Speaker 1: Six nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati, chicklog Wig
Speaker 1: seven hundred w l W.
Speaker 2: This is Sports Talk. Honored to be filling in for
Speaker 2: Lance McAllister tonight. Joe Waddell is Tonight's producer. We're going
Speaker 2: all the way to nine o'clock like Eric Carmen and
Speaker 2: the Raspberries. To be honest, folks, I was dreaming of
Speaker 2: a Kyle Schwarber Christmas here in Cincinnati, dreaming of the
Speaker 2: Middletown kid coming home and playing for the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 2: But that dream died today when Schwarber and his representatives
Speaker 2: agreed to stay in Philadelphia with the Phillies for one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million reasons over five years. My Ohio
Speaker 2: State math tells me that's an average of thirty MILLI
Speaker 2: a year. And Kyle has already coming off a four year,
Speaker 2: seventy nine million dollar contract with the Phills and became
Speaker 2: one of the most sought after free agents on the market.
Speaker 2: The Reds were believed to be in the running for Schwarber,
Speaker 2: but they were long shots, and it's really unclear how
Speaker 2: seriously the Red Sox, Mets Orioles Giants pursueding Schwarber is
Speaker 2: thirty two years old. He turns thirty three in March.
Speaker 2: He's got a couple young kids getting ready to start school.
Speaker 2: It would have been so awesome to have him come
Speaker 2: back and finish his career with the Reds, but no,
Speaker 2: He's staying in Philly. And Schwarber finished second in the
Speaker 2: mL in the MVP National League voting this year after
Speaker 2: leading the league with fifty six home runs and leading
Speaker 2: all of Major League Baseball with one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: two RBIs. The Reds now have a void and left
Speaker 2: field and they seek a power back. Where is it
Speaker 2: going to come from? Hey, it's anyone's guests. Charlie Goldsmith
Speaker 2: reporting from Orlando, Florida, at the Winter Meetings that the
Speaker 2: Reds were in serious pursuit of Schwarber. He even had
Speaker 2: an in person meeting him and his wife in late
Speaker 2: November with the Reds front office Terry Francona and owner
Speaker 2: Bob Castellini. And according to Charlie, the Reds weren't told
Speaker 2: that they were out of the running until this morning.
Speaker 2: How disappointed are you Reds fan that Schwarber isn't going
Speaker 2: to become a Cincinnati Red. I've got my coffee. I've
Speaker 2: got my computer, all I need is you at five
Speaker 2: point three seven four nine, seven thousand and one, eight hundred,
Speaker 2: the Big One, And it sure looks like the Reds
Speaker 2: are going to go with what they've got, sticking with
Speaker 2: their guns to draft and build from within.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: I was in the Crosley Room at Riverfront Stadium slash
Speaker 2: Synergy Field the night that Ken Griffy Junior was introduced
Speaker 2: to the Cincinnati media place was absolutely packed. There was
Speaker 2: a frenzy throughout the city. The Queen City was on
Speaker 2: fire about Ken Griffy Junior. Had the Reds signed Kyle Schwarber,
Speaker 2: I would have think that the impact would have been approaching,
Speaker 2: not saying greater than, but approaching the signing of Ken
Speaker 2: Griffy Junior. One hundred and fifty million dollars is a lot,
Speaker 2: But what it would have meant for attendance?
Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: At least the first couple three months Great American Ballpark
Speaker 2: would have been packed. Oh the dream became a nightmare
Speaker 2: for the Chickster and probably you.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Mark Sheldon who covers the Reds for Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: MLB dot com. He has an interesting story up on
Speaker 2: reds dot Com that manager Terry Francona plans to manage
Speaker 2: Ellie de Lacruz differently this year, and that means pretty simple,
Speaker 2: more rest, no more grinding with one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: one starts like this past season, Francona said, there were
Speaker 2: a lot of things going on. I think I need
Speaker 2: to take responsibility, and I have and I will. He
Speaker 2: told Mark Sheldon at the winter meetings in Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 2: I need to find ways to get him, meaning Ellie,
Speaker 2: off his feet from time to time, and I didn't
Speaker 2: do a very good job of that, and I own
Speaker 2: up to that. I love the fact that he Elie
Speaker 2: de la Cruz wants to play and he's one of
Speaker 2: the rare guys where he can bring energy every day,
Speaker 2: which is really amazing, Francona said, but saying that he
Speaker 2: gets beat up so much sometimes the day game off
Speaker 2: after the night game might be really helpful for him.
Speaker 2: Totally agree. But what would Kyle Schwarber signing have done
Speaker 2: to us? Oh, it's been unbelievable. Let's not mess around.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to the phones. Jeff is in the
Speaker 2: Great State of Tennessee. Jeff, what's going on, Yes, sir.
Speaker 6: That's what. What must the ladies on the rads?
Speaker 3: Force trades or free agency?
Speaker 4: Nothing right now? Nothing. We're waiting for news. We're waiting
Speaker 4: for a signing.
Speaker 7: Well do you reckon that that they're going to bring
Speaker 7: in a big bath, that's.
Speaker 2: What they need. Paul, Paul Goldschmith's out there. Could they
Speaker 2: possibly bring back Austin Hayes, who knows you got Miguel
Speaker 2: Andrew harr Is a free agent? He did well for
Speaker 2: the Reds last year. They could possibly bring him back.
Speaker 8: Yes, uh and uh uh what about sooner?
Speaker 2: Hey, anything's possible to improve this bullpen? So well?
Speaker 7: Uh, I'll give great one thing, you know, bringing breaking.
Speaker 3: Uh a video back? I like that bringing him back?
Speaker 2: Well, Jeff, We're just gonna have to wait and see.
Speaker 2: There's a lot that will happen. Uh, hopefully coming out
Speaker 2: of the winter meetings here and even when we get
Speaker 2: the spring training. Hey, appreciate the call. Appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Zach.
Speaker 2: Zach is in Hamilton, wants to talk Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 10: Hi, Zach, Hey, Hey doing brother. I hope you're having
Speaker 10: a fantastic day. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4: Sure, did, thank you.
Speaker 9: I just want to I just want to bring up
Speaker 9: one thing.
Speaker 10: I'm twenty eight years old, born in ninety seven, so
Speaker 10: I've seen I've seen the big players with the Reds.
Speaker 10: I'm a I love the Reds to death.
Speaker 11: I really do.
Speaker 4: Same here.
Speaker 10: Yes, my question to you is, is I understand that
Speaker 10: signing Kyle Schwarber would maybe you know, pack pack the
Speaker 10: red Stadium, this, this and that. But when you I
Speaker 10: just want to hear your opinion. I'm not going against
Speaker 10: your opinion.
Speaker 6: I just want to hear it.
Speaker 12: And then do you.
Speaker 10: Really think he would be a good investment for how
Speaker 10: young this team is and on the on the flip side,
Speaker 10: with all the other work the team has to deal with,
Speaker 10: it would he even be It's if the Reds were
Speaker 10: in a run to have him, what would it be
Speaker 10: worth us the Reds spending one hundred and whatever forty
Speaker 10: million dollars on him for four years?
Speaker 11: Like, I'm just curious on what you're.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at two are and fifty six home runs
Speaker 2: this past year for the Philadelphia Phillies. He would turn
Speaker 2: Great American Ballpark into his own personal playground. And Zach
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. Hey, yeah, real quick.
Speaker 10: Okay, can you compare him to Ellie de la Cruz.
Speaker 4: No, they're two different players.
Speaker 2: But what would happen is what would happen is he
Speaker 2: would protect Ellie.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 11: If that's what you agree with that, I'll let you go.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks very much, Zach and Hamilton appreciate it,
Speaker 2: all right? Tim is in Columbus, Hi, Tim.
Speaker 8: Hey, check, Well, I'm disappointed, but not surprised, yep. And
Speaker 8: I think that, unfortunately, I think that we're.
Speaker 3: Going to get more of the same, Yeah, out of.
Speaker 8: This club, Struggle to get over five hundred, struggle to
Speaker 8: get into playoffs, go on the road, play the number
Speaker 8: one seed, get beat two games, and go home. And
Speaker 8: I guess, as Reds fans, we have to temper our expectations.
Speaker 8: And I guess we have to start putting up banners
Speaker 8: in the stadium for finishing over five hundred, because I
Speaker 8: have a feeling that that's as good as it's gonna get.
Speaker 8: I'm a Reds fan for fifty years, and I just
Speaker 8: I'm just heartbroken and disappointed.
Speaker 9: That has come to this.
Speaker 8: And I go into every season with hope and aspirations
Speaker 8: that this.
Speaker 5: Will be the year.
Speaker 8: And I Unfortunately, they've they've they've beaten me down to
Speaker 8: the point where I have zero expectations and I just
Speaker 8: think it's gonna take them now to get up to
Speaker 8: get a bona fide bat, they would have to do
Speaker 8: a trade like Hunter Green, Matt McClain and another high
Speaker 8: prospect to trade for someone like a Ronald Acunya from
Speaker 8: the Braves who's uh, who's who has a long, long term.
Speaker 3: Deal already in place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the only way they're.
Speaker 8: Going to get any type of a power hitter in
Speaker 8: that lineup at this point.
Speaker 2: Well, in the strength of this team is the starting
Speaker 2: pitching and so they're uh, they're wealthy in that department,
Speaker 2: and it could very well come down to, hey, a
Speaker 2: Brady Singer getting moved. I'm not ruling anything out, not
Speaker 2: ruling anything out. Uh, I do think, yeah, I do
Speaker 2: think with Matt mccoin coming back, he's got he's absolutely
Speaker 2: has to be better, and the blossoming of a South
Speaker 2: Stewart to deject what he brought in September cannot be denied.
Speaker 2: He brought some energy to this club and he's got
Speaker 2: to bring some more.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So, and unfortunately, and unfortunately we're left to dumpster dive
Speaker 8: and other teams garb players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well maybe there's a treasure in there somewhere. Tim alright,
Speaker 2: all right, yeah, all right, appreciate it. Hey, Pat is
Speaker 2: in Seymour, Indiana. Pat, what's going on?
Speaker 14: Jick?
Speaker 13: Long time since Ted Talkia, since the Winter Fantastic Band.
Speaker 4: Good to hear your voice again.
Speaker 13: Hey, you know, I've thought a lot about this. I mean,
Speaker 13: I don't know what kind of money the Reds do make,
Speaker 13: but I mean they paid him thirty million a year
Speaker 13: for five years. We've we've we've stumbled on the Stakas
Speaker 13: and the guy who were paying sixteen million next year.
Speaker 13: I don't know for five years, I don't know. I
Speaker 13: don't think I would have did that myself. But then
Speaker 13: I look at all the people they want to talk
Speaker 13: about signing. They're all two forty hitters and don't hit
Speaker 13: too many homers.
Speaker 5: I don't know what we got.
Speaker 13: We might have to keep what we got and hope
Speaker 13: for that happens.
Speaker 2: But that's yeah, uh, young club. It's improving, and they
Speaker 2: did reach the playoffs last year, and yes, they took
Speaker 2: advantage of the Mets collapse, so that counts for something.
Speaker 4: So they got a taste of it.
Speaker 2: Now, keep improving and uh, let's get back to the
Speaker 2: playoffs and see what happens.
Speaker 13: I'm hoping, so I said, I'm your agent. I don't
Speaker 13: give up. But I mean, if I had the money
Speaker 13: and I was paying for it, I don't know if
Speaker 13: I'd be paying some of these guys the money they
Speaker 13: want to get for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's enjoy the twenty twenty sixth season because
Speaker 2: there very well could be a stoppage because of the
Speaker 2: disparity in payrolls by the top and the bottom. It's
Speaker 2: it's massive. So pat appreciate the call man. Thank you, Hey,
Speaker 2: good talking to you. But all right you too. Hey,
Speaker 2: Mike is in Dayton, Mike, what is happening?
Speaker 14: I didn't need no Iowa and the home of the
Speaker 14: from gunny Sunny Indians. Anyway, I want to talk about
Speaker 14: the Red situation or do we have to do to
Speaker 14: get a big bets?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 14: We can't.
Speaker 2: What's to work at a trade? Work a trade, Mike
Speaker 2: with one of these starting pitchers.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it seems like they don't want it, and like
Speaker 14: the Red don't want it.
Speaker 2: Send the man begins, Uh bad, there's a big old
Speaker 2: void out there.
Speaker 4: In left field, isn't there? Yes, and we need to
Speaker 4: stand out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got Hunter Green, Brady Singer, Andrew Abbott,
Speaker 2: Chase Burns, Uh, Red Louder, Nicoldolo, Richie Pitching rich right now,
Speaker 2: it's starting rotation and they might have to deal one
Speaker 2: of these guys.
Speaker 14: Half of our half of our pens stuff was on
Speaker 14: the disabledent one.
Speaker 15: The last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Juli and Aggie our is back, so is Brandon.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what they got come the spring. And Mike,
Speaker 2: I gotta run, man, I got to run. Appreciate your call.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Jimmy is in Cincinnati, Jimmy, what do you say?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 7: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 7: You know, I got a few comments. I want to
Speaker 7: make one. You know, I listen to this show off
Speaker 7: and I'm getting off work here. I'm coming from Columbus.
Speaker 7: Look the fans, we gotta chill.
Speaker 16: Out a little bit.
Speaker 7: Kyle Schwarber isn't gonna be still in the stadium to
Speaker 7: more than half or seventy five percent full on a
Speaker 7: Tuesday in April, or you know, in the end of
Speaker 7: August and September when the Reds are in fourth and
Speaker 7: Sis play sometimes, you know, I know, I've been a
Speaker 7: dahar fan my entire life. Yeah, but it kind of
Speaker 7: goes both ways, you know, we the fans. There's been
Speaker 7: so many times that you'll turn on the Reds game,
Speaker 7: especially against the Cubs, and you'll see more blue on
Speaker 7: the stands in Red. You can't have that and then
Speaker 7: sit up here and cry and complain every day about
Speaker 7: how the team doesn't go out to kylege s Wwarber
Speaker 7: number two, y'all want to the Reds are not the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: We're not the Yankees, We're not the Mets. You know,
Speaker 7: I was looking at a Facebook post today. A dude
Speaker 7: was up here saying, you know, ownerships looking at things
Speaker 7: the wrong way because you know, since he's more than
Speaker 7: just a city. You know, we're dating in Louisville and Lexington,
Speaker 7: down to Kentucky and West Virginia. You know, we got
Speaker 7: parts of Indiana up in Columbus.
Speaker 6: All that.
Speaker 7: Again, that's great, but if you look at how our
Speaker 7: lineup is, if you look at the amount that we
Speaker 7: have on our payroll, we cannot compete paying a guy
Speaker 7: like Kyleege Schwarber.
Speaker 5: To play dh y.
Speaker 7: You know, if you look at our roster, where are
Speaker 7: you gonna put them.
Speaker 2: At Yeah, he's strictly a DH and Hey, Jimmy, I
Speaker 2: appreciate the call.
Speaker 4: I got to run.
Speaker 2: We've reached the the bottom of the ole briad.
Speaker 4: Hey, feel free to have hang on, feel free to
Speaker 4: hang on. We'll put you on hold.
Speaker 2: We've got Mark and Milford, We've got Shane in uh
Speaker 2: Is in maple Wood.
Speaker 4: Hey, hang on.
Speaker 2: I'll get back to you guys right after the break. Hey,
Speaker 2: it's the Chickster chick Ludwig filling in for Lance McAllister tonight,
Speaker 2: bumming that Kyle Schwarber is remaining in Philadelphia on seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW six forty one in the Queens City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: How long commercial breaks? Hey, it's the holidays and a
Speaker 2: lot of advertising and sponsors here at iHeartMedia Cincinnati. Outstanding.
Speaker 2: It's paying the bills man, fantastic. But congratulations to Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2: By the time he turns thirty seven years old, and
Speaker 2: he'll be thirty three in March, two hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: nine million dollars just in his last two contracts, the
Speaker 2: five years one fifty that he's signing now and the
Speaker 2: previous four years at seventy nine. That doesn't take into
Speaker 2: account his six previous seasons or seven six with the
Speaker 2: Cubs from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty, and then he
Speaker 2: was with the Washington Nationals in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 2: got traded to the Red Sox in twenty one. So wow,
Speaker 2: seven previous seasons add to that. Man, we're talking a
Speaker 2: quarter of a billion dollars for Kyle Schwarber. Let's go
Speaker 2: back out to the phones, Jimmy and Cincinnati. You wanted
Speaker 2: to finish what you were.
Speaker 7: Saying, Hey, thank you for let me, you know, jump
Speaker 7: back on, man, it was a minute. The only thing
Speaker 7: I wanted to say.
Speaker 3: The Reds.
Speaker 7: The problem area on this team is middle infield. You
Speaker 7: can't Ellie does not need to be playing a short stop,
Speaker 7: but you can't move them because everybody in the outfield
Speaker 7: has basically played their way into a position. You know,
Speaker 7: Freedom is the only guy that gets on base, and Mark, Hey,
Speaker 7: he showed with his bat once he moved out there
Speaker 7: to white field that you know that that's where he
Speaker 7: needs to be Yes opening day, those are probably gonna
Speaker 7: be two of the three spots and then the left
Speaker 7: deal we gonna have to figure out what to do,
Speaker 7: because if we want south Stewart in the lineup, you know,
Speaker 7: he only played first to third. People complain about Keith
Speaker 7: Brown Hayes, but gold Glove He's gonna be our third
Speaker 7: basement for the nets. What four or five?
Speaker 13: Six?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: I look at south Stewart is playing some first base,
Speaker 2: mainly mainly special Steer, but south Stewart first base and
Speaker 2: some dh and Jimmy, I got.
Speaker 4: A run man, Thank you so much, appreciate you. Ah
Speaker 4: right here all right?
Speaker 2: Uh Mark and Milford's been waiting forever, Hi Mark, home
Speaker 2: of the Eagles.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 17: So Kyle Schwarber's off the market, Yes, sir, there's always
Speaker 17: there's always Bragman, Tucker and Alonzo and from what's in
Speaker 17: I like Andal Harr. You brought him up. Maybe a
Speaker 17: forgotten guy.
Speaker 2: Oh I love Andrew Harr and Douhar. Yeah, get him
Speaker 2: back here, getting back here. That dude can hit. He
Speaker 2: struggled to run with some leg injury, some leg soreness,
Speaker 2: but the dude can hit. I'd love to have him
Speaker 2: come back. And he was the underdog dark horse. All
Speaker 2: the dude does is hit lefties, so he is valuable.
Speaker 17: I want him back and Gavin Lux is going to
Speaker 17: be around.
Speaker 4: Right, Yes he is. Yeah.
Speaker 17: That brings me to this point of view. I brought
Speaker 17: up with Lance McAllister about July when Hunter Green was
Speaker 17: hurt and Elie Delacruz hurt. Okay, I said, Lance, let's
Speaker 17: switch through here. Let's put Elliet in center. Let's put
Speaker 17: Friedo and right, Mark Tee and left and DH with
Speaker 17: andohr and locks at second. You're short up.
Speaker 4: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Lus's glove scares me a lot, especially in left field.
Speaker 4: Summitt second base.
Speaker 17: He's older, but he can hit.
Speaker 2: I love you, No, he can, he can, Yeah he
Speaker 2: can DH two. Uh yeah, where do you put him?
Speaker 2: So a lot of moving parts with this uh, with
Speaker 2: this team. I like Marte in right field, no doubt.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 4: You're not going to move Alley off a short.
Speaker 2: That's what the management I know, I know, I know
Speaker 2: well And if you were listening earlier, Terry Francone is
Speaker 2: going to work with him differently. They're going to give
Speaker 2: him more rest because he's beating himself up out there
Speaker 2: injury wise, and he's still playing.
Speaker 4: So hey, yeah, he wants.
Speaker 17: To be out there on sixty two.
Speaker 2: You know he does and uh with then dam some
Speaker 2: and night game, afternoon game. Man, Uh, resting one of
Speaker 2: those games.
Speaker 4: Period. Got you, Yeah, we got you.
Speaker 17: Pitcher is awesome. I think we're going to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're stock pilot starting Pitchington's coming back hopefully
Speaker 2: coming back.
Speaker 17: Guys that were out for a while.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so pitching the point. Yeah, an embarrassment of
Speaker 2: riches people. They could they very well.
Speaker 17: Could so to get a Bragman or a Tucker.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that would be god. Bregman love him?
Speaker 17: Is dis the Reds head? Is he so with the Dodgers?
Speaker 2: Uh, you know what, I'll check on that. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: will check on that. Yeah, all right, crazy, okay, both
Speaker 2: all right? Uh no, no, that's not gonna happen. All right,
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, man.
Speaker 17: You're the greatest.
Speaker 4: Thank you, sir, appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Uh Bob and Sarasota, Bob, fantastic.
Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, was it immediately that the Reds had
Speaker 7: a shot at getting Schwarber or something. That's one of
Speaker 7: these things where it seems like, uh, let's put some
Speaker 7: more false hope out there in Red's Land where nothing
Speaker 7: actually materializes.
Speaker 3: Well, I.
Speaker 7: Compare the Reds.
Speaker 3: Lots of the Rays down here.
Speaker 7: Small market, short payroll, but the Rays are competitive year
Speaker 7: after year, where the Reds just can't seem to get
Speaker 7: it done.
Speaker 2: But hey, you know, it's got to count for something
Speaker 2: to get to the playoffs. They got hot at the
Speaker 2: end of the year, they took advantage of the Mets collapse.
Speaker 2: They still got there. They got a taste of it.
Speaker 2: Now they've got to take the next step. And I
Speaker 2: think they can. I think they can because I think.
Speaker 7: They they need to get the big bat though.
Speaker 4: They need to they do. We've been screaming about that
Speaker 4: for over a year, over a year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a hitter's friendly ballparks. They're going to put
Speaker 7: people in the stands if they get a guy who
Speaker 7: can hit forty to fifty knocks a year, you know,
Speaker 7: with O Tawny look at the ROI the Dodgers got
Speaker 7: on that investment. They've already paid for his.
Speaker 4: Uh oh, yeah, you know, absolutely seven, no doubt.
Speaker 7: And I think Cincinnati could be in the same boat
Speaker 7: if if they spend a little, you know, maybe take
Speaker 7: a shot and get rid of a couple of these
Speaker 7: talents in the pipeline. And yeah, you know, you got
Speaker 7: to bite the bullet at some point. But they need
Speaker 7: a guy to hit forty to fifty knocks a.
Speaker 2: Year in thirty thirty to forty, no doubt. All Right, Bob,
Speaker 2: all right, appreciate you don't care. Thanks all right, thank you.
Speaker 2: Mark in Montgomery, Hi, Mark.
Speaker 7: Hey, good evening.
Speaker 4: How are you good.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 19: A couple of things, you know, just you know, trying
Speaker 19: to put this Kyle Schber thing in perspective. You know,
Speaker 19: I was doing some research, and I mean the revenues
Speaker 19: in these bigger markets, you know, the RESI just can't
Speaker 19: compete with that. I mean, I saw that twenty twenty three,
Speaker 19: Philadelphia got one hundred and twenty five million on local
Speaker 19: TV and they just signed a brand new deal with
Speaker 19: Comcast or NBC worth two and a half billion dollars
Speaker 19: for the next twenty five years. So you know, I mean, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think the Reds could do more.
Speaker 6: They could spend a little.
Speaker 19: More, but I mean some of these teams and where
Speaker 19: they are, I mean, they're it's never going to compete
Speaker 19: with that kind of television market because of the population
Speaker 19: size of the area. And it's just a sad fact.
Speaker 19: The NFL works because you got a salary cap, and
Speaker 19: you can go from losing twelve games in a year
Speaker 19: and winning twelve the next year because of that in
Speaker 19: the competition, and baseball is the only sport that doesn't have,
Speaker 19: you know, something similar to that, and that's why you
Speaker 19: have ten teams with all the revenues and the other
Speaker 19: twenty trying to remain relevant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Dodgers, Yankees, and Mets are glad to pay
Speaker 2: that luxury tax. So we got to enjoy the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six season, man, because we could have a stoppage
Speaker 2: at twenty seven.
Speaker 19: So I think that's inevitable quite frankly. Yeah, alrighty, Well,
Speaker 19: appreciate the time.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much. Thanks all right, appreciate
Speaker 2: it man, all the callers. Wow, that was awesome. A
Speaker 2: lot to get to. Still here tonight talking Bengals, talking
Speaker 2: to college football playoffs. And when I think of the Bengals,
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, when I'm wrong, I say that I'm wrong,
Speaker 2: And I was wrong about Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 4: Boy did I get fooled. Didn't we all get fooled?
Speaker 2: He pulled off But you got to congratulate the guy
Speaker 2: because he pulled off the greatest heist since the Prince robbery.
Speaker 2: He fleed Mike Brown and the Bengals for twenty nine
Speaker 2: million dollars this year. He's hurt, maybe not his fault,
Speaker 2: injured surgery, out for the remainder of the year, and
Speaker 2: he'll work hard to try to get another contract next year,
Speaker 2: but it won't be in Cincinnati. And all I can
Speaker 2: say is, Trey, you worked your cards right. You came
Speaker 2: in with a hold in situation. You garnered all the
Speaker 2: sympathy from really me, the media, sports writers, broadcasters, and teammates.
Speaker 2: I even said, pay the guy. He deserves it, coming
Speaker 2: off seventeen and a half sacks from last year. But
Speaker 2: I got fooled. He flees the Bengals for twenty nine
Speaker 2: million dollars. His salary was going to be in the
Speaker 2: final year of his contract sixteen million. He said he
Speaker 2: would hold out and not play for sixteen because TJ.
Speaker 2: Watt and all these other dudes were getting paid megabox.
Speaker 2: So he but he comes to training camp, plays the
Speaker 2: good guy, mentoring younger players, but he's not working out.
Speaker 2: But he he might be working out at the facility,
Speaker 2: but he's not practicing. The thing is Mike Brown was
Speaker 2: forced forced to give him thirteen extra million dollars to
Speaker 2: bump his salary up one year twenty nine million. Because
Speaker 2: word travels fast in the National Football League among players,
Speaker 2: they talk about getting paid, they talk about their contract situations.
Speaker 4: And if.
Speaker 2: Trey Hendrickson had started the year at sixteen million, there's
Speaker 2: no way he would have held out and not taken
Speaker 2: seventeen paychecks at what close through a mill a game.
Speaker 4: For eighteen weeks.
Speaker 2: If the Bengals don't pay him, word travels Bengals cheap,
Speaker 2: you don't want to go there. So the Bengals basically
Speaker 2: are forced to pay Trey Hendrickson an extra thirteen mil
Speaker 2: to take it up to twenty nine for this season,
Speaker 2: the greatest heist since the Brinch robbery, fleecing Mike Brown
Speaker 2: and the Bengals for twenty nine million dollars. Hey, when
Speaker 2: we come back, this is an unbelievably important date in
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Red's history. I want to talk about that when
Speaker 2: we come back. This is the Chickster chick love Wig.
Speaker 2: I've got my coffee, I've got my computer. All I
Speaker 2: need is you At five one, three, seven four nine,
Speaker 2: seven thousand, one eight hundred, the Big One on seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW.
Speaker 20: Seven o nine in the Queen City of Cuincinnati, Chicklogwig,
Speaker 20: seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: This is Sports Talk under to be filling in for
Speaker 2: the immortal Lance McAllister Tonight Shoeless. Joe Waddell is Tonight's producer.
Speaker 2: We're going all the way to nine o'clock like Eric
Speaker 2: Carmon and the Raspberries, and that's when Gary Jeff Walker
Speaker 2: takes over these airways and he will take you to midnight.
Speaker 2: Now on this date in Red's history, two important trades
Speaker 2: that went sideways big time. But before we get to those,
Speaker 2: I'm going back out to the phones and we start
Speaker 2: with Kevin in Columbus.
Speaker 5: Kevin, Hey, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Like doing the Reds talking. I wanted to hear what
Speaker 6: you had to say. You were gonna say why you
Speaker 6: thought the Reds were doing better. You got interrupted by
Speaker 6: the caller, but you were going to say something about why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm hopeful and always hopeful for Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just think you hear that.
Speaker 2: I mean, before the Astros won the World Series, they
Speaker 2: were losing one hundred games, Okay, so I'm just looking
Speaker 2: at everybody improving, taking a next step and going forward
Speaker 2: in the playoffs here getting to the playoffs and then
Speaker 2: anything can happen unless you run into the Los Angeles Dodgers, So.
Speaker 3: You worry about that later.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it may take more than a year or
Speaker 6: two to get it all turned around. I still think
Speaker 6: they've got the right manager and everything. And now I
Speaker 6: agree with a lot of callers. Why is d La
Speaker 6: Cruz doing short stop? But that you know that's spring
Speaker 6: Kna's decision. I guess you know it is, so I
Speaker 6: go second guess him. But but they do need to
Speaker 6: get a bat. It was a pipe dream with Kyle Schwarber,
Speaker 6: but yeah, boy, they need to get some bats in
Speaker 6: there and shore up some things. But hey, I'm always
Speaker 6: hopeful for spring training, and I guess with the way
Speaker 6: the Bengals are going, we got no choice but to
Speaker 6: wait for.
Speaker 2: That, right ah, who knows, maybe there is, maybe there's
Speaker 2: a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but hey, you'll do some Bengals talking, all.
Speaker 2: Right, All right, Okay, thank you appreciate it, and we've
Speaker 2: got res in Newport res.
Speaker 5: Jick, how are you, buddy?
Speaker 18: I agree with you. I think the Reds should have
Speaker 18: a pat hand their players that they have. Now, I
Speaker 18: think they're going to play better this year. My take
Speaker 18: on the mister Kyle Schwarber, I'm I think they're Red's
Speaker 18: dodged the ball. And I never did agree with the
Speaker 18: Red's going after this guy for a number of reasons. One,
Speaker 18: he's going to be thirty three years old in March
Speaker 18: come opening day, okay, and you.
Speaker 9: Know, the older you get, the slower you are.
Speaker 3: And he's slower already.
Speaker 2: Okay, not that bad.
Speaker 3: He's right.
Speaker 5: He can't play defense.
Speaker 4: He's a designated hitter man exactly.
Speaker 19: He struck out the last four years with the Phillies.
Speaker 18: Ever, he's over two.
Speaker 5: Hundred times okay.
Speaker 18: Uh. And if he does get on base, they're going
Speaker 18: to have to probably send an attaxi cab to get
Speaker 18: him the second base, so there'll be war out by
Speaker 18: the time he gets there. Half his runs that he
Speaker 18: scored his uh. Because of the home run. They need
Speaker 18: to take that money and develop young talent, okay, because
Speaker 18: that's the name of the game, and it's.
Speaker 6: It's said that these clubs they hey big bucks for
Speaker 6: guys who.
Speaker 4: Hit home runs.
Speaker 18: And the one thing you Reds have that these other
Speaker 18: teams don't have is Tito FRANCONA.
Speaker 2: Amen to that, and Rex I got to run here.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your call. Thank you all right. Jeff is in Westchester. Hi, Jeff,
Speaker 2: how you're doing good?
Speaker 4: Good? What's on your mind?
Speaker 21: Hey?
Speaker 11: Enjoy the show as always. It's just a couple of
Speaker 11: things on the Reds. You know, the Swerverer thing would
Speaker 11: have been okay, but I think the guy they need
Speaker 11: to look at is Buschett from Toronto, the shortstop, and
Speaker 11: that allows you to move to move our shortstop into
Speaker 11: center field where he belongs. You're kind of getting two
Speaker 11: players for one there.
Speaker 4: Boh, b shit. I would like that. Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna.
Speaker 11: Hit for average, he's going to drive in runs and
Speaker 11: you're not going to hit the home runs that the
Speaker 11: other guy was going to. But he's gonna get on
Speaker 11: base a lot more and put the ball in play.
Speaker 11: And that solved two needs there, And that's the way
Speaker 11: I would go with this, Jeff, going back to your
Speaker 11: alignment from the from the Bengals.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, maybe maybe this thing.
Speaker 11: You know, they have an insurance policy for those guys
Speaker 11: and if they play under a certain amount of games,
Speaker 11: the policy kicks in. So I wonder if the owner
Speaker 11: there in order to recoup his money. He just went
Speaker 11: ahead and told him to have the surgery, so therefore
Speaker 11: he wouldn't qualify, you know, for the contract, but he'd
Speaker 11: get paid by his insurance company.
Speaker 4: Hey, we'll have to run that down. But great point.
Speaker 2: An NFL team has to spend at least eighty percent
Speaker 2: of you know, their cap, and then the Bengals do
Speaker 2: a good job of holding money back because injured guys
Speaker 2: get paid too.
Speaker 4: So but a good point. Jeff.
Speaker 5: I enjoy your show.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Just trying to bring some energy
Speaker 4: to the ways man, just like the.
Speaker 2: Lead, got it going, all right, Thanks you so much,
Speaker 2: all right, appreciate it. Joe is in Lexington, Oh, Central Kentucky.
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful area.
Speaker 16: Joe, uh, hello, check. I appreciate taking my call. And
Speaker 16: I completely concurred. Just just a couple of things. I mean,
Speaker 16: I could go on forever. But one, I mean, I
Speaker 16: don't know if the Reds actually thought that Kyle Schwarver
Speaker 16: would take a twenty five million dollar home down this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know you did.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, if they did, I mean, that's that's
Speaker 16: a joke. But I'm sure you've discussed this many times.
Speaker 16: I get to listen very sporadically, but just two things. One,
Speaker 16: what what would it take? Or let me Why doesn't
Speaker 16: Bob Castellini sell this team? I mean he's I don't know,
Speaker 16: I think he's eighty three eighty four. I mean he could.
Speaker 16: He could sell this team, make a huge profit on
Speaker 16: what he paid for it originally, and make his family
Speaker 16: happy or whatever. I just personally, if his plan is
Speaker 16: to turn this organization over to Phil Castellene, I think
Speaker 16: you're looking at a tremendously precipitous slope. And Two, I've
Speaker 16: heard many times that he want Bob Castellini won't spend
Speaker 16: the other investors' money. I'm curious if he went to
Speaker 16: all these other investors. Again, I have no idea how
Speaker 16: it works, but if they could get the money together
Speaker 16: and would have gone to Bob Castelleni today or sometime
Speaker 16: in the future and say, look, we want to sign
Speaker 16: one of these guys. Let's sign him. What would their
Speaker 16: options be? And I'll hang up and listen. Thank you, I.
Speaker 2: Appreciate Joe, that's a question. It's way above my pay grade.
Speaker 2: I don't see them selling, and gosh, the same could
Speaker 2: be said for the Brown family. Don't know how much
Speaker 2: they paid for it, but man, it's worth what four
Speaker 2: billion dollars now four or five and they're the lowest
Speaker 2: valuated team in the National Football League. So hey, let's
Speaker 2: lean on this young talent. Let's add a bat or two, oh,
Speaker 2: and hope for the best. Gosh, that's lame, I know,
Speaker 2: but I'm sorry. It's above my pay grade. Now I
Speaker 2: want to get into this awesome to be filling in
Speaker 2: for Lance McAllister. Two important things in Red's history happened
Speaker 2: on this date. In the first one December ninth, nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty five. This is going way back now, I was
Speaker 2: eleven years old. Red Zoner, billed to Wit completes the
Speaker 2: worst trade not just in Red's history, but in Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball history. He shipped Frank Robinson to the Baltimore
Speaker 2: Orioles in exchange for pitcher Milt Pappis, pitcher Jack Baldshin,
Speaker 2: and outfielder Dick Simpson. De Witt wanted more pitching and
Speaker 2: he thought that Frank Robinson was a quote unquote old thirty.
Speaker 2: Wow did it backfire because in his first year with
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Orioles nineteen sixty six, future Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer Frank Robinson wins the Triple Crown for
Speaker 2: the Orioles, batting three sixteen with forty nine home runs
Speaker 2: in one hundred and twenty two RBIs. He wins the
Speaker 2: American League MVP and the World Series MVP. Is the
Speaker 2: Baltimore Orioles engineer a four game sweep of the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers, trading Frank Robinson.
Speaker 4: For Milt Pappis.
Speaker 2: PAPIs, I think he had a winning record the next
Speaker 2: few years, but nothing spectacular. It goes down as the
Speaker 2: worst trade in Major League Baseball history. And then, on
Speaker 2: this date, December ninth, nineteen seventy seven, the Red Ship
Speaker 2: first baseman Dave Revering and one point seven five million
Speaker 2: dollars to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for pitcher Vida
Speaker 2: Blue and a deal.
Speaker 4: At the Winter Meetings.
Speaker 2: And then what happens on January thirtieth, a month later,
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight, Commissioner Bowie Koon voids the trade completed
Speaker 2: on December ninth. Kuon claimed there was too much money
Speaker 2: involved in the deal, which, if allowed to continue, would
Speaker 2: create a competitive imbalance among the teams. Bowie Koon, the commissioner,
Speaker 2: later set four hundred thousand as the maximum amount which
Speaker 2: could be exchanged between the Clubs and Rev's president Bob
Speaker 2: Housem and Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley spent the next
Speaker 2: several days trying to restructure the deal with less capital
Speaker 2: and more players in an effort to bring Vita Blue
Speaker 2: to Cincinnati, but in a range could not be reached
Speaker 2: and the trade was scratched. The Reds later made a
Speaker 2: separate deal with Oakland which brought Doug Bear to the
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Reds, and Blue was eventually dealt to the San
Speaker 2: Francisco Giants in March of nineteen seventy eight for four
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars in cash and six players. And you
Speaker 2: could add to this date in Red's history, they don't
Speaker 2: obtain the services of one Kyle Schwarber, who agrees to
Speaker 2: a five year, one hundred and fifty million dollar deal
Speaker 2: to stay with the Philadelphia Phillies. I had the opportunity
Speaker 2: to meet Kyle at a wedding reception in Dayton for
Speaker 2: his best friend. I was invited and I approached Kyle
Speaker 2: at the bar. He was sipping soda and I go
Speaker 2: up to him. I didn't want to be one of
Speaker 2: these glad hand you know, starry eyed reporters. And as
Speaker 2: I approach him, he goes Chick, and I introduced my subje,
Speaker 2: just Chick. I know who you are. The most down
Speaker 2: to earth superstar in sports, Kyle Schwarber. He's got a
Speaker 2: home in Germantown, near Middletown. He's got kids that are
Speaker 2: about three years old and one year old, and they're
Speaker 2: gonna be starting school soon. And that gave me hope
Speaker 2: that he would wind up with the Cincinnati Reds. But
Speaker 2: my winter dreams were dashed this morning about eleven thirty
Speaker 2: am with the news that he's come to an agreement
Speaker 2: to stay in Philadelphia. You are listening to sports talking
Speaker 2: when we come back, Scott Springer chucking all things you
Speaker 2: see football and basketball and including women's basketball. When is
Speaker 2: d Alexander, the five star awesome player going to be
Speaker 2: ready to play for the women Bearcats? Chick Ludwig seven
Speaker 2: hundred with WLW seven nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Chick Ludwig seven hundred, WLW. This is sports talk, and
Speaker 2: I certainly appreciate our next guest waiting through that long break.
Speaker 2: He covers the UC Bearcats for the Cincinnati Inquirer in
Speaker 2: Cincinnati dot Com. Our good friend Scott Springer, Scott, how
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 9: Chick?
Speaker 22: Sure you have a lot of sponsors there, so you
Speaker 22: must be a popular dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And talking to our producer off the air, he said,
Speaker 2: Darry Jeff Walker said the same thing. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 2: of ads. So I guess that's good news.
Speaker 22: Yeah, so it pays the bills, they tell me.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And I wanted to gauge your opinion
Speaker 2: on the psyche here With some time off, time to
Speaker 2: work on some things for the University of Cincinnati basketball
Speaker 2: team back in action on Saturday against the Georgia Bulldogs
Speaker 2: in Atlanta.
Speaker 22: That's a tough game. Georgia has only lost one game.
Speaker 22: The Bearcats were back at practice Sunday. They were right
Speaker 22: on the floor after the women's Crosstown shootout, which unfortunately for.
Speaker 3: Cincinnati they lost that too.
Speaker 22: So you really can't argue with Zavier runs this town
Speaker 22: because this year they do.
Speaker 3: That's just the way it is. You know.
Speaker 22: I listened to a podcast today that Terry Nelson and
Speaker 22: Corey Blunt have out and it's really really good. And
Speaker 22: Corey said, we got beat by Tarzan Man. Yeah, and
Speaker 22: Trey Carroll was outstanding. I mean, that's one of the
Speaker 22: better shootout performances I've seen in some times of given credit.
Speaker 22: And now here's the deal. This guy played at FAU and
Speaker 22: that's where Boba Miller was. And Boba Miller didn't play bad.
Speaker 22: He only had ten points, had a rough shooting day,
Speaker 22: but he pulled down seventeen rebounds. But the team that
Speaker 22: wanted it wanted Trey Carroll went out and got thirty points.
Speaker 22: And now UC has to figure out, you know, what
Speaker 22: to do against the Georgia Bulldogs who have one loss
Speaker 22: and I believe that was the Clemson in overtime like
Speaker 22: ninety seven to ninety four. And you see as Clemson
Speaker 22: the head in the coming week. And Xavier only lost
Speaker 22: to Georgia by one in Charleston a couple of weeks back.
Speaker 3: So it's a pretty decent team.
Speaker 22: And you're playing in Atlanta, so an alleged neutral site,
Speaker 22: but not.
Speaker 3: Really amen to that.
Speaker 2: And really four games left here in the non conference
Speaker 2: schedule before huh, how about getting handed your first game
Speaker 2: in the Big Twelve against the seventh ranked Houston Cougar's man.
Speaker 22: Yeah, well, and then everyone has looked at them as
Speaker 22: the belcal recently, but now that your new ap Arizona's
Speaker 22: number one, Iowa State is at number four, and they absolutely.
Speaker 4: Plowed perdue the other y. Yes, oh rip them apart.
Speaker 22: I mean, and they have a lot of the same
Speaker 22: guys back from last year. And that's one of the
Speaker 22: places the rare places that they let me sit court
Speaker 22: side last year.
Speaker 3: So I saw those massive cyclones. They hit the weight room.
Speaker 3: They're tough dudes.
Speaker 22: So that league is treacherous and UC needs to figure
Speaker 22: some things out.
Speaker 2: Definitely have athletes, you know, we see that. I worry
Speaker 2: about their half court offense. Defense is their specialty, and
Speaker 2: they couldn't stop Tray Carroll.
Speaker 4: Man. What do you think about this about this team?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, if.
Speaker 22: You'd ask me before the game if they would outshoot
Speaker 22: Savior from the three point line and if you would
Speaker 22: out rebound them, I would assume you'd win the game.
Speaker 22: And that didn't happened, and Xavier won the game on
Speaker 22: two pointers. I think they only made six threes, and
Speaker 22: they had five straight games where they had made double
Speaker 22: digit threes, and so you see, accomplished that but still
Speaker 22: lost the game and it's one of those games. You know,
Speaker 22: people are going to remember Trey Carroll for a good
Speaker 22: long time and he's going to play in one shootout
Speaker 22: and retire one to oh, and that's that might be
Speaker 22: the way these things go here now with everyone flipping
Speaker 22: the rosters every year. So you know, it used to
Speaker 22: be you'd watched the Lumpkins and the Lenny Browns and
Speaker 22: the Posy's and the Levitts and the Kenyan Martin, you know,
Speaker 22: Bobby Brandon's. This is all changing rapidly, and I don't
Speaker 22: know if it's for the better, but it's just the
Speaker 22: way it is. And it's kind of sad in a
Speaker 22: way that some of the historical aspects of the shootout
Speaker 22: goes away.
Speaker 3: But the team that wanted it won it.
Speaker 22: And you know, whoever sticks around next year for U
Speaker 22: see if that hurt them, maybe they'll understand next year.
Speaker 22: But to have a winning streak goes back to two
Speaker 22: thousand and one in one building, and Steve Logan played
Speaker 22: in that game and is now a color commentator for
Speaker 22: the Bearcats, and he's forty five, and you and I
Speaker 22: know that's not old at all, but he is forty five,
Speaker 22: and it doesn't seem that way. He's got some white
Speaker 22: in his beard now, so that's alarming. But yes, you know,
Speaker 22: he has had twenty two points.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, as awesome as Trey Carroll was with
Speaker 2: thirty points of seven boards. The two guys whose names
Speaker 2: I cannot pronounce man each hit two big threes and
Speaker 2: then Ali Wright goes up there and bangs in four
Speaker 2: straight free throws. So they just they just closed better.
Speaker 2: They just knew how to close well.
Speaker 22: And that's part of the deal. You have to be
Speaker 22: good in the final five minutes and unfortunately the Bearcats
Speaker 22: in the last five years, if they're behind late in
Speaker 22: the game, you usually don't win. I think it's like
Speaker 22: three and fifty two something like that. It's not good.
Speaker 22: And you have to be able to come from behind.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 22: To their credit, last year they were down in halftime
Speaker 22: and and then one to shoot out by three, so
Speaker 22: it's not impossible.
Speaker 3: It's not like they don't have the talent. But uh,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 22: You know, they did a little bit better with his
Speaker 22: own defense late in the game, but it might have
Speaker 22: been a little bit too late.
Speaker 3: They didn't make the run.
Speaker 22: And in spite of everything, you know, Valen Celestine makes
Speaker 22: a three pointer from the corner and at two thirty nine,
Speaker 22: I think it was you see has a brief lead
Speaker 22: and because it you know how it is writing these things.
Speaker 22: You start writing and it gets to be, you know,
Speaker 22: a double digit lead. You're you're starting to go one
Speaker 22: way on your story and then suddenly you're going to
Speaker 22: leap the lead, delete the lead. Let's uh, let's rephrase
Speaker 22: this all and it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: Uh, Scott Springers with US three and yeah, Scott Springers
Speaker 2: with inquir last year. Oh, you're you're right, but you're
Speaker 2: absolutely right. And the only player, the only player who
Speaker 2: had played in this game was Dade Thomas. Is that incredible?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 22: Yeah, Dayda's the only guy that was on the floor
Speaker 22: a year ago.
Speaker 3: He had a decent game.
Speaker 22: But you got to have more than one guy, and
Speaker 22: it has to matter to more than one guy.
Speaker 3: So I don't know how if it mattered or not.
Speaker 22: But you know, maybe these kids get educated as you go.
Speaker 22: I don't know that Boba Miller is still one hundred percent.
Speaker 22: I'm making excuses Xavier and one parent square Celestine I
Speaker 22: don't think is one hundred percent, but there's probably guys.
Speaker 3: On Zavier that maybe weren't a hundred percent. I don't know.
Speaker 22: I think you see's really missing Jalen Haynes, the big
Speaker 22: guy from George Mason that hasn't been able to play,
Speaker 22: and if they can get him back late in the season,
Speaker 22: maybe that helps in the post. But you know, you
Speaker 22: got to be able to throw it into the post.
Speaker 22: The post players have to be able to catch the
Speaker 22: ball at number one then have a move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what That's what Chris Webber and Jalen Rose
Speaker 2: were talking about at halftime of the game. Man instead
Speaker 2: of just tossed it around the perimeter, man, get it
Speaker 2: inside to because you've got more size than they do.
Speaker 2: And it was it was tough now Sewna Bayev you know,
Speaker 2: was hot early, you know what, eleven points in the
Speaker 2: first half, and you know he's.
Speaker 4: He's good, but he's young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's really young. Yeah, Tom is young.
Speaker 22: Tom is nineteen years old and has only been playing
Speaker 22: for five years. So yeah, you can give him a
Speaker 22: little pass on that. Seven to two helps a lot
Speaker 22: of things. And you know at the end he finishes
Speaker 22: nine points, nine remounts and nearly a double doubles. Not
Speaker 22: a horrible game, but a lot of miss points. There
Speaker 22: are a lot of miss opportunities, and you know, I
Speaker 22: think maybe they need to look toward him a little
Speaker 22: bit more. And Miller didn't have a very good shooting night.
Speaker 22: He was only three out of twelve. And shawna Bybe,
Speaker 22: you got let him take some of the crazy shots
Speaker 22: because next thing you know, he's hit three in a row.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 22: He'll miss three four in a row, and then then
Speaker 22: he'll make three four in a row. You know, you
Speaker 22: don't know, and I guess you just have to live
Speaker 22: with that. And Kirk Crisa is shooting the ball better.
Speaker 22: He's up to thirty three percent, which is more in
Speaker 22: line with where he shot in the past, because see,
Speaker 22: he's been pretty good before at West Virginia and in
Speaker 22: Arizona before that. He was hurt kind of most of
Speaker 22: the year with Kentucky last year. But you know, it's
Speaker 22: totally not over. But again what I was saying before,
Speaker 22: after nine games are now six and three, which is
Speaker 22: the worst they've been. West has had two teams that
Speaker 22: were six and three after nine games. Last two years
Speaker 22: they were eight and one, And you got to go
Speaker 22: clear back to twenty twenty where there was a losing
Speaker 22: record after nine games. But you know, you got to
Speaker 22: get through these through December and then, like you said,
Speaker 22: January third, Calvin Sampson's waiting on you with the Houston
Speaker 22: Cougars and you haven't beaten them. And it feels like
Speaker 22: fifteen years. It's been least and I don't know exactly
Speaker 22: when it was. It was at least a president ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, five slam a sham a man. Wow, you know,
Speaker 2: just to take a little u turn here with the
Speaker 2: women's team. Man waiting on de Alexander, the five star
Speaker 2: athlete from Purcell Marion and all I have read and heard,
Speaker 2: and you know, a lower body injury has stopped her
Speaker 2: from uh you know, getting out there early in the season.
Speaker 22: Well apparently she had a surgery and she's recovering from that.
Speaker 22: Katrina Merriweather said after the game that she would be
Speaker 22: practicing soon. And she's one of several very good freshmen.
Speaker 22: I mean, the girl that led them in scoring the
Speaker 22: other night, Coleid de Villisi. She's a freshman. There's several freshmen,
Speaker 22: so they're having some growing pains there. And you know, again,
Speaker 22: if you can keep the girls together for a handful
Speaker 22: of years. Maybe you have something. I don't know if
Speaker 22: it's going to work that way in women's basketball or not.
Speaker 22: But I know Katrina is hurting because I can tell
Speaker 22: you as a player and a coach and uh. And
Speaker 22: then actually counting the years she was at Memphis who
Speaker 22: was a coach, she never lost to Zaber. I mean
Speaker 22: she was eleven or oh until Sunday. Wow, And so
Speaker 22: that didn't sit well, but gives.
Speaker 3: Z Ager credit.
Speaker 22: And then the girl that was good for Xavier was
Speaker 22: Mackenzie given to a local Princeton girl, So good for her,
Speaker 22: and you know the local girl wants it, and she
Speaker 22: came out and showed it. So yes, Hugh rough Patch
Speaker 22: here for for U.
Speaker 3: See the good news Liberty Bowl.
Speaker 22: You know, hopefully you can turn things around football wise,
Speaker 22: but in the way everyone would have liked it with
Speaker 22: four straight losses, but you're still at seven wins.
Speaker 3: You have a chance at eight.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 22: Got to see who's going to play in the thing,
Speaker 22: because I'm here to tell you I don't. I don't
Speaker 22: think Navy's going to have any opt outs. I'm not
Speaker 22: sure that's allowed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's where I wanted to go next with
Speaker 2: your navies. Nine and two they've won two in a row.
Speaker 2: You see seven and six they've lost for in a row.
Speaker 2: If you heard anything, if will you see be able
Speaker 2: to keep this club together for the Liberty Bowl in Memphis.
Speaker 22: Well as officially on the record, I don't know who
Speaker 22: is not playing. I can speculate that those that are
Speaker 22: maybe going to take a run into the NFL Draft
Speaker 22: or probably not, wouldn't shock me if Brendan Sowsby doesn't play.
Speaker 3: I don't know anything.
Speaker 22: But there's you know, rumors out there where he's been
Speaker 22: offered a decent sum of money at other places. And
Speaker 22: then I think a CBS Sports put out a mock
Speaker 22: draft where they had him in the first round pick
Speaker 22: number thirty one by the LA Rams And so that's wow,
Speaker 22: life changing money there too. Now, whether or not that
Speaker 22: comes to fruition, it's hard to say. But he's got
Speaker 22: a decision to make and I don't know what that
Speaker 22: is yet, and trust me, I've been trying. Uh, But
Speaker 22: the practices are are closed until Monday.
Speaker 3: I'll know more on Monday, and.
Speaker 22: Even at that point they might limit us on what we're.
Speaker 3: Allowed to see and stuff.
Speaker 2: So Scott, what we learned watching Texas Tech and b
Speaker 2: YU O MG, the Red Raiders are fast and physical.
Speaker 3: Well, and they're rich and oil can buy you a
Speaker 3: great team.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 22: Jed Klampitt strikes somewhere around here and and comes on
Speaker 22: down to the Sacrely Athletic Performance Center and it says, fellows,
Speaker 22: I got some money.
Speaker 2: Yeah BYU's basketball team. They said, oh yeah, it starts
Speaker 2: with this guy that they're adding pieces.
Speaker 4: They've got money to burn out there.
Speaker 2: That dude is making what's seven million in the cat
Speaker 2: from the transferred from Baylors at one point five. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's crazy, insane money out in the Salt Lakes.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 22: I don't know if they can ever get this regulated,
Speaker 22: but yeah, that's essentially what's going on. Money buys your team,
Speaker 22: and if you can get them together to play together,
Speaker 22: you're on the way.
Speaker 3: Utah today approved. I don't even know how, you know.
Speaker 22: Outside equity company coming in to the basically fun athletics
Speaker 22: and Utah has a great team as it is, and
Speaker 22: they're in Salt Lake City, so a lot of money
Speaker 22: there and it's beautiful in Utah, and I guess it's
Speaker 22: raining money.
Speaker 3: In addition to the other scenery.
Speaker 2: Well, this is all great stuff here, Scott Springer, and
Speaker 2: thank you for your patience with me tonight and always
Speaker 2: great talking to you and breaking down the Bearcats football
Speaker 2: and basketball. Here will definitely be tuned in to the
Speaker 2: Liberty Bowl in Memphis and looking forward to a Bearcat victory.
Speaker 3: One more thing.
Speaker 22: Craig Lindsay, the esteemed athletic trainer executive athletic trainer at
Speaker 22: Moeller High School, says that you're an outstanding fast pitch
Speaker 22: softball umpire and he said the past that along along
Speaker 22: with you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Please tell him thank you and hello
Speaker 2: for me. That's outstanding. Yes, all right, thank you most
Speaker 2: so much, Scott, take care, see you tick all right,
Speaker 2: Scott Springer, Inquirer and Cincinnati dot Com. Now, before we break, folks,
Speaker 2: I want the phone lines to light up, and so
Speaker 2: get lined up like the cigarettes on the table in
Speaker 2: the cafeteria in the prison in Shawshank Redemption, because we're
Speaker 2: going to play that popular game called reverse radio where
Speaker 2: you call in and I ask you the questions.
Speaker 4: After the top of the hour news.
Speaker 2: This is Chick Ludwig Sports Talk on the Home of
Speaker 2: the Reds and the Best Bengals coverage seven hundred w
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Speaker 4: This is Sports Talk.
Speaker 2: Awesome to be filling in tonight for Lance McAllister and Shoeless.
Speaker 2: Joe Waddell doing a great job is tonight's producer. In
Speaker 2: the control room. We're going all the way to nine
Speaker 2: o'clock and that's when Gary Jeff Walker takes over these airwaves. Well,
Speaker 2: I got this idea from Dan Horde, voice of the
Speaker 2: Bearcats and the Bengals, a game called reverse Radio where
Speaker 2: the caller calls in at five one three, seven four nine,
Speaker 2: seven thousand, one eight hundred the Big One, and I
Speaker 2: ask you the questions. It's gonna take some calls tonight
Speaker 2: for this to get pulled off. I've got a list
Speaker 2: here of twenty questions that I want to ask the
Speaker 2: listeners and the callers. So who's going to be my
Speaker 2: first caller? Because I've got my coffee, I've got my computer.
Speaker 2: All I need is you at five P one three
Speaker 2: seven four, nine, seven thousand, one eight hundred the Big One.
Speaker 2: And until we get some calls, all I can say
Speaker 2: is man it's tough being a Bengals span. They are
Speaker 2: the masters of disasters, inventing ways.
Speaker 4: To lose with their four and nine record.
Speaker 2: Following Sunday's snowy thirty nine to thirty four loss to
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, New York, everything was
Speaker 2: going along smoothly at Buffalo until it wasn't. Mike Giseki's
Speaker 2: twelve yard touchdown reception gave Cincinnati a twenty eight to
Speaker 2: eighteen lead with eight forty four remaining. He even did
Speaker 2: the gritty I'm feeling really good at that point, and
Speaker 2: then in a four minute, thirty second span, the Bill
Speaker 2: scored twenty one points. Cedric Johnson rushes from the right
Speaker 2: end side and can't hit Josh Allen. That vac aided
Speaker 2: the whole left side of the field and Josh Allen
Speaker 2: bolts forty yards for a touchdown. Then came Christian benford
Speaker 2: sixty three yard pick six at five point twenty five,
Speaker 2: and then a three yard Jackson Hawes TD catch at
Speaker 2: three oh three. T Higgins one handed greb from twenty
Speaker 2: five yards out at two thirteen pulled the Bengals win
Speaker 2: in thirty nine to thirty four in Cincinnati had a
Speaker 2: chance to get the ball back for a possible.
Speaker 4: Miracle finish, but no.
Speaker 2: Third and fifteen from Buffalo's twenty five yard line with
Speaker 2: a buck fifty four to go. Josh Allen, operating out
Speaker 2: of the shotgun, runs for seventeen yards game over.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Bengals continue to get lit up by tight ends and
Speaker 2: from Joe Goodbarry tight ends this year ninety seven catches
Speaker 2: for twelve one hundred yards and fifteen.
Speaker 4: Touchdowns against the Bengals.
Speaker 2: Everton ten and a half targets, seven and a half
Speaker 2: catches and ninety seven yards by Bengals opposing tight ends.
Speaker 2: Brutal Well, who's up first here? We've got Tracy and Roselawn. Tracy,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good.
Speaker 4: Check hope you're doing well, buddy, Fantastic. Here's my question.
Speaker 2: Would you rather have a Cincinnati Bengals Super Bowl or
Speaker 2: a Reds World Series Championship?
Speaker 4: And why?
Speaker 23: I think I would rather have a Reds World Championship
Speaker 23: World Series victory. And it's a long season, and I
Speaker 23: think the Reds are.
Speaker 3: They're equipped to do well.
Speaker 2: Fantastic and Tracy, the phone lines have lived up like
Speaker 2: a Christmas Tree, like the cigarettes on the table in
Speaker 2: the cafeteria in the prison at Shawshank Redemption.
Speaker 4: So I got a run. Appreciate the call. Dan is in.
Speaker 4: Dan Is in Cincinnati.
Speaker 5: Hey Dan, Hey, how are you chick?
Speaker 2: Fantastic? Do you ever play golf.
Speaker 15: Occasionally?
Speaker 2: Okay, you've got one round to play? Is it Pebble
Speaker 2: Beach or is it Augusta National?
Speaker 15: It would have to be a pebble beach. Just a location.
Speaker 24: Uh not that, not.
Speaker 11: That Augusta National isn't pretty awesome, but uh, it's all
Speaker 11: I've always wanted to play pebble Beach.
Speaker 2: I've never been to Pebble Beach. I've been on the
Speaker 2: grounds of Augusta National three times for practice rounds, and
Speaker 2: it is uh arguably the most gorgeous acreage I've ever
Speaker 2: stood on.
Speaker 4: Awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for the question, Jack, Dan, Thanks so much, man,
Speaker 2: Appreciate you.
Speaker 4: All right, Thank you.
Speaker 2: The number to dial five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
Speaker 2: eight hundred, the big one. Let's go to Charlie in Cincinnati. Hi, Charlie,
Speaker 2: Hey chick.
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Go ahead?
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: We are the world's most valuable franchise in sports.
Speaker 4: Who are we?
Speaker 3: And here's a hint, Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Yes, any guess? And how much they're worth?
Speaker 3: I have no idea, more than I can comprehend.
Speaker 4: Thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2: They took over number one in valuation in all of
Speaker 2: sports from the soccer club Real Madrid in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Thirteen billion. Brother, how awesome is that?
Speaker 16: That's awesome?
Speaker 3: But chick, you ready for softball?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I really am. It's always uh. One day
Speaker 2: it's thirty degrees and I'm at Oxford Talawanda for a
Speaker 2: doubleheader against Northwest and I'm there.
Speaker 4: What am I doing here? I'm freezing?
Speaker 2: And the next day it's seventy degrees and Sonny that
Speaker 2: softball season for he wrote, it's a beautiful thing. Yes,
Speaker 2: sir Charlie, thanks so much. Man, We're going all right.
Speaker 2: Take care. We got Mark and Louisville.
Speaker 21: Yes, would you mind if I made a comment on
Speaker 21: all those two trades as you were talking about, yes,
Speaker 21: instead of taking this check.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 21: Taking to your question, yeah, yes, I remember where I
Speaker 21: was on both of those trades. I believe I got
Speaker 21: the vitea blue trade off of Trumpy's show. Yes, I
Speaker 21: think he announced what happened on his show. But I
Speaker 21: was in college on the Frank Robinson trade and a
Speaker 21: friend of mine came in, an equal Reds fan, and
Speaker 21: he told me what happened, and both of us agreed.
Speaker 21: There was no way we could go to classes that day,
Speaker 21: so we you know, we had to take that day
Speaker 21: off morning. Yes, but there's something about that trade that
Speaker 21: you said tonight, and Jim Day, who I love, says
Speaker 21: it all the time, and you're both incorrect about what
Speaker 21: she said. Now I'll tell you what it was. Frank
Speaker 21: was not traded because the Reds thought he was old.
Speaker 21: That was the reason put out by the Reds publicist.
Speaker 21: But the reason that he was actually traded was that
Speaker 21: he had gotten arrested three times in an eighteen month
Speaker 21: period for something that if had happened today, he would
Speaker 21: have just said to him, don't do it anymore. That's it.
Speaker 21: I mean, it was so minor, it was ridiculous, but
Speaker 21: seemed like a big thing to the Reds, and that's
Speaker 21: what pull the trigger. I can't think of anybody today
Speaker 21: that could verify what I just said, and I don't
Speaker 21: want you to think I would make that up and
Speaker 21: say that everybody around the Reds knew that, and of
Speaker 21: course it was a terrible trade, you know, and the
Speaker 21: only other thing, and you know, I'm a diehard Reds fan.
Speaker 21: Anybody that thought the Reds were gonna sign Shrober, they
Speaker 21: just couldn't have been a Reds fan. They're gonna sign nobody.
Speaker 21: Last year, when they signed Hayes and he hit two
Speaker 21: home runs in the first spring training game, the Reds
Speaker 21: thought they had their cleanup hitter and the guy to
Speaker 21: protect de la Cruz. If that doesn't tell you how
Speaker 21: bad of shape this organization's in. What can I say?
Speaker 2: All Right, Mark, Hey, appreciate the call as always, look
Speaker 2: forward to talking to you during baseball season. Absolutely, Jeff,
Speaker 2: all right, Jeff's in Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Hi, Jeff, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 6: Check?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: You ready for a question?
Speaker 25: Yeah, what's my question? I'll tell you what. And by
Speaker 25: the way, Dallas is an awesome organization. I'm not surprised.
Speaker 25: It's thirteen billion, taken over from Real Madrid, so that's
Speaker 25: it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Well, just Jerry Jones building at and T Stadium has
Speaker 2: one billion, okay, one billion dollars. Everyone's valuation just skyrocketed,
Speaker 2: So it's just amazing.
Speaker 4: The dude is a sponsorship machine. He really is.
Speaker 2: Now they've just got to win on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, yeah, are you ready?
Speaker 3: What's the question?
Speaker 2: What college basketball arena would you most like to visit
Speaker 2: that you haven't seen yet?
Speaker 25: I gotta go with I mean, I'm a I'm in Kentucky,
Speaker 25: but I'm gonna I'm an Ohio Cincinnati guy, I gotta
Speaker 25: go with RUP. I haven't been to Rough, but I
Speaker 25: mean the Kentucky fans they do bring it. They're crazy,
Speaker 25: but they're like us a Buckeye fans. Everyone hates us.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I've been in the Old Coliseum and then
Speaker 2: I've also been to RUP. It's it's a special place.
Speaker 2: The Hyatt's right attached to it. It's uh, it's phenomenal,
Speaker 2: it really is.
Speaker 25: Oh and a shout out the shout out to Conner
Speaker 25: Middle School for their sixth, seventh, and eighth grade winning
Speaker 25: all three games in basketball tonight against Bally Shannon.
Speaker 2: All Right, all right, all right, Jeff, thanks so much, man,
Speaker 2: thank you. All right, We've got the Grandpaul Mike in Dayton.
Speaker 5: Hey, chick, sure, how you doing?
Speaker 4: Oh, fantastic brother from my other mother. Amen, you ready
Speaker 4: for a question?
Speaker 26: Sure, go ahead, all right, Ohio State here, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 26: I got.
Speaker 4: Another one for you if you want to pass.
Speaker 15: You know I'm not a higher state fan. I'm not
Speaker 15: from here, all right?
Speaker 4: All right? Are you a Reds fan?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Who is your favorite current Red not named Ellie de
Speaker 2: la Cruz?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 15: Well, you know I know some of the guys across
Speaker 15: all the levels right now. So I'm here in Dayton
Speaker 15: and I contact with him. Actually, can I go below
Speaker 15: to the minor league level? All right? My favorite is
Speaker 15: big first baseman who play a double a cam now,
Speaker 15: so the first basement.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, you've seen him play.
Speaker 15: Yeah, the guy is totally down to earth. Okay, he's
Speaker 15: a leader. He is a leader, and he's gonna be
Speaker 15: a late bloomer because he's twenty four now. But no, no,
Speaker 15: the kids. The kid's good. There's nothing he can't do
Speaker 15: when he keeps his mind.
Speaker 4: On what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. Yeah, my guy, Yeah, my guy is Spencer Steer.
Speaker 2: I just love his approach. He's low key, he brings
Speaker 2: the lunch pail and the hard hat every day. Love
Speaker 2: his swing, love his approach, and love his demeanor.
Speaker 3: So I love I love freedom too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Grandpa, Mike, appreciate you.
Speaker 5: I got to run, say, have a great holiday.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much. Uh, we've got Chris in Martinsville.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, how are we doing?
Speaker 4: And I tech, oh, fantastic, fantastic. Hey, in your opinion?
Speaker 2: In your opinion, which NFL team has the most iconic uniform?
Speaker 24: Hmm, I mean definitely born and raised right here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 24: I do like the black and orange the most iconic.
Speaker 24: I'm like, man, I mean, why can't it be the Bengals.
Speaker 24: Why can't it be just the Why can't it be
Speaker 24: the stripes? Since because I'm a Homer, if I say
Speaker 24: the Bengals, I mean, it's fine, man, better you tell
Speaker 24: me that.
Speaker 4: I'm fine with me. Uh.
Speaker 2: I always thought, you know, when when Dan Horde talks
Speaker 2: about the iconic, you know, a striped helmet, that will
Speaker 2: probably he never changed. But at the same time, I
Speaker 2: would have loved to have seen, you know, black helmets
Speaker 2: with a flying tiger on the side, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would have I would have loved that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, this is a good.
Speaker 24: Idea of what you're doing tonight. And I kind of
Speaker 24: just played clean up on the one call earlier. Yeah, man,
Speaker 24: it's definitely got to be a bangled Super Bowl over
Speaker 24: a red championship. I mean, listen, the resident have their
Speaker 24: day in the sun.
Speaker 26: I'm forty six years old, you know what I mean. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 26: you know say both said it all.
Speaker 24: We swept them, we get together, we get the troupe.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 24: I remember that when I was ten and ninety.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then there's a big red machine. But they they
Speaker 3: left won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We're zero for three in Super Bowl. So wow. Man,
Speaker 4: all right, Chris, thank you so much. Man.
Speaker 3: All right, man, appreciate you have a merry Christmas.
Speaker 4: Thank you. You do the same. John is in Cleaves, Hey,
Speaker 4: how are you doing?
Speaker 26: Actually I'm leaving Cleves. I just refereed a couple of
Speaker 26: high school basketball games and got nailed in the face.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 26: Yeah yeah, yeah, I was hoping. I can't wait to
Speaker 26: put on that mask. My first game is softball behind
Speaker 26: the plate twenty fourth, So I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'm a ready, fantastic, fantastic. Hey, which college football team
Speaker 2: to do? You love to see lose?
Speaker 26: Florida Gators and then I want to Florida State. Okay,
Speaker 26: In Florida State, So Florida.
Speaker 4: Gators, Florida Gators. And then which team you want to
Speaker 4: see when?
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yes.
Speaker 4: All right, fantastic.
Speaker 2: Hey, appreciate it, John, Yes, sir, thank you so much. Hey,
Speaker 2: We've got to take a break. But I've got what
Speaker 2: about fifteen more questions for the callers to call in.
Speaker 2: It's reverse radio. You asked the question. I asked the question.
Speaker 2: You all in and you give me the answer. It's
Speaker 2: reverse Radio with the Chickster chick Ludwig on seven hundred
Speaker 2: WLW eight forty in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig,
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW. We are playing a game called reverse Radio.
Speaker 2: You call in. I asked you the questions. I got
Speaker 2: the idea from the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Bearcats, Dan Horde. We love reverse radio. Want to play?
Speaker 2: Just pick up the phone and dial five one, three,
Speaker 2: seven four nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred the Big One.
Speaker 2: We've got John and Mason, Home of the Comets. It's
Speaker 2: like a university there.
Speaker 5: Hi, John, Hello, Chickster, you are awesome.
Speaker 9: I've got my computer, I've got my coffee, and now
Speaker 9: I'm ready.
Speaker 4: For you outstanding.
Speaker 2: Is there a sports specific that you are an expert in?
Speaker 4: Would you say, oh, absolutely, golf.
Speaker 3: Ask me anything.
Speaker 4: Okay, my buddy Pete, my buddy's.
Speaker 9: Pete and Sean are listening, so I'm on the hot seat,
Speaker 9: ask me anything you want about golf.
Speaker 2: Well, let me throw this out. I've already asked this,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to ask you. Okay, you've got one
Speaker 2: round of golf to play. Is it Pebble Beach or
Speaker 2: is it Augusta National?
Speaker 9: Hands down Augusta National. And the reason being, like you,
Speaker 9: I've been to a couple of practice rounds, yes, and
Speaker 9: with my buddy Pete and John Daly made fun of
Speaker 9: my buddy Pete one year because he wimped out because
Speaker 9: he hurt his knee at the Blue ash Y in
Speaker 9: a rec League game, so he should have been there.
Speaker 9: That's for another day. But Augusta National, there is not
Speaker 9: a blade of grass out of position, the the fairways
Speaker 9: or even the rough.
Speaker 4: I should say is like carpet.
Speaker 9: You're not a spectator or you're not a you're not
Speaker 9: a fan. When you're there, you you are treated, you know,
Speaker 9: just as a as a.
Speaker 4: Patron as That's it.
Speaker 9: You're right, that's not the front it's not the front nine,
Speaker 9: the back nine. It's the first nine, the second nine.
Speaker 9: They do not gouge you once you're there. Yes, it's
Speaker 9: a high priced ticket to get there, but once you're there,
Speaker 9: you are golden. They do not gouge you. You can
Speaker 9: get a beer for a few bucks.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know.
Speaker 4: Ese sandwich, that cheese sandwich.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, in fact, that amen corner. Uh, that's what
Speaker 9: we were doing. And we ran into a kid named
Speaker 9: Paul Dockerty when we were there.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, doc loves it.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, hands down Augusta National. But I wouldn't turn
Speaker 9: down an opportunity to play pebble. I have a few
Speaker 9: buddies that just played Pebble last week, and unbeknownst to them,
Speaker 9: they there's a webcam that a live webcam on the
Speaker 9: first tea box.
Speaker 5: Oh man, so yeah, yeah, So I watched him t off.
Speaker 9: He's a physician, and all I could do is text
Speaker 9: him and just say, paging doctor way right, paging doctor
Speaker 9: way right.
Speaker 4: How cool?
Speaker 9: Well so far to the right, but anyway, Yes, Augustin National,
Speaker 9: for sure.
Speaker 5: I love this format.
Speaker 2: Beautiful and uh, as far as Pebble Beach I closed
Speaker 2: my eyes and I see Jack Nicholas and Tom Watson.
Speaker 9: Yes, oh yes, oh yes, one hundred on seventeen. I
Speaker 9: got a stretcher us open.
Speaker 4: John, It's been a pleasure. Let's do it again. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All right, and we've got Chris in Mount Washington. Hi, Chris, Hey,
Speaker 2: how are we doing?
Speaker 5: Doing great? I've got my burger light and my laptop
Speaker 5: burger and wondering how things are going on the SimPE
Speaker 5: throw for you fantastic.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna late this question on him, Okay. The Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 2: The Kentucky Derby is known as the Run for the Roses.
Speaker 2: A bed of roses, sportive kings covers A bed of
Speaker 2: roses covers the winning thoroughbread. What blanket of flowers covers
Speaker 2: the Preakness Stakes winner in Maryland? Ooh uh in maryl Wow,
Speaker 2: that's the second leg, the second leg.
Speaker 5: I mean we can't say blue crab because well that's flower,
Speaker 5: very delicious marrigolds.
Speaker 4: You know what close it is?
Speaker 2: The black eyed A blanket of black eyed Susan's at
Speaker 2: Pimlico Racecourse.
Speaker 5: And I have this growing in my garden here in
Speaker 5: Mount Washington.
Speaker 2: And what's crazy is I was looking it up today,
Speaker 2: researching it a little bit, and they've taken down the
Speaker 2: grand stand and the clubhouse at Pimblico. So the second leg,
Speaker 2: which I really like, the Preakness, will be run at
Speaker 2: Laurel Park and Laurel Maryland, and then in twenty six
Speaker 2: and then come back in twenty seven, Pimlico will be
Speaker 2: ready again. So because that was kind of a wild card,
Speaker 2: that was kind of a wild card.
Speaker 9: Let me throw this.
Speaker 4: I got another one for you if you're ready, Chris.
Speaker 2: Yeah, four players in Major League Baseball history have hit
Speaker 2: seven hundred home runs?
Speaker 4: Four can you name them? Where as many of them.
Speaker 5: As seven hundred major League Yes, I'm gonna give my
Speaker 5: best shot, but I am gonna inductas caveat. I am
Speaker 5: the co owner of one of the secretarys granddaughters.
Speaker 15: Wow yeah, yeah, big Ulter caner anyway.
Speaker 5: So seven hundred home runs, I'm gonna start with mister
Speaker 5: Barry Bonds wearing my body armor.
Speaker 2: Correct the next Chire uh no, think back, think back
Speaker 2: to your childhood a little bit. Yeah, okay Againseiko, uh no,
Speaker 2: how about a New York Yankee from.
Speaker 4: The nineteen twenties.
Speaker 2: Oh, George Hermans, correct, Babe, Ruth.
Speaker 5: Oh Nera said the good see Ted Williams.
Speaker 4: No, but that's a great guess.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, how about how about.
Speaker 4: The Milwaukee Braves and the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 5: Oh, Hammer and Hank.
Speaker 4: That's it. The fourth one is very tough.
Speaker 2: It's been recent, but he made his hay with the
Speaker 2: Saint Louis Cardinals, went off to Anaheim, came back to
Speaker 2: Saint Louis.
Speaker 5: Oh, mister poolholes.
Speaker 4: That's it. Those are the four Albert Poolholes.
Speaker 2: Barry Bonds seven sixty two, Hammer and Hank at seven
Speaker 2: fifty five, Babe at seven fourteen Albert pooholes seven oh three.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's very good.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Yes well, Chris in Mount Washington, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for playing reverse radio.
Speaker 5: Oh, I appreciate this out, dude me, thanks, dude, thank you.
Speaker 4: Awesome. We've got six more minutes. Who's next?
Speaker 2: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, one eight hundred
Speaker 2: The big one Well word came across yesterday a Bengals
Speaker 2: transaction on Bengals dot com. So I called it up
Speaker 2: and it was one sentence. The Bengals today waived wide
Speaker 2: receiver Jermaine Burton, third round pick from the University of
Speaker 2: Alabama in twenty twenty four. I automatically thought of Chris Carter.
Speaker 2: Some indiscretions with the Philadelphia Eagles cut unceremoniously gone. But
Speaker 2: luckily for Chris got his life together. He got claimed
Speaker 2: by the Minnesota Vikings, and all he did was catch
Speaker 2: touchdown passes and he is in the Pro Football Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame. I also thought of Jim Lippencott, the former
Speaker 2: personnel boss of the Bengals, and he told me, Chick,
Speaker 2: you don't quit the NFL. The NFL quits you. The
Speaker 2: Bengals had to cut ties with this immature problem plagued
Speaker 2: young man. I hope he gets his life together. I
Speaker 2: hope he buckles down Lands with another team and has
Speaker 2: a successful career. I hope his career is not over.
Speaker 2: The NFL stands for not for long. And this wasn't
Speaker 2: just a flyer the Bengals took on this wide receiver.
Speaker 2: This was a third round draft pick. A flyer is
Speaker 2: a seventh rounder from LSU by the name of Benny
Speaker 2: Brazil from years gone by. You take the flyer on
Speaker 2: the seventh round wide receiver who's a sprinter Okay, this
Speaker 2: was a legitimate third round pick that the Bengals wanted,
Speaker 2: and now he's gone. And a sign of the immaturity
Speaker 2: is if you can't play for a team that's got
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow that kind of leader and the leadership of
Speaker 2: the wide receivers in Jamar Chase and t Higgins, well
Speaker 2: then something is dramatically wrong. So you can't just survive
Speaker 2: on talent alone. Let's go out to the phones. Greg
Speaker 2: is in old age and I'm going to say, Io, Hi.
Speaker 3: Greg, Hi there? How are you doing?
Speaker 4: Chick fantastic?
Speaker 15: I'm just driving up north of Columbus right now. I'm
Speaker 15: back to work where after working?
Speaker 3: Mount Vernon, Ohio beautiful.
Speaker 4: Do you like Ohio State football?
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Ohio State has produced six Heisman Trophy winners.
Speaker 4: How many can you name? You can name at least one.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 2: Archie Griffin correct. We went to school together. We graduated
Speaker 2: together at Saint John Arena, Winter Quarter nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: He won it in seventy four and seventy five. Can
Speaker 2: you think of any others? Eddie George correct, nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 2: the quarterback Troy Smith.
Speaker 15: Destroy yeah, two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and six, and then we have to go back
Speaker 2: because I want to move along and get one more
Speaker 2: one or two more callers here Less Horvath nineteen forty four,
Speaker 2: My guy, Vic Janowitz in nineteen fifty War number thirty one,
Speaker 2: no one's worn it since. And Howard hop Along Cassidy
Speaker 2: number forty in nineteen fifty five. And Greg, thanks so
Speaker 2: much for calling.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 15: Have a nice evening.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. I've got to go a little rapid fire
Speaker 2: here with Chuck and Cleaves. Chuck, are you there?
Speaker 5: Yes, theirs?
Speaker 4: The ND five hundred winners.
Speaker 6: J's the question back yet.
Speaker 2: The ND five hundred winner drinks what beverage in Victory Lane?
Speaker 3: Milk?
Speaker 4: And do you the wor you to where it's start?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: The Kentucky Derby is armics mass part.
Speaker 2: All right, Chuck, appreciate you, appreciate you, thank you, all right? Uh,
Speaker 2: Quinn is in northern Kentucky is my final contestant.
Speaker 4: Quinn. Let's see here, I'm here, buddy, all right?
Speaker 2: An all expenses paid trip to a sporting event anywhere
Speaker 2: in the world, state side or international. What sporting event
Speaker 2: do you want to go to?
Speaker 21: Wow?
Speaker 12: That is a big question. I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 12: College Football National Championships because it's like roulette. I don't
Speaker 12: know where it's actually going to be until you're going
Speaker 12: to give me the ticket.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well it's going to be a Miami at Miami
Speaker 2: Home of the Dolphins, Miami Gardens, Florida this year.
Speaker 4: So yeah, awesome.
Speaker 2: I would love to see and I have I got
Speaker 2: to admit I have not been to an FC Cincinnati
Speaker 2: match at TQL. I would like to see a World
Speaker 2: Cup match somewhere. Maybe it would just be awesome, It
Speaker 2: really would be.
Speaker 4: Quinn. I got a run. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Appreciate question week all right, man, appreciate all the callers,
Speaker 2: all the listeners, and this is till next time. This
Speaker 2: is the Chickster Chick Ludwig saying thanks for listening to
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