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

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Speaker 1: from Cincinnati. This is ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports station.

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Speaker 2: Our number two. Let's talk some NCAA basketball here. We've

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Speaker 2: talked West Miller, We've talked to University of Cincinnati. We

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Speaker 2: have a lot to get to in the National Football League,

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Speaker 2: especially with the Cincinnati Bengals, and ten days away from

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Speaker 2: opening day here in the great city of Cincinnati, so

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Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get to with the Reds.

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Speaker 2: Your talkbacks come up in just a few moments. Let's

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Speaker 2: grab one more phone call and then we'll get into

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Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 3: Mike, what's going on, Hey, guys, thanks for taking the call. Yes,

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Speaker 3: a pleasant weekend. It was weird last week, but you

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Speaker 3: guys being oh, I was like a little kid lost

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Speaker 3: out in the woods.

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Speaker 2: It was a terrible time to not be working with

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Speaker 2: everything going on.

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Speaker 3: For sure, well it was for us fans of the show,

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Speaker 3: because you know, we just get a bit. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: you guys enjoyed your time off and you deserve it,

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Speaker 3: but for me, it was like, damn, something's missing in

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Speaker 3: my life here. But that's a compliment to you guys.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I think, uh, Wes, I wish you well.

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Speaker 3: I think the job might have been a little big

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Speaker 3: for you. I think they've rolled the dice, just like

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Speaker 3: with Brannon, and quite frankly, you see, has not been

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Speaker 3: a big NCAA powerhouse for yeah, quite a long time.

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Speaker 3: Even when Nick was here, we didn't make any deep runs.

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Speaker 2: Now, their last run was a was a loss as

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Speaker 2: a seven seed to ten seeded Iowa. That was their

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Speaker 2: last NCAA tournament experience and trip. So I agree with that,

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Speaker 2: and I think to go back to the last caller

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Speaker 2: as well. I think that's why if you're John Cunningham,

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Speaker 2: you have to swing for the fences here. You missed

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Speaker 2: with Brandon, you missed with Wes Miller. Your job is

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Speaker 2: likely on the line and likely tied to the next

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Speaker 2: coach you bring in, So you better exhaust every avenue

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Speaker 2: possible to make this next guy the guy.

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Speaker 3: You got to try to get a big name coach

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Speaker 3: as much as you can. Calipari, come in here, get real,

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Speaker 3: that is happening. The guy just got to Arkansas. He's

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Speaker 3: happy as a pig, and you know what, And to

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Speaker 3: encapsulate what their mask got is and and he ain't

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Speaker 3: going nowhere, and some of these other guys you talked about.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the fact that we got Patino Junior into

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Speaker 3: town was probably as big as it's going to get.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know, maybe not maybe, maybe, I don't know,

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Speaker 3: but I know we're all tired of you see, being

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Speaker 3: let's pedestrian. Let's put it like that, pedestrians regarding the tournament. Now,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to talk football, but I'm consumed in this now,

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Speaker 3: So football take a back seat for a minute. Thank

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Speaker 3: John's got to screw mercilessly.

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Speaker 2: I agree, I agree.

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Speaker 3: Why I don't know. They got to play two games

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Speaker 3: are one game on the East Coast, then go to California,

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Speaker 3: then come back to the East Coast if they're still alive.

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Speaker 3: So they screwed him on a travel deal. But one

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Speaker 3: thing about it is is Rick Patino will never use

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Speaker 3: any of that crap for a crutch. Never. That's why

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Speaker 3: he's the ultimate coach. And that's why they came back

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Speaker 3: from a forty point drubbing of Yukon. Yeah, a month later,

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Speaker 3: the mount them down like a drum too. And what

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Speaker 3: is that? That's character, that's great coaching. And and I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't want to catch a coach against Rick Patino in

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Speaker 3: this tournament. I really wouldn't. I don't care who you are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the the the East itself with Duke Brutal, Saint John's, Kansas, Louisville,

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Speaker 2: Michigan State, UCLA, and then you throw Yukon in there.

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Speaker 2: I mean not from not only a team standpoint, but

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Speaker 3: I you know what, I'll tell you what. Now, Micks

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Speaker 3: got this team playing where he wanted them all here. Now,

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Speaker 3: so watch out for Nick. You might see his little

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Speaker 3: HEII in the twink. That's very possible. He might want

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Speaker 3: just so excited about this whole thing. Santa Clara is

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Speaker 4: Is that?

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Speaker 3: Is that who Miami's playing, Santa Clara?

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Speaker 2: No, Miami's got smu. Santa Clara is only a three

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Speaker 2: and a half point dog to Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: That's right, Santa Clara will beat Kentucky in opinion.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people, Yeah, that's a that's a good

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Speaker 3: The problem for SMU is their best players. So Miami's

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Speaker 3: had a good chuck there. So that's all I got.

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Speaker 3: I know you guys are busy. Thank you for taking

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Speaker 3: my call.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, appreciate it. Thank you. Let's do that. Let's

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Speaker 2: spend a few minutes here on the bracket itself. Austin,

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Speaker 2: I mentioned the East Duke being the number one seed

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Speaker 2: in their eight nine game, Austin, you give credit to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't know that. A lot of

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Speaker 2: It's a hard draw.

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Speaker 5: TCU is just a physical team.

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Speaker 5: TCU is no slouch by any stretch the imagination, and

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Speaker 5: if you are lucky enough to win that, you'll likely

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Speaker 5: play the number one overall Syeah. So probably don't feel

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Speaker 5: But the fact that they've played as good as they

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Speaker 2: Saint John's, as we mentioned, is the five seed. I

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Speaker 2: think that is egregious on many different accounts. I mean

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Speaker 2: it was that beating at Yukon. They've won every other game.

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Speaker 2: They won the regular season in the Big East, they

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Speaker 2: five seed in the same as you mentioned, the same

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Speaker 2: Bill South and the Kansas Jayhawks the bottom of the bracket,

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Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey's Louisville Cardinals. That's a trendy early on, Austin.

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Speaker 2: There's always these trendy upset picks that people give a

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Speaker 2: I think there was a good possibility if uc beats UCF.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen in the East, the East is absolutely loaded. Is

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Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. They're not protecting Florida much in that.

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Speaker 2: Nebraska is the four seed. Some other notable games, Houston

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Speaker 2: Utah State team. If you're looking at possibilities for UC

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Speaker 2: basketball Utah status coach by Jared Calhoun, they are a

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Speaker 2: slight favorite over Villanova. Winner of that would get Arizona.

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Speaker 2: Wisconsin is the five. Arkansas takes on Hawaii coach cal

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Speaker 2: Michigan is the one seed. Texas Tech Akron is the

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Speaker 2: five to twelve. Alabama you mentioned earlier Austin that player

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Speaker 2: of that with Alabama as a four seed. Tennessee is

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Speaker 2: the sixth. If Tennessee were to win Austin, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: If Miami wins their playing game, that's who they would

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Speaker 2: play in the next round is Tennessee. So we'll get

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Speaker 2: to Miami in just a second. And then a very

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Speaker 2: trendy upset right now, the Kentucky Wildcats just a three

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Speaker 2: and a half point favorite over Santa Clara. Action gets

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Speaker 2: underway Wednesday night in Dayton. It's NC State in Texas

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Speaker 2: of Ohio. That is your first four in Dayton. I

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Speaker 2: thought it would have been extremely funny if they would

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Speaker 2: get that Travis Steele and Sean Miller game. But nonetheless,

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Speaker 2: any big takeaways Austin that you have and looking initially

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Speaker 2: at the bracket as you saw it last night, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: The only thing that I really thought much about was

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Speaker 5: that is a who's who of coaches and teams and

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Speaker 5: relatively easy run for Michigan. I think to the final four.

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Speaker 5: I'm not overly impressed with Iowa State. I've not been

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Speaker 2: I saw. I think it's the first time ever every

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Speaker 2: one through four seed is at least a double digit favorite.

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Speaker 2: In Round one. Every seed one, two, three, or four

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Speaker 2: it kind of feels outside of the East, where I

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Speaker 2: legitimately think anything can happen. I think Florida and Houston

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Speaker 2: you know Purdue has always hit or miss, but I

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Speaker 2: think Arizona Perdue is probably a good bet. Maybe Gonzaga

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Speaker 2: still think Iowa State will get to play Michigan, but

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Speaker 2: I see a lot of chalk and maybe some good

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Speaker 2: first round matchups. But I think there's a distinction this

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Speaker 2: I think nil and the transfer portal does play a

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Speaker 2: major role in all of that. Along with the firing

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Speaker 2: right now. So season's completely done for the Bear Captain Musketeers.

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Speaker 5: This isn't happening, right is a CBI canceled. CBI for

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Speaker 5: what they said were reasons beyond their control, aren't doing

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Speaker 5: a tournament. I know Dayton is playing in the n it.

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Speaker 5: By the way, how about Dayton almost stealing a bid.

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Speaker 2: Which could have taken away Miami.

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Speaker 5: Which could have taken away Miami. I mean, gosh, that

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Speaker 2: I have a bone to pick with you.

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Speaker 11: Boy, Hey guys, Jeff and you Richmond. I'm hoping I

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Speaker 2: Me, Tony from Love One.

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Speaker 13: If so, man, that's a.

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Speaker 2: Long time, been a long time.

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Speaker 12: He needed to bring back the attitude of intimidate, dominate,

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Speaker 2: Now your goal should be to win national championships four appearances?

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Speaker 5: That might be my new Twitter bio. Ye didn't get

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Speaker 13: See ye Red Roses too. Wes Miller is gone. Greece

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Speaker 14: I like who the Bengals signed, but I can't believe

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Speaker 15: I got a name for you, Dustin Kerns Appalachian State.

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Speaker 2: What's he up to? You think him and Scott her buddies?

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Speaker 16: First off, Super sad about Wes. I wish he could

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Speaker 4: Bring him on, go Muskies.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 5: What's Wes Miller's record against?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Jared Cohan? I don't know. I'm let's say I've

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Speaker 2: ever matched up?

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Speaker 17: Uh? Yeah.

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Speaker 18: What's worse than catching help from my friends because my

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Speaker 18: team has knocked since you three sixty off the air

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Speaker 18: for three days, it's watching coach cal take his razorbacks

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Speaker 18: to the SEC typically one of the.

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Speaker 2: Best players in the country.

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Speaker 18: Now, if he goes and wins the whole thing, I'm

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Speaker 18: going to be ticked. So we'll see go big Blue

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Speaker 18: hooday and go rid.

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Speaker 2: It's gotta be tough man for UK fan seeing that.

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Speaker 11: Hey, it's Jeff back with the double dip. Listen about

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Speaker 11: Nick Cronin. There's no way we want him back here.

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Speaker 19: If you look at his numbers according to their rankings,

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Speaker 19: if where they've been seeded and where they've gone in

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Speaker 19: the tournaments. Really he's been a failure.

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Speaker 7: You know, one.

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Speaker 11: Sweet sixteen and twelve years this.

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Speaker 19: Fan base and his sarcasm would not be a good

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Speaker 19: mix at this point.

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Speaker 2: Okay, maybe rub some people the wrong way.

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Speaker 19: They say, just heard you guys say something about that

462
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Speaker 19: guy getting buffed with a pound of weed.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of weed to me. Geez, it's gonna

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Speaker 2: be interesting. Like I said, it's not just a role player.

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Speaker 2: He's our second leading scorer on the team.

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Speaker 5: Didn't they have a dude that gave a weapon to

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Speaker 5: a murderer last week?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What was it? Aiden Holloway is the guy that

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Speaker 2: was arrested on a felony drug charge just four days

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Speaker 2: before the tournament. He is their second leading scorer and

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Speaker 2: had eighteen in their last game.

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Speaker 13: My final two minutes on Wednesday was the most incompetent

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Speaker 13: I've ever seen a basketball team.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 13: It was embarrassing, pathetic. I was freaking pissed, ruined my evenings.

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Speaker 13: But now I guess it's relief.

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Speaker 2: Tony. Did you happen to call.

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Speaker 13: West and see how he was doing after he got fired.

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Speaker 2: Like he did for you? Well, I sent a text.

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Speaker 2: I sent a text. What's the face of a coward?

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Speaker 10: I don't know?

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Speaker 2: I Dominican, Boby.

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Speaker 18: We knew you were a Dominican because you hit a

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Speaker 18: solo and then you threw.

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Speaker 13: Your bat into the third.

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Speaker 8: Row and that was the only run you guys scored,

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Speaker 8: and then you lost a bunch of losers.

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Speaker 5: Dude, did you see the end of the Tennessee Georgia

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Speaker 5: college baseball game? So it's uh, top of the ninth.

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Speaker 5: Georgia is the home team. Georgia is leading by one run.

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Speaker 5: There is a runner on and Tennessee is up to bat,

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Speaker 5: and there are two outs in the game. They are

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Speaker 5: one out away from knocking off their arch rival Tennessee,

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Speaker 5: and the batter smokes the ball to deep left field,

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Speaker 5: looks like a no doubt. Homer turns to his dugout,

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Speaker 5: slams his bat down bat flip style, starts getting pumped up.

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Speaker 5: Ball is caught up against the wall on the warning track. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and Georgia goes absolutely nuts. And the guy who hit

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Speaker 5: the ball is in stunned disbelief. What he thought was

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Speaker 5: an absolute tank job to take the lead was instead

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Speaker 5: the final out of the game.

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Speaker 2: And it was such a I mean an aggressive bad

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Speaker 2: spike like you would have thought it was like a

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Speaker 2: no doubter. It was so awesome. Yep to see that. Yep.

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Speaker 16: ESPN fifteen thirties working on Alexa again.

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Speaker 5: Okay, turn it did he say it is?

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Speaker 2: It's uh?

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Speaker 16: Might have I thought he said, is not ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 16: thirties working on alex again?

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Speaker 2: He said it is? Right, sounded like it is. Okay, good,

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Speaker 2: that's a good thing. Yeah, maybe they got that taken

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Speaker 2: care of in the three off days they had.

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Speaker 5: All Right, we're done, Josh, unbelievable. I can I can

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Speaker 5: go back and see if there was any that we missed.

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Speaker 5: There was a lot perhaps during that that phase. Let

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Speaker 5: me see if go back and check it out. In

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Speaker 5: the meantime, I'm a little disappointed that you didn't call

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Speaker 5: Wes though. Yeah, just to go about the whole thing,

519
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Speaker 5: like just a busy day. You always talk about it's

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Speaker 5: a busy day. So I just sent him a text. Okay,

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Speaker 5: there are a couple here from let's see this Here,

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Speaker 5: these are people didn't know we didn't have a show,

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Speaker 5: Jeff and New Richmond. Oh, Jeff, let's see. This is

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Speaker 5: how we can tell who actually listens.

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Speaker 19: Hey, guys, Jeff and New Richmond, welcome back. So I

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Speaker 19: think Miami's lost yesterday probably drops them to a ten seed.

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Speaker 11: So could be a blessing.

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Speaker 19: In disguise as far as the Bearcats go, and Wes,

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Speaker 19: I think we move on from him. I don't know,

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Speaker 19: you know, I like Wes, but I like winning and

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Speaker 19: going to tournaments more day.

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Speaker 2: So he nailed it. He called his shot. I just

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Speaker 2: missed the seating from Miami. One seed off for my

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Speaker 2: I am Ben did say welcome back.

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Speaker 15: Krug here crash out incoming. You know, the same kind

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Speaker 15: of patterns. They think it's malpracticed the way a lot

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Speaker 15: of other teams operate, and they get left in the

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Speaker 15: dust because of that. And here we are left with

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Speaker 15: thirty eight year olds. You want to sign a one

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Speaker 15: year deal. Hope and pray. Everybody just be prepared because

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Speaker 15: this is who they are.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, well, let me run through these three

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Speaker 5: real quick.

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Speaker 2: That'll end U right here.

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Speaker 5: These these I think are timeless.

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Speaker 17: Austin L.

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Speaker 18: Tiger and Sam.

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Speaker 17: Snee Oh, must call my doctor. It burns when I

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Speaker 17: mean Aaron Rogers, I like Nicol Back, I like Pat Berry.

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Speaker 2: And Jerry's Bringer.

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Speaker 17: Oh yeah, ken Brew, Norma Rushie, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well done.

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Speaker 5: That guy is well done. He is something else, man, Yep, phenomenal.

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Speaker 5: I'm just consistently consistently impressed.

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Speaker 2: With his ability to pull that winner of the day

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Speaker 2: is probably the West Miller Jared Calhoun jingle, Oh, without

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Speaker 2: a doubt. You enjoyed that. Louis Armstrong enjoyed that immensely.

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Speaker 2: We've got two segments coming back. We'll start with a

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Speaker 2: little Reds Baseball and what's happened since the last time

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Speaker 2: we spoke, and maybe a couple questions we still have

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Speaker 2: about this team between now. In ten days from now,

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Speaker 2: when opening day happens at Great American Ballpark, Austin, myself

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Speaker 2: and Mo will be just a block and a bridge

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Speaker 2: away from the ballpark at Smoke Justice for our pregame

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Speaker 2: show and then make the walk. So join us at

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Speaker 2: Smoke Justice on an opening day and then make your

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Speaker 2: way over to the ballpark as well. We'll be right

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Speaker 2: back to talk a little Reds on ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Sports Station. You'll usual welcome back since he three

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Speaker 2: to sixty. ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Ten days

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Speaker 2: away from opening day for the Cincinnati Reds, any number

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Speaker 2: tens jump out to you, Cincinnati Reds. Sparky Anderson, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: old spark Sparky Anderson, not just Sparky Anderson. Sparky Adams.

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Speaker 2: What did you call me? Sparky Adams? Wow? Way back when?

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Speaker 2: Really no other names that jump out on this list.

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Speaker 5: Well, ten's been retired for a long time, hasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Eddie Taubinsy remember Eddie? Of course? Who could forget Bip

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Speaker 2: Roberts Bip now nineteen eighty seven, Austin Tito, the Magnificent

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Speaker 2: Dawn number ten?

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Speaker 5: That is true is one season with the Reds. Didn't

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Speaker 5: he hit like a home run on opening day or something?

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Speaker 5: What's the story on there? But he coached Ken Griffey

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Speaker 5: juniors or Michael Jordan as well?

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Speaker 2: Is that right? Yep?

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Speaker 5: That and aj Green can juggle?

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Speaker 2: Yep?

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Speaker 5: Who is it to Stafford and Kershaw played baseball each other?

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Speaker 2: Good friends?

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Speaker 5: What about Virgil stall Cup? Oh, Verge stall Cup. That's

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Speaker 5: what those guys back in the steroid era used to do.

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Speaker 5: If you know what I mean? I don't know what

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Speaker 5: you mean. Okay, Anyways, Virgil stall Cup. There is a

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Speaker 5: little bit of Red's news to talk about. Well, we

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Speaker 5: have a couple of minutes here, So Terry Francona announced

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Speaker 5: today that the number two slot in the lineup has

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Speaker 5: been decided. It's going to Matt McClain, why not Matt

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Speaker 5: McClain is going to hit second in the Reds lineup.

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Speaker 5: In twenty twenty six, Charlie Goldsmith wrote about this. The

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Speaker 5: quote from McClain says, I know what I need to do.

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Speaker 5: He has a plan in place for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: According to Charlie, also, the Reds have made a couple

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Speaker 5: of other decisions to move some guys around, and if

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Speaker 5: I can ever find what those transactions were, right here

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Speaker 5: minor league camp now is going to get left hander

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Speaker 5: Anthony I don't know how to say his name, Miss Senowich,

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Speaker 5: sure he's been reassigned to minor league camp. They've also

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Speaker 5: optioned to Triple A Louis and assigned a minor league

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Speaker 5: camp outfielder Blake Dunn. The Reds also have informed Garrett

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Speaker 5: Hampson and a couple of other guys that they are

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Speaker 5: not going to make the big league club, but did

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Speaker 5: invite them to stay in big league spring training camp

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Speaker 5: and they all agreed to do that. Garrett Hampson was

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Speaker 5: one for twenty two in spring training this year, so

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Speaker 5: I don't know that he's gonna maybe latch on anywhere, but.

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Speaker 2: We got some other Reds news as well. They're twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six Hall of Fame Induction celebration weekend is gonna

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Speaker 2: happen on April twenty fourth, twenty fifth, and twenty sixth.

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Speaker 2: That's of course. Brandon Phillips, Aaron Harang, Reggie Sanders, and

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Speaker 2: Lou Penela all to be honored over the weekend, of course,

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Speaker 2: so it should be an awesome Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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Speaker 2: It's to honor some greats.

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Speaker 5: Garrett Hampson, Will Banfield, PJ Higgins have all been weekend.

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Speaker 5: They will not make the team. They are all non

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Speaker 5: roster guys. Friend Kona told them they could remain in

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Speaker 5: the big league camp if they wanted. An all three agreed.

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Speaker 5: That's according to Mark Sheldon. Also earlier today, C Trent

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Speaker 5: Rosecrans gave his Reds roster projection okay and left out

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Speaker 5: Chase Burns huh saying that Chase Burns would not make

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Speaker 5: the team in his projection based off of the Reds

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Speaker 5: being overly precautionary with his shoulder. So Burns was supposed

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Speaker 5: to start and go an extended amount of time Friday,

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Speaker 5: he didn't. He threw just twenty four pitches and the

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Speaker 5: Reds pulled him. Here's what C. Trent Rosecrans wrote. Burns

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Speaker 5: threw just twenty four pitches in his start Friday. The

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Speaker 5: Reds didn't like how Burns's arm was moving and were

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Speaker 5: addressing it right off the bat. If Burns isn't built

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Speaker 5: up to where other starters are, it may be best

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Speaker 5: to err on the side of caution with what could

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Speaker 5: be a generational arm. Burns figures to be a big

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Speaker 5: part of the Reds pitching staff this season, so slow

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Speaker 5: playing burns contribution makes all the sense in the world,

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Speaker 5: especially with how Williamson has comported himself this spring training. That,

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Speaker 5: of course, Brandon Williamson in c trench projection, he has

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Speaker 5: the starting rotation being Abbott, Lodolo, Singer, Louder and Williamson.

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Speaker 5: Now on the contrary to that, earlier today Charlie Goldsmith

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Speaker 5: was reporting on Chase Burns said, Chase Burns through a

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Speaker 5: bullpen yesterday that went very well. They are very pleased

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Speaker 5: with how he looks right now. This is according to

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Speaker 5: a conversation that Terry Francona had with the media earlier

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Speaker 5: this morning. So I think there's a little bit of

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Speaker 5: confusion about this and this might be a good question

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Speaker 5: for Charlie on Friday, but it sounds like the Reds

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Speaker 5: and listening to Tommy and Cowboy over the weekend too

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Speaker 5: kind of made it sound like the Reds are trying

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Speaker 5: to help him establish a routine that Chase Burns can

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Speaker 5: consistently get through as a starting pitcher. Okay, and that

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Speaker 5: probably means the way he warms up, the way he

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Speaker 5: goes throughout the week, the way that he can execute

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Speaker 5: and consistently keep his arm in the right angles. Maybe

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Speaker 5: is that's something I would like some clarity on that.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure that'll be something to talk to Charlie about.

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Speaker 5: Maybe on Thursday, we'll see if we can talk to Charlie.

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Speaker 2: And it was interesting as well because the twenty four

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Speaker 2: pitches on Friday the previous out and he threw like

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Speaker 2: what sixty eight sixty eight pitches, So a significant step back,

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Speaker 2: but obviously something to watch out for as we are

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Speaker 2: closer and closer to opening day. Also something as of note.

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Speaker 2: I saw this a couple of days ago, and I

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Speaker 2: don't have the updated numbers in front of me, but

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Speaker 2: the Reds tweeted out a couple of days ago. Austin

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Speaker 2: Matt McClain in spring training. And I know we overhype

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00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 2: spring training a lot, but home runs, RBIs, hits runs average,

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Speaker 2: slugging and ops. Matt McClain was leading all of spring

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Speaker 2: training in baseball in those categories. Yeah, and I mean

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Speaker 2: just hit another one yesterday.

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Speaker 5: I believe as of today that's all still correct. He's

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Speaker 5: tied for the league lead now in homers with Shay

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Speaker 5: Langeliers from the Athletics, but they both have six. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: but as you mentioned, hits, ops, slugging, on base precision average,

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Speaker 5: Matt McClain leads everybody.

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Speaker 2: This is where it gets hard to because we're we

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Speaker 2: talk about this constantly. Have don't overreact to spring training,

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Speaker 2: but you have to have some type of reaction to

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Speaker 2: what Matt McLain is doing, especially coming off in abysmal

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Speaker 2: season last year. Yeah. Absolutely, and to show enough that

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Speaker 2: he's going to be the number two.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the fact that that decision has been made, and

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Speaker 5: I know we're only ten days away from opening day,

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Speaker 5: so eventually it was going to have to be made.

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Speaker 5: But listening as well to what Jeff Brantley was saying

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Speaker 5: over the weekend, you know he said that the first

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Speaker 5: ten or twelve days of spring training. He doesn't put

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Speaker 5: anything into those results because the pitchers are usually well

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Speaker 5: behind and they're working on stuff, and he doesn't put

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Speaker 5: a lot of stock on to that. But from that

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Speaker 5: point forward he starts to pay attention because you're you're

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Speaker 5: facing guys that are more than likely going to be

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Speaker 5: on the big league team, and they've got their repertoire

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Speaker 5: down and they've got their arm angles some of that stuff,

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Speaker 5: and clearly Matt McClain has done a great job facing

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Speaker 5: those types of pitchers to this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to know the impact that Chase Burns

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Speaker 2: can have on this team. JEFFPASSINDESPN dot Com went through

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Speaker 2: each major League baseball team and kind of gave a

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Speaker 2: surprise a fantasy tidbit and what the season hinges on.

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Speaker 2: So for the Reds, a fantasy tidbit is South Stewart.

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't surprise Passing if the Reds not only made

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Speaker 2: the playoffs but won a playoff series. And then he

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Speaker 2: says the season hinges on Chase Burns said, it's quite

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Speaker 2: a thing to say a playoffs team season comes down

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Speaker 2: to a rookie. But that's how much difference Chase Burns

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Speaker 2: can be. He demonstrated it in twenty twenty four over

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Speaker 2: forty three and a third innings for the Reds third

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Speaker 2: highest rate from a strikeout standpoint fourteen hitters per nine

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Speaker 2: innings by pitching, plus a metric that measures the quality

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Speaker 2: of a pitcher's stuff in location. Only thirteen pitchers were

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Speaker 2: better last year. So as brutal as it is for

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Speaker 2: the Reds to lose Hunter Green until July, Burns is

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Speaker 2: a worthy replacement. So I think, Austin, when you think

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Speaker 2: of what C. Trent said and then what Charlie said.

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Speaker 2: Obviously this is magnified because Hunter Green is not with

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Speaker 2: his team until July. And it's one thing to talk

723
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Speaker 2: about limiting Chase Burns if a healthy Hunter Green is there.

724
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Speaker 2: If you're without Hunter Green and something more to come up,

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Speaker 2: and then you're without Chase Burns, now you're uphill without

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Speaker 2: a paddle. Yep, you're right, No, So it gets much

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Speaker 2: more difficult. So I agree a lot hinges on Chase Burns.

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Speaker 2: So be a little bit cautious, nip it into butt

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Speaker 2: early and make sure Chase Burns is ready to go.

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Speaker 2: But ten days away from the Reds being ready to go,

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Speaker 2: on Opening Day.

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Speaker 5: Roman Anthony, Oh what he do is going to be said?

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Speaker 5: Another nuke playing uh for the World Baseball Classic team,

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Speaker 5: the USA team in the World Baseball Classic Final. Another

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Speaker 5: big homer last night for the United States. The Reds

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Speaker 5: will have to face him on opening Day and uh,

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Speaker 5: you know, good thing, good time to throw a couple

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Speaker 5: of lefties. If it's gonna be Abbott and Lodolo to

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Speaker 5: start the season, obviously, I think it's gonna be Crochet

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Speaker 5: and uh Suarez to start the season for Boston as well. Yeah,

741
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Speaker 5: but do you want to overreact? I'm excited like that.

742
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Speaker 5: That is actually such a fun series to start the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like there's some goods there. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean people in Boston are comparing Roman Anthony to

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Speaker 5: Ted Williams, which is ridiculous, but they're doing it.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to uh, do you want to overreact

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Speaker 2: to Suarez hitting just one sixty seven in the World

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Speaker 2: Baseball Classic. No good.

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Speaker 5: I've I kind of I don't know if you remember

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Speaker 5: this or not, but I did kind of tell people

751
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 5: that you gotta be able to live with this with

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Speaker 5: that you hang us for us.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, that's correct. His Venezuelan team will take on

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00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 2: Italy tonight it won six hundred feet tonight, and then

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00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 2: the winner of that will we'll play the United States

756
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 2: tomorrow night for an opportunity to claim the title of

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Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic. We'll be back. We'll finish up

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Speaker 2: our number two. We'll get to our three, where we're

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Speaker 2: gonna have a lot of football, a lot of Bengals,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of U five one, three seven four nine,

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty at Cincy three sixty on ESPN fifteen thirty

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Sports Station from the Anie Weather Welcome back since

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Speaker 2: he three to sixty ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot to get to that we missed

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Speaker 2: last week regarding the NFL and the Cincinnati Bengals, and

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Speaker 2: we'll do that when we kick off the third and

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Speaker 2: final hour. We all so welcome in your phone calls

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Speaker 2: five one, three seven four nine, fifteen thirty before we

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Speaker 2: get to any of that, though, Austin, I have a

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Speaker 2: feeling listeners like giveaways on this show. We always have

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Speaker 2: fun with giveaways, so we would be remissed. With the

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Speaker 2: NCAA tournament getting ready to kick off this week and

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Speaker 2: a champion, we'll be crowned here very soon. In college basketball,

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Speaker 2: You get a table for four to watch the final

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Speaker 2: college basketball game at Twin Peaks, a two hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: gift card that you can use for food and drink

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Speaker 2: we're also going to be giving away runner up prizes

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Speaker 2: as well. All of this, according to my understanding Austin,

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Speaker 2: from the last time we had a chance to speak

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Speaker 2: on these airwaves. We'll track all of that and more

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Speaker 2: around the National Football League to kick off our number

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Speaker 2: three next on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports station