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Speaker 2: We're starting a minute late. That is not my faults.

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Speaker 2: What's up, muleg or, ESPN fifteen thirty. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Chad Brendel for filling in. Yesterday. I was

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Speaker 2: Work sort of all over the place. Today, we're going

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Speaker 2: to talk with one of the Apple TV MLS analysts.

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Speaker 2: Vincent de Tusche is going to join us FC. Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: is a train wreck right now, losing the last game

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Speaker 2: to New England sixty to one. We'll spend some time

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Speaker 2: on that. Coming up in about fifteen minutes. The Bengals

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Speaker 2: free agency approach continues to be confounding, and the Reds

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Speaker 2: are going to use six guys for five spots. Also

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Speaker 2: later on this hour, college basketball fans have spoken, and

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Speaker 2: what they're telling you is the opposite of everything you

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Speaker 2: hear every time you turn on your TV. That coming

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Speaker 2: up in just about forty minutes, show preview is available

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Speaker 2: right now on Twitter at Moeger thanks to share Facts

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Speaker 2: a lot of ground to cover when it comes to

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Speaker 2: a lot of different things. We'll start with the team

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Speaker 2: to take center stage tonight. Miami in the second game

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Speaker 2: and Date in this evening will play SMU in the

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Speaker 2: first four. By the way, radio coverage of that game

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Speaker 2: is on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. And this game is

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Speaker 2: interesting for a few different reasons, you know. On one hand,

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Speaker 2: unfortunately for the RedHawks because they lost to UMass six

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Speaker 2: days ago, that's basically forced them to play in Dayton tonight.

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, they get to play in dateon

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Speaker 2: with Travis Steele on the show on Monday, and he

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Speaker 2: the atmosphere is going to be awesome, almost as good

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Speaker 2: On one hand, Miami did lose its most recent game,

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Speaker 2: and in that game, what has been talked about being

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Speaker 2: their fatal flaw all season long bubbled to the surface.

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Speaker 2: They're not a great defensive team. They can score. They

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Speaker 2: have a lot of guys who can score. They could

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Speaker 2: At the same time defensively, Travis Deeel's talked about this

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Speaker 2: going back to December. They have not been a great

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Speaker 2: on one hand, they lost their most recent game. On the other,

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Speaker 2: maybe emotionally, maybe mentally, they go in with a little

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Speaker 2: they won the MAC Tournament. They're not playing in Dayton,

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Speaker 2: but all right, they're playing close to home, and I

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Speaker 2: wonder how unburdened they may be tonight. I don't know

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Speaker 2: they may be tonight relative to what they would be

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Speaker 2: a loss. They've got to slow down an SMU team

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Speaker 2: that is twenty six in the country in offensive efficiency,

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Speaker 2: on one hand, SMU tough challenge, especially for a Miami

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Speaker 2: Because you have two teams that can score, which team

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Speaker 2: And then what's the fallout from this game? If they win,

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Speaker 2: that said, you and I both know if Miami loses

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Speaker 2: the takes are gonna be from every corner. They're gonna

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. Podcast of this show are a

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Speaker 2: service of Long Neck's Sports grill a lot on that

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Speaker 2: The Bengals have not had a totally non productive free

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Speaker 2: But first, FC Cincinnati has hit a low point and

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Speaker 2: See if they can bounce back this weekend. Vincent de

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Speaker 1: How are you.

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Speaker 4: I'm very good. Thanks for having memo.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you doing this. What is wrong with f

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, you tell me. I'm not in a

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Speaker 4: because I cover mainly the CF Montreal games, and as

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Speaker 4: tough game in San Diego to open the season, five Neil,

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Speaker 4: let's weekend for Montreal at Orlando would who was in

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Speaker 4: But it's a big question mark, like who's going to

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Speaker 2: Win well, And you know, based on just how things

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Speaker 4: It's a good you know, it's a good question because

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Speaker 4: After maybe two more, usually Montreal is a bad record

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Speaker 4: I'm not as worried about Cincinnati, So I guess what

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Speaker 4: you're saying. I know, at some point there's so much

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Speaker 4: It's not easy to manage several competitions at the same time.

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Speaker 4: So you know, I'm not worried about Cincinnati. To be

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would tend to agree.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that there's panic here, but I think

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Speaker 4: Exactly like I said, maybe it's a good rebound game.

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Speaker 4: And Orlando, that's what they did. You know, Orlando was

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Speaker 2: Two teams desperate for points. On Sunday, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a one o'clock match here in Cincinnati. The Orange

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the time, man, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, it was a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: You got it same here. That's Vincent dee Too, leading

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Speaker 2: coverage on Apple TV in twenty twenty three FC Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Tonight at Udy Arena. The second doubleheader of the first four.

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Speaker 2: similar moment In October the World Baseball Classic was and

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Speaker 2: it's a shame because all of this is likely to

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Speaker 2: get undone, at least to a degree, and maybe just temporarily,

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Speaker 2: but still undone when we have a lockout next winter.

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Speaker 1: And it's such a.

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Speaker 2: Weird dynamic where everybody who cares about the sport will

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Speaker 2: talk about how awesome an event like the World Baseball

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Speaker 2: Classic is, how it showcases so many great players, how

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Speaker 2: it gets people engaged in a sport before the regular

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Speaker 2: season even begins, how it feels like a six months

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Speaker 2: later extension of the postseason, how it's reflective of an

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Speaker 2: era where there are so many good, fun to watch,

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Speaker 2: likable in some cases relatable young players. And the way

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Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic game's unfold isn't app to apples

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Speaker 2: compared to Major League Baseball regular season games, if evidenced

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Speaker 2: by the fact that we don't have the abs challenge

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Speaker 2: system in the World Baseball Classic. But against that backdrop,

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Speaker 2: you have large numbers of fans who feel like their

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Speaker 2: team has no chance. The resentment that's being aimed at

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Speaker 2: the LA Dodgers, which I think is largely misplaced because

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Speaker 2: they're operating by the rules, And I think the sense

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Speaker 2: of despair that a lot of fans have when they

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Speaker 2: look at how some teams spend versus how some teams don't,

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Speaker 2: and in some cases what they don't spend is more

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Speaker 2: of a refusal to spend. Then it's an example or

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Speaker 2: an indictment against you know, their own finances. It just

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Speaker 2: it's such a shame because I think about where we're

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Speaker 2: likely to be in a year, possibly no spring training,

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Speaker 2: maybe Opening Day being pushedback months weeks, maybe not even

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Speaker 2: happening at all, Like it feels like unfortunately, all possibilities

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Speaker 2: are on the table for twenty twenty seven, and I

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Speaker 2: know with day next week, this is a road that

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Speaker 2: a lot of people right now don't want to go down,

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Speaker 2: and it feels far off, but it's not, and it's

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Speaker 2: just I genuinely do worry. And I know this is

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Speaker 2: not the first time we've talked about this on this show,

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Speaker 2: I genuinely do worry and wonder about whether or not

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Speaker 2: people after the lockout, however long it takes if games

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Speaker 2: are missed, are really going to come back. And I

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Speaker 2: really do wonder for all the positive on field momentum

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Speaker 2: that's been building for as good of a job as baseball,

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Speaker 2: and I say this as a frequent critic of the

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Speaker 2: current commissioner, for as good of a job as baseball

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Speaker 2: is done at just making the game better, at being better,

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Speaker 2: not great, but better at promoting young stars. I just

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Speaker 2: I wonder how much of that is going to be

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Speaker 2: undone by what's ahead with the workstoppage. And I think

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Speaker 2: the really frustrating thing is the work stoppage feels not

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Speaker 2: only inevitable, but it feels like everybody in the sport

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Speaker 2: feel like it has to happen in order for there

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Speaker 2: to be any real change in the game. And I,

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Speaker 2: maybe I just speak for myself, I can't help but wonder, like,

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Speaker 2: between now and the expiration of the CBA on December

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Speaker 2: the first, isn't there a way to in a very

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Speaker 2: urgent manner have negotiations and have discussions aimed at a

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Speaker 2: achieving a new CBA. But also avoiding a lockout and

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Speaker 2: avoiding undoing all the good momentum that baseball is built

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Speaker 2: that was evidenced by last night. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: the TV rating for the World Baseball Classic was last night.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that.

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Speaker 2: It's come out, but I feel like every sports fan

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Speaker 2: I know or engage with paid at least some attention

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Speaker 2: to that event. It helps that it's occurring against a

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Speaker 2: non football backdrop. Baseball in October has the issue of,

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Speaker 2: you know, occurring simultaneously with football, and not just professional football,

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Speaker 2: to college football as well. It just it's got to

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Speaker 2: be so frustrating inside the sport, and I think it's

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Speaker 2: frustrating as a fan that you have all this good

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Speaker 2: stuff happening on the field over here.

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Speaker 1: You had a must.

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Speaker 2: Watch game last night, a great game that was decided

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Speaker 2: in the ninth inning, a game that had people talking

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Speaker 2: about baseball in the middle of March, and in eight

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Speaker 2: months much of it could be undone because the lockout

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Speaker 2: is inevitable, and there seems to be a real belief

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Speaker 2: that the lockout is going to go for a very very,

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Speaker 2: very very long time. Fourteen away from four o'clock. One

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Speaker 2: other guest our legal analyst on we'll talk about Wes

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Speaker 2: Miller not from a coaching perspective, but there are reportedly

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Speaker 2: ongoing discussions about the separation agreement between the two. What

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Speaker 2: does separation agreements look like? Stuart W. Penrose from the

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Speaker 2: Manila Law Group is going to join us at four

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Speaker 2: thirty five the Bengals offseason. Remember what Duke Tobin had

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Speaker 2: to say back in February, Well, if you're like I am,

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Speaker 2: you're like Marvin Lewis, you see better than you hear.

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Speaker 2: You heard Duke Tobin, what are you seeing that coming

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Speaker 2: up at four oh five? But first, contrary to what

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Speaker 2: you might hear, college basketball is not broken. That's not

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Speaker 2: me saying it, it's you saying it.

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Speaker 5: Next Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty traffic from.

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Speaker 2: We have folks waiting and waiting patiently and we'll get

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Speaker 2: to you coming up after the top of the hour.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to squeeze anybody. We do want to

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Speaker 2: see you tomorrow morning at the Holy Grail for the

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Speaker 2: cors Light Turny tip off. By the way, it makes

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Speaker 2: me happy to see that for the first time in

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Speaker 2: the years, it's not being called the corps Light Turney kickoff.

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Speaker 2: It's not basketball. I mean it's not football. It is basketball,

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Speaker 2: so it should be a tip off anyway. We go

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Speaker 2: on the air ten am tomorrow all the way till noon,

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Speaker 2: and then we post up and watch games all day.

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Speaker 2: And we've done this now for we've done this since

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Speaker 2: fifteen bucks. You can't beat that. Also, the doors are

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Speaker 2: going to open about nine to forty five. We go

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Speaker 2: on the air at ten. You want to be one

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Speaker 2: of the first sixty four people in the door, and

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Speaker 2: if you are, we'll give you a team and If

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Speaker 2: Doors open at nine to forty five. We go on

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Speaker 2: the air from ten till noon. The games tip off

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Speaker 2: a little bit after twelve o'clock, and then we post

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Speaker 2: up and watch games all day. We've got guests, we've

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Speaker 2: got prizes, we've got cold course lights. So we'll hope

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Speaker 2: to see you there tomorrow morning, starting at show starts

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Speaker 2: at ten o'clock. And again, you gotta be one of

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Speaker 2: the first sixty four people that don't. Don't be one

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Speaker 2: of those folks that you come in and you get

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Speaker 2: a team and then you leave. We've seen people do that.

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Speaker 2: They're called Reds employees. I've seen Cincinnati Reds employees try

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Speaker 2: to do this. Ah, go get my team. Are you

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Speaker 2: gonna come out and hang out? No, I gotta go

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Speaker 2: to win for Field Cassolini, No, nuh huh. Come in,

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Speaker 2: Get something to drink, something to eat, hang out, don't

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Speaker 2: do that. We'll see you tomorrow morning. Show goes from

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Speaker 2: ten till noon, which means I ain't going to be

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Speaker 2: here tomorrow. That'll be Chad Brundle. I'm not doing two

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Speaker 2: shows on the first day of the tournament, so see

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Speaker 2: you tomorrow morning at the Holy Grail. Should be a

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Speaker 2: lot of fun. Duke Tobin weeks ago said I've never

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Speaker 2: not been all in. I think he lied. More on

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Speaker 2: that coming up and your phone calls on ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 2: thirty Cincinnati sports station