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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike since e three sixty about Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: From Cincinnati, this is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back since e three to sixty. We're rolling along

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station on a Thursday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I say Thursday because tomorrow evening I can't even begin

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Speaker 2: to imagine the atmosphere that is going to happen in Athens, Ohio.

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Speaker 2: The Miami RedHawks, It's no longer Miami of Ohio. They

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Speaker 2: are the true Miami here when we talk about college basketball.

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Speaker 2: They travel to Athens, Ohio to take on OU. They

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Speaker 2: look to complete a perfect regular season ahead of the

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Speaker 2: MAC Tournament, and kind enough with his time to join

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Speaker 2: us today as head coach, Travis Steel coach, what's going on?

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Speaker 3: Nothing? I appreciate you having me on.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot going on right now. Yeah, there is

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Speaker 2: a lot going on. I turn on the TV on

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Speaker 2: a daily basis, Your guys, athletic directors on a wake

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Speaker 2: up barstool, You guys are national news every single day.

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Speaker 2: In the back of your mind, you probably got this

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Speaker 2: whole Speedo thing still plastered down and on top of

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Speaker 2: what's going on in the court. You're now dealing with

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Speaker 2: a daughter at home who was a little disappointed in behavior.

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Speaker 2: So on top of what you're trying to do tomorrow night,

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Speaker 2: a lot of outside circumstances still at play here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's been a fun right. Probably the

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Speaker 4: one that was that pulled up my heart the most

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Speaker 4: is my daughter. You said when she hit me with daddy,

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Speaker 4: you were a bad boy last night and you shoved

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Speaker 4: that thing over you had big feelings. Yeah, she's talking

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Speaker 4: like a three year old. I was like, okay, yep.

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Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, Daddy shouldn't have done

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Speaker 4: that should I.

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Speaker 3: So three going on twenty three. That's my daughter. That's

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Speaker 3: exactly right. But I made up for it.

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Speaker 4: We got to You got to get some confetti after

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Speaker 4: cutting down the nets the other night after our Toledo

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Speaker 4: game winning the regular season title, and I said, now

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Speaker 4: I'm in a good in a good way with her.

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Speaker 3: That feeling.

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Speaker 2: If anyone's ever played basketball at any level, to be

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Speaker 2: able to cut down the nets, it's kind of one

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Speaker 2: of the things on that ongoing list of what you

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Speaker 2: want to accomplish. Just talk about your team. We the

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Speaker 2: last time you were on the show, you talked about

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Speaker 2: the players that wanted to come back, and they wanted

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Speaker 2: to come back for a reason. And it's not been

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Speaker 2: without adversity at times. It's not been with your your

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Speaker 2: back's not against the wall. But to get to that moment,

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Speaker 2: and I know it's not the ultimate goal of where

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Speaker 2: you guys are at, but to cut down the nets

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Speaker 2: at Mallett Hall had to be an awesome feeling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 4: Listen, it's hard to win regular season titles. I mean

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Speaker 4: it's it's a marathon. We've been getting everybody's best shot.

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Speaker 4: Everywhere we go has been sold out, and we have

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Speaker 4: we faced a lot of adversity. I'm sorrow has obviously been

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Speaker 4: done for the year. You only played one a half

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Speaker 4: a conference game, which is incredible because a lot of

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Speaker 4: people thought we would dip after we lost him, and

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Speaker 4: then Luke Skaljack's out and you know, Trey Perry, another

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Speaker 4: local Cincinnati guy, Lakota East guy really steps up on

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Speaker 4: the road force game winner at Western Michigan. But our

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Speaker 4: group's unflappable. We don't flinch. It's next man up mentality.

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Speaker 4: You know, we have a lot of good players.

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Speaker 3: Where does that come from?

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Speaker 2: Because that's just not something that always can be taught

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Speaker 2: over the course of a practice or film study. But

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Speaker 2: to have a group that you know, Okay, we're in adversity,

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Speaker 2: and I think your demeanor at times on the sideline

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Speaker 2: shows that, whereas it's not panic, it's all right, we've

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Speaker 2: been here before and you know and have a grasp

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Speaker 2: on who you have. Where does that come from?

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Speaker 4: I think it starts probably with me, right, I mean

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Speaker 4: they're gonna look to me and see how I'm reacting.

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Speaker 4: Or you know, Luke's out, what is he gonna lose

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Speaker 4: his mind?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Is he down? Is he is?

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Speaker 4: It?

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Speaker 3: Has he changed at all? Right?

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Speaker 4: And can I stay be very very consistent? Can Peter

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Speaker 4: Suitor who's one of our team captains, Evan Ipsorrow, Ian Elmer?

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Speaker 4: Can those guys be ultra consistent in those moments? And

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Speaker 4: they and they are and they just go we just

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Speaker 4: move right on man, And again it's and we don't

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Speaker 4: love losing guys, right, right, So I do you want

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Speaker 4: to make that crystal clear like it's it's hard, but

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Speaker 4: it's it's part of it, right, It's part of the journey.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Peter Soonor who's been phenomenal for you guys.

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Speaker 2: But he exits with the fouling out of the game

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Speaker 2: and you guys are trailing at that time, and I thought,

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Speaker 2: in that moment, you know, going forward, it it kind

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Speaker 2: of showed the most about who your team. You're shorthanded

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Speaker 2: at guard, your your leader, Peter Souter is out of

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Speaker 2: the game, and yet the the the play on the

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Speaker 2: court in the mindset, I think that the mentality, you know,

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Speaker 2: the physical side of your team. But I'm sure as

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Speaker 2: a coach it's gratifying to see that mental toughness as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously when Peter filed out, you get like thirty

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Speaker 4: seconds sub guys. Yeah, I probably took our guys over

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Speaker 4: and I said, fellows, we can't lose our minds, and

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Speaker 4: so we have to just settle in lock in play

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Speaker 3: Just be solid with the ball at the other end.

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Speaker 3: Just do your job. We'll be fine.

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Speaker 4: And our guys, man just are so calm and I

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Speaker 4: Olmar Atlason made some huge plays for us down the church.

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Speaker 4: Ian Elmer, another Cincinnati local guy man Taff High School,

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Speaker 4: made some enormous plays and so did as did Trey Perry.

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Speaker 3: So we have a lot of good players.

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Speaker 4: And when you have that belief Tony as you know,

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Speaker 4: when you when you have the confidence, that's everything.

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Speaker 2: Sure, and that confidence grows, he grows with each win

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Speaker 2: and each heard because like you said, you've you've now changed.

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Speaker 2: And I think this is a little bit difficult in

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Speaker 2: sports at times to just an average fan when when

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Speaker 2: it goes from just a road game to the road

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Speaker 2: game where you have the target on your back and

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Speaker 2: they're selling out and they're doing different things that arenas

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Speaker 2: to get folks into the gym. That changes the dynamic.

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Speaker 2: And you guys have seen it at home as well,

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Speaker 2: and what Malette Hall has become this year in this

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Speaker 2: home court advantage and that place being filled up. But

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Speaker 2: it's a different feeling, I'm sure now when you guys

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Speaker 2: walk into those road arenas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, our first couple of years that I mean,

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Speaker 4: most of them were half empty or mostly right, and

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Speaker 4: now wherever we go it's sold out.

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Speaker 3: I wish we could get half seas like on this gate,

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Speaker 3: on this ticket, you know. So I was like, man,

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Speaker 3: can we get half you know?

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Speaker 4: Like you know, but because it's funny, you watch the

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Speaker 4: one of their other games on film, they got nobody there, right,

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Speaker 4: And when we've been there, but it's been super cool

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Speaker 4: for our guys to be able to experience that. What

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Speaker 4: a what an experience, What a ride that we're on.

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Speaker 4: Our guys lean right into it.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: We love playing on the road quite honestly, kind of

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Speaker 4: being the villain a little bit, yep, silencing the crowd.

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Speaker 3: Our guys really really basking that sunlight.

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Speaker 2: How much does that help when you start to look

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Speaker 2: ahead now outside of it and tomorrow night is its

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Speaker 2: own separate entity and we'll get to that, but you

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Speaker 2: start to look ahead to a MAC tournament, an NC

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Speaker 2: double a tournament, that's the atmosphere for me of the

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Speaker 2: excitement and you're not always used to that. How much

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Speaker 2: does this help going through this this year to get

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Speaker 2: to those bigger moments?

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Speaker 4: I think it really helps. You know, we're used to

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Speaker 4: the big crowds. It's not gonna put it not gonna

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Speaker 4: be a distraction at all for us. When you're playing

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Speaker 4: the MAC tournament. It's funny, you know, because it's situated

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Speaker 4: right there in Cleveland. We have a lot of Miami

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Speaker 4: of alumni there, sure, but like it is a home

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Speaker 4: game for Kent State and Acron. Yeah, so you're playing

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Speaker 4: on the road in a huge arena.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people there. It's awesome.

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Speaker 4: So for us to be able to get practiced during

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Speaker 4: the regular season for that, I think will service really well.

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Speaker 2: You guys had a three game stretch where you scored

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Speaker 2: one hundred hundre in five hundred and seven. We know

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Speaker 2: anyone that's watched basketball knows that your team can score

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Speaker 2: in bunches. What is it said about your team over

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Speaker 2: the last two You win a game sixty nine to

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Speaker 2: sixty seven, you win a game seventy four to seventy two.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times those high scoring teams, if you

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Speaker 2: have an off night, could.

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Speaker 3: Be in trouble.

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Speaker 2: But talk about what you guys have been able to

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Speaker 2: do on the defensive side of the ball as you've grown.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the last month, since February one, we've been a

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Speaker 4: top fifty defensive team in the country and that was

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Speaker 4: kind of my focus over this last month. You want

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Speaker 4: to kind of time it up right because you want

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Speaker 4: to peak right at the right time. We're not playing

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Speaker 4: our best over the last week and a half, and

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Speaker 4: that's okay. This isn't linear like we all want it

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Speaker 4: to be. Run here right like there's kind of peaks

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Speaker 4: We want to peak and obviously in Cleveland and then

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Speaker 4: into the NCAA tournament. But our defense, we can win

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Speaker 4: in different ways. We can win a slow down game.

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Speaker 4: We'd rather play up tempo, sure, and seventy five possessions

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Speaker 4: around there, seventy four to seventy five. We'd rather play

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Speaker 4: in the nineties, but we can play in this sixties

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Speaker 4: I think you're gonna have odds are you gonna have

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Speaker 4: one offshooting night in Cleveland in one of those three games,

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Speaker 4: So you've got to be able to win that game.

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Speaker 3: And our team's built for that.

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Speaker 2: In today's world. Maybe twenty years ago, it's different. In

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Speaker 2: today's world social media, the attention that that these players

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Speaker 2: are getting. It's one thing to say, one game at

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Speaker 2: noise out there and everything that's being said about this

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Speaker 2: team in March and going forward. How do you do

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Speaker 2: your best as a coach to try to quiet that

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Speaker 2: with your guys or do you lean into it a

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Speaker 2: little bit with the guys.

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Speaker 4: We talk about it. I just I just said a

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Speaker 4: fels like like with Bruce Pearl. I love Bruce p

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Speaker 4: Bruce Pearl's he's a way better coach than I'll ever be.

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Speaker 4: I'm Hall of Famer tremendous, and he's a good guy.

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Speaker 4: But listen, just like Wally Zerbiak, he's going to be

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Speaker 3: He's a dad as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like, and he wants to push my you know, like,

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Speaker 4: so everybody listen.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's got agenda.

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Speaker 4: Sure, if I'm not going to call Bruce Pearl and

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Speaker 4: ask him for his opinion on our team or his advice,

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Speaker 4: then why the heck should I listen to him?

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Speaker 3: At this correct? We got to focus on the things

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Speaker 3: we could control.

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Speaker 4: It's having a great practice, film session, lifting, recovery, so

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Speaker 4: that prepares us for these games because we get to

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Speaker 4: control our own destiny.

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Speaker 3: That's the beauty of it.

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Speaker 2: It's been a game by game mantra. But anyone that

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Speaker 3: It doesn't stop.

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Speaker 2: So the trajectory in the future now of what Miami

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Speaker 4: You get to catch the momentum and our women's program's

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Speaker 3: We're appreciative of you. I know it's a hectic time.

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Speaker 2: I know you're getting pulled in a lot of different directions,

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Speaker 2: one more tomorrow night, National TV nine o'clock in Athens. Coach,

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Speaker 3: We appreciate you. Thank you for having me on absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Talk Come up next, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 5: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: It's that time for talkbacks.

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Speaker 6: Press the microphone and record your message for Austin in tone.

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Speaker 3: Please keep it.

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Speaker 6: Clean and don't be mean at a sprinkle sprinkle, drip drips.

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Speaker 6: It's our favorite tarter since three sixty So Austin, buddy,

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Speaker 3: In just a moment, Yeah, yeah, no, for sure.

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Speaker 2: While we wait on these, I will say though, how

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Speaker 3: Ye.

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Speaker 7: When I was doing my first take of this talkback,

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Speaker 7: I was driving. Yeah, nothing happened, but hey, let's talk superstitions.

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Speaker 7: I want to know, Tony, if was there any superstitious

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Speaker 2: Please tell I don't think I was around many superstitious players.

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Speaker 3: You didn't have any like pregame routines.

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Speaker 9: Also, I can't say this for sure, but I would

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Speaker 9: you know, I'm sure they listen and probably secretly leave

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Speaker 10: Some guys nikahoone and Kentucky Addie, you got my mouth

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Speaker 3: Where'd you say you got that thing from Dorothy an Tony.

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Speaker 10: I'm glad Jerry Calhoun's starting to lose because, like I said,

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Speaker 3: I'm good.

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Speaker 10: I think you let West Miller State one more year

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Speaker 10: Bobby Harley. Let Calhoun go somewhere else. Don't bring that

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Speaker 10: dueve Eric kut back here. And what do y'all think

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Speaker 3: Oh, Kyler played for the Reds.

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Speaker 5: Hey, fellas, it's funny, unbelievable, man, the Star's finally online, Austin,

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Speaker 5: Toni and electric.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 10: I couldn't believe it, man.

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Speaker 11: I actually felt my athletically increased tenfold after it was huge, huge,

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Speaker 12: What are we doing out meeting him?

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Speaker 13: A wild like that with Maurice, Austin and Tony Man

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Speaker 14: Listen to this rumor has it.

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Speaker 3: That Jesse it skips is actually loud talk back? Guys.

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Speaker 2: I would have never never guessed meeting Vinnie h that

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Speaker 3: The fruition there. It's my favorite thing. Incredible in the world.

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Speaker 3: And then you get that.

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Speaker 15: Hey, guys, I'm sorry you've already covered this, but just

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Speaker 3: I just don't understand if we're all in or half

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Speaker 15: For Duke, it seems like the glass is always half bull,

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Speaker 3: That's trolling, right.

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Speaker 9: The move from Sick haven't heard for this guy in

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Speaker 2: The move from on from Trey Henderson does not, I think,

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Speaker 9: Every person that covers this team all says the same thing.

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Speaker 8: It's the Lord, Tony Austin, I've got a start bench cut.

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Speaker 8: What are you most excited about during the NFL offseason?

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Speaker 8: Start bench cut? The NFL Draft, the NFL Combine, the

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Speaker 2: For me, it's the draft, and then it's the Combine,

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Speaker 9: For me, it's the draft and it's close and then

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Speaker 8: What are the chances of the Bengals signing Khalil Mack?

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Speaker 2: Probably not zero, not zero, But I don't think great

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Speaker 3: I liked you for a reason. Bruno mars Man, that

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Speaker 16: I have his albums on repeat all throughout the year,

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Speaker 16: just good vibes, little old school loves songs.

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Speaker 12: It's really good.

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Speaker 3: He's a really good singer.

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Speaker 16: Plus had the best Super Bowl halftime show in my opinion.

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Speaker 16: That's a very unpopular opinion, but that was the year

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Speaker 3: That man owned the shage.

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Speaker 16: I think he even had red hot Chili Peppers on

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Speaker 12: Free watch it.

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Speaker 2: He was good and he's only like I mean, not

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Speaker 9: I think you're being a highist again. You would see

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Speaker 9: him Ben.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Tony and Austin.

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Speaker 17: It is a rainy, great day, Hey, I got tears

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Speaker 17: back while I crawl over you. That turned me off

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Speaker 3: Have a great day, guys, Please be safe. That was fantastic. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: beautifully beautifully sun.

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Speaker 18: Hey fellas, Happy Friday Eve. It's DJ frum hell. I

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Speaker 18: gotta tell you, guys. Ever since West Miller cried at

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Speaker 18: that press conference a few weeks ago, my basketball life

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Speaker 18: has gotten much better. Bearcats playing like a top ten program. Yep,

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Speaker 18: the Charlotte Hornets. My Charlotte Hornets Italian records set by

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Speaker 18: Colden State twenty seventeen. My second or third grade girls

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Speaker 18: killed it at the hoop past a few weeks ago

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Speaker 18: in the Happy field House, and I just left wondering,

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Speaker 18: is this what life is?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 18: Is this for all life?

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Speaker 3: Have a great day, man. The Hafey Field House down

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Speaker 3: in readiness is one for the history.

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Speaker 9: Just ask Travis if he's ever considered crying in front

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Speaker 9: of his team to get them way better next time

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Speaker 9: we get them.

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Speaker 3: Gentlemen, got to start bench cut for you? Who do

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Speaker 3: you trust? For Red's medical staff? The Golden Archers to

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Speaker 3: give you hot fries. Oh man, I'm out on fries

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Speaker 3: for the time before. But do you trust them?

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Speaker 9: I trust them the most. I would think they get

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Speaker 9: the most trust right now in that group. Yes, I'd

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Speaker 9: bench Duke and I'd probably have to cut the Reds

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Speaker 9: medical right now. I agree Dookie picks one. I just

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Speaker 9: want to go back and say that that which tass

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Speaker 9: State team was seventeen home wins, twelve road winds, six

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Speaker 9: and one neutral.

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Speaker 3: The neutral lost was to my Wildcats.

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Speaker 5: That was the team that had Van Vliet and Ron

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Speaker 5: Baker the only team coach on their schedule Tennessee and Bama.

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Speaker 5: You can only play who's in front of you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean those Tennessee and Bama are certainly impressive wins.

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Speaker 2: There was an article out today and we might get

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Speaker 2: to it here if we got time at the end

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Speaker 2: of the hour EUR three of kind of an in

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Speaker 2: depth look of who Miami actually tried to schedule and

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Speaker 2: got turned down. So it wasn't this wasn't a case

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Speaker 2: of they set the schedule, they wanted to schedule more

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Speaker 2: difficult and they couldn't get a team to take it.

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Speaker 3: Where would Wade Miley end up in the rotation for Cuba.

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Speaker 3: And where would Tony Pike end up in the batting order.

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Speaker 3: I mean I'd hit Tony Pike would have to be,

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Speaker 3: you know, in the lineup. He'd be at the end

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Speaker 3: of the bench. I would hit third. Interesting to think about.

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Speaker 2: Maybe fourth, because I don't have the speed in which

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Speaker 2: I once thought I did. But I think I could

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Speaker 2: go clean up for Cuba. No, you could, and and

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Speaker 2: I'd welcome some batting practice off Wade Miley.

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Speaker 9: You could maybe make the team, but you ain't getting

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Speaker 9: a hit against anybody in the world baseball classes. Doesn't

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Speaker 9: matter if it's Chinese, Taipei and and Stuart Fairchild, doesn't

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Speaker 9: matter if it's Israel, if it's Australia, sure as hell

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Speaker 9: you ain't touching Arrek school Ball.

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Speaker 3: Fifty five back is.

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Speaker 12: In regards to Miles Garrett giving speed ticket on ICEB one,

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Speaker 12: not the nine tickets I did not know about earlier.

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Speaker 12: When I looked at that Citiian, it was a mile

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Speaker 12: post one and ninety five. Now at that part on

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Speaker 12: seventy one, if anyone has done since that, oti to Cleveland,

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Speaker 12: Colundless of Cleveland is three lanes all the way to

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Speaker 12: the airport in Cleveland. It's easy to speed twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Over over the area. Yeah, you just got to have

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Speaker 3: the other eight speaking tickets before that.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I have to double dip on the The State

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Speaker 12: Highway Patrol office is right outside of Asland, so obviously

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Speaker 12: once you passed Aceland, within ten miles of that area,

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Speaker 12: there's always gonna be a State Highlight patrol pulling over

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Speaker 12: any speeders on there.

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Speaker 19: I know it.

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Speaker 12: I was always carved sivy one all the time to

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Speaker 12: get to New England. You just know that you just

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Speaker 12: can't go that fast.

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Speaker 3: Over there, all right?

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Speaker 2: Now, this might be was that where a rolled as

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Speaker 2: Chapman got pulled over to This might be a dumb question,

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Speaker 2: and I've only received one ticket in my life.

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Speaker 3: Knock on wood.

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Speaker 2: Is there is there not a limit to how many

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Speaker 2: tickets you can get before like you get your license

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Speaker 2: taken away or something else happening.

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Speaker 9: I did see a post this morning that said Miles

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Speaker 9: Garrett has more points on his license in the Browns

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Speaker 9: offense average last year.

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Speaker 3: Yikes. Oh love me some lou Holtz.

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Speaker 20: I never forgave his coach Jskins saw they were playing Oklahoma.

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Speaker 20: I think it was a cotton Bowl Arkansas, big underdog,

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Speaker 20: his wide receivers and running backs. Gotte a bunch of Sananigans.

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Speaker 20: He wouldn't let him play. People are like, how can

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Speaker 20: you do that? You're gonna get blown out. He's like,

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Speaker 20: they got follow the rules. They ended up crushing Oklahoma.

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Speaker 10: Thank you, Ah busted.

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Speaker 12: This is Super Bowl champion ron Gronkowski.

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Speaker 18: How about this Dalton Roadhouse, Risner blocking, protecting, keeping the

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Speaker 18: bartender safe.

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow all right, see you guys. Okay, that was Gronk.

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Speaker 21: Thanks Gronk, Yo, Tony. Great interview with coach Steele. I'm

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Speaker 21: a diehard Xavier fan, definitely one of the guys pounding

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Speaker 21: my fists to get him out of Xavier after his tenure.

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Speaker 3: But I don't hate the guy.

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Speaker 21: And really, man, I loved how he answered your question

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Speaker 21: about how do you handle the adversity as it comes

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Speaker 21: up losing guys, and he said it starts with him.

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Speaker 21: That's a coach who knows his role. He knows exactly

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Speaker 21: who these guys see him as. Yeah, I'm rooting for him, man.

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Speaker 3: It was awesome. Yeah, some calling America's team and there's

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Speaker 3: Tony Pike globbing softballs. To Travis Steele Tony. He had

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Speaker 3: one shot to.

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Speaker 21: Ask him if he was going to take any players

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Speaker 21: with him the Cincinnati next season.

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Speaker 19: I didn't do it.

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Speaker 3: That would be crazy. Where's he going?

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Speaker 22: Yes, a.

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Speaker 14: Question, is Jake Browning still on the roster or has

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Speaker 14: he been released?

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything.

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Speaker 9: Jake Browning's contract expires in a couple of days.

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Speaker 3: Hey, guys, Paul from Cleaves here.

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Speaker 13: My question is is there a quarterback out there right

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Speaker 13: now that we are going to sign as a backup?

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Speaker 13: We know Joe Flacco is going to look for a

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Speaker 13: starting job. I'm just curious if there's a or do

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Speaker 13: you think we can draft a quarterback to back up Burrow?

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Speaker 13: What do you guys think? Is there a quarterback out there?

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Speaker 2: I've not reached this point in my NFL offseason checklist, but.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, I gotta trusted list.

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Speaker 2: Austin just pulled something off the wall.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, here's I'll go from the bottom up. Start from

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Speaker 3: the bottom to get here.

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Speaker 9: Potential guys Easton Stick, John Walford, friend of the show,

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Speaker 9: just got engaged ripping. Okay, Jeff Driscoll, we've had those

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Speaker 9: guys know for Skyler Thompson Brandon Allen Nope, Ted Bridgewater sure,

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Speaker 9: Josh Johnson No, Kyle Allen, Sam Howell, maybe Trey Lance,

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Speaker 9: Zach Wilson, can he pick it? Tyler Huntley, Carson Wentz,

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Speaker 9: Carson Wentz. I don't know if any of those guys

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Speaker 9: are realistic opportunities. I'll give you number one. I think

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Speaker 9: they will draft one late. Number two. I'll give you

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Speaker 9: a name to keep an eye out on, Okay, Dorian Thompson, Robbins,

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Speaker 9: d t R something to think about.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think they could draft on.

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Speaker 11: Hey, guys, I keep hearing how it was no big

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Speaker 11: deal not to tag Trey, But I'm.

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Speaker 3: Still kind of curic.

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Speaker 11: Why did it go ahead and tag him and see

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Speaker 11: what kind of interest it really was? They did quite

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Speaker 11: sure that every team is going to say, now we

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Speaker 11: only make a trade waiting for him the releasing, because

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Speaker 11: that's always been their moo. I'm just curious what would

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Speaker 11: have happened. I mean, he doesn't sign it, they re

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Speaker 11: send it in a week and there's no harm done.

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Speaker 9: What do you think I think be as they've tried

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Speaker 9: to trade him for over a year. I think if

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Speaker 9: there was a team legitimately interested, they would have correct

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Speaker 9: if they I mean, yes, there they were, just it

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Speaker 9: just wasn't there.

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Speaker 3: That was our last one. It wasn't there. Sorry.

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Speaker 2: I know that a lot of people don't want to

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Speaker 2: go down that path, but you know I and that's

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Speaker 2: I guess that's the part of it. I get when

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Speaker 2: you're not in the trenches here in Cincinnati and covering

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Speaker 2: this team like we have the opportunity to do. If

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Speaker 2: you're if you're not following the Bengals day to day, Austin,

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Speaker 2: you would say, okay, Trey Hendrickson. Now immediately he becomes

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Speaker 2: too many the top available free agent on the defensive

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Speaker 2: side of the ball. The Bengals had an awful defense,

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Speaker 2: and they chose to let the presumed top free agent

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Speaker 2: to go. I could see how maybe folks would view

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Speaker 2: that as all the Bengals would just being the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: If you followed this situation for a couple of years,

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Speaker 2: this was the end. This was the conclusion that we

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Speaker 2: all expected to happen. I get on the outside, how

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Speaker 2: it may optically look, just didn't work here. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, the year he led the NFL in sacks,

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Speaker 2: they were still one of the worst defenses in the NFL.

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Speaker 9: The Bengals tried to trade him. Now, should they have

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Speaker 9: just taken what they could have gotten? Yes, but at

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Speaker 9: this point just let it go. We could talk more

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Speaker 9: about it.

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Speaker 3: We have time.

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Speaker 2: We have two segments, yes, in our number two, and

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Speaker 2: we'll get to Kegan Nickoson to kick off our number three,

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Speaker 2: along with Bob Manjean at since he three to sixty.

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Speaker 2: By the way, your phone if you want to get

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Speaker 2: a phone call in five to one, three, seven, four, nine,

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. We've got some time to do that right now.

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Speaker 2: That comes next on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 23: Hey it's Motweger, whether it's D three sixty here every

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Speaker 23: show at ESPN fifteen thirty dot com.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Since He three sixty ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station. A couple of sports stories that are happening

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Speaker 2: right now. This not one you hear everyday ESPN dot com.

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Speaker 2: Police say a coach on the cow State Bakersfield men's

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Speaker 2: basketball program has been moonlighting as a pimp across four

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Speaker 2: states moonlighting.

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Speaker 3: Huh, he has.

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Speaker 2: Been dismissed from the program. Wow, not one you read

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Speaker 2: every day? No, how about this one? Really it's really

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Speaker 2: How about no pimps were still a thing? I didn't either, Okay,

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Speaker 2: four states. It's not easy, is what I've heard. Not

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Speaker 2: How about this A's general manager, David Forst what's his name?

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Speaker 3: Forced? Okay, David?

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Speaker 2: He said, Kyler Murray is an e lead NFL quarterback

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure there are plenty of opportunities for him

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Speaker 2: to continue his football career. That said, he and his

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Speaker 2: baseball representatives know that we're always open to him exploring

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Speaker 2: and return to baseball with the A's if that time comes.

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Speaker 9: They still own his rights. They drafted him. People forget

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Speaker 9: think Kyler Murray would ever think about that? Yeah, I

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Speaker 9: think you would. The Padres didn't they draft Johnny Manziel, Yeah,

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Speaker 9: Johnny football, John Football. There's been a couple other like

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Speaker 9: random Yeah, dudes get drafted.

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Speaker 2: It'd be interesting to follow along with a couple of

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Speaker 2: phone calls here, we'll get a break in.

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Speaker 3: What's up, Mark, Hey, how's it going?

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Speaker 16: How are you?

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Speaker 19: I just wanted to time in on the trade Henderson issue.

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Speaker 19: When I look at that situation, I think Trey screwed

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Speaker 19: itself over when he signed that one year contract. You know,

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Speaker 19: when up? When are Bengo players are going to wake

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Speaker 19: up and quit doing that. If he hadn't done that,

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Speaker 19: he'd have been a free agent last year and he

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Speaker 19: would have got his money. So I think, I think,

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Speaker 19: I think he screwed hisself when he did that. So

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Speaker 19: so yeah, and then, uh, as far as the Reds

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Speaker 19: are concerned, I heard the talk about Hunter Green. You know,

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Speaker 19: I said this last year with him when he I

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Speaker 19: was open to trade him because he gets hurt too much.

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Speaker 19: And when the pictures hurt their elbows. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 19: I've seen it in the past when uh, the player

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Speaker 19: that comes to mind is Jose Rio when when he

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Speaker 19: started having elbow problems, he wasn't never the same, you know,

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Speaker 19: with a picture it's like the elbow and the shoulder.

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Speaker 19: With Homer Bailey hurt his I think it was his elbow.

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Speaker 19: He wasn't never the same when he came back. I'm

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Speaker 19: keeping my fingers crossed, so we'll see what. Yeah, So

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Speaker 19: I'll get off and listen to the rest of the show.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Mark that is It's obviously something I think we can

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Speaker 2: maybe try to learn more on. When we talked to

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Speaker 2: Bob Manjean coming up in the third and final hour

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Speaker 2: of the show. Today Greg is calling it.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Greg, Good, how's he going? What's uy?

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Speaker 14: I just want to mention one of my best friends

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Speaker 14: from nineteen seventy eight till right now. It was a

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Speaker 14: guy named Doug bear b a I R. He pitched

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Speaker 14: for the Reds from what's seventy eight to eighty one, okay,

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Speaker 14: and just wanted to highlight just how his his career went. Anyway,

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Speaker 14: you wound up with like a a fifteen sixteen year career.

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Speaker 14: If you go on baseball or Reference, you'll see, you know,

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Speaker 14: he had a nice career. But the Reds brought him

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Speaker 14: here in seventy eight to be a closer trime as

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Speaker 14: a closer work out great, That's what Sparking wanted. Sparking

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Speaker 14: in thirty him as a closer, he had like twenty

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Speaker 14: eight saves less than a two ERA. And now his

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Speaker 14: fourth year here is when the Reds went on strike,

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Speaker 14: and that's where I kind of came in to play

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Speaker 14: a little bit. So the strike started in early June

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Speaker 14: and it went till the first of August. So during

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Speaker 14: the strike, him and I would go over to Sycamore

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Speaker 14: High School three or four times a week and he

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Speaker 14: would throw to me. So I'm always telling you know,

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Speaker 14: I kept you in shape. Anyway, that's when we really

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Speaker 14: became best friends. After they came back from strike around

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Speaker 14: the first and September the Red Stradium, the Cardinals to

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Speaker 14: be Bruce suitors set up Guy Well. The very next year,

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Speaker 14: Doug and Bruce soonter and the Cardinals won the World Championships.

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Speaker 3: So Doug got a rug very nice right.

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Speaker 14: Two years later, Lessing Year, Sparky is now the manager

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Speaker 14: of Detroit. So Sparky he set up man for the

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Speaker 14: great Willy Hernandez. And if you look up Willy Hernandez

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Speaker 14: in eighty four, he was not only the cy Young

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Speaker 14: Award winner in the American League, that he won the MVP.

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Speaker 3: So here you go.

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Speaker 14: Two years later in Detroit, Doug's on another World championship team.

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Speaker 14: Sonya was Yeah, that wasn't bad at Also anyway, his

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Speaker 14: career ended in nineties, but if you look him up

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Speaker 14: on you know, Baseball reverence, he had really a nice career.

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Speaker 14: And one other thing I was gonna mention, like when

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Speaker 14: he was with the Reds, wife and I we'd take

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Speaker 14: a week get down to Tampa with the Cardinals. We

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Speaker 14: get down to Saint Petersburg, you know, with Lakeland. When

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Speaker 14: it was Detroit, we'd get down to Lakeland. But the

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Speaker 14: different baseball people that I met over the years was

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Speaker 14: you know, incredible, sure, very incredible with him. And then

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Speaker 14: one other thing to mention, it's not a big deal,

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Speaker 14: but the guy called this one guy kind of got

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Speaker 14: me started. The guy that called yes, and he was

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Speaker 14: talking about Dave Collins, a left handed hitter, and Dave

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Speaker 14: was really a good ball player, and I actually met him, well,

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Speaker 14: I saw him playing, met him a couple of times.

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Speaker 14: But to day, Collins was a switch here, which isn't

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Speaker 14: a big deal. But in other words, the guy yes,

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Speaker 14: he said something about being a left hander, but a

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Speaker 14: left handed and everybody he.

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Speaker 3: Was actually a switch here.

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Speaker 14: So anyway, I just wanted to kind of highlight Doug's career.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Greg, Thank you, Greg, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Uh, let's get one one out of the way, Drew before

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Speaker 2: we get to a break.

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Speaker 3: What's up, Drew?

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Speaker 22: Hey, guys, I just got a few things here.

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Speaker 24: How's it going on? How's how's it going on?

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Speaker 5: Wait?

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Speaker 9: This is this the Drew from the Dan Patrick Show

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Speaker 9: earlier this morning.

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Speaker 3: Drew, unbelievable.

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Speaker 9: Today right now. Man, you're like Mike in LA. You're like,

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Speaker 9: you're just calling into all the shows.

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Speaker 24: Well, you know that's what I do all day long

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Speaker 24: in all every radio station I can find on the internet.

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Speaker 19: What do you got do you have?

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Speaker 24: Do you have the button in there? Or is it

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Speaker 24: just often who has the power of the button?

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Speaker 3: What people call we we both have. We both possess

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Speaker 3: a button.

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Speaker 22: How much dust is on yours?

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Speaker 3: We can find out a standing ovation for me.

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Speaker 22: Dro If you go to the grocery store, how long

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Speaker 22: are you in there for? Someone comes up to talk

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Speaker 22: to there for four hours?

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Speaker 3: Hours hours.

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Speaker 2: I'm gone for days at a time from my wife.

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Speaker 24: My goodness.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 22: I mean, if it's one thing to be nice, but

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Speaker 22: it's one it's another thing to give.

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Speaker 24: Up your whole life. Uh, good for you.

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Speaker 3: I guess if he would have hung up on you

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Speaker 3: by now.

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Speaker 24: I just wanted to see if you if you did

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Speaker 24: hear me. I'm talking about Trey because I I am

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Speaker 24: gonna tie to that, and and I was tired of him.

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Speaker 24: I was glad to see him go. I mean, could

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Speaker 24: you imagine if the company treated their employees the way

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Speaker 24: he wanted to be treated? If I got a raise

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Speaker 24: every year that company would go bankrupt and no matter.

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Speaker 24: I mean, so I get what he wanted to one

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Speaker 24: year the year deal thing. No, I don't think that

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Speaker 24: was that stupid by him, but I was glad to

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Speaker 24: see him go. And if I still don't think any

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Speaker 24: of this comp third round pick makes sense, however, we

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Speaker 24: would love if we got one just to shut everyone up.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree, Drew, I'm hanging up on you. Is

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Speaker 9: there anything else you want to say? We've got time.

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Speaker 22: It's pretty good. It's not bad.

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Speaker 24: I mean no, not really like that.

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Speaker 3: I get it now.

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Speaker 22: I think unless you want to break down every scenario

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Speaker 22: of every draft that could happen this year, if you

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Speaker 22: got a few minutes, Logan Wilson to the Tampa Baby.

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Speaker 2: Him and Trey both love that thought. Yeah, we've talked

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Speaker 2: about that one. So thanks Drew, Thanks a lot, man.

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Speaker 9: I appreciate it. She's one of my favorite callers. And

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Speaker 9: that was he just perfectly delivered that line.

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Speaker 2: We'll take a break, we'll finish up the hour next

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Speaker 2: Since he three sixties ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station

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Speaker 2: w c.

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Speaker 23: K line.

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Speaker 6: Meant a strong wine.

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Speaker 12: I got it all right.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back since he three sixties. ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station. Uh, touch and go here. What do we

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Speaker 2: got coming up in our three Austin. We've got Keegan

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Speaker 2: Nickoson standing by.

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Speaker 3: That's correct.

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Speaker 2: We'll join Keegan Nickoson. He'll join us next. Bearcat Journal

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Speaker 2: dot Com. Keegan, last time I talked to him, and

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Speaker 2: he talked about how outlandish it was to think about

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Speaker 2: the Bearcats on the NCAA tournament line. And yet this

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Speaker 2: has become more of a thing over the last week.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see what Keegan has to say about that.

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Speaker 2: Other happenings around the Bearcats. The matchup against TCU.

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Speaker 9: Shot, you were taking a keg in there, to be honest, Yeah,

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Speaker 9: it was a little bit. Okay, just it was a

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Speaker 9: little bit. Clarify I heard what I heard correctly.

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Speaker 2: Yep, that that was one hundred percent shot at Keigan Nickoson.

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Speaker 3: Okay. Do you think keg and Nickoson knows anything about

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Speaker 3: Doug Bear?

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Speaker 9: Uh, he doesn't know as much as we know about him. Now,

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Speaker 9: I know a lot, that's for sure. Shout out to

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Speaker 9: Doug Bear. Three hundred innings for the Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: Red Names, Cubby, Keegan Nickoson is next.

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Speaker 2: Bob man Jean follows that hour three on ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 2: thirty Cincinnati Sports station