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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, welcome back. It's already another Monday. Thank you

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Speaker 2: this afternoon. We're here for the next three hours. Phone

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. We of course have your talkbacks to get

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Speaker 2: to in our number two as well. And a lot

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Speaker 2: a lot that not only happened over the weekend nationally,

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Speaker 2: lead with all of that is EO. Hennio Suarez is

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Speaker 2: a Cincinnati Red again. A one year, fifteen million dollar

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Speaker 2: deal that brings Suarez back to the Cincinnati Reds. It

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Speaker 2: fills a massive need for a power bat in this

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Speaker 2: Reds lineup. Suarez last year hit forty nine home runs

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Speaker 2: between Arizona and Seattle. Suarez is back. We will spend

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Speaker 2: a significant amount of time today talking about that move,

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Speaker 2: what it means for this team going forward. Does the

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Speaker 2: move quite frankly? I know Suarez is a fan favored,

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Speaker 2: I know he fills a desperate need of power hitting.

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Speaker 2: How does he fit on this roster? How does he

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Speaker 2: it relates to EO Hennio Suarez being a Cincinnati Red

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Speaker 2: Speaking of the Cincinnati Reds, Noah is going to be

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Speaker 2: performing at Great American Ballpark this year.

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Speaker 3: I'm fired up for that. I'm not kidding. I spent

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Speaker 3: the entire weekend listening to Noah Khan. I will I

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Speaker 3: will go hands up?

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Speaker 2: No idea?

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Speaker 2: Acan was? Are you serious? Swear? Had not really listened

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Speaker 3: Of his music, like until today, until.

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Speaker 2: This weekend, and then I feel like I feel like

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Speaker 2: over the weekend, like forty people that I know tweeted

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Speaker 2: out like the Great Divide. Yeah, so I listened to that.

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Speaker 3: He released a new single, yeah, and called the Great Divide.

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Speaker 2: Literally everyone that I most of the people I follow,

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Speaker 2: like put out on their story and I was like, okay,

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Speaker 3: You had a moment where you're like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: I'm missing something a lot. Okay, all right, Well, welcome

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Speaker 3: to the world of Noah con Thank youl. He's he's

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Speaker 3: a Northeastern fella. He's got this big tour coming to

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Speaker 3: Great American Ballpark. He's playing like the Rose Bowl as

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be really cool. He will also be at

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Speaker 2: Great American Ballpark. Can't wait this year as well. That

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Speaker 2: making some moves, making some waves this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Maybe it was the Noah Kahn concert that you know,

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Speaker 3: Haaneo Suarez. There is a report from John Orrand I

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Speaker 3: for PUCK, I said PUCK, that's p U c K.

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Speaker 3: He says that, according to sources, six of Major League

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Speaker 3: the Brewers, Marlins, Rays, Royals, Cardinals, and Reds. They told

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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball of their plans over the weekend. The

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Speaker 3: So John Orrind of PUCK reporting that the Reds are

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Speaker 2: Very good, So a lot to keep up with it. Again,

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Speaker 2: There are other moves happening across the sports world. How

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Speaker 3: Joey B on his way out to San Francisco, which

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Speaker 2: the Bengals and Browns, No doubt about that. Shadoor, Burrow Flacco,

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Speaker 2: being filled as we speak, the Cardinals have hired Rams

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Speaker 2: After meeting Saturday with Las Vegas and Arizona Seahawks, offensive

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Speaker 2: all of the vacancies are now set. Also, the Niners

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kyle Shanahan and Raheem Morris go way back. We

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Speaker 3: So reading this book The Art of Winning by Bill Belichick,

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Speaker 3: they need to find their replacement first. If you're going

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Speaker 3: And so he gets this recommendation to hire Brian day

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Speaker 2: Isn't that?

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 3: But anyways, the point is that offense is all over

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Speaker 2: Speaking about all over, NFL today announced a return trip

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Speaker 2: to Spain. Oh my gosh, as part of the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six partnership with Madrid. That is now for twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Munich, London and Madrid.

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Speaker 2: Now London has three games, so that will be seven

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Speaker 3: Well, you're forgetting one. There's actually an eight oh that

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Speaker 3: NFL and kicking off Super Bowl Week. There will be

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Speaker 3: a game played with the New Orleans Saints being a

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Speaker 3: part of it in Paris, France.

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Speaker 2: Now the eight International trips.

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Speaker 3: Bengals do play the Saints next year, although Cincinnati is

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Speaker 3: So we apologize to the people of French, the people

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Speaker 2: I hope not. I don't want it to be that way.

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Speaker 3: What was like because I believe I saw a video

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Speaker 2: It was. It was built on like a dirt I think,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they basically use like the stands you see

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Speaker 3: in golf tournaments, yes, uh to build it, which makes sense.

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Speaker 3: It just looked how many people was it supposed to be?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, okay, but there were a lot of

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Speaker 2: and then Gunter retired AJ Styles. He's now retired Goldberg,

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Speaker 2: John Cena and AJ Styles. So did this is a

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Speaker 2: wrecking ball or Ricky Ringside's predictions correct from last week? Gosh, no, no, Ringside.

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Speaker 2: Now he did pick Liv Morgan, she won the women's role. Okay,

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Speaker 2: He said that he did not believe in any chance

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Speaker 2: Aj Styles would be done. He's done. He was wrong.

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Speaker 2: And then to make matters worse, our insider, our self

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Speaker 2: the first that's the first hurdle you gotta jump. If

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Speaker 2: the things that's actually in the event. So I don't

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Speaker 2: what it is, Ouch, but he's gonna have to bring

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Speaker 2: it a little bit better. As the path to WrestleMania

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Speaker 2: now starts, Carlos Alcaraz has completed already the career Grand Slam,

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Speaker 2: We'll also get your thoughts on it here now Number one, five, one, three, seven, four, nine,

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Speaker 2: where the van's caparverings it across the timeline. They gave

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Speaker 2: They drove it right down the floor. They handed the

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Speaker 2: That is how it sounded, Borovechin at the gun. Xavier

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Speaker 3: In the second half.

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Speaker 2: let's do this. Euohanio Suarez news here Austin. The Reds

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Speaker 2: First things first, I love the idea of the one

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Speaker 2: after that. Last year, Suarez hit forty nine home runs

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Speaker 3: almost every day. Part of the reason why he was

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Speaker 3: unavailable is because or why he was available is because

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Speaker 3: he cannot play third base hardly at all anymore. It

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Speaker 3: is he's only played a few winnings of firsts. Site

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Speaker 3: doesn't play first doesn't hardly play first base at all,

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Speaker 3: Like I think there, you just have to be ready

437
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Speaker 3: because there's gonna be a stretch of time this season

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Speaker 3: where he's gonna be two for forty seven, or it's

439
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Speaker 3: gonna feel like that he's gonna go through a stretch

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Speaker 3: of hitting one twenty six and then he's gonna go

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Speaker 3: through a stretch of hitting three fifty seven and have

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Speaker 3: twelve home runs in a fifteen game span. He's that

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Speaker 3: type of player and that I think is important and

444
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Speaker 3: will help this lineup. I think having him in the

445
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Speaker 3: clubhouse will help these young guys. Oh exactly, it's gonna

446
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Speaker 3: all match up. Does he bat in the middle of

447
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Speaker 3: the lineup with all that swing and miss? Does Elie

448
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Speaker 3: de la Cruz maybe move up a slot? How do

449
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Speaker 3: they handle Noel v Marte? Who's going to be that

450
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Speaker 3: second spot in the lineup? Kind of like we've heard

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Speaker 3: Terry francona question at Redsfest. I don't know, but the

452
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Speaker 3: Reds are a better team today than they were the

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Speaker 3: day before, and you would think that this sort of

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Speaker 3: offensive production, even if it's at the baseline level of

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Speaker 3: what we've come to expect from AU Hanio Suarez over

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Speaker 3: the years. Even if that's what you get, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: be a better offensive team and in turn, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: win more games because of that.

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Speaker 2: Go back to some of the statistics from last year.

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Speaker 2: When they just hit a home run, they were fifty

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Speaker 2: eight and thirty six. I mean, just hit a home run.

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Speaker 2: How many times last year did they not score a

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Speaker 2: run or scored one run? Right, I mean they it

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Speaker 2: was unbelievable. On games where they scored four or more runs,

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Speaker 2: they were sixty five and twenty five. That was the threshold. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's going to strike out. And if you put I'm

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Speaker 2: looking right now, if you put Suarez and Elie de

468
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Speaker 2: la Cruz together last year and you bat them three

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Speaker 2: four this year, that's three hundred and seventy seven combined strikeouts.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Suarez was fourth and major League Baseball on strikeouts. Elie

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Speaker 2: de la Cruz was tenth. Now in noting that Otani

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Speaker 2: was ninth, Kyle Raley was eighth, Kyle Schwarber was third

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Speaker 2: on that list. So strikeouts are a part of the game,

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Speaker 2: especially for some of these power hitters. But there's something

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Speaker 2: about this Austin Kyle Schwarber is thirty three years old.

477
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Speaker 2: That offer was five years, one hundred and fifty million.

478
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Speaker 2: Suarez is going to be thirty five and you got

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Speaker 2: him for one year at fifteen million. I know it's

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Speaker 2: not the upside of Kyle Schwarber, but for the start

481
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Speaker 2: of February getting ready to head with pitchers and catchers reporting,

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Speaker 2: to add that type of bat and what I believe

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Speaker 2: that type of value is a pretty good place to

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Speaker 2: start for the Reds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they deserve credit for it. Now. I think

486
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Speaker 3: we would be foolish to think that the excitement around

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Speaker 3: au Hanio Suarez is part of the reason why they

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Speaker 3: signed him. I mean, clearly they care about ticket sales.

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Speaker 3: That's been pretty obvious with the whole kyleege Hober thing.

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Speaker 3: So we'd be foolish not to think that that had

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Speaker 3: something to do with them signing this, signing him and

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Speaker 3: being able to offset the cost of this in a way.

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Speaker 3: What I found most interesting is what was reported by

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Speaker 3: Charlie Goldsmith, which is that the Reds are not going

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Speaker 3: to have to shed payroll to do this. The projections

496
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Speaker 3: were that they had about three million dollars left to

497
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Speaker 3: spend to meet that cap that ceiling that they had

498
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Speaker 3: imposed on themselves from last year. Well, with this they

499
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Speaker 3: obviously go about ten to twelve million dollars beyond that,

500
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Speaker 3: which is obviously a good thing. And so for whatever

501
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Speaker 3: has changed, we talked about how that TV deal maybe

502
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Speaker 3: impacted some things a little bit. Maybe the excitement around

503
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Speaker 3: Suarez in the merch and that's gonna sell tickets, and

504
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 3: maybe there's some offsetting costs that they're hoping for, or

505
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 3: maybe they just came together as an organization after Phil

506
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Speaker 3: Castellini got booed at Xavier and was like, all right,

507
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 3: we need to change something here. Who knows either way,

508
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 3: The Reds did the right thing, which is went and

509
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Speaker 3: got a power bat that we've been asking them to

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Speaker 3: go and get for a long time.

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Speaker 2: Ye people asked, and the Reds listened again. What that

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Speaker 2: looks like going forward? We will discuss more when we

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Speaker 2: come back. Let's look at what a potential lineup could

514
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Speaker 2: look like now with Suarez, I would assume hitting right

515
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Speaker 2: in the middle of that. We'll do some some lineup

516
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Speaker 2: projections and then we'll get to your phone calls today

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Speaker 2: do this here real quick, Austin, because this the Suarez

524
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Speaker 2: news obviously adds a very different layer to the Red's lineup.

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Speaker 2: And again there's an understanding that three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 2: seven combined strikeouts between Ellie and Suarez might be a

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Speaker 2: little worrisome to put those guys back to back in

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Speaker 2: a lineup. But as of right now, Austin, would you

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Speaker 2: have Suarez and Elie hitting three four or I should

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Speaker 2: say l three Suarez.

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Speaker 3: Four if it were up to me, No, but I

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Speaker 3: think that's what Francona will do.

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Speaker 2: Who goes who hits before Elie South.

534
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Speaker 3: Stewart, I think it should be Noelvi Marte. Okay, but

535
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Speaker 3: part of the reason why that spot is up for

536
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Speaker 3: grabs is because of left handed pitching. You know, you

537
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Speaker 3: have freedom leading it off more than likely, and de

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Speaker 3: la Cruz not being a great batter from the right

539
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Speaker 3: side of the box. So because of that, as Francona

540
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Speaker 3: said earlier this winter, is you don't want to give

541
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Speaker 3: a team a free inning with a left handed pitcher

542
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Speaker 3: on the mound against three people who can't hit left

543
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Speaker 3: handed pitching. Noel v Marte in his career has not

544
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Speaker 3: hit very well against left handers. So I wonder if

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Speaker 3: that's a spot for Spencer's theear if that's a spot

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Speaker 3: for a u Haanio Suarez, if you rethink the leadoff

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Speaker 3: position and move someone else to that spot, like maybe

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Speaker 3: Matt McClain, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. Against a right handed pitcher,

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Speaker 2: I would assume South Stewart plays more First, do you

551
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Speaker 2: go defense or offense with Spencer's day playing third? And

552
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Speaker 2: if it is a right hander on the mound, do

553
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Speaker 2: you like the matchup with a Will Benson or someone

554
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Speaker 2: in the outfield or is that Spencer Steer? My main

555
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Speaker 2: question is now aiding Suarez as what I believe is

556
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Speaker 2: going to be the daily DH. What does that do

557
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Speaker 2: for Spencer Steer's outlook.

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Speaker 3: I think it means he's mainly going to play left field.

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Speaker 3: I think he's an option as the backup second baseman.

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Speaker 3: I think he can obviously still play first. I think

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Speaker 3: what we'll see is a lot of offensive centric lineups

562
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Speaker 3: to start games, with defensive replacements and guys moving around.

563
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Speaker 2: Layton games.

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Speaker 3: I think we'll see Dane Myers come in a lot

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Speaker 3: to play defense Laighton games. I think we'll see Key

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Speaker 3: Brian Hayes maybe not start a game, but come in

567
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Speaker 3: in the middle innings to play defense. I think we'll

568
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Speaker 3: see Spencer Steer move from the from the outfield spot

569
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Speaker 3: to first base late in games to preserve the defense,

570
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Speaker 3: because what this move does is it it makes you

571
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Speaker 3: worse defensively. Steer's a goal glove finalist at first but

572
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 3: now there's nowhere for South Stewart to play, and so

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Speaker 3: because of that, you basically are forced to put him

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Speaker 3: at first base or you know, take him out of

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Speaker 3: the lineup pretty much. And I don't think that they

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Speaker 3: really want to do that. I don't know that Stewart's

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Speaker 3: going to play every single day. These are obviously good

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Speaker 3: problems to have, but I am curious to see what

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Speaker 3: Francona will come up with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my immediate thought was, what does that mean on

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Speaker 2: a daily basis for Spencer and subsequently, what could that

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Speaker 2: mean for you know, guys in the outfield, Will Benson,

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Speaker 2: JJ Bledeh, Dane Myers. Not that not that you've got

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Speaker 2: to get them at bats every single day, but as

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Speaker 2: you mentioned, if if this means more left field for

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Speaker 2: Spencer Steer and you're kind of locked in that d

587
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Speaker 2: H every day with Iohniosuarez, and and it's not to

588
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Speaker 2: say that he can't play third on occasion and free

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Speaker 2: it up for a DH, but I think if you're

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Speaker 2: if you're pushing all chips into to what the normal

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Speaker 2: would be, you're gonna see more Key Brian Hayes at third,

592
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Speaker 2: more South Stewart at first, Suarez as a DH, and

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Speaker 2: like you said, more time in left field for Spencer Steer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because if I could make my perfect lineup, or

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Speaker 3: if I when I look at like what I think

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Speaker 3: would be the best lineup for how Terry Francon is

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Speaker 3: gonna do it, it would be Friedol Marte de la Cruz, Suarez, Steer, Stevenson,

598
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Speaker 3: Stuart McClain, Hayes. You've got the balance of offense and defense,

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Speaker 3: but there's two left handed batters in that entire lineup.

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Speaker 3: That is probably not sustainable, So you would have to

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Speaker 3: go on with something like Will Benson or JJ Bledet,

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Speaker 3: somebody in that lineup left handed that's gonna be one

603
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Speaker 3: of the outfield spots, which means maybe it's less Spencer Steer.

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Speaker 3: I don't want that because I think Spencer is a

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Speaker 3: really good hitter. I think he'll turn himself into a

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Speaker 3: good left fielder. But where is the balance on each

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Speaker 3: of the plate.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I mean again, it's it the

609
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Speaker 2: core of this. For me, it's a better problem to

610
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Speaker 2: have today than it was last week. You're you're entering

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Speaker 2: somebody into your lineup that had forty nine home runs

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Speaker 2: last year. That's a good thing. Again, I know already,

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Speaker 2: Austin that, as you mentioned, there's going to be weeks

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Speaker 2: where there is so much frustration because Elli and Swarez

615
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 2: are just gonna swing and miss a ton, and that's

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Speaker 2: going to cause frustration. I get it. But think of

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Speaker 2: the alternative. Think of where this team was last year.

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Speaker 2: Think of again their record just hitting a home run

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Speaker 2: or getting to four runs. Those are the threshold. So

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Speaker 2: we've been asking for it. If they're not going to

621
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Speaker 2: be the team that is going to be more aggressive

622
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Speaker 2: on the base pass and they're not going to be

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Speaker 2: a team that's hitting for the higher average. Go get

624
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Speaker 2: a guy that can hit the ball out of the ballpark,

625
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Speaker 2: and you found a guy that did it forty nine

626
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Speaker 2: times last year. Like one of the most sought after

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Speaker 2: players in free agency was Kyle Schwarber. Schwarber hit fifty

628
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Speaker 2: six bombs last year. That's just seven more than Suarez hit.

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Speaker 2: Otani hit fifty five, Judge hit fifty three. I mean,

630
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Speaker 2: it's it's not crazy to think. Again, do I think

631
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Speaker 2: fifties on the table?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Would I take forty absolutely, but anything in the thirties.

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Speaker 2: This is a huge win and you didn't mortgage a

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Speaker 2: bunch for it. It's a one year deal. I think

636
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 2: it's pretty team friendly. I think the Reds, like you said,

637
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Speaker 2: made themselves better this weekend. How can you overcome high

638
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 2: strikeout totals a good pitching staff. They have that, So again,

639
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 2: situational hitting. Are they going to be the team that

640
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 2: puts together three singles in a row to get a

641
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 2: run in? Probably not many times, but this in the

642
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Speaker 2: middle of the lineup at least gives them the threat,

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Speaker 2: and it gives I always put this in the thought

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Speaker 2: of opposing pitchers. It's a lot more stressful now, Austin,

645
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Speaker 2: if you're an a posing pitcher going against this Red's lineup,

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Speaker 2: because you had forty nine home runs to the middle

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Speaker 2: of the lineup, that's more high stress pitching in situations.

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Speaker 2: So again, good on the Reds. There was a glaring need.

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Speaker 2: It got addressed. I Aniosuarez is a Cincinnati Red. Let's

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Speaker 2: take a break and then we'll take your phone calls

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Speaker 2: on the situation. Five to one, three, seven, four, nine,

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. That happens next on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Tony Pike Sincy three sixty on ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is the Monday edition of Cincy three

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Speaker 2: sixty ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station. We've got full

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Speaker 2: phone lines. Let's take a couple of phone calls for

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Speaker 2: the first time today. Let's start with Scott. What's up, Scott?

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Speaker 2: How you doing good things?

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Speaker 4: I was talking to Audio a little bit. If you

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Speaker 4: take a look at the strikeouts for Kyle Schwarber, they're

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Speaker 4: very similar to now he's he's he's a more productive player,

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Speaker 4: but he struck out. I hate that the game these days,

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Speaker 4: the strikeouts are just okay, They're just a thing and

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Speaker 4: everybody is used to them. I wish as they could

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Speaker 4: work on cutting them down. But when looking at his

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Speaker 4: stats Geno's stats, they're not exactly similar, but the strikeout

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Speaker 4: numbers are certainly the same, and I think with any

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Speaker 4: big swinger they're going to be that.

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Speaker 3: I think if you look up.

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Speaker 4: Aaron Judges strikeouts, I think he had a bunch too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The issue is just the difference in on base percentage,

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Speaker 3: which is like seventy points higher.

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Speaker 2: That's the major differential.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that that is very, very true, and I

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Speaker 4: wish that today's player could work on cutting down the strikeouts,

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Speaker 4: but they just they don't care. They just want to

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Speaker 4: hit it out of the ballpark and swing and misses

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Speaker 4: are acceptable now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah one percent. Scott, thank you for the phone call.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: I in looking last year, the average on base percentage

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Speaker 2: for the Reds was three fifteen. It was not a

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Speaker 2: good hitting team. And as you mentioned, Kyle Schwober was

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Speaker 2: three to sixty five on base percentage last year, Suarez

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Speaker 2: two ninety eight. But in some of the other categories.

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Speaker 2: Austin mentioned the strikeouts, where Kyle Schwarber had more strikeouts

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Speaker 2: than Suarez RBI's Schwarber won thirty two, but Suarez one eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Iwanio Suarez had five more doubles than Kyle Schwarber last year,

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Speaker 2: just eleven less hits. So again, the numbers are comparable.

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Speaker 2: And you think of what Kyle Schwarber got contract wise

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Speaker 2: and what the Reds were able to get Suarez for

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Speaker 2: again lockout looming in twenty twenty seven, I think it's

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Speaker 2: a pretty pretty good land for the Reds in what

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Speaker 2: they were able to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think comparing Kyle Schwarber to a Uhaneo Suarez

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Speaker 3: is kind of a pointless exercise to kind of respond

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Speaker 3: to what Scott said, though, I mean, I will say

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Speaker 3: this about Elie de la Cruz. I think we're maybe

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Speaker 3: assuming that he's just going to strike out a ton,

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Speaker 3: and maybe that's not fair to him, because you know,

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four he struck out two hundred and

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Speaker 3: eighteen times. He led the majors in strikeouts. Last year

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Speaker 3: he cut that down to one eighty one and was

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Speaker 3: much better at work in the count Now he didn't

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Speaker 3: have a significant change in his on base percentage, and

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Speaker 3: obviously the quad injury affected him, and there's been tweaking

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Speaker 3: with that step that he takes, or the side step,

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Speaker 3: or however you want to describe it. So I do

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Speaker 3: you think that there is hope that Ellie de la

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Speaker 3: Cruz can continue to cut down on the strikeouts a

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Speaker 3: little bit and that will help everybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I also think that there's a part of this

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Speaker 2: where it felt for a time that if you were

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Speaker 2: going to get a guy like Suarez or you need

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Speaker 2: to add something, you're gonna have to shed payroll or

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Speaker 2: make a trade. They got Suarez and they didn't touch

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Speaker 2: the pitching staff, a lot of Brady Singer conversation, they

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Speaker 2: didn't have to touch any of that, and that all

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Speaker 2: adds up to a lot of positives for this organization. Mark,

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Speaker 2: what's going on.

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Speaker 3: I'm all in, Okay, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 5: You know, I asked for this for ID and I

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Speaker 5: got what I was looking for.

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Speaker 2: So I'm happy that's it.

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Speaker 5: Well, now everybody can bat in the right place, and

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Speaker 5: I'm not so much worried about the strikeout because I

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Speaker 5: think with him in the middle of that lineup. It's

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Speaker 5: gonna benefit the guy back in front of him, and

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Speaker 5: the guy and behind him, you know, because Ellie gonna

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Speaker 5: see more fastballs, He's gonna see better pitches, so I

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Speaker 5: think his strikeouts will cut down. And then whoever bats

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Speaker 5: behind uh Suarez, you know, whoever bat's fifth, you know,

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Speaker 5: if they if they having a good season, then Sware

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Speaker 5: is gonna see more fastballs. So I think I think

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Speaker 5: the strikeouts from both of them will go down because

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Speaker 5: they're gonna have better hitters batting in front of them

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Speaker 5: and behind them protecting them. So we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 5: I'm hoping that Matt McClain can bounce back and have

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Speaker 5: a better season because if you can bat him second,

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Speaker 5: I think he's better suited for that that number two spot,

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Speaker 5: if if he can hit for some average and hit

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Speaker 5: for a little bit of power like he did when

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Speaker 5: he first came up.

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Speaker 2: So if they can get if they can get on

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Speaker 2: base production from number one and two in the lineup,

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Speaker 2: they are they are going to put themselves in a

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Speaker 2: great spot.

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Speaker 3: I think in an ideal world, I would almost have

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Speaker 3: McClain as the lead off hitter with Ellie right behind him,

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Speaker 3: and then figure out the rest. But if they're gonna

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Speaker 3: stick with Ellie being at the three and Freed'll be

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Speaker 3: in the lead off, and I'm fine with that. I

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Speaker 3: think McClain is the ideal person took to put in

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Speaker 3: that number two spot. He just has to earn it

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Speaker 3: at this point.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, if he can bounce back and be what

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Speaker 5: he was when he when he first came up. So

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Speaker 5: I'll get off and listen to the rest of the show.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you, Mark, thanks for calling in a couple

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Speaker 2: more here. We'll get to the top of the hour.

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Speaker 4: What's up, Mike, Hey, thanks Thollis. Yeah, it's a nice

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Speaker 4: acquisition the Reds guy. You know, I just I hate

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Speaker 4: to proop on a little bit, but I was really

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Speaker 4: hoping they could get a left handed power hitter. That's

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Speaker 4: what they really need, because they still got Ellie as

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Speaker 4: a left handed power hitter. That's all they got. So

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Speaker 4: hopefully that doesn't come back to UH too often. But

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Speaker 4: at least they did something, so we'll see. I hope

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Speaker 4: it works out for the best. I don't know about Hayes,

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Speaker 4: what they're going to do with him, but Boston maybe

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Speaker 4: right on that is just the defensive replacement. Francona might

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Speaker 4: give him a chance at the beginning of the year.

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Speaker 4: See if he can finally start hitting the ball. You

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Speaker 4: know who knows what he'll he'll do because that guy

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Speaker 4: can sholl pick it a third man. Here Trump mounts

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Speaker 4: at third base. Xavier, Well, I'll tell you I Patino

782
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Speaker 4: is going to turn that team into he is.

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Speaker 2: They're so good on the offensive side.

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Speaker 4: That's the kid he brought from from New Mexico. Nailed

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Speaker 4: the winner and that kid can play, man, he can play.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited about him, aren't you.

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Speaker 2: They continue to get better and uh man, their offense

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Speaker 2: is just so fun to watch.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was wondering if you saw, though, that Pierson

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Speaker 4: from Kansas is by far the best player in the

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Speaker 4: country at.

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Speaker 2: Tony after this weekend. I mean, he was, he was elite.

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Speaker 4: He was And if you don't mind, I'd like to

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Speaker 4: do a little bit of Super Bowl talk to for

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Speaker 4: a second. I think Marcus Jones maybe the difference in

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Speaker 4: that Super Bowl for New England. I don't think they're

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Speaker 4: gonna win, but that guy is probably the most valuable player.

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Speaker 4: He's tremendous on special teams and he's a damn good

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Speaker 4: secondary dB though, I think Marcus Jones could be the

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Speaker 4: wild card in that game if New England wants to

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Speaker 4: stay close. What do you think about Marcus Jones?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, they're going to have to get

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Speaker 2: the production at all levels. That's how New England has built.

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Speaker 2: Both of these teams are built in a similar sense.

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Speaker 2: And coaching is so important. The toughness in the trenches

806
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Speaker 2: is so important. But you get into a game like this,

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Speaker 2: whichever team can generate more momentum changing plays, more big plays,

808
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Speaker 2: whether that's offensively or defensively. I know it's cliche, but

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Speaker 2: it really feels that's what this Super Bowl comes down to.

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Speaker 2: It's not the traditional star power on both sides of

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Speaker 2: the ball, it's the true team atmosphere, and in something

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Speaker 2: like that, whoever makes less of those mistake plays is

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Speaker 2: likely going to come out on top.

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Speaker 4: I heard him talking about this kid from Division three

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Speaker 4: named Montgomery out of John Carroll University that didn't even

816
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Speaker 4: start playing football till he was a junior in high school.

817
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Speaker 4: They said he really stood out big time at the

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Speaker 4: Senior Bowl as a wide receiver, and I never think

819
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 4: had never heard of the guy. Have you ever heard

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Speaker 4: of it?

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Speaker 2: No, I hadn't.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know where John Carroll University is. I

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Speaker 4: can't tell you in a million years. Right, they were

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Speaker 4: really bullish on him. And one more quick thing. This

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Speaker 4: is the sixty eighth Super Bowl and only the fifth

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Speaker 4: time ever that the two participants that are in there

827
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Speaker 4: didn't make the playoffs. Last year. Yeah, and Brady after

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Speaker 4: he won his first one, they new England didn't make

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl didn't make the playoffs the next year.

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Speaker 4: So when you guys talk about how difficult it is

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Speaker 4: to get to the Super Bowl, boy, you are dead

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Speaker 4: on it. Yeah, it is hard, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and year in and year out, the teams that

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Speaker 2: you don't expect that that ended up making it. Mike,

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Speaker 2: thank you for the call, man, Have a great Monday.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: John Carroll by the way, a part of the Ohio

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Speaker 3: Athletic Conference. Oh they're up there by Cleveland. How they're

840
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 3: in the conference with like Ohio Northern and Otterbine and

841
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 3: all those types of school.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll find a way this week to tie

843
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 2: that into the Bengals. But again, the fifth time in

844
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 2: Super Bowl history where the two teams playing did not

845
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 2: make up the playoff field the year before. So again,

846
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 2: I know we talked about this a lot Austen of

847
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 2: all the work that needs to be done, but it

848
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 2: is truer now than ever that you can get these

849
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: things turned around quickly if you build it the right way.

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Speaker 2: New England Seattle non existent in last year's playoffs, both

851
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: the last two teams standing this year. I think it

852
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 2: speaks to the diversity now in the NFL. I think

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00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 2: it speaks to the balance of power now in the NFL,

854
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 2: and if you get all things clicking and make the

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00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 2: right decisions in the offseason, you can turn it around extremely,

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Speaker 2: extremely quickly. We'll take our top of the hour break.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll dive into a little mock

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Speaker 2: draft Monday, along with more of your phone calls. Five one, three, seven,

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Speaker 2: four nine, fifteen thirty. It happens next on the Home

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Speaker 2: of the Bengals ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: Make us the number one preset on your car radio

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