down.

1308
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 3: I've called many, many, many worse things than that. Mo

1309
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 3: eager to talk over the back.

1310
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 4: Whoever this woman is is having a nice time here

1311
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 4: at Smoke Justice, and now she's going to have two

1312
00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 4: dudes come up.

1313
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 3: I mean they are, They are ready to go game

1314
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 3: recognized game. I mean just two and one handicap match.

1315
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 3: They all go to the game together. Speaking of handicap match,

1316
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 3: I want to talk about Dayton Webber at all or?

1317
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 5: No?

1318
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 3: Wow, I am good on talking about old Dayton. Do

1319
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 3: you want to talk about the Dayton Flyers at all?

1320
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 5: Boy?

1321
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 3: What a clunker last night? Oh, Illinois State.

1322
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 2: And it real quick because we're we're kind of just

1323
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 2: over the halfway point. We'll get back to to the

1324
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 2: Reds and we'll get back to Major League Baseball Sweet.

1325
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 3: Sixteen action tonight and tomorrow. Yeah, I just I kind

1326
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 3: of forget every year because the opening weekend is so fun.

1327
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 3: You won't next year in the college base the basketball tournament.

1328
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 2: But now like opening day, in the time of which

1329
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 2: the game takes to play, Now you kind of just

1330
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 2: overfills right into the Sweet sixteen action.

1331
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, the field is reset. You got any favorites.

1332
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 4: I like Illinois really yeah, okay, because they limit turnovers

1333
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 4: and they're great on the and so as good as

1334
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 4: Houston as defensively, and they're awesome, and the Cougars have

1335
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 4: played great and emotionally because we talk about it all

1336
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 4: the time, they look like what the Bearcats used to

1337
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 4: look like and what the Bearcats will look.

1338
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 3: Like moving forward.

1339
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 4: I think Illinois has their kryptonite because they're really good

1340
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 4: with the ball, they operate at a high level offensively,

1341
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 4: and they get a lot of their own misses. So

1342
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 4: I like Illinois tonight, and.

1343
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 2: It's not taking away from the other two, but it

1344
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 2: feels like the winner of tonight will be in the

1345
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:28,919
Speaker 2: final four.

1346
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 3: I agree.

1347
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 2: I mean not the yount want to take away from

1348
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 2: Iowa Nebraska, but I agree it feels like in that

1349
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 2: region this is the final four.

1350
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 4: And then I think I think Arizona Arkansas is interesting

1351
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 4: because it's like Darius Acuff against what feels like the

1352
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 4: best team in the country right now.

1353
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think Arizona is top to bottom,

1354
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 2: the most complete and for much of the year I

1355
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 2: talked about their bigs. Now you go down to the

1356
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 2: end of that Utah State game. If not for their

1357
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 2: guards Yea and Bradley, Utah State might win that game.

1358
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 2: So I just think they're the most complete team that's

1359
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 2: still playing.

1360
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 4: And I have I've loved I've loved how Purdue is

1361
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 4: played on the offensive end, and I just feel like

1362
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 4: they're gonna be a little bit too much for Texas.

1363
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 4: Nebraska Iowa to me feels like first team to sixty eight.

1364
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 5: Yes, that is one of the most slept on rivalries

1365
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 5: in the country. Yeah, those two teams, those two schools

1366
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 5: absolutely despise each other. And I think that is going

1367
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 5: to be an awesome game tonight and Iowa obviously riding

1368
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 5: high off after the Big upset. I mean, clearly we

1369
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 5: continue to see that the Big Ten is the best

1370
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 5: basketball conference in the country, followed by the Horizon League.

1371
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just fun to see these types of matchups. So,

1372
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 5: you know, Nebraska and.

1373
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 4: Iowa they play for a trophy in football when they played,

1374
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 4: there's none for basketball.

1375
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess because they Yeah, I don't know why

1376
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 3: they wouldn't be.

1377
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 4: And so this is pretty cool and this sort of

1378
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 4: flew under the radar. Joey Vado was over.

1379
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I knew it was coming. I can see.

1380
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 5: I've warned you long enough to see when your wheels

1381
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 5: has been in, they're gonna install it at the Field

1382
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 5: of Dreams. You want to talk about, way Netflix, that

1383
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 5: game that's true shirtless comedian is gonna be Yeah, he's

1384
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 5: gonna come out out of the machine.

1385
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 3: Okay, hey bird, Tonight tomorrow? Which game you're looking forward

1386
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 3: to the most?

1387
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 5: For me?

1388
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 2: Saint John's Duke, I think is going to be absolutely

1389
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 2: I can't wait for that. Duke has kind of slept

1390
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 2: walked through a little bit.

1391
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 4: There's an article today in The Athletic asking like, is

1392
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 4: hating Duke no longer in vogue?

1393
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 3: It's still in vogue. Says a lot about coach k

1394
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 3: but it is sure.

1395
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, John Shire is an easy guy to route for,

1396
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 4: and their teams are actually really fun to watch. I

1397
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 4: love cam Boozer, but you know, Saint John's kind of

1398
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 4: dodged a bullet. I don't think they've played their best

1399
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 4: in the n CUAA tournament so far. You feel like,

1400
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 4: relative to how they played in the Big Eiast tournament,

1401
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 4: you sort of feel like you sort of feel like

1402
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 4: they have a better game, a better game in them

1403
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 4: than they've shown so far here in the first two rounds.

1404
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 2: I think both rounds are awesome. I think the games tomorrow,

1405
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 2: want like right after each other, are phenomenal. The matchups, Yeah,

1406
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 2: Michigan State, Yukon Alabama the Michigan Tennessee, Iowa State.

1407
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:22,919
Speaker 3: So Alabama Michigan could be a lot of fun.

1408
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:26,920
Speaker 4: That also could be a blowout because I just Alabama's

1409
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 4: defended better in the tournament than they do, but they're

1410
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 4: not a very good defensive team. I could see Michigan

1411
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 4: steamrolling them. I could also see Alabama outscoring them.

1412
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 2: Back to baseball when we return here at Smoke Justice,

1413
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 2: the Bourbon Lounge, waiting for maybe someone to.

1414
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 3: Take these faithful steps up the ladder. Who will climb

1415
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 3: the ladder? Who will climb the ladder?

1416
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 2: Between now and three o'clock more baseball and ESBN fifteen

1417
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 2: thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1418
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 1: Next, this is Tony Pike, since e three sixty about Cincinnati.

1419
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: From Cincinnati, this is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1420
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 2: All right, our number three, since he three sixty, are

1421
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 2: we fired up yet?

1422
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 3: For opening? Day, what I think? So what about the Reds? Huh?

1423
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 3: Are we fired up for the Reds on opening day? Huh?

1424
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 3: It might have been louder at noon. Think we're going backwards.

1425
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 3: It might have been louder at noon. I think we

1426
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 3: just had another blister develop on somebody's hand. There's moist

1427
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 3: hands in this room right now. I'm naturally moist from

1428
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 3: one of the few times in my life. I have

1429
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 3: nothing to say. He could caught me. I should I

1430
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 3: should have.

1431
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 4: Dropped that line of those two dudes in the bad Yeah,

1432
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 4: you should have, gentlemen, one of you guys should have

1433
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 4: moist hands.

1434
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 3: Oh wait, yo, we got somebody's excited, right, Yellen, I

1435
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 3: appreciate that. Great Big Don Mace, Big Don Mace is here.

1436
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 3: Now we're tall. I'd like to see him climbing up. Body,

1437
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 3: let's go. Is anybody gonna climb the ladder for us? Okay?

1438
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 3: All right, okay, that's the most amount of enthusiasms. I

1439
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 3: love it. I love it.

1440
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 4: Do that.

1441
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 3: Nothing like a little pandering.

1442
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 2: The The final line on Paul Skeins, Oh, two thirds

1443
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 2: of an inning, one strikeout, five earned.

1444
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 3: Runs, thirty seven pitches.

1445
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 5: We're thrown. He did not come off with a trainer.

1446
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 5: He'll go a He has an e RA of sixty

1447
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:31,600
Speaker 5: seven point five at the moment, which means the door

1448
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 5: is wide open for and your abbot to win.

1449
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 3: The National League Saw Young Award. Does odds have shifted?

1450
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 3: I'm sure I was.

1451
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 5: Gonna say, is this is this the segment where we

1452
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 5: talk about odds? I know Tony teas the American League

1453
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 5: before My goodness?

1454
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk odds. Do you want to talk some odds?

1455
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 3: I got some wagers. I like, what do you like?

1456
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 3: Let's do this. Let's let's start with the Reds. Yeah. Briefly,

1457
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 3: this Red's MVP this year is who I want it

1458
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 3: to be? Sal Stewart. Yeah, because I'm all in on him.

1459
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 3: He's a lot of folks favorite to win Rookie of

1460
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 3: the Year in the NL.

1461
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 4: Mine too, Okay, plus seven hundred at some books, plus

1462
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 4: nine hundred at others.

1463
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 3: Look, it's still Ellie Dela Cruz. Yeah. Yeah.

1464
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 2: If this team won, if they're gonna go where we

1465
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 2: hope they can go. Yeah, Ellie's got to play like

1466
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 2: that they had.

1467
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 4: He had a weird year last year because everybody remembers

1468
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 4: the second half, and I think everybody remembers the first

1469
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 4: two months in June, he was what we've been waiting for.

1470
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 4: Who knows if that continues, if a Tito gives him

1471
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 4: an occasional day off, and if be if the leg

1472
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 4: issues never pop up. He's still one of the most

1473
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 4: talented players in the sport. He's still the guy with

1474
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 4: the highest.

1475
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:43,520
Speaker 3: Ceiling on the team.

1476
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 4: Now, I want this to be the year where we

1477
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 4: stop taking phone calls from people who want to see

1478
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 4: him plays center field. Yes, but you can't tell those

1479
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 4: people that're wrong until Ellie makes the plays at chart stop.

1480
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,479
Speaker 3: We've not mentioned that at all in the spring.

1481
01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 4: I'm as interested in that as what he does offensively.

1482
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 4: But you know, the best player on the team is

1483
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 4: still supposed to be Elie Dela Cruz.

1484
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 5: I would love nothing more than Ellie to be a

1485
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 5: Gold Glove finalist. Yeah, at shortstop that we're talking about

1486
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 5: at the end of the season, I'm gonna go off

1487
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 5: the board. We've talked about the pitching and the pitching

1488
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 5: being an issue, and the pitching being a question mark.

1489
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 5: Chase Burns full breakout season as a starter, puts this

1490
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 5: team on his back, replaces Hunter Green. While Hunter is

1491
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 5: out and just takes the league by storm and does

1492
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 5: what Paul Skens did a couple of years ago and

1493
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 5: gives the Reds another bona fide ace in their rotation.

1494
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 3: I don't know that I fully believe in what I'm

1495
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 3: saying right.

1496
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:41,959
Speaker 5: Now, just because he's a young player and he didn't

1497
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 5: have a great spring, and I think the Reds are

1498
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 5: still trying to develop how to be a professional with

1499
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:51,040
Speaker 5: Chase Burns. But he has as much talent as a

1500
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 5: pitcher I think as Ellie de la Cruz does as

1501
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 5: a baseball player.

1502
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 3: And then in December they trade Hunter Green. Yeah, yes,

1503
01:06:58,160 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 3: because you know they want to.

1504
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 4: Sure, you know whether or not they should want to,

1505
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 4: but like I could tell you, there's folks in that

1506
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 4: organization who want to trade him.

1507
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1508
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 2: If we're talking about what this team can achieve, then yes,

1509
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 2: it starts and stops for me with Elie de la Cruz.

1510
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 2: If I would go off the board, think about who

1511
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 2: we've talked about today or mentioned Friedel McClain, Ellie sal Suarez,

1512
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:25,600
Speaker 2: Spencer Steer. Yeah, kind of this lost cog. I know

1513
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 2: you're big on Spencer Steer. If Spencer Steer can play

1514
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 2: to a like two seventy two to eighty mark from

1515
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 2: a batting average standpoint, and he becomes an afterthought early

1516
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 2: on about this lineup, and then we're talking about him

1517
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 2: at the end of the year. Then we're talking about

1518
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 2: a team that I think can compete in the NL

1519
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 2: Central to win it.

1520
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 4: I just wish the Reds had this sort of team

1521
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 4: where Spencer Steer could play in one hundred and fifty

1522
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 4: games at like five different positions. Yeah, because they still

1523
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 4: feel like he's best as a super sub. You know

1524
01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 4: he's gonna man a corner outfield spot, not sure and

1525
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 4: yeah man Gold Glove finalist at first base.

1526
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 3: That's all well and good.

1527
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 4: I still feel like I feel like his best role

1528
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 4: on the team is he doesn't have a specific one

1529
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 4: that he plays almost every single day because he's giving

1530
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 4: a blow to keep Brian Hayes, he's giving a blow

1531
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:16,160
Speaker 4: to Sal Stewart.

1532
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 3: Maybe you could d h him, you could put him

1533
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 3: in the outfield. I just wish.

1534
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 4: It's why I wish they would have made one more

1535
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 4: move this offseason, one more like corner outfield, and then

1536
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 4: you can look at Spencer Steer and go, I could

1537
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 4: play you anywhere. Yeah, And if there is an injury.

1538
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 4: All right, dude, you're gonna play every day at this spot.

1539
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,640
Speaker 4: I just feel like his role is best, and I

1540
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 4: think people in the organization would say the same. There's

1541
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 4: a reason why they moved him from first base. Like,

1542
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 4: ideally you have the sort of club where Spencer Steer

1543
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 4: plays almost every single day, all over the place.

1544
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 5: I would my dream for Spencer Steers to be what

1545
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 5: Chris Bryant was for the Cubs a couple of years ago.

1546
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 5: Specifically now ten years ago, twenty sixteen. He played left,

1547
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 5: he played right, he played third, he played second, he

1548
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 5: played first, played all over the place and was productive.

1549
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 5: I think I'd love to see Spencer now three straight

1550
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 5: years twenty plus homers.

1551
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 3: Can he flirt with thirty?

1552
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 5: Can he get those stolen based numbers back to what

1553
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 5: they were a couple of years ago and get to

1554
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:14,679
Speaker 5: like a thirty twenty or a thirty thirty.

1555
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 3: I know that's asking a lot. He has the talent

1556
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 3: to do that. He's fully healthy.

1557
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 5: With the rest of this lineup, I think it's not

1558
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 5: crazy to think Spencer can take that step.

1559
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 2: Forward one other player before we get into some bets,

1560
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 2: because a year or so ago, I asked the question

1561
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 2: up here who are the leaders on the Reds? And

1562
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,839
Speaker 2: years ago he said, well, Jonathan India and Tyler Stevenson.

1563
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 2: Those gotta be the clubhouse guys. Now I buy one

1564
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 2: of those guys and the other dude ain't here. But

1565
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 2: now today we're coming off an off season where we've heard,

1566
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 2: outside of arbitration, nothing about Tyler Stevenson. There are a

1567
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:53,960
Speaker 2: lot of people that believe this is the last opening

1568
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 2: day in Cincinnati for Tyler Stevenson. What expectations are you

1569
01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 2: putting on him going into this year? Because they like

1570
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 2: Travino he played well last year. Steven Since I still

1571
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 2: think the guy that's got to make this all kind

1572
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 2: of stir together.

1573
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 3: What what are you looking out of Tyler Stevenson. I

1574
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 3: don't know. It's ann I mean, I don't know.

1575
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 4: There was a time where I thought, like, man, Tyler

1576
01:10:19,520 --> 01:10:22,679
Speaker 4: Stevenson's gonna be an All Star catcher, and I don't feel.

1577
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 3: That way anymore. That doesn't mean he can't be a

1578
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 3: good player. Tyler Stevens is a good player.

1579
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 4: It feels like the pitcher's really like throwing to him,

1580
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 4: and I think he has come a long way defensively.

1581
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 4: But if Tyler Stevenson spends a lot of time hitting

1582
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 4: in the upper half of the batting order.

1583
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:39,439
Speaker 3: Something's gone really wrong.

1584
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 4: And there was a time where like Tyler Stevens, since

1585
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 4: the bat fourth or fifth, remember the whole, Like Tyler Stevens,

1586
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 4: since you play first base well and which I was

1587
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 4: on that bandwagon, he doesn't hit enough.

1588
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,320
Speaker 3: You're right, it feels like this is it. It feels

1589
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 3: like if it wasn't, they would have gotten done.

1590
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 5: And keep in mind signed Jose Travino to a three

1591
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 5: year deal prior to last season, and he had a

1592
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,759
Speaker 5: really good season. I almost think of the catcher position

1593
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 5: more than I think of the players that play catcher,

1594
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:13,560
Speaker 5: and and last year those two together, Jose Travino and

1595
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:14,960
Speaker 5: Tyler Stevenson were productive.

1596
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 3: They were consistent. The Austin wins, what a moment. Was

1597
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 3: a monster for that that one game in Baltimore.

1598
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 5: I went to a game in Atlanta where he had

1599
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 5: to play first base and he'd never done that because

1600
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:31,160
Speaker 5: he laced Tennessee and and he laced a double. He

1601
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:32,640
Speaker 5: think it was the only hit they got off Chris

1602
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 5: Sale that night. So either way, like yes, like that

1603
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 5: position has been productive for them on like a platoon basis,

1604
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 5: can they continue that this year.

1605
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 3: Maybe take some of the pressure off of Tyler Stevenson.

1606
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 3: Trevino in the second half didn't hit. Yeah, he did.

1607
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 4: You're right, And so if if you're gonna split the

1608
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 4: playing time equally, then Trevino from an offensive perspective, has

1609
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:54,080
Speaker 4: to carry his weight.

1610
01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 3: And there's there's a premium on that.

1611
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:58,679
Speaker 4: And I it sounds like I'm picking on the guy

1612
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 4: because you a guy in the batting order who doesn't

1613
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:01,680
Speaker 4: hit at all.

1614
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that's not insignificant.

1615
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 4: You in an era where pitchers don't back key Brian

1616
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:10,200
Speaker 4: Hayes is basically a pitcher. Now watched today Hill at

1617
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 4: two home runs, but he's one of the worst offensive

1618
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 4: players in the sport. Yeah, you can't have you can

1619
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 4: have one of those, can't have more than one. So

1620
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 4: like your production everywhere else kind of has to make

1621
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 4: up for that. Which first half of the season, Jose

1622
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,639
Speaker 4: Travina behind the plate was great and he hit.

1623
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:29,640
Speaker 3: Second half of the season, he didn't hit.

1624
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 2: Some wagers stand out to you that you like this year.

1625
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:36,879
Speaker 2: I want to start with one today. Yeah, Tyler O'Neill

1626
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 2: plus three to oh two to hit a home run

1627
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:41,559
Speaker 2: six straight opening days.

1628
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 5: He's homewarked Interow six straight opening day home runs for

1629
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 5: Tyler O'Neill.

1630
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:50,479
Speaker 3: Dropped the nugget on us. Can he get to seven

1631
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,680
Speaker 3: plus three oh two? I don't I don't mind it.

1632
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:56,080
Speaker 3: That's really good value.

1633
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 5: What are the odds for South Stewart to go deep today? Ooh,

1634
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 5: I got a I got a hankering, oh for a

1635
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 5: little South Stewart.

1636
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 2: Now, now, Austin, you last year went in, Matt McClain

1637
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 2: an LMVP.

1638
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:10,599
Speaker 3: Yes I did.

1639
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:13,840
Speaker 2: Can you alert the listeners if you've made any bets

1640
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 2: to maybe I just had the con due now.

1641
01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:21,160
Speaker 5: I just had the conversation earlier this morning with somebody.

1642
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 5: I said, I screwed up the preseason awards so badly

1643
01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 5: last year. I'm staying away.

1644
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 3: South Stewart to go yard plus three ninety? All right?

1645
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 3: To go yard two or more times plus four thousand? Who?

1646
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,720
Speaker 3: All right? Sprinkle sprinkle, drip drip. I like that. Key

1647
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 3: Brian Hayes to go yard plus ten sixty. That's a

1648
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:44,920
Speaker 3: little low, isn't it. I get one more then you know? Keey.

1649
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 3: Brian Hayes homeward his first game as a Red.

1650
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 4: He did people forget he did the keep Brian Hayes

1651
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 4: thing last year when they traded for him.

1652
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 3: Oh, and he is a great defensive player, the best

1653
01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 3: with a bad back.

1654
01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:01,160
Speaker 4: So the Reds get him, and there were a lot

1655
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 4: of folks maybe not that familiar with his game, but

1656
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 4: it's like, hey, they.

1657
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,639
Speaker 3: Got a guy who at third base has no peer.

1658
01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 4: He doesn't hit, though, folks wanted to talk themselves into

1659
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 4: the key Brian Hayes tree. So every time he would

1660
01:14:14,479 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 4: make even a nice play, people would talk about that

1661
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 4: play like it was the clock.

1662
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 3: That was a long wind up. I knew, I knew

1663
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 3: it was coming. But what you like for home runs today?

1664
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 3: Or what do you like on your Major League Baseball card?

1665
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,800
Speaker 4: I got the Reds over eighty and a half. Part

1666
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 4: of this is heart overhead. They got to finish five hundred.

1667
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 4: If they finished with eighty one wins, that's too fewer

1668
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 4: than last year. I think the teams in this division

1669
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 4: are going to beat each other up. I think they're

1670
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 4: offensively going to be better. Do I have him in

1671
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 4: the postseason necessarily No, But I think they hit the

1672
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 4: over eighty and a half way. Sal Stewart NL Rookie

1673
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 4: of the Year part of this is Connor Griffin, the

1674
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:57,559
Speaker 4: odds on favorites not starting the season in the big leagues.

1675
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 4: He will get here eventually. Su Stewart can hit the

1676
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:02,960
Speaker 4: ball out of the ballpark. He plays in a hitter

1677
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 4: friendly park. He has passed every test they have given

1678
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 4: to him. I think he's gonna get protected by Gino.

1679
01:15:08,479 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 4: I think we'll have more guys on base sal Stewart

1680
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:14,559
Speaker 4: and at the start of spring training was plus eleven hundred.

1681
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 4: Now it's plus seven hundred. I like the Toronto Blue

1682
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 4: Jays to go over eighty seven and a half wins.

1683
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 4: This team was an out away from winning the World Series,

1684
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 4: and I think they got better, specifically because of Dylan Cees.

1685
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 4: Over eighty seven and a half wins, This to me

1686
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 4: is easy money, free money. Detroit twin the American League

1687
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,720
Speaker 4: Central plus one ten. That's an indictment against everybody else.

1688
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 3: Eighty five and a half wins. I think they're over

1689
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:39,759
Speaker 3: that as well. That's one of mine with the Tigers

1690
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,600
Speaker 3: Houston under eighty four and a half go.

1691
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:45,599
Speaker 4: Just the slide to the back of the pack, which

1692
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:49,840
Speaker 4: has been gradual, started in ernest last year. It continues

1693
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 4: this year. Despite what we saw last night. I like

1694
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 4: the Giants over eighty and a half wins devers A,

1695
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:59,479
Speaker 4: Ryan z Adamis, Matt Chapman, Logan Webb at the top

1696
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:02,560
Speaker 4: of the Rota Robbie Ray. I'll take San Francisco to

1697
01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 4: go over eighty and a half. Colorado's gonna win fifty

1698
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 4: six games to hit their over It's fifty five and

1699
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 4: a half.

1700
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:11,760
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

1701
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 5: I like this.

1702
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:17,920
Speaker 3: That is surreal. The A's to make the postseason.

1703
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 5: Plus four to fifty sneaky good roster, a little bit

1704
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:22,360
Speaker 5: of a leap of faith, snaky good roster.

1705
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:26,000
Speaker 4: Seattle's awesome. Who else in that division? The Rangers can't hit?

1706
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:29,640
Speaker 4: No right, the Angels aren't very good. I think the

1707
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 4: A's and I hate this because I hate what they

1708
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 4: did to Oakland. I hate what they did to their fans.

1709
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:36,760
Speaker 4: Plus four to fifty to make the postseason, and I

1710
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:40,080
Speaker 4: gave this one before the Dodgers to be the two seed.

1711
01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:42,640
Speaker 4: Hop they're making the playoffs and they're probably gonna be

1712
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 4: the one. But is there a world where the Mets

1713
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 4: win one hundred games and LA wins ninety nine or

1714
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:50,559
Speaker 4: the Phillies won one hundred games and LA wins ninety nine,

1715
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,519
Speaker 4: or maybe the Cubs. I think there is Dodgers to

1716
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:55,639
Speaker 4: be the two seed plus three sixty.

1717
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a lot of people minus one

1718
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:02,760
Speaker 2: forty five to take Oto is the NLMVP? Yeah, if

1719
01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 2: you think he's the best, you're not gonna get any

1720
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 2: better odds at that. But is there anyone else in

1721
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,879
Speaker 2: the National League? Yes, that would make sense to sprinkle

1722
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 2: as an.

1723
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:13,360
Speaker 3: MVP plus eleven hundred.

1724
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:17,720
Speaker 4: Ronald Acunya his last full season, forty one homers, led

1725
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 4: the league in ops, led the league in hits, led

1726
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:22,679
Speaker 4: the league in run scored. Last year in ninety games,

1727
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 4: batted two ninety to twenty two homers.

1728
01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 3: Yeah. Played in the World Baseball Classic. In his first game,

1729
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:28,040
Speaker 3: got three hits.

1730
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:31,519
Speaker 4: Plus eleven hundred for a guy who went he is healthy,

1731
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 4: has a claim to best player in.

1732
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,240
Speaker 3: The good team. Yeah, should be to a good team.

1733
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 3: Plus eleven hundred. Ronald Acunya, American League.

1734
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 2: I thought of this at the World Baseball Classic because

1735
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 2: if you followed along with Team USA, it felt like

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01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:49,240
Speaker 2: every coach and every player on the roster raved about

1737
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 2: Roman Anthony. Yes, plus fourteen hundred see today al MVP odds.

1738
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 2: Roman Anthony had a great World Baseball Classic, thinking a

1739
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:00,120
Speaker 2: guy that can take the next step. I know the

1740
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 2: American League you're going against Aaron Judge and company. But

1741
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:05,880
Speaker 2: if you're looking for someone a little bit off the board,

1742
01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 2: and you just go about how people talked about him

1743
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 2: at the World Baseball Classic, I think Roman Anthony is

1744
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 2: a good MVP.

1745
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge still hasn't made contact yet this season. He

1746
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 3: has as many hits and balls and play as we do.

1747
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 4: So I'll give you one in the American League that

1748
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 4: I think is interesting. I know there are folks who

1749
01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:26,200
Speaker 4: don't like the idea but pitcher being MVP, but pictures have.

1750
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 3: Been MVP before.

1751
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:29,599
Speaker 4: Trek Scouble, Yeah, because the Tigers aren't going to hit

1752
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 4: a ton, but they should run away with that division.

1753
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 4: And if they do, pitching's going to be the main

1754
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 4: reason why. And he's either the best or second best

1755
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:41,080
Speaker 4: pitcher in the sport. I can see a voter if

1756
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 4: let's say Aaron Judge doesn't have quite the Aaron Judge

1757
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,680
Speaker 4: season going, you know what, Yeah, this team won and

1758
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:49,640
Speaker 4: ran away with it, and the main reason why was

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01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:50,040
Speaker 4: the pitching.

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Speaker 3: That guy was the best pitcher there's president for it.

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01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:53,439
Speaker 3: Trek Scouble.

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Speaker 5: Where do you guys stand on Toronto represented the al

1763
01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,760
Speaker 5: in the World Series last year, lost Bobashett.

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01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:01,240
Speaker 3: He's now with the New York Mets.

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01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:04,599
Speaker 5: Still a pretty good roster obviously, the David Bell effect

1766
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 5: in the front office, without question, which plays a huge role.

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Speaker 4: What do you guys think about the Blue Jays? You

1768
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 4: know what's interesting is Don Mattingly was their bench coaching left. Yeah,

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01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 4: and I just sort of thought that was going to

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01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:17,880
Speaker 4: be David Bell. Yeah, I just I don't know why,

1771
01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 4: but I'm like, that just makes sense for David Bell

1772
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:25,600
Speaker 4: to come downstairs and in part his wisdom on John Schneider, the.

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01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 5: Cincinnati Reads all time leader and managerial ejections, David Bell.

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01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:29,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question.

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01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 4: Dylan Cees I think is a big acquisition. Yes, that

1776
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 4: division though. Yeah, there's a world where Boston wins it.

1777
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:37,840
Speaker 4: There's a world where the Yankees win it. There's a

1778
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 4: world where Baltimore is interesting in it, and there's a

1779
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 4: world where the Blue Jays run away and hide in it.

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01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:46,120
Speaker 2: I mean, we have MLB network on in here right now.

1781
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:49,200
Speaker 2: They've got Kansas City as a wild card team. If

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01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 2: Kansas City is a wild card team, Bobby wits probably

1783
01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:52,760
Speaker 2: playing an.

1784
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Speaker 3: MVP level Yes, out of this world. Yes, which he

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01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 3: showed obviously as well at the at the World Baseball Class.

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Speaker 5: They also have the Cubs winning the nat League and

1787
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 5: the Red's missing the playoffs.

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01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 3: Well, Pirates in the wild Card. Do you think that

1789
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:11,040
Speaker 3: graphic was made before Paul skens two thousand runs? Now

1790
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:12,800
Speaker 3: they have the Cubs winning the World Series?

1791
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 5: Do you Cubs over Tigers in the coldest World Series

1792
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:16,639
Speaker 5: of all time?

1793
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 3: Do you have anything specifically for today that you.

1794
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 5: Do like.

1795
01:20:21,680 --> 01:20:23,599
Speaker 3: You know what Austin talked me to Sal Stewart.

1796
01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:26,519
Speaker 4: Okay, and I'm gonna go keep Bryan Hayes just because

1797
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 4: I called him an offensive zero?

1798
01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:30,639
Speaker 3: What is the what is the strikeout number for Crochet?

1799
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 5: Oh?

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01:20:32,479 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 2: Because I think I think it's a team that's gonna

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01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 2: take a lot of hacks. I think they're gonna try

1802
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:37,599
Speaker 2: to be aggressive.

1803
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:41,880
Speaker 5: I think the team, this team hit Garrett Crochet well

1804
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 5: last time they saw him. Yes, that was also the

1805
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 5: game where the Red Sox teed off on Chase Burns,

1806
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 5: who was apparently checking his pitches. What would you guess

1807
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 5: the over unders eight seven and a half seven and

1808
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:57,120
Speaker 5: a half. Yeah, I go over Yeah, wind is blowing

1809
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 5: out to right field to the ball.

1810
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 3: What's Abbot's number four and a half? Okay, the old lefty,

1811
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 3: the crafty lefty it is.

1812
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 2: I Uh, let's spend a moment or two when we

1813
01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:13,719
Speaker 2: come back on the Red Sox themselves.

1814
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:14,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I do.

1815
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:17,599
Speaker 2: I think they're a legitimate contender in the American League.

1816
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 2: As we continue on here at Smoke Justice, we're in

1817
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:23,320
Speaker 2: the Bourbon lounge. You can hear probably in the background

1818
01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 2: party on the cub that's happening right now. They got

1819
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 2: live music. It's eighty degrees outside, the sun is shining.

1820
01:21:29,920 --> 01:21:31,519
Speaker 2: It is a beautiful opening day.

1821
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 4: There's gonna be a lot of folks out there who

1822
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 4: haven't put on sunscreen in sixty months and they had

1823
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 4: a habit.

1824
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 3: There are going to be the color of my shirt tomorrow. Yes,

1825
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:44,720
Speaker 3: look at this, there it is. I I thought that

1826
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:49,559
Speaker 3: was something else for a second. But a moisture. I'm

1827
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 3: not that lucky.

1828
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 2: Sixteen three point sixty continues next the SBN fifteen thirty Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: Sports Station, Hey Alexa.

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Speaker 2: ESBN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Nation sixty Live from Smoke

1831
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Speaker 2: Justice Opening Day. How many years have we done the

1832
01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 2: opening day here.

1833
01:22:11,479 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 3: So this years going in on. This is my third

1834
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:16,719
Speaker 3: just really.

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01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:19,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:20,560
Speaker 2: I thought maybe at some point we could take a

1837
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:22,519
Speaker 2: picture of one that my eyes are opening, because we

1838
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 2: just recycle the one where my eyes are glazed over.

1839
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 3: Yeah. Year, maybe maybe Drew can take a picture. Maybe

1840
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 3: we can get a picture on the break here.

1841
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:33,760
Speaker 2: Let's talk for a minute about the opponent today for

1842
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Reds.

1843
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 3: They let Alex Brightman walk, but.

1844
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:43,599
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet is still their ace, and then they run

1845
01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 2: out and got Ranger Suarez.

1846
01:22:45,439 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sonny Gray, who's going to pitch Game two?

1847
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:52,560
Speaker 2: This is a good pitching staff and a lot of

1848
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 2: young talent on the offensive side of the ball. We

1849
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:57,840
Speaker 2: talked about the American League just being kind of wide

1850
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 2: open this year. How to the Socks slot into a

1851
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 2: very front heavy American League.

1852
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:07,599
Speaker 5: A lot of potential, A lot needs to be proven

1853
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:09,840
Speaker 5: for them, and the other two teams at the top

1854
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 5: of that division, Toronto and New York have proven it

1855
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 5: and have proven their ability to get to that point

1856
01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 5: over and over again, at least in the recent memory.

1857
01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:21,639
Speaker 5: I think that the sneaky good team in that division

1858
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 5: is Baltimore. I mean, obviously, Gunner Henderson is one of

1859
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,320
Speaker 5: the best players in baseball, and they have since added

1860
01:23:27,439 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 5: Pete Alonzo, the Polar Bear, to give that lineup some

1861
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:34,439
Speaker 5: jolt offensively. I still think it's the Yankees and the

1862
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 5: Blue Jays, but I think the Red Sox have maybe

1863
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:39,720
Speaker 5: the highest ceiling of that group.

1864
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:42,479
Speaker 4: Sort of feel like a big market version of last

1865
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 4: year of the Reds where they got to the postseason.

1866
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 4: It had been a while relative to recent Red Soions history,

1867
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 4: it had been a while, very good at the back

1868
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:52,880
Speaker 4: end of the ball game. With Chatman at will Locke,

1869
01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:55,560
Speaker 4: who talks about Robin Anthony, but to me, it's the

1870
01:23:55,560 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 4: two big acquisitions in the rotation, Suarez and Sonny Gray

1871
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:03,600
Speaker 4: on top garat Crochet, I do feel like they are a.

1872
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:08,879
Speaker 3: Wrung below Toronto and New York and then Baltimore.

1873
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,599
Speaker 4: Is interesting to me because that lineup's got some dudes,

1874
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:17,679
Speaker 4: added the Alonzo to it. But I'm more bullish on Toronto,

1875
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 4: I think than Vegas is eighty seven and a half.

1876
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 4: They were this close to winning the World Series last year,

1877
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:27,080
Speaker 4: still had Flag Guerrero, who's unbelievable, added Dylan Cease.

1878
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 2: You know Roman Anthony obviously, which I think from his

1879
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:33,439
Speaker 2: stand when he about to lead off of them as well. Yeah,

1880
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:36,720
Speaker 2: you get him, Duran still a young player that you're

1881
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 2: going on. You know what you have in contreras. I

1882
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:41,479
Speaker 2: think Trevor Story is an interesting piece for them in

1883
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:45,760
Speaker 2: the two hole. Was awesome in Colorado some down years.

1884
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:47,639
Speaker 2: I thought it was an up year for him last year.

1885
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 2: But like many lineups, you circle one or two guys

1886
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:53,600
Speaker 2: of Okay, this lineup's kind of gonna go how this

1887
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:57,560
Speaker 2: player is with Trevor Story in that two hole, I

1888
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,320
Speaker 2: think that's gonna be a lot about who this Red

1889
01:24:59,360 --> 01:24:59,960
Speaker 2: Sox teams.

1890
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 4: Can I make an observation that has nothing to do

1891
01:25:02,439 --> 01:25:05,200
Speaker 4: with anything you just said. Yes, I have seen zero

1892
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:06,439
Speaker 4: Red Sox fans today.

1893
01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 5: I have seen through my shot right here, my angle,

1894
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 5: there has been a young lady in a Red Sox

1895
01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 5: hat that has not moved all day and to her credit,

1896
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 5: has been drinking heavily.

1897
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 4: Okay, probably go out there and she'll tell you how

1898
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:24,479
Speaker 4: like the Red Sox won the seventy five for the

1899
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 4: series in six games. Yeah, you get that a lot

1900
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 4: from them. Yeah, surprising though it's Red Sox Nation. Yeah,

1901
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 4: obviously opening days a tough ticket.

1902
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,080
Speaker 3: I get it. But on on the other side of

1903
01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:36,880
Speaker 3: the river on my way over here, I saw a

1904
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:38,920
Speaker 3: decent amount, did you. Yeah, I have not seen that.

1905
01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:41,760
Speaker 3: My dad brought a Red Sox fan here today. That's cool.

1906
01:25:41,880 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean MLB Network just did a ten minute

1907
01:25:45,560 --> 01:25:49,200
Speaker 2: bit before about is Cincinnati the best place for Opening Day?

1908
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 3: Which is clear it is. Yeah, the answer is yes.

1909
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 3: And in a day like this, the weather like this,

1910
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:55,679
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a tough ticket for a Red Sox

1911
01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:59,439
Speaker 3: fan to get. No, no question. Cleveland Guardians fan here, Oh,

1912
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 3: he's got his u my words lit on.

1913
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:05,479
Speaker 4: But there have been plenty of opening days you've seen

1914
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,920
Speaker 4: a decent amount of the other team's fans. Given the

1915
01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 4: size of that fan base, it's been I literally.

1916
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:12,040
Speaker 3: Haven't seen any of that.

1917
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 5: What team do you think travels best to Cincinnati outside

1918
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:15,639
Speaker 5: of the Cups?

1919
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:18,880
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, because I think it's the New

1920
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 3: York mess.

1921
01:26:21,080 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 5: I am probably every time I see Mets fans like,

1922
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 5: there's of them.

1923
01:26:26,560 --> 01:26:28,479
Speaker 2: I feel like when they played them at home, there

1924
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 2: was a ton of Yankee fans. But I don't think

1925
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:32,960
Speaker 2: those are Yankee fans that travel. I just think those are, yeah,

1926
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 2: they fans here.

1927
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 3: I tell you what. When the Tigers are here and

1928
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 3: the Tigers are good. Yeah, that's my answer. I still

1929
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:42,960
Speaker 3: go back to that as a that series.

1930
01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 4: Was it last year or the year before where the

1931
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 4: Reds had made a run and the Tigers were coming

1932
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 4: in on a weekend. You're like, hey, if they could

1933
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:51,040
Speaker 4: win all three and they got swept and they got

1934
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:52,040
Speaker 4: crushed at all.

1935
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 3: Three, and I was like, that was kind of the

1936
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:53,280
Speaker 3: end of the.

1937
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 4: Year twenty twelve when the Reds won ninety seven games.

1938
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:59,000
Speaker 4: The Tigers were here and this was before a year

1939
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 4: round interleague play. They were here for like a weekend

1940
01:27:01,439 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 4: in early June. I think they played a Sunday night

1941
01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 4: baseball game and the Reds were really good that year

1942
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:09,160
Speaker 4: and it was just a sea of orange. It sounded

1943
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 4: like a Detroit home game. Uh, that's my answer. When

1944
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:13,160
Speaker 4: the Tigers are good.

1945
01:27:13,840 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 5: They fresh off of World Series that year, right, what

1946
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 5: went to the World Yeah, went went in twenty twelve.

1947
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:24,599
Speaker 5: Thats and Miguel Cabrera was It was debates about who's

1948
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:26,320
Speaker 5: the best hitter, Vado or Camerera.

1949
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:30,639
Speaker 3: Are they your American League winner Tigers? Yeah?

1950
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:31,960
Speaker 5: I agree.

1951
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 3: I'm all in on the Tigers. Yeah. I love the Tigers.

1952
01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 3: Keep it. Don't like a J. Hinch because of the

1953
01:27:37,040 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 3: whole Astros thing. He's an awesome manager.

1954
01:27:39,479 --> 01:27:42,400
Speaker 4: I do think that team in that side of the

1955
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 4: league is the biggest candidate to like go get a

1956
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 4: big bat at the trade deadline.

1957
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:51,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, like just thinking now, like I feel like pitching

1958
01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:53,920
Speaker 2: staff wise, yes, do they have enough offense.

1959
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 4: Because I I feel like it's currently constructed, You'll go, Okay,

1960
01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 4: don't win the Central but they're gonna need another thumper

1961
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:00,840
Speaker 4: and ill So who.

1962
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 3: Do they go get.

1963
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 5: I'm curious and we can get to this in the

1964
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 5: next segment too, because I've been wondering about this. It

1965
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:09,720
Speaker 5: felt like all offseason the Reds had kind of turned

1966
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,599
Speaker 5: the dial up a little bit. They turned the notch

1967
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 5: up on trying to be competitive and trying to be

1968
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:18,680
Speaker 5: aggressive and trying to win, which you can easily say

1969
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 5: they never did that, or there have been times where

1970
01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 5: they haven't done that in recent years, even the attempt

1971
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 5: with Kyle Schwarber, the going over the payroll for a

1972
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:31,759
Speaker 5: u Haano Suarez, the investment in the bullpen, and others.

1973
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 5: I am very curious you mentioned the idea of trading

1974
01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 5: Hunter Green. I wonder what this team will do at

1975
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 5: the deadline, And obviously there's a lot of factors that

1976
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:42,760
Speaker 5: have to happen between now and then, but will that

1977
01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:46,160
Speaker 5: aggressive feeling even going back to last year when they

1978
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:49,000
Speaker 5: cut ties with jam Or Candelario yea, and when they

1979
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:51,360
Speaker 5: brought up Chase Burns, that felt to me like a

1980
01:28:51,439 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 5: switch had been flipped. We're trying to win baseball games,

1981
01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:56,760
Speaker 5: and I was like, okay, cool, Like this is what

1982
01:28:56,880 --> 01:28:59,840
Speaker 5: I've been wanting from this club. That coupled with this

1983
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:05,200
Speaker 5: past offseason, makes me wonder if they're in contention come July,

1984
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 5: is this team gonna be one of those teams that

1985
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 5: goes and gets a ball?

1986
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:11,640
Speaker 3: Well, are not gonna be green? You were gonna do

1987
01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:19,639
Speaker 3: that part part guy coming back a trip.

1988
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 4: So I think what's interesting about that is like Edwin Arroyo,

1989
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 4: where does he fit in this organization's plan?

1990
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,000
Speaker 3: Need him to him? Cam Collier?

1991
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:32,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, where does he fit in this organization's plans? Long

1992
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:36,640
Speaker 4: timing Like the last time the Reds really went for

1993
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:40,599
Speaker 4: it twenty twelve, they dealt from a surplus and traded

1994
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:44,040
Speaker 4: Travis Wood, and they also traded Edinson Volcaz.

1995
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 3: Travis Wood went on to become an All Star.

1996
01:29:46,360 --> 01:29:49,479
Speaker 4: Edinson Volkez pitched in the World Series two games for

1997
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 4: the Kansas City Royals in twenty fifteen.

1998
01:29:52,120 --> 01:29:55,839
Speaker 3: Like traded away guys with the starting pitching.

1999
01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,559
Speaker 4: I bring up the Hunter Green thing just because there's

2000
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 4: a clear disconnect between the two sides. You can blame Hunter,

2001
01:30:01,600 --> 01:30:04,120
Speaker 4: you can blame the Reds, but when there's a disconnected

2002
01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:07,040
Speaker 4: relationship balls apart, and I just I there was off

2003
01:30:07,120 --> 01:30:10,120
Speaker 4: season chatter which I don't think was baseless. I don't

2004
01:30:10,120 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 4: think they're gonna flip him at the deadline. Hopefully he

2005
01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:13,840
Speaker 4: comes back and helps the team in the second half.

2006
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 4: But you always look at the area of surplus. Who

2007
01:30:17,479 --> 01:30:20,479
Speaker 4: are the pitchers or who is the picture that the

2008
01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:24,639
Speaker 4: Reds are willing to deal and chances are at least

2009
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 4: I would bet that that's a more established name than

2010
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:29,760
Speaker 4: somebody who's not really done anything yet.

2011
01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:31,920
Speaker 2: Let's do a little bit more on the Reds, and

2012
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:35,120
Speaker 2: I think it's worth going back to this win total,

2013
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:37,840
Speaker 2: because if they're on the wrong side of it, I

2014
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:40,439
Speaker 2: think that means a lot more going forward for this organization.

2015
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 3: Let's dive into a little bit of that next.

2016
01:30:42,479 --> 01:30:45,879
Speaker 2: Since he three to sixty ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

2017
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:51,160
Speaker 3: I have heart failure and now where to be seen.

2018
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:54,120
Speaker 3: Welcome back. Since he three to sixty from Smoke Justice,

2019
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:55,519
Speaker 3: he understands this is work.

2020
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 2: It's the second time now that he's not been back

2021
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:01,880
Speaker 2: when we start a second this is unprofessional. He's hit

2022
01:31:01,920 --> 01:31:04,880
Speaker 2: a ten second violation. I'm good if you're a few

2023
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:07,639
Speaker 2: seconds late. What are we doing at this point? It's

2024
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:09,679
Speaker 2: I mean, we got twenty minutes left in the show.

2025
01:31:11,080 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 2: E SBN fifteen thirty Cincinnati sports stations.

2026
01:31:13,560 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 4: And by the way, not even like hustling back like no,

2027
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:20,040
Speaker 4: just casual. I mean he'll walk. He'll walk across the

2028
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 4: bridge with more urgency.

2029
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:26,040
Speaker 3: Figure at A and Tony got it. I'm sorry man,

2030
01:31:26,640 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 3: I and kissing babies. I'm here with Mulliger and the Times.

2031
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:31,080
Speaker 3: Austin Elmore.

2032
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:32,840
Speaker 5: Some guy just said, hey, man, I listen to you

2033
01:31:32,920 --> 01:31:35,160
Speaker 5: guys five days a week and goes and I want

2034
01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:38,680
Speaker 5: you to know because you are the show, said thank you.

2035
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 7: Eric.

2036
01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:42,559
Speaker 3: Wow, Eric, where's Eric? Eric's in the bathroom with where

2037
01:31:42,560 --> 01:31:44,720
Speaker 3: I just was Eric? Eric? That might have been who

2038
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:46,880
Speaker 3: you were talking about. Eric. Eric is the guy who

2039
01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 3: didn't get the girl. So I might as well go

2040
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:54,560
Speaker 3: talk to Austin. Oh, goodness, what do you want to

2041
01:31:54,560 --> 01:31:56,880
Speaker 3: talk about, Tony. Well, here's here's my one question.

2042
01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:02,719
Speaker 2: All of outside of Cincinnati, all of those that set

2043
01:32:03,360 --> 01:32:05,880
Speaker 2: win totals for Major League Baseball have set the Reds

2044
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:07,679
Speaker 2: under five hundred.

2045
01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 3: Huh.

2046
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 2: What are the ramifications in Cincinnati if by the end

2047
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 2: of this year, with everything they've done, bringing Suarez back,

2048
01:32:16,479 --> 01:32:21,800
Speaker 2: La de la Cruz lockout looming, if this team underperforms

2049
01:32:21,880 --> 01:32:25,040
Speaker 2: and doesn't get to five hundred, what does the front

2050
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:25,439
Speaker 2: office do?

2051
01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:28,920
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know if it's under five hundred.

2052
01:32:29,040 --> 01:32:32,559
Speaker 4: I mean, if they don't get to the playoffs in advance,

2053
01:32:32,760 --> 01:32:35,280
Speaker 4: it's gonna you're gonna have a hard time convincing people

2054
01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:39,200
Speaker 4: that's a successful season. I think it is the question

2055
01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:45,160
Speaker 4: that defines the year, because at some point in your

2056
01:32:45,200 --> 01:32:51,200
Speaker 4: franchise's evolution, there there have to be like past fail years. Yeah,

2057
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 4: this process, we'll coming off one. In college basketball here locally, yeah,

2058
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:57,880
Speaker 4: like that was it Wes Miller past Bale, or you're done.

2059
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 4: Maybe it's not with Zach Taylor. Right, At some point,

2060
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:04,720
Speaker 4: there have to be years where it's like it if

2061
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:07,840
Speaker 4: we don't make a meaningful step, and they did last year.

2062
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:11,559
Speaker 4: Last year was tangible evidence of a plan working. But okay,

2063
01:33:11,680 --> 01:33:14,360
Speaker 4: that's gotta be a jumping off point. The process that

2064
01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:17,680
Speaker 4: has resulted in the Reds having a team that we

2065
01:33:17,760 --> 01:33:21,080
Speaker 4: feel like can get to the postseason started at the

2066
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:24,200
Speaker 4: end of the twenty twenty season. And I know, I've

2067
01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:26,000
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna try to be I'm gonna tried not

2068
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:27,760
Speaker 4: to be too long winded here, but I've talked about

2069
01:33:27,760 --> 01:33:30,000
Speaker 4: this before. At the end of the twenty twenty season,

2070
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:33,519
Speaker 4: they gave away Rice Elaglesias and archiep Rabby. At that

2071
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:35,720
Speaker 4: point you knew what was next, and what was next

2072
01:33:35,960 --> 01:33:39,759
Speaker 4: was after the next season, they trade away Tucker Barnhart,

2073
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 4: are you Hamius Warraz, Jesse Winker, Nick Castianus leaves, Sonny

2074
01:33:43,479 --> 01:33:46,360
Speaker 4: Gray gone. A few months later, Luis Castillo gone, Tyler

2075
01:33:46,439 --> 01:33:49,000
Speaker 4: Mallley gone. All right, so now we're starting from scratch.

2076
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:52,519
Speaker 4: Then they begin the rebuild in Ernest twenty twenty two,

2077
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:55,640
Speaker 4: lose one hundred games, and the entire time, it's what

2078
01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:58,120
Speaker 4: we're doing is gonna have a payoff. The payoff is

2079
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:01,160
Speaker 4: supposed to be now, so what good is a plan

2080
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 4: if there's not an eventual payoff? The payoff can't be Well,

2081
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:05,880
Speaker 4: that one year we won eighty three games that got

2082
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:09,479
Speaker 4: bounced early, I think, and who knows when the next

2083
01:34:09,520 --> 01:34:12,360
Speaker 4: baseball season is going to be. But they fall short

2084
01:34:12,439 --> 01:34:14,800
Speaker 4: this year, Hey, let's just kind of run it back

2085
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:17,720
Speaker 4: with the same front office people, the same roster, doing

2086
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 4: the same things. I think it's the question that defines

2087
01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:25,240
Speaker 4: this season. If they're not a success, what's the fallout?

2088
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 4: What does that mean for Nick Krawl, What does that

2089
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:28,600
Speaker 4: mean for the front office, what does that mean for

2090
01:34:28,680 --> 01:34:31,840
Speaker 4: guys on this roster? And then obviously when will they

2091
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:34,000
Speaker 4: get a chance for a redo because we don't know

2092
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:34,880
Speaker 4: about the lockout nage.

2093
01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:37,719
Speaker 5: I also wonder about the future of Terry Francona. Sure

2094
01:34:37,800 --> 01:34:41,840
Speaker 5: he's not getting any younger, and I mean, with the

2095
01:34:41,960 --> 01:34:47,559
Speaker 5: idea of a lockout next year, how much longer does

2096
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:48,200
Speaker 5: he want to do this?

2097
01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:50,480
Speaker 3: And then you talk about the lava of the cruise future.

2098
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 5: That if there is a change in leadership like Nick

2099
01:34:54,400 --> 01:34:57,520
Speaker 5: Krawl or Brad Mehtter, does that affect what Terry Francona

2100
01:34:57,600 --> 01:35:01,280
Speaker 5: wants to do. And additionally, not just the future of

2101
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:05,599
Speaker 5: Terry Francona, but also the future of Bob Castellini if

2102
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:08,000
Speaker 5: he wants to continue being that, and we've heard and

2103
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:10,519
Speaker 5: talked about the Phil Castellini thing and him taking over

2104
01:35:10,600 --> 01:35:13,080
Speaker 5: and all that. I just wonder what the next chapter

2105
01:35:13,400 --> 01:35:16,679
Speaker 5: is because it feels like, kind of to your point,

2106
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:21,280
Speaker 5: this is a run at an opportunity to at the

2107
01:35:21,400 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 5: bare minimum advance in the postseason. And I hate that

2108
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 5: the bar is that low, but I think there are

2109
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:30,600
Speaker 5: a number of different names and positions in people that

2110
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:34,080
Speaker 5: could turn over to whatever the next chapter of Reds

2111
01:35:34,120 --> 01:35:34,680
Speaker 5: Baseball is.

2112
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:37,679
Speaker 2: I just think it's unique because everyone and we've seen

2113
01:35:37,720 --> 01:35:39,599
Speaker 2: this in the last couple of years, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie,

2114
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:41,880
Speaker 2: he's gonna leave, He's gonna leave, and Mo, you've been

2115
01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:44,320
Speaker 2: at the forefront of this of well, enjoy it while

2116
01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:47,120
Speaker 2: he's here and try to build win while you're winning team,

2117
01:35:47,360 --> 01:35:51,120
Speaker 2: and then maybe when those negotiations happen, give the next

2118
01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:51,719
Speaker 2: path forward.

2119
01:35:51,800 --> 01:35:54,360
Speaker 3: This is why you want to be in Cincinnati. That's

2120
01:35:54,439 --> 01:35:57,479
Speaker 3: my concern this year because if it goes south and

2121
01:35:57,560 --> 01:36:00,280
Speaker 3: then the lockout's looming much more the day of the

2122
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 3: crew service time, you got yeah, all right, then it's

2123
01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:05,599
Speaker 3: starting to can you even put a winning product out there?

2124
01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:07,000
Speaker 5: This is it.

2125
01:36:07,439 --> 01:36:10,600
Speaker 3: You took the baby step last year. You made the playoffs.

2126
01:36:11,439 --> 01:36:16,080
Speaker 3: You didn't kick down the door. You limped into the

2127
01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:19,280
Speaker 3: playoffs last year. It didn't go well in LA.

2128
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 2: You've made additions in the offseason, but around Major League Baseball,

2129
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:26,479
Speaker 2: no one's really viewing this team.

2130
01:36:26,280 --> 01:36:26,920
Speaker 3: As a contender.

2131
01:36:27,680 --> 01:36:31,400
Speaker 2: So this and by contender, I mean contend in the

2132
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 2: NL Central and make the playoffs. It's not like we're

2133
01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:36,639
Speaker 2: up here today saying this is World Series or bust,

2134
01:36:37,120 --> 01:36:39,160
Speaker 2: and if not, it's a disappointment. You got to pull

2135
01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 2: the plug on the whole thing. You've got to advance.

2136
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:45,479
Speaker 2: You've got this year. We talked about it every year,

2137
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:47,439
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor, they got to make the playoffs.

2138
01:36:47,479 --> 01:36:47,760
Speaker 3: This year.

2139
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,599
Speaker 2: We talked about it with Wes Miller. NCAA tournament or bust.

2140
01:36:51,880 --> 01:36:53,920
Speaker 2: You've got to get to the playoffs and advance this

2141
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:54,799
Speaker 2: year and if.

2142
01:36:54,760 --> 01:36:57,760
Speaker 3: Not, what's next. There's no viable excuse this year.

2143
01:36:58,200 --> 01:37:00,760
Speaker 5: They spent more money, they got good players, they have

2144
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame manager.

2145
01:37:02,640 --> 01:37:04,200
Speaker 3: All the stuff that you need is there.

2146
01:37:04,479 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 5: The only excuse was that the Dodgers are really good

2147
01:37:08,040 --> 01:37:10,759
Speaker 5: and the Mets are really good, and that you can't control.

2148
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:15,760
Speaker 4: You know, we've been waiting for a very long time,

2149
01:37:16,120 --> 01:37:20,000
Speaker 4: and that's not just the obvious thirty one years. In

2150
01:37:21,160 --> 01:37:24,280
Speaker 4: the early twenty tens, it felt like when they lost

2151
01:37:24,280 --> 01:37:27,479
Speaker 4: to the Giants, you know, in five games, it was

2152
01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 4: that was their best chance.

2153
01:37:29,320 --> 01:37:30,840
Speaker 3: Because this is gonna get torn down.

2154
01:37:31,200 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 4: And in twenty thirteen they had a good club, but

2155
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:36,240
Speaker 4: that ended up being the case, and by the end

2156
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 4: of the twenty fourteen season it was abundantly clear like

2157
01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:41,400
Speaker 4: they missed their shot, yep. And then it was hang

2158
01:37:41,479 --> 01:37:43,840
Speaker 4: with us. Hang, we're gonna go through some lean years.

2159
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 3: Hang with us. What was the payoff for that? But

2160
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:48,120
Speaker 3: you know what, in those leaning what does the city

2161
01:37:48,160 --> 01:37:50,519
Speaker 3: still do? They show up sort of right.

2162
01:37:50,479 --> 01:37:53,479
Speaker 4: Twenty eighteen, lowest attendance in thirty four years, and then

2163
01:37:53,520 --> 01:37:55,400
Speaker 4: the front office is like, okay, we got to go

2164
01:37:55,479 --> 01:37:58,400
Speaker 4: get a Selquig, a least fans have heard of him.

2165
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:01,600
Speaker 3: Show go, but show go. But the payoff ended up

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Speaker 3: being COVID had something to do with this. Thirty two

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Speaker 3: wins in twenty twenty been getting bounty in the postseason,

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Speaker 3: your buddy Trevor Bauer when I saw young.

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Speaker 4: So then all right, we'll start again twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna stink, but bear with us. There's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a payoff. The payoffs haven't been there now again like

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Speaker 4: last year. Last year was not the payoff. Last year

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Speaker 4: was again tangible proof that what they're doing is working.

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Speaker 4: You cannot keep telling fans the payoffs come, and the

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Speaker 4: payoffs come and bear with us and not deliver. At

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Speaker 4: some point they're gonna bolt. And then you add to

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Speaker 4: it possible work stoppage. However long that.

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Speaker 2: Goes, Like, if you fail this year and then there's

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Speaker 2: a work stoppage, how do you get people back?

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Speaker 4: So you're gonna have fans who are like, man, I'm

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Speaker 4: tired of waiting on you. You keep telling me the

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Speaker 4: payoffs coming.

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Speaker 3: It never does. Oh, now you're taking the game away.

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Speaker 3: I'm done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and like that sounds like, man, that would never

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Speaker 4: happen yet. Well, because I watched it in the nineties

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Speaker 4: before the Reds made us wait thirty years to advance

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01:38:56,720 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 4: in the postseason, I think this is an extraordinarily critical

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Speaker 4: year for this franchise just in terms of its relationship

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Speaker 4: with us. Yeah, because I think you have a lot

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Speaker 4: of folks look at it today, All right, last year, good,

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Speaker 4: you're making progress. Payoffs gotta come. If you keep telling

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Speaker 4: people to wait with no payoff. I make the analogy

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01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 4: all the time. You go to a restaurant and you're

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01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:21,000
Speaker 4: told to wait, Okay, it's gonna be fifteen minutes, Yeah, wait,

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Speaker 4: thirty minutes.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: After a while, it's like, where's my table, I'm somewhere else,

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Speaker 4: And fans are gonna do the same thing. If you

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Speaker 4: don't deliver a payoff this year, I think there's gonna

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Speaker 4: be consequences from the perspective of the public.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh, some good news because.

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01:39:37,160 --> 01:39:39,960
Speaker 2: We talked about a fast start early action today across

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01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:43,400
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, three games are happening. Pirates trail the

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Speaker 2: Mets five to three, White Sox lead the Brewers one

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Speaker 2: to nothing.

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01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:50,720
Speaker 3: Come go, Nationals lead the Cubs one nothing. Let's go.

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Speaker 3: It's all year. Let's go wire to wire it runs

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Speaker 3: through Cincinnati. Yeah, and the clock. Are we fired up yet?

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Speaker 3: Are we excited? The cutting the hill? Damn it? Are

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01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:10,840
Speaker 3: we ready? There we go? Let's go red Lean there

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Speaker 3: has no idea what you're saying to him, Maso is useless.

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Speaker 3: I'm useless.

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Speaker 2: We'll put a bow on this next phrase SP fifteen,

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Speaker 2: third Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for a quick hits on Tony Pikes

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Speaker 1: since three.

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Speaker 3: Six close with us for quick Kids. Yeah, coming up

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Speaker 3: off the show today. What do you got coming up Mountain?

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Speaker 5: Not me?

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Speaker 2: Chad Brendle, Chad Brendall for three hours all over. What's

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Speaker 2: Chag gonna talk about?

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Speaker 3: Jared Calhoun? Okay? Is Jared gonna join him for an hour?

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Speaker 4: Maybe?

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Speaker 5: I don't know. By the way, for an hour tomorrow

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Speaker 5: on our show from twelve thirty to one thirty, Charlie

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01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:53,680
Speaker 5: Goldsmith will join us in studio about that game man

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Speaker 5: about talking a little bit about the Reds. By the way,

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Speaker 5: there's one thing we forgot to do, boys, that we

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Speaker 5: got to get in before this show is over, because

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Speaker 5: as you know, today is day one of one hundred

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Speaker 5: and sixty two Major League games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which means it's.

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Speaker 3: To moist hands, naturally moist, Naturally moist you what anyone

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Speaker 3: ever describe you as naturally moist.

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Speaker 5: No one here, nobody at a certain establishment on the

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Speaker 5: West Side, has ever said that about you.

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Speaker 4: Nobody that has said that to my face. Nobody that's

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Speaker 4: in my life. Right now, Okay, fair enough, it's windy

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Speaker 4: out there, looks Wendy.

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Speaker 3: A couple minutes.

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Speaker 5: Our guys up to eighteen miles brow see the wind blowing.

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01:41:46,800 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 5: It's gonna be blowing out to right field if I'm

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Speaker 5: not mistaken, if I got my geography, care out.

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Speaker 3: What's your goal for this season for the Reds?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Because I want to piggyback what our guy Drew said, have.

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Speaker 4: A home playoff game, win, a home playoff game, win

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01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:06,160
Speaker 4: a home Great America Ballpark has never hosted a Reds win.

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Speaker 3: In the postseason. I think that's a good place to

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Speaker 3: start postseason advancement.

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Speaker 4: Outside of that, it's hard to imagine anybody considering the

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Speaker 4: season a success.

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Speaker 5: The standard is the standard, and that's to win the

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Speaker 5: World Series, period, point blank. I would love win the

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Speaker 5: National League Central. I would love to advance in the postseason.

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Speaker 5: But this is Cincinnati, and we talk about how great

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Speaker 5: Cincinnati is in this rich baseball history, and that's cool.

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01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:32,800
Speaker 5: There are five World Series trophies in this town. It's

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Speaker 5: been thirty plus years since we last had another one.

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Speaker 3: Back it up. I'll settle for just a playoff win

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Speaker 3: series win. Yeah, I but that.

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Speaker 4: I want to be in a position where one dance

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Speaker 4: World Series or bust. But get to the dance and

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01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:51,160
Speaker 4: like to me, it's get to the dance with a

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01:42:51,240 --> 01:42:54,479
Speaker 4: legitimate chance to compete even before that series started last

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01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:56,600
Speaker 4: year because of how what they had to do to

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Speaker 4: get there. Yeah, rotation wasn't said, team wasn't whole. Like

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Speaker 4: play from ahead all season and go into the postseason

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Speaker 4: with a chance to plan for it and have a

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Speaker 4: puncher's chance and then win when you get there.

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Speaker 3: When will Trevor Power get his gift to the Reds?

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Speaker 3: Let me had that since he buds thing. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: still here, Still here, Bill around. Thanks to Russ Backett Studio.

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Speaker 3: Thank you to Russ back to Drew, Thank you guy,

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Speaker 3: Richard Dickman.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Smoke Justice. Yes, thank you for listening, Thank

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Speaker 2: you for coming out. Have an awesome opening day.

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01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:30,360
Speaker 3: Are we ready to go? Yes? Go? Hey joy, thanks

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01:43:30,400 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 3: so much for listening.

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Speaker 6: To ESPN Cincinnati to make us the number one pre

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01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:36,439
Speaker 6: said on your car radio and on the free new

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01:43:36,439 --> 01:43:39,760
Speaker 6: and improved iHeartRadio app Free Never sounded so good.

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Speaker 3: ESPN fifteen thirty