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<v Speaker 2>Welcome in Rnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet.

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<v Speaker 2>I am Alliance Bacalist. Hope you had a fantastic weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's do the headlines so we can get going. We

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<v Speaker 2>start with the Reds. Yesterday they reportedly reach agreement on

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<v Speaker 2>a deal with right handed reliever Pierce Johnson. He'll be

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<v Speaker 2>thirty five in May. Hosted a three zero five ERA

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<v Speaker 2>and sixty five appearances last season for the Braves. No

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<v Speaker 2>official announcement from the team. Mark Finesand of MLB dot

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<v Speaker 2>Com reports the dealers one year at six and a

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<v Speaker 2>half million dollars. Join us Friday night at Reds Fast.

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<v Speaker 2>I've got sports talk from six to nine with guests

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<v Speaker 2>Stop by and hang out with us NFL Wildcard weekend raps. Tonight,

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<v Speaker 2>it's the Steelers hosting the Texans seven point thirty kick

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<v Speaker 2>on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. The Steelers have won twenty

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<v Speaker 2>three straight Monday night football games at home. How annoying

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<v Speaker 2>is that they have not won, however, a playoff game

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<v Speaker 2>since twenty seventeen, dropping six consecutive. The Browns interviewed former

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<v Speaker 2>Dolphins head coach Mike Daniels today for the head coaching opening.

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<v Speaker 2>He was the Brown's wide receivers coach in twenty fourteen.

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<v Speaker 2>College football, Chad Brendel of Bearcat Journal reports UC is

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<v Speaker 2>expected to hire Nate Woody as its defensive coordinator. What

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<v Speaker 2>He held the same role at Army and has led

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<v Speaker 2>three top fifteen defensive units in his tenure at West Point.

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<v Speaker 2>He runs a pressure heavy three to four scheme. He

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<v Speaker 2>was the defensive coordinator under Scott Centerfield at Appalachian State

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<v Speaker 2>eight from twenty thirteen through twenty seventeen. College basketball, Despite

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<v Speaker 2>being seventeen and O, the Miami RedHawks remain outside the

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<v Speaker 2>top twenty five today, landing at number twenty nine. Travis

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<v Speaker 2>Steele joins me in nine minutes from Mark Arizona's number

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<v Speaker 2>one perdue is five, Louisville is twenty. It's a Coaches

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<v Speaker 2>Show Monday, The Mark Pope Show underway, talking Kentucky Hoops

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<v Speaker 2>on ESPN fifteen thirty, Talk NKU Norris Men's and Women's

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<v Speaker 2>hoops at seven on ESPN fifteen thirty. Recap the Xavier

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<v Speaker 2>win over the weekend with The Richard Patino Show at

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<v Speaker 2>seven o'clock on fifty five. Care Cee FC Cincinnati have

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<v Speaker 2>signed for with Tom Barlow. Thirty year old spent the

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<v Speaker 2>past two seasons with Chicago Fire FC, appearing in fifty

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<v Speaker 2>MLS regular season game, scoring five goals. Prior to that,

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<v Speaker 2>Barlow spent six seasons with the New York Red Bulls.

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<v Speaker 2>If you missed it off the Top with Matt the

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<v Speaker 2>last place, Columbus Blue Jackets have fired coach Dean Evson.

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<v Speaker 2>They have hired veteran NHL coach Rick Bonus. He led

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<v Speaker 2>the Dallas Stars to the Stanley Cup Final in twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 2>NASCAR The Chase is back, ten races, sixteen drivers, most

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<v Speaker 2>points wins, no more win and in top sixteen in points,

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<v Speaker 2>make it and a big shake up today and Thomas

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<v Speaker 2>Moore announcing they will discontinue men's volleyball at the conclusion

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<v Speaker 2>of this season. The program was relaunched in twenty nineteen,

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<v Speaker 2>on the dock at tonight over three hours. Travis Steele

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<v Speaker 2>minutes away six point thirty five, the newest member of

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<v Speaker 2>Can't wait to talk with Kyle Smith, the pride of

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<v Speaker 2>LaSalle High School. Coming up at six thirty five. Rich

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<v Speaker 2>new from the Chema Credit Union MLK Classic, the high

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<v Speaker 2>school tournament coming up one week from today. I've got

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<v Speaker 2>Bengals to get to Brandon Phillips in the eight o'clock hour,

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<v Speaker 2>A little bit of this and a little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>that along the way. I'm glad you were here. Settle in, relax,

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<v Speaker 2>I got you. Let's have some fun with this and

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<v Speaker 2>get it going. Next with Arnel Carrier Sports Talk presented

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<v Speaker 2>by Kelsey Chevallet. Seven hundred WLW remaining unbeaten college basketball

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<v Speaker 2>teams in the country. They are seventeen and oh after

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<v Speaker 2>Friday night's win at Toledo. Next up Central Michigan tomorrow

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<v Speaker 2>night at home, and Malett should be rocking for more

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<v Speaker 2>on that. Let's go straight to the source and welcome

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<v Speaker 2>in head coach Travis Steele. How are you.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm doing great, Lance, Thanks for having me on great.

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<v Speaker 2>Catching up with you, Travis. I think more and more

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<v Speaker 2>people around the country are like, going, holy crap, Miami

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<v Speaker 2>seventeen and oh are you? I guess to what extent

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<v Speaker 2>are Are you surprised you're seventeen?

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<v Speaker 4>And oh not really? You know, I knew when we

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<v Speaker 4>put this team together we had a chance to be special,

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<v Speaker 4>and I think what makes us really good. We got

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<v Speaker 4>great We got really talented basketball players, but we have winners.

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<v Speaker 4>We have guys that are very, very process oriented. They

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<v Speaker 4>take advantage of every day man, So I'm not surprised

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<v Speaker 4>with the results that we've gotten.

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<v Speaker 2>Friday night, you shot better than fifty percent from the

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<v Speaker 2>field for the thirteenth time this season. Travis, I got

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<v Speaker 2>to tell you in watching you guys, you're like an

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<v Speaker 2>instructional video of passing to get to the good shot

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<v Speaker 2>time and time again. It's uncanny to watch.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's a it's a fun way to play right now.

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<v Speaker 4>Our guys pass up good shots to get great shots,

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<v Speaker 4>and we have very very high ques out there. We

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<v Speaker 4>have great spacing and cutting and movement. We play fast,

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<v Speaker 4>so we're hard to prepare for. You know, we've got

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<v Speaker 4>seven guys score over twenty points in the game this year,

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<v Speaker 4>and just the balance itself makes us, I think, very

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<v Speaker 4>difficult to defend.

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<v Speaker 2>A couple of games ago you shoot thirty you're the

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<v Speaker 2>number one shooting team in the country, fifty three percent

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<v Speaker 2>from the field. Couple of games ago you shoot thirty

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<v Speaker 2>eight percent. But win at Akron. Did that show you

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<v Speaker 2>something about your team?

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<v Speaker 4>It did? You know, we didn't have our a great

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<v Speaker 4>night offensively, and give Acron credit, you know, like they

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<v Speaker 4>defended us well, but we also missed a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>open looks. And you know, for us to be able

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<v Speaker 4>to win our conference tournament in Cleveland in March, odds

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<v Speaker 4>are one of the three games we're not going to

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<v Speaker 4>shoot well and can you win that game. I thought

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<v Speaker 4>the grit to fight, the toughness that our guys showed

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<v Speaker 4>against Akron to beat them a week and a half ago. Man,

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<v Speaker 4>it's going to really serve us well moving forward.

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<v Speaker 2>Travis, with all the public attention that continues to grow

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<v Speaker 2>and head the way of your guys to talk to

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<v Speaker 2>me about how big it is from their their maturity

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<v Speaker 2>and their focus standpoint as a group.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I think you know player I said this before

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<v Speaker 4>to you, Lance, but I think player led teams are

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<v Speaker 4>way way better than coach led teams. And you know,

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<v Speaker 4>Suitor at Sorrow and Ian Elmer are three captains voted

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<v Speaker 4>by their teammates, do a great job of helping us

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<v Speaker 4>lead this team. And we're really focused. It's like we

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<v Speaker 4>use the we have a picture that kind of stays

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<v Speaker 4>around our program of a guy driving a car and

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<v Speaker 4>looking out the front windshield. There's a reason why the

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<v Speaker 4>rearview mirror is so small because everything that's already happened

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<v Speaker 4>or seventeen, you know, that's in the past. We're going

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<v Speaker 4>to look forward for the obstacles that are in front

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<v Speaker 4>of us, because there's several of them. And starting with

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<v Speaker 4>Central Michigan, obviously tomorrow night.

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<v Speaker 2>You mentioned Evan ipsorrow you lost him, your point guard,

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<v Speaker 2>your guy five games ago. Explain to listeners what he

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<v Speaker 2>meant to this team and how you've gone about replacing

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<v Speaker 2>all that he offered your team.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Evan is I love him, you know. Number one,

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<v Speaker 4>I just hurt from him as a human being. You know,

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<v Speaker 4>anytime a guy goes down with an injury, it stinks.

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<v Speaker 4>And he's having a breakout year. I thought he was

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<v Speaker 4>one of the best mid major point guards in the

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<v Speaker 4>entire country. He's our heart and soul in a lot

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<v Speaker 4>of ways. So when we lost them, we knew it

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<v Speaker 4>was going to be a big adjustment, you know. And

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<v Speaker 4>we still have a lot of really, really good players

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<v Speaker 4>on our team, so we knew again it wasn't no

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<v Speaker 4>no one player was going to replace Evan. But we

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<v Speaker 4>just work a little different. You know. We rebound the

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<v Speaker 4>ball a little bit better, We're turning it over a

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<v Speaker 4>little bit more. That's offset, and the rebounds is offset

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<v Speaker 4>and that, and we're figuring it out. It's kind of

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<v Speaker 4>by committee the point guard position. And Luke Skaaljack's really

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<v Speaker 4>done a nice job as a sophomore, you know, kind

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<v Speaker 4>of leading our play making duties.

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<v Speaker 2>I follow Pete Suitter closely. He's a Carmel High school

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<v Speaker 2>guy like me, so I got to follow him. And

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<v Speaker 2>last year he led you guys in scoring. He had

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<v Speaker 2>a forty two point game. Now he's I think third

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<v Speaker 2>on the team in scoring, maybe not shooting quite as much.

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<v Speaker 2>But here's what jumps out to me, Travis. His field

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<v Speaker 2>goal percentage, he's up eight percent from last year. His

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<v Speaker 2>three point is up twelve percent last year. And his

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<v Speaker 2>a sister up tell me about his change or continued

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<v Speaker 2>development from last year to this year.

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<v Speaker 4>Ultimate winner. It's Pete, you know, coming from a Carmel program.

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<v Speaker 4>I know, lady, you said you just went there many

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<v Speaker 4>Carmel wins. It everything. I feel like, you know, Pete's

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<v Speaker 4>one and the whole life. And he understands sacrifice and

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<v Speaker 4>he's at the very top of the scouting report for

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<v Speaker 4>every game you know so, and he just does what

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<v Speaker 4>the game tells him to do, as simple as that.

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<v Speaker 4>He doesn't care about scoring, he doesn't care about shots.

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<v Speaker 4>He is playing to win. And when your best player

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<v Speaker 4>does that, it permeates throughout the rest of the team.

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<v Speaker 2>You mentioned the scouting report, and earlier you mentioned, and

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<v Speaker 2>this is where, going back to seven different guys have

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<v Speaker 2>scored at least twenty points in a game this year.

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<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't want to prepare a scouting report for against

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<v Speaker 2>you guys because I wouldn't know where to begin.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it makes this hard reguard, you know, just our space,

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<v Speaker 4>our pace that we play with. We don't run a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of set plays like at Toledo, Lancia laughed. I

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<v Speaker 4>only called set plays on baseline out of bounds, sideline

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<v Speaker 4>out of bounds plays, you know, because our group knows

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<v Speaker 4>how to play playoff of one another. The red react.

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<v Speaker 4>It makes it super, super difficult to scout because again

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<v Speaker 4>we have to play teams three times sometimes in a

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<v Speaker 4>year in order to win our league in the conference tournament,

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<v Speaker 4>and we've got to be hard to play in that

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<v Speaker 4>third game.

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<v Speaker 2>Travis, from that standpoint of play calling and backing off

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<v Speaker 2>that have you Have you always been that way or

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<v Speaker 2>have you evolved into that?

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<v Speaker 4>I've evolved into it. You know. I used to want

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<v Speaker 4>to control a lot and again every team's different, you know.

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<v Speaker 4>But again we've recruited very, very high to skilled guys

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<v Speaker 4>that I really trust, you know. I use practice as

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<v Speaker 4>a way like, listen, I teach them how to play,

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<v Speaker 4>and then during the game, I trust them, I let

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<v Speaker 4>them do you know. I want them to play with

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<v Speaker 4>a free mind, ton of confidence and just do what

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<v Speaker 4>the game tells them to do.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. I'm I'm so glad you've said that, because

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<v Speaker 2>there and I'm not mentioning specifics here, but there are

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<v Speaker 2>times I watch coaches who will stand and bark almost

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<v Speaker 2>one pass to the next passegear pass it there, or

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<v Speaker 2>do this, do that, And I can't imagine playing listening

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<v Speaker 2>to all that. Your guys must love the freedom that

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<v Speaker 2>you give them.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and that freedom's earned right every single day with

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<v Speaker 4>just their process and practice and their work habits. But

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<v Speaker 4>it's a fun way to play. Man. What happens is,

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<v Speaker 4>in my opinion, because defensive offense are super connected, so

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<v Speaker 4>different than football, is that if you're connected on the

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<v Speaker 4>offensive end, and you're moving and you're cutting and you're

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<v Speaker 4>touching the ball, you'll give even a better effort on defense.

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<v Speaker 4>In my opinion, because of your offensive end, you feel

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<v Speaker 4>like you're a part of it all right.

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<v Speaker 2>When you've won seventeen in a row, are you? Are

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<v Speaker 2>you by nature superstitious in any way? You do you

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<v Speaker 2>wear the same socks? Is there anything going on that

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<v Speaker 2>you'd like to publicly admit to from a superstition standpoint?

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<v Speaker 5>You know?

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<v Speaker 4>So I do. I have this blue shirt that I've

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<v Speaker 4>been wearing underneath my quarter zip, and my wife last

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<v Speaker 4>year's like, why are you wearing this? Not our color?

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<v Speaker 4>I said, listen, it's been working. We can't change it

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<v Speaker 4>up now, you got to keep it going.

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<v Speaker 2>I love it. I love that last thought. And you're

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<v Speaker 2>not in the top twenty five today, you're close twenty nine.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know why you're not. But does that bug you?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that a talking point? Is it motivation? Or is

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<v Speaker 2>it just the rankings? And they'll work themselves out?

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<v Speaker 4>You know, I think we use it as motivation. Our

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<v Speaker 4>guys have a chip on their shoulder. There's no doubt

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<v Speaker 4>in their mind that started from last year. How the

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<v Speaker 4>last year ended in the Mac Tournament championship game. We've

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<v Speaker 4>used the hashtag unfinished business a lot, and we got

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<v Speaker 4>a lot to proof. We got a lot to proof.

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<v Speaker 4>We want the whole world to see it.

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<v Speaker 2>Tomorrow night, Central Michigan at Mallett Place should be jumping.

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<v Speaker 6>Hey.

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<v Speaker 2>I know you're busy and man we're twenty four hours

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<v Speaker 2>from game time. I really appreciate you making time and

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<v Speaker 2>always enjoy our conversations. Hope we can do it again soon.

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<v Speaker 4>Absolutely, thanks for having me on.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks Travis. There you go. Travis steel Head, coach seventeen

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<v Speaker 2>to o Miami RedHawks, one of five remaining unbeatens in

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<v Speaker 2>the country. You know it's not just a throw white line.

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<v Speaker 2>They're a good shooting team. They're the best shooting team

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<v Speaker 2>in the country. Let me give you some numbers. I

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<v Speaker 2>like numbers. They're shooting fifty three percent. I think there's

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<v Speaker 2>only I looked it up this morning. I think there's

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<v Speaker 2>only twenty five teams out of three hundred and fifty

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<v Speaker 2>Division one that are at the fifty percent mark shooting

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<v Speaker 2>from the field. Miami is at fifty three percent on

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<v Speaker 2>two point shots. That means their percentage of shots taken

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<v Speaker 2>inside of the three point line, they are number two

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<v Speaker 2>in the country. On three point shots, they are number

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<v Speaker 2>one in the country, and when standing at the free

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<v Speaker 2>throw line, they are number eight in the country. So

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<v Speaker 2>recapping the best shooting team in the country second best

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<v Speaker 2>from two, first best from three, best from three and

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<v Speaker 2>eight at the free throw line and watching them is

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<v Speaker 2>I said, it is uncanny watching them pass to a

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<v Speaker 2>from a good shot to a better shot seemingly every

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<v Speaker 2>single possession. I know it's not everyone that way, And

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<v Speaker 2>as he said, it showed a lot when they weren't

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<v Speaker 2>shooting their their their night. They were off from shooting

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<v Speaker 2>at thirty eight percent against Akron and yet found a

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<v Speaker 2>way to win the game Central Michigan Tomorrow night, twenty

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<v Speaker 2>ninth Today. As mentioned in the AP Top twenty five poll,

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<v Speaker 2>all right around the corner, local product, he's coming home.

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<v Speaker 2>Newest member of FC Cincinnati. He played at LaSalle High

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<v Speaker 2>School GCL South Star Player of the Year in two

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<v Speaker 2>thousand and nine. He's representing the Orange and Blue. Now

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<v Speaker 2>we'll talk about it with Kyle Smith. As we continue,

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<v Speaker 2>Let's get a check on news. RNL Carrier Sports Talk

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<v Speaker 2>presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WLW six thirty seven

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<v Speaker 2>seven hundred WLW RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Lance McAllester. Thanks for hanging out. Let's talk some soccer.

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<v Speaker 2>FC Cincinnati players report the camp this week. On hand

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<v Speaker 2>will be in a new edition with local ties. A

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<v Speaker 2>cool story Full circle story thirty three year old defender

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<v Speaker 2>Kyle Smith was the two thousand and nine gc EL

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<v Speaker 2>South Player of the Year at LaSalle High School. His

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<v Speaker 2>journey includes three seasons with Louisville City FC and the USL,

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<v Speaker 2>the past seven seasons in MLS with Orlando City SC,

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<v Speaker 2>and now with the Orange and Blue. What a treat

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<v Speaker 2>pleasure to welcome in, Kyle Smith. Kyle Lance McAllister, how

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<v Speaker 2>are you?

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<v Speaker 7>I'm doing well? How are you doing?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm fantastic. Welcome home. I mean, how exciting it must

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<v Speaker 2>be to now be looking forward to playing in front

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<v Speaker 2>of family and friends.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, it's very exciting. Honestly, I can't wait to get

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<v Speaker 7>in TQL Stadium and start playing.

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<v Speaker 2>Kyle, Do I understand this correctly? Your parents have to

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<v Speaker 2>be excited. They've been season ticket holders of FC Cincinnati.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that right?

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, they have.

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<v Speaker 7>They've been seasoned ticket holders. I think since the MLS,

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<v Speaker 7>since FC Cincinnai started in the MLS, so quite a while.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, oh man, So let's backtrack a little bit and

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<v Speaker 2>let listeners know about some of this background. After you

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<v Speaker 2>graduated from trans University, and I understand you were working

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<v Speaker 2>in accounting and you were playing amateur soccer with the

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<v Speaker 2>Cincinnati Dutch Lions. Tell me about that time in your life.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, So when I graduated, I moved back home and

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<v Speaker 7>then I got a job with the University of Cincinnati

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<v Speaker 7>at the College of Medicine, working in accounting. So, you know,

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<v Speaker 7>I did that for about two years while I was

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<v Speaker 7>trying to break it in, break into professional soccer. And

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<v Speaker 7>like you said, I played for the Cincinna Dutch Lions,

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<v Speaker 7>and then I started doing like open tryouts and I

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<v Speaker 7>thankfully made Louisville City, So I got an opportunity and

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<v Speaker 7>got my foot in the door with that.

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<v Speaker 2>Cal Just so fans understand when when you're going to

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<v Speaker 2>these tryouts, you're paying at these tryouts and you're you're

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<v Speaker 2>one of a gazillion trying to stand out. That explain

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<v Speaker 2>that situation.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, Honestly, it's kind of like American Idol, Like anybody

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<v Speaker 7>can show up. So you got some people that are

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<v Speaker 7>good and some people that are not so good, but

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<v Speaker 7>it's it's difficult to you know, stand out because there's

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<v Speaker 7>so many people. So I went in with you know,

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<v Speaker 7>a particular strategy of just you know, trying to score

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<v Speaker 7>as many goals as possible and you know, it helped

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<v Speaker 7>me stand out, so I think that's why I got

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<v Speaker 7>the opportunity.

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<v Speaker 2>I was reading an excellent story that Carter Chapley wrote

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<v Speaker 2>about you for Fccincinnati Dot Comedy and he mentioned you

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<v Speaker 2>back in the inaugural season of FC Cincinnati in twenty sixteen,

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<v Speaker 2>you had tried out for the Orange and Blue. Is

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<v Speaker 2>that right?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah? I was an open try out again, so you know,

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<v Speaker 7>like anybody can come and there were hundreds of people there, so, uh,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, I didn't make it, and I didn't get

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<v Speaker 7>the opportunity with FC Cincinnati, but I went to Louisville

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<v Speaker 7>City as well and did the same thing, and they

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<v Speaker 7>gave me, you know, an invite te tryout where there

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<v Speaker 7>was about only twenty kids there, and then I got invited.

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<v Speaker 7>I was one of like three guys to get invited

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<v Speaker 7>to pre season with them, and then we went to

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<v Speaker 7>IMG Academy in Florida and then I got two weeks

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<v Speaker 7>to try out and then they offered me a contract

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<v Speaker 7>after those two week unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 2>What a cool story, Kyle Smith check it in tonight

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<v Speaker 2>and new is remember the Orange and Blue FC Cincinnati

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<v Speaker 2>camp opening this week, So you've been aware obviously and

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<v Speaker 2>following long since the first season of the Orange and Blue.

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<v Speaker 2>Just give us your impressions of FC Cincinnati, what they've

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<v Speaker 2>built and what they've become.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I feel like they've the past few years here,

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<v Speaker 7>they've definitely, you know, raised the standards in the MLS.

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<v Speaker 7>They've been consistently at the top of the table, and

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<v Speaker 7>that was a big reason why I wanted to come

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<v Speaker 7>play here, because of the winning culture that they've created. So,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, I'm super excited for this season and I

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<v Speaker 7>really can't wait to get started with them.

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<v Speaker 2>So how take me through this offseason? How did how

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<v Speaker 2>did the whole FC Cincinnati opportunity turn out to be

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<v Speaker 2>a thing, And now you've put pen to paper, How

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<v Speaker 2>did it come about?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, so they contacted my agent, and at the time,

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<v Speaker 7>I was in negotiations with Orlando, my old team. Uh,

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<v Speaker 7>and you know, once I heard that Cincinnati was interested,

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<v Speaker 7>I you know kind of shifted gears and definitely wanted

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<v Speaker 7>to pursue that opportunity to come home and you know,

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<v Speaker 7>play for such a great club and in a great

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<v Speaker 7>city where I'm from. So I, you know, jumped on

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<v Speaker 7>that opportunity.

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<v Speaker 2>Kyle Tel FC Cincinnati fans who are listening right now,

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<v Speaker 2>what the type of player you are, what you think

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<v Speaker 2>you do well, and how you envision your role here.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah. So with my old team, I was kind of

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<v Speaker 7>like a Swiss army knife. I play multiple positions, and

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<v Speaker 7>I think that's kind of you know, my role that

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<v Speaker 7>I'll have here as well, and you know, just kind

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<v Speaker 7>of step up whenever I'll need it, when my when

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<v Speaker 7>my numbers called, and uh, I you know, work hard

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<v Speaker 7>on the field. I'm a defender and but I can

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<v Speaker 7>also play in the midfield, so I I try to

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<v Speaker 7>keep it simple and then you know, just I uh,

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<v Speaker 7>I think I'm a player that has good spatial awareness

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<v Speaker 7>on the field.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you do you know any of your new teammates

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<v Speaker 2>from from previous playing days.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, so Nick Haglin and I played against him for

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<v Speaker 7>you know, since we were like eleven years old. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 7>and then he guests played for my team one year

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<v Speaker 7>and he was actually showing me some pictures today of him, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 7>guests playing when we were probably like twelve thirteen years old.

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<v Speaker 2>I I always say I I enjoyed talking with Pat

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<v Speaker 2>Noonan when he's on the show with me, And I've

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<v Speaker 2>always said I thought if I were a player, I'd

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<v Speaker 2>love to play for Pat Noonan. Give me your early

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<v Speaker 2>impressions of him and what you've heard about Pat Noonan.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I would say he has very high standards and

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<v Speaker 7>he's a coach that wants us to you know, work

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<v Speaker 7>hard and come in every day and you know, keep

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<v Speaker 7>raising the standard and building the winning culture that they've

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<v Speaker 7>already you know, kind of established. So my first impressions are,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, he's seems like a great guy and a

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<v Speaker 7>great coach, and I'm very excited to get to play

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<v Speaker 7>for him.

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<v Speaker 2>Take me back to two thousand and nine, a while ago.

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<v Speaker 2>You're the GCL South player of the AAR at Lasal

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<v Speaker 2>High School. What are your memories of your playing days

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<v Speaker 2>at Lasal High School.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I had a great time at LaSalle High School.

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<v Speaker 7>It was a great school. I think they you know,

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<v Speaker 7>helped me improve as a as a person and as

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<v Speaker 7>a player a lot. So I'm very thankful and grateful

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<v Speaker 7>that I chose to go there for my high school.

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<v Speaker 7>So yeah, I think it's a great school for anyone

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<v Speaker 7>to go.

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<v Speaker 2>To, you know, as the hometown kid and coming back,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, everybody's gonna come out of the woodwork. They're

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<v Speaker 2>going to have ticket request. Are you ready for this?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 7>I think so, but I have you know, I have

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<v Speaker 7>a lot of family here, so you know, they get

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<v Speaker 7>first DIBs on the tickets. But I think I'm ready.

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<v Speaker 2>Good. Hey, I know it's been a whirlwind and I

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<v Speaker 2>know you've got a busy week ahead. Thank you for

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<v Speaker 2>making time tonight. Congratulations. I'm really happy for you, and I

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<v Speaker 2>hope we can talk again during the season.

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<v Speaker 7>All right, thank you?

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<v Speaker 4>All right?

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<v Speaker 2>Take care, Kyle, all right, take care. There you go.

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<v Speaker 2>Kyle Smith, thirty three years old defender FC Cincinnati from

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<v Speaker 2>LaSalle to an open tryout, to getting an opportunity with

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<v Speaker 2>Louisville City FC in the USL and try I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>think of it. You're trying out for FC Cincinnati back

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<v Speaker 2>in the inaugural season as well, and then seven seasons

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<v Speaker 2>in MLS, and now the next chapter becomes a chance

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<v Speaker 2>to come home. That is really cool. Let's take a

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<v Speaker 2>time out come back. There is a big time high

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<v Speaker 2>school hoops one week from tonight. Details on that and

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<v Speaker 2>so much more as we continue. You are hanging out

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<v Speaker 2>on a Monday night with me. I'm alliance Bacallister, your host,

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<v Speaker 2>Russ Jackson, your producer, and we were all till nine

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<v Speaker 2>tonight with RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet

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<v Speaker 2>boys varsity teams from Greater Cincinnati northern Kentucky, some of

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<v Speaker 2>the region's best high school talent, four exciting matchups and

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<v Speaker 2>from more on that. Let's go back to our guy,

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<v Speaker 2>that would be Rich Newman. Rich, how are you.

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<v Speaker 8>Doing great?

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<v Speaker 4>Lance?

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<v Speaker 8>Thanks for having me on again and Happy New Year.

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<v Speaker 2>Happy New Year to you, and Man, what a field

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<v Speaker 2>you have put together. Give us the lowdown and the

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<v Speaker 2>setup on these four matchups.

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<v Speaker 8>Well, you hit the nail on the head. We're thrilled

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<v Speaker 8>with this matchup. It's heavy heavy GNC with a little

0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:40.919
<v Speaker 8>GCL sprinkled in. We start with Lakota West versus the

0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:45.240
<v Speaker 8>Big Blue of Hamilton at twelve noon and Lakota West,

0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:48.600
<v Speaker 8>for those who don't follow high school of basketball closely,

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<v Speaker 8>is the undefeated number one ranked team in the state

0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:56.560
<v Speaker 8>of Ohio. So that's a big time matchup. We come

0:23:56.600 --> 0:24:01.960
<v Speaker 8>in next with Ryle versus Oldham County, good basketball program

0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:08.480
<v Speaker 8>from outside of Louisville. Then Lakota East versus Middletown, and

0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:13.159
<v Speaker 8>the nightcap is the Saint Xavier Bombers versus from also

0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:16.639
<v Speaker 8>across the river, the Colonels from the high school in

0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:17.919
<v Speaker 8>Park Hills.

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<v Speaker 2>Love it. Four fantastic matchups. And you know, I notice

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<v Speaker 2>you're doing what you did during the Holiday Classic as well,

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<v Speaker 2>and I love this. Explain the ticket and set up

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<v Speaker 2>for the schools that you're including in this.

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, we decided that we'd like to give back in

0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.439
<v Speaker 8>another way to the community besides giving these schools the

0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:39.719
<v Speaker 8>opportunity to play at the Centas Center, but the school

0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:44.480
<v Speaker 8>that sells the most tickets online in advance prior to

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<v Speaker 8>the day of the event will get a five hundred

0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:51.639
<v Speaker 8>dollars donation to their booster club or the charity of

0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:55.120
<v Speaker 8>their choice. And we're also doing a promotion with Xavier

0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:59.000
<v Speaker 8>Sonny Xavier season ticket holder who buys a ticket to

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<v Speaker 8>the Kemba MLK Classic will donate fifty percent of those

0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:06.560
<v Speaker 8>ticket sales to the All for One Fund.

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<v Speaker 2>Rich I always like to mention this because I hope

0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:13.280
<v Speaker 2>fans understand how cool it must be for these high

0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:16.280
<v Speaker 2>school players to come running out of the tunnel and

0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:20.520
<v Speaker 2>onto the floor of a big East home arena. And

0:25:20.760 --> 0:25:22.760
<v Speaker 2>some of these kids are probably going to be playing

0:25:22.760 --> 0:25:25.399
<v Speaker 2>their last year of organized basketball, and what a moment,

0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:27.600
<v Speaker 2>what a memory in a tournament like this.

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<v Speaker 8>We've gotten so many positive comments and feedback and thanks

0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:38.720
<v Speaker 8>from all the different teams that are participating participated about

0:25:38.720 --> 0:25:42.000
<v Speaker 8>the Holiday Harble Classic as well as now we hope

0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:46.600
<v Speaker 8>the MLK Classic. Lance, You're right, it's a unique experience.

0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:49.560
<v Speaker 8>It's a once in a lifetime experience for most of

0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:53.840
<v Speaker 8>these most of these players for sure. And it goes

0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:56.400
<v Speaker 8>beyond that. It's not just for the teams and the coaches,

0:25:56.480 --> 0:26:01.400
<v Speaker 8>but the fans, the parents, the grandparents, the the cheerleading squad,

0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:05.720
<v Speaker 8>the dance teams, the pep bands. Everybody gets to experience

0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:07.399
<v Speaker 8>what we know is one of the top do you

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<v Speaker 8>want arenas in the country.

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<v Speaker 2>It's one week from tonight the Kemba Credit Union MLK

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<v Speaker 2>Classic at Centas Center. Rich tell everybody about how they

0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:19.080
<v Speaker 2>get their hands on tickets, well.

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<v Speaker 8>Please go to our website Mlkdashclassic dot com. Daily passes

0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:30.480
<v Speaker 8>are thirteen dollars in advance, sixteen dollars at the box

0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:33.879
<v Speaker 8>office the day of the event, and all fees and

0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:38.320
<v Speaker 8>parking are included. Atlanta. I've got to mention, of course,

0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:42.280
<v Speaker 8>these things don't happen just because Cintas Center and Xavier

0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:46.640
<v Speaker 8>University and New Associates wants to promote them. We need

0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:49.440
<v Speaker 8>the sponsors and we need the media partners. And Dan

0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:52.919
<v Speaker 8>Sutton a shout out to the president and CEO of

0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:57.959
<v Speaker 8>KEMBA all in on community events like this, And of

0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:03.879
<v Speaker 8>course our relationship is iHeart and specifically ESPN fifteen thirty

0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:07.359
<v Speaker 8>is as our media partner with Fox nineteen. But I

0:27:07.480 --> 0:27:11.200
<v Speaker 8>can't tell you how much we appreciate everything that you do.

0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:13.040
<v Speaker 8>And I'll be on with MO and I'll be on

0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:16.080
<v Speaker 8>with Tony this week and that means an awful lot

0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:18.440
<v Speaker 8>to us, it really does. You all deserve a lot

0:27:18.440 --> 0:27:22.600
<v Speaker 8>of credit for giving us the microphone so to speak

0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:24.080
<v Speaker 8>to promoted great event like this.

0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:26.480
<v Speaker 2>Well, we are honored and we are proud to be

0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:28.520
<v Speaker 2>involved with it. And you know you're always welcome on

0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:30.320
<v Speaker 2>the show, and best of luck with the event and

0:27:31.040 --> 0:27:35.080
<v Speaker 2>always good catching up. Thank you, Thank you Lance. All right,

0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:37.880
<v Speaker 2>take care there you go. Rich Newman Chemba Credit Union,

0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:42.080
<v Speaker 2>MLK Classic Exavier Cinta Center one week from tonight. Starts

0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:45.240
<v Speaker 2>at nude high noon Lakota West at Hamilton, followed by

0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:48.520
<v Speaker 2>Ryle and Oldham County at one forty five, Lakota East

0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:53.800
<v Speaker 2>and Middletown at three thirty stex and Cubcath at five fifteen.

0:27:55.560 --> 0:28:02.400
<v Speaker 2>Information mlkdash Classic dot com for their website and on

0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:06.200
<v Speaker 2>all social media platforms as well. There is a developing

0:28:06.240 --> 0:28:09.679
<v Speaker 2>situation out of Lexington tonight. This is not good news

0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:14.520
<v Speaker 2>for the Kentucky Wildcats. Jalen Lowe is having surgery on

0:28:14.560 --> 0:28:19.639
<v Speaker 2>his shoulder, the point guard, and his season is over

0:28:20.000 --> 0:28:24.480
<v Speaker 2>surgery on the shoulder. The junior averaging eight points, two

0:28:24.520 --> 0:28:27.119
<v Speaker 2>rebounds and about two and a half assist per game,

0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:31.280
<v Speaker 2>will miss the remainder of the season. But by the way,

0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:33.440
<v Speaker 2>and I want to mention this a little bit later

0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:35.560
<v Speaker 2>in the show, we're on the subject of high school basketball,

0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:39.480
<v Speaker 2>and I so appreciate Andrew Lovin's who passed this along

0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:42.440
<v Speaker 2>an email last week, and I spent time talking with

0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:45.800
<v Speaker 2>Skinny and Tom Gamble Chief about this over the weekend.

0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:48.680
<v Speaker 2>I want to get into maybe around eight thirty or

0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:51.640
<v Speaker 2>tonight final segment of the show. It was forty about

0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:55.280
<v Speaker 2>forty three years ago around this time that the Famous

0:28:55.360 --> 0:28:59.320
<v Speaker 2>Recipe Classic started in Northern Kentucky. And I knew nothing

0:28:59.360 --> 0:29:02.600
<v Speaker 2>about this until Andrew passed on the information because I

0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:04.880
<v Speaker 2>had left and I was at the time this started

0:29:04.880 --> 0:29:07.160
<v Speaker 2>in eighty three. I was in a junior at Carbal

0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:09.400
<v Speaker 2>High School, and I didn't come back till about the

0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:12.200
<v Speaker 2>time it finally ended its run in ninety seven. But

0:29:12.320 --> 0:29:15.680
<v Speaker 2>I am fascinated by all the stories I heard surrounding

0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:19.920
<v Speaker 2>the Famous Recipe Classic, which was a sixteen team tournament

0:29:20.720 --> 0:29:23.840
<v Speaker 2>in Northern Kentucky involving the top eight Northern Kentucky high

0:29:23.840 --> 0:29:26.760
<v Speaker 2>school teams and the best eight teams available around the

0:29:26.760 --> 0:29:29.200
<v Speaker 2>state for the tournament. I love some of the background

0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:30.680
<v Speaker 2>on this. I want to spend some time on it

0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:33.960
<v Speaker 2>coming up in the eight o'clock around eight thirty or

0:29:34.000 --> 0:29:36.760
<v Speaker 2>so tonight, by the way, before new shout out, and

0:29:36.800 --> 0:29:38.680
<v Speaker 2>I sent him a text for a personal shout out,

0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:40.520
<v Speaker 2>but I want to give him a public shout out

0:29:40.520 --> 0:29:43.360
<v Speaker 2>because I forgot last week to the Cowboy. Jeff Brantley

0:29:43.760 --> 0:29:46.560
<v Speaker 2>named last week the Ohio Sportscaster of the Year by

0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:50.960
<v Speaker 2>the National Sports Media Association. Really cool, really happy for

0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:54.640
<v Speaker 2>the Cowboy and happy for my guy. Christen Airy named

0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:57.760
<v Speaker 2>the Indiana Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports

0:29:57.800 --> 0:30:01.560
<v Speaker 2>Media Association. Chris who's been on Talking Pacers longtime voice

0:30:01.600 --> 0:30:04.360
<v Speaker 2>of the Pacers twentieth season this year, I believe his

0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:07.959
<v Speaker 2>Voice of the Pacers. Second time he's received the award.

0:30:08.360 --> 0:30:11.560
<v Speaker 2>He for I think it was eighteen seasons. Was the

0:30:11.600 --> 0:30:15.400
<v Speaker 2>play by play voice of the Indiana Fever, their WNBA team.

0:30:15.680 --> 0:30:18.760
<v Speaker 2>He's been the play by play voice of My Butler Bulldogs.

0:30:18.800 --> 0:30:22.080
<v Speaker 2>He's a member of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network.

0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:25.840
<v Speaker 2>Graduated from Westfield High School in Westfield, Indiana, played for

0:30:25.840 --> 0:30:28.680
<v Speaker 2>his dad Bob, and then went on to Wabash and

0:30:28.840 --> 0:30:31.080
<v Speaker 2>was a member of the nineteen eighty two Division III

0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:35.600
<v Speaker 2>National Championship basketball team, the Little Giants and the Topper.

0:30:35.880 --> 0:30:39.320
<v Speaker 2>He lives in Carmel, so he is Goodbye me, shout

0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:43.240
<v Speaker 2>out to Christen Ai and to the Cowboy. Jeff Brantley.

0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:45.360
<v Speaker 2>All right, let's turn into the eight o'clock hour. You've

0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:47.640
<v Speaker 2>had some time to digest the week that was last

0:30:47.640 --> 0:30:51.120
<v Speaker 2>week as a Bengals fan, you heard you read a

0:30:51.160 --> 0:30:54.440
<v Speaker 2>statement from Mike Brown. You heard the season ending wrap

0:30:54.520 --> 0:30:58.240
<v Speaker 2>up news conference with Zach Taylor. You heard Friday's Q

0:30:58.400 --> 0:31:01.880
<v Speaker 2>and A with Duke Tobin. I want to circle back

0:31:02.200 --> 0:31:07.280
<v Speaker 2>and get into how that was received by you, and

0:31:07.360 --> 0:31:10.600
<v Speaker 2>I have a question coming out of last week that

0:31:10.680 --> 0:31:12.720
<v Speaker 2>I will present to you. In the seven o'clock hour,

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<v Speaker 2>Brandon Phillips around the corner. In the eight o'clock hour,

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<v Speaker 2>It's RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet seven

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0:32:09.080 --> 0:32:12.719
<v Speaker 2>of the show. Looking forward to extra innings this season

0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:15.200
<v Speaker 2>as well. Hope you had a great weekend. I watched

0:32:15.400 --> 0:32:20.360
<v Speaker 2>We watched every NFL playoff game. I checked out at

0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:23.720
<v Speaker 2>halftime just after halftime of last night's game. But the

0:32:23.760 --> 0:32:27.000
<v Speaker 2>other one's holy cow. We'll get into some NFL playoffs

0:32:27.280 --> 0:32:29.280
<v Speaker 2>in a bit. If you missed the first hour, man

0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:31.000
<v Speaker 2>that way, if I could say so much Solf, that

0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:34.080
<v Speaker 2>was an action packed hour. Travis Steele the Miami RedHawks.

0:32:34.120 --> 0:32:37.160
<v Speaker 2>I love seventeen to no cool story already, but I

0:32:37.240 --> 0:32:39.000
<v Speaker 2>just love the I don't want to. I don't know

0:32:39.040 --> 0:32:40.880
<v Speaker 2>if I go so far as say the reinvention of

0:32:41.200 --> 0:32:44.440
<v Speaker 2>Travis Steele, but I love him talking about his evolution

0:32:45.600 --> 0:32:48.560
<v Speaker 2>as a coach and the freedom he's willing to give

0:32:48.600 --> 0:32:52.920
<v Speaker 2>his players, and how he's not managing every possession and

0:32:53.000 --> 0:32:59.200
<v Speaker 2>not calling very few plays, trusting his guys they have

0:32:59.280 --> 0:33:02.560
<v Speaker 2>a system, understand the system, He trusts them to do

0:33:02.600 --> 0:33:05.960
<v Speaker 2>what they do, and just the way they shoot the ball.

0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:10.520
<v Speaker 2>It is truly something to behold. I mean, who who

0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:12.600
<v Speaker 2>in this day and age hits fifty three percent from

0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:15.280
<v Speaker 2>the field the Miami RedHawks do. If you missed it,

0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:19.760
<v Speaker 2>podcast has that Kyle Smith cool story, Pride LaSalle High

0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:22.600
<v Speaker 2>School back home playing for the Orange and Blue now

0:33:22.640 --> 0:33:25.360
<v Speaker 2>of FC Cincinnati, and Rich Numan on the Fantastic high

0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:29.080
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<v Speaker 2>All right, coming up one hour from now, seg caught

0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:42.720
<v Speaker 2>up with Brandon Phillips. You're gonna hear from BP one

0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:44.840
<v Speaker 2>of the newest members of the Reds Hall of Fame.

0:33:45.080 --> 0:33:47.520
<v Speaker 2>Coming up in less than an hour. Now, We've got

0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:50.680
<v Speaker 2>plenty of football to get to in this hour, So

0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:54.560
<v Speaker 2>what do you say we go? I thought about this

0:33:54.680 --> 0:33:59.320
<v Speaker 2>a lot since since Friday and the week that was.

0:33:59.360 --> 0:34:03.120
<v Speaker 2>If you were a Bengal, you got a statement released

0:34:03.160 --> 0:34:07.320
<v Speaker 2>from team president Mike Brown on Monday following the end

0:34:07.320 --> 0:34:12.440
<v Speaker 2>of the season, you had Zach on Wednesday with his

0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:16.560
<v Speaker 2>season wrap up press conference with the media, and then

0:34:17.000 --> 0:34:22.239
<v Speaker 2>Duke Tobin broke from the norm and met with the

0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:25.560
<v Speaker 2>media for sixty four minutes of Q and A on Friday.

0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:29.399
<v Speaker 2>So you heard from the president, you heard from the

0:34:29.440 --> 0:34:32.600
<v Speaker 2>head coach, and you heard from the de facto general manager.

0:34:34.480 --> 0:34:39.840
<v Speaker 2>And I'm curious of how that messaging was received because

0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:43.680
<v Speaker 2>I've been thinking about it from this standpoint. If you

0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:48.640
<v Speaker 2>go back to February fifth of twenty nineteen, we're coming

0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:51.720
<v Speaker 2>up on the anniversary here in a couple of weeks.

0:34:51.960 --> 0:34:56.760
<v Speaker 2>But on February fifth, twenty nineteen, the Bengals introduced Zach

0:34:56.880 --> 0:35:01.600
<v Speaker 2>Taylor as their new head coach, placing Marvin Lewis after

0:35:01.680 --> 0:35:05.440
<v Speaker 2>sixteen seasons. And I want you to take a listen

0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:10.239
<v Speaker 2>to what Mike said that day about the decision having

0:35:10.320 --> 0:35:15.160
<v Speaker 2>moved on from Marvin to hire Zach and the fan

0:35:15.680 --> 0:35:18.760
<v Speaker 2>angle in this answer. Take a listen to Mike Brown

0:35:18.800 --> 0:35:20.640
<v Speaker 2>February fifth, twenty nineteen.

0:35:22.680 --> 0:35:27.720
<v Speaker 3>We had lost some of the faith in our fan base.

0:35:28.920 --> 0:35:36.600
<v Speaker 3>That was clear. That's an allowed message. I think we've

0:35:37.239 --> 0:35:41.239
<v Speaker 3>done it at the appropriate time. We tried to give

0:35:41.320 --> 0:35:45.520
<v Speaker 3>every opportunity for it to grab hold otherwise, but that's

0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:48.359
<v Speaker 3>behind us. I want to look to the future and

0:35:48.480 --> 0:35:52.600
<v Speaker 3>I think we're starting that now and our fan base.

0:35:53.080 --> 0:35:59.400
<v Speaker 2>One seven Mike Brown February fifth, twenty nineteen, on change

0:35:59.800 --> 0:36:03.640
<v Speaker 2>and why change was made. Quote, we had lost some

0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:08.280
<v Speaker 2>of the faith from the fan base, that was clear,

0:36:08.440 --> 0:36:14.840
<v Speaker 2>he said. That sent a loud message. Well, the offer

0:36:15.080 --> 0:36:22.960
<v Speaker 2>of newfound faith was a new head coach this time around.

0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:28.040
<v Speaker 2>After a losing season and three consecutive seasons of missing

0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:34.600
<v Speaker 2>the playoffs, the Bengals are answering their fans with the

0:36:34.640 --> 0:36:39.440
<v Speaker 2>status quo, running it back with the de facto general manager,

0:36:39.800 --> 0:36:43.520
<v Speaker 2>the head coach, his assistance, and the same scouting department.

0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:46.879
<v Speaker 2>So my question, and I've thought about this a lot.

0:36:47.760 --> 0:36:50.879
<v Speaker 2>I thought about it a lot over the weekend. If

0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:58.040
<v Speaker 2>status quo is the offer this time? Where are you

0:36:58.239 --> 0:37:05.359
<v Speaker 2>finding your faith? Because I think this feels similar to

0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:11.879
<v Speaker 2>when you needed change back in twenty nineteen. Now, Zach

0:37:11.960 --> 0:37:14.839
<v Speaker 2>hasn't been there as long as Marvin, certainly, but there

0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:19.880
<v Speaker 2>was a need, a request, a demand for change, so

0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.799
<v Speaker 2>much so it was recognized by the owner who indicated

0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:28.320
<v Speaker 2>you had lost faith in the Bengals, and that was clear,

0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:33.239
<v Speaker 2>and that sent a loud message. So the response was

0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:38.719
<v Speaker 2>we got to give him a new coach. Well, this

0:37:38.840 --> 0:37:47.959
<v Speaker 2>time around, I feel faith wavering, fading, frustration growing, three

0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:52.400
<v Speaker 2>straight years, no playoffs, losing season this season, and what

0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:58.440
<v Speaker 2>they are offering is to run it back with the

0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:04.759
<v Speaker 2>same group that was here this past season. So in

0:38:04.840 --> 0:38:08.880
<v Speaker 2>twenty nineteen, the offer was a new coach. In twenty

0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:13.600
<v Speaker 2>twenty six, the offer is the status quo. So where

0:38:13.680 --> 0:38:20.360
<v Speaker 2>are you finding your faith? Is my question? And I

0:38:21.200 --> 0:38:25.239
<v Speaker 2>asked because I don't know. I'm curious, and I'll open

0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:27.200
<v Speaker 2>up the lines at five point three seven four nine,

0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:29.520
<v Speaker 2>seven thousand, one eight hundred, the big one to get

0:38:29.520 --> 0:38:33.440
<v Speaker 2>into this because I don't know that. I don't know

0:38:33.600 --> 0:38:37.040
<v Speaker 2>that it has really been viewed from this lens, but

0:38:37.080 --> 0:38:38.319
<v Speaker 2>I think it should be.

0:38:38.400 --> 0:38:38.600
<v Speaker 9>It was.

0:38:38.960 --> 0:38:42.200
<v Speaker 2>It was one thing when the fans had lost the faith,

0:38:42.600 --> 0:38:45.160
<v Speaker 2>to give them the new coach and say here is

0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:53.879
<v Speaker 2>your newfound faith is offering the status quo to you.

0:38:57.680 --> 0:39:05.560
<v Speaker 2>It is that? Is that enough? Is that? Where where

0:39:05.600 --> 0:39:09.040
<v Speaker 2>will the faith be found? And maybe that's simply Will Lance,

0:39:09.200 --> 0:39:12.279
<v Speaker 2>it's Joe Burrow because we've got one of the best

0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:15.040
<v Speaker 2>quarterbacks in the NFL. I think that's something that has

0:39:15.080 --> 0:39:19.440
<v Speaker 2>to be considered in this scenario. Because the give and

0:39:19.480 --> 0:39:25.680
<v Speaker 2>take then been a coach. The give and take now

0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:29.640
<v Speaker 2>has simply been Duke's coming back, Zach's coming back, the

0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:33.399
<v Speaker 2>assistants are coming back, the scouting departments coming back, and

0:39:33.480 --> 0:39:36.960
<v Speaker 2>we believe we can fix it because we've done it before.

0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:41.080
<v Speaker 2>My sense is that is going to be received in

0:39:41.120 --> 0:39:47.040
<v Speaker 2>a much different way than it was seven years ago.

0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:52.080
<v Speaker 2>Am I right? Or am I wrong? And I was

0:39:52.120 --> 0:39:55.560
<v Speaker 2>struck by this question, this kind of line of thinking

0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:58.840
<v Speaker 2>being offered up in question for him to Zach on Wednesday.

0:39:58.880 --> 0:40:02.520
<v Speaker 2>I think it was Baby of the ESPN. Don't quote me.

0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:04.360
<v Speaker 2>I think it was Ben Baby. I haven't listened to

0:40:04.440 --> 0:40:07.120
<v Speaker 2>this since last week, but I want you to take

0:40:07.160 --> 0:40:11.400
<v Speaker 2>a listen to this question posed to Zach about winning

0:40:11.480 --> 0:40:12.920
<v Speaker 2>back the fans. Take a listen.

0:40:13.239 --> 0:40:14.960
<v Speaker 4>Do you feel like you got to win folks back?

0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:16.960
<v Speaker 2>I don't worry about that.

0:40:17.040 --> 0:40:17.520
<v Speaker 3>I know.

0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:21.560
<v Speaker 10>Winning makes believers of us. All that makes sense. I

0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:24.359
<v Speaker 10>can understand how that quote came to be because that's

0:40:24.360 --> 0:40:26.279
<v Speaker 10>a true statement. It's written in our building with set

0:40:26.320 --> 0:40:29.400
<v Speaker 10>every day. But that's the truth. You know, you go

0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:32.040
<v Speaker 10>through hard times and there's disappointment, and then all of

0:40:32.040 --> 0:40:33.440
<v Speaker 10>a sudden, you win some games. You're right back and

0:40:33.520 --> 0:40:35.719
<v Speaker 10>thick and people can't wait to jump on board. So

0:40:36.520 --> 0:40:39.319
<v Speaker 10>I love the past. It's it is great being here

0:40:39.360 --> 0:40:43.279
<v Speaker 10>and having passionate fans. It is, and I don't take

0:40:43.280 --> 0:40:45.800
<v Speaker 10>that for granted. There's other places you go where it

0:40:45.840 --> 0:40:48.160
<v Speaker 10>doesn't see it seems like they're indifferent, maybe as they're

0:40:48.160 --> 0:40:50.799
<v Speaker 10>sitting in the stadium and the game's going on, and here,

0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:53.319
<v Speaker 10>you know they're not indifferent. Here, they're passionate and they

0:40:53.320 --> 0:40:55.960
<v Speaker 10>have high expectations and they want us to win, and

0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:58.160
<v Speaker 10>they're going to support us, and they really want to

0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:00.520
<v Speaker 10>support a winner, and so we got to give them that,

0:41:00.640 --> 0:41:02.239
<v Speaker 10>and we're gonna work our tails off to do that

0:41:02.280 --> 0:41:02.760
<v Speaker 10>for him.

0:41:03.040 --> 0:41:06.359
<v Speaker 2>Zach Taylor. Last week, I'll go back to this quote again,

0:41:06.760 --> 0:41:09.640
<v Speaker 2>we had lost some of the faith from our fan base.

0:41:10.040 --> 0:41:14.719
<v Speaker 2>That was clear. That sent a loud message. I was

0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:19.200
<v Speaker 2>under the impression that volume level of a message was

0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:24.399
<v Speaker 2>being sent by the fan base. Again this time, let's

0:41:24.400 --> 0:41:27.080
<v Speaker 2>take your calls when we continue. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,

0:41:27.120 --> 0:41:29.640
<v Speaker 2>seven thousand, what eight hundred the Big One. It's RNL

0:41:29.680 --> 0:41:33.160
<v Speaker 2>Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WLW

0:41:44.600 --> 0:41:49.080
<v Speaker 2>seven seven hundred WLW RNL Carrier Sports Talk is the show.

0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:52.200
<v Speaker 2>It is presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. We thank you for listening.

0:41:52.440 --> 0:41:55.680
<v Speaker 2>You're listening on the iHeart Radio app outside the greater

0:41:55.719 --> 0:41:58.319
<v Speaker 2>Cincinnati area, thank well. If you're listening anywhere with the

0:41:58.320 --> 0:42:01.480
<v Speaker 2>iHeart Radio app, thank you. But shout out to Tallahassee,

0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:08.360
<v Speaker 2>Florida tonight and Santa Fe and spoke can all checking

0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:12.040
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0:42:12.080 --> 0:42:14.040
<v Speaker 2>put it on your phone, your tablet, your kindle, your

0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:18.120
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0:42:18.120 --> 0:42:19.600
<v Speaker 2>Al right, if you give me ninety seconds, I need

0:42:19.600 --> 0:42:21.719
<v Speaker 2>to brag about my exploits over the weekend because I'm

0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:23.879
<v Speaker 2>not very good with things around the house. Kelly would

0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:25.879
<v Speaker 2>vouch for that. She'd be nodding her head right now.

0:42:25.920 --> 0:42:27.960
<v Speaker 2>But I have cracked the code when it comes to

0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:33.759
<v Speaker 2>Christmas trees and decorations. I decided last year that we

0:42:33.880 --> 0:42:38.040
<v Speaker 2>could pull off decorating the Christmas tree, and then instead

0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:41.040
<v Speaker 2>of undecorating the Christmas tree, taking all the ornaments off,

0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:42.839
<v Speaker 2>putting them all in boxes, taking them back down into

0:42:42.880 --> 0:42:45.600
<v Speaker 2>the basement, Christmas tree back down to the base. I said,

0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:47.200
<v Speaker 2>why don't we just take the Christmas tree at the

0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:49.759
<v Speaker 2>end of Christmas each year and I will carry it

0:42:49.960 --> 0:42:53.680
<v Speaker 2>upstairs intact to the spare bedroom where it will stay

0:42:53.719 --> 0:42:56.560
<v Speaker 2>for the year, and the following year I will bring

0:42:56.600 --> 0:43:01.560
<v Speaker 2>it downstairs into the living room already made. And Kelly

0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:04.080
<v Speaker 2>said that will never work. I said, you want to bet,

0:43:05.120 --> 0:43:08.160
<v Speaker 2>I will have you know that. Saturday night, approximately seven fifteen,

0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:12.719
<v Speaker 2>I successfully executed the second year of the transformation of

0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:16.200
<v Speaker 2>the Christmas tree from the family room, up the steps

0:43:16.239 --> 0:43:18.239
<v Speaker 2>to the spare bedroom, where it we'll sit for the

0:43:18.280 --> 0:43:21.120
<v Speaker 2>next year. If you don't believe me, there's video evidence,

0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:24.880
<v Speaker 2>and I did not drop. There was not a single

0:43:25.080 --> 0:43:28.960
<v Speaker 2>ornament harmed or that dropped off the tree in the

0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:32.360
<v Speaker 2>moving of that tree from the family room, through the kitchen,

0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:36.440
<v Speaker 2>through the living room, up the stairs. There's a lot

0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:40.839
<v Speaker 2>of steps to the spare bedroom. Not a single ornament dropped. Now,

0:43:40.920 --> 0:43:43.440
<v Speaker 2>if you watch the video on all social media platforms,

0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:46.520
<v Speaker 2>you will see a long cord still on the tree

0:43:46.520 --> 0:43:49.200
<v Speaker 2>that was hanging off of the tree, which I very

0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:51.960
<v Speaker 2>well could have stepped on going up the steps. I

0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:54.960
<v Speaker 2>can only assume Kelly was preoccupied with the shooting of

0:43:54.960 --> 0:43:57.160
<v Speaker 2>the video of it to not warn me that there

0:43:57.200 --> 0:43:59.920
<v Speaker 2>was a long cord from the lights that that was

0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:03.239
<v Speaker 2>dangling down right by where I was stepping each step up.

0:44:04.840 --> 0:44:12.799
<v Speaker 2>But I showed precision, agility, and great execution. And that

0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:18.439
<v Speaker 2>tree will rest peacefully intact for one year, and I'll

0:44:18.440 --> 0:44:22.759
<v Speaker 2>see it next Thanksgiving. Right, let's go out. Oh before

0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:26.080
<v Speaker 2>we go back to the votes. If you heard from

0:44:26.160 --> 0:44:28.760
<v Speaker 2>Mike and you heard from Zach, let me complete the trio.

0:44:29.320 --> 0:44:33.319
<v Speaker 2>This is something Duke said about you the Bengals Fan

0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:35.040
<v Speaker 2>on Friday. Take a listen.

0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:38.719
<v Speaker 11>It goes without saying, this season is not what we expect,

0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:43.920
<v Speaker 11>certainly not what we will accept. And everybody here knows

0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:49.080
<v Speaker 11>that it was frustrating, It was challenging, It was disappointing

0:44:49.880 --> 0:44:53.040
<v Speaker 11>for all of us, but more importantly, it was all

0:44:53.080 --> 0:44:56.240
<v Speaker 11>those things for our fans. We feel that that weighs

0:44:56.280 --> 0:45:02.000
<v Speaker 11>on us. It hurts us because we know that they

0:45:02.040 --> 0:45:06.120
<v Speaker 11>have high expectations for us. We embrace those high expectations.

0:45:06.440 --> 0:45:10.400
<v Speaker 11>Believe me, we have high expectations for this football team

0:45:10.480 --> 0:45:14.000
<v Speaker 11>as well. We didn't meet those expectations. The group we

0:45:14.080 --> 0:45:16.920
<v Speaker 11>put out there did not fulfill those expectations.

0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:18.960
<v Speaker 2>So it motivates us.

0:45:19.040 --> 0:45:22.360
<v Speaker 11>It really motivates us to be better to put a

0:45:22.400 --> 0:45:25.520
<v Speaker 11>group out there that will make the city proud.

0:45:26.719 --> 0:45:29.759
<v Speaker 2>Duke Tobin on Friday. By the way, my dad checking in.

0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:33.880
<v Speaker 2>Listen here shout out Saint James Plantation, North Carolina. Saint James. Hello,

0:45:34.560 --> 0:45:38.160
<v Speaker 2>listening on the iHeart Radio app Tonight, Love the iHeart

0:45:38.280 --> 0:45:41.160
<v Speaker 2>Radio app. Love the ribs that Kelly and I had

0:45:41.160 --> 0:45:43.879
<v Speaker 2>made yesterday. My dad sent for a Christmas present from

0:45:44.280 --> 0:45:48.719
<v Speaker 2>New Brussels. The New Brussels. It's like ribs and brisket

0:45:48.880 --> 0:45:52.520
<v Speaker 2>and cheeses and o oh man, going home and finish

0:45:52.560 --> 0:45:54.360
<v Speaker 2>off the rest of them tonight, Let's go to the

0:45:54.400 --> 0:45:57.040
<v Speaker 2>phones five one, three, seven four, nine, seven thousand, one,

0:45:57.160 --> 0:45:59.920
<v Speaker 2>eight hundred, the big one, John, you were on seven hundred.

0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:01.520
<v Speaker 2>L W welcome.

0:46:03.239 --> 0:46:09.520
<v Speaker 12>Hey, Lance, Hey, how are you great? First off, Happy

0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:13.920
<v Speaker 12>New Year to you and Kelsey and the family. I

0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:18.440
<v Speaker 12>think what weighs on mister Tobyn and mister Brown is

0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:21.080
<v Speaker 12>the extra money in their wallet from where they raised

0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:23.800
<v Speaker 12>the ticket prices for US season ticket holders.

0:46:25.400 --> 0:46:25.840
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:46:26.000 --> 0:46:30.280
<v Speaker 12>I told my son, I've been a sick season ticket

0:46:30.280 --> 0:46:32.680
<v Speaker 12>holder now for years. I told my son, we have

0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:36.720
<v Speaker 12>four tickets in section two thirty. And I told him Lance,

0:46:36.920 --> 0:46:39.759
<v Speaker 12>I mean, I've been born and raised a Bengal fan.

0:46:40.760 --> 0:46:43.480
<v Speaker 12>I remember the Freezer Bowl. I remember all them days

0:46:43.480 --> 0:46:46.080
<v Speaker 12>and whatnot, and I remember the dark days of David

0:46:46.080 --> 0:46:50.200
<v Speaker 12>Shula and those years. You know, maybe maybe we got

0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:53.000
<v Speaker 12>spoiled out the Super Bowl a couple of years ago,

0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:56.839
<v Speaker 12>and then the AFC Championship game that kind of got

0:46:56.880 --> 0:46:59.960
<v Speaker 12>taken away from us there in Kansas City. But you know,

0:47:00.280 --> 0:47:06.160
<v Speaker 12>I I want to know. I'm like you who you

0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:07.959
<v Speaker 12>have one of the greatest jobs in the world, Lance,

0:47:08.000 --> 0:47:11.759
<v Speaker 12>talking in your hometown against for both of your both

0:47:11.800 --> 0:47:14.560
<v Speaker 12>of your all of your teams around here. You know, phenomenal,

0:47:15.400 --> 0:47:17.200
<v Speaker 12>kudos to you because that's phenomenal.

0:47:17.640 --> 0:47:17.879
<v Speaker 7>Uh.

0:47:17.920 --> 0:47:21.120
<v Speaker 12>But you know, status quo. I mean, when when do

0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:23.319
<v Speaker 12>we get to a point where we say, you know,

0:47:23.680 --> 0:47:26.319
<v Speaker 12>you know you need to fix the problem. You know,

0:47:26.880 --> 0:47:30.279
<v Speaker 12>and because that's all we've heard is well, we're not

0:47:30.400 --> 0:47:35.040
<v Speaker 12>changing anything, not change anything, not changing. Well, I guarantee

0:47:35.080 --> 0:47:37.400
<v Speaker 12>you there's a lot of fans out there that that

0:47:37.520 --> 0:47:40.880
<v Speaker 12>will be changing things. Uh, and that we if you

0:47:40.920 --> 0:47:44.760
<v Speaker 12>don't fix this this year, you think you you've lost fans.

0:47:44.800 --> 0:47:48.360
<v Speaker 12>Now go go another year of six and eleven and

0:47:48.560 --> 0:47:51.719
<v Speaker 12>and come back next year and say, hey, status quo,

0:47:51.800 --> 0:47:55.600
<v Speaker 12>we're going to run run it back again. I just

0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:59.319
<v Speaker 12>I don't know that I'm at Lance. You know this

0:47:59.480 --> 0:48:03.080
<v Speaker 12>organization of both of them, let's just say both fan

0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:08.960
<v Speaker 12>bases and both organizations. Yeah, uh you know, uh it

0:48:09.200 --> 0:48:12.440
<v Speaker 12>just it. I and I love going to the games, Lance,

0:48:12.600 --> 0:48:17.560
<v Speaker 12>I love going to the games with my son. There's

0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:21.239
<v Speaker 12>nothing better than time. You can't get I tell people

0:48:21.239 --> 0:48:24.440
<v Speaker 12>all the time, you can't get back time. Yep, you know,

0:48:24.680 --> 0:48:29.120
<v Speaker 12>you just can't and uh, I wish you know they

0:48:29.160 --> 0:48:30.759
<v Speaker 12>would have come out and said, well, you know, we're

0:48:30.760 --> 0:48:32.880
<v Speaker 12>going to change this, this and this, But they didn't.

0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.280
<v Speaker 12>You know, they didn't. Dude didn't say that. Mike didn't

0:48:36.320 --> 0:48:41.640
<v Speaker 12>say that. Uh, Zach Schurzell didn't say that. I just

0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:44.799
<v Speaker 12>you know, I'm like you Lance, you know, when when

0:48:45.080 --> 0:48:49.560
<v Speaker 12>when do the do we accept mediocrity around here? I know,

0:48:49.680 --> 0:48:52.719
<v Speaker 12>let me say this five thousand dollars later for my

0:48:52.880 --> 0:48:56.600
<v Speaker 12>tickets in section two thirty that I don't want mediocrity.

0:48:58.440 --> 0:49:00.759
<v Speaker 2>John. I appreciate the kind word. And I'm sure glad

0:49:00.800 --> 0:49:03.400
<v Speaker 2>you called tonight. Do it again? All right, appreciated, l

0:49:03.680 --> 0:49:05.879
<v Speaker 2>thank you, all right, thank you. You know, I think

0:49:06.080 --> 0:49:08.680
<v Speaker 2>the bottom line here is if the organization is not

0:49:08.760 --> 0:49:11.320
<v Speaker 2>going to change, then they force the fans to consider

0:49:11.360 --> 0:49:15.400
<v Speaker 2>whether they have to change. That's the most un enviable

0:49:15.440 --> 0:49:19.359
<v Speaker 2>position for an organization where you're forcing your fans to say,

0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:21.760
<v Speaker 2>all right, if they're not going to change, then maybe

0:49:21.840 --> 0:49:24.560
<v Speaker 2>I have to change. I am a big track record guy.

0:49:24.600 --> 0:49:26.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm a big back of the baseball card guy. I'm

0:49:27.360 --> 0:49:30.719
<v Speaker 2>a big When someone shows you who and what they are,

0:49:30.880 --> 0:49:33.759
<v Speaker 2>believe them. I just know this. Duke Tobin stood up

0:49:33.760 --> 0:49:36.480
<v Speaker 2>there last week and said, believe him. He believes they

0:49:36.480 --> 0:49:39.160
<v Speaker 2>can get this fixed because they've done it before. And

0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:44.040
<v Speaker 2>yet he has built twenty four teams over twenty four years.

0:49:44.480 --> 0:49:50.200
<v Speaker 2>Only eleven of those teams produced winning seasons. That's a

0:49:50.239 --> 0:49:55.560
<v Speaker 2>record of one to eighty five, one, nine and four.

0:49:56.160 --> 0:50:00.440
<v Speaker 2>That is asking for a humongous leap of fai from

0:50:00.480 --> 0:50:02.919
<v Speaker 2>a fan base who says, wait a minute, You've done

0:50:02.960 --> 0:50:06.360
<v Speaker 2>twenty four editions of a Bengals team and only eleven

0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:08.400
<v Speaker 2>of them had a winning season, and you want me

0:50:08.440 --> 0:50:13.400
<v Speaker 2>to believe you'll fix it again because you've fixed it before. Well,

0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:15.399
<v Speaker 2>if you didn't fix it last year or the year

0:50:15.440 --> 0:50:17.680
<v Speaker 2>before the year before that, when do you plan to

0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:20.680
<v Speaker 2>fix it the next time? That's the question being asked.

0:50:20.760 --> 0:50:23.880
<v Speaker 2>I think of every Bengals fan right now. Seven thirty

0:50:23.880 --> 0:50:27.040
<v Speaker 2>news time RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet

0:50:27.040 --> 0:50:32.600
<v Speaker 2>seven hundred WLW newly named Red's Hall of Famer. His

0:50:32.719 --> 0:50:35.880
<v Speaker 2>thoughts on that and more coming up just after the

0:50:35.920 --> 0:50:39.840
<v Speaker 2>eight o'clock news. Bengals fans remember the name Jordan Shipley,

0:50:41.239 --> 0:50:44.719
<v Speaker 2>wide receiver. He's forty years old now. He was a

0:50:44.760 --> 0:50:47.359
<v Speaker 2>third round pick of the Bengals out of Texas in

0:50:47.400 --> 0:50:50.719
<v Speaker 2>twenty ten, his rookie season. I've forgotten he was this

0:50:50.840 --> 0:50:54.000
<v Speaker 2>good in his rookie season, fifty two catches for six

0:50:54.120 --> 0:50:58.920
<v Speaker 2>hundred yards and three touchdowns. Well, sadly, and this story

0:50:59.000 --> 0:51:03.000
<v Speaker 2>now happened. I think it was last weekend. I think

0:51:03.000 --> 0:51:07.520
<v Speaker 2>we're a week into this. He is now listed in

0:51:07.719 --> 0:51:12.279
<v Speaker 2>critical but stable condition after an accident while operating a

0:51:12.320 --> 0:51:17.480
<v Speaker 2>machine on his ranch near his home in Burnett, Texas.

0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:23.480
<v Speaker 2>He suffered severe burns on his body. He was driven

0:51:23.600 --> 0:51:26.120
<v Speaker 2>to a local hospital by one of the workers at

0:51:26.160 --> 0:51:30.719
<v Speaker 2>the ranch, and then he was care flighted to Austin.

0:51:32.280 --> 0:51:35.200
<v Speaker 2>I have been following this on Facebook, the updates being

0:51:35.239 --> 0:51:38.759
<v Speaker 2>offered by his wife and his sister on occasion. I

0:51:38.800 --> 0:51:42.279
<v Speaker 2>can give you a few of the points they've made

0:51:42.320 --> 0:51:49.400
<v Speaker 2>public over the last few days. His sister, over towards

0:51:49.400 --> 0:51:53.160
<v Speaker 2>the end of last week, had asked for continued prayers,

0:51:53.680 --> 0:51:57.480
<v Speaker 2>prayers that the cells work overtime in healing under the

0:51:57.520 --> 0:52:01.560
<v Speaker 2>surface of his skin and the nerves. She said, please

0:52:01.600 --> 0:52:04.600
<v Speaker 2>pray for full mobility in his arms and legs, in

0:52:04.640 --> 0:52:08.760
<v Speaker 2>both hands, and this got me, she wrote, Please pray

0:52:09.160 --> 0:52:13.360
<v Speaker 2>against guilt and shame. He keeps telling his wife Sonny

0:52:13.440 --> 0:52:17.200
<v Speaker 2>that he is so sorry thinking that you know he

0:52:17.440 --> 0:52:22.760
<v Speaker 2>caused this on the farm. Please pray for optimal kidney function.

0:52:23.640 --> 0:52:25.360
<v Speaker 2>And there was a note in one of the updates

0:52:25.400 --> 0:52:28.359
<v Speaker 2>that Jordan whispered to his siblings in the room at

0:52:28.360 --> 0:52:32.840
<v Speaker 2>one point, quote God's not done with me yet. And

0:52:32.920 --> 0:52:40.320
<v Speaker 2>they released a photo of Jordan Shipley's arm, left arm raised, bandaged, bloodied,

0:52:40.920 --> 0:52:44.680
<v Speaker 2>and he was giving the hookham horn sign as a

0:52:45.040 --> 0:52:50.120
<v Speaker 2>Texas longhorn. An update from his sister or wife on

0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:54.520
<v Speaker 2>Friday was the surgeon came in and they were taking

0:52:54.600 --> 0:52:56.719
<v Speaker 2>him into surgery, and it was expected it was going

0:52:56.760 --> 0:52:59.680
<v Speaker 2>to be a good ninety minutes, and it was going

0:52:59.719 --> 0:53:01.560
<v Speaker 2>to be a difficult surgery because they were going to

0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:04.480
<v Speaker 2>have to determine, you know, what skin to I don't

0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:06.440
<v Speaker 2>want to get too deep or technical or gross yet,

0:53:06.520 --> 0:53:09.680
<v Speaker 2>but if they could savage a lot of the skin.

0:53:10.960 --> 0:53:16.720
<v Speaker 2>And Jordan's wife said in the post that twenty minutes later,

0:53:17.120 --> 0:53:19.520
<v Speaker 2>the doctor came back into the room and said to

0:53:19.560 --> 0:53:22.320
<v Speaker 2>her quote, I don't know what kind of prayers you

0:53:22.440 --> 0:53:26.600
<v Speaker 2>all have been praying, but I'm done already. He said.

0:53:26.800 --> 0:53:30.440
<v Speaker 2>I put away all my sharp tools, and he explained

0:53:30.440 --> 0:53:33.760
<v Speaker 2>that the burns once the bandages came off, looked better

0:53:33.800 --> 0:53:37.280
<v Speaker 2>than anything he had expected to find after the initial

0:53:37.320 --> 0:53:43.319
<v Speaker 2>assessment the day before. Now, according to the updates, there

0:53:43.400 --> 0:53:47.160
<v Speaker 2>is a long recovery, there will be scarring, there will

0:53:47.200 --> 0:53:51.000
<v Speaker 2>be long term changes. But as his wife said, we

0:53:51.120 --> 0:53:54.040
<v Speaker 2>got good news that was better than the best case scenario,

0:53:54.400 --> 0:53:57.200
<v Speaker 2>a miracle. I just wanted you all to hear it

0:53:57.239 --> 0:53:59.920
<v Speaker 2>and rejoice with us. He is worthy of all your praise.

0:54:01.520 --> 0:54:06.480
<v Speaker 2>The update today the latest was he had a rough

0:54:06.520 --> 0:54:11.319
<v Speaker 2>few days over the weekend. Today was better than the

0:54:11.400 --> 0:54:16.040
<v Speaker 2>last few days. Nothing new to report, and that Thursday

0:54:16.080 --> 0:54:19.040
<v Speaker 2>this week is expected to be another big news day

0:54:19.160 --> 0:54:22.040
<v Speaker 2>of what they learn in terms of progress in what

0:54:22.200 --> 0:54:25.080
<v Speaker 2>is next for him. But just just must have been

0:54:25.120 --> 0:54:31.239
<v Speaker 2>a horrific scene at the ranch and severe burns on

0:54:31.360 --> 0:54:35.040
<v Speaker 2>his body and driven by a ranch worker to the

0:54:35.080 --> 0:54:39.120
<v Speaker 2>hospital and then care flight to Austin. But trending in

0:54:39.160 --> 0:54:41.640
<v Speaker 2>a certainly a more positive direction. That is the latest

0:54:41.640 --> 0:54:45.280
<v Speaker 2>on Jordan Shipley and his icy updates posted by the family.

0:54:45.560 --> 0:54:49.680
<v Speaker 2>I will be sure to pass those along as well.

0:54:49.719 --> 0:54:54.359
<v Speaker 2>Back out to the phones. How about let's go Western Hills. Hey, Bob,

0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:56.800
<v Speaker 2>Welcome to seven hundred WLW.

0:54:57.360 --> 0:55:03.440
<v Speaker 9>Hey, Lance, first longtime listener, first on caller, Yeah, thank you.

0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:05.600
<v Speaker 9>I saw the you do a great job, by the way,

0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:10.720
<v Speaker 9>and I and I saw the Dicktobin press conference, Duke Togum.

0:55:10.800 --> 0:55:14.760
<v Speaker 9>I'm sorry. And anyway, it just it starts at the top, Lance,

0:55:14.800 --> 0:55:19.120
<v Speaker 9>I think with Mike Brown, and I don't think things

0:55:19.160 --> 0:55:21.920
<v Speaker 9>are going to change. You know, nothing against Duke or

0:55:22.680 --> 0:55:26.400
<v Speaker 9>or Zach Taylor, but it's just like Mike Brown is

0:55:26.440 --> 0:55:29.520
<v Speaker 9>just not committed to bring it in a real head coach,

0:55:29.719 --> 0:55:31.600
<v Speaker 9>you know, like we could have hit maybe Sean Payton

0:55:31.680 --> 0:55:36.080
<v Speaker 9>come in and and then double or triple our scouting, uh,

0:55:36.440 --> 0:55:40.279
<v Speaker 9>you know, compliment and just put things in motion. But

0:55:40.640 --> 0:55:43.600
<v Speaker 9>I just don't think it's going to happen. And as

0:55:43.640 --> 0:55:46.840
<v Speaker 9>far as you know, like their draft choices, Lance, I

0:55:46.840 --> 0:55:49.840
<v Speaker 9>mean there's been so many busts, you know, a Blahee Fisher,

0:55:50.400 --> 0:55:57.560
<v Speaker 9>that center, what was it, Pright guy Jackson, Burton Burton

0:55:57.760 --> 0:55:59.880
<v Speaker 9>and Ross the guy that you know, and it's just

0:56:00.080 --> 0:56:02.520
<v Speaker 9>on and on and on in Lance, maybe for a

0:56:02.520 --> 0:56:04.120
<v Speaker 9>hang up here. I don't want to keep you guys

0:56:04.320 --> 0:56:07.120
<v Speaker 9>from the rest of the callers, but is it true

0:56:07.160 --> 0:56:12.000
<v Speaker 9>the Bengals use some kind of scouting report from a

0:56:12.719 --> 0:56:16.560
<v Speaker 9>company or whatever that gives them a lot of scouting information,

0:56:16.719 --> 0:56:18.640
<v Speaker 9>and so they having boots on the ground.

0:56:18.800 --> 0:56:22.000
<v Speaker 2>Well, I think it's in addition to what they do.

0:56:22.040 --> 0:56:24.960
<v Speaker 2>There's a what's called a blessed Tho scouting service, and

0:56:25.000 --> 0:56:30.279
<v Speaker 2>I think most teams are privy to this information. But

0:56:30.320 --> 0:56:32.560
<v Speaker 2>to your point of boots on the ground, I'll never

0:56:32.680 --> 0:56:35.400
<v Speaker 2>understand or I'll never accept the idea that they've got

0:56:35.960 --> 0:56:40.160
<v Speaker 2>enough information about all the players. I've never understood what

0:56:40.200 --> 0:56:42.760
<v Speaker 2>the downside would be to having more boots on the ground,

0:56:42.880 --> 0:56:45.280
<v Speaker 2>because it's more players to look at and more players

0:56:45.280 --> 0:56:48.080
<v Speaker 2>to cross check and have more people look at because

0:56:48.160 --> 0:56:50.160
<v Speaker 2>if you have a scouting department of a six, maybe

0:56:50.200 --> 0:56:51.680
<v Speaker 2>you see a guy in a great day and you

0:56:51.680 --> 0:56:53.239
<v Speaker 2>fall in love with him. Maybe you see him on

0:56:53.280 --> 0:56:55.120
<v Speaker 2>a bad day and you fall out of love with him,

0:56:55.280 --> 0:56:57.600
<v Speaker 2>but maybe that was just one day. And if you

0:56:57.760 --> 0:57:00.760
<v Speaker 2>crosscheck and have guys see a player more than once,

0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:03.360
<v Speaker 2>it adds the perspective on a player.

0:57:04.400 --> 0:57:07.080
<v Speaker 9>It does Lanson, We've got so much talent here. I

0:57:07.080 --> 0:57:09.080
<v Speaker 9>know Mike Brown doesn't probably want to do it, but

0:57:09.120 --> 0:57:13.120
<v Speaker 9>you've got Dave Lapham, you got Munoz, You've got you know,

0:57:13.640 --> 0:57:16.160
<v Speaker 9>some of the other offensive players that still were in town,

0:57:16.720 --> 0:57:20.440
<v Speaker 9>if he would pay them and let them go in like,

0:57:20.560 --> 0:57:23.520
<v Speaker 9>you know, as a final check or something. And then

0:57:23.520 --> 0:57:25.680
<v Speaker 9>when we get a good guy like Amy Whitworth, how

0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:27.160
<v Speaker 9>he let Whitworth leave.

0:57:27.560 --> 0:57:28.200
<v Speaker 4>Is beyond me.

0:57:28.320 --> 0:57:30.040
<v Speaker 9>I think we hit him. We would have won that

0:57:30.120 --> 0:57:33.480
<v Speaker 9>Super Bowl. I truely believe that. But anyway, I don't.

0:57:33.360 --> 0:57:33.840
<v Speaker 4>Want to keep you.

0:57:33.880 --> 0:57:36.680
<v Speaker 9>But it's a shame we're stuck with Mike Brown. And

0:57:36.760 --> 0:57:38.760
<v Speaker 9>I guess the only thing like that previous callers say

0:57:38.800 --> 0:57:41.040
<v Speaker 9>you just don't renew your season tickets.

0:57:41.200 --> 0:57:43.240
<v Speaker 5>I guess I don't don't know what options.

0:57:43.320 --> 0:57:45.320
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Bob, I'm honored you call for the first time.

0:57:45.360 --> 0:57:47.720
<v Speaker 2>Please don't make it your last. Let's do it again sometime.

0:57:47.480 --> 0:57:50.040
<v Speaker 9>All right, Okay, thank you, sir, Thanks, thank you.

0:57:50.520 --> 0:57:55.240
<v Speaker 2>My frustration with the scouting and there their response is

0:57:55.520 --> 0:57:59.280
<v Speaker 2>they have all the information. They don't lack for information,

0:58:00.160 --> 0:58:04.000
<v Speaker 2>and it's not the volume of information. And I'm paraphrasing here,

0:58:04.000 --> 0:58:06.960
<v Speaker 2>but Zach said on Friday, when mistakes have been made,

0:58:07.400 --> 0:58:12.160
<v Speaker 2>they've been made at the decision point. And I heard that,

0:58:12.280 --> 0:58:17.840
<v Speaker 2>am I wait a minute, The mistakes aren't made by

0:58:18.000 --> 0:58:20.720
<v Speaker 2>lack of volume of information, meaning we've got all the

0:58:20.760 --> 0:58:23.320
<v Speaker 2>information we need on a player, that it's at the

0:58:23.400 --> 0:58:26.480
<v Speaker 2>decision point. Well, how do you think you arrived at

0:58:26.480 --> 0:58:31.360
<v Speaker 2>the decision point with the information? I mean, here's what

0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:37.240
<v Speaker 2>it just it really galls me, from the simplest of terms.

0:58:38.320 --> 0:58:42.240
<v Speaker 2>Imagine believing the smallest scouting department in the NFL by

0:58:42.360 --> 0:58:47.360
<v Speaker 2>far has all the information it needs. Just say that

0:58:47.400 --> 0:58:50.680
<v Speaker 2>out loud. And when Duke says it's not about the

0:58:50.720 --> 0:58:53.440
<v Speaker 2>volume of the information, that they'd never lacked info on

0:58:53.560 --> 0:58:55.960
<v Speaker 2>a player. And again when they when they've made a

0:58:55.960 --> 0:58:59.000
<v Speaker 2>mistake it was at the decision point, I don't know

0:58:59.160 --> 0:59:04.320
<v Speaker 2>how that is expected to be accepted as a logical answer.

0:59:04.520 --> 0:59:08.280
<v Speaker 2>Riddle me this, batman. Why does every other organization have

0:59:08.360 --> 0:59:15.720
<v Speaker 2>more scouts than the Bengals. Why would that be? More

0:59:15.720 --> 0:59:18.560
<v Speaker 2>scouts is more eyeballs on more players and more cross

0:59:18.600 --> 0:59:22.560
<v Speaker 2>checking opportunities. My daughter could have drafted Peyton's twenty three.

0:59:23.000 --> 0:59:26.120
<v Speaker 2>She could have drafted Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase in

0:59:26.160 --> 0:59:29.200
<v Speaker 2>the last they get six drafts. The Bengals have used

0:59:29.240 --> 0:59:32.800
<v Speaker 2>twelve picks on defensive linemen. Do you know what the Bengals'

0:59:32.800 --> 0:59:36.200
<v Speaker 2>biggest need is this offseason? As admitted to by Duke Tobin.

0:59:36.240 --> 0:59:41.160
<v Speaker 2>What they'll be looking for defensive line help may Waite

0:59:41.160 --> 0:59:45.120
<v Speaker 2>in the last six drafts, the team with all the

0:59:45.200 --> 0:59:48.440
<v Speaker 2>information they need, not lacking him from on any player.

0:59:48.640 --> 0:59:53.600
<v Speaker 2>They've drafted twelve defensive linemen, and yet they still need

0:59:53.960 --> 0:59:59.040
<v Speaker 2>defensive lineman. I mean, I'm left to believe that they

0:59:59.080 --> 1:00:01.480
<v Speaker 2>had all the information and they needed on Jermaine Burton

1:00:01.880 --> 1:00:04.439
<v Speaker 2>and that the decision point was where the mistake was made.

1:00:04.520 --> 1:00:07.600
<v Speaker 2>What I don't even know what I mean saying that

1:00:07.640 --> 1:00:13.760
<v Speaker 2>out loud It drives me crazy. But imagine thinking you

1:00:13.840 --> 1:00:19.080
<v Speaker 2>are so smart that you can scout and evaluate players

1:00:20.280 --> 1:00:24.800
<v Speaker 2>with less than half the people the average NFL scouting

1:00:24.800 --> 1:00:29.320
<v Speaker 2>department has. Say that out loud, No, we're good, We're good.

1:00:30.760 --> 1:00:34.360
<v Speaker 2>Average number of scouts a personnel in a scouting department

1:00:34.440 --> 1:00:38.080
<v Speaker 2>is somewhere around twenty two to twenty four. Bengals is

1:00:38.120 --> 1:00:41.760
<v Speaker 2>closer to ten depending on how you go buy a

1:00:41.880 --> 1:00:46.400
<v Speaker 2>job description eight nine, ten. So imagine thinking you are

1:00:46.520 --> 1:00:49.400
<v Speaker 2>so smart and have all your bases covered to say,

1:00:50.000 --> 1:00:53.240
<v Speaker 2>we can do this as well as anybody else with

1:00:53.480 --> 1:00:59.200
<v Speaker 2>half the people. Why would you believe that What would

1:00:59.200 --> 1:01:03.280
<v Speaker 2>be the down side to having more people? Not even more?

1:01:03.440 --> 1:01:06.800
<v Speaker 2>What would be the downside to having as many people

1:01:07.960 --> 1:01:11.240
<v Speaker 2>as the average NFL team. Their response is the old

1:01:11.640 --> 1:01:16.200
<v Speaker 2>too many cooks in the kitchen. Come on, come on,

1:01:16.320 --> 1:01:18.000
<v Speaker 2>I mean, we're we're all adults here.

1:01:19.960 --> 1:01:20.120
<v Speaker 4>You know.

1:01:20.720 --> 1:01:26.200
<v Speaker 2>This isn't cooks in the kitchen. This is scouting the

1:01:26.320 --> 1:01:31.880
<v Speaker 2>lifeblood of this organization and it's being executed with the

1:01:31.880 --> 1:01:34.920
<v Speaker 2>smallest department in the NFL. How is that supposed to

1:01:34.920 --> 1:01:40.480
<v Speaker 2>be taken? Seriously? Lexington, we go, Joe, what do you know?

1:01:42.000 --> 1:01:42.200
<v Speaker 7>Hey?

1:01:42.320 --> 1:01:45.320
<v Speaker 4>Lance? How you doing? And prayers go out to mister Shipley.

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<v Speaker 2>That's for sure, absolutely well said.

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<v Speaker 13>But yeah, I just want to touch on toe and

1:01:51.720 --> 1:01:54.240
<v Speaker 13>me the biggest syndicator that he's not for the job,

1:01:55.240 --> 1:01:57.760
<v Speaker 13>Like you said, one hundred percent scouting. I've been saying

1:01:57.760 --> 1:02:01.760
<v Speaker 13>that for ten years. But us how the Trey Henderson

1:02:02.000 --> 1:02:07.480
<v Speaker 13>episode went down, and and how they addressed it. Him

1:02:07.520 --> 1:02:11.479
<v Speaker 13>sitting out in all mini camps and the preseason and

1:02:11.560 --> 1:02:14.280
<v Speaker 13>not training and getting hurt second game in the Jets game.

1:02:14.360 --> 1:02:17.240
<v Speaker 13>That's why he got hurt. It's because he didn't train.

1:02:18.080 --> 1:02:20.480
<v Speaker 13>And you know, when when I was in the military,

1:02:20.480 --> 1:02:23.800
<v Speaker 13>eighty second hunter and first stairborn. If we missed a briefing,

1:02:25.040 --> 1:02:26.440
<v Speaker 13>look we're done.

1:02:26.520 --> 1:02:28.760
<v Speaker 4>We're done. You're under contract.

1:02:29.280 --> 1:02:34.400
<v Speaker 13>The public, the fans, the NFL world never should have

1:02:35.080 --> 1:02:40.360
<v Speaker 13>known the situation with with the Trey and it bled

1:02:40.400 --> 1:02:43.680
<v Speaker 13>down to the wording in the contract with Shamar Stewart

1:02:44.160 --> 1:02:48.240
<v Speaker 13>that should have and that's all on Tobin and that

1:02:48.320 --> 1:02:53.120
<v Speaker 13>created such a such a cancer. And because he's the

1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:57.840
<v Speaker 13>face of our defense and and to me, tobn not

1:02:58.040 --> 1:03:03.960
<v Speaker 13>handling that correctly and getting him in to the mini camps,

1:03:03.960 --> 1:03:07.240
<v Speaker 13>to the summer camps in the preseason, that right there

1:03:07.520 --> 1:03:10.120
<v Speaker 13>is you know, I'm going a loss, but I think

1:03:10.160 --> 1:03:13.280
<v Speaker 13>we need to boycott the games myself.

1:03:13.320 --> 1:03:14.080
<v Speaker 4>What do you think?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think that's up to every individual person. And

1:03:16.800 --> 1:03:18.760
<v Speaker 2>there is a right. There is a love for the

1:03:18.880 --> 1:03:22.960
<v Speaker 2>NFL that runs deep. There is a camaraderie of family

1:03:23.000 --> 1:03:26.200
<v Speaker 2>members and the experience of tailgating. And I'll go back

1:03:26.200 --> 1:03:27.880
<v Speaker 2>to what I said in the last hour. If the

1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:31.120
<v Speaker 2>organization is not going to change, then you put your

1:03:31.160 --> 1:03:33.680
<v Speaker 2>fans in a position where they have to consider if

1:03:33.680 --> 1:03:36.280
<v Speaker 2>they're going to change. And that's a very dangerous spot

1:03:36.320 --> 1:03:40.040
<v Speaker 2>to put your fan base in, right, right, But.

1:03:40.520 --> 1:03:43.640
<v Speaker 13>I just think collectively the fans have we're the ones

1:03:43.680 --> 1:03:46.840
<v Speaker 13>that really right the checks. I mean, if it wasn't

1:03:46.840 --> 1:03:50.160
<v Speaker 13>for the fans paying two hundred dollars for a seat,

1:03:50.200 --> 1:03:53.720
<v Speaker 13>four hundred dollars, one hundred dollars jersey of fifteen dollars beer,

1:03:54.320 --> 1:03:56.080
<v Speaker 13>where do they get their money to pay the players?

1:03:56.160 --> 1:04:00.680
<v Speaker 13>Is my you know, so one fan and I get it,

1:04:00.760 --> 1:04:03.360
<v Speaker 13>but all fans together, I think we kind of need

1:04:03.400 --> 1:04:05.880
<v Speaker 13>to have our own collective fan base and come together

1:04:05.920 --> 1:04:07.000
<v Speaker 13>and make some decisions.

1:04:07.040 --> 1:04:07.480
<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Joey and enjoyed. Just call again sometime. Thank you, thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>We're heading down the stretch. In our second hour, third hour,

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<v Speaker 2>headlined and highlighted by Brandon Phillips, who's the leadoff hitter

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<v Speaker 2>of the hour. All ahead RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented

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<v Speaker 2>by Kelsey Valet seven hunter WLW for a minute's final

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<v Speaker 2>word in this hour, delivered from Montgomery, Mark, you were

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<v Speaker 2>on seven hundred WLW.

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<v Speaker 14>Hello, Mark, Hey, how are you?

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<v Speaker 4>Lance?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry? Good good, good welcome. What's on your mind? Hey?

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<v Speaker 2>A couple of things.

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<v Speaker 14>You know, I wasn't expecting the Bengals to do anything

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<v Speaker 14>with Zach Tailor. I mean, that's just not how they operate. Uh,

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<v Speaker 14>but you know, at least I would have liked to

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<v Speaker 14>have heard that they were going to make some changes

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<v Speaker 14>on how they scout and develop, because you know, we

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<v Speaker 14>all know the biggest issue with this team has been

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<v Speaker 14>Lineman and how many misses they've had in the last

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<v Speaker 14>twenty five or thirty years. You could fund a new

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<v Speaker 14>hotel in downtown Cincinnati with the money they've wasted on Wineman.

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<v Speaker 14>So I mean, to add it up, you could actually

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<v Speaker 14>build a high rise hotel in downtown Cincinnati for what

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<v Speaker 14>they've wasted.

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<v Speaker 2>So frustrating, you know, that's that was I.

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<v Speaker 14>Mean, if I would have heard that, I would have said, Okay,

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<v Speaker 14>well maybe we're on the right track.

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<v Speaker 13>You know.

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<v Speaker 14>The other thing is, like, I just want to make

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<v Speaker 14>a quick comment on this Trey Hendrickson thing. Trey Hendrickson

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<v Speaker 14>had a contract and he decided that he didn't want

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<v Speaker 14>to play and make a big stink about it. And

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<v Speaker 14>I'm sorry, these guys sign a contract and if you

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<v Speaker 14>want to take advantage of where the market is, then

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<v Speaker 14>sign a one year deal and renegotiate it every year

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<v Speaker 14>to what the current market is. You can have it

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<v Speaker 14>both ways. So I don't have any sympathy at all

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<v Speaker 14>for that.

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<v Speaker 8>You know.

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<v Speaker 14>On the Bengals are not wrong with that. You know,

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<v Speaker 14>you sign a contract, you honor it if you if

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<v Speaker 14>you get a quote from your HVAC guy. And he

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<v Speaker 14>was back halfway through and says, hey, I need another

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<v Speaker 14>two thousand dollars for your furnace. What are you going

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<v Speaker 14>to tell him?

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<v Speaker 2>Yep, well said very well, said thank you.

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<v Speaker 9>That's it for me.

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<v Speaker 2>That's all I need. Thank you, thank you. And let's

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<v Speaker 2>end the hour with some college basketball. NK. You lost

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<v Speaker 2>yesterday by two to Green Bay. You see, lost to

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<v Speaker 2>UCF by one. Here's Wes Miller after the game, a

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<v Speaker 2>tough one. The Knights went ahead with eleven seconds left.

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<v Speaker 2>Jalen Selenstein missed a game winning three point attempt at

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<v Speaker 2>the buzzer. Bearcats fall seventy three, seventy two. Wes with

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<v Speaker 2>Dan and Terry after the game, and you're just.

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<v Speaker 15>So hurt for our players.

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<v Speaker 4>That's just.

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<v Speaker 15>I mean, you know the truth is is that proud

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<v Speaker 15>of them. You can see other than the result, which

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<v Speaker 15>is extremely frustrating. You can see the improvement, right, you

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<v Speaker 15>can like, you can see consistent improvement.

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<v Speaker 2>You want so bad.

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<v Speaker 15>I think people have children out there understand this.

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<v Speaker 2>When they do what you ask and they do it right.

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<v Speaker 15>You want them to get the reward, and I heard

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<v Speaker 15>so bad that they didn't get the reward the last

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<v Speaker 15>couple of games, especially tonight.

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<v Speaker 2>The truth is, we just got to stay together and

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<v Speaker 2>keep going.

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<v Speaker 4>Man.

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<v Speaker 2>That's it.

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<v Speaker 16>Like it sounds cliche, but it's the only We're on

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<v Speaker 16>the right track. We have a good basketball club. I

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<v Speaker 16>hate that we haven't got the results because you just

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<v Speaker 16>feel like we're I feel like we're one of the

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<v Speaker 16>better teams in college basketball. I think we can play

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<v Speaker 16>with anybody and beat anybuddy, and we haven't gotten results.

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<v Speaker 2>So I hate that.

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<v Speaker 8>Hmm.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay. The net rankings came out today. Perdue is five.

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<v Speaker 2>These are the rankings used by the Committee to some

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<v Speaker 2>extent in determining the NCAA Tournament field. Perdue is number

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<v Speaker 2>five in the net rankings. Louisville is eighteen, Indiana thirty four.

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<v Speaker 2>At thirty five is Kentucky thirty nine Ohio State. The

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<v Speaker 2>Miami RedHawks are at fifty three, Dayton Drew Aster Highty's

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<v Speaker 2>Flyers are at eighty two. The Bearcats are at ninety

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<v Speaker 2>five in the net rankings. Xavier is at one to nine,

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<v Speaker 2>Wright State one twenty one. NKU won seventy one in

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<v Speaker 2>the Ohio Bobcats at one eighty seven, the newest edition

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<v Speaker 2>of the net Rankings from the NCAA. All right to

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<v Speaker 2>a done. Second hour, Let's get into some reds. Brandon

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<v Speaker 2>Phillips to lead things off. Bullpen conversation long about eight

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<v Speaker 2>twenty and then anyone remember the famous recipe Chicken High

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<v Speaker 2>School basketball tournament. A thought on that round eight thirty

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<v Speaker 2>five or so, and on this date, of course. To

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<v Speaker 2>wrap it all up at eight fifty, let's go RNL

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<v Speaker 2>Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet and heard right

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<v Speaker 2>here on seven hundred WLW.

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<v Speaker 1>The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, let's keep moving, no reason to slow down now.

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<v Speaker 2>Third hour unfolding eight oh seven on seven hundred WLWRNL

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<v Speaker 2>Carrier Sports Talk presented by kill Ce Chevrolet. I'm Lance

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<v Speaker 2>kamlos Year and your host Russ Jackson, your producer. We

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for being our listeners tonight hang out for

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<v Speaker 2>this hour. Linta handing things off to Gary. Jeff Walker

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<v Speaker 2>serves up the nightcap tonight at nine o'clock. They're listening

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<v Speaker 2>in Lombard, Illinois. I lived in Lombard, Illinois for a

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<v Speaker 2>while when I worked at CLTV, Hello Lombard, and they're

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<v Speaker 2>listening in San Antonio, Texaskell and I went to San

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<v Speaker 2>Antonio about a year during the Bengals bye last year,

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<v Speaker 2>first time and love San Antonio, one of the most

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<v Speaker 2>walkable cities in America. The weather was fantastic at that point.

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<v Speaker 2>We will be going back to San Antonio. So thank

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<v Speaker 2>you for listening on the iHeartRadio app in Lombard, Illinois,

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<v Speaker 2>in San Antonio, Texas. All right. A couple of weeks ago,

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<v Speaker 2>the Bengals announced Bengals Red's announced their Hall of Fame

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<v Speaker 2>class at twenty twenty six Aaron Harang, Reggie Sanders, Lou Panela,

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<v Speaker 2>and Brandon Phillips and Seg had a chance to catch

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<v Speaker 2>up with Brandon and because we've had, you know, Monday,

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<v Speaker 2>this is the first Monday I've had that hasn't been

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<v Speaker 2>Bengals line since August. So I've got Mondays open now,

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<v Speaker 2>I've got Thursdays open now, which used to be the

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<v Speaker 2>roundtable showing. As much as I wish the Bengals season

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<v Speaker 2>was was still going on, it does free up a

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<v Speaker 2>more regular night to night of sports talk so on

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<v Speaker 2>a night like tonight, I said, Man, this is the

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<v Speaker 2>night Seg got a chance to catch up with him.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's play it tonight. Here is Seg after the announcement,

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<v Speaker 2>catching up with the man they call BP, Brandon Phillips.

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<v Speaker 6>Congratulations, man, you're a Red's Hall of favor A.

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<v Speaker 4>What's having man? How you doing?

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<v Speaker 5>Thanks for having me? I appreciate you, man, no problem.

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<v Speaker 2>What's this? What's this honor mean to you?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh?

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<v Speaker 5>Man? It can mean so many things. I can say

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<v Speaker 5>one thing, though, I love my damn fans.

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<v Speaker 4>I love my fans. Man. For them to.

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<v Speaker 5>Vote me in, I mean, you know, hopefully the Robbers

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<v Speaker 5>they voted me in twos, they been.

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<v Speaker 4>It's all good. I love you.

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<v Speaker 5>But but the heart and the soul is the fans, man.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, I did it for the fans. I did

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<v Speaker 5>it because I love the game of baseball, and also

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<v Speaker 5>I did it for my family. But for myself to

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<v Speaker 5>be inducted right now, I have to thank the fans,

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<v Speaker 5>and I think my teammates were really making as possible

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<v Speaker 5>for me.

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<v Speaker 6>Now, talk a little bit about the the journey. You

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<v Speaker 6>started out with the Montreal Expos. You were then, you

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<v Speaker 6>were what you were traded to Cleveland, and then all

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<v Speaker 6>of a sudden, I guess you get a call and

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<v Speaker 6>the Reds weren't you. It was in two thousand and six,

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<v Speaker 6>and you played here till twenty sixteen. Tell me around

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<v Speaker 6>the road, Brandon Phillips, I had to the Reds Hall

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<v Speaker 6>of Fame.

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<v Speaker 5>Well you're doing throw bags, man, you're trying to make

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<v Speaker 5>me cry over here. Man, dang got me think about

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<v Speaker 5>the bad times. But you know what, we'll get great,

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<v Speaker 5>We'll get the bad.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, the goods coming.

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<v Speaker 5>And stop telling people I got to dropped by the XO.

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<v Speaker 5>Is he telling my And I still look young. I

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<v Speaker 5>still like I'm in my late thirty because come on

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<v Speaker 5>now I look good. But again, so I gotta say

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<v Speaker 5>it again. So yes, I'll drift about the Expos. Was

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<v Speaker 5>in the organization. I was in the organization for for

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<v Speaker 5>a little bit, and you know I was going to

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<v Speaker 5>get called up with with the Xpos to the to

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<v Speaker 5>the Big Leason and am getting traded to the Indians,

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<v Speaker 5>and you know the Indians.

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<v Speaker 4>I was the guy. You know, I was a guy, and.

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<v Speaker 5>We just said see I with my style of play,

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<v Speaker 5>and I tried my best to be the best player

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<v Speaker 5>I can really be.

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<v Speaker 4>And you know, when you.

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<v Speaker 5>When you're young, you don't really know what you got

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<v Speaker 5>to do to be successful at a young age.

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<v Speaker 4>Back then.

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<v Speaker 5>It's totally different now how the game has really changed now,

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<v Speaker 5>But back then, you know, I mean, when once you

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<v Speaker 5>get up there, you got to produce. You can't be

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<v Speaker 5>hitting two thirty. You can't be hitting too citty and

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<v Speaker 5>get called up to the big leads. That that was

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<v Speaker 5>never done back then. And I ended up getting designated

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<v Speaker 5>for assignment in two thousand and six, and I was

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<v Speaker 5>at home practicing with my high school team and I

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<v Speaker 5>was like, man, this is my first time.

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<v Speaker 4>I've been defeated.

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<v Speaker 5>I felt like I failed had something for the first

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<v Speaker 5>time ever in my life. And then that's you know,

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<v Speaker 5>Wayne Kresky called me and he was my brand. You know, congratulations,

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<v Speaker 5>we're gonna sign you and bring you the Reds Country.

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<v Speaker 5>And they called me in the office when I got

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<v Speaker 5>there during Aaron was right there and it's like, Brandon,

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<v Speaker 5>we want you to be the best place you could be.

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<v Speaker 5>Do it your way, and I said, thank you very

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<v Speaker 5>much for this opportunity. I appreciate it, thank you for

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<v Speaker 5>letting me be me. And the restless history, and I

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<v Speaker 5>just put the city of Cincinnati on my back end

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<v Speaker 5>and the fans loved it, and I became that dude,

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<v Speaker 5>mister Cincinnati called him, mister Smile, call me whatever, Nicknam

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<v Speaker 5>and a half of me, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 5>Then we ended up having that dude and the Sigma Show.

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<v Speaker 5>We did everything epic. That's how we do it over here, Baybay.

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<v Speaker 2>That's true. That's true.

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<v Speaker 6>So Wayne Krisky just calls you out of the clear

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<v Speaker 6>blue and says, hey, we want you here in Cincinnati.

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<v Speaker 2>That's amazing.

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<v Speaker 5>Yes, I mean it was that man right there. I

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<v Speaker 5>thank him that he changed my whole life, my career,

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<v Speaker 5>not just my career, but my whole life, because you know,

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<v Speaker 5>I wouldn't know what I would have been doing right

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<v Speaker 5>now if it wasn't for him. You know, I don't

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<v Speaker 5>know what I would have been doing. And I thank

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<v Speaker 5>him for giving me the opportunity.

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<v Speaker 4>It was.

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<v Speaker 5>It was all Wayne, Wayne, Wayne. I was Wayne's guy,

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<v Speaker 5>you know. So you got to think about the guys

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<v Speaker 5>that Wayne brought over. He brought me and Bronson, Ryan

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<v Speaker 5>Brussell came over. There were the two guys. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 5>we was there for a long period of time, and

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<v Speaker 5>we wrote, we rode that time together. We did that

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<v Speaker 5>thing and and it was a it was a great

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<v Speaker 5>time to be alive.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me just read some of this stuff.

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<v Speaker 6>Three time National League gol Star, four time Gold Glove winner,

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<v Speaker 6>a Silver Slugger winner, a three time winner of the

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<v Speaker 6>Ernie Lobardi Award is Reds MVP, and they're one of

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<v Speaker 6>three Reds in history, along with the number forty four

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<v Speaker 6>Eric Davis, Number eleven Barry Larkin. Thirty home runs and

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<v Speaker 6>thirty stolen bases in the same season. You did it all, man,

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<v Speaker 6>You did it all, and you played for, like you said,

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<v Speaker 6>for the fans, and you played your best each and

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<v Speaker 6>every day.

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<v Speaker 5>Well hearing all that, man, I mean, I mean, it's

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<v Speaker 5>pretty impressive. It's pretty cool.

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<v Speaker 4>I never really heard.

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<v Speaker 5>It like that, you know, to be honest, I mean,

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<v Speaker 5>I just played the game the best way I knew how, man,

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<v Speaker 5>I thought. I thought baseball was born as hell. So

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<v Speaker 5>I had to do something made me enjoy it. So

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<v Speaker 5>I started letting balls, returned my legs behind my back,

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<v Speaker 5>hitting home runs, pimping them. But now the game is

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<v Speaker 5>totally different. Like I mean, if I played in this generation, oh, Lord,

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<v Speaker 5>you never know what kind of dad do it would

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<v Speaker 5>have been. It would have been crazy. But back then,

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, my teammates made me successful, you know, and

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<v Speaker 5>the coaches that I had, I'm right, managers, coaches and managers,

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<v Speaker 5>they did that. Jerry Naron, you know, Dustin Baker, right,

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<v Speaker 5>Pete mccannon. You got to think about those guys, man,

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, they really elevated my game and they made

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<v Speaker 5>me take off.

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<v Speaker 6>Tell me about that two thousand and seven season, as

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<v Speaker 6>I said, thirty home runs, thirty stolen bases, and only

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<v Speaker 6>three Reds have done it. I mean, that really puts

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<v Speaker 6>you on the map, didn't it?

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<v Speaker 4>It really did, you know?

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<v Speaker 5>And I, like I said, I was hit between Griffy

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<v Speaker 5>and Done, so I had a lot of pressure on

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<v Speaker 5>me and then. But the thing is though it made

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<v Speaker 5>me step my game up. It made me realize my

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<v Speaker 5>work and what I can really do by by doing that.

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<v Speaker 5>And all I can do is just be the best

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<v Speaker 5>version of me. And I took advantage of the situation,

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<v Speaker 5>and I thought I was going to keep on just

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<v Speaker 5>putting up numbers and doing and things like that. And

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<v Speaker 5>then the next following year I ended up breaking my

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<v Speaker 5>finger and I mean I started like a lot of

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<v Speaker 5>injuries started coming to my hands and to my wrist,

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<v Speaker 5>and so I've never been like ever since that had happened.

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<v Speaker 5>I was never the same after that. But I figured

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<v Speaker 5>out ways how to do it and find out way

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<v Speaker 5>to be successful, you know, so to really go out

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<v Speaker 5>there day in and day out to be successful with

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<v Speaker 5>the team and also for the fans. And I never

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<v Speaker 5>made excuses. I went out there and try to find

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<v Speaker 5>a way to get it done. And that's how I

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<v Speaker 5>was raised as a person. Even though you're not one

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<v Speaker 5>hundred percent, but you know what, you can go out there,

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<v Speaker 5>find a way still get it done and still be successful.

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<v Speaker 5>And I did that.

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<v Speaker 6>Tell me a little bit about how and uh, you're

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<v Speaker 6>your WWE superstar wife got together. I mean, uh, I'm

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<v Speaker 6>kind of surprised you haven't entered the squared circle and uh,

1:17:21.320 --> 1:17:25.960
<v Speaker 6>you know fought the Gunther or brock Lesser or you know,

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<v Speaker 6>maybe John Cena. I mean I was looking for that

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<v Speaker 6>dude BP to be out there running around and doing

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<v Speaker 6>the you know, doing the sleeper holding all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 6>How did you and your wife get together?

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<v Speaker 5>Uh? We we met to a family friend, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>and my my gut. My family friend metor at a

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<v Speaker 5>event and you know, he told me all about it,

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<v Speaker 5>and that's how we end up talking. You know, she

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<v Speaker 5>saw the last year, maybe the last two years, and sistant.

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<v Speaker 4>She saw it a little bit. Yeah, you know what

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<v Speaker 4>I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 5>Be cause we was friends, we was friends, she saw

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<v Speaker 5>a little bit of it. So she didn't know how

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<v Speaker 5>the city assistantatic really loved me, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 4>She didn't see the.

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<v Speaker 5>Grit, the love, the passion that the fans poured into me.

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<v Speaker 5>But that's how we met. And yeah, she's that's my queen.

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<v Speaker 5>She's killing a gang. She's a tampion right now. We

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<v Speaker 5>talked about us doing the US doing something wrestling for

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<v Speaker 5>me to getting the ring of where we talk about it.

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<v Speaker 5>But I'm like, hey, this.

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<v Speaker 4>Is your time.

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<v Speaker 5>We supported you supported me in my career. So I

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<v Speaker 5>want to make sure that she gets well she needs

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<v Speaker 5>out of it. But she needs me to go body

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<v Speaker 5>playing somebody.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm ready.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm ready to just you know, body playing D D T.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm ready, r KOs, I'm ready to do all that.

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<v Speaker 5>You know what I'm saying. I already gotta give me too.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm more with some baseball paths. I'm gonna be slide

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<v Speaker 5>in there home runs, making it rain on people.

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<v Speaker 2>There we go, here we go. Well, I got it.

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<v Speaker 6>I got to end this now because we uh we

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<v Speaker 6>we had a great time in the doug out. I

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<v Speaker 6>mean that, that dude BP show will never be forgotten.

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<v Speaker 4>It was.

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<v Speaker 2>It was.

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<v Speaker 6>It was quite an honor to talk to you on

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<v Speaker 6>a daily basis and get guests on every so often,

1:19:10.240 --> 1:19:13.440
<v Speaker 6>but just to have you to talk to uh was

1:19:13.439 --> 1:19:15.840
<v Speaker 6>was remarkable. I mean it was we we had a

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<v Speaker 6>thing going on, and we did We did our thing,

1:19:18.320 --> 1:19:21.200
<v Speaker 6>and I think everybody, everybody enjoyed it because it showed

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<v Speaker 6>another side of you that other than just playing second

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<v Speaker 6>base and playing baseball. It shows what what Brandon Phillips

1:19:27.760 --> 1:19:28.280
<v Speaker 6>was all about.

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<v Speaker 5>And I appreciate you for giving me the opportunity.

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<v Speaker 4>Man.

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<v Speaker 5>I mean, people can listen to our show stuck in traffic,

1:19:34.360 --> 1:19:35.920
<v Speaker 5>you know, about to come to the game. They hear

1:19:36.000 --> 1:19:37.280
<v Speaker 5>what we had to say and how it was going

1:19:37.360 --> 1:19:39.360
<v Speaker 5>to go. That was a good time to be alive.

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<v Speaker 5>Like I said, man, you know, I even told Jay

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<v Speaker 5>she didn't know nothing about this guy. I told the

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<v Speaker 5>other day, I said.

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<v Speaker 2>What baby, Oh boy, oh boy, I bet you that

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<v Speaker 2>one over big did it?

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<v Speaker 5>No, she loved it. Okay, okay, because you know I'm

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<v Speaker 5>gonna say she had the batty section in w W E.

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<v Speaker 5>So she has the own stuff like that. Okay, you

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<v Speaker 5>took that from me.

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<v Speaker 4>I did it first. I did it first.

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<v Speaker 6>She's got you got the Debbie, she's got the dudes.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, she got the batties.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh I got the Debbie got Yeah, you got good

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<v Speaker 5>looking women. That's competent. That's what you call him, batties.

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<v Speaker 5>But me, Miles was little Debbie cakes with little of

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<v Speaker 5>the Debbie.

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<v Speaker 9>You know.

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<v Speaker 6>Brandon, once again, congratulations man, you're the best. And we'll

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<v Speaker 6>see in April. But quite an honor and you're there

1:20:31.320 --> 1:20:33.160
<v Speaker 6>going to be a Red's Hall of Famer. I appreciate

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<v Speaker 6>your time as always, my man.

1:20:34.960 --> 1:20:36.800
<v Speaker 5>I appreciate you man. Thanks for having me, man, I'll

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<v Speaker 5>see you soon.

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<v Speaker 2>How about those two back together again from the dugouts

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<v Speaker 2>to uh the uh conversation tonight. That was awesome. Thanks

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<v Speaker 2>to seg for getting that done and passing it along.

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<v Speaker 2>And how about the big time praise Brandon Phillips had

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<v Speaker 2>for Wayne Krivsky and uh Wayne Crisky and Jerry Naaron

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<v Speaker 2>allowing him to be himself a winn. He came here.

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<v Speaker 2>When we come back, The Reds have reportedly signed a reliever,

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<v Speaker 2>not official by the team, but background on him and

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<v Speaker 2>an assessment of the Reds bullpen. This edition of it

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<v Speaker 2>compared to last year's edition of it. That is ahead

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<v Speaker 2>as we continue with RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by

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<v Speaker 2>and the bullpen news. The Reds have not made this official.

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder if it's like a physical today or tomorrow,

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<v Speaker 2>the announcement tomorrow and then he joins Red's Hot Stowe

1:21:52.080 --> 1:21:54.960
<v Speaker 2>League show tomorrow night. Maybe. Reports are the Reds have

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<v Speaker 2>reached an agreement with right handed relief pitcher Pierce Johnson.

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<v Speaker 2>He turned thirty five in May, pitched for the Braves

1:22:02.400 --> 1:22:05.000
<v Speaker 2>last season and sixty five appearances out of the pen.

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<v Speaker 2>His earned run average three zero five not bad, fifty

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<v Speaker 2>nine strikeouts fifty nine innings. Big curveball guy through his

1:22:12.960 --> 1:22:16.000
<v Speaker 2>curveball seventy two percent of the time. And if you're wondering,

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<v Speaker 2>he was much better than league average, ERA plus is

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<v Speaker 2>a way of telling you how much better or worse

1:22:22.240 --> 1:22:25.000
<v Speaker 2>than league average a pitcher was. His ERA plus was

1:22:25.040 --> 1:22:29.000
<v Speaker 2>one thirty seven, meaning he pitched better. He pitched thirty

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<v Speaker 2>seven percent better than your average pitcher in Major League

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<v Speaker 2>Baseball last season. A strikeout rate better than average, a

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<v Speaker 2>walk rate lower than leg average, fly ball rates a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit higher than I think you would initially like.

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<v Speaker 2>He's more of a six to seventh, seventh eighth inning guy,

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<v Speaker 2>not a closer type. He does have sixteen saves in

1:22:49.040 --> 1:22:51.840
<v Speaker 2>his career, but last season, pitching in the sixth inning,

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<v Speaker 2>his earned run average was one fifty nine. When he

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<v Speaker 2>pitched in the seventh, it was two thirty five. When

1:22:58.040 --> 1:23:00.560
<v Speaker 2>he pitched in the eighth, his ERA was two fourteen.

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<v Speaker 2>When he pitched in the ninth, it was over ten.

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<v Speaker 2>So he got knocked around in the ninth inning for

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<v Speaker 2>whatever reason. Last season the year before. He appeared in

1:23:10.640 --> 1:23:12.880
<v Speaker 2>fifty eight games with an earned run average of about

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<v Speaker 2>three to six zero career three hundred and thirty appearances,

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<v Speaker 2>twelve postseason appearances over four different postseasons. Pretty good postseason pitcher.

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<v Speaker 2>One and a half earned run average in twelve innings

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<v Speaker 2>of playoff work. He was originally a twelve twenty and

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<v Speaker 2>twelve twenty twelve first round pick of the Cubs. He

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<v Speaker 2>went number forty three. I think it was in that round.

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<v Speaker 2>He was like a compensatory pick of that first round,

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<v Speaker 2>think like eight picks later. The Reds took Jesse Winker

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<v Speaker 2>that year, but went to the Cubs in twenty twelve. So,

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<v Speaker 2>having said all that, this is what the Reds have

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<v Speaker 2>done with their bullpen this offseason. They have added Caleb Ferguson.

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<v Speaker 2>They have added Pierce JOHNSONLB reports the deal for Pierce

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<v Speaker 2>Johnson is one year, six and a half million. They've

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<v Speaker 2>lost Scott Barlow, lost, Brent Suitor, lost Nick Martinez, re

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<v Speaker 2>signed Emilio Pagan. So would you feel better, worse, or

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<v Speaker 2>the same about this bullpen compared to last year's bullpen?

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<v Speaker 2>I would cautiously opt, be cautiously optimistic and saying I

1:24:25.320 --> 1:24:28.800
<v Speaker 2>think this bullpen can be better than last season. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit worried if they didn't get the best

1:24:30.800 --> 1:24:33.680
<v Speaker 2>out of Emilio Pagan and there's no way he replicates that,

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<v Speaker 2>but we'll see. I'm a little bit worried about the

1:24:37.360 --> 1:24:41.439
<v Speaker 2>workload of Tony Santion. Eighty appearances is a lot of

1:24:41.479 --> 1:24:45.800
<v Speaker 2>work and relievers performances are so volatile from one year

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<v Speaker 2>to the next, and when you're young and through that

1:24:48.360 --> 1:24:51.880
<v Speaker 2>many innings, that many appearances, I'm always curious how you're

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<v Speaker 2>going to respond armwise the next year. But Caleb ferguson

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<v Speaker 2>the lefty, I like him, Pierce Johnson, the new guy,

1:24:57.920 --> 1:25:00.800
<v Speaker 2>Graham Ashcraft. I think counter Phillips is an important part

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<v Speaker 2>of this bullpen in terms of does he was what

1:25:03.479 --> 1:25:08.040
<v Speaker 2>we saw last season like legit? And is there is

1:25:08.080 --> 1:25:10.600
<v Speaker 2>there a next level to get to or does he

1:25:10.800 --> 1:25:15.080
<v Speaker 2>regress this season You've got But he's still young, so

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's gonna get better, I hope, And if

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<v Speaker 2>he does, look out because he's nasty. Sam Mall and

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<v Speaker 2>an open spot. If you figure there's eight bullpen spots,

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<v Speaker 2>that's about seven that appear to be taken. Pegan Santition, Ferguson, Johnson, Ashcraft, Phillips,

1:25:34.920 --> 1:25:38.080
<v Speaker 2>and Mal with one more and maybe that one more

1:25:38.160 --> 1:25:47.600
<v Speaker 2>comes from Zach Maxwell or Luis may yos Verzulueta, Brandon Williamson,

1:25:48.880 --> 1:25:55.200
<v Speaker 2>Ryan Richardson, they invited to spring training Josh Stammont. I

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<v Speaker 2>believe it's pronounced so that grouping maybe fills the last spot.

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<v Speaker 2>I find it hurt to believe they're going to spend

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<v Speaker 2>more money on another reliever, as much as they've spent

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<v Speaker 2>on relievers this offseason. But if it's Beegone, Santion, Ferguson, Johnson, Ashcraft, Phillips, Maul,

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<v Speaker 2>and one from that group, I mentioned that shapes up

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<v Speaker 2>this is a pretty good bullpen, does it not? That

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<v Speaker 2>bullpen last year an innings pitched was twenty fifth in baseball.

1:26:25.400 --> 1:26:28.600
<v Speaker 2>Now Terry went to the penalot Terry went to the

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<v Speaker 2>pen five hundred and fifty times last year. That was

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<v Speaker 2>the sixth most in all of baseball. I think if

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<v Speaker 2>you could squeeze another couple outs or one more inning

1:26:41.760 --> 1:26:44.320
<v Speaker 2>out of your starting rotation on average, probably a lot

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<v Speaker 2>to ask in this day and age, but if you

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<v Speaker 2>could think of how much that easier it makes on

1:26:49.120 --> 1:26:52.360
<v Speaker 2>your bullpen. When it's all said and done, some more

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<v Speaker 2>Reds ahead. Plus does anybody recall Do you recall the

1:26:57.640 --> 1:27:01.760
<v Speaker 2>famous recipe Classic? Stumbled into this last week in an

1:27:01.800 --> 1:27:04.240
<v Speaker 2>email I got. I love emails with stuff I didn't

1:27:04.240 --> 1:27:07.559
<v Speaker 2>know anything about, and I knew nothing about the famous

1:27:07.560 --> 1:27:09.800
<v Speaker 2>recipe Classic, And the more I looked at it, the

1:27:09.840 --> 1:27:13.200
<v Speaker 2>more fascinated I became. That and more. As we continue

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<v Speaker 2>with Darnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven

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<v Speaker 2>passed along something to me last week I had no

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<v Speaker 2>working knowledge of. I'm fascinated by it. I loved the

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<v Speaker 2>deeper I got into it, the more I was intrigued

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<v Speaker 2>by it, And he sent me a Northern Kentucky high

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<v Speaker 2>school basketball Facebook post I think it was from David Hartman,

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<v Speaker 2>and last week was the anniversary. He was forty eight.

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<v Speaker 2>Three years ago this past week that the largest in

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<v Speaker 2>season basketball tournament in Kentucky tipped off, the famous Recipe Classic.

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<v Speaker 2>Now this when it started, I was in high school,

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<v Speaker 2>so I wasn't here. I had moved and by the

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<v Speaker 2>time I came back in ninety seven, it was wrapping up,

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<v Speaker 2>so I didn't get a chance to experience this. But

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<v Speaker 2>it was a sixteen team tournament in Northern Kentucky. The

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<v Speaker 2>top eight Northern Kentucky high school boys basketball teams squared

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<v Speaker 2>off with the best eight teams available around the state

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<v Speaker 2>of Kentucky. And the Classic idea started with a gentleman

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<v Speaker 2>named Tom Cummins who was the owner of famous recipes

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<v Speaker 2>Fried Chicken in the Northern Kentucky area, and he had

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<v Speaker 2>a brain trust of three men. Ed Pendry, editor and

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<v Speaker 2>publisher of Kentucky Sports newspaper, Dale McMillan, the legend sports

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<v Speaker 2>director whkk here WLW voice in the Bearcats at one time,

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<v Speaker 2>and Mel Webster, a coach and an official. It was

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<v Speaker 2>kind of the publicity director of the event. And this

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<v Speaker 2>tournament began as a four day elimination tournament across northern

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<v Speaker 2>Kentucky that would grow to four sites and pool play,

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<v Speaker 2>and it kicked off at homes I think in Lloyd

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<v Speaker 2>High School, and at the start the tournament was centered

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<v Speaker 2>around the boys side. They later expanded to the girls side.

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<v Speaker 2>But the more I read about this, the more cool

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<v Speaker 2>it sounded. The fact that the team headquarters was the

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<v Speaker 2>Holiday Inn South and Fort Mitchell, featuring the Holidame, and

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<v Speaker 2>there was a team reception at January the fifth. Each

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<v Speaker 2>visiting team in the tournament was guaranteed thirteen hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five dollars and a share of the visiting profits.

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<v Speaker 2>Each local team in the tournament got twelve hundred dollars

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<v Speaker 2>and twenty five percent of the profits went to local schools.

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<v Speaker 2>The players got a tournament newspaper and a t shirt

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<v Speaker 2>for participating in it. There was a big push to

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<v Speaker 2>convince the local leaders to build a basketball arena, a

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<v Speaker 2>minimum six thousand seed arena as part of all this.

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<v Speaker 2>I think Holmes High School was the largest gym at

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<v Speaker 2>the time if I remember reading correctly. The tournament provided

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<v Speaker 2>hotel accommodations, There was money up front of the schools.

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<v Speaker 2>There was a media guy that was over sixty pages

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<v Speaker 2>that was sold for one dollar in nineteen ninety two.

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<v Speaker 2>At one time the field one year, the coaches in

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<v Speaker 2>the field had over forty eight hundred combined career wins.

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<v Speaker 2>I was looking at matchups one year, and don't hold

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<v Speaker 2>me to what year this was, but it was Tates

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<v Speaker 2>Creek versus Scott High School coached by Jeff Mitchell led

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<v Speaker 2>by was it Jeff Knof a Campbellsville voice versus Lloyd

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<v Speaker 2>who had Greg Kunkel and j Stencil Grant County took

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<v Speaker 2>on Highlands coached by Ken Shields, the legend my guy

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<v Speaker 2>went on to coach at NKU. Kenny Shields team had

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<v Speaker 2>Jeff Kramer and Willie Schlarman Willi Schlarman. The year I

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<v Speaker 2>was looking at was averaging twenty two a game. East

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<v Speaker 2>Carter took on Newcath who was ten and zero. Newkath

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<v Speaker 2>was the smallest team in the tournament three hundred and forty,

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<v Speaker 2>led by Tom Freppin and was it Jimmy Pagnala Pagnola

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<v Speaker 2>Paducah Tillman took on Connor In a player named Tony Hilton.

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<v Speaker 2>Newport had Madison Central as the matchup. Knox County Central

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<v Speaker 2>took on Covcath with Brian Clemens and Todd Shulty and

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<v Speaker 2>Owensborough against Holmes one year. But I cannot thank Andrew

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<v Speaker 2>enough for passing this along. I talked with Skinny Richard

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<v Speaker 2>Skinner about this yesterday and Tom Gamble about this. I

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<v Speaker 2>knew nothing about it, but I loved the idea that

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<v Speaker 2>I'd love to see something like that come back. That

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<v Speaker 2>must have been cool back in. I think it ran

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<v Speaker 2>from nineteen eighty three to like nineteen ninety seven. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>grab some reds that I got to get to some

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<v Speaker 2>NFL conversation as well in Tennessee. Jeff, Welcome to seven

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<v Speaker 2>hundred WLW. Thanks to McCall. I got it. A couple

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<v Speaker 2>of questions, Doc Tasky Bud. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>Number one that uh Mark Hate from.

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<v Speaker 2>Colorado, Yes, signed into a to a minor league contract

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<v Speaker 2>first baseman formerly the.

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<v Speaker 14>Rockies, Okay, and then uh Garrett uh.

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<v Speaker 2>Hanson, Yes, minor league contract. He was here for a

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<v Speaker 2>brief time last season.

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<v Speaker 4>Nice. Yeah. And my last question, yeah, are.

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<v Speaker 2>They done well financially? They're close to being done if

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<v Speaker 2>they're gonna stick with last year? Was the last year's payroll?

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<v Speaker 2>Is going to be very close to this year's payroll. Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>they might have a little tiny bit of wiggle room,

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<v Speaker 2>but I would think anything that happens now is gonna

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<v Speaker 2>come from money freed up in a trade. Beyond that,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't see a lot of room to make any deals. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>they they they've got seven five five with the Rands

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<v Speaker 2>last year.

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<v Speaker 12>Is that correct?

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<v Speaker 4>No? Six?

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<v Speaker 14>Maya Pegan, he's the only one to thank signed free

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<v Speaker 14>agent that was our with them last year.

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<v Speaker 2>The others are hasn't been with the Reds right, correct? Yes, yep, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>but I appreciate you taking a call of Fank. You

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<v Speaker 2>got to. I appreciate you checking in. You have the

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<v Speaker 2>first baseman they signed to the Rockies, Mike taglia to

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<v Speaker 2>og l i a is a switch hitter. He is.

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's twenty seven years old. Hit twenty five

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<v Speaker 2>bombs two years ago, hit eleven last year. Has never

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<v Speaker 2>been a big batting average guy. I think lifetime two

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<v Speaker 2>oh one. But in reality, he's depth in the minor leagues.

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<v Speaker 2>He's not gonna be. The only way he becomes a

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<v Speaker 2>part of the major league roster is if something has

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<v Speaker 2>gone dramatically wrong on the major league side of things.

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<v Speaker 2>The same thing with Garrett Hampson. It's all about depth

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<v Speaker 2>in the minor leagues. And having said, if something goes haywire,

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<v Speaker 2>you need something at Triple A Louisville, and he would

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<v Speaker 2>be something at Triple A Louisville. I watched, we watched

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<v Speaker 2>the five NFL playoff games. I watched four and a

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<v Speaker 2>half of them turned off at halftime last night. Do

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<v Speaker 2>you know this was the first time in NFL history

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<v Speaker 2>there were four games decided by four points or fewer

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<v Speaker 2>in a single round of the NFL postseason. First time

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<v Speaker 2>in NFL history four games decided by four points or fewer.

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<v Speaker 2>Bears beat the Packers by four. I have no idea

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<v Speaker 2>still how the Bears won that game. What a game.

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<v Speaker 2>Rams beat the Panthers by three, The Bills beat the

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<v Speaker 2>Jaguars by three. Josh Allen is the single, maybe the

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<v Speaker 2>single toughest dude in the NFL. Got the crap beat

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<v Speaker 2>out of him. Do you know, Josh Allen? I think

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<v Speaker 2>this is right. I think this is his eighth year.

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<v Speaker 2>Josh Allen has not missed a game since his rookie

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<v Speaker 2>season due to injury. That was Let's see one, two, three, four, five, six,

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<v Speaker 2>seven eight. He has not missed a game since his

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<v Speaker 2>rookie season, and I think that was a tendon issue

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<v Speaker 2>or soreness with his elbow. He just takes a beating

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<v Speaker 2>and keeps on playing. And the forty nine ers, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>Kelly was freaking out. Forty nine ers somehow, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>beat the Eagles by four for all the for all

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<v Speaker 2>the injuries the Bengals had this season, to losing Joe

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<v Speaker 2>Burrow for what nine games they went won in eight

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<v Speaker 2>nine games and losing Trey Hendrickson, do you realize what

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<v Speaker 2>the forty nine ers did this year with Kyle Shanahan

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<v Speaker 2>as their coach. They win, they advance. Now they've lost

1:35:38.320 --> 1:35:40.840
<v Speaker 2>George Kittle for the season with the torn achilles, but

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<v Speaker 2>Brock Perdy played nine games this season for the Niners.

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<v Speaker 2>They went twelve and five. They lost Fred Warner, they

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<v Speaker 2>lost Nick Bosa, George Kittle, Ricky Pearsall, Brandon Aiyuk, they

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<v Speaker 2>lost their fifth string linebacker, they lost their sixth string linebacker,

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<v Speaker 2>and the Niners are still playing after going twelve and

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<v Speaker 2>five in the regular season. Unbelievable. But the game on

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<v Speaker 2>the Saturday Packers Bears game, Bears trailed twenty one to

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<v Speaker 2>six in the fourth quarter and scored twenty five to

1:36:16.680 --> 1:36:19.559
<v Speaker 2>beat Green Bay thirty one twenty seven. And I gotta

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<v Speaker 2>tell you, every time I watch Caleb Williams, I feel

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<v Speaker 2>the same way. That guy will make an incredible throw,

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<v Speaker 2>and then he makes a throw, you say, what in

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<v Speaker 2>the world was that? And it played out on Saturday night.

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<v Speaker 2>He was dynamic, and he completed half his passes. He

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<v Speaker 2>threw it forty eight times and he only completed twenty four.

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<v Speaker 2>But we're in a day and age where quarterbacks are

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<v Speaker 2>pushing seventy percent if they're good. He completed fifty percent

1:36:49.320 --> 1:36:52.599
<v Speaker 2>of his passes and it was almost exactly. Half of

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<v Speaker 2>them were incredible and half of them are like, what

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<v Speaker 2>was that?

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<v Speaker 7>Man?

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<v Speaker 2>He made a throw I can't even begin to describe.

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<v Speaker 2>In the fourth quarter with the game on the line,

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<v Speaker 2>it was incredible. Three hundred and sixty one yards, two touchdowns,

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<v Speaker 2>they advance and the other thing that jumped out for

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<v Speaker 2>the weekend. And I know we're talking about an analytically

1:37:14.280 --> 1:37:17.880
<v Speaker 2>driven world of sports in this day and age. In

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<v Speaker 2>the five playoff games, NFL coaches went for it on

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<v Speaker 2>fourth down twenty six times. They punted thirty two times.

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<v Speaker 2>They went for it twenty six times and converted half

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<v Speaker 2>of those thirteen of twenty six, and it seemed like

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<v Speaker 2>everyone was a big one either. All that blew up

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<v Speaker 2>and I would give you, I would give you early

1:37:43.400 --> 1:37:47.400
<v Speaker 2>on it blew up in the Bear's face and Ben Johnson,

1:37:47.520 --> 1:37:49.960
<v Speaker 2>but they were able to overcome it. But it is

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<v Speaker 2>crazy how often teams go for it on fourth down

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<v Speaker 2>this year. And I will say, oh, one other note

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<v Speaker 2>I saw today on the playoffs. One I'm thinking about it.

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<v Speaker 2>And this was a courtesy of John Breech, son of

1:37:59.760 --> 1:38:02.840
<v Speaker 2>the legend Jim Brade. John writes for CBS Sports, this

1:38:02.960 --> 1:38:06.360
<v Speaker 2>is hard to figure out. Sean McVay and the Rams

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<v Speaker 2>will play the Bears this week. Sean McVay, this will

1:38:09.960 --> 1:38:16.080
<v Speaker 2>be his fifteenth playoff game. He has played faced fifteen

1:38:16.240 --> 1:38:23.040
<v Speaker 2>different teams. How is that even possible? No duplicates in

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen playoff appearances He's faced fifteen. That sounds impossible. In fact,

1:38:28.040 --> 1:38:30.599
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know John Breach was such a fantastic writer.

1:38:30.680 --> 1:38:32.880
<v Speaker 2>He said, well, that can't be right, but it is

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't seem like it could be possible. I do have

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<v Speaker 2>a broadcasting note that I will tread lightly on because

1:38:40.040 --> 1:38:43.519
<v Speaker 2>he's a legend and he's a Hall of Famer, and

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<v Speaker 2>I don't say this lightly, but to me, it is

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<v Speaker 2>striking how lacking Al Michaels has become on calls of

1:38:54.320 --> 1:39:03.600
<v Speaker 2>games for Amazon. I mean, his diminishing awareness and sharpness

1:39:03.640 --> 1:39:09.519
<v Speaker 2>and even visual understanding of what's happening on too many

1:39:09.560 --> 1:39:19.799
<v Speaker 2>occasions is difficult. Kirk Kurbstreet is really good at cleaning

1:39:19.880 --> 1:39:24.679
<v Speaker 2>up and finishing off too many of his calls now,

1:39:25.600 --> 1:39:29.840
<v Speaker 2>it just really and I haven't watched every game that

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<v Speaker 2>Al's done this year, but that Saturday night it was

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<v Speaker 2>striking just where he is right now from a game

1:39:42.200 --> 1:39:46.519
<v Speaker 2>calling standpoint, at what I think he's eighty now. Man,

1:39:47.360 --> 1:39:50.880
<v Speaker 2>I think Tom Brady is getting better and better. I

1:39:50.960 --> 1:39:56.440
<v Speaker 2>think Tony Romo is slipping and slipping. I think Tony

1:39:56.560 --> 1:39:58.360
<v Speaker 2>Romo sounds like too often he shows up to the

1:39:58.400 --> 1:40:00.439
<v Speaker 2>game just to have fun, and really he has done

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<v Speaker 2>no background or prep on the game, which I don't understand.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm not so sure. Well, I think I am

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<v Speaker 2>kind of sure. I think Greg Olsen's better than both

1:40:06.680 --> 1:40:11.639
<v Speaker 2>of them. He's much better than Romo, and I think

1:40:11.680 --> 1:40:14.840
<v Speaker 2>Greg Olsen's better than Tom Brady. But Tom Brady's getting better.

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<v Speaker 2>I enjoy listening to him on games. All right, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna run out of time I gotta do on this date.

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<v Speaker 2>Final segment is next RNL Carrier Sports Doc presented by

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<v Speaker 2>Kelsey Sherblay seven hundred WLW The Stretch, final segment of

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<v Speaker 2>the night. We do it with an on this date

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<v Speaker 2>in Red Or sports history, and I've got a couple

1:40:33.640 --> 1:40:35.400
<v Speaker 2>of things that happened to be related to the Reds

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<v Speaker 2>on this list. So here we go. Nineteen thirty two,

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<v Speaker 2>Red's legend Ed Roush announces his retirement. He hit three

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<v Speaker 2>twenty three over nearly two thousand major league games. Elected

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<v Speaker 2>to the Baseball Hall of Fame in nineteen sixty two,

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<v Speaker 2>won two batting titles, never struck out more than twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five times in a season. Holy cow, there's guys who

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<v Speaker 2>track out twenty five times in a week, it seems.

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<v Speaker 2>In nineteen sixty nine, the Red celebrated the centennial and

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<v Speaker 2>Raush was voted the greatest player in the team's history

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<v Speaker 2>at that point. Nineteen forty three. On this date, the

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<v Speaker 2>Reds and Out Spring training will take place in Bloomington, Indiana,

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<v Speaker 2>at Indiana University for the duration of World War Two,

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<v Speaker 2>teams had been ordered by the Commissioner Landis Kennesaw mount

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<v Speaker 2>Landis to save travel expenses, So the Reds trained in

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<v Speaker 2>Bloomington for three spring trainings, and due to the weather,

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<v Speaker 2>conducted many of their workouts inside of Indiana Fieldhouse. How

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<v Speaker 2>about that for a note? Nineteen fifty one. On this date,

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<v Speaker 2>Ezard Charles knocks out Lee Omen in the tenth rout

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<v Speaker 2>at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain the

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<v Speaker 2>heavyweight title. Nineteen sixty nine. History Joe Willie Namath guarantees

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<v Speaker 2>of victory before the game against the seventeen point favorite Colts,

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<v Speaker 2>then leads the AFL and the Jets to its first

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<v Speaker 2>Super Bowl victory sixteen to seven in the Guarantee Game.

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<v Speaker 2>Nineteen seventy two. A Red's Note. The Reds select man

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<v Speaker 2>he junior college pitcher Tom Hume in the secondary phase

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<v Speaker 2>of the Winner Amateur Draft. Hume would say ninety two

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<v Speaker 2>games over eleven seasons. He was an All Star in

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<v Speaker 2>eighty two, and I believe he is the only Red

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<v Speaker 2>to save a game. In the All Star Game nineteen

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<v Speaker 2>eighty one, the Reds become the last team in Major

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<v Speaker 2>League Baseball to sign a free agent. They inc Cubs

1:42:22.600 --> 1:42:28.559
<v Speaker 2>outfielder Larry Bittner. Free agency had started five years earlier

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<v Speaker 2>in nineteen seventy six. The Reds did not sign their

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<v Speaker 2>first free agent until nineteen eighty one. Bitner hit two

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<v Speaker 2>eighty six over one hundred and thirty nine games in

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<v Speaker 2>two seasons for the Reds nineteen eighty eight. On this date,

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<v Speaker 2>Jimmy the Greek Snyder of CBS NFL today out fired

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<v Speaker 2>for his racially insensitive comments during an interview the previous

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<v Speaker 2>day with a TV station in Washington. And this couple

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<v Speaker 2>more to wrap it up. Twenty fifteen, Ezekiel Elliott Russia

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<v Speaker 2>for two one hundred and forty six yards and four touchdowns.

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<v Speaker 2>The Buckeyes win the National title, running over Oregon forty

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<v Speaker 2>two to twenty. And on this date, twenty seventeen, the

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<v Speaker 2>Chargers announce a move from San Diego to Los Angeles.

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<v Speaker 2>Speaking of National title games, cannot wait one week from

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<v Speaker 2>tonight Indiana versus Miami. By the way, I listened to

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<v Speaker 2>our guy Luke Brenneman and the broadcast of his crew

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<v Speaker 2>on the way home Friday night out of Bloomington. They

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<v Speaker 2>do the games for Indiana University Radio. They were stellar,

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<v Speaker 2>good job, captured the moment, painted the picture, really enjoyed

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<v Speaker 2>it on the way home, and cannot wait one week

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<v Speaker 2>from tonight to see the Indiana Hoosiers. What I performance

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<v Speaker 2>on Friday night to take out Oregon unbelievable. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>So tomorrow night I follow Red's Hot Stove at eight,

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<v Speaker 2>So we're on seven to nine. I'm working on a

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<v Speaker 2>project and I don't know if I can convince myself

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<v Speaker 2>of it, but I'm trying to get creative, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>trying to figure out how the Reds can get a bat.

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<v Speaker 2>They still don't have a bat, and yet their payroll

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<v Speaker 2>is if we're if we're to believe what they're saying,

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<v Speaker 2>it's close to bumping up right against their limit. But

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of things to ponder. Do you realize the

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<v Speaker 2>Reds are going to spend this year just over thirteen

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<v Speaker 2>million dollars on three catchers. They're going to go to

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<v Speaker 2>arbitration with Tyler Stevenson and he's gonna make a round

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<v Speaker 2>when it's all said and done, around six and a

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<v Speaker 2>half million. They're paying Jose Travino five and a half million,

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<v Speaker 2>and they're paying Ben Rourtvett, who they claimed on waivers

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<v Speaker 2>from the Dodgers a million two. Now he doesn't have

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<v Speaker 2>any options, so they can't send him back to the miners.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's just over thirteen million on three catchers. Could

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<v Speaker 2>you envision a scenario where they would trade Tyler Stevenson.

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<v Speaker 2>Clearly there's something going on that they couldn't reach an

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<v Speaker 2>agreement and they're going to arbitration over two hundred and

1:45:15.360 --> 1:45:18.320
<v Speaker 2>fifty thousand dollars. Nobody does that, but the Reds and

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<v Speaker 2>Tyler Stevenson are and he's entering the final year of

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<v Speaker 2>his contract. What would you be able to do with

1:45:25.400 --> 1:45:28.000
<v Speaker 2>six and a half million if you traded him? In

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<v Speaker 2>terms of putting it towards a bat, would you be

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<v Speaker 2>willing to live with an offense of Jose Travino and

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<v Speaker 2>Ben Rourtvett who's a catch first catcher and can't hit.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you're down to little offense behind the plate and

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<v Speaker 2>a little offense at third. Could I convince you to

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<v Speaker 2>be okay and believe that Chase Burns in rhet Ladder

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<v Speaker 2>combined could cover Brady Singer and the Reds trade Brady

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<v Speaker 2>Singer's twelve million dollar if you put together Singer and Stevenson.

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<v Speaker 2>That's eighteen and a half million. You could put towards

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<v Speaker 2>a bat, either in trade or in free agency, but

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<v Speaker 2>you'd have to depend on Louder and Burns to cover Singer,

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<v Speaker 2>who was the most reliable starter on the staff, and

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<v Speaker 2>you'd have to live with no offense behind the plate

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<v Speaker 2>and at third. But you'd add a bat in theory,

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<v Speaker 2>either for first base or left field. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if I can convince myself of that, but I've been

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<v Speaker 2>toying with that and I think I'll be ready to

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<v Speaker 2>present it tomorrow night. Let's hang out tomorrow night at

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<v Speaker 2>the Red Hot Stove. Thanks to Rus Jackson for producing,

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks to you for listening, Stick around the News, and

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