WEBVTT - 12-9-25 Sports Talk with Chick Ludwig

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<v Speaker 1>Six nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati, chicklog Wig

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<v Speaker 1>seven hundred w l W.

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<v Speaker 2>This is Sports Talk. Honored to be filling in for

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<v Speaker 2>Lance McAllister tonight. Joe Waddell is Tonight's producer. We're going

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<v Speaker 2>all the way to nine o'clock like Eric Carmen and

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<v Speaker 2>the Raspberries. To be honest, folks, I was dreaming of

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<v Speaker 2>a Kyle Schwarber Christmas here in Cincinnati, dreaming of the

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<v Speaker 2>Middletown kid coming home and playing for the Cincinnati Reds.

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<v Speaker 2>But that dream died today when Schwarber and his representatives

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<v Speaker 2>agreed to stay in Philadelphia with the Phillies for one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and fifty million reasons over five years. My Ohio

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<v Speaker 2>State math tells me that's an average of thirty MILLI

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<v Speaker 2>a year. And Kyle has already coming off a four year,

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<v Speaker 2>seventy nine million dollar contract with the Phills and became

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<v Speaker 2>one of the most sought after free agents on the market.

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<v Speaker 2>The Reds were believed to be in the running for Schwarber,

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<v Speaker 2>but they were long shots, and it's really unclear how

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<v Speaker 2>seriously the Red Sox, Mets Orioles Giants pursueding Schwarber is

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<v Speaker 2>thirty two years old. He turns thirty three in March.

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<v Speaker 2>He's got a couple young kids getting ready to start school.

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<v Speaker 2>It would have been so awesome to have him come

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<v Speaker 2>back and finish his career with the Reds, but no,

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<v Speaker 2>He's staying in Philly. And Schwarber finished second in the

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<v Speaker 2>mL in the MVP National League voting this year after

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<v Speaker 2>leading the league with fifty six home runs and leading

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<v Speaker 2>all of Major League Baseball with one hundred and thirty

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<v Speaker 2>two RBIs. The Reds now have a void and left

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<v Speaker 2>field and they seek a power back. Where is it

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<v Speaker 2>going to come from? Hey, it's anyone's guests. Charlie Goldsmith

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<v Speaker 2>reporting from Orlando, Florida, at the Winter Meetings that the

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<v Speaker 2>Reds were in serious pursuit of Schwarber. He even had

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<v Speaker 2>an in person meeting him and his wife in late

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<v Speaker 2>November with the Reds front office Terry Francona and owner

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<v Speaker 2>Bob Castellini. And according to Charlie, the Reds weren't told

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<v Speaker 2>that they were out of the running until this morning.

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<v Speaker 2>How disappointed are you Reds fan that Schwarber isn't going

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<v Speaker 2>to become a Cincinnati Red. I've got my coffee. I've

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<v Speaker 2>got my computer, all I need is you at five

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<v Speaker 2>point three seven four nine, seven thousand and one, eight hundred,

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<v Speaker 2>the Big One, And it sure looks like the Reds

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<v Speaker 2>are going to go with what they've got, sticking with

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<v Speaker 2>their guns to draft and build from within.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh wow.

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<v Speaker 2>I was in the Crosley Room at Riverfront Stadium slash

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<v Speaker 2>Synergy Field the night that Ken Griffy Junior was introduced

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<v Speaker 2>to the Cincinnati media place was absolutely packed. There was

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<v Speaker 2>a frenzy throughout the city. The Queen City was on

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<v Speaker 2>fire about Ken Griffy Junior. Had the Reds signed Kyle Schwarber,

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<v Speaker 2>I would have think that the impact would have been approaching,

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<v Speaker 2>not saying greater than, but approaching the signing of Ken

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<v Speaker 2>Griffy Junior. One hundred and fifty million dollars is a lot,

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<v Speaker 2>But what it would have meant for attendance?

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<v Speaker 4>Are you kidding me?

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<v Speaker 2>At least the first couple three months Great American Ballpark

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<v Speaker 2>would have been packed. Oh the dream became a nightmare

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<v Speaker 2>for the Chickster and probably you.

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<v Speaker 5>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Mark Sheldon who covers the Reds for Major League Baseball

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<v Speaker 2>MLB dot com. He has an interesting story up on

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<v Speaker 2>reds dot Com that manager Terry Francona plans to manage

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<v Speaker 2>Ellie de Lacruz differently this year, and that means pretty simple,

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<v Speaker 2>more rest, no more grinding with one hundred and sixty

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<v Speaker 2>one starts like this past season, Francona said, there were

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of things going on. I think I need

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<v Speaker 2>to take responsibility, and I have and I will. He

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<v Speaker 2>told Mark Sheldon at the winter meetings in Orlando, Florida.

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<v Speaker 2>I need to find ways to get him, meaning Ellie,

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<v Speaker 2>off his feet from time to time, and I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>do a very good job of that, and I own

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<v Speaker 2>up to that. I love the fact that he Elie

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<v Speaker 2>de la Cruz wants to play and he's one of

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<v Speaker 2>the rare guys where he can bring energy every day,

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<v Speaker 2>which is really amazing, Francona said, but saying that he

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<v Speaker 2>gets beat up so much sometimes the day game off

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<v Speaker 2>after the night game might be really helpful for him.

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<v Speaker 2>Totally agree. But what would Kyle Schwarber signing have done

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<v Speaker 2>to us? Oh, it's been unbelievable. Let's not mess around.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's go out to the phones. Jeff is in the

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<v Speaker 2>Great State of Tennessee. Jeff, what's going on, Yes, sir.

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<v Speaker 6>That's what. What must the ladies on the rads?

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<v Speaker 3>Force trades or free agency?

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<v Speaker 4>Nothing right now? Nothing. We're waiting for news. We're waiting

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<v Speaker 4>for a signing.

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<v Speaker 7>Well do you reckon that that they're going to bring

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<v Speaker 7>in a big bath, that's.

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<v Speaker 2>What they need. Paul, Paul Goldschmith's out there. Could they

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<v Speaker 2>possibly bring back Austin Hayes, who knows you got Miguel

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<v Speaker 2>Andrew harr Is a free agent? He did well for

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<v Speaker 2>the Reds last year. They could possibly bring him back.

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<v Speaker 8>Yes, uh and uh uh what about sooner?

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, anything's possible to improve this bullpen? So well?

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<v Speaker 7>Uh, I'll give great one thing, you know, bringing breaking.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh a video back? I like that bringing him back?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, Jeff, We're just gonna have to wait and see.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a lot that will happen. Uh, hopefully coming out

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<v Speaker 2>of the winter meetings here and even when we get

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<v Speaker 2>the spring training. Hey, appreciate the call. Appreciate the call.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 9>Zach.

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<v Speaker 2>Zach is in Hamilton, wants to talk Kyle Schwarber.

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<v Speaker 10>Hi, Zach, Hey, Hey doing brother. I hope you're having

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<v Speaker 10>a fantastic day. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving?

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<v Speaker 4>Sure, did, thank you.

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<v Speaker 9>I just want to I just want to bring up

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<v Speaker 9>one thing.

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<v Speaker 10>I'm twenty eight years old, born in ninety seven, so

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<v Speaker 10>I've seen I've seen the big players with the Reds.

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<v Speaker 10>I'm a I love the Reds to death.

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<v Speaker 11>I really do.

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<v Speaker 4>Same here.

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<v Speaker 10>Yes, my question to you is, is I understand that

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<v Speaker 10>signing Kyle Schwarber would maybe you know, pack pack the

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<v Speaker 10>red Stadium, this, this and that. But when you I

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<v Speaker 10>just want to hear your opinion. I'm not going against

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<v Speaker 10>your opinion.

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<v Speaker 6>I just want to hear it.

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<v Speaker 12>And then do you.

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<v Speaker 10>Really think he would be a good investment for how

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<v Speaker 10>young this team is and on the on the flip side,

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<v Speaker 10>with all the other work the team has to deal with,

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<v Speaker 10>it would he even be It's if the Reds were

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<v Speaker 10>in a run to have him, what would it be

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<v Speaker 10>worth us the Reds spending one hundred and whatever forty

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<v Speaker 10>million dollars on him for four years?

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<v Speaker 11>Like, I'm just curious on what you're.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm looking at two are and fifty six home runs

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<v Speaker 2>this past year for the Philadelphia Phillies. He would turn

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<v Speaker 2>Great American Ballpark into his own personal playground. And Zach

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<v Speaker 2>I appreciate the call. Hey, yeah, real quick.

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<v Speaker 10>Okay, can you compare him to Ellie de la Cruz.

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<v Speaker 4>No, they're two different players.

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<v Speaker 2>But what would happen is what would happen is he

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<v Speaker 2>would protect Ellie.

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<v Speaker 5>I agree.

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<v Speaker 11>If that's what you agree with that, I'll let you go.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Thanks very much, Zach and Hamilton appreciate it,

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<v Speaker 2>all right? Tim is in Columbus, Hi, Tim.

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<v Speaker 8>Hey, check, Well, I'm disappointed, but not surprised, yep. And

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<v Speaker 8>I think that, unfortunately, I think that we're.

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<v Speaker 3>Going to get more of the same, Yeah, out of.

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<v Speaker 8>This club, Struggle to get over five hundred, struggle to

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<v Speaker 8>get into playoffs, go on the road, play the number

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<v Speaker 8>one seed, get beat two games, and go home. And

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<v Speaker 8>I guess, as Reds fans, we have to temper our expectations.

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<v Speaker 8>And I guess we have to start putting up banners

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<v Speaker 8>in the stadium for finishing over five hundred, because I

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<v Speaker 8>have a feeling that that's as good as it's gonna get.

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<v Speaker 8>I'm a Reds fan for fifty years, and I just

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<v Speaker 8>I'm just heartbroken and disappointed.

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<v Speaker 9>That has come to this.

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<v Speaker 8>And I go into every season with hope and aspirations

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<v Speaker 8>that this.

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<v Speaker 5>Will be the year.

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<v Speaker 8>And I Unfortunately, they've they've they've beaten me down to

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<v Speaker 8>the point where I have zero expectations and I just

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<v Speaker 8>think it's gonna take them now to get up to

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<v Speaker 8>get a bona fide bat, they would have to do

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<v Speaker 8>a trade like Hunter Green, Matt McClain and another high

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<v Speaker 8>prospect to trade for someone like a Ronald Acunya from

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<v Speaker 8>the Braves who's uh, who's who has a long, long term.

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<v Speaker 3>Deal already in place.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that's the only way they're.

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<v Speaker 8>Going to get any type of a power hitter in

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<v Speaker 8>that lineup at this point.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, in the strength of this team is the starting

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<v Speaker 2>pitching and so they're uh, they're wealthy in that department,

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<v Speaker 2>and it could very well come down to, hey, a

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<v Speaker 2>Brady Singer getting moved. I'm not ruling anything out, not

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<v Speaker 2>ruling anything out. Uh, I do think, yeah, I do

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<v Speaker 2>think with Matt mccoin coming back, he's got he's absolutely

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<v Speaker 2>has to be better, and the blossoming of a South

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<v Speaker 2>Stewart to deject what he brought in September cannot be denied.

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<v Speaker 2>He brought some energy to this club and he's got

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<v Speaker 2>to bring some more.

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<v Speaker 13>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 8>So, and unfortunately, and unfortunately we're left to dumpster dive

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<v Speaker 8>and other teams garb players.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well maybe there's a treasure in there somewhere. Tim alright,

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<v Speaker 2>all right, yeah, all right, appreciate it. Hey, Pat is

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<v Speaker 2>in Seymour, Indiana. Pat, what's going on?

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<v Speaker 14>Jick?

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<v Speaker 13>Long time since Ted Talkia, since the Winter Fantastic Band.

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<v Speaker 4>Good to hear your voice again.

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<v Speaker 13>Hey, you know, I've thought a lot about this. I mean,

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<v Speaker 13>I don't know what kind of money the Reds do make,

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<v Speaker 13>but I mean they paid him thirty million a year

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<v Speaker 13>for five years. We've we've we've stumbled on the Stakas

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<v Speaker 13>and the guy who were paying sixteen million next year.

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<v Speaker 13>I don't know for five years, I don't know. I

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<v Speaker 13>don't think I would have did that myself. But then

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<v Speaker 13>I look at all the people they want to talk

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<v Speaker 13>about signing. They're all two forty hitters and don't hit

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<v Speaker 13>too many homers.

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<v Speaker 5>I don't know what we got.

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<v Speaker 13>We might have to keep what we got and hope

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<v Speaker 13>for that happens.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's yeah, uh, young club. It's improving, and they

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<v Speaker 2>did reach the playoffs last year, and yes, they took

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<v Speaker 2>advantage of the Mets collapse, so that counts for something.

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<v Speaker 4>So they got a taste of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, keep improving and uh, let's get back to the

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<v Speaker 2>playoffs and see what happens.

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<v Speaker 13>I'm hoping, so I said, I'm your agent. I don't

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<v Speaker 13>give up. But I mean, if I had the money

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<v Speaker 13>and I was paying for it, I don't know if

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<v Speaker 13>I'd be paying some of these guys the money they

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<v Speaker 13>want to get for that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, let's enjoy the twenty twenty sixth season because

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<v Speaker 2>there very well could be a stoppage because of the

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<v Speaker 2>disparity in payrolls by the top and the bottom. It's

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<v Speaker 2>it's massive. So pat appreciate the call man. Thank you, Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>good talking to you. But all right you too. Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>Mike is in Dayton, Mike, what is happening?

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<v Speaker 14>I didn't need no Iowa and the home of the

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<v Speaker 14>from gunny Sunny Indians. Anyway, I want to talk about

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<v Speaker 14>the Red situation or do we have to do to

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<v Speaker 14>get a big bets?

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<v Speaker 2>Hey?

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<v Speaker 14>We can't.

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<v Speaker 2>What's to work at a trade? Work a trade, Mike

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<v Speaker 2>with one of these starting pitchers.

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<v Speaker 14>Yeah, it seems like they don't want it, and like

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<v Speaker 14>the Red don't want it.

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<v Speaker 2>Send the man begins, Uh bad, there's a big old

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<v Speaker 2>void out there.

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<v Speaker 4>In left field, isn't there? Yes, and we need to

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<v Speaker 4>stand out there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but you've got Hunter Green, Brady Singer, Andrew Abbott,

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<v Speaker 2>Chase Burns, Uh, Red Louder, Nicoldolo, Richie Pitching rich right now,

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<v Speaker 2>it's starting rotation and they might have to deal one

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<v Speaker 2>of these guys.

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<v Speaker 14>Half of our half of our pens stuff was on

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<v Speaker 14>the disabledent one.

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<v Speaker 15>The last year.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Juli and Aggie our is back, so is Brandon.

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<v Speaker 2>So we'll see what they got come the spring. And Mike,

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta run, man, I got to run. Appreciate your call.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 4>Jimmy is in Cincinnati, Jimmy, what do you say?

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<v Speaker 6>Hey?

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<v Speaker 7>What's going on?

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<v Speaker 5>Man?

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<v Speaker 7>You know, I got a few comments. I want to

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<v Speaker 7>make one. You know, I listen to this show off

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<v Speaker 7>and I'm getting off work here. I'm coming from Columbus.

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<v Speaker 7>Look the fans, we gotta chill.

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<v Speaker 16>Out a little bit.

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<v Speaker 7>Kyle Schwarber isn't gonna be still in the stadium to

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<v Speaker 7>more than half or seventy five percent full on a

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<v Speaker 7>Tuesday in April, or you know, in the end of

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<v Speaker 7>August and September when the Reds are in fourth and

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<v Speaker 7>Sis play sometimes, you know, I know, I've been a

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<v Speaker 7>dahar fan my entire life. Yeah, but it kind of

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<v Speaker 7>goes both ways, you know, we the fans. There's been

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<v Speaker 7>so many times that you'll turn on the Reds game,

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<v Speaker 7>especially against the Cubs, and you'll see more blue on

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<v Speaker 7>the stands in Red. You can't have that and then

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<v Speaker 7>sit up here and cry and complain every day about

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<v Speaker 7>how the team doesn't go out to kylege s Wwarber

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<v Speaker 7>number two, y'all want to the Reds are not the Dodgers,

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<v Speaker 7>We're not the Yankees, We're not the Mets. You know,

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<v Speaker 7>I was looking at a Facebook post today. A dude

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<v Speaker 7>was up here saying, you know, ownerships looking at things

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<v Speaker 7>the wrong way because you know, since he's more than

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<v Speaker 7>just a city. You know, we're dating in Louisville and Lexington,

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<v Speaker 7>down to Kentucky and West Virginia. You know, we got

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<v Speaker 7>parts of Indiana up in Columbus.

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<v Speaker 6>All that.

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<v Speaker 7>Again, that's great, but if you look at how our

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<v Speaker 7>lineup is, if you look at the amount that we

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<v Speaker 7>have on our payroll, we cannot compete paying a guy

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<v Speaker 7>like Kyleege Schwarber.

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<v Speaker 5>To play dh y.

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<v Speaker 7>You know, if you look at our roster, where are

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<v Speaker 7>you gonna put them.

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<v Speaker 2>At Yeah, he's strictly a DH and Hey, Jimmy, I

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate the call.

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<v Speaker 4>I got to run.

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<v Speaker 2>We've reached the the bottom of the ole briad.

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<v Speaker 4>Hey, feel free to have hang on, feel free to

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<v Speaker 4>hang on. We'll put you on hold.

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<v Speaker 2>We've got Mark and Milford, We've got Shane in uh

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<v Speaker 2>Is in maple Wood.

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<v Speaker 4>Hey, hang on.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll get back to you guys right after the break. Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>it's the Chickster chick Ludwig filling in for Lance McAllister tonight,

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<v Speaker 2>bumming that Kyle Schwarber is remaining in Philadelphia on seven

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<v Speaker 2>hundred WLW six forty one in the Queens City of Cincinnati.

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<v Speaker 2>How long commercial breaks? Hey, it's the holidays and a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of advertising and sponsors here at iHeartMedia Cincinnati. Outstanding.

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<v Speaker 2>It's paying the bills man, fantastic. But congratulations to Kyle Schwarber.

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<v Speaker 2>By the time he turns thirty seven years old, and

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<v Speaker 2>he'll be thirty three in March, two hundred and twenty

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<v Speaker 2>nine million dollars just in his last two contracts, the

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<v Speaker 2>five years one fifty that he's signing now and the

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<v Speaker 2>previous four years at seventy nine. That doesn't take into

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<v Speaker 2>account his six previous seasons or seven six with the

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<v Speaker 2>Cubs from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty, and then he

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<v Speaker 2>was with the Washington Nationals in twenty twenty one and

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<v Speaker 2>got traded to the Red Sox in twenty one. So wow,

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<v Speaker 2>seven previous seasons add to that. Man, we're talking a

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<v Speaker 2>quarter of a billion dollars for Kyle Schwarber. Let's go

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<v Speaker 2>back out to the phones, Jimmy and Cincinnati. You wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to finish what you were.

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<v Speaker 7>Saying, Hey, thank you for let me, you know, jump

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<v Speaker 7>back on, man, it was a minute. The only thing

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<v Speaker 7>I wanted to say.

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<v Speaker 3>The Reds.

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<v Speaker 7>The problem area on this team is middle infield. You

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<v Speaker 7>can't Ellie does not need to be playing a short stop,

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<v Speaker 7>but you can't move them because everybody in the outfield

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<v Speaker 7>has basically played their way into a position. You know,

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<v Speaker 7>Freedom is the only guy that gets on base, and Mark, Hey,

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<v Speaker 7>he showed with his bat once he moved out there

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<v Speaker 7>to white field that you know that that's where he

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<v Speaker 7>needs to be Yes opening day, those are probably gonna

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<v Speaker 7>be two of the three spots and then the left

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<v Speaker 7>deal we gonna have to figure out what to do,

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<v Speaker 7>because if we want south Stewart in the lineup, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>he only played first to third. People complain about Keith

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<v Speaker 7>Brown Hayes, but gold Glove He's gonna be our third

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<v Speaker 7>basement for the nets. What four or five?

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<v Speaker 13>Six?

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<v Speaker 4>Absolutely?

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<v Speaker 2>I look at south Stewart is playing some first base,

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<v Speaker 2>mainly mainly special Steer, but south Stewart first base and

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<v Speaker 2>some dh and Jimmy, I got.

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<v Speaker 4>A run man, Thank you so much, appreciate you. Ah

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<v Speaker 4>right here all right?

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<v Speaker 2>Uh Mark and Milford's been waiting forever, Hi Mark, home

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<v Speaker 2>of the Eagles.

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<v Speaker 4>All right.

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<v Speaker 17>So Kyle Schwarber's off the market, Yes, sir, there's always

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<v Speaker 17>there's always Bragman, Tucker and Alonzo and from what's in

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<v Speaker 17>I like Andal Harr. You brought him up. Maybe a

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<v Speaker 17>forgotten guy.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh I love Andrew Harr and Douhar. Yeah, get him

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<v Speaker 2>back here, getting back here. That dude can hit. He

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<v Speaker 2>struggled to run with some leg injury, some leg soreness,

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<v Speaker 2>but the dude can hit. I'd love to have him

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<v Speaker 2>come back. And he was the underdog dark horse. All

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<v Speaker 2>the dude does is hit lefties, so he is valuable.

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<v Speaker 17>I want him back and Gavin Lux is going to

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<v Speaker 17>be around.

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<v Speaker 4>Right, Yes he is. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 17>That brings me to this point of view. I brought

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<v Speaker 17>up with Lance McAllister about July when Hunter Green was

0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:34.080
<v Speaker 17>hurt and Elie Delacruz hurt. Okay, I said, Lance, let's

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<v Speaker 17>switch through here. Let's put Elliet in center. Let's put

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<v Speaker 17>Friedo and right, Mark Tee and left and DH with

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<v Speaker 17>andohr and locks at second. You're short up.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know about that.

0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:52.000
<v Speaker 2>Lus's glove scares me a lot, especially in left field.

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<v Speaker 4>Summitt second base.

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<v Speaker 17>He's older, but he can hit.

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<v Speaker 2>I love you, No, he can, he can, Yeah he

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<v Speaker 2>can DH two. Uh yeah, where do you put him?

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<v Speaker 2>So a lot of moving parts with this uh, with

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<v Speaker 2>this team. I like Marte in right field, no doubt.

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<v Speaker 18>Uh.

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<v Speaker 4>You're not going to move Alley off a short.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what the management I know, I know, I know

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<v Speaker 2>well And if you were listening earlier, Terry Francone is

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<v Speaker 2>going to work with him differently. They're going to give

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<v Speaker 2>him more rest because he's beating himself up out there

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<v Speaker 2>injury wise, and he's still playing.

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<v Speaker 4>So hey, yeah, he wants.

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<v Speaker 17>To be out there on sixty two.

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<v Speaker 2>You know he does and uh with then dam some

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<v Speaker 2>and night game, afternoon game. Man, Uh, resting one of

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<v Speaker 2>those games.

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<v Speaker 4>Period. Got you, Yeah, we got you.

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<v Speaker 17>Pitcher is awesome. I think we're going to go.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they're they're stock pilot starting Pitchington's coming back hopefully

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<v Speaker 2>coming back.

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<v Speaker 17>Guys that were out for a while.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, so pitching the point. Yeah, an embarrassment of

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<v Speaker 2>riches people. They could they very well.

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<v Speaker 17>Could so to get a Bragman or a Tucker.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh my gosh, that would be god. Bregman love him?

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<v Speaker 17>Is dis the Reds head? Is he so with the Dodgers?

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<v Speaker 2>Uh, you know what, I'll check on that. Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 2>will check on that. Yeah, all right, crazy, okay, both

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<v Speaker 2>all right? Uh no, no, that's not gonna happen. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks so much, man.

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<v Speaker 17>You're the greatest.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you, sir, appreciate you.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh Bob and Sarasota, Bob, fantastic.

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<v Speaker 4>What's on your mind?

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<v Speaker 7>Well, I mean, was it immediately that the Reds had

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<v Speaker 7>a shot at getting Schwarber or something. That's one of

0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.080
<v Speaker 7>these things where it seems like, uh, let's put some

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<v Speaker 7>more false hope out there in Red's Land where nothing

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<v Speaker 7>actually materializes.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I.

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<v Speaker 7>Compare the Reds.

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<v Speaker 3>Lots of the Rays down here.

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<v Speaker 7>Small market, short payroll, but the Rays are competitive year

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<v Speaker 7>after year, where the Reds just can't seem to get

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<v Speaker 7>it done.

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<v Speaker 2>But hey, you know, it's got to count for something

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<v Speaker 2>to get to the playoffs. They got hot at the

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<v Speaker 2>end of the year, they took advantage of the Mets collapse.

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<v Speaker 2>They still got there. They got a taste of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Now they've got to take the next step. And I

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<v Speaker 2>think they can. I think they can because I think.

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<v Speaker 7>They they need to get the big bat though.

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<v Speaker 4>They need to they do. We've been screaming about that

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<v Speaker 4>for over a year, over a year.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, it's a hitter's friendly ballparks. They're going to put

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<v Speaker 7>people in the stands if they get a guy who

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<v Speaker 7>can hit forty to fifty knocks a year, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>with O Tawny look at the ROI the Dodgers got

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<v Speaker 7>on that investment. They've already paid for his.

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<v Speaker 4>Uh oh, yeah, you know, absolutely seven, no doubt.

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<v Speaker 7>And I think Cincinnati could be in the same boat

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<v Speaker 7>if if they spend a little, you know, maybe take

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<v Speaker 7>a shot and get rid of a couple of these

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<v Speaker 7>talents in the pipeline. And yeah, you know, you got

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<v Speaker 7>to bite the bullet at some point. But they need

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<v Speaker 7>a guy to hit forty to fifty knocks a.

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<v Speaker 2>Year in thirty thirty to forty, no doubt. All Right, Bob,

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<v Speaker 2>all right, appreciate you don't care. Thanks all right, thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>Mark in Montgomery, Hi, Mark.

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<v Speaker 7>Hey, good evening.

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<v Speaker 4>How are you good.

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<v Speaker 6>Hey.

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<v Speaker 19>A couple of things, you know, just you know, trying

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<v Speaker 19>to put this Kyle Schber thing in perspective. You know,

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<v Speaker 19>I was doing some research, and I mean the revenues

0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:35.880
<v Speaker 19>in these bigger markets, you know, the RESI just can't

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<v Speaker 19>compete with that. I mean, I saw that twenty twenty three,

0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:43.159
<v Speaker 19>Philadelphia got one hundred and twenty five million on local

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<v Speaker 19>TV and they just signed a brand new deal with

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<v Speaker 19>Comcast or NBC worth two and a half billion dollars

0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:54.639
<v Speaker 19>for the next twenty five years. So you know, I mean, yeah, I.

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<v Speaker 3>Think the Reds could do more.

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<v Speaker 6>They could spend a little.

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<v Speaker 19>More, but I mean some of these teams and where

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<v Speaker 19>they are, I mean, they're it's never going to compete

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<v Speaker 19>with that kind of television market because of the population

0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:06.479
<v Speaker 19>size of the area. And it's just a sad fact.

0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:10.560
<v Speaker 19>The NFL works because you got a salary cap, and

0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:13.080
<v Speaker 19>you can go from losing twelve games in a year

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<v Speaker 19>and winning twelve the next year because of that in

0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:19.080
<v Speaker 19>the competition, and baseball is the only sport that doesn't have,

0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:22.280
<v Speaker 19>you know, something similar to that, and that's why you

0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:24.640
<v Speaker 19>have ten teams with all the revenues and the other

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<v Speaker 19>twenty trying to remain relevant.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the Dodgers, Yankees, and Mets are glad to pay

0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:33.000
<v Speaker 2>that luxury tax. So we got to enjoy the twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty six season, man, because we could have a stoppage

0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:37.080
<v Speaker 2>at twenty seven.

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<v Speaker 19>So I think that's inevitable quite frankly. Yeah, alrighty, Well,

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<v Speaker 19>appreciate the time.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, thank you so much. Thanks all right, appreciate

0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:51.760
<v Speaker 2>it man, all the callers. Wow, that was awesome. A

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<v Speaker 2>lot to get to. Still here tonight talking Bengals, talking

0:25:55.600 --> 0:26:00.280
<v Speaker 2>to college football playoffs. And when I think of the Bengals,

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh, when I'm wrong, I say that I'm wrong,

0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:09.399
<v Speaker 2>And I was wrong about Trey Hendrickson.

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<v Speaker 4>Boy did I get fooled. Didn't we all get fooled?

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<v Speaker 2>He pulled off But you got to congratulate the guy

0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:24.120
<v Speaker 2>because he pulled off the greatest heist since the Prince robbery.

0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:30.720
<v Speaker 2>He fleed Mike Brown and the Bengals for twenty nine

0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:37.800
<v Speaker 2>million dollars this year. He's hurt, maybe not his fault,

0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:42.760
<v Speaker 2>injured surgery, out for the remainder of the year, and

0:26:42.920 --> 0:26:46.560
<v Speaker 2>he'll work hard to try to get another contract next year,

0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:49.920
<v Speaker 2>but it won't be in Cincinnati. And all I can

0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:55.359
<v Speaker 2>say is, Trey, you worked your cards right. You came

0:26:55.400 --> 0:27:00.199
<v Speaker 2>in with a hold in situation. You garnered all the

0:27:00.320 --> 0:27:09.280
<v Speaker 2>sympathy from really me, the media, sports writers, broadcasters, and teammates.

0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:13.960
<v Speaker 2>I even said, pay the guy. He deserves it, coming

0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:16.840
<v Speaker 2>off seventeen and a half sacks from last year. But

0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:21.160
<v Speaker 2>I got fooled. He flees the Bengals for twenty nine

0:27:21.200 --> 0:27:26.800
<v Speaker 2>million dollars. His salary was going to be in the

0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:30.600
<v Speaker 2>final year of his contract sixteen million. He said he

0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:35.600
<v Speaker 2>would hold out and not play for sixteen because TJ.

0:27:35.760 --> 0:27:39.240
<v Speaker 2>Watt and all these other dudes were getting paid megabox.

0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:44.040
<v Speaker 2>So he but he comes to training camp, plays the

0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:49.040
<v Speaker 2>good guy, mentoring younger players, but he's not working out.

0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:51.040
<v Speaker 2>But he he might be working out at the facility,

0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:57.040
<v Speaker 2>but he's not practicing. The thing is Mike Brown was

0:27:57.240 --> 0:28:04.560
<v Speaker 2>forced forced to give him thirteen extra million dollars to

0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:09.920
<v Speaker 2>bump his salary up one year twenty nine million. Because

0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:15.400
<v Speaker 2>word travels fast in the National Football League among players,

0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:20.199
<v Speaker 2>they talk about getting paid, they talk about their contract situations.

0:28:20.920 --> 0:28:22.960
<v Speaker 4>And if.

0:28:24.520 --> 0:28:29.120
<v Speaker 2>Trey Hendrickson had started the year at sixteen million, there's

0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:32.720
<v Speaker 2>no way he would have held out and not taken

0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:38.360
<v Speaker 2>seventeen paychecks at what close through a mill a game.

0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:43.520
<v Speaker 4>For eighteen weeks.

0:28:44.360 --> 0:28:49.000
<v Speaker 2>If the Bengals don't pay him, word travels Bengals cheap,

0:28:49.520 --> 0:28:53.360
<v Speaker 2>you don't want to go there. So the Bengals basically

0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:58.880
<v Speaker 2>are forced to pay Trey Hendrickson an extra thirteen mil

0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:01.280
<v Speaker 2>to take it up to twenty nine for this season,

0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:11.440
<v Speaker 2>the greatest heist since the Brinch robbery, fleecing Mike Brown

0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:17.600
<v Speaker 2>and the Bengals for twenty nine million dollars. Hey, when

0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:23.240
<v Speaker 2>we come back, this is an unbelievably important date in

0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:29.240
<v Speaker 2>Cincinnati Red's history. I want to talk about that when

0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:32.520
<v Speaker 2>we come back. This is the Chickster chick love Wig.

0:29:32.680 --> 0:29:35.960
<v Speaker 2>I've got my coffee, I've got my computer. All I

0:29:36.000 --> 0:29:38.080
<v Speaker 2>need is you At five one, three, seven four nine,

0:29:38.120 --> 0:29:42.040
<v Speaker 2>seven thousand, one eight hundred, the Big One on seven

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<v Speaker 2>hundred WLW.

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<v Speaker 20>Seven o nine in the Queen City of Cuincinnati, Chicklogwig,

0:30:27.640 --> 0:30:29.280
<v Speaker 20>seven hundred WLW.

0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:32.360
<v Speaker 2>This is Sports Talk under to be filling in for

0:30:32.680 --> 0:30:37.320
<v Speaker 2>the immortal Lance McAllister Tonight Shoeless. Joe Waddell is Tonight's producer.

0:30:37.640 --> 0:30:40.680
<v Speaker 2>We're going all the way to nine o'clock like Eric

0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:46.200
<v Speaker 2>Carmon and the Raspberries, and that's when Gary Jeff Walker

0:30:46.240 --> 0:30:49.320
<v Speaker 2>takes over these airways and he will take you to midnight.

0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:53.960
<v Speaker 2>Now on this date in Red's history, two important trades

0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:57.600
<v Speaker 2>that went sideways big time. But before we get to those,

0:30:57.680 --> 0:31:00.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm going back out to the phones and we start

0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:02.960
<v Speaker 2>with Kevin in Columbus.

0:31:03.600 --> 0:31:06.000
<v Speaker 5>Kevin, Hey, Yeah, I.

0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:08.920
<v Speaker 6>Like doing the Reds talking. I wanted to hear what

0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:11.040
<v Speaker 6>you had to say. You were gonna say why you

0:31:11.120 --> 0:31:13.800
<v Speaker 6>thought the Reds were doing better. You got interrupted by

0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:19.160
<v Speaker 6>the caller, but you were going to say something about why.

0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:21.480
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm hopeful and always hopeful for Yeah.

0:31:21.920 --> 0:31:23.560
<v Speaker 4>I just think you hear that.

0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:27.479
<v Speaker 2>I mean, before the Astros won the World Series, they

0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:31.320
<v Speaker 2>were losing one hundred games, Okay, so I'm just looking

0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:37.640
<v Speaker 2>at everybody improving, taking a next step and going forward

0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:40.120
<v Speaker 2>in the playoffs here getting to the playoffs and then

0:31:40.160 --> 0:31:45.200
<v Speaker 2>anything can happen unless you run into the Los Angeles Dodgers, So.

0:31:46.120 --> 0:31:47.240
<v Speaker 3>You worry about that later.

0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:51.200
<v Speaker 6>But yeah, it may take more than a year or

0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:54.120
<v Speaker 6>two to get it all turned around. I still think

0:31:54.120 --> 0:31:57.440
<v Speaker 6>they've got the right manager and everything. And now I

0:31:57.800 --> 0:32:00.480
<v Speaker 6>agree with a lot of callers. Why is d La

0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:03.640
<v Speaker 6>Cruz doing short stop? But that you know that's spring

0:32:03.720 --> 0:32:06.240
<v Speaker 6>Kna's decision. I guess you know it is, so I

0:32:06.360 --> 0:32:09.360
<v Speaker 6>go second guess him. But but they do need to

0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:12.080
<v Speaker 6>get a bat. It was a pipe dream with Kyle Schwarber,

0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:14.400
<v Speaker 6>but yeah, boy, they need to get some bats in

0:32:14.440 --> 0:32:17.280
<v Speaker 6>there and shore up some things. But hey, I'm always

0:32:17.280 --> 0:32:19.960
<v Speaker 6>hopeful for spring training, and I guess with the way

0:32:20.000 --> 0:32:22.800
<v Speaker 6>the Bengals are going, we got no choice but to

0:32:22.880 --> 0:32:23.360
<v Speaker 6>wait for.

0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:27.440
<v Speaker 2>That, right ah, who knows, maybe there is, maybe there's

0:32:27.480 --> 0:32:28.880
<v Speaker 2>a Christmas miracle.

0:32:29.760 --> 0:32:32.080
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, but hey, you'll do some Bengals talking, all.

0:32:32.040 --> 0:32:37.480
<v Speaker 2>Right, All right, Okay, thank you appreciate it, and we've

0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:42.280
<v Speaker 2>got res in Newport res.

0:32:41.840 --> 0:32:43.320
<v Speaker 5>Jick, how are you, buddy?

0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:46.200
<v Speaker 18>I agree with you. I think the Reds should have

0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:49.080
<v Speaker 18>a pat hand their players that they have. Now, I

0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:52.480
<v Speaker 18>think they're going to play better this year. My take

0:32:52.560 --> 0:32:56.600
<v Speaker 18>on the mister Kyle Schwarber, I'm I think they're Red's

0:32:56.680 --> 0:33:00.040
<v Speaker 18>dodged the ball. And I never did agree with the

0:33:00.080 --> 0:33:03.640
<v Speaker 18>Red's going after this guy for a number of reasons. One,

0:33:03.720 --> 0:33:06.080
<v Speaker 18>he's going to be thirty three years old in March

0:33:06.200 --> 0:33:09.000
<v Speaker 18>come opening day, okay, and you.

0:33:08.960 --> 0:33:12.840
<v Speaker 9>Know, the older you get, the slower you are.

0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:15.520
<v Speaker 3>And he's slower already.

0:33:15.240 --> 0:33:19.760
<v Speaker 2>Okay, not that bad.

0:33:17.160 --> 0:33:21.160
<v Speaker 3>He's right.

0:33:21.240 --> 0:33:22.440
<v Speaker 5>He can't play defense.

0:33:23.200 --> 0:33:26.840
<v Speaker 4>He's a designated hitter man exactly.

0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:30.160
<v Speaker 19>He struck out the last four years with the Phillies.

0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:31.400
<v Speaker 18>Ever, he's over two.

0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:33.480
<v Speaker 5>Hundred times okay.

0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:37.560
<v Speaker 18>Uh. And if he does get on base, they're going

0:33:37.640 --> 0:33:40.560
<v Speaker 18>to have to probably send an attaxi cab to get

0:33:40.640 --> 0:33:43.600
<v Speaker 18>him the second base, so there'll be war out by

0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:46.240
<v Speaker 18>the time he gets there. Half his runs that he

0:33:46.320 --> 0:33:50.280
<v Speaker 18>scored his uh. Because of the home run. They need

0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:55.400
<v Speaker 18>to take that money and develop young talent, okay, because

0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:57.160
<v Speaker 18>that's the name of the game, and it's.

0:33:57.000 --> 0:34:01.280
<v Speaker 6>It's said that these clubs they hey big bucks for

0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:01.880
<v Speaker 6>guys who.

0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:03.000
<v Speaker 4>Hit home runs.

0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:06.160
<v Speaker 18>And the one thing you Reds have that these other

0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:09.960
<v Speaker 18>teams don't have is Tito FRANCONA.

0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:12.000
<v Speaker 2>Amen to that, and Rex I got to run here.

0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:17.760
<v Speaker 2>Appreciate your call. Thank you all right. Jeff is in Westchester. Hi, Jeff,

0:34:19.280 --> 0:34:20.320
<v Speaker 2>how you're doing good?

0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:21.839
<v Speaker 4>Good? What's on your mind?

0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:22.920
<v Speaker 21>Hey?

0:34:23.600 --> 0:34:26.239
<v Speaker 11>Enjoy the show as always. It's just a couple of

0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:29.480
<v Speaker 11>things on the Reds. You know, the Swerverer thing would

0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:32.120
<v Speaker 11>have been okay, but I think the guy they need

0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:36.600
<v Speaker 11>to look at is Buschett from Toronto, the shortstop, and

0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:40.200
<v Speaker 11>that allows you to move to move our shortstop into

0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:43.040
<v Speaker 11>center field where he belongs. You're kind of getting two

0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:44.080
<v Speaker 11>players for one there.

0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:47.520
<v Speaker 4>Boh, b shit. I would like that. Yes.

0:34:47.960 --> 0:34:49.320
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he's gonna.

0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:53.279
<v Speaker 11>Hit for average, he's going to drive in runs and

0:34:53.680 --> 0:34:55.719
<v Speaker 11>you're not going to hit the home runs that the

0:34:55.800 --> 0:34:57.640
<v Speaker 11>other guy was going to. But he's gonna get on

0:34:57.719 --> 0:34:59.520
<v Speaker 11>base a lot more and put the ball in play.

0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:05.080
<v Speaker 11>And that solved two needs there, And that's the way

0:35:05.120 --> 0:35:08.160
<v Speaker 11>I would go with this, Jeff, going back to your

0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:11.200
<v Speaker 11>alignment from the from the Bengals.

0:35:10.719 --> 0:35:13.080
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, you know, maybe maybe this thing.

0:35:13.800 --> 0:35:16.640
<v Speaker 11>You know, they have an insurance policy for those guys

0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:20.280
<v Speaker 11>and if they play under a certain amount of games,

0:35:20.280 --> 0:35:24.640
<v Speaker 11>the policy kicks in. So I wonder if the owner

0:35:24.719 --> 0:35:27.960
<v Speaker 11>there in order to recoup his money. He just went

0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:30.760
<v Speaker 11>ahead and told him to have the surgery, so therefore

0:35:30.800 --> 0:35:33.640
<v Speaker 11>he wouldn't qualify, you know, for the contract, but he'd

0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:35.200
<v Speaker 11>get paid by his insurance company.

0:35:35.960 --> 0:35:40.000
<v Speaker 4>Hey, we'll have to run that down. But great point.

0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:44.279
<v Speaker 2>An NFL team has to spend at least eighty percent

0:35:45.160 --> 0:35:48.160
<v Speaker 2>of you know, their cap, and then the Bengals do

0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.920
<v Speaker 2>a good job of holding money back because injured guys

0:35:50.920 --> 0:35:51.520
<v Speaker 2>get paid too.

0:35:52.080 --> 0:35:54.480
<v Speaker 4>So but a good point. Jeff.

0:35:55.800 --> 0:35:56.680
<v Speaker 5>I enjoy your show.

0:35:57.040 --> 0:35:59.640
<v Speaker 4>Thank you so much. Just trying to bring some energy

0:35:59.680 --> 0:36:01.480
<v Speaker 4>to the ways man, just like the.

0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:03.520
<v Speaker 2>Lead, got it going, all right, Thanks you so much,

0:36:03.760 --> 0:36:09.320
<v Speaker 2>all right, appreciate it. Joe is in Lexington, Oh, Central Kentucky.

0:36:09.520 --> 0:36:10.600
<v Speaker 4>It's a beautiful area.

0:36:11.040 --> 0:36:15.320
<v Speaker 16>Joe, uh, hello, check. I appreciate taking my call. And

0:36:15.400 --> 0:36:18.719
<v Speaker 16>I completely concurred. Just just a couple of things. I mean,

0:36:19.480 --> 0:36:21.759
<v Speaker 16>I could go on forever. But one, I mean, I

0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:26.400
<v Speaker 16>don't know if the Reds actually thought that Kyle Schwarver

0:36:26.480 --> 0:36:29.399
<v Speaker 16>would take a twenty five million dollar home down this game.

0:36:29.520 --> 0:36:30.719
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, you know you did.

0:36:31.040 --> 0:36:33.919
<v Speaker 16>Yeah, I mean, if they did, I mean, that's that's

0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:37.400
<v Speaker 16>a joke. But I'm sure you've discussed this many times.

0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:45.560
<v Speaker 16>I get to listen very sporadically, but just two things. One,

0:36:45.760 --> 0:36:51.120
<v Speaker 16>what what would it take? Or let me Why doesn't

0:36:51.160 --> 0:36:54.680
<v Speaker 16>Bob Castellini sell this team? I mean he's I don't know,

0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:58.360
<v Speaker 16>I think he's eighty three eighty four. I mean he could.

0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:02.360
<v Speaker 16>He could sell this team, make a huge profit on

0:37:02.480 --> 0:37:06.040
<v Speaker 16>what he paid for it originally, and make his family

0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:09.880
<v Speaker 16>happy or whatever. I just personally, if his plan is

0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:15.279
<v Speaker 16>to turn this organization over to Phil Castellene, I think

0:37:15.320 --> 0:37:23.640
<v Speaker 16>you're looking at a tremendously precipitous slope. And Two, I've

0:37:23.760 --> 0:37:28.840
<v Speaker 16>heard many times that he want Bob Castellini won't spend

0:37:29.719 --> 0:37:33.960
<v Speaker 16>the other investors' money. I'm curious if he went to

0:37:34.040 --> 0:37:36.680
<v Speaker 16>all these other investors. Again, I have no idea how

0:37:36.680 --> 0:37:39.880
<v Speaker 16>it works, but if they could get the money together

0:37:40.560 --> 0:37:44.480
<v Speaker 16>and would have gone to Bob Castelleni today or sometime

0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:47.000
<v Speaker 16>in the future and say, look, we want to sign

0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:51.040
<v Speaker 16>one of these guys. Let's sign him. What would their

0:37:51.080 --> 0:37:53.360
<v Speaker 16>options be? And I'll hang up and listen. Thank you, I.

0:37:53.360 --> 0:37:58.719
<v Speaker 2>Appreciate Joe, that's a question. It's way above my pay grade.

0:37:59.400 --> 0:38:02.879
<v Speaker 2>I don't see them selling, and gosh, the same could

0:38:02.880 --> 0:38:06.520
<v Speaker 2>be said for the Brown family. Don't know how much

0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:09.319
<v Speaker 2>they paid for it, but man, it's worth what four

0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:13.120
<v Speaker 2>billion dollars now four or five and they're the lowest

0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:19.839
<v Speaker 2>valuated team in the National Football League. So hey, let's

0:38:19.920 --> 0:38:25.800
<v Speaker 2>lean on this young talent. Let's add a bat or two, oh,

0:38:25.320 --> 0:38:28.920
<v Speaker 2>and hope for the best. Gosh, that's lame, I know,

0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:34.520
<v Speaker 2>but I'm sorry. It's above my pay grade. Now I

0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:38.840
<v Speaker 2>want to get into this awesome to be filling in

0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:45.440
<v Speaker 2>for Lance McAllister. Two important things in Red's history happened

0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:49.840
<v Speaker 2>on this date. In the first one December ninth, nineteen

0:38:50.000 --> 0:38:55.319
<v Speaker 2>sixty five. This is going way back now, I was

0:38:55.360 --> 0:38:59.680
<v Speaker 2>eleven years old. Red Zoner, billed to Wit completes the

0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:02.960
<v Speaker 2>worst trade not just in Red's history, but in Major

0:39:03.040 --> 0:39:10.360
<v Speaker 2>League Baseball history. He shipped Frank Robinson to the Baltimore

0:39:10.400 --> 0:39:15.920
<v Speaker 2>Orioles in exchange for pitcher Milt Pappis, pitcher Jack Baldshin,

0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:25.520
<v Speaker 2>and outfielder Dick Simpson. De Witt wanted more pitching and

0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:30.200
<v Speaker 2>he thought that Frank Robinson was a quote unquote old thirty.

0:39:31.840 --> 0:39:37.160
<v Speaker 2>Wow did it backfire because in his first year with

0:39:37.239 --> 0:39:45.000
<v Speaker 2>the Baltimore Orioles nineteen sixty six, future Major League Baseball

0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:49.600
<v Speaker 2>Hall of Famer Frank Robinson wins the Triple Crown for

0:39:49.680 --> 0:39:54.800
<v Speaker 2>the Orioles, batting three sixteen with forty nine home runs

0:39:55.040 --> 0:39:58.360
<v Speaker 2>in one hundred and twenty two RBIs. He wins the

0:39:58.400 --> 0:40:05.279
<v Speaker 2>American League MVP and the World Series MVP. Is the

0:40:05.400 --> 0:40:11.960
<v Speaker 2>Baltimore Orioles engineer a four game sweep of the Los

0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:17.000
<v Speaker 2>Angeles Dodgers, trading Frank Robinson.

0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:19.040
<v Speaker 4>For Milt Pappis.

0:40:19.320 --> 0:40:22.239
<v Speaker 2>PAPIs, I think he had a winning record the next

0:40:22.280 --> 0:40:28.839
<v Speaker 2>few years, but nothing spectacular. It goes down as the

0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:32.719
<v Speaker 2>worst trade in Major League Baseball history. And then, on

0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:39.800
<v Speaker 2>this date, December ninth, nineteen seventy seven, the Red Ship

0:40:40.000 --> 0:40:45.000
<v Speaker 2>first baseman Dave Revering and one point seven five million

0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:51.200
<v Speaker 2>dollars to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for pitcher Vida

0:40:51.239 --> 0:40:53.480
<v Speaker 2>Blue and a deal.

0:40:53.239 --> 0:40:56.600
<v Speaker 4>At the Winter Meetings.

0:40:56.680 --> 0:41:05.200
<v Speaker 2>And then what happens on January thirtieth, a month later,

0:41:05.480 --> 0:41:11.960
<v Speaker 2>nineteen seventy eight, Commissioner Bowie Koon voids the trade completed

0:41:12.000 --> 0:41:18.440
<v Speaker 2>on December ninth. Kuon claimed there was too much money

0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:22.320
<v Speaker 2>involved in the deal, which, if allowed to continue, would

0:41:22.360 --> 0:41:31.520
<v Speaker 2>create a competitive imbalance among the teams. Bowie Koon, the commissioner,

0:41:31.680 --> 0:41:36.160
<v Speaker 2>later set four hundred thousand as the maximum amount which

0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:40.960
<v Speaker 2>could be exchanged between the Clubs and Rev's president Bob

0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:46.600
<v Speaker 2>Housem and Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley spent the next

0:41:46.640 --> 0:41:50.560
<v Speaker 2>several days trying to restructure the deal with less capital

0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:55.480
<v Speaker 2>and more players in an effort to bring Vita Blue

0:41:55.520 --> 0:42:01.640
<v Speaker 2>to Cincinnati, but in a range could not be reached

0:42:02.080 --> 0:42:07.200
<v Speaker 2>and the trade was scratched. The Reds later made a

0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:13.000
<v Speaker 2>separate deal with Oakland which brought Doug Bear to the

0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:19.120
<v Speaker 2>Cincinnati Reds, and Blue was eventually dealt to the San

0:42:19.160 --> 0:42:24.319
<v Speaker 2>Francisco Giants in March of nineteen seventy eight for four

0:42:24.400 --> 0:42:32.040
<v Speaker 2>hundred thousand dollars in cash and six players. And you

0:42:32.080 --> 0:42:37.480
<v Speaker 2>could add to this date in Red's history, they don't

0:42:37.600 --> 0:42:44.480
<v Speaker 2>obtain the services of one Kyle Schwarber, who agrees to

0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:47.960
<v Speaker 2>a five year, one hundred and fifty million dollar deal

0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:53.399
<v Speaker 2>to stay with the Philadelphia Phillies. I had the opportunity

0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:57.120
<v Speaker 2>to meet Kyle at a wedding reception in Dayton for

0:42:57.200 --> 0:43:04.920
<v Speaker 2>his best friend. I was invited and I approached Kyle

0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:10.279
<v Speaker 2>at the bar. He was sipping soda and I go

0:43:10.360 --> 0:43:11.759
<v Speaker 2>up to him. I didn't want to be one of

0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:18.279
<v Speaker 2>these glad hand you know, starry eyed reporters. And as

0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:21.320
<v Speaker 2>I approach him, he goes Chick, and I introduced my subje,

0:43:21.360 --> 0:43:24.640
<v Speaker 2>just Chick. I know who you are. The most down

0:43:24.719 --> 0:43:33.440
<v Speaker 2>to earth superstar in sports, Kyle Schwarber. He's got a

0:43:33.480 --> 0:43:36.960
<v Speaker 2>home in Germantown, near Middletown. He's got kids that are

0:43:36.960 --> 0:43:40.560
<v Speaker 2>about three years old and one year old, and they're

0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:43.560
<v Speaker 2>gonna be starting school soon. And that gave me hope

0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:47.200
<v Speaker 2>that he would wind up with the Cincinnati Reds. But

0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:53.560
<v Speaker 2>my winter dreams were dashed this morning about eleven thirty

0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:57.160
<v Speaker 2>am with the news that he's come to an agreement

0:43:57.239 --> 0:44:01.040
<v Speaker 2>to stay in Philadelphia. You are listening to sports talking

0:44:01.120 --> 0:44:06.040
<v Speaker 2>when we come back, Scott Springer chucking all things you

0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:10.640
<v Speaker 2>see football and basketball and including women's basketball. When is

0:44:10.719 --> 0:44:15.120
<v Speaker 2>d Alexander, the five star awesome player going to be

0:44:15.200 --> 0:44:19.160
<v Speaker 2>ready to play for the women Bearcats? Chick Ludwig seven

0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:26.520
<v Speaker 2>hundred with WLW seven nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati.

0:44:26.560 --> 0:44:30.560
<v Speaker 2>Chick Ludwig seven hundred, WLW. This is sports talk, and

0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:35.040
<v Speaker 2>I certainly appreciate our next guest waiting through that long break.

0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:39.719
<v Speaker 2>He covers the UC Bearcats for the Cincinnati Inquirer in

0:44:39.800 --> 0:44:43.960
<v Speaker 2>Cincinnati dot Com. Our good friend Scott Springer, Scott, how

0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:44.359
<v Speaker 2>are you.

0:44:45.920 --> 0:44:46.080
<v Speaker 9>Chick?

0:44:46.160 --> 0:44:48.000
<v Speaker 22>Sure you have a lot of sponsors there, so you

0:44:48.080 --> 0:44:50.640
<v Speaker 22>must be a popular dude.

0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:51.640
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:54.839
<v Speaker 2>And talking to our producer off the air, he said,

0:44:54.880 --> 0:44:57.919
<v Speaker 2>Darry Jeff Walker said the same thing. Yeah, a lot

0:44:57.920 --> 0:45:00.400
<v Speaker 2>of ads. So I guess that's good news.

0:45:00.640 --> 0:45:03.640
<v Speaker 22>Yeah, so it pays the bills, they tell me.

0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:07.240
<v Speaker 2>That's exactly right. And I wanted to gauge your opinion

0:45:07.360 --> 0:45:11.200
<v Speaker 2>on the psyche here With some time off, time to

0:45:11.239 --> 0:45:14.319
<v Speaker 2>work on some things for the University of Cincinnati basketball

0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:20.399
<v Speaker 2>team back in action on Saturday against the Georgia Bulldogs

0:45:20.440 --> 0:45:21.080
<v Speaker 2>in Atlanta.

0:45:22.880 --> 0:45:25.440
<v Speaker 22>That's a tough game. Georgia has only lost one game.

0:45:26.120 --> 0:45:28.600
<v Speaker 22>The Bearcats were back at practice Sunday. They were right

0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:33.680
<v Speaker 22>on the floor after the women's Crosstown shootout, which unfortunately for.

0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:35.319
<v Speaker 3>Cincinnati they lost that too.

0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:38.919
<v Speaker 22>So you really can't argue with Zavier runs this town

0:45:38.960 --> 0:45:40.160
<v Speaker 22>because this year they do.

0:45:40.680 --> 0:45:41.920
<v Speaker 3>That's just the way it is. You know.

0:45:42.000 --> 0:45:45.279
<v Speaker 22>I listened to a podcast today that Terry Nelson and

0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:48.640
<v Speaker 22>Corey Blunt have out and it's really really good. And

0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:55.040
<v Speaker 22>Corey said, we got beat by Tarzan Man. Yeah, and

0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:57.360
<v Speaker 22>Trey Carroll was outstanding. I mean, that's one of the

0:45:57.400 --> 0:46:02.120
<v Speaker 22>better shootout performances I've seen in some times of given credit.

0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:04.440
<v Speaker 22>And now here's the deal. This guy played at FAU and

0:46:04.480 --> 0:46:07.919
<v Speaker 22>that's where Boba Miller was. And Boba Miller didn't play bad.

0:46:08.160 --> 0:46:10.040
<v Speaker 22>He only had ten points, had a rough shooting day,

0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:13.239
<v Speaker 22>but he pulled down seventeen rebounds. But the team that

0:46:13.320 --> 0:46:16.799
<v Speaker 22>wanted it wanted Trey Carroll went out and got thirty points.

0:46:16.480 --> 0:46:20.160
<v Speaker 22>And now UC has to figure out, you know, what

0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:23.880
<v Speaker 22>to do against the Georgia Bulldogs who have one loss

0:46:24.160 --> 0:46:26.759
<v Speaker 22>and I believe that was the Clemson in overtime like

0:46:26.840 --> 0:46:28.880
<v Speaker 22>ninety seven to ninety four. And you see as Clemson

0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:32.200
<v Speaker 22>the head in the coming week. And Xavier only lost

0:46:32.239 --> 0:46:35.759
<v Speaker 22>to Georgia by one in Charleston a couple of weeks back.

0:46:36.480 --> 0:46:37.919
<v Speaker 3>So it's a pretty decent team.

0:46:37.960 --> 0:46:41.719
<v Speaker 22>And you're playing in Atlanta, so an alleged neutral site,

0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:42.240
<v Speaker 22>but not.

0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:44.440
<v Speaker 3>Really amen to that.

0:46:44.560 --> 0:46:47.960
<v Speaker 2>And really four games left here in the non conference

0:46:48.000 --> 0:46:52.520
<v Speaker 2>schedule before huh, how about getting handed your first game

0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:56.800
<v Speaker 2>in the Big Twelve against the seventh ranked Houston Cougar's man.

0:46:57.400 --> 0:47:00.319
<v Speaker 22>Yeah, well, and then everyone has looked at them as

0:47:00.320 --> 0:47:04.080
<v Speaker 22>the belcal recently, but now that your new ap Arizona's

0:47:04.160 --> 0:47:08.520
<v Speaker 22>number one, Iowa State is at number four, and they absolutely.

0:47:08.000 --> 0:47:12.200
<v Speaker 4>Plowed perdue the other y. Yes, oh rip them apart.

0:47:12.320 --> 0:47:14.319
<v Speaker 22>I mean, and they have a lot of the same

0:47:14.400 --> 0:47:16.520
<v Speaker 22>guys back from last year. And that's one of the

0:47:16.560 --> 0:47:19.359
<v Speaker 22>places the rare places that they let me sit court

0:47:19.440 --> 0:47:20.239
<v Speaker 22>side last year.

0:47:20.320 --> 0:47:23.319
<v Speaker 3>So I saw those massive cyclones. They hit the weight room.

0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:24.120
<v Speaker 3>They're tough dudes.

0:47:24.160 --> 0:47:27.640
<v Speaker 22>So that league is treacherous and UC needs to figure

0:47:27.640 --> 0:47:28.319
<v Speaker 22>some things out.

0:47:29.520 --> 0:47:34.120
<v Speaker 2>Definitely have athletes, you know, we see that. I worry

0:47:34.120 --> 0:47:38.840
<v Speaker 2>about their half court offense. Defense is their specialty, and

0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:41.600
<v Speaker 2>they couldn't stop Tray Carroll.

0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:47.880
<v Speaker 4>Man. What do you think about this about this team?

0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:49.960
<v Speaker 3>Well, you know, if.

0:47:49.800 --> 0:47:53.080
<v Speaker 22>You'd ask me before the game if they would outshoot

0:47:53.520 --> 0:47:56.279
<v Speaker 22>Savior from the three point line and if you would

0:47:56.280 --> 0:47:59.160
<v Speaker 22>out rebound them, I would assume you'd win the game.

0:47:59.400 --> 0:48:02.600
<v Speaker 22>And that didn't happened, and Xavier won the game on

0:48:03.000 --> 0:48:05.200
<v Speaker 22>two pointers. I think they only made six threes, and

0:48:05.480 --> 0:48:07.800
<v Speaker 22>they had five straight games where they had made double

0:48:07.840 --> 0:48:12.560
<v Speaker 22>digit threes, and so you see, accomplished that but still

0:48:12.600 --> 0:48:14.880
<v Speaker 22>lost the game and it's one of those games. You know,

0:48:14.920 --> 0:48:17.040
<v Speaker 22>people are going to remember Trey Carroll for a good

0:48:17.080 --> 0:48:19.520
<v Speaker 22>long time and he's going to play in one shootout

0:48:19.560 --> 0:48:22.560
<v Speaker 22>and retire one to oh, and that's that might be

0:48:22.560 --> 0:48:25.120
<v Speaker 22>the way these things go here now with everyone flipping

0:48:25.160 --> 0:48:27.400
<v Speaker 22>the rosters every year. So you know, it used to

0:48:27.440 --> 0:48:31.120
<v Speaker 22>be you'd watched the Lumpkins and the Lenny Browns and

0:48:31.120 --> 0:48:34.640
<v Speaker 22>the Posy's and the Levitts and the Kenyan Martin, you know,

0:48:35.120 --> 0:48:39.439
<v Speaker 22>Bobby Brandon's. This is all changing rapidly, and I don't

0:48:39.440 --> 0:48:41.120
<v Speaker 22>know if it's for the better, but it's just the

0:48:41.120 --> 0:48:43.200
<v Speaker 22>way it is. And it's kind of sad in a

0:48:43.280 --> 0:48:45.920
<v Speaker 22>way that some of the historical aspects of the shootout

0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:46.920
<v Speaker 22>goes away.

0:48:47.360 --> 0:48:49.719
<v Speaker 3>But the team that wanted it won it.

0:48:49.880 --> 0:48:53.400
<v Speaker 22>And you know, whoever sticks around next year for U

0:48:53.560 --> 0:48:56.799
<v Speaker 22>see if that hurt them, maybe they'll understand next year.

0:48:57.840 --> 0:49:00.839
<v Speaker 22>But to have a winning streak goes back to two

0:49:00.920 --> 0:49:04.720
<v Speaker 22>thousand and one in one building, and Steve Logan played

0:49:04.719 --> 0:49:07.400
<v Speaker 22>in that game and is now a color commentator for

0:49:07.480 --> 0:49:09.880
<v Speaker 22>the Bearcats, and he's forty five, and you and I

0:49:09.920 --> 0:49:12.800
<v Speaker 22>know that's not old at all, but he is forty five,

0:49:12.880 --> 0:49:16.120
<v Speaker 22>and it doesn't seem that way. He's got some white

0:49:16.120 --> 0:49:19.520
<v Speaker 22>in his beard now, so that's alarming. But yes, you know,

0:49:20.800 --> 0:49:22.240
<v Speaker 22>he has had twenty two points.

0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:25.239
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, Yeah, as awesome as Trey Carroll was with

0:49:25.280 --> 0:49:29.120
<v Speaker 2>thirty points of seven boards. The two guys whose names

0:49:29.160 --> 0:49:33.839
<v Speaker 2>I cannot pronounce man each hit two big threes and

0:49:33.880 --> 0:49:36.640
<v Speaker 2>then Ali Wright goes up there and bangs in four

0:49:36.680 --> 0:49:40.160
<v Speaker 2>straight free throws. So they just they just closed better.

0:49:40.520 --> 0:49:43.360
<v Speaker 2>They just knew how to close well.

0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:46.319
<v Speaker 22>And that's part of the deal. You have to be

0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:50.240
<v Speaker 22>good in the final five minutes and unfortunately the Bearcats

0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:54.160
<v Speaker 22>in the last five years, if they're behind late in

0:49:54.160 --> 0:49:57.080
<v Speaker 22>the game, you usually don't win. I think it's like

0:49:57.120 --> 0:50:00.399
<v Speaker 22>three and fifty two something like that. It's not good.

0:50:00.760 --> 0:50:03.480
<v Speaker 22>And you have to be able to come from behind.

0:50:03.480 --> 0:50:03.640
<v Speaker 3>Now.

0:50:03.800 --> 0:50:05.960
<v Speaker 22>To their credit, last year they were down in halftime

0:50:06.360 --> 0:50:08.839
<v Speaker 22>and and then one to shoot out by three, so

0:50:09.040 --> 0:50:10.319
<v Speaker 22>it's not impossible.

0:50:10.400 --> 0:50:14.000
<v Speaker 3>It's not like they don't have the talent. But uh,

0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:15.080
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

0:50:15.120 --> 0:50:16.880
<v Speaker 22>You know, they did a little bit better with his

0:50:17.000 --> 0:50:19.440
<v Speaker 22>own defense late in the game, but it might have

0:50:19.480 --> 0:50:20.399
<v Speaker 22>been a little bit too late.

0:50:20.440 --> 0:50:21.319
<v Speaker 3>They didn't make the run.

0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:25.279
<v Speaker 22>And in spite of everything, you know, Valen Celestine makes

0:50:25.280 --> 0:50:28.279
<v Speaker 22>a three pointer from the corner and at two thirty nine,

0:50:28.320 --> 0:50:31.399
<v Speaker 22>I think it was you see has a brief lead

0:50:32.080 --> 0:50:35.680
<v Speaker 22>and because it you know how it is writing these things.

0:50:35.880 --> 0:50:37.759
<v Speaker 22>You start writing and it gets to be, you know,

0:50:37.800 --> 0:50:40.120
<v Speaker 22>a double digit lead. You're you're starting to go one

0:50:40.160 --> 0:50:42.799
<v Speaker 22>way on your story and then suddenly you're going to

0:50:42.840 --> 0:50:46.360
<v Speaker 22>leap the lead, delete the lead. Let's uh, let's rephrase

0:50:46.400 --> 0:50:49.240
<v Speaker 22>this all and it's kind of crazy.

0:50:49.640 --> 0:50:54.400
<v Speaker 2>Uh, Scott Springers with US three and yeah, Scott Springers

0:50:54.400 --> 0:50:57.719
<v Speaker 2>with inquir last year. Oh, you're you're right, but you're

0:50:57.760 --> 0:51:02.600
<v Speaker 2>absolutely right. And the only player, the only player who

0:51:02.640 --> 0:51:07.600
<v Speaker 2>had played in this game was Dade Thomas. Is that incredible?

0:51:09.400 --> 0:51:10.720
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

0:51:10.920 --> 0:51:13.280
<v Speaker 22>Yeah, Dayda's the only guy that was on the floor

0:51:13.320 --> 0:51:13.879
<v Speaker 22>a year ago.

0:51:14.480 --> 0:51:15.520
<v Speaker 3>He had a decent game.

0:51:15.680 --> 0:51:17.960
<v Speaker 22>But you got to have more than one guy, and

0:51:18.000 --> 0:51:19.880
<v Speaker 22>it has to matter to more than one guy.

0:51:20.040 --> 0:51:21.879
<v Speaker 3>So I don't know how if it mattered or not.

0:51:21.920 --> 0:51:25.120
<v Speaker 22>But you know, maybe these kids get educated as you go.

0:51:26.600 --> 0:51:28.840
<v Speaker 22>I don't know that Boba Miller is still one hundred percent.

0:51:28.920 --> 0:51:33.360
<v Speaker 22>I'm making excuses Xavier and one parent square Celestine I

0:51:33.400 --> 0:51:36.080
<v Speaker 22>don't think is one hundred percent, but there's probably guys.

0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:37.879
<v Speaker 3>On Zavier that maybe weren't a hundred percent. I don't know.

0:51:39.160 --> 0:51:41.919
<v Speaker 22>I think you see's really missing Jalen Haynes, the big

0:51:41.920 --> 0:51:44.600
<v Speaker 22>guy from George Mason that hasn't been able to play,

0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:46.840
<v Speaker 22>and if they can get him back late in the season,

0:51:46.880 --> 0:51:50.880
<v Speaker 22>maybe that helps in the post. But you know, you

0:51:50.960 --> 0:51:52.320
<v Speaker 22>got to be able to throw it into the post.

0:51:52.360 --> 0:51:54.160
<v Speaker 22>The post players have to be able to catch the

0:51:54.200 --> 0:51:56.799
<v Speaker 22>ball at number one then have a move.

0:51:57.480 --> 0:52:00.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's what That's what Chris Webber and Jalen Rose

0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:05.440
<v Speaker 2>were talking about at halftime of the game. Man instead

0:52:05.440 --> 0:52:07.480
<v Speaker 2>of just tossed it around the perimeter, man, get it

0:52:07.520 --> 0:52:10.640
<v Speaker 2>inside to because you've got more size than they do.

0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:16.960
<v Speaker 2>And it was it was tough now Sewna Bayev you know,

0:52:17.160 --> 0:52:19.279
<v Speaker 2>was hot early, you know what, eleven points in the

0:52:19.320 --> 0:52:22.200
<v Speaker 2>first half, and you know he's.

0:52:23.520 --> 0:52:25.399
<v Speaker 4>He's good, but he's young.

0:52:25.560 --> 0:52:29.279
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so he's really young. Yeah, Tom is young.

0:52:29.400 --> 0:52:31.720
<v Speaker 22>Tom is nineteen years old and has only been playing

0:52:31.719 --> 0:52:33.920
<v Speaker 22>for five years. So yeah, you can give him a

0:52:33.960 --> 0:52:38.080
<v Speaker 22>little pass on that. Seven to two helps a lot

0:52:38.080 --> 0:52:40.880
<v Speaker 22>of things. And you know at the end he finishes

0:52:40.960 --> 0:52:43.560
<v Speaker 22>nine points, nine remounts and nearly a double doubles. Not

0:52:43.600 --> 0:52:46.480
<v Speaker 22>a horrible game, but a lot of miss points. There

0:52:46.480 --> 0:52:50.080
<v Speaker 22>are a lot of miss opportunities, and you know, I

0:52:50.120 --> 0:52:52.319
<v Speaker 22>think maybe they need to look toward him a little

0:52:52.320 --> 0:52:56.000
<v Speaker 22>bit more. And Miller didn't have a very good shooting night.

0:52:56.040 --> 0:52:59.680
<v Speaker 22>He was only three out of twelve. And shawna Bybe,

0:52:59.719 --> 0:53:01.720
<v Speaker 22>you got let him take some of the crazy shots

0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:03.600
<v Speaker 22>because next thing you know, he's hit three in a row.

0:53:03.760 --> 0:53:06.000
<v Speaker 4>That's exactly right. Yeah, yeah, so.

0:53:06.000 --> 0:53:07.680
<v Speaker 22>He'll miss three four in a row, and then then

0:53:07.760 --> 0:53:09.360
<v Speaker 22>he'll make three four in a row. You know, you

0:53:09.360 --> 0:53:11.799
<v Speaker 22>don't know, and I guess you just have to live

0:53:11.840 --> 0:53:14.560
<v Speaker 22>with that. And Kirk Crisa is shooting the ball better.

0:53:14.800 --> 0:53:17.920
<v Speaker 22>He's up to thirty three percent, which is more in

0:53:17.960 --> 0:53:19.879
<v Speaker 22>line with where he shot in the past, because see,

0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:23.640
<v Speaker 22>he's been pretty good before at West Virginia and in

0:53:24.000 --> 0:53:26.840
<v Speaker 22>Arizona before that. He was hurt kind of most of

0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:30.879
<v Speaker 22>the year with Kentucky last year. But you know, it's

0:53:30.880 --> 0:53:34.160
<v Speaker 22>totally not over. But again what I was saying before,

0:53:34.200 --> 0:53:36.840
<v Speaker 22>after nine games are now six and three, which is

0:53:36.840 --> 0:53:39.480
<v Speaker 22>the worst they've been. West has had two teams that

0:53:39.520 --> 0:53:42.319
<v Speaker 22>were six and three after nine games. Last two years

0:53:42.360 --> 0:53:44.080
<v Speaker 22>they were eight and one, And you got to go

0:53:44.120 --> 0:53:47.600
<v Speaker 22>clear back to twenty twenty where there was a losing

0:53:47.640 --> 0:53:50.880
<v Speaker 22>record after nine games. But you know, you got to

0:53:50.920 --> 0:53:53.439
<v Speaker 22>get through these through December and then, like you said,

0:53:53.560 --> 0:53:57.160
<v Speaker 22>January third, Calvin Sampson's waiting on you with the Houston

0:53:57.200 --> 0:54:00.640
<v Speaker 22>Cougars and you haven't beaten them. And it feels like

0:54:00.680 --> 0:54:03.080
<v Speaker 22>fifteen years. It's been least and I don't know exactly

0:54:03.120 --> 0:54:07.439
<v Speaker 22>when it was. It was at least a president ago.

0:54:07.719 --> 0:54:11.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, five slam a sham a man. Wow, you know,

0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:13.040
<v Speaker 2>just to take a little u turn here with the

0:54:13.080 --> 0:54:16.840
<v Speaker 2>women's team. Man waiting on de Alexander, the five star

0:54:17.040 --> 0:54:22.720
<v Speaker 2>athlete from Purcell Marion and all I have read and heard,

0:54:22.760 --> 0:54:25.839
<v Speaker 2>and you know, a lower body injury has stopped her

0:54:25.920 --> 0:54:29.160
<v Speaker 2>from uh you know, getting out there early in the season.

0:54:30.719 --> 0:54:34.000
<v Speaker 22>Well apparently she had a surgery and she's recovering from that.

0:54:35.280 --> 0:54:38.160
<v Speaker 22>Katrina Merriweather said after the game that she would be

0:54:38.200 --> 0:54:42.800
<v Speaker 22>practicing soon. And she's one of several very good freshmen.

0:54:43.320 --> 0:54:45.120
<v Speaker 22>I mean, the girl that led them in scoring the

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<v Speaker 22>other night, Coleid de Villisi. She's a freshman. There's several freshmen,

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<v Speaker 22>so they're having some growing pains there. And you know, again,

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<v Speaker 22>if you can keep the girls together for a handful

0:54:55.920 --> 0:54:57.920
<v Speaker 22>of years. Maybe you have something. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 22>it's going to work that way in women's basketball or not.

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<v Speaker 22>But I know Katrina is hurting because I can tell

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<v Speaker 22>you as a player and a coach and uh. And

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<v Speaker 22>then actually counting the years she was at Memphis who

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<v Speaker 22>was a coach, she never lost to Zaber. I mean

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<v Speaker 22>she was eleven or oh until Sunday. Wow, And so

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<v Speaker 22>that didn't sit well, but gives.

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<v Speaker 3>Z Ager credit.

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<v Speaker 22>And then the girl that was good for Xavier was

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<v Speaker 22>Mackenzie given to a local Princeton girl, So good for her,

0:55:27.600 --> 0:55:31.600
<v Speaker 22>and you know the local girl wants it, and she

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<v Speaker 22>came out and showed it. So yes, Hugh rough Patch

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<v Speaker 22>here for for U.

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<v Speaker 3>See the good news Liberty Bowl.

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<v Speaker 22>You know, hopefully you can turn things around football wise,

0:55:42.840 --> 0:55:46.400
<v Speaker 22>but in the way everyone would have liked it with

0:55:46.440 --> 0:55:49.080
<v Speaker 22>four straight losses, but you're still at seven wins.

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<v Speaker 3>You have a chance at eight.

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<v Speaker 9>Uh.

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<v Speaker 22>Got to see who's going to play in the thing,

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<v Speaker 22>because I'm here to tell you I don't. I don't

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<v Speaker 22>think Navy's going to have any opt outs. I'm not

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<v Speaker 22>sure that's allowed.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and that's where I wanted to go next with

0:56:00.160 --> 0:56:02.680
<v Speaker 2>your navies. Nine and two they've won two in a row.

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<v Speaker 2>You see seven and six they've lost for in a row.

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<v Speaker 2>If you heard anything, if will you see be able

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<v Speaker 2>to keep this club together for the Liberty Bowl in Memphis.

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<v Speaker 22>Well as officially on the record, I don't know who

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<v Speaker 22>is not playing. I can speculate that those that are

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<v Speaker 22>maybe going to take a run into the NFL Draft

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<v Speaker 22>or probably not, wouldn't shock me if Brendan Sowsby doesn't play.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know anything.

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<v Speaker 22>But there's you know, rumors out there where he's been

0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:40.480
<v Speaker 22>offered a decent sum of money at other places. And

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<v Speaker 22>then I think a CBS Sports put out a mock

0:56:44.280 --> 0:56:46.520
<v Speaker 22>draft where they had him in the first round pick

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<v Speaker 22>number thirty one by the LA Rams And so that's wow,

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<v Speaker 22>life changing money there too. Now, whether or not that

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<v Speaker 22>comes to fruition, it's hard to say. But he's got

0:56:57.560 --> 0:56:59.319
<v Speaker 22>a decision to make and I don't know what that

0:56:59.520 --> 0:57:03.080
<v Speaker 22>is yet, and trust me, I've been trying. Uh, But

0:57:04.120 --> 0:57:06.960
<v Speaker 22>the practices are are closed until Monday.

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<v Speaker 3>I'll know more on Monday, and.

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<v Speaker 22>Even at that point they might limit us on what we're.

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<v Speaker 3>Allowed to see and stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>So Scott, what we learned watching Texas Tech and b

0:57:19.720 --> 0:57:26.160
<v Speaker 2>YU O MG, the Red Raiders are fast and physical.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, and they're rich and oil can buy you a

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<v Speaker 3>great team.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 22>Jed Klampitt strikes somewhere around here and and comes on

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<v Speaker 22>down to the Sacrely Athletic Performance Center and it says, fellows,

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<v Speaker 22>I got some money.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah BYU's basketball team. They said, oh yeah, it starts

0:57:45.040 --> 0:57:46.880
<v Speaker 2>with this guy that they're adding pieces.

0:57:47.200 --> 0:57:49.360
<v Speaker 4>They've got money to burn out there.

0:57:49.600 --> 0:57:52.479
<v Speaker 2>That dude is making what's seven million in the cat

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<v Speaker 2>from the transferred from Baylors at one point five. I mean,

0:57:56.520 --> 0:58:00.000
<v Speaker 2>it's it's crazy, insane money out in the Salt Lakes.

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<v Speaker 3>Well.

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<v Speaker 22>I don't know if they can ever get this regulated,

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<v Speaker 22>but yeah, that's essentially what's going on. Money buys your team,

0:58:07.880 --> 0:58:10.000
<v Speaker 22>and if you can get them together to play together,

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<v Speaker 22>you're on the way.

0:58:11.520 --> 0:58:15.960
<v Speaker 3>Utah today approved. I don't even know how, you know.

0:58:15.920 --> 0:58:21.400
<v Speaker 22>Outside equity company coming in to the basically fun athletics

0:58:21.840 --> 0:58:24.720
<v Speaker 22>and Utah has a great team as it is, and

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<v Speaker 22>they're in Salt Lake City, so a lot of money

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<v Speaker 22>there and it's beautiful in Utah, and I guess it's

0:58:30.200 --> 0:58:30.840
<v Speaker 22>raining money.

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<v Speaker 3>In addition to the other scenery.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, this is all great stuff here, Scott Springer, and

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for your patience with me tonight and always

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<v Speaker 2>great talking to you and breaking down the Bearcats football

0:58:45.280 --> 0:58:49.160
<v Speaker 2>and basketball. Here will definitely be tuned in to the

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<v Speaker 2>Liberty Bowl in Memphis and looking forward to a Bearcat victory.

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<v Speaker 3>One more thing.

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<v Speaker 22>Craig Lindsay, the esteemed athletic trainer executive athletic trainer at

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<v Speaker 22>Moeller High School, says that you're an outstanding fast pitch

0:59:06.360 --> 0:59:09.720
<v Speaker 22>softball umpire and he said the past that along along

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<v Speaker 22>with you.

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<v Speaker 2>I appreciate that. Please tell him thank you and hello

0:59:13.480 --> 0:59:17.080
<v Speaker 2>for me. That's outstanding. Yes, all right, thank you most

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<v Speaker 2>so much, Scott, take care, see you tick all right,

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<v Speaker 2>Scott Springer, Inquirer and Cincinnati dot Com. Now, before we break, folks,

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<v Speaker 2>I want the phone lines to light up, and so

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<v Speaker 2>get lined up like the cigarettes on the table in

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<v Speaker 2>the cafeteria in the prison in Shawshank Redemption, because we're

0:59:46.080 --> 0:59:50.600
<v Speaker 2>going to play that popular game called reverse radio where

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<v Speaker 2>you call in and I ask you the questions.

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<v Speaker 4>After the top of the hour news.

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<v Speaker 2>This is Chick Ludwig Sports Talk on the Home of

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<v Speaker 2>the Reds and the Best Bengals coverage seven hundred w

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<v Speaker 2>Cincinnati Chick Ludwig seven hundred w l W.

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<v Speaker 4>This is Sports Talk.

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<v Speaker 2>Awesome to be filling in tonight for Lance McAllister and Shoeless.

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Waddell doing a great job is tonight's producer. In

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<v Speaker 2>the control room. We're going all the way to nine

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<v Speaker 2>o'clock and that's when Gary Jeff Walker takes over these airwaves. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I got this idea from Dan Horde, voice of the

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<v Speaker 2>Bearcats and the Bengals, a game called reverse Radio where

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<v Speaker 2>the caller calls in at five one three, seven four nine,

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<v Speaker 2>seven thousand, one eight hundred the Big One, and I

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<v Speaker 2>ask you the questions. It's gonna take some calls tonight

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<v Speaker 2>for this to get pulled off. I've got a list

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<v Speaker 2>here of twenty questions that I want to ask the

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<v Speaker 2>listeners and the callers. So who's going to be my

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<v Speaker 2>first caller? Because I've got my coffee, I've got my computer.

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<v Speaker 2>All I need is you at five P one three

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<v Speaker 2>seven four, nine, seven thousand, one eight hundred the Big One.

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<v Speaker 2>And until we get some calls, all I can say

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<v Speaker 2>is man it's tough being a Bengals span. They are

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<v Speaker 2>the masters of disasters, inventing ways.

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<v Speaker 4>To lose with their four and nine record.

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<v Speaker 2>Following Sunday's snowy thirty nine to thirty four loss to

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<v Speaker 2>the Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, New York, everything was

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<v Speaker 2>going along smoothly at Buffalo until it wasn't. Mike Giseki's

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<v Speaker 2>twelve yard touchdown reception gave Cincinnati a twenty eight to

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<v Speaker 2>eighteen lead with eight forty four remaining. He even did

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<v Speaker 2>the gritty I'm feeling really good at that point, and

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<v Speaker 2>then in a four minute, thirty second span, the Bill

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<v Speaker 2>scored twenty one points. Cedric Johnson rushes from the right

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<v Speaker 2>end side and can't hit Josh Allen. That vac aided

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<v Speaker 2>the whole left side of the field and Josh Allen

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<v Speaker 2>bolts forty yards for a touchdown. Then came Christian benford

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<v Speaker 2>sixty three yard pick six at five point twenty five,

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<v Speaker 2>and then a three yard Jackson Hawes TD catch at

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<v Speaker 2>three oh three. T Higgins one handed greb from twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five yards out at two thirteen pulled the Bengals win

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<v Speaker 2>in thirty nine to thirty four in Cincinnati had a

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<v Speaker 2>chance to get the ball back for a possible.

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<v Speaker 4>Miracle finish, but no.

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<v Speaker 2>Third and fifteen from Buffalo's twenty five yard line with

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<v Speaker 2>a buck fifty four to go. Josh Allen, operating out

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<v Speaker 2>of the shotgun, runs for seventeen yards game over.

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<v Speaker 4>Unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 2>Bengals continue to get lit up by tight ends and

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<v Speaker 2>from Joe Goodbarry tight ends this year ninety seven catches

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<v Speaker 2>for twelve one hundred yards and fifteen.

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<v Speaker 4>Touchdowns against the Bengals.

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<v Speaker 2>Everton ten and a half targets, seven and a half

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<v Speaker 2>catches and ninety seven yards by Bengals opposing tight ends.

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<v Speaker 2>Brutal Well, who's up first here? We've got Tracy and Roselawn. Tracy,

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<v Speaker 2>how are you tonight?

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<v Speaker 3>I'm doing good.

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<v Speaker 4>Check hope you're doing well, buddy, Fantastic. Here's my question.

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<v Speaker 2>Would you rather have a Cincinnati Bengals Super Bowl or

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<v Speaker 2>a Reds World Series Championship?

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<v Speaker 4>And why?

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<v Speaker 23>I think I would rather have a Reds World Championship

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<v Speaker 23>World Series victory. And it's a long season, and I

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<v Speaker 23>think the Reds are.

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<v Speaker 3>They're equipped to do well.

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<v Speaker 2>Fantastic and Tracy, the phone lines have lived up like

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<v Speaker 2>a Christmas Tree, like the cigarettes on the table in

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<v Speaker 2>the cafeteria in the prison at Shawshank Redemption.

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<v Speaker 4>So I got a run. Appreciate the call. Dan is in.

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<v Speaker 4>Dan Is in Cincinnati.

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<v Speaker 5>Hey Dan, Hey, how are you chick?

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<v Speaker 2>Fantastic? Do you ever play golf.

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<v Speaker 15>Occasionally?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, you've got one round to play? Is it Pebble

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<v Speaker 2>Beach or is it Augusta National?

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<v Speaker 15>It would have to be a pebble beach. Just a location.

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<v Speaker 24>Uh not that, not.

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<v Speaker 11>That Augusta National isn't pretty awesome, but uh, it's all

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<v Speaker 11>I've always wanted to play pebble Beach.

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<v Speaker 2>I've never been to Pebble Beach. I've been on the

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<v Speaker 2>grounds of Augusta National three times for practice rounds, and

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<v Speaker 2>it is uh arguably the most gorgeous acreage I've ever

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<v Speaker 2>stood on.

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<v Speaker 4>Awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, thanks for the question, Jack, Dan, Thanks so much, man,

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<v Speaker 2>Appreciate you.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, Thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>The number to dial five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,

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<v Speaker 2>eight hundred, the big one. Let's go to Charlie in Cincinnati. Hi, Charlie,

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<v Speaker 2>Hey chick.

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<v Speaker 4>Are you ready?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 12>Go ahead?

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<v Speaker 4>All right.

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<v Speaker 2>We are the world's most valuable franchise in sports.

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<v Speaker 4>Who are we?

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<v Speaker 3>And here's a hint, Dallas Cowboys.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, any guess? And how much they're worth?

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<v Speaker 3>I have no idea, more than I can comprehend.

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<v Speaker 4>Thirteen billion dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>They took over number one in valuation in all of

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<v Speaker 2>sports from the soccer club Real Madrid in twenty sixteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Thirteen billion. Brother, how awesome is that?

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<v Speaker 16>That's awesome?

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<v Speaker 3>But chick, you ready for softball?

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<v Speaker 4>God?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I really am. It's always uh. One day

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<v Speaker 2>it's thirty degrees and I'm at Oxford Talawanda for a

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<v Speaker 2>doubleheader against Northwest and I'm there.

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<v Speaker 4>What am I doing here? I'm freezing?

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<v Speaker 2>And the next day it's seventy degrees and Sonny that

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<v Speaker 2>softball season for he wrote, it's a beautiful thing. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>sir Charlie, thanks so much. Man, We're going all right.

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<v Speaker 2>Take care. We got Mark and Louisville.

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<v Speaker 21>Yes, would you mind if I made a comment on

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<v Speaker 21>all those two trades as you were talking about, yes,

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<v Speaker 21>instead of taking this check.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 21>Taking to your question, yeah, yes, I remember where I

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<v Speaker 21>was on both of those trades. I believe I got

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<v Speaker 21>the vitea blue trade off of Trumpy's show. Yes, I

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<v Speaker 21>think he announced what happened on his show. But I

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<v Speaker 21>was in college on the Frank Robinson trade and a

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<v Speaker 21>friend of mine came in, an equal Reds fan, and

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<v Speaker 21>he told me what happened, and both of us agreed.

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<v Speaker 21>There was no way we could go to classes that day,

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<v Speaker 21>so we you know, we had to take that day

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<v Speaker 21>off morning. Yes, but there's something about that trade that

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<v Speaker 21>you said tonight, and Jim Day, who I love, says

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<v Speaker 21>it all the time, and you're both incorrect about what

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<v Speaker 21>she said. Now I'll tell you what it was. Frank

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<v Speaker 21>was not traded because the Reds thought he was old.

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<v Speaker 21>That was the reason put out by the Reds publicist.

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<v Speaker 21>But the reason that he was actually traded was that

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<v Speaker 21>he had gotten arrested three times in an eighteen month

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<v Speaker 21>period for something that if had happened today, he would

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<v Speaker 21>have just said to him, don't do it anymore. That's it.

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<v Speaker 21>I mean, it was so minor, it was ridiculous, but

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<v Speaker 21>seemed like a big thing to the Reds, and that's

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<v Speaker 21>what pull the trigger. I can't think of anybody today

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<v Speaker 21>that could verify what I just said, and I don't

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<v Speaker 21>want you to think I would make that up and

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<v Speaker 21>say that everybody around the Reds knew that, and of

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<v Speaker 21>course it was a terrible trade, you know, and the

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<v Speaker 21>only other thing, and you know, I'm a diehard Reds fan.

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<v Speaker 21>Anybody that thought the Reds were gonna sign Shrober, they

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<v Speaker 21>just couldn't have been a Reds fan. They're gonna sign nobody.

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<v Speaker 21>Last year, when they signed Hayes and he hit two

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<v Speaker 21>home runs in the first spring training game, the Reds

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<v Speaker 21>thought they had their cleanup hitter and the guy to

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<v Speaker 21>protect de la Cruz. If that doesn't tell you how

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<v Speaker 21>bad of shape this organization's in. What can I say?

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<v Speaker 2>All Right, Mark, Hey, appreciate the call as always, look

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<v Speaker 2>forward to talking to you during baseball season. Absolutely, Jeff,

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<v Speaker 2>all right, Jeff's in Kentucky.

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<v Speaker 3>Hi, Jeff, Hey, what's up?

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<v Speaker 6>Check?

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<v Speaker 4>All right?

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<v Speaker 3>Man?

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<v Speaker 4>You ready for a question?

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<v Speaker 25>Yeah, what's my question? I'll tell you what. And by

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<v Speaker 25>the way, Dallas is an awesome organization. I'm not surprised.

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<v Speaker 25>It's thirteen billion, taken over from Real Madrid, so that's

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<v Speaker 25>it's pretty cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, just Jerry Jones building at and T Stadium has

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<v Speaker 2>one billion, okay, one billion dollars. Everyone's valuation just skyrocketed,

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<v Speaker 2>So it's just amazing.

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<v Speaker 4>The dude is a sponsorship machine. He really is.

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<v Speaker 2>Now they've just got to win on the field. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>all right, yeah, are you ready?

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<v Speaker 3>What's the question?

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<v Speaker 2>What college basketball arena would you most like to visit

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<v Speaker 2>that you haven't seen yet?

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<v Speaker 25>I gotta go with I mean, I'm a I'm in Kentucky,

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<v Speaker 25>but I'm gonna I'm an Ohio Cincinnati guy, I gotta

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<v Speaker 25>go with RUP. I haven't been to Rough, but I

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<v Speaker 25>mean the Kentucky fans they do bring it. They're crazy,

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<v Speaker 25>but they're like us a Buckeye fans. Everyone hates us.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I've been in the Old Coliseum and then

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<v Speaker 2>I've also been to RUP. It's it's a special place.

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<v Speaker 2>The Hyatt's right attached to it. It's uh, it's phenomenal,

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<v Speaker 2>it really is.

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<v Speaker 25>Oh and a shout out the shout out to Conner

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<v Speaker 25>Middle School for their sixth, seventh, and eighth grade winning

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<v Speaker 25>all three games in basketball tonight against Bally Shannon.

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<v Speaker 2>All Right, all right, all right, Jeff, thanks so much, man,

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<v Speaker 2>thank you. All right, We've got the Grandpaul Mike in Dayton.

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<v Speaker 5>Hey, chick, sure, how you doing?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, fantastic brother from my other mother. Amen, you ready

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<v Speaker 4>for a question?

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<v Speaker 26>Sure, go ahead, all right, Ohio State here, No, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 26>I got.

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<v Speaker 4>Another one for you if you want to pass.

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<v Speaker 15>You know I'm not a higher state fan. I'm not

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<v Speaker 15>from here, all right?

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<v Speaker 4>All right? Are you a Reds fan?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes?

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<v Speaker 4>Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>Who is your favorite current Red not named Ellie de

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<v Speaker 2>la Cruz?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh?

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<v Speaker 15>Well, you know I know some of the guys across

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<v Speaker 15>all the levels right now. So I'm here in Dayton

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<v Speaker 15>and I contact with him. Actually, can I go below

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<v Speaker 15>to the minor league level? All right? My favorite is

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<v Speaker 15>big first baseman who play a double a cam now,

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<v Speaker 15>so the first basement.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right, you've seen him play.

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<v Speaker 15>Yeah, the guy is totally down to earth. Okay, he's

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<v Speaker 15>a leader. He is a leader, and he's gonna be

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<v Speaker 15>a late bloomer because he's twenty four now. But no, no,

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<v Speaker 15>the kids. The kid's good. There's nothing he can't do

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<v Speaker 15>when he keeps his mind.

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<v Speaker 4>On what he's doing.

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<v Speaker 2>Fantastic. Yeah, my guy, Yeah, my guy is Spencer Steer.

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<v Speaker 2>I just love his approach. He's low key, he brings

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<v Speaker 2>the lunch pail and the hard hat every day. Love

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<v Speaker 2>his swing, love his approach, and love his demeanor.

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<v Speaker 3>So I love I love freedom too.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Grandpa, Mike, appreciate you.

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<v Speaker 5>I got to run, say, have a great holiday.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, thanks so much. Uh, we've got Chris in Martinsville.

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<v Speaker 5>Yes, sir, how are we doing?

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<v Speaker 4>And I tech, oh, fantastic, fantastic. Hey, in your opinion?

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<v Speaker 2>In your opinion, which NFL team has the most iconic uniform?

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<v Speaker 24>Hmm, I mean definitely born and raised right here in Cincinnati.

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<v Speaker 24>I do like the black and orange the most iconic.

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<v Speaker 24>I'm like, man, I mean, why can't it be the Bengals.

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<v Speaker 24>Why can't it be just the Why can't it be

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<v Speaker 24>the stripes? Since because I'm a Homer, if I say

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<v Speaker 24>the Bengals, I mean, it's fine, man, better you tell

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<v Speaker 24>me that.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm fine with me. Uh.

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<v Speaker 2>I always thought, you know, when when Dan Horde talks

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<v Speaker 2>about the iconic, you know, a striped helmet, that will

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<v Speaker 2>probably he never changed. But at the same time, I

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<v Speaker 2>would have loved to have seen, you know, black helmets

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<v Speaker 2>with a flying tiger on the side, you know, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I would have I would have loved that.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah. Yeah, this is a good.

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<v Speaker 24>Idea of what you're doing tonight. And I kind of

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<v Speaker 24>just played clean up on the one call earlier. Yeah, man,

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<v Speaker 24>it's definitely got to be a bangled Super Bowl over

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<v Speaker 24>a red championship. I mean, listen, the resident have their

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<v Speaker 24>day in the sun.

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<v Speaker 26>I'm forty six years old, you know what I mean. Yeah, Well,

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<v Speaker 26>you know say both said it all.

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<v Speaker 24>We swept them, we get together, we get the troupe.

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<v Speaker 9>You know.

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<v Speaker 24>I remember that when I was ten and ninety.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, then there's a big red machine. But they they

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<v Speaker 3>left won a Super Bowl.

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<v Speaker 19>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>We're zero for three in Super Bowl. So wow. Man,

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<v Speaker 4>all right, Chris, thank you so much. Man.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, man, appreciate you have a merry Christmas.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you. You do the same. John is in Cleaves, Hey,

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<v Speaker 4>how are you doing?

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<v Speaker 26>Actually I'm leaving Cleves. I just refereed a couple of

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<v Speaker 26>high school basketball games and got nailed in the face.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh my gosh.

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<v Speaker 26>Yeah yeah, yeah, I was hoping. I can't wait to

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<v Speaker 26>put on that mask. My first game is softball behind

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<v Speaker 26>the plate twenty fourth, So I'm ready.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a ready, fantastic, fantastic. Hey, which college football team

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<v Speaker 2>to do? You love to see lose?

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<v Speaker 26>Florida Gators and then I want to Florida State. Okay,

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<v Speaker 26>In Florida State, So Florida.

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<v Speaker 4>Gators, Florida Gators. And then which team you want to

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<v Speaker 4>see when?

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yes.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, fantastic.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, appreciate it, John, Yes, sir, thank you so much. Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>We've got to take a break. But I've got what

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<v Speaker 2>about fifteen more questions for the callers to call in.

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<v Speaker 2>It's reverse radio. You asked the question. I asked the question.

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<v Speaker 2>You all in and you give me the answer. It's

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<v Speaker 2>reverse Radio with the Chickster chick Ludwig on seven hundred

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<v Speaker 2>WLW eight forty in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig,

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<v Speaker 2>seven hundred WLW. We are playing a game called reverse Radio.

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<v Speaker 2>You call in. I asked you the questions. I got

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<v Speaker 2>the idea from the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati.

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<v Speaker 4>Bearcats, Dan Horde. We love reverse radio. Want to play?

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<v Speaker 2>Just pick up the phone and dial five one, three,

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<v Speaker 2>seven four nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred the Big One.

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<v Speaker 2>We've got John and Mason, Home of the Comets. It's

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<v Speaker 2>like a university there.

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<v Speaker 5>Hi, John, Hello, Chickster, you are awesome.

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<v Speaker 9>I've got my computer, I've got my coffee, and now

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<v Speaker 9>I'm ready.

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<v Speaker 4>For you outstanding.

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<v Speaker 2>Is there a sports specific that you are an expert in?

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<v Speaker 4>Would you say, oh, absolutely, golf.

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<v Speaker 3>Ask me anything.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, my buddy Pete, my buddy's.

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<v Speaker 9>Pete and Sean are listening, so I'm on the hot seat,

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<v Speaker 9>ask me anything you want about golf.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, let me throw this out. I've already asked this,

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<v Speaker 2>but I'm going to ask you. Okay, you've got one

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<v Speaker 2>round of golf to play. Is it Pebble Beach or

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<v Speaker 2>is it Augusta National?

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<v Speaker 9>Hands down Augusta National. And the reason being, like you,

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<v Speaker 9>I've been to a couple of practice rounds, yes, and

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<v Speaker 9>with my buddy Pete and John Daly made fun of

1:18:47.360 --> 1:18:51.040
<v Speaker 9>my buddy Pete one year because he wimped out because

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<v Speaker 9>he hurt his knee at the Blue ash Y in

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<v Speaker 9>a rec League game, so he should have been there.

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<v Speaker 9>That's for another day. But Augusta National, there is not

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<v Speaker 9>a blade of grass out of position, the the fairways

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<v Speaker 9>or even the rough.

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<v Speaker 4>I should say is like carpet.

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<v Speaker 9>You're not a spectator or you're not a you're not

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<v Speaker 9>a fan. When you're there, you you are treated, you know,

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<v Speaker 9>just as a as a.

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<v Speaker 4>Patron as That's it.

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<v Speaker 9>You're right, that's not the front it's not the front nine,

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<v Speaker 9>the back nine. It's the first nine, the second nine.

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<v Speaker 9>They do not gouge you once you're there. Yes, it's

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<v Speaker 9>a high priced ticket to get there, but once you're there,

1:19:34.760 --> 1:19:38.519
<v Speaker 9>you are golden. They do not gouge you. You can

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<v Speaker 9>get a beer for a few bucks.

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<v Speaker 5>And uh, you know.

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<v Speaker 4>Ese sandwich, that cheese sandwich.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, yes, in fact, that amen corner. Uh, that's what

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<v Speaker 9>we were doing. And we ran into a kid named

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<v Speaker 9>Paul Dockerty when we were there.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, doc loves it.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, yes, hands down Augusta National. But I wouldn't turn

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<v Speaker 9>down an opportunity to play pebble. I have a few

1:20:06.640 --> 1:20:11.160
<v Speaker 9>buddies that just played Pebble last week, and unbeknownst to them,

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<v Speaker 9>they there's a webcam that a live webcam on the

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<v Speaker 9>first tea box.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh man, so yeah, yeah, So I watched him t off.

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<v Speaker 9>He's a physician, and all I could do is text

1:20:24.120 --> 1:20:28.280
<v Speaker 9>him and just say, paging doctor way right, paging doctor

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<v Speaker 9>way right.

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<v Speaker 4>How cool?

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<v Speaker 9>Well so far to the right, but anyway, Yes, Augustin National,

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<v Speaker 9>for sure.

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<v Speaker 5>I love this format.

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<v Speaker 2>Beautiful and uh, as far as Pebble Beach I closed

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<v Speaker 2>my eyes and I see Jack Nicholas and Tom Watson.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, oh yes, oh yes, one hundred on seventeen. I

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<v Speaker 9>got a stretcher us open.

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<v Speaker 4>John, It's been a pleasure. Let's do it again. Absolutely,

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<v Speaker 4>thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, and we've got Chris in Mount Washington. Hi, Chris, Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>how are we doing?

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<v Speaker 5>Doing great? I've got my burger light and my laptop

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<v Speaker 5>burger and wondering how things are going on the SimPE

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<v Speaker 5>throw for you fantastic.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna late this question on him, Okay. The Kentucky Derby.

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<v Speaker 2>The Kentucky Derby is known as the Run for the Roses.

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<v Speaker 2>A bed of roses, sportive kings covers A bed of

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<v Speaker 2>roses covers the winning thoroughbread. What blanket of flowers covers

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<v Speaker 2>the Preakness Stakes winner in Maryland? Ooh uh in maryl Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>that's the second leg, the second leg.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean we can't say blue crab because well that's flower,

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<v Speaker 5>very delicious marrigolds.

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<v Speaker 4>You know what close it is?

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<v Speaker 2>The black eyed A blanket of black eyed Susan's at

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<v Speaker 2>Pimlico Racecourse.

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<v Speaker 5>And I have this growing in my garden here in

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<v Speaker 5>Mount Washington.

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<v Speaker 2>And what's crazy is I was looking it up today,

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<v Speaker 2>researching it a little bit, and they've taken down the

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<v Speaker 2>grand stand and the clubhouse at Pimblico. So the second leg,

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<v Speaker 2>which I really like, the Preakness, will be run at

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<v Speaker 2>Laurel Park and Laurel Maryland, and then in twenty six

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<v Speaker 2>and then come back in twenty seven, Pimlico will be

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<v Speaker 2>ready again. So because that was kind of a wild card,

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<v Speaker 2>that was kind of a wild card.

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<v Speaker 9>Let me throw this.

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<v Speaker 4>I got another one for you if you're ready, Chris.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, four players in Major League Baseball history have hit

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<v Speaker 2>seven hundred home runs?

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<v Speaker 4>Four can you name them? Where as many of them.

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<v Speaker 5>As seven hundred major League Yes, I'm gonna give my

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<v Speaker 5>best shot, but I am gonna inductas caveat. I am

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<v Speaker 5>the co owner of one of the secretarys granddaughters.

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<v Speaker 15>Wow yeah, yeah, big Ulter caner anyway.

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<v Speaker 5>So seven hundred home runs, I'm gonna start with mister

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<v Speaker 5>Barry Bonds wearing my body armor.

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<v Speaker 2>Correct the next Chire uh no, think back, think back

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<v Speaker 2>to your childhood a little bit. Yeah, okay Againseiko, uh no,

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<v Speaker 2>how about a New York Yankee from.

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<v Speaker 4>The nineteen twenties.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, George Hermans, correct, Babe, Ruth.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh Nera said the good see Ted Williams.

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<v Speaker 4>No, but that's a great guess.

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<v Speaker 5>Okay, yeah, how about how about.

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<v Speaker 4>The Milwaukee Braves and the Atlanta Braves.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh, Hammer and Hank.

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<v Speaker 4>That's it. The fourth one is very tough.

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<v Speaker 2>It's been recent, but he made his hay with the

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<v Speaker 2>Saint Louis Cardinals, went off to Anaheim, came back to

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<v Speaker 2>Saint Louis.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh, mister poolholes.

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<v Speaker 4>That's it. Those are the four Albert Poolholes.

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<v Speaker 2>Barry Bonds seven sixty two, Hammer and Hank at seven

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<v Speaker 2>fifty five, Babe at seven fourteen Albert pooholes seven oh three.

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<v Speaker 5>Wow, that's very good.

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<v Speaker 2>Awesome, Yes well, Chris in Mount Washington, thank you so

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<v Speaker 2>much for playing reverse radio.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh, I appreciate this out, dude me, thanks, dude, thank you.

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<v Speaker 4>Awesome. We've got six more minutes. Who's next?

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<v Speaker 2>Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, one eight hundred

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<v Speaker 2>The big one Well word came across yesterday a Bengals

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<v Speaker 2>transaction on Bengals dot com. So I called it up

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<v Speaker 2>and it was one sentence. The Bengals today waived wide

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<v Speaker 2>receiver Jermaine Burton, third round pick from the University of

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<v Speaker 2>Alabama in twenty twenty four. I automatically thought of Chris Carter.

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<v Speaker 2>Some indiscretions with the Philadelphia Eagles cut unceremoniously gone. But

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<v Speaker 2>luckily for Chris got his life together. He got claimed

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<v Speaker 2>by the Minnesota Vikings, and all he did was catch

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<v Speaker 2>touchdown passes and he is in the Pro Football Hall

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<v Speaker 2>of Fame. I also thought of Jim Lippencott, the former

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<v Speaker 2>personnel boss of the Bengals, and he told me, Chick,

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<v Speaker 2>you don't quit the NFL. The NFL quits you. The

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<v Speaker 2>Bengals had to cut ties with this immature problem plagued

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<v Speaker 2>young man. I hope he gets his life together. I

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<v Speaker 2>hope he buckles down Lands with another team and has

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<v Speaker 2>a successful career. I hope his career is not over.

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<v Speaker 2>The NFL stands for not for long. And this wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>just a flyer the Bengals took on this wide receiver.

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<v Speaker 2>This was a third round draft pick. A flyer is

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<v Speaker 2>a seventh rounder from LSU by the name of Benny

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<v Speaker 2>Brazil from years gone by. You take the flyer on

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<v Speaker 2>the seventh round wide receiver who's a sprinter Okay, this

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<v Speaker 2>was a legitimate third round pick that the Bengals wanted,

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<v Speaker 2>and now he's gone. And a sign of the immaturity

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<v Speaker 2>is if you can't play for a team that's got

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Burrow that kind of leader and the leadership of

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<v Speaker 2>the wide receivers in Jamar Chase and t Higgins, well

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<v Speaker 2>then something is dramatically wrong. So you can't just survive

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<v Speaker 2>on talent alone. Let's go out to the phones. Greg

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<v Speaker 2>is in old age and I'm going to say, Io, Hi.

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<v Speaker 3>Greg, Hi there? How are you doing?

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<v Speaker 4>Chick fantastic?

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<v Speaker 15>I'm just driving up north of Columbus right now. I'm

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<v Speaker 15>back to work where after working?

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<v Speaker 3>Mount Vernon, Ohio beautiful.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you like Ohio State football?

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<v Speaker 3>I love it.

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<v Speaker 2>Ohio State has produced six Heisman Trophy winners.

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<v Speaker 4>How many can you name? You can name at least one.

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<v Speaker 4>I know that.

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<v Speaker 2>Archie Griffin correct. We went to school together. We graduated

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<v Speaker 2>together at Saint John Arena, Winter Quarter nineteen seventy six.

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<v Speaker 2>He won it in seventy four and seventy five. Can

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<v Speaker 2>you think of any others? Eddie George correct, nineteen ninety five,

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<v Speaker 2>the quarterback Troy Smith.

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<v Speaker 15>Destroy yeah, two.

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<v Speaker 2>Thousand and six, and then we have to go back

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<v Speaker 2>because I want to move along and get one more

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<v Speaker 2>one or two more callers here Less Horvath nineteen forty four,

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<v Speaker 2>My guy, Vic Janowitz in nineteen fifty War number thirty one,

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<v Speaker 2>no one's worn it since. And Howard hop Along Cassidy

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<v Speaker 2>number forty in nineteen fifty five. And Greg, thanks so

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<v Speaker 2>much for calling.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, you're welcome, Thank you.

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<v Speaker 15>Have a nice evening.

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<v Speaker 2>Appreciate it. I've got to go a little rapid fire

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<v Speaker 2>here with Chuck and Cleaves. Chuck, are you there?

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<v Speaker 5>Yes, theirs?

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<v Speaker 4>The ND five hundred winners.

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<v Speaker 6>J's the question back yet.

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<v Speaker 2>The ND five hundred winner drinks what beverage in Victory Lane?

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<v Speaker 3>Milk?

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<v Speaker 4>And do you the wor you to where it's start?

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<v Speaker 5>It is?

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<v Speaker 4>Yes?

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<v Speaker 5>The Kentucky Derby is armics mass part.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Chuck, appreciate you, appreciate you, thank you, all right? Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>Quinn is in northern Kentucky is my final contestant.

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<v Speaker 4>Quinn. Let's see here, I'm here, buddy, all right?

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<v Speaker 2>An all expenses paid trip to a sporting event anywhere

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<v Speaker 2>in the world, state side or international. What sporting event

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<v Speaker 2>do you want to go to?

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<v Speaker 21>Wow?

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<v Speaker 12>That is a big question. I'm gonna go with the

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<v Speaker 12>College Football National Championships because it's like roulette. I don't

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<v Speaker 12>know where it's actually going to be until you're going

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<v Speaker 12>to give me the ticket.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, Well it's going to be a Miami at Miami

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<v Speaker 2>Home of the Dolphins, Miami Gardens, Florida this year.

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<v Speaker 4>So yeah, awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>I would love to see and I have I got

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<v Speaker 2>to admit I have not been to an FC Cincinnati

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<v Speaker 2>match at TQL. I would like to see a World

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<v Speaker 2>Cup match somewhere. Maybe it would just be awesome, It

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<v Speaker 2>really would be.

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<v Speaker 4>Quinn. I got a run. Thank you so much.

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<v Speaker 2>Appreciate question week all right, man, appreciate all the callers,

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<v Speaker 2>all the listeners, and this is till next time. This

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<v Speaker 2>is the Chickster Chick Ludwig saying thanks for listening to

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