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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike since three sixty about Cincinnati from Cincinnati,

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

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

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Speaker 2: Station, the Cincinnati Sports Station. Thanks for joining us. Great

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Speaker 2: to have you along for the next three hours on

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Speaker 2: this the home of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: on the app at that microphone. Leave us a talkback.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to those talkbacks today at the top of

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Speaker 2: our number three. Yes, a little bit different today because

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Speaker 2: at the top of our number two one o'clock, the

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Speaker 2: Jared Calhoun press conference at the University of Cincinnati. We

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Speaker 2: will carry that for you live right here on the

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station as the newest head coach,

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Speaker 2: the twenty ninth head coach in UC basketball history, will

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Speaker 2: be announced in just about an hour from now, so

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Speaker 2: we'll go there at one. Your talkbacks come in at

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Speaker 2: two o'clock. We've also got some Joe Flacco audio that

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Speaker 2: we're gonna get to from yesterday from earlier today his

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Speaker 2: press conference, as well as Joe Flacco is back as

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Speaker 2: the backup quarterback with the Cincinnati Bengals. And of course

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Speaker 2: today it's the eve of opening day here in the

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Speaker 2: Queen City. Red's Baseball Tomorrow. Austin and I are at

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Speaker 2: Smoke Justice tomorrow with Moeger from noon to three. We

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Speaker 2: are excited for that. We'll have giveaways for that, and

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Speaker 2: we have giveaways. Yes, we have some stuff to give away.

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Speaker 3: We know what we're giving away, we don't know yet,

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Speaker 3: but we will, so get there.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 2: We had some pretty awesome yes, historically the prizes are

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Speaker 3: We had great concert tickets. We had some pretty sick autographed.

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Speaker 3: My favorite thing last year, we had the Homer Bayle

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Speaker 3: on display tomorrow. So get down to Smoke Justice as

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Speaker 3: early as possible to take in all the festivities. Tomorrow

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Speaker 3: is also a big day thanks to our our number

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Speaker 3: one sponsor here on Sincy three sixty four Skyline Chili.

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Speaker 3: Because tomorrow Austin is free Cony Day, Yes, Thursday, March

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Speaker 3: twenty sixth, paired up with Opening Day with it being

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Speaker 3: a major holiday here in Cincinnati. Skyline, of course, is

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Speaker 3: a big part of that celebration, so Opening Day is

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Speaker 3: also free Cony Day at Skyline Chili. You will get

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Speaker 3: a free cheese cony with any beverage purchase all day tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: GABP or CVG. So lead off your Opening Day celebration

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Speaker 3: with a free cony Skyline Chili. And they got us

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Speaker 3: led off today. As I say, we let off with

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Speaker 2: It was an interesting feeling, you know. We got the

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Speaker 2: Welcome to My world. They brought over the coney kit

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Speaker 2: so you can make your own cheese conies. Yes, you

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Speaker 3: Welcome to my world of being judged every time you're

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Speaker 3: eating something unbelievable. Man. Anyway, lay off us. We were

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Speaker 3: to opening day here in Cincinnati. Tomorrow we'll talk about

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Speaker 2: Are you surprised with how the rotation was set? You

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Speaker 2: number one, getting you tuned up for tomorrow. Some other

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Speaker 2: happenings across the sports world. The opening Day actually starts tonight,

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Speaker 2: on Netflix. Oh yeah, the Yankees Giants. Now we don't

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Speaker 3: I think most towns wouldn't know describe this as opening day.

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Speaker 3: I like Billy Donovan. I think he deserves better than

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Speaker 2: Okay, forget Billy Donovan at Florida was a yeah, train

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Speaker 2: Last night, the TGL wrapped up their season, Tiger Woods

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Speaker 3: Just watching and I don't know that he's ever gonna

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Speaker 3: But yeah, and so thinking of of Augusta here in

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Speaker 2: We'll spend some time today on Joe Flacco, which we

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Speaker 2: earlier this morning at his press conference at pay Corpse Stadium.

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Speaker 2: We'll spend some time today in preview the Sweet Sixteen

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Speaker 2: because they continued their dominance in their run over the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bearcats despite losing eleven of the fifteen games coming

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Speaker 2: into yesterday. Xavier walked off the Cincinnati Bearcats yesterday despite

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Speaker 2: another Quinton Coach's home run, his nineteenth of the year.

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Speaker 2: Reds Austin, is the gift that was given to the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Reds organization and the fans of the Cincinnati Reds

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Speaker 2: by one Joseph Vado.

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Speaker 3: That's right. A clock, that's correct, A clock that is

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Speaker 3: seventeen feet tall from Joey Vado to the Cincinnati Reds

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Speaker 3: and to the fans, and it is a custom clock

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Speaker 3: built by the Verdin Company, which is a Cincinnati company

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Speaker 3: that's been making clocks for a long, long, long time.

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Speaker 3: It has four different sides with clock faces on him.

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Speaker 3: It has a speaker. There's like a little tone, and

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Speaker 2: segment number one Yesterday was the final tune up, if

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Speaker 3: Let's do that. Let's start with the pitchers, Andrew Abbott,

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Speaker 3: There you go. That's incredible. Everyone, quit your jobs and

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Speaker 3: go to the ballpark. Quit and go down. I keep

436
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Speaker 3: saying every year that I'm gonna like take a day

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Speaker 3: off and go to a day game because I love

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Speaker 3: day games. I like day games more than night games.

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Speaker 3: I don't get to go to the Sunday games because

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Speaker 3: of the postgame show, right and obviously I'm more working

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Speaker 3: for most of the twelve forty starts, so like, I

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Speaker 3: love a Saturday afternoon, but one of these days I

443
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Speaker 3: Am just going to be like, you know what, blow

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Speaker 3: it off, not coming to work today. Head on down

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Speaker 3: to the Old Ballpark, the Old ball Orchard I like

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Speaker 3: to call it. I like it.

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Speaker 2: Let's get a break, we'll come back, we'll grab a

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Speaker 2: phone call. We'll look at the rest of Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball as well. Coming back our number one since E

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Speaker 2: three to sixty thanks to Skyline Chile on ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Sports Station that.

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Speaker 1: Sound Natty's ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back since E three sixty ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station. We have the Jared Calhoun press conference coming

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Speaker 2: up at one o'clock and if you missed it earlier,

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Speaker 2: that means our talkbacks go to our three. You'll also

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Speaker 2: hear from Joe Flacco in our number three what he

458
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Speaker 2: had to say earlier this morning about rejoining the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Get to all of that. We'll get to more Major

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Speaker 2: League Baseball in just a moment. Let's grab a phone

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Speaker 2: callar too. John is calling in. What's going on? John?

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Speaker 5: Good afternoon, fellas. I'm not going to wish you happy

463
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Speaker 5: opening Day, Happy Opening Days tomorrow, and it should always

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Speaker 5: involve the Cincinnati Reds kicking it off. And I'm not

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Speaker 5: just being a brown nose because I'm calling a Cincinnati

466
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Speaker 5: radio station. That's the way tradition should be. I remember,

467
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Speaker 5: for ever, opening Day would be like on a Thursday

468
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Speaker 5: and the Reds would be playing. It always saw like

469
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Speaker 5: the Braves at like twelve forty and you knew the

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Speaker 5: season was starting. So I wish they'd go back to

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Speaker 5: that tradition. But who knows what baseball's want to do?

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Speaker 2: Is there a Is there a tension in Boston right

473
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Speaker 2: now knowing that this ball club has to go up

474
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Speaker 2: against Abbit, Singer and Louder and it is the thought

475
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Speaker 2: process just just steal one of these three. Is that

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Speaker 2: how they're viewing in Boston with the tension?

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Speaker 5: Oh for sure. I mean especially since they're going up

478
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Speaker 5: against the seventy five seventy six Reds. Yep, no, no,

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Speaker 5: that's true. No, Alex Bregman. Here in Boston. They decided

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Speaker 5: not to pick up or sign them for forty million dollars, which.

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Speaker 3: I think was a good move.

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Speaker 5: But there's tension with the Red Sox in general, there

483
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Speaker 5: always is. It's a weird market, guys, because here's a

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Speaker 5: team that's won four World championships in this century, which

485
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Speaker 5: is more than any other team, and yet they're really

486
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Speaker 5: down on the owners because the owners are kind of

487
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Speaker 5: shifted from being a big market team to a medium

488
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Speaker 5: market team, if that makes any sense. I mean, they

489
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Speaker 5: still bring in a ton of revenue. That ballpark is

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Speaker 5: a cash cow, and they bring in around seven hundred

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Speaker 5: million dollars a year, and they've got back the payroll

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Speaker 5: and they're not always in on free agents the way

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Speaker 5: the Bets or the Yankees as the Dodgers are, So

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Speaker 5: the fans are kind of frustrated with that, but they

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Speaker 5: do have a good squad that made the playoffs last year,

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Speaker 5: and guys in the American League it feels just like

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Speaker 5: the AFC last year, like there's no dominant team, so

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Speaker 5: if you get in, maybe you make a run at it. Whereas,

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Speaker 5: of course in the National League, the whole like the

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Speaker 5: year was to see if someone can knock off the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: But the American League there's like ten eleven teams that

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Speaker 5: probably going to Opening Day saying, hey, we could sneak

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Speaker 5: in there and maybe make a run.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's it's an odd time. And again, I

505
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Speaker 2: do I feel like we're going to get into it

506
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Speaker 2: a little bit later. In the National League it's can

507
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Speaker 2: anyone dethrown the Dodgers In the American League? It feels

508
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Speaker 2: like who's going to play against the Dodgers. It feels

509
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Speaker 2: like just a host of teams based on on how

510
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Speaker 2: this plays out, that can end up being the American

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Speaker 2: League champions.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure.

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Speaker 5: And just to give you a little heads up on

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Speaker 5: the Red Sox, they have a really strong starting rotation,

516
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Speaker 5: but you'll have two starters in there. You're not going

517
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Speaker 5: to see Suarez, he's going to pitch against Houston in

518
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Speaker 5: Series number two, but you'll see Sonny Gray. Those are

519
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Speaker 5: just veteran guys that you know should be solid for them.

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Speaker 5: Crochet is one of the five best pitchers in baseball.

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Speaker 5: They're very, very very high on Connolly early he looks

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Speaker 5: like a complete stud.

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Speaker 4: And then you got Brian Bayello.

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Speaker 5: Who's the fifth starter, but he's up and down. You

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Speaker 5: know he'll he'll throw a couple of great games and

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Speaker 5: then a couple of poor games. But the guy you

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Speaker 5: got to watch for is our allest Chapman, whom you

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Speaker 5: guys know very well.

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Speaker 3: Yep, who's is he forty?

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Speaker 4: Is he forty two?

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Speaker 3: Who knows what his age is? He was so good

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Speaker 3: last year until.

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Speaker 5: Twenty years he was incredible. So you know, is a

534
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Speaker 5: thirty eight year old clothes are gonna recapture what he

535
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Speaker 5: did a year ago?

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Speaker 3: I doubt it.

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Speaker 5: And then Trevor Story had a really good year shortstop,

538
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Speaker 5: he played a lot. It's twenty five home run.

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Speaker 4: Those are the two players.

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Speaker 5: You have to look at for the Red Sox because

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Speaker 5: if they can do something closer they did a year

542
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Speaker 5: ago with a lot of the young talent they have

543
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Speaker 5: led by Roman Anthony, they'll be a good squad. But

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Speaker 5: it should be a fun weekend because I think your

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Speaker 5: team is going to be just fine. The pitching staff

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Speaker 5: can just get healthy. I'm high on the Reds. I

547
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Speaker 5: think they got a real chance to win that division.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of excitement around what this team can

549
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Speaker 2: be obviously going into the new season. John, thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for your phone call. We appreciate you, all right, fellas.

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Speaker 5: I wish you're happy Opening Day tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: I like it. I like it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, John Rushing. You know, the the Chapman side

554
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Speaker 2: of things, it's thirty eight years old, last year one

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Speaker 2: one seventy r and I remember at one point last

556
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Speaker 2: year didn't he say like he just figured out how

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Speaker 2: to like aim pitches. Wasn't that a thing he can't

558
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Speaker 2: just been throwing for years And I was like, right,

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Speaker 2: I can aim these things.

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Speaker 3: I forget what the quote was, but it was I

561
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Speaker 3: think with his fastball specifically. He was just like, oh, yeah,

562
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Speaker 3: I started trying to the catcher's glove.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, started paying the corners a little bit and instead

564
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Speaker 2: of just throwing fastballs.

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Speaker 3: That's so funny, unbelievable. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully uh Chapman doesn't pitch in a situation tomorrow that

567
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Speaker 2: that's high leverage.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to see Chapman against Ellie da La Cruz. Oh,

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Speaker 3: that would be fun tie game. Yeah, bottom nine, Ellie

570
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Speaker 3: Clank went off the uh batter's eye out there sits

571
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Speaker 3: on the fastball off of the riverboat. Come on. You know.

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Speaker 3: Lance did a topic last night that a caller had

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Speaker 3: suggested the Red should start a new tradition where for

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Speaker 3: home runs we should like have the horn of like

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Speaker 3: a riverboat like that. Yeah, yeah, and I think we

576
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Speaker 3: should do that. Okay, I was a brilliant uh idea

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Speaker 3: by one of his listeners. Good, I'm all for it.

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Speaker 3: I just whoever out there can make that happen. With

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Speaker 3: the reds. Let's get to working on it. Get the

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Speaker 3: riverboat figured out. Yeah, uh, miner Boat's fine. I liked everybody.

581
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Speaker 3: I know a lot of people don't like it, but

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Speaker 3: I think I just add that horn yep.

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Speaker 2: I think it'd be a fun thing with the one

584
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: thing missing, all the pyro, the fire everything.

585
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Speaker 3: Did you see that they're taking away the underneath the

586
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 3: smoke stacks? What they're making that like a private box thing?

587
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Speaker 3: Why my my heart is broken over this. I used

588
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Speaker 3: to love to go who.

589
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Speaker 2: Were the guys that stood out there like every game

590
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Speaker 2: when this team was rolling?

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, back in like and eleven had like addressed

592
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Speaker 3: to the tea. Yeah those guys were man, but uh

593
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Speaker 3: rip to the out spot under the smoke stacks.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Yeah, that's why that's why the

595
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: clock's in place. Now you need a new meetup spot. Yeah,

596
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 2: meet up under the power doc. Now you just meet

597
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Speaker 2: up under the clock, the Joey Votto clock. Uh, what's up, Mike?

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 4: Hey? Thanks guys, looking forward to your broadcast tomorrow with

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Speaker 4: Moan you fun. God, I wish I could be there.

601
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Speaker 4: I'd give anything. I really wish I could. Uh, I

602
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Speaker 4: uh really wish, like John said that they bring back

603
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Speaker 4: that tradition of the redsk being the only you having

604
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Speaker 4: the solo game, honoring them being the first professional team.

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Speaker 4: That was such a big deal to me as a kid.

606
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Speaker 4: You know, you you strutted around downtown Cincinnati and thought, man,

607
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Speaker 4: this is this is our day. This is the first

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Speaker 4: Joe teams day.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 4: It was a big pride thing and it was so

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Speaker 4: much fun. But Austin, you just jinxed Ellie with that.

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Speaker 4: Clients don't do that.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe it. I don't believe in jinx is.

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Speaker 3: Mike Oh, I don't either, But okay.

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Speaker 4: I thought it might be kind of fun sometimes I do,

616
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Speaker 4: especially at the free throw line. Joe Dude's ninety three

617
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Speaker 4: percent throwcher client, I hate that crap. Hey, listen. I

618
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Speaker 4: don't know if you heard Patrick this morning, but boy

619
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Speaker 4: had a great interview with Mel Kiper and he's on

620
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Speaker 4: a mission now to get Mel into the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: And Mel was talking about his career. I didn't know

622
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Speaker 4: anything about it. He started in nineteen seventy eight, and

623
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Speaker 4: he got a lot of guff. They said this won't work.

624
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Speaker 4: Previewing the draft, it's a loser. ESPN said, forget it,

625
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Speaker 4: we ain't doing it. He's bought it for years until

626
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 4: it finally caught on in two thousand and and Dan

627
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 4: said it was funny because they'd go up to him

628
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Speaker 4: at ESPN and go, do you know about that supposed

629
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Speaker 4: fourth round pick out of Oregon State, that wide receiver

630
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Speaker 4: and he's on the cup. He would just break the

631
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Speaker 4: guy down right there, you know, as if it was

632
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Speaker 4: just a He's incredible in his dedication into the game.

633
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Speaker 4: I kind of used to blowing him off, thought he

634
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 4: was kind of hopey, but there's nothing really hopey about

635
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Speaker 4: them there. His passion is incredible.

636
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Speaker 3: If you remember, like the first time he really got

637
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Speaker 3: like in the Spotlight, he butted heads with Duke Tobin's dad,

638
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: Bill Topa right, they had drafted a player and Kuiper

639
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 3: just reamed him on the air, to the point where

640
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 3: Bill Tobin was asked about it, and Bill Tobin was like, well,

641
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Speaker 3: Kuiper's never put on a jockstrap, what does he know?

642
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Speaker 3: And next thing you know, Kuiper's career took off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a pretty good story. I never heard that.

644
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Speaker 4: That is really cool, dude. Thank you for that he

645
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 4: was well. Dan asked him about Simpson and Mendoza and

646
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Speaker 4: he said, look, it's real simple. Mendoza's four inches tall

647
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 4: and twenty five pounds heavier, and he knew what he

648
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 4: had to do to improve his game was when he

649
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 4: was a Cali got sacked forty one times. He knew

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Speaker 4: he had to correct that. He did correct that, and

651
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Speaker 4: he said the problem too was Ty Simpson when he

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Speaker 4: changed my mind. Ty Simpson only had fifteen starts. He's

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Speaker 4: he's convinced with Mendozi, like he said in the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: eight touchdowns, no picks, and he ran for one. That's

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Speaker 4: pretty strong. Yeah, so that's all I got. Guys, enjoy

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Speaker 4: it tomorrow. I can't wait to listen to what times

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Speaker 4: the show.

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Speaker 3: Starting on none noon?

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Speaker 4: Dude, Okay, what was I thinking? Never mind? Thanks guys, Mike.

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Speaker 2: The uh the season itself. Austin and John kind of

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Speaker 2: hit on this is Is there anyone, barring injuries and

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Speaker 2: anything crazy, who is the team best suited to upset

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers in the National League betting wise? It's the Mets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say the Mets are probably who

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Speaker 3: I would would bet on.

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Speaker 2: It is a substantial gap that the Dodgers are a

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Speaker 2: plus one twenty favorite to win the NL, Mets plus

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Speaker 2: seven hundred, Phillies plus eight hundred, and then the Cubs

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Speaker 2: and the Braves are plus nine hundred.

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Speaker 3: I think San Francisco has a chance. Okay, I think

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Speaker 3: there's just three thousand if you like that value, that's

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Speaker 3: higher than the Reds. I think San Francisco is better

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Speaker 3: than people think. But yeah, I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 3: really a two horse race as far as the top

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Speaker 3: of the National League is concerned. In the American League,

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Speaker 3: that and the Brewers when they win, like, yeah, ninety

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Speaker 3: six games, but they'll falter in the playoffs agains. Of course,

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Speaker 3: the Brewers are the Lamar Jackson of MLB teams. It

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Speaker 3: does feel much more wide open in the American League.

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Speaker 3: The Yankees are a small betting favorite at plus four fifty.

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Speaker 3: Who would your guest be at number two from a

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Speaker 3: betting standpoint number two? Seattle, Yeah, Seattle plus five hundred,

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Speaker 3: and then you get the Jays, the Socks, the Tigers,

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Speaker 3: and the Orioles, followed by the Astros in that order.

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Speaker 3: Orioles are a sneaky team. They obviously got the Polar

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Speaker 3: Bear Pete Alonzo, which is a huge bat to add

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Speaker 3: to them. I don't know what their pitching status is,

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Speaker 3: but when you have Gunner Henderson and Pete Alonso in

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Speaker 3: the lineup, you're gonna score some runs. Yeah. It Boston

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Speaker 3: I don't think is a pushover. I mean, Toronto got Lee.

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Speaker 3: They were just in a World Series, right Detroit I

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Speaker 3: think has gotten better this offseason. I mean the American

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Speaker 3: League race will be fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it just feels like there is so much drama

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Speaker 2: to play out in the American League, and you could

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Speaker 2: very well see a scenario in the National League where

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers run away with this thing. But I think

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Speaker 2: the only thing that could limit that Austin Arizona should

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Speaker 2: be Okay, the Padres should still be a good team,

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Speaker 2: and as you mentioned, the Giants, those are all in

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Speaker 2: the division of the Dodgers, so maybe they can't just

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Speaker 2: fully run away with this thing.

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Speaker 3: Would love for somebody else to get the number one seed. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: would love for the path to the World Series to

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Speaker 3: go through another destination and make people pass that clock

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Speaker 3: out front on the way in. That'd be nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: come see the clock, Come get clocked and check it.

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Speaker 3: On your way out.

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Speaker 2: One more break, we'll finish up our number one, and

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Speaker 2: then we will carry for you the Jared Calhoun introductory

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Speaker 2: press conference that starts at one o'clock. It comes up

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Speaker 2: here in just a few moments on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: the ballpark or at the airport, but any other Skylines

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Speaker 2: in style. Not sure what else. We got some other

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Speaker 2: baseball things to clean up. Pete crow Armstrong, we talked

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Speaker 2: about his extension six years, one hundred and fifteen million

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Speaker 2: dollars for the Chicago Cubs. How about Frank Thomas Austin

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Speaker 2: suing the Chicago White Sox.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you want to talk about the difference

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Speaker 3: in relationships with legends to their organizations. He's delivering a clock,

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Speaker 3: He's not delivering a clock. He's trying to clean the

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Speaker 3: clock in the Chicago White Sox. He's suing them Nike

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Speaker 3: fanatics for using his name on their City Connect uniforms

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Speaker 3: that were sold, which I have long thought is stupid

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Speaker 3: to sell City Connect jerseys for players who don't wear them.

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Speaker 3: But that's just me. And apparently the NFL or the

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Speaker 3: MLBPA is the one who should be involved in this.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but this is like the third or

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Speaker 3: fourth time Frank Thomas has sued the White Sox. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so it's not a one was about an injury. There

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Speaker 3: was a contract issue. It's not good that relationship. A

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Speaker 3: little more detail on the Nick Lidolo news. Who's opening

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Speaker 3: the season on the injured list. It's the blister and

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Speaker 3: according to Terry Francona, he said, I think there's a

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Speaker 3: little bit of concern right now with the breaking ball

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Speaker 3: that he would go rip one off. Does he mean

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Speaker 3: ripping a blister off? I think that could be used

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Speaker 3: with both. Okay, ripping off a breaking ball, right, ripping off.

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Speaker 2: Because I'm like, if he said one of them, does

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Speaker 2: that mean there's multiple blisters. He also said, if we

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Speaker 2: tried to reach for something that we shouldn't, and he

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Speaker 2: throws it in or two, and then it could turn

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Speaker 2: into a month. We don't want him to miss any time,

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Speaker 2: but if he misses a couple starts, that's a heck

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Speaker 2: of a lot better than a month.

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Speaker 3: So that's what we're gonna do. One of the words

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Speaker 3: that was used, or phrases used to describe Nick Lidolo

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Speaker 3: was naturally moist. His fingers are naturally moist, which I

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Speaker 3: think I would I would describe myself that way. Naturally moist,

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Speaker 3: naturally moist. Okay, So okay, some people just have sweaty paws,

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Speaker 3: palms are sweaty. It happens, it happens. Naturally moist, Okay.

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Speaker 3: I might add that to my Twitter bio. Is there

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Speaker 3: anything he can do about that? I'm gonna be moist tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: I'm struggling to remember where I found that quote. I

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Speaker 3: think it was Charlie naturally moist. I don't want to

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Speaker 3: attribute it to someone who you know, someone else, but

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Speaker 3: I don't. I can't find it at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Nicolodolo, naturally moist, naturally moist.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Now, one day ago, in the words of Derek Johnson, Yes,

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Speaker 2: it was Derek Johnsondolo's fingers are naturally moist. Okay, it's

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Speaker 2: gonna take a break. Wouldn't do something wrong with that? No? No,

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Speaker 2: uh in in uh with In the NFL, they had

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Speaker 2: stuff you can kind of rub on your hands to

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Speaker 2: eliminate some of the moisteness. Yeah, I wonder if that's

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Speaker 2: illegal in Major League.

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Speaker 3: Based issue is the slider. That's the issue. Yeah, breaking

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Speaker 3: one off, all right, But I mean you can't change

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Speaker 3: lodolo slider.

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Speaker 2: Also, would he like get healthy? We'd have to ask.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we'll ask next time. We talked to Bob Manjean Like,

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Speaker 2: usually with blisters, these things callous up pretty heavily. That

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Speaker 2: I think is the issue with the naturally moist because

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Speaker 2: it's a naturally callous they don't callous.

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Speaker 3: All right. That's it for blister talk.

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Speaker 2: When we return a new head coach, the twenty ninth

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Speaker 2: head coach at the University of Cincinnati, Jared Calhoun, his

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Speaker 2: introductory press conference at UC kicks off our number two

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