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Speaker 2: College football, Chad Brendel of Bearcat Journal reports UC is
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Speaker 2: He held the same role at Army and has led
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Speaker 2: eight from twenty thirteen through twenty seventeen. College basketball, Despite
Speaker 2: being seventeen and O, the Miami RedHawks remain outside the
Speaker 2: top twenty five today, landing at number twenty nine. Travis
Speaker 2: Steele joins me in nine minutes from Mark Arizona's number
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Speaker 2: signed for with Tom Barlow. Thirty year old spent the
Speaker 2: past two seasons with Chicago Fire FC, appearing in fifty
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Speaker 2: teams in the country. They are seventeen and oh after
Speaker 2: Friday night's win at Toledo. Next up Central Michigan tomorrow
Speaker 2: night at home, and Malett should be rocking for more
Speaker 2: on that. Let's go straight to the source and welcome
Speaker 2: in head coach Travis Steele. How are you.
Speaker 4: I'm doing great, Lance, Thanks for having me on great.
Speaker 2: Catching up with you, Travis. I think more and more
Speaker 2: people around the country are like, going, holy crap, Miami
Speaker 2: seventeen and oh are you? I guess to what extent
Speaker 2: are Are you surprised you're seventeen?
Speaker 4: And oh not really? You know, I knew when we
Speaker 4: put this team together we had a chance to be special,
Speaker 4: and I think what makes us really good. We got
Speaker 4: great We got really talented basketball players, but we have winners.
Speaker 4: We have guys that are very, very process oriented. They
Speaker 4: take advantage of every day man, So I'm not surprised
Speaker 4: with the results that we've gotten.
Speaker 2: Friday night, you shot better than fifty percent from the
Speaker 2: field for the thirteenth time this season. Travis, I got
Speaker 2: to tell you in watching you guys, you're like an
Speaker 2: instructional video of passing to get to the good shot
Speaker 2: time and time again. It's uncanny to watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a it's a fun way to play right now.
Speaker 4: Our guys pass up good shots to get great shots,
Speaker 4: and we have very very high ques out there. We
Speaker 4: have great spacing and cutting and movement. We play fast,
Speaker 4: so we're hard to prepare for. You know, we've got
Speaker 4: seven guys score over twenty points in the game this year,
Speaker 4: and just the balance itself makes us, I think, very
Speaker 4: difficult to defend.
Speaker 2: A couple of games ago you shoot thirty you're the
Speaker 2: number one shooting team in the country, fifty three percent
Speaker 2: from the field. Couple of games ago you shoot thirty
Speaker 2: eight percent. But win at Akron. Did that show you
Speaker 2: something about your team?
Speaker 4: It did? You know, we didn't have our a great
Speaker 4: night offensively, and give Acron credit, you know, like they
Speaker 4: defended us well, but we also missed a lot of
Speaker 4: open looks. And you know, for us to be able
Speaker 4: to win our conference tournament in Cleveland in March, odds
Speaker 4: are one of the three games we're not going to
Speaker 4: shoot well and can you win that game. I thought
Speaker 4: the grit to fight, the toughness that our guys showed
Speaker 4: against Akron to beat them a week and a half ago. Man,
Speaker 4: it's going to really serve us well moving forward.
Speaker 2: Travis, with all the public attention that continues to grow
Speaker 2: and head the way of your guys to talk to
Speaker 2: me about how big it is from their their maturity
Speaker 2: and their focus standpoint as a group.
Speaker 4: Well, I think you know player I said this before
Speaker 4: to you, Lance, but I think player led teams are
Speaker 4: way way better than coach led teams. And you know,
Speaker 4: Suitor at Sorrow and Ian Elmer are three captains voted
Speaker 4: by their teammates, do a great job of helping us
Speaker 4: lead this team. And we're really focused. It's like we
Speaker 4: use the we have a picture that kind of stays
Speaker 4: around our program of a guy driving a car and
Speaker 4: looking out the front windshield. There's a reason why the
Speaker 4: rearview mirror is so small because everything that's already happened
Speaker 4: or seventeen, you know, that's in the past. We're going
Speaker 4: to look forward for the obstacles that are in front
Speaker 4: of us, because there's several of them. And starting with
Speaker 4: Central Michigan, obviously tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Evan ipsorrow you lost him, your point guard,
Speaker 2: your guy five games ago. Explain to listeners what he
Speaker 2: meant to this team and how you've gone about replacing
Speaker 2: all that he offered your team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Evan is I love him, you know. Number one,
Speaker 4: I just hurt from him as a human being. You know,
Speaker 4: anytime a guy goes down with an injury, it stinks.
Speaker 4: And he's having a breakout year. I thought he was
Speaker 4: one of the best mid major point guards in the
Speaker 4: entire country. He's our heart and soul in a lot
Speaker 4: of ways. So when we lost them, we knew it
Speaker 4: was going to be a big adjustment, you know. And
Speaker 4: we still have a lot of really, really good players
Speaker 4: on our team, so we knew again it wasn't no
Speaker 4: no one player was going to replace Evan. But we
Speaker 4: just work a little different. You know. We rebound the
Speaker 4: ball a little bit better, We're turning it over a
Speaker 4: little bit more. That's offset, and the rebounds is offset
Speaker 4: and that, and we're figuring it out. It's kind of
Speaker 4: by committee the point guard position. And Luke Skaaljack's really
Speaker 4: done a nice job as a sophomore, you know, kind
Speaker 4: of leading our play making duties.
Speaker 2: I follow Pete Suitter closely. He's a Carmel High school
Speaker 2: guy like me, so I got to follow him. And
Speaker 2: last year he led you guys in scoring. He had
Speaker 2: a forty two point game. Now he's I think third
Speaker 2: on the team in scoring, maybe not shooting quite as much.
Speaker 2: But here's what jumps out to me, Travis. His field
Speaker 2: goal percentage, he's up eight percent from last year. His
Speaker 2: three point is up twelve percent last year. And his
Speaker 2: a sister up tell me about his change or continued
Speaker 2: development from last year to this year.
Speaker 4: Ultimate winner. It's Pete, you know, coming from a Carmel program.
Speaker 4: I know, lady, you said you just went there many
Speaker 4: Carmel wins. It everything. I feel like, you know, Pete's
Speaker 4: one and the whole life. And he understands sacrifice and
Speaker 4: he's at the very top of the scouting report for
Speaker 4: every game you know so, and he just does what
Speaker 4: the game tells him to do, as simple as that.
Speaker 4: He doesn't care about scoring, he doesn't care about shots.
Speaker 4: He is playing to win. And when your best player
Speaker 4: does that, it permeates throughout the rest of the team.
Speaker 2: You mentioned the scouting report, and earlier you mentioned, and
Speaker 2: this is where, going back to seven different guys have
Speaker 2: scored at least twenty points in a game this year.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to prepare a scouting report for against
Speaker 2: you guys because I wouldn't know where to begin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes this hard reguard, you know, just our space,
Speaker 4: our pace that we play with. We don't run a
Speaker 4: lot of set plays like at Toledo, Lancia laughed. I
Speaker 4: only called set plays on baseline out of bounds, sideline
Speaker 4: out of bounds plays, you know, because our group knows
Speaker 4: how to play playoff of one another. The red react.
Speaker 4: It makes it super, super difficult to scout because again
Speaker 4: we have to play teams three times sometimes in a
Speaker 4: year in order to win our league in the conference tournament,
Speaker 4: and we've got to be hard to play in that
Speaker 4: third game.
Speaker 2: Travis, from that standpoint of play calling and backing off
Speaker 2: that have you Have you always been that way or
Speaker 2: have you evolved into that?
Speaker 4: I've evolved into it. You know. I used to want
Speaker 4: to control a lot and again every team's different, you know.
Speaker 4: But again we've recruited very, very high to skilled guys
Speaker 4: that I really trust, you know. I use practice as
Speaker 4: a way like, listen, I teach them how to play,
Speaker 4: and then during the game, I trust them, I let
Speaker 4: them do you know. I want them to play with
Speaker 4: a free mind, ton of confidence and just do what
Speaker 4: the game tells them to do.
Speaker 2: You know. I'm I'm so glad you've said that, because
Speaker 2: there and I'm not mentioning specifics here, but there are
Speaker 2: times I watch coaches who will stand and bark almost
Speaker 2: one pass to the next passegear pass it there, or
Speaker 2: do this, do that, And I can't imagine playing listening
Speaker 2: to all that. Your guys must love the freedom that
Speaker 2: you give them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that freedom's earned right every single day with
Speaker 4: just their process and practice and their work habits. But
Speaker 4: it's a fun way to play. Man. What happens is,
Speaker 4: in my opinion, because defensive offense are super connected, so
Speaker 4: different than football, is that if you're connected on the
Speaker 4: offensive end, and you're moving and you're cutting and you're
Speaker 4: touching the ball, you'll give even a better effort on defense.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, because of your offensive end, you feel
Speaker 4: like you're a part of it all right.
Speaker 2: When you've won seventeen in a row, are you? Are
Speaker 2: you by nature superstitious in any way? You do you
Speaker 2: wear the same socks? Is there anything going on that
Speaker 2: you'd like to publicly admit to from a superstition standpoint?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: So I do. I have this blue shirt that I've
Speaker 4: been wearing underneath my quarter zip, and my wife last
Speaker 4: year's like, why are you wearing this? Not our color?
Speaker 4: I said, listen, it's been working. We can't change it
Speaker 4: up now, you got to keep it going.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love that last thought. And you're
Speaker 2: not in the top twenty five today, you're close twenty nine.
Speaker 2: I don't know why you're not. But does that bug you?
Speaker 2: Is that a talking point? Is it motivation? Or is
Speaker 2: it just the rankings? And they'll work themselves out?
Speaker 4: You know, I think we use it as motivation. Our
Speaker 4: guys have a chip on their shoulder. There's no doubt
Speaker 4: in their mind that started from last year. How the
Speaker 4: last year ended in the Mac Tournament championship game. We've
Speaker 4: used the hashtag unfinished business a lot, and we got
Speaker 4: a lot to proof. We got a lot to proof.
Speaker 4: We want the whole world to see it.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, Central Michigan at Mallett Place should be jumping.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 2: I know you're busy and man we're twenty four hours
Speaker 2: from game time. I really appreciate you making time and
Speaker 2: always enjoy our conversations. Hope we can do it again soon.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: Thanks Travis. There you go. Travis steel Head, coach seventeen
Speaker 2: to o Miami RedHawks, one of five remaining unbeatens in
Speaker 2: the country. You know it's not just a throw white line.
Speaker 2: They're a good shooting team. They're the best shooting team
Speaker 2: in the country. Let me give you some numbers. I
Speaker 2: like numbers. They're shooting fifty three percent. I think there's
Speaker 2: only I looked it up this morning. I think there's
Speaker 2: only twenty five teams out of three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: Division one that are at the fifty percent mark shooting
Speaker 2: from the field. Miami is at fifty three percent on
Speaker 2: two point shots. That means their percentage of shots taken
Speaker 2: inside of the three point line, they are number two
Speaker 2: in the country. On three point shots, they are number
Speaker 2: one in the country, and when standing at the free
Speaker 2: throw line, they are number eight in the country. So
Speaker 2: recapping the best shooting team in the country second best
Speaker 2: from two, first best from three, best from three and
Speaker 2: eight at the free throw line and watching them is
Speaker 2: I said, it is uncanny watching them pass to a
Speaker 2: from a good shot to a better shot seemingly every
Speaker 2: single possession. I know it's not everyone that way, And
Speaker 2: as he said, it showed a lot when they weren't
Speaker 2: shooting their their their night. They were off from shooting
Speaker 2: at thirty eight percent against Akron and yet found a
Speaker 2: way to win the game Central Michigan Tomorrow night, twenty
Speaker 2: ninth Today. As mentioned in the AP Top twenty five poll,
Speaker 2: all right around the corner, local product, he's coming home.
Speaker 2: Newest member of FC Cincinnati. He played at LaSalle High
Speaker 2: School GCL South Star Player of the Year in two
Speaker 2: thousand and nine. He's representing the Orange and Blue. Now
Speaker 2: we'll talk about it with Kyle Smith. As we continue,
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Speaker 2: I'm Lance McAllester. Thanks for hanging out. Let's talk some soccer.
Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati players report the camp this week. On hand
Speaker 2: will be in a new edition with local ties. A
Speaker 2: cool story Full circle story thirty three year old defender
Speaker 2: Kyle Smith was the two thousand and nine gc EL
Speaker 2: South Player of the Year at LaSalle High School. His
Speaker 2: journey includes three seasons with Louisville City FC and the USL,
Speaker 2: the past seven seasons in MLS with Orlando City SC,
Speaker 2: and now with the Orange and Blue. What a treat
Speaker 2: pleasure to welcome in, Kyle Smith. Kyle Lance McAllister, how
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 7: I'm doing well? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm fantastic. Welcome home. I mean, how exciting it must
Speaker 2: be to now be looking forward to playing in front
Speaker 2: of family and friends.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's very exciting. Honestly, I can't wait to get
Speaker 7: in TQL Stadium and start playing.
Speaker 2: Kyle, Do I understand this correctly? Your parents have to
Speaker 2: be excited. They've been season ticket holders of FC Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 4: Yes, they have.
Speaker 7: They've been seasoned ticket holders. I think since the MLS,
Speaker 7: since FC Cincinnai started in the MLS, so quite a while.
Speaker 2: Man, oh man, So let's backtrack a little bit and
Speaker 2: let listeners know about some of this background. After you
Speaker 2: graduated from trans University, and I understand you were working
Speaker 2: in accounting and you were playing amateur soccer with the
Speaker 2: Cincinnati Dutch Lions. Tell me about that time in your life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So when I graduated, I moved back home and
Speaker 7: then I got a job with the University of Cincinnati
Speaker 7: at the College of Medicine, working in accounting. So, you know,
Speaker 7: I did that for about two years while I was
Speaker 7: trying to break it in, break into professional soccer. And
Speaker 7: like you said, I played for the Cincinna Dutch Lions,
Speaker 7: and then I started doing like open tryouts and I
Speaker 7: thankfully made Louisville City, So I got an opportunity and
Speaker 7: got my foot in the door with that.
Speaker 2: Cal Just so fans understand when when you're going to
Speaker 2: these tryouts, you're paying at these tryouts and you're you're
Speaker 2: one of a gazillion trying to stand out. That explain
Speaker 2: that situation.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Honestly, it's kind of like American Idol, Like anybody
Speaker 7: can show up. So you got some people that are
Speaker 7: good and some people that are not so good, but
Speaker 7: it's it's difficult to you know, stand out because there's
Speaker 7: so many people. So I went in with you know,
Speaker 7: a particular strategy of just you know, trying to score
Speaker 7: as many goals as possible and you know, it helped
Speaker 7: me stand out, so I think that's why I got
Speaker 7: the opportunity.
Speaker 2: I was reading an excellent story that Carter Chapley wrote
Speaker 2: about you for Fccincinnati Dot Comedy and he mentioned you
Speaker 2: back in the inaugural season of FC Cincinnati in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: you had tried out for the Orange and Blue. Is
Speaker 2: that right?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I was an open try out again, so you know,
Speaker 7: like anybody can come and there were hundreds of people there, so, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, I didn't make it, and I didn't get
Speaker 7: the opportunity with FC Cincinnati, but I went to Louisville
Speaker 7: City as well and did the same thing, and they
Speaker 7: gave me, you know, an invite te tryout where there
Speaker 7: was about only twenty kids there, and then I got invited.
Speaker 7: I was one of like three guys to get invited
Speaker 7: to pre season with them, and then we went to
Speaker 7: IMG Academy in Florida and then I got two weeks
Speaker 7: to try out and then they offered me a contract
Speaker 7: after those two week unbelievable.
Speaker 2: What a cool story, Kyle Smith check it in tonight
Speaker 2: and new is remember the Orange and Blue FC Cincinnati
Speaker 2: camp opening this week, So you've been aware obviously and
Speaker 2: following long since the first season of the Orange and Blue.
Speaker 2: Just give us your impressions of FC Cincinnati, what they've
Speaker 2: built and what they've become.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like they've the past few years here,
Speaker 7: they've definitely, you know, raised the standards in the MLS.
Speaker 7: They've been consistently at the top of the table, and
Speaker 7: that was a big reason why I wanted to come
Speaker 7: play here, because of the winning culture that they've created. So,
Speaker 7: you know, I'm super excited for this season and I
Speaker 7: really can't wait to get started with them.
Speaker 2: So how take me through this offseason? How did how
Speaker 2: did the whole FC Cincinnati opportunity turn out to be
Speaker 2: a thing, And now you've put pen to paper, How
Speaker 2: did it come about?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so they contacted my agent, and at the time,
Speaker 7: I was in negotiations with Orlando, my old team. Uh,
Speaker 7: and you know, once I heard that Cincinnati was interested,
Speaker 7: I you know kind of shifted gears and definitely wanted
Speaker 7: to pursue that opportunity to come home and you know,
Speaker 7: play for such a great club and in a great
Speaker 7: city where I'm from. So I, you know, jumped on
Speaker 7: that opportunity.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tel FC Cincinnati fans who are listening right now,
Speaker 2: what the type of player you are, what you think
Speaker 2: you do well, and how you envision your role here.
Speaker 7: Yeah. So with my old team, I was kind of
Speaker 7: like a Swiss army knife. I play multiple positions, and
Speaker 7: I think that's kind of you know, my role that
Speaker 7: I'll have here as well, and you know, just kind
Speaker 7: of step up whenever I'll need it, when my when
Speaker 7: my numbers called, and uh, I you know, work hard
Speaker 7: on the field. I'm a defender and but I can
Speaker 7: also play in the midfield, so I I try to
Speaker 7: keep it simple and then you know, just I uh,
Speaker 7: I think I'm a player that has good spatial awareness
Speaker 7: on the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you do you know any of your new teammates
Speaker 2: from from previous playing days.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so Nick Haglin and I played against him for
Speaker 7: you know, since we were like eleven years old. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and then he guests played for my team one year
Speaker 7: and he was actually showing me some pictures today of him, Yeah,
Speaker 7: guests playing when we were probably like twelve thirteen years old.
Speaker 2: I I always say I I enjoyed talking with Pat
Speaker 2: Noonan when he's on the show with me, And I've
Speaker 2: always said I thought if I were a player, I'd
Speaker 2: love to play for Pat Noonan. Give me your early
Speaker 2: impressions of him and what you've heard about Pat Noonan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say he has very high standards and
Speaker 7: he's a coach that wants us to you know, work
Speaker 7: hard and come in every day and you know, keep
Speaker 7: raising the standard and building the winning culture that they've
Speaker 7: already you know, kind of established. So my first impressions are,
Speaker 7: you know, he's seems like a great guy and a
Speaker 7: great coach, and I'm very excited to get to play
Speaker 7: for him.
Speaker 2: Take me back to two thousand and nine, a while ago.
Speaker 2: You're the GCL South player of the AAR at Lasal
Speaker 2: High School. What are your memories of your playing days
Speaker 2: at Lasal High School.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I had a great time at LaSalle High School.
Speaker 7: It was a great school. I think they you know,
Speaker 7: helped me improve as a as a person and as
Speaker 7: a player a lot. So I'm very thankful and grateful
Speaker 7: that I chose to go there for my high school.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think it's a great school for anyone
Speaker 7: to go.
Speaker 2: To, you know, as the hometown kid and coming back,
Speaker 2: you know, everybody's gonna come out of the woodwork. They're
Speaker 2: going to have ticket request. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think so, but I have you know, I have
Speaker 7: a lot of family here, so you know, they get
Speaker 7: first DIBs on the tickets. But I think I'm ready.
Speaker 2: Good. Hey, I know it's been a whirlwind and I
Speaker 2: know you've got a busy week ahead. Thank you for
Speaker 2: making time tonight. Congratulations. I'm really happy for you, and I
Speaker 2: hope we can talk again during the season.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Take care, Kyle, all right, take care. There you go.
Speaker 2: Kyle Smith, thirty three years old defender FC Cincinnati from
Speaker 2: LaSalle to an open tryout, to getting an opportunity with
Speaker 2: Louisville City FC in the USL and try I mean,
Speaker 2: think of it. You're trying out for FC Cincinnati back
Speaker 2: in the inaugural season as well, and then seven seasons
Speaker 2: in MLS, and now the next chapter becomes a chance
Speaker 2: to come home. That is really cool. Let's take a
Speaker 2: time out come back. There is a big time high
Speaker 2: school hoops one week from tonight. Details on that and
Speaker 2: so much more as we continue. You are hanging out
Speaker 2: on a Monday night with me. I'm alliance Bacallister, your host,
Speaker 2: Russ Jackson, your producer, and we were all till nine
Speaker 2: tonight with RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW Big Time Hoops Circle Your calendar prepare
Speaker 2: one week from tonight the Kemba Credit Union m L Classic.
Speaker 2: It's at Zaber University's Centai Center. The event features eight
Speaker 2: boys varsity teams from Greater Cincinnati northern Kentucky, some of
Speaker 2: the region's best high school talent, four exciting matchups and
Speaker 2: from more on that. Let's go back to our guy,
Speaker 2: that would be Rich Newman. Rich, how are you.
Speaker 8: Doing great?
Speaker 4: Lance?
Speaker 8: Thanks for having me on again and Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you, and Man, what a field
Speaker 2: you have put together. Give us the lowdown and the
Speaker 2: setup on these four matchups.
Speaker 8: Well, you hit the nail on the head. We're thrilled
Speaker 8: with this matchup. It's heavy heavy GNC with a little
Speaker 8: GCL sprinkled in. We start with Lakota West versus the
Speaker 8: Big Blue of Hamilton at twelve noon and Lakota West,
Speaker 8: for those who don't follow high school of basketball closely,
Speaker 8: is the undefeated number one ranked team in the state
Speaker 8: of Ohio. So that's a big time matchup. We come
Speaker 8: in next with Ryle versus Oldham County, good basketball program
Speaker 8: from outside of Louisville. Then Lakota East versus Middletown, and
Speaker 8: the nightcap is the Saint Xavier Bombers versus from also
Speaker 8: across the river, the Colonels from the high school in
Speaker 8: Park Hills.
Speaker 2: Love it. Four fantastic matchups. And you know, I notice
Speaker 2: you're doing what you did during the Holiday Classic as well,
Speaker 2: and I love this. Explain the ticket and set up
Speaker 2: for the schools that you're including in this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we decided that we'd like to give back in
Speaker 8: another way to the community besides giving these schools the
Speaker 8: opportunity to play at the Centas Center, but the school
Speaker 8: that sells the most tickets online in advance prior to
Speaker 8: the day of the event will get a five hundred
Speaker 8: dollars donation to their booster club or the charity of
Speaker 8: their choice. And we're also doing a promotion with Xavier
Speaker 8: Sonny Xavier season ticket holder who buys a ticket to
Speaker 8: the Kemba MLK Classic will donate fifty percent of those
Speaker 8: ticket sales to the All for One Fund.
Speaker 2: Rich I always like to mention this because I hope
Speaker 2: fans understand how cool it must be for these high
Speaker 2: school players to come running out of the tunnel and
Speaker 2: onto the floor of a big East home arena. And
Speaker 2: some of these kids are probably going to be playing
Speaker 2: their last year of organized basketball, and what a moment,
Speaker 2: what a memory in a tournament like this.
Speaker 8: We've gotten so many positive comments and feedback and thanks
Speaker 8: from all the different teams that are participating participated about
Speaker 8: the Holiday Harble Classic as well as now we hope
Speaker 8: the MLK Classic. Lance, You're right, it's a unique experience.
Speaker 8: It's a once in a lifetime experience for most of
Speaker 8: these most of these players for sure. And it goes
Speaker 8: beyond that. It's not just for the teams and the coaches,
Speaker 8: but the fans, the parents, the grandparents, the the cheerleading squad,
Speaker 8: the dance teams, the pep bands. Everybody gets to experience
Speaker 8: what we know is one of the top do you
Speaker 8: want arenas in the country.
Speaker 2: It's one week from tonight the Kemba Credit Union MLK
Speaker 2: Classic at Centas Center. Rich tell everybody about how they
Speaker 2: get their hands on tickets, well.
Speaker 8: Please go to our website Mlkdashclassic dot com. Daily passes
Speaker 8: are thirteen dollars in advance, sixteen dollars at the box
Speaker 8: office the day of the event, and all fees and
Speaker 8: parking are included. Atlanta. I've got to mention, of course,
Speaker 8: these things don't happen just because Cintas Center and Xavier
Speaker 8: University and New Associates wants to promote them. We need
Speaker 8: the sponsors and we need the media partners. And Dan
Speaker 8: Sutton a shout out to the president and CEO of
Speaker 8: KEMBA all in on community events like this, And of
Speaker 8: course our relationship is iHeart and specifically ESPN fifteen thirty
Speaker 8: is as our media partner with Fox nineteen. But I
Speaker 8: can't tell you how much we appreciate everything that you do.
Speaker 8: And I'll be on with MO and I'll be on
Speaker 8: with Tony this week and that means an awful lot
Speaker 8: to us, it really does. You all deserve a lot
Speaker 8: of credit for giving us the microphone so to speak
Speaker 8: to promoted great event like this.
Speaker 2: Well, we are honored and we are proud to be
Speaker 2: involved with it. And you know you're always welcome on
Speaker 2: the show, and best of luck with the event and
Speaker 2: always good catching up. Thank you, Thank you Lance. All right,
Speaker 2: take care there you go. Rich Newman Chemba Credit Union,
Speaker 2: MLK Classic Exavier Cinta Center one week from tonight. Starts
Speaker 2: at nude high noon Lakota West at Hamilton, followed by
Speaker 2: Ryle and Oldham County at one forty five, Lakota East
Speaker 2: and Middletown at three thirty stex and Cubcath at five fifteen.
Speaker 2: Information mlkdash Classic dot com for their website and on
Speaker 2: all social media platforms as well. There is a developing
Speaker 2: situation out of Lexington tonight. This is not good news
Speaker 2: for the Kentucky Wildcats. Jalen Lowe is having surgery on
Speaker 2: his shoulder, the point guard, and his season is over
Speaker 2: surgery on the shoulder. The junior averaging eight points, two
Speaker 2: rebounds and about two and a half assist per game,
Speaker 2: will miss the remainder of the season. But by the way,
Speaker 2: and I want to mention this a little bit later
Speaker 2: in the show, we're on the subject of high school basketball,
Speaker 2: and I so appreciate Andrew Lovin's who passed this along
Speaker 2: an email last week, and I spent time talking with
Speaker 2: Skinny and Tom Gamble Chief about this over the weekend.
Speaker 2: I want to get into maybe around eight thirty or
Speaker 2: tonight final segment of the show. It was forty about
Speaker 2: forty three years ago around this time that the Famous
Speaker 2: Recipe Classic started in Northern Kentucky. And I knew nothing
Speaker 2: about this until Andrew passed on the information because I
Speaker 2: had left and I was at the time this started
Speaker 2: in eighty three. I was in a junior at Carbal
Speaker 2: High School, and I didn't come back till about the
Speaker 2: time it finally ended its run in ninety seven. But
Speaker 2: I am fascinated by all the stories I heard surrounding
Speaker 2: the Famous Recipe Classic, which was a sixteen team tournament
Speaker 2: in Northern Kentucky involving the top eight Northern Kentucky high
Speaker 2: school teams and the best eight teams available around the
Speaker 2: state for the tournament. I love some of the background
Speaker 2: on this. I want to spend some time on it
Speaker 2: coming up in the eight o'clock around eight thirty or
Speaker 2: so tonight, by the way, before new shout out, and
Speaker 2: I sent him a text for a personal shout out,
Speaker 2: but I want to give him a public shout out
Speaker 2: because I forgot last week to the Cowboy. Jeff Brantley
Speaker 2: named last week the Ohio Sportscaster of the Year by
Speaker 2: the National Sports Media Association. Really cool, really happy for
Speaker 2: the Cowboy and happy for my guy. Christen Airy named
Speaker 2: the Indiana Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sports
Speaker 2: Media Association. Chris who's been on Talking Pacers longtime voice
Speaker 2: of the Pacers twentieth season this year, I believe his
Speaker 2: Voice of the Pacers. Second time he's received the award.
Speaker 2: He for I think it was eighteen seasons. Was the
Speaker 2: play by play voice of the Indiana Fever, their WNBA team.
Speaker 2: He's been the play by play voice of My Butler Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: He's a member of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network.
Speaker 2: Graduated from Westfield High School in Westfield, Indiana, played for
Speaker 2: his dad Bob, and then went on to Wabash and
Speaker 2: was a member of the nineteen eighty two Division III
Speaker 2: National Championship basketball team, the Little Giants and the Topper.
Speaker 2: He lives in Carmel, so he is Goodbye me, shout
Speaker 2: out to Christen Ai and to the Cowboy. Jeff Brantley.
Speaker 2: All right, let's turn into the eight o'clock hour. You've
Speaker 2: had some time to digest the week that was last
Speaker 2: week as a Bengals fan, you heard you read a
Speaker 2: statement from Mike Brown. You heard the season ending wrap
Speaker 2: up news conference with Zach Taylor. You heard Friday's Q
Speaker 2: and A with Duke Tobin. I want to circle back
Speaker 2: and get into how that was received by you, and
Speaker 2: I have a question coming out of last week that
Speaker 2: I will present to you. In the seven o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: Brandon Phillips around the corner. In the eight o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: It's RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet seven
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Speaker 2: halftime just after halftime of last night's game. But the
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Speaker 2: if I go so far as say the reinvention of
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Speaker 2: as a coach and the freedom he's willing to give
Speaker 2: his players, and how he's not managing every possession and
Speaker 2: not calling very few plays, trusting his guys they have
Speaker 2: a system, understand the system, He trusts them to do
Speaker 2: what they do, and just the way they shoot the ball.
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Speaker 2: All right, coming up one hour from now, seg caught
Speaker 2: up with Brandon Phillips. You're gonna hear from BP one
Speaker 2: of the newest members of the Reds Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Coming up in less than an hour. Now, We've got
Speaker 2: plenty of football to get to in this hour, So
Speaker 2: what do you say we go? I thought about this
Speaker 2: a lot since since Friday and the week that was.
Speaker 2: If you were a Bengal, you got a statement released
Speaker 2: from team president Mike Brown on Monday following the end
Speaker 2: of the season, you had Zach on Wednesday with his
Speaker 2: season wrap up press conference with the media, and then
Speaker 2: Duke Tobin broke from the norm and met with the
Speaker 2: media for sixty four minutes of Q and A on Friday.
Speaker 2: So you heard from the president, you heard from the
Speaker 2: head coach, and you heard from the de facto general manager.
Speaker 2: And I'm curious of how that messaging was received because
Speaker 2: I've been thinking about it from this standpoint. If you
Speaker 2: go back to February fifth of twenty nineteen, we're coming
Speaker 2: up on the anniversary here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: But on February fifth, twenty nineteen, the Bengals introduced Zach
Speaker 2: Taylor as their new head coach, placing Marvin Lewis after
Speaker 2: sixteen seasons. And I want you to take a listen
Speaker 2: to what Mike said that day about the decision having
Speaker 2: moved on from Marvin to hire Zach and the fan
Speaker 2: angle in this answer. Take a listen to Mike Brown
Speaker 2: February fifth, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: We had lost some of the faith in our fan base.
Speaker 3: That was clear. That's an allowed message. I think we've
Speaker 3: done it at the appropriate time. We tried to give
Speaker 3: every opportunity for it to grab hold otherwise, but that's
Speaker 3: behind us. I want to look to the future and
Speaker 3: I think we're starting that now and our fan base.
Speaker 2: One seven Mike Brown February fifth, twenty nineteen, on change
Speaker 2: and why change was made. Quote, we had lost some
Speaker 2: of the faith from the fan base, that was clear,
Speaker 2: he said. That sent a loud message. Well, the offer
Speaker 2: of newfound faith was a new head coach this time around.
Speaker 2: After a losing season and three consecutive seasons of missing
Speaker 2: the playoffs, the Bengals are answering their fans with the
Speaker 2: status quo, running it back with the de facto general manager,
Speaker 2: the head coach, his assistance, and the same scouting department.
Speaker 2: So my question, and I've thought about this a lot.
Speaker 2: I thought about it a lot over the weekend. If
Speaker 2: status quo is the offer this time? Where are you
Speaker 2: finding your faith? Because I think this feels similar to
Speaker 2: when you needed change back in twenty nineteen. Now, Zach
Speaker 2: hasn't been there as long as Marvin, certainly, but there
Speaker 2: was a need, a request, a demand for change, so
Speaker 2: much so it was recognized by the owner who indicated
Speaker 2: you had lost faith in the Bengals, and that was clear,
Speaker 2: and that sent a loud message. So the response was
Speaker 2: we got to give him a new coach. Well, this
Speaker 2: time around, I feel faith wavering, fading, frustration growing, three
Speaker 2: straight years, no playoffs, losing season this season, and what
Speaker 2: they are offering is to run it back with the
Speaker 2: same group that was here this past season. So in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, the offer was a new coach. In twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, the offer is the status quo. So where
Speaker 2: are you finding your faith? Is my question? And I
Speaker 2: asked because I don't know. I'm curious, and I'll open
Speaker 2: up the lines at five point three seven four nine,
Speaker 2: seven thousand, one eight hundred, the big one to get
Speaker 2: into this because I don't know that. I don't know
Speaker 2: that it has really been viewed from this lens, but
Speaker 2: I think it should be.
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 2: It was one thing when the fans had lost the faith,
Speaker 2: to give them the new coach and say here is
Speaker 2: your newfound faith is offering the status quo to you.
Speaker 2: It is that? Is that enough? Is that? Where where
Speaker 2: will the faith be found? And maybe that's simply Will Lance,
Speaker 2: it's Joe Burrow because we've got one of the best
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the NFL. I think that's something that has
Speaker 2: to be considered in this scenario. Because the give and
Speaker 2: take then been a coach. The give and take now
Speaker 2: has simply been Duke's coming back, Zach's coming back, the
Speaker 2: assistants are coming back, the scouting departments coming back, and
Speaker 2: we believe we can fix it because we've done it before.
Speaker 2: My sense is that is going to be received in
Speaker 2: a much different way than it was seven years ago.
Speaker 2: Am I right? Or am I wrong? And I was
Speaker 2: struck by this question, this kind of line of thinking
Speaker 2: being offered up in question for him to Zach on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I think it was Baby of the ESPN. Don't quote me.
Speaker 2: I think it was Ben Baby. I haven't listened to
Speaker 2: this since last week, but I want you to take
Speaker 2: a listen to this question posed to Zach about winning
Speaker 2: back the fans. Take a listen.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you got to win folks back?
Speaker 2: I don't worry about that.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 10: Winning makes believers of us. All that makes sense. I
Speaker 10: can understand how that quote came to be because that's
Speaker 10: a true statement. It's written in our building with set
Speaker 10: every day. But that's the truth. You know, you go
Speaker 10: through hard times and there's disappointment, and then all of
Speaker 10: a sudden, you win some games. You're right back and
Speaker 10: thick and people can't wait to jump on board. So
Speaker 10: I love the past. It's it is great being here
Speaker 10: and having passionate fans. It is, and I don't take
Speaker 10: that for granted. There's other places you go where it
Speaker 10: doesn't see it seems like they're indifferent, maybe as they're
Speaker 10: sitting in the stadium and the game's going on, and here,
Speaker 10: you know they're not indifferent. Here, they're passionate and they
Speaker 10: have high expectations and they want us to win, and
Speaker 10: they're going to support us, and they really want to
Speaker 10: support a winner, and so we got to give them that,
Speaker 10: and we're gonna work our tails off to do that
Speaker 10: for him.
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor. Last week, I'll go back to this quote again,
Speaker 2: we had lost some of the faith from our fan base.
Speaker 2: That was clear. That sent a loud message. I was
Speaker 2: under the impression that volume level of a message was
Speaker 2: being sent by the fan base. Again this time, let's
Speaker 2: take your calls when we continue. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
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Speaker 2: Al right, if you give me ninety seconds, I need
Speaker 2: to brag about my exploits over the weekend because I'm
Speaker 2: not very good with things around the house. Kelly would
Speaker 2: vouch for that. She'd be nodding her head right now.
Speaker 2: But I have cracked the code when it comes to
Speaker 2: Christmas trees and decorations. I decided last year that we
Speaker 2: could pull off decorating the Christmas tree, and then instead
Speaker 2: of undecorating the Christmas tree, taking all the ornaments off,
Speaker 2: putting them all in boxes, taking them back down into
Speaker 2: the basement, Christmas tree back down to the base. I said,
Speaker 2: why don't we just take the Christmas tree at the
Speaker 2: end of Christmas each year and I will carry it
Speaker 2: upstairs intact to the spare bedroom where it will stay
Speaker 2: for the year, and the following year I will bring
Speaker 2: it downstairs into the living room already made. And Kelly
Speaker 2: said that will never work. I said, you want to bet,
Speaker 2: I will have you know that. Saturday night, approximately seven fifteen,
Speaker 2: I successfully executed the second year of the transformation of
Speaker 2: the Christmas tree from the family room, up the steps
Speaker 2: to the spare bedroom, where it we'll sit for the
Speaker 2: next year. If you don't believe me, there's video evidence,
Speaker 2: and I did not drop. There was not a single
Speaker 2: ornament harmed or that dropped off the tree in the
Speaker 2: moving of that tree from the family room, through the kitchen,
Speaker 2: through the living room, up the stairs. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of steps to the spare bedroom. Not a single ornament dropped. Now,
Speaker 2: if you watch the video on all social media platforms,
Speaker 2: you will see a long cord still on the tree
Speaker 2: that was hanging off of the tree, which I very
Speaker 2: well could have stepped on going up the steps. I
Speaker 2: can only assume Kelly was preoccupied with the shooting of
Speaker 2: the video of it to not warn me that there
Speaker 2: was a long cord from the lights that that was
Speaker 2: dangling down right by where I was stepping each step up.
Speaker 2: But I showed precision, agility, and great execution. And that
Speaker 2: tree will rest peacefully intact for one year, and I'll
Speaker 2: see it next Thanksgiving. Right, let's go out. Oh before
Speaker 2: we go back to the votes. If you heard from
Speaker 2: Mike and you heard from Zach, let me complete the trio.
Speaker 2: This is something Duke said about you the Bengals Fan
Speaker 2: on Friday. Take a listen.
Speaker 11: It goes without saying, this season is not what we expect,
Speaker 11: certainly not what we will accept. And everybody here knows
Speaker 11: that it was frustrating, It was challenging, It was disappointing
Speaker 11: for all of us, but more importantly, it was all
Speaker 11: those things for our fans. We feel that that weighs
Speaker 11: on us. It hurts us because we know that they
Speaker 11: have high expectations for us. We embrace those high expectations.
Speaker 11: Believe me, we have high expectations for this football team
Speaker 11: as well. We didn't meet those expectations. The group we
Speaker 11: put out there did not fulfill those expectations.
Speaker 2: So it motivates us.
Speaker 11: It really motivates us to be better to put a
Speaker 11: group out there that will make the city proud.
Speaker 2: Duke Tobin on Friday. By the way, my dad checking in.
Speaker 2: Listen here shout out Saint James Plantation, North Carolina. Saint James. Hello,
Speaker 2: listening on the iHeart Radio app Tonight, Love the iHeart
Speaker 2: Radio app. Love the ribs that Kelly and I had
Speaker 2: made yesterday. My dad sent for a Christmas present from
Speaker 2: New Brussels. The New Brussels. It's like ribs and brisket
Speaker 2: and cheeses and o oh man, going home and finish
Speaker 2: off the rest of them tonight, Let's go to the
Speaker 2: phones five one, three, seven four, nine, seven thousand, one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred, the big one, John, you were on seven hundred.
Speaker 2: L W welcome.
Speaker 12: Hey, Lance, Hey, how are you great? First off, Happy
Speaker 12: New Year to you and Kelsey and the family. I
Speaker 12: think what weighs on mister Tobyn and mister Brown is
Speaker 12: the extra money in their wallet from where they raised
Speaker 12: the ticket prices for US season ticket holders.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I told my son, I've been a sick season ticket
Speaker 12: holder now for years. I told my son, we have
Speaker 12: four tickets in section two thirty. And I told him Lance,
Speaker 12: I mean, I've been born and raised a Bengal fan.
Speaker 12: I remember the Freezer Bowl. I remember all them days
Speaker 12: and whatnot, and I remember the dark days of David
Speaker 12: Shula and those years. You know, maybe maybe we got
Speaker 12: spoiled out the Super Bowl a couple of years ago,
Speaker 12: and then the AFC Championship game that kind of got
Speaker 12: taken away from us there in Kansas City. But you know,
Speaker 12: I I want to know. I'm like you who you
Speaker 12: have one of the greatest jobs in the world, Lance,
Speaker 12: talking in your hometown against for both of your both
Speaker 12: of your all of your teams around here. You know, phenomenal,
Speaker 12: kudos to you because that's phenomenal.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 12: But you know, status quo. I mean, when when do
Speaker 12: we get to a point where we say, you know,
Speaker 12: you know you need to fix the problem. You know,
Speaker 12: and because that's all we've heard is well, we're not
Speaker 12: changing anything, not change anything, not changing. Well, I guarantee
Speaker 12: you there's a lot of fans out there that that
Speaker 12: will be changing things. Uh, and that we if you
Speaker 12: don't fix this this year, you think you you've lost fans.
Speaker 12: Now go go another year of six and eleven and
Speaker 12: and come back next year and say, hey, status quo,
Speaker 12: we're going to run run it back again. I just
Speaker 12: I don't know that I'm at Lance. You know this
Speaker 12: organization of both of them, let's just say both fan
Speaker 12: bases and both organizations. Yeah, uh you know, uh it
Speaker 12: just it. I and I love going to the games, Lance,
Speaker 12: I love going to the games with my son. There's
Speaker 12: nothing better than time. You can't get I tell people
Speaker 12: all the time, you can't get back time. Yep, you know,
Speaker 12: you just can't and uh, I wish you know they
Speaker 12: would have come out and said, well, you know, we're
Speaker 12: going to change this, this and this, But they didn't.
Speaker 12: You know, they didn't. Dude didn't say that. Mike didn't
Speaker 12: say that. Uh, Zach Schurzell didn't say that. I just
Speaker 12: you know, I'm like you Lance, you know, when when
Speaker 12: when do the do we accept mediocrity around here? I know,
Speaker 12: let me say this five thousand dollars later for my
Speaker 12: tickets in section two thirty that I don't want mediocrity.
Speaker 2: John. I appreciate the kind word. And I'm sure glad
Speaker 2: you called tonight. Do it again? All right, appreciated, l
Speaker 2: thank you, all right, thank you. You know, I think
Speaker 2: the bottom line here is if the organization is not
Speaker 2: going to change, then they force the fans to consider
Speaker 2: whether they have to change. That's the most un enviable
Speaker 2: position for an organization where you're forcing your fans to say,
Speaker 2: all right, if they're not going to change, then maybe
Speaker 2: I have to change. I am a big track record guy.
Speaker 2: I'm a big back of the baseball card guy. I'm
Speaker 2: a big When someone shows you who and what they are,
Speaker 2: believe them. I just know this. Duke Tobin stood up
Speaker 2: there last week and said, believe him. He believes they
Speaker 2: can get this fixed because they've done it before. And
Speaker 2: yet he has built twenty four teams over twenty four years.
Speaker 2: Only eleven of those teams produced winning seasons. That's a
Speaker 2: record of one to eighty five, one, nine and four.
Speaker 2: That is asking for a humongous leap of fai from
Speaker 2: a fan base who says, wait a minute, You've done
Speaker 2: twenty four editions of a Bengals team and only eleven
Speaker 2: of them had a winning season, and you want me
Speaker 2: to believe you'll fix it again because you've fixed it before. Well,
Speaker 2: if you didn't fix it last year or the year
Speaker 2: before the year before that, when do you plan to
Speaker 2: fix it the next time? That's the question being asked.
Speaker 2: I think of every Bengals fan right now. Seven thirty
Speaker 2: news time RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet
Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW newly named Red's Hall of Famer. His
Speaker 2: thoughts on that and more coming up just after the
Speaker 2: eight o'clock news. Bengals fans remember the name Jordan Shipley,
Speaker 2: wide receiver. He's forty years old now. He was a
Speaker 2: third round pick of the Bengals out of Texas in
Speaker 2: twenty ten, his rookie season. I've forgotten he was this
Speaker 2: good in his rookie season, fifty two catches for six
Speaker 2: hundred yards and three touchdowns. Well, sadly, and this story
Speaker 2: now happened. I think it was last weekend. I think
Speaker 2: we're a week into this. He is now listed in
Speaker 2: critical but stable condition after an accident while operating a
Speaker 2: machine on his ranch near his home in Burnett, Texas.
Speaker 2: He suffered severe burns on his body. He was driven
Speaker 2: to a local hospital by one of the workers at
Speaker 2: the ranch, and then he was care flighted to Austin.
Speaker 2: I have been following this on Facebook, the updates being
Speaker 2: offered by his wife and his sister on occasion. I
Speaker 2: can give you a few of the points they've made
Speaker 2: public over the last few days. His sister, over towards
Speaker 2: the end of last week, had asked for continued prayers,
Speaker 2: prayers that the cells work overtime in healing under the
Speaker 2: surface of his skin and the nerves. She said, please
Speaker 2: pray for full mobility in his arms and legs, in
Speaker 2: both hands, and this got me, she wrote, Please pray
Speaker 2: against guilt and shame. He keeps telling his wife Sonny
Speaker 2: that he is so sorry thinking that you know he
Speaker 2: caused this on the farm. Please pray for optimal kidney function.
Speaker 2: And there was a note in one of the updates
Speaker 2: that Jordan whispered to his siblings in the room at
Speaker 2: one point, quote God's not done with me yet. And
Speaker 2: they released a photo of Jordan Shipley's arm, left arm raised, bandaged, bloodied,
Speaker 2: and he was giving the hookham horn sign as a
Speaker 2: Texas longhorn. An update from his sister or wife on
Speaker 2: Friday was the surgeon came in and they were taking
Speaker 2: him into surgery, and it was expected it was going
Speaker 2: to be a good ninety minutes, and it was going
Speaker 2: to be a difficult surgery because they were going to
Speaker 2: have to determine, you know, what skin to I don't
Speaker 2: want to get too deep or technical or gross yet,
Speaker 2: but if they could savage a lot of the skin.
Speaker 2: And Jordan's wife said in the post that twenty minutes later,
Speaker 2: the doctor came back into the room and said to
Speaker 2: her quote, I don't know what kind of prayers you
Speaker 2: all have been praying, but I'm done already. He said.
Speaker 2: I put away all my sharp tools, and he explained
Speaker 2: that the burns once the bandages came off, looked better
Speaker 2: than anything he had expected to find after the initial
Speaker 2: assessment the day before. Now, according to the updates, there
Speaker 2: is a long recovery, there will be scarring, there will
Speaker 2: be long term changes. But as his wife said, we
Speaker 2: got good news that was better than the best case scenario,
Speaker 2: a miracle. I just wanted you all to hear it
Speaker 2: and rejoice with us. He is worthy of all your praise.
Speaker 2: The update today the latest was he had a rough
Speaker 2: few days over the weekend. Today was better than the
Speaker 2: last few days. Nothing new to report, and that Thursday
Speaker 2: this week is expected to be another big news day
Speaker 2: of what they learn in terms of progress in what
Speaker 2: is next for him. But just just must have been
Speaker 2: a horrific scene at the ranch and severe burns on
Speaker 2: his body and driven by a ranch worker to the
Speaker 2: hospital and then care flight to Austin. But trending in
Speaker 2: a certainly a more positive direction. That is the latest
Speaker 2: on Jordan Shipley and his icy updates posted by the family.
Speaker 2: I will be sure to pass those along as well.
Speaker 2: Back out to the phones. How about let's go Western Hills. Hey, Bob,
Speaker 2: Welcome to seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 9: Hey, Lance, first longtime listener, first on caller, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 9: I saw the you do a great job, by the way,
Speaker 9: and I and I saw the Dicktobin press conference, Duke Togum.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry. And anyway, it just it starts at the top, Lance,
Speaker 9: I think with Mike Brown, and I don't think things
Speaker 9: are going to change. You know, nothing against Duke or
Speaker 9: or Zach Taylor, but it's just like Mike Brown is
Speaker 9: just not committed to bring it in a real head coach,
Speaker 9: you know, like we could have hit maybe Sean Payton
Speaker 9: come in and and then double or triple our scouting, uh,
Speaker 9: you know, compliment and just put things in motion. But
Speaker 9: I just don't think it's going to happen. And as
Speaker 9: far as you know, like their draft choices, Lance, I
Speaker 9: mean there's been so many busts, you know, a Blahee Fisher,
Speaker 9: that center, what was it, Pright guy Jackson, Burton Burton
Speaker 9: and Ross the guy that you know, and it's just
Speaker 9: on and on and on in Lance, maybe for a
Speaker 9: hang up here. I don't want to keep you guys
Speaker 9: from the rest of the callers, but is it true
Speaker 9: the Bengals use some kind of scouting report from a
Speaker 9: company or whatever that gives them a lot of scouting information,
Speaker 9: and so they having boots on the ground.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's in addition to what they do.
Speaker 2: There's a what's called a blessed Tho scouting service, and
Speaker 2: I think most teams are privy to this information. But
Speaker 2: to your point of boots on the ground, I'll never
Speaker 2: understand or I'll never accept the idea that they've got
Speaker 2: enough information about all the players. I've never understood what
Speaker 2: the downside would be to having more boots on the ground,
Speaker 2: because it's more players to look at and more players
Speaker 2: to cross check and have more people look at because
Speaker 2: if you have a scouting department of a six, maybe
Speaker 2: you see a guy in a great day and you
Speaker 2: fall in love with him. Maybe you see him on
Speaker 2: a bad day and you fall out of love with him,
Speaker 2: but maybe that was just one day. And if you
Speaker 2: crosscheck and have guys see a player more than once,
Speaker 2: it adds the perspective on a player.
Speaker 9: It does Lanson, We've got so much talent here. I
Speaker 9: know Mike Brown doesn't probably want to do it, but
Speaker 9: you've got Dave Lapham, you got Munoz, You've got you know,
Speaker 9: some of the other offensive players that still were in town,
Speaker 9: if he would pay them and let them go in like,
Speaker 9: you know, as a final check or something. And then
Speaker 9: when we get a good guy like Amy Whitworth, how
Speaker 9: he let Whitworth leave.
Speaker 4: Is beyond me.
Speaker 9: I think we hit him. We would have won that
Speaker 9: Super Bowl. I truely believe that. But anyway, I don't.
Speaker 4: Want to keep you.
Speaker 9: But it's a shame we're stuck with Mike Brown. And
Speaker 9: I guess the only thing like that previous callers say
Speaker 9: you just don't renew your season tickets.
Speaker 5: I guess I don't don't know what options.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bob, I'm honored you call for the first time.
Speaker 2: Please don't make it your last. Let's do it again sometime.
Speaker 9: All right, Okay, thank you, sir, Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 2: My frustration with the scouting and there their response is
Speaker 2: they have all the information. They don't lack for information,
Speaker 2: and it's not the volume of information. And I'm paraphrasing here,
Speaker 2: but Zach said on Friday, when mistakes have been made,
Speaker 2: they've been made at the decision point. And I heard that,
Speaker 2: am I wait a minute, The mistakes aren't made by
Speaker 2: lack of volume of information, meaning we've got all the
Speaker 2: information we need on a player, that it's at the
Speaker 2: decision point. Well, how do you think you arrived at
Speaker 2: the decision point with the information? I mean, here's what
Speaker 2: it just it really galls me, from the simplest of terms.
Speaker 2: Imagine believing the smallest scouting department in the NFL by
Speaker 2: far has all the information it needs. Just say that
Speaker 2: out loud. And when Duke says it's not about the
Speaker 2: volume of the information, that they'd never lacked info on
Speaker 2: a player. And again when they when they've made a
Speaker 2: mistake it was at the decision point, I don't know
Speaker 2: how that is expected to be accepted as a logical answer.
Speaker 2: Riddle me this, batman. Why does every other organization have
Speaker 2: more scouts than the Bengals. Why would that be? More
Speaker 2: scouts is more eyeballs on more players and more cross
Speaker 2: checking opportunities. My daughter could have drafted Peyton's twenty three.
Speaker 2: She could have drafted Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase in
Speaker 2: the last they get six drafts. The Bengals have used
Speaker 2: twelve picks on defensive linemen. Do you know what the Bengals'
Speaker 2: biggest need is this offseason? As admitted to by Duke Tobin.
Speaker 2: What they'll be looking for defensive line help may Waite
Speaker 2: in the last six drafts, the team with all the
Speaker 2: information they need, not lacking him from on any player.
Speaker 2: They've drafted twelve defensive linemen, and yet they still need
Speaker 2: defensive lineman. I mean, I'm left to believe that they
Speaker 2: had all the information and they needed on Jermaine Burton
Speaker 2: and that the decision point was where the mistake was made.
Speaker 2: What I don't even know what I mean saying that
Speaker 2: out loud It drives me crazy. But imagine thinking you
Speaker 2: are so smart that you can scout and evaluate players
Speaker 2: with less than half the people the average NFL scouting
Speaker 2: department has. Say that out loud, No, we're good, We're good.
Speaker 2: Average number of scouts a personnel in a scouting department
Speaker 2: is somewhere around twenty two to twenty four. Bengals is
Speaker 2: closer to ten depending on how you go buy a
Speaker 2: job description eight nine, ten. So imagine thinking you are
Speaker 2: so smart and have all your bases covered to say,
Speaker 2: we can do this as well as anybody else with
Speaker 2: half the people. Why would you believe that What would
Speaker 2: be the down side to having more people? Not even more?
Speaker 2: What would be the downside to having as many people
Speaker 2: as the average NFL team. Their response is the old
Speaker 2: too many cooks in the kitchen. Come on, come on,
Speaker 2: I mean, we're we're all adults here.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: This isn't cooks in the kitchen. This is scouting the
Speaker 2: lifeblood of this organization and it's being executed with the
Speaker 2: smallest department in the NFL. How is that supposed to
Speaker 2: be taken? Seriously? Lexington, we go, Joe, what do you know?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 4: Lance? How you doing? And prayers go out to mister Shipley.
Speaker 2: That's for sure, absolutely well said.
Speaker 13: But yeah, I just want to touch on toe and
Speaker 13: me the biggest syndicator that he's not for the job,
Speaker 13: Like you said, one hundred percent scouting. I've been saying
Speaker 13: that for ten years. But us how the Trey Henderson
Speaker 13: episode went down, and and how they addressed it. Him
Speaker 13: sitting out in all mini camps and the preseason and
Speaker 13: not training and getting hurt second game in the Jets game.
Speaker 13: That's why he got hurt. It's because he didn't train.
Speaker 13: And you know, when when I was in the military,
Speaker 13: eighty second hunter and first stairborn. If we missed a briefing,
Speaker 13: look we're done.
Speaker 4: We're done. You're under contract.
Speaker 13: The public, the fans, the NFL world never should have
Speaker 13: known the situation with with the Trey and it bled
Speaker 13: down to the wording in the contract with Shamar Stewart
Speaker 13: that should have and that's all on Tobin and that
Speaker 13: created such a such a cancer. And because he's the
Speaker 13: face of our defense and and to me, tobn not
Speaker 13: handling that correctly and getting him in to the mini camps,
Speaker 13: to the summer camps in the preseason, that right there
Speaker 13: is you know, I'm going a loss, but I think
Speaker 13: we need to boycott the games myself.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's up to every individual person. And
Speaker 2: there is a right. There is a love for the
Speaker 2: NFL that runs deep. There is a camaraderie of family
Speaker 2: members and the experience of tailgating. And I'll go back
Speaker 2: to what I said in the last hour. If the
Speaker 2: organization is not going to change, then you put your
Speaker 2: fans in a position where they have to consider if
Speaker 2: they're going to change. And that's a very dangerous spot
Speaker 2: to put your fan base in, right, right, But.
Speaker 13: I just think collectively the fans have we're the ones
Speaker 13: that really right the checks. I mean, if it wasn't
Speaker 13: for the fans paying two hundred dollars for a seat,
Speaker 13: four hundred dollars, one hundred dollars jersey of fifteen dollars beer,
Speaker 13: where do they get their money to pay the players?
Speaker 13: Is my you know, so one fan and I get it,
Speaker 13: but all fans together, I think we kind of need
Speaker 13: to have our own collective fan base and come together
Speaker 13: and make some decisions.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Joey and enjoyed. Just call again sometime. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: We're heading down the stretch. In our second hour, third hour,
Speaker 2: headlined and highlighted by Brandon Phillips, who's the leadoff hitter
Speaker 2: of the hour. All ahead RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented
Speaker 2: by Kelsey Valet seven hunter WLW for a minute's final
Speaker 2: word in this hour, delivered from Montgomery, Mark, you were
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Speaker 14: Hello, Mark, Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4: Lance?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry? Good good, good welcome. What's on your mind? Hey?
Speaker 2: A couple of things.
Speaker 14: You know, I wasn't expecting the Bengals to do anything
Speaker 14: with Zach Tailor. I mean, that's just not how they operate. Uh,
Speaker 14: but you know, at least I would have liked to
Speaker 14: have heard that they were going to make some changes
Speaker 14: on how they scout and develop, because you know, we
Speaker 14: all know the biggest issue with this team has been
Speaker 14: Lineman and how many misses they've had in the last
Speaker 14: twenty five or thirty years. You could fund a new
Speaker 14: hotel in downtown Cincinnati with the money they've wasted on Wineman.
Speaker 14: So I mean, to add it up, you could actually
Speaker 14: build a high rise hotel in downtown Cincinnati for what
Speaker 14: they've wasted.
Speaker 2: So frustrating, you know, that's that was I.
Speaker 14: Mean, if I would have heard that, I would have said, Okay,
Speaker 14: well maybe we're on the right track.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 14: The other thing is, like, I just want to make
Speaker 14: a quick comment on this Trey Hendrickson thing. Trey Hendrickson
Speaker 14: had a contract and he decided that he didn't want
Speaker 14: to play and make a big stink about it. And
Speaker 14: I'm sorry, these guys sign a contract and if you
Speaker 14: want to take advantage of where the market is, then
Speaker 14: sign a one year deal and renegotiate it every year
Speaker 14: to what the current market is. You can have it
Speaker 14: both ways. So I don't have any sympathy at all
Speaker 14: for that.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 14: On the Bengals are not wrong with that. You know,
Speaker 14: you sign a contract, you honor it if you if
Speaker 14: you get a quote from your HVAC guy. And he
Speaker 14: was back halfway through and says, hey, I need another
Speaker 14: two thousand dollars for your furnace. What are you going
Speaker 14: to tell him?
Speaker 2: Yep, well said very well, said thank you.
Speaker 9: That's it for me.
Speaker 2: That's all I need. Thank you, thank you. And let's
Speaker 2: end the hour with some college basketball. NK. You lost
Speaker 2: yesterday by two to Green Bay. You see, lost to
Speaker 2: UCF by one. Here's Wes Miller after the game, a
Speaker 2: tough one. The Knights went ahead with eleven seconds left.
Speaker 2: Jalen Selenstein missed a game winning three point attempt at
Speaker 2: the buzzer. Bearcats fall seventy three, seventy two. Wes with
Speaker 2: Dan and Terry after the game, and you're just.
Speaker 15: So hurt for our players.
Speaker 4: That's just.
Speaker 15: I mean, you know the truth is is that proud
Speaker 15: of them. You can see other than the result, which
Speaker 15: is extremely frustrating. You can see the improvement, right, you
Speaker 15: can like, you can see consistent improvement.
Speaker 2: You want so bad.
Speaker 15: I think people have children out there understand this.
Speaker 2: When they do what you ask and they do it right.
Speaker 15: You want them to get the reward, and I heard
Speaker 15: so bad that they didn't get the reward the last
Speaker 15: couple of games, especially tonight.
Speaker 2: The truth is, we just got to stay together and
Speaker 2: keep going.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 16: Like it sounds cliche, but it's the only We're on
Speaker 16: the right track. We have a good basketball club. I
Speaker 16: hate that we haven't got the results because you just
Speaker 16: feel like we're I feel like we're one of the
Speaker 16: better teams in college basketball. I think we can play
Speaker 16: with anybody and beat anybuddy, and we haven't gotten results.
Speaker 2: So I hate that.
Speaker 8: Hmm.
Speaker 2: Okay. The net rankings came out today. Perdue is five.
Speaker 2: These are the rankings used by the Committee to some
Speaker 2: extent in determining the NCAA Tournament field. Perdue is number
Speaker 2: five in the net rankings. Louisville is eighteen, Indiana thirty four.
Speaker 2: At thirty five is Kentucky thirty nine Ohio State. The
Speaker 2: Miami RedHawks are at fifty three, Dayton Drew Aster Highty's
Speaker 2: Flyers are at eighty two. The Bearcats are at ninety
Speaker 2: five in the net rankings. Xavier is at one to nine,
Speaker 2: Wright State one twenty one. NKU won seventy one in
Speaker 2: the Ohio Bobcats at one eighty seven, the newest edition
Speaker 2: of the net Rankings from the NCAA. All right to
Speaker 2: a done. Second hour, Let's get into some reds. Brandon
Speaker 2: Phillips to lead things off. Bullpen conversation long about eight
Speaker 2: twenty and then anyone remember the famous recipe Chicken High
Speaker 2: School basketball tournament. A thought on that round eight thirty
Speaker 2: five or so, and on this date, of course. To
Speaker 2: wrap it all up at eight fifty, let's go RNL
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Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.
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Speaker 2: Third hour unfolding eight oh seven on seven hundred WLWRNL
Speaker 2: Carrier Sports Talk presented by kill Ce Chevrolet. I'm Lance
Speaker 2: kamlos Year and your host Russ Jackson, your producer. We
Speaker 2: thank you for being our listeners tonight hang out for
Speaker 2: this hour. Linta handing things off to Gary. Jeff Walker
Speaker 2: serves up the nightcap tonight at nine o'clock. They're listening
Speaker 2: in Lombard, Illinois. I lived in Lombard, Illinois for a
Speaker 2: while when I worked at CLTV, Hello Lombard, and they're
Speaker 2: listening in San Antonio, Texaskell and I went to San
Speaker 2: Antonio about a year during the Bengals bye last year,
Speaker 2: first time and love San Antonio, one of the most
Speaker 2: walkable cities in America. The weather was fantastic at that point.
Speaker 2: We will be going back to San Antonio. So thank
Speaker 2: you for listening on the iHeartRadio app in Lombard, Illinois,
Speaker 2: in San Antonio, Texas. All right. A couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: the Bengals announced Bengals Red's announced their Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: class at twenty twenty six Aaron Harang, Reggie Sanders, Lou Panela,
Speaker 2: and Brandon Phillips and Seg had a chance to catch
Speaker 2: up with Brandon and because we've had, you know, Monday,
Speaker 2: this is the first Monday I've had that hasn't been
Speaker 2: Bengals line since August. So I've got Mondays open now,
Speaker 2: I've got Thursdays open now, which used to be the
Speaker 2: roundtable showing. As much as I wish the Bengals season
Speaker 2: was was still going on, it does free up a
Speaker 2: more regular night to night of sports talk so on
Speaker 2: a night like tonight, I said, Man, this is the
Speaker 2: night Seg got a chance to catch up with him.
Speaker 2: Let's play it tonight. Here is Seg after the announcement,
Speaker 2: catching up with the man they call BP, Brandon Phillips.
Speaker 6: Congratulations, man, you're a Red's Hall of favor A.
Speaker 4: What's having man? How you doing?
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me? I appreciate you, man, no problem.
Speaker 2: What's this? What's this honor mean to you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Man? It can mean so many things. I can say
Speaker 5: one thing, though, I love my damn fans.
Speaker 4: I love my fans. Man. For them to.
Speaker 5: Vote me in, I mean, you know, hopefully the Robbers
Speaker 5: they voted me in twos, they been.
Speaker 4: It's all good. I love you.
Speaker 5: But but the heart and the soul is the fans, man.
Speaker 5: I mean, I did it for the fans. I did
Speaker 5: it because I love the game of baseball, and also
Speaker 5: I did it for my family. But for myself to
Speaker 5: be inducted right now, I have to thank the fans,
Speaker 5: and I think my teammates were really making as possible
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 6: Now, talk a little bit about the the journey. You
Speaker 6: started out with the Montreal Expos. You were then, you
Speaker 6: were what you were traded to Cleveland, and then all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, I guess you get a call and
Speaker 6: the Reds weren't you. It was in two thousand and six,
Speaker 6: and you played here till twenty sixteen. Tell me around
Speaker 6: the road, Brandon Phillips, I had to the Reds Hall
Speaker 6: of Fame.
Speaker 5: Well you're doing throw bags, man, you're trying to make
Speaker 5: me cry over here. Man, dang got me think about
Speaker 5: the bad times. But you know what, we'll get great,
Speaker 5: We'll get the bad.
Speaker 2: You know, the goods coming.
Speaker 5: And stop telling people I got to dropped by the XO.
Speaker 5: Is he telling my And I still look young. I
Speaker 5: still like I'm in my late thirty because come on
Speaker 5: now I look good. But again, so I gotta say
Speaker 5: it again. So yes, I'll drift about the Expos. Was
Speaker 5: in the organization. I was in the organization for for
Speaker 5: a little bit, and you know I was going to
Speaker 5: get called up with with the Xpos to the to
Speaker 5: the Big Leason and am getting traded to the Indians,
Speaker 5: and you know the Indians.
Speaker 4: I was the guy. You know, I was a guy, and.
Speaker 5: We just said see I with my style of play,
Speaker 5: and I tried my best to be the best player
Speaker 5: I can really be.
Speaker 4: And you know, when you.
Speaker 5: When you're young, you don't really know what you got
Speaker 5: to do to be successful at a young age.
Speaker 4: Back then.
Speaker 5: It's totally different now how the game has really changed now,
Speaker 5: But back then, you know, I mean, when once you
Speaker 5: get up there, you got to produce. You can't be
Speaker 5: hitting two thirty. You can't be hitting too citty and
Speaker 5: get called up to the big leads. That that was
Speaker 5: never done back then. And I ended up getting designated
Speaker 5: for assignment in two thousand and six, and I was
Speaker 5: at home practicing with my high school team and I
Speaker 5: was like, man, this is my first time.
Speaker 4: I've been defeated.
Speaker 5: I felt like I failed had something for the first
Speaker 5: time ever in my life. And then that's you know,
Speaker 5: Wayne Kresky called me and he was my brand. You know, congratulations,
Speaker 5: we're gonna sign you and bring you the Reds Country.
Speaker 5: And they called me in the office when I got
Speaker 5: there during Aaron was right there and it's like, Brandon,
Speaker 5: we want you to be the best place you could be.
Speaker 5: Do it your way, and I said, thank you very
Speaker 5: much for this opportunity. I appreciate it, thank you for
Speaker 5: letting me be me. And the restless history, and I
Speaker 5: just put the city of Cincinnati on my back end
Speaker 5: and the fans loved it, and I became that dude,
Speaker 5: mister Cincinnati called him, mister Smile, call me whatever, Nicknam
Speaker 5: and a half of me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Then we ended up having that dude and the Sigma Show.
Speaker 5: We did everything epic. That's how we do it over here, Baybay.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 6: So Wayne Krisky just calls you out of the clear
Speaker 6: blue and says, hey, we want you here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean it was that man right there. I
Speaker 5: thank him that he changed my whole life, my career,
Speaker 5: not just my career, but my whole life, because you know,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't know what I would have been doing right
Speaker 5: now if it wasn't for him. You know, I don't
Speaker 5: know what I would have been doing. And I thank
Speaker 5: him for giving me the opportunity.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 5: It was all Wayne, Wayne, Wayne. I was Wayne's guy,
Speaker 5: you know. So you got to think about the guys
Speaker 5: that Wayne brought over. He brought me and Bronson, Ryan
Speaker 5: Brussell came over. There were the two guys. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: we was there for a long period of time, and
Speaker 5: we wrote, we rode that time together. We did that
Speaker 5: thing and and it was a it was a great
Speaker 5: time to be alive.
Speaker 2: Let me just read some of this stuff.
Speaker 6: Three time National League gol Star, four time Gold Glove winner,
Speaker 6: a Silver Slugger winner, a three time winner of the
Speaker 6: Ernie Lobardi Award is Reds MVP, and they're one of
Speaker 6: three Reds in history, along with the number forty four
Speaker 6: Eric Davis, Number eleven Barry Larkin. Thirty home runs and
Speaker 6: thirty stolen bases in the same season. You did it all, man,
Speaker 6: You did it all, and you played for, like you said,
Speaker 6: for the fans, and you played your best each and
Speaker 6: every day.
Speaker 5: Well hearing all that, man, I mean, I mean, it's
Speaker 5: pretty impressive. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: I never really heard.
Speaker 5: It like that, you know, to be honest, I mean,
Speaker 5: I just played the game the best way I knew how, man,
Speaker 5: I thought. I thought baseball was born as hell. So
Speaker 5: I had to do something made me enjoy it. So
Speaker 5: I started letting balls, returned my legs behind my back,
Speaker 5: hitting home runs, pimping them. But now the game is
Speaker 5: totally different. Like I mean, if I played in this generation, oh, Lord,
Speaker 5: you never know what kind of dad do it would
Speaker 5: have been. It would have been crazy. But back then,
Speaker 5: I mean, my teammates made me successful, you know, and
Speaker 5: the coaches that I had, I'm right, managers, coaches and managers,
Speaker 5: they did that. Jerry Naron, you know, Dustin Baker, right,
Speaker 5: Pete mccannon. You got to think about those guys, man,
Speaker 5: I mean, they really elevated my game and they made
Speaker 5: me take off.
Speaker 6: Tell me about that two thousand and seven season, as
Speaker 6: I said, thirty home runs, thirty stolen bases, and only
Speaker 6: three Reds have done it. I mean, that really puts
Speaker 6: you on the map, didn't it?
Speaker 4: It really did, you know?
Speaker 5: And I, like I said, I was hit between Griffy
Speaker 5: and Done, so I had a lot of pressure on
Speaker 5: me and then. But the thing is though it made
Speaker 5: me step my game up. It made me realize my
Speaker 5: work and what I can really do by by doing that.
Speaker 5: And all I can do is just be the best
Speaker 5: version of me. And I took advantage of the situation,
Speaker 5: and I thought I was going to keep on just
Speaker 5: putting up numbers and doing and things like that. And
Speaker 5: then the next following year I ended up breaking my
Speaker 5: finger and I mean I started like a lot of
Speaker 5: injuries started coming to my hands and to my wrist,
Speaker 5: and so I've never been like ever since that had happened.
Speaker 5: I was never the same after that. But I figured
Speaker 5: out ways how to do it and find out way
Speaker 5: to be successful, you know, so to really go out
Speaker 5: there day in and day out to be successful with
Speaker 5: the team and also for the fans. And I never
Speaker 5: made excuses. I went out there and try to find
Speaker 5: a way to get it done. And that's how I
Speaker 5: was raised as a person. Even though you're not one
Speaker 5: hundred percent, but you know what, you can go out there,
Speaker 5: find a way still get it done and still be successful.
Speaker 5: And I did that.
Speaker 6: Tell me a little bit about how and uh, you're
Speaker 6: your WWE superstar wife got together. I mean, uh, I'm
Speaker 6: kind of surprised you haven't entered the squared circle and uh,
Speaker 6: you know fought the Gunther or brock Lesser or you know,
Speaker 6: maybe John Cena. I mean I was looking for that
Speaker 6: dude BP to be out there running around and doing
Speaker 6: the you know, doing the sleeper holding all that stuff.
Speaker 6: How did you and your wife get together?
Speaker 5: Uh? We we met to a family friend, you know,
Speaker 5: and my my gut. My family friend metor at a
Speaker 5: event and you know, he told me all about it,
Speaker 5: and that's how we end up talking. You know, she
Speaker 5: saw the last year, maybe the last two years, and sistant.
Speaker 4: She saw it a little bit. Yeah, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Be cause we was friends, we was friends, she saw
Speaker 5: a little bit of it. So she didn't know how
Speaker 5: the city assistantatic really loved me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: She didn't see the.
Speaker 5: Grit, the love, the passion that the fans poured into me.
Speaker 5: But that's how we met. And yeah, she's that's my queen.
Speaker 5: She's killing a gang. She's a tampion right now. We
Speaker 5: talked about us doing the US doing something wrestling for
Speaker 5: me to getting the ring of where we talk about it.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, hey, this.
Speaker 4: Is your time.
Speaker 5: We supported you supported me in my career. So I
Speaker 5: want to make sure that she gets well she needs
Speaker 5: out of it. But she needs me to go body
Speaker 5: playing somebody.
Speaker 4: I'm ready.
Speaker 5: I'm ready to just you know, body playing D D T.
Speaker 5: I'm ready, r KOs, I'm ready to do all that.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. I already gotta give me too.
Speaker 5: I'm more with some baseball paths. I'm gonna be slide
Speaker 5: in there home runs, making it rain on people.
Speaker 2: There we go, here we go. Well, I got it.
Speaker 6: I got to end this now because we uh we
Speaker 6: we had a great time in the doug out. I
Speaker 6: mean that, that dude BP show will never be forgotten.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 6: It was quite an honor to talk to you on
Speaker 6: a daily basis and get guests on every so often,
Speaker 6: but just to have you to talk to uh was
Speaker 6: was remarkable. I mean it was we we had a
Speaker 6: thing going on, and we did We did our thing,
Speaker 6: and I think everybody, everybody enjoyed it because it showed
Speaker 6: another side of you that other than just playing second
Speaker 6: base and playing baseball. It shows what what Brandon Phillips
Speaker 6: was all about.
Speaker 5: And I appreciate you for giving me the opportunity.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: I mean, people can listen to our show stuck in traffic,
Speaker 5: you know, about to come to the game. They hear
Speaker 5: what we had to say and how it was going
Speaker 5: to go. That was a good time to be alive.
Speaker 5: Like I said, man, you know, I even told Jay
Speaker 5: she didn't know nothing about this guy. I told the
Speaker 5: other day, I said.
Speaker 2: What baby, Oh boy, oh boy, I bet you that
Speaker 2: one over big did it?
Speaker 5: No, she loved it. Okay, okay, because you know I'm
Speaker 5: gonna say she had the batty section in w W E.
Speaker 5: So she has the own stuff like that. Okay, you
Speaker 5: took that from me.
Speaker 4: I did it first. I did it first.
Speaker 6: She's got you got the Debbie, she's got the dudes.
Speaker 4: No, no, she got the batties.
Speaker 5: Oh I got the Debbie got Yeah, you got good
Speaker 5: looking women. That's competent. That's what you call him, batties.
Speaker 5: But me, Miles was little Debbie cakes with little of
Speaker 5: the Debbie.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 6: Brandon, once again, congratulations man, you're the best. And we'll
Speaker 6: see in April. But quite an honor and you're there
Speaker 6: going to be a Red's Hall of Famer. I appreciate
Speaker 6: your time as always, my man.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you man. Thanks for having me, man, I'll
Speaker 5: see you soon.
Speaker 2: How about those two back together again from the dugouts
Speaker 2: to uh the uh conversation tonight. That was awesome. Thanks
Speaker 2: to seg for getting that done and passing it along.
Speaker 2: And how about the big time praise Brandon Phillips had
Speaker 2: for Wayne Krivsky and uh Wayne Crisky and Jerry Naaron
Speaker 2: allowing him to be himself a winn. He came here.
Speaker 2: When we come back, The Reds have reportedly signed a reliever,
Speaker 2: not official by the team, but background on him and
Speaker 2: an assessment of the Reds bullpen. This edition of it
Speaker 2: compared to last year's edition of it. That is ahead
Speaker 2: as we continue with RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by
Speaker 2: Kelsey Chevelle seven hundred WLW be on whether it's Twitter, Instagram,
Speaker 2: TikTok at, Lance Pacalister would appreciate you following, would really
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Speaker 2: as well. I've also got a Facebook page if that's
Speaker 2: your thing. No, they're all on the Facebook page. Lance Pacalister,
Speaker 2: Sports Talk jump in. We're talking now about the Reds
Speaker 2: and the bullpen news. The Reds have not made this official.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's like a physical today or tomorrow,
Speaker 2: the announcement tomorrow and then he joins Red's Hot Stowe
Speaker 2: League show tomorrow night. Maybe. Reports are the Reds have
Speaker 2: reached an agreement with right handed relief pitcher Pierce Johnson.
Speaker 2: He turned thirty five in May, pitched for the Braves
Speaker 2: last season and sixty five appearances out of the pen.
Speaker 2: His earned run average three zero five not bad, fifty
Speaker 2: nine strikeouts fifty nine innings. Big curveball guy through his
Speaker 2: curveball seventy two percent of the time. And if you're wondering,
Speaker 2: he was much better than league average, ERA plus is
Speaker 2: a way of telling you how much better or worse
Speaker 2: than league average a pitcher was. His ERA plus was
Speaker 2: one thirty seven, meaning he pitched better. He pitched thirty
Speaker 2: seven percent better than your average pitcher in Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball last season. A strikeout rate better than average, a
Speaker 2: walk rate lower than leg average, fly ball rates a
Speaker 2: little bit higher than I think you would initially like.
Speaker 2: He's more of a six to seventh, seventh eighth inning guy,
Speaker 2: not a closer type. He does have sixteen saves in
Speaker 2: his career, but last season, pitching in the sixth inning,
Speaker 2: his earned run average was one fifty nine. When he
Speaker 2: pitched in the seventh, it was two thirty five. When
Speaker 2: he pitched in the eighth, his ERA was two fourteen.
Speaker 2: When he pitched in the ninth, it was over ten.
Speaker 2: So he got knocked around in the ninth inning for
Speaker 2: whatever reason. Last season the year before. He appeared in
Speaker 2: fifty eight games with an earned run average of about
Speaker 2: three to six zero career three hundred and thirty appearances,
Speaker 2: twelve postseason appearances over four different postseasons. Pretty good postseason pitcher.
Speaker 2: One and a half earned run average in twelve innings
Speaker 2: of playoff work. He was originally a twelve twenty and
Speaker 2: twelve twenty twelve first round pick of the Cubs. He
Speaker 2: went number forty three. I think it was in that round.
Speaker 2: He was like a compensatory pick of that first round,
Speaker 2: think like eight picks later. The Reds took Jesse Winker
Speaker 2: that year, but went to the Cubs in twenty twelve. So,
Speaker 2: having said all that, this is what the Reds have
Speaker 2: done with their bullpen this offseason. They have added Caleb Ferguson.
Speaker 2: They have added Pierce JOHNSONLB reports the deal for Pierce
Speaker 2: Johnson is one year, six and a half million. They've
Speaker 2: lost Scott Barlow, lost, Brent Suitor, lost Nick Martinez, re
Speaker 2: signed Emilio Pagan. So would you feel better, worse, or
Speaker 2: the same about this bullpen compared to last year's bullpen?
Speaker 2: I would cautiously opt, be cautiously optimistic and saying I
Speaker 2: think this bullpen can be better than last season. I'm
Speaker 2: a little bit worried if they didn't get the best
Speaker 2: out of Emilio Pagan and there's no way he replicates that,
Speaker 2: but we'll see. I'm a little bit worried about the
Speaker 2: workload of Tony Santion. Eighty appearances is a lot of
Speaker 2: work and relievers performances are so volatile from one year
Speaker 2: to the next, and when you're young and through that
Speaker 2: many innings, that many appearances, I'm always curious how you're
Speaker 2: going to respond armwise the next year. But Caleb ferguson
Speaker 2: the lefty, I like him, Pierce Johnson, the new guy,
Speaker 2: Graham Ashcraft. I think counter Phillips is an important part
Speaker 2: of this bullpen in terms of does he was what
Speaker 2: we saw last season like legit? And is there is
Speaker 2: there a next level to get to or does he
Speaker 2: regress this season You've got But he's still young, so
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna get better, I hope, And if
Speaker 2: he does, look out because he's nasty. Sam Mall and
Speaker 2: an open spot. If you figure there's eight bullpen spots,
Speaker 2: that's about seven that appear to be taken. Pegan Santition, Ferguson, Johnson, Ashcraft, Phillips,
Speaker 2: and Mal with one more and maybe that one more
Speaker 2: comes from Zach Maxwell or Luis may yos Verzulueta, Brandon Williamson,
Speaker 2: Ryan Richardson, they invited to spring training Josh Stammont. I
Speaker 2: believe it's pronounced so that grouping maybe fills the last spot.
Speaker 2: I find it hurt to believe they're going to spend
Speaker 2: more money on another reliever, as much as they've spent
Speaker 2: on relievers this offseason. But if it's Beegone, Santion, Ferguson, Johnson, Ashcraft, Phillips, Maul,
Speaker 2: and one from that group, I mentioned that shapes up
Speaker 2: this is a pretty good bullpen, does it not? That
Speaker 2: bullpen last year an innings pitched was twenty fifth in baseball.
Speaker 2: Now Terry went to the penalot Terry went to the
Speaker 2: pen five hundred and fifty times last year. That was
Speaker 2: the sixth most in all of baseball. I think if
Speaker 2: you could squeeze another couple outs or one more inning
Speaker 2: out of your starting rotation on average, probably a lot
Speaker 2: to ask in this day and age, but if you
Speaker 2: could think of how much that easier it makes on
Speaker 2: your bullpen. When it's all said and done, some more
Speaker 2: Reds ahead. Plus does anybody recall Do you recall the
Speaker 2: famous recipe Classic? Stumbled into this last week in an
Speaker 2: email I got. I love emails with stuff I didn't
Speaker 2: know anything about, and I knew nothing about the famous
Speaker 2: recipe Classic, And the more I looked at it, the
Speaker 2: more fascinated I became. That and more. As we continue
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Speaker 2: through the iHeartRadio app. Shout out to Andrew Lovens, who
Speaker 2: passed along something to me last week I had no
Speaker 2: working knowledge of. I'm fascinated by it. I loved the
Speaker 2: deeper I got into it, the more I was intrigued
Speaker 2: by it, And he sent me a Northern Kentucky high
Speaker 2: school basketball Facebook post I think it was from David Hartman,
Speaker 2: and last week was the anniversary. He was forty eight.
Speaker 2: Three years ago this past week that the largest in
Speaker 2: season basketball tournament in Kentucky tipped off, the famous Recipe Classic.
Speaker 2: Now this when it started, I was in high school,
Speaker 2: so I wasn't here. I had moved and by the
Speaker 2: time I came back in ninety seven, it was wrapping up,
Speaker 2: so I didn't get a chance to experience this. But
Speaker 2: it was a sixteen team tournament in Northern Kentucky. The
Speaker 2: top eight Northern Kentucky high school boys basketball teams squared
Speaker 2: off with the best eight teams available around the state
Speaker 2: of Kentucky. And the Classic idea started with a gentleman
Speaker 2: named Tom Cummins who was the owner of famous recipes
Speaker 2: Fried Chicken in the Northern Kentucky area, and he had
Speaker 2: a brain trust of three men. Ed Pendry, editor and
Speaker 2: publisher of Kentucky Sports newspaper, Dale McMillan, the legend sports
Speaker 2: director whkk here WLW voice in the Bearcats at one time,
Speaker 2: and Mel Webster, a coach and an official. It was
Speaker 2: kind of the publicity director of the event. And this
Speaker 2: tournament began as a four day elimination tournament across northern
Speaker 2: Kentucky that would grow to four sites and pool play,
Speaker 2: and it kicked off at homes I think in Lloyd
Speaker 2: High School, and at the start the tournament was centered
Speaker 2: around the boys side. They later expanded to the girls side.
Speaker 2: But the more I read about this, the more cool
Speaker 2: it sounded. The fact that the team headquarters was the
Speaker 2: Holiday Inn South and Fort Mitchell, featuring the Holidame, and
Speaker 2: there was a team reception at January the fifth. Each
Speaker 2: visiting team in the tournament was guaranteed thirteen hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five dollars and a share of the visiting profits.
Speaker 2: Each local team in the tournament got twelve hundred dollars
Speaker 2: and twenty five percent of the profits went to local schools.
Speaker 2: The players got a tournament newspaper and a t shirt
Speaker 2: for participating in it. There was a big push to
Speaker 2: convince the local leaders to build a basketball arena, a
Speaker 2: minimum six thousand seed arena as part of all this.
Speaker 2: I think Holmes High School was the largest gym at
Speaker 2: the time if I remember reading correctly. The tournament provided
Speaker 2: hotel accommodations, There was money up front of the schools.
Speaker 2: There was a media guy that was over sixty pages
Speaker 2: that was sold for one dollar in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2: At one time the field one year, the coaches in
Speaker 2: the field had over forty eight hundred combined career wins.
Speaker 2: I was looking at matchups one year, and don't hold
Speaker 2: me to what year this was, but it was Tates
Speaker 2: Creek versus Scott High School coached by Jeff Mitchell led
Speaker 2: by was it Jeff Knof a Campbellsville voice versus Lloyd
Speaker 2: who had Greg Kunkel and j Stencil Grant County took
Speaker 2: on Highlands coached by Ken Shields, the legend my guy
Speaker 2: went on to coach at NKU. Kenny Shields team had
Speaker 2: Jeff Kramer and Willie Schlarman Willi Schlarman. The year I
Speaker 2: was looking at was averaging twenty two a game. East
Speaker 2: Carter took on Newcath who was ten and zero. Newkath
Speaker 2: was the smallest team in the tournament three hundred and forty,
Speaker 2: led by Tom Freppin and was it Jimmy Pagnala Pagnola
Speaker 2: Paducah Tillman took on Connor In a player named Tony Hilton.
Speaker 2: Newport had Madison Central as the matchup. Knox County Central
Speaker 2: took on Covcath with Brian Clemens and Todd Shulty and
Speaker 2: Owensborough against Holmes one year. But I cannot thank Andrew
Speaker 2: enough for passing this along. I talked with Skinny Richard
Speaker 2: Skinner about this yesterday and Tom Gamble about this. I
Speaker 2: knew nothing about it, but I loved the idea that
Speaker 2: I'd love to see something like that come back. That
Speaker 2: must have been cool back in. I think it ran
Speaker 2: from nineteen eighty three to like nineteen ninety seven. Let's
Speaker 2: grab some reds that I got to get to some
Speaker 2: NFL conversation as well in Tennessee. Jeff, Welcome to seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW. Thanks to McCall. I got it. A couple
Speaker 2: of questions, Doc Tasky Bud. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Number one that uh Mark Hate from.
Speaker 2: Colorado, Yes, signed into a to a minor league contract
Speaker 2: first baseman formerly the.
Speaker 14: Rockies, Okay, and then uh Garrett uh.
Speaker 2: Hanson, Yes, minor league contract. He was here for a
Speaker 2: brief time last season.
Speaker 4: Nice. Yeah. And my last question, yeah, are.
Speaker 2: They done well financially? They're close to being done if
Speaker 2: they're gonna stick with last year? Was the last year's payroll?
Speaker 2: Is going to be very close to this year's payroll. Uh,
Speaker 2: they might have a little tiny bit of wiggle room,
Speaker 2: but I would think anything that happens now is gonna
Speaker 2: come from money freed up in a trade. Beyond that,
Speaker 2: I don't see a lot of room to make any deals. Well,
Speaker 2: they they they've got seven five five with the Rands
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 12: Is that correct?
Speaker 4: No? Six?
Speaker 14: Maya Pegan, he's the only one to thank signed free
Speaker 14: agent that was our with them last year.
Speaker 2: The others are hasn't been with the Reds right, correct? Yes, yep, okay,
Speaker 2: but I appreciate you taking a call of Fank. You
Speaker 2: got to. I appreciate you checking in. You have the
Speaker 2: first baseman they signed to the Rockies, Mike taglia to
Speaker 2: og l i a is a switch hitter. He is.
Speaker 2: I think he's twenty seven years old. Hit twenty five
Speaker 2: bombs two years ago, hit eleven last year. Has never
Speaker 2: been a big batting average guy. I think lifetime two
Speaker 2: oh one. But in reality, he's depth in the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna be. The only way he becomes a
Speaker 2: part of the major league roster is if something has
Speaker 2: gone dramatically wrong on the major league side of things.
Speaker 2: The same thing with Garrett Hampson. It's all about depth
Speaker 2: in the minor leagues. And having said, if something goes haywire,
Speaker 2: you need something at Triple A Louisville, and he would
Speaker 2: be something at Triple A Louisville. I watched, we watched
Speaker 2: the five NFL playoff games. I watched four and a
Speaker 2: half of them turned off at halftime last night. Do
Speaker 2: you know this was the first time in NFL history
Speaker 2: there were four games decided by four points or fewer
Speaker 2: in a single round of the NFL postseason. First time
Speaker 2: in NFL history four games decided by four points or fewer.
Speaker 2: Bears beat the Packers by four. I have no idea
Speaker 2: still how the Bears won that game. What a game.
Speaker 2: Rams beat the Panthers by three, The Bills beat the
Speaker 2: Jaguars by three. Josh Allen is the single, maybe the
Speaker 2: single toughest dude in the NFL. Got the crap beat
Speaker 2: out of him. Do you know, Josh Allen? I think
Speaker 2: this is right. I think this is his eighth year.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen has not missed a game since his rookie
Speaker 2: season due to injury. That was Let's see one, two, three, four, five, six,
Speaker 2: seven eight. He has not missed a game since his
Speaker 2: rookie season, and I think that was a tendon issue
Speaker 2: or soreness with his elbow. He just takes a beating
Speaker 2: and keeps on playing. And the forty nine ers, oh,
Speaker 2: Kelly was freaking out. Forty nine ers somehow, I don't know,
Speaker 2: beat the Eagles by four for all the for all
Speaker 2: the injuries the Bengals had this season, to losing Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow for what nine games they went won in eight
Speaker 2: nine games and losing Trey Hendrickson, do you realize what
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers did this year with Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 2: as their coach. They win, they advance. Now they've lost
Speaker 2: George Kittle for the season with the torn achilles, but
Speaker 2: Brock Perdy played nine games this season for the Niners.
Speaker 2: They went twelve and five. They lost Fred Warner, they
Speaker 2: lost Nick Bosa, George Kittle, Ricky Pearsall, Brandon Aiyuk, they
Speaker 2: lost their fifth string linebacker, they lost their sixth string linebacker,
Speaker 2: and the Niners are still playing after going twelve and
Speaker 2: five in the regular season. Unbelievable. But the game on
Speaker 2: the Saturday Packers Bears game, Bears trailed twenty one to
Speaker 2: six in the fourth quarter and scored twenty five to
Speaker 2: beat Green Bay thirty one twenty seven. And I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you, every time I watch Caleb Williams, I feel
Speaker 2: the same way. That guy will make an incredible throw,
Speaker 2: and then he makes a throw, you say, what in
Speaker 2: the world was that? And it played out on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: He was dynamic, and he completed half his passes. He
Speaker 2: threw it forty eight times and he only completed twenty four.
Speaker 2: But we're in a day and age where quarterbacks are
Speaker 2: pushing seventy percent if they're good. He completed fifty percent
Speaker 2: of his passes and it was almost exactly. Half of
Speaker 2: them were incredible and half of them are like, what
Speaker 2: was that?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 2: He made a throw I can't even begin to describe.
Speaker 2: In the fourth quarter with the game on the line,
Speaker 2: it was incredible. Three hundred and sixty one yards, two touchdowns,
Speaker 2: they advance and the other thing that jumped out for
Speaker 2: the weekend. And I know we're talking about an analytically
Speaker 2: driven world of sports in this day and age. In
Speaker 2: the five playoff games, NFL coaches went for it on
Speaker 2: fourth down twenty six times. They punted thirty two times.
Speaker 2: They went for it twenty six times and converted half
Speaker 2: of those thirteen of twenty six, and it seemed like
Speaker 2: everyone was a big one either. All that blew up
Speaker 2: and I would give you, I would give you early
Speaker 2: on it blew up in the Bear's face and Ben Johnson,
Speaker 2: but they were able to overcome it. But it is
Speaker 2: crazy how often teams go for it on fourth down
Speaker 2: this year. And I will say, oh, one other note
Speaker 2: I saw today on the playoffs. One I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 2: And this was a courtesy of John Breech, son of
Speaker 2: the legend Jim Brade. John writes for CBS Sports, this
Speaker 2: is hard to figure out. Sean McVay and the Rams
Speaker 2: will play the Bears this week. Sean McVay, this will
Speaker 2: be his fifteenth playoff game. He has played faced fifteen
Speaker 2: different teams. How is that even possible? No duplicates in
Speaker 2: fifteen playoff appearances He's faced fifteen. That sounds impossible. In fact,
Speaker 2: I didn't know John Breach was such a fantastic writer.
Speaker 2: He said, well, that can't be right, but it is
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like it could be possible. I do have
Speaker 2: a broadcasting note that I will tread lightly on because
Speaker 2: he's a legend and he's a Hall of Famer, and
Speaker 2: I don't say this lightly, but to me, it is
Speaker 2: striking how lacking Al Michaels has become on calls of
Speaker 2: games for Amazon. I mean, his diminishing awareness and sharpness
Speaker 2: and even visual understanding of what's happening on too many
Speaker 2: occasions is difficult. Kirk Kurbstreet is really good at cleaning
Speaker 2: up and finishing off too many of his calls now,
Speaker 2: it just really and I haven't watched every game that
Speaker 2: Al's done this year, but that Saturday night it was
Speaker 2: striking just where he is right now from a game
Speaker 2: calling standpoint, at what I think he's eighty now. Man,
Speaker 2: I think Tom Brady is getting better and better. I
Speaker 2: think Tony Romo is slipping and slipping. I think Tony
Speaker 2: Romo sounds like too often he shows up to the
Speaker 2: game just to have fun, and really he has done
Speaker 2: no background or prep on the game, which I don't understand.
Speaker 2: And I'm not so sure. Well, I think I am
Speaker 2: kind of sure. I think Greg Olsen's better than both
Speaker 2: of them. He's much better than Romo, and I think
Speaker 2: Greg Olsen's better than Tom Brady. But Tom Brady's getting better.
Speaker 2: I enjoy listening to him on games. All right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna run out of time I gotta do on this date.
Speaker 2: Final segment is next RNL Carrier Sports Doc presented by
Speaker 2: Kelsey Sherblay seven hundred WLW The Stretch, final segment of
Speaker 2: the night. We do it with an on this date
Speaker 2: in Red Or sports history, and I've got a couple
Speaker 2: of things that happened to be related to the Reds
Speaker 2: on this list. So here we go. Nineteen thirty two,
Speaker 2: Red's legend Ed Roush announces his retirement. He hit three
Speaker 2: twenty three over nearly two thousand major league games. Elected
Speaker 2: to the Baseball Hall of Fame in nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 2: won two batting titles, never struck out more than twenty
Speaker 2: five times in a season. Holy cow, there's guys who
Speaker 2: track out twenty five times in a week, it seems.
Speaker 2: In nineteen sixty nine, the Red celebrated the centennial and
Speaker 2: Raush was voted the greatest player in the team's history
Speaker 2: at that point. Nineteen forty three. On this date, the
Speaker 2: Reds and Out Spring training will take place in Bloomington, Indiana,
Speaker 2: at Indiana University for the duration of World War Two,
Speaker 2: teams had been ordered by the Commissioner Landis Kennesaw mount
Speaker 2: Landis to save travel expenses, So the Reds trained in
Speaker 2: Bloomington for three spring trainings, and due to the weather,
Speaker 2: conducted many of their workouts inside of Indiana Fieldhouse. How
Speaker 2: about that for a note? Nineteen fifty one. On this date,
Speaker 2: Ezard Charles knocks out Lee Omen in the tenth rout
Speaker 2: at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain the
Speaker 2: heavyweight title. Nineteen sixty nine. History Joe Willie Namath guarantees
Speaker 2: of victory before the game against the seventeen point favorite Colts,
Speaker 2: then leads the AFL and the Jets to its first
Speaker 2: Super Bowl victory sixteen to seven in the Guarantee Game.
Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy two. A Red's Note. The Reds select man
Speaker 2: he junior college pitcher Tom Hume in the secondary phase
Speaker 2: of the Winner Amateur Draft. Hume would say ninety two
Speaker 2: games over eleven seasons. He was an All Star in
Speaker 2: eighty two, and I believe he is the only Red
Speaker 2: to save a game. In the All Star Game nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one, the Reds become the last team in Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball to sign a free agent. They inc Cubs
Speaker 2: outfielder Larry Bittner. Free agency had started five years earlier
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy six. The Reds did not sign their
Speaker 2: first free agent until nineteen eighty one. Bitner hit two
Speaker 2: eighty six over one hundred and thirty nine games in
Speaker 2: two seasons for the Reds nineteen eighty eight. On this date,
Speaker 2: Jimmy the Greek Snyder of CBS NFL today out fired
Speaker 2: for his racially insensitive comments during an interview the previous
Speaker 2: day with a TV station in Washington. And this couple
Speaker 2: more to wrap it up. Twenty fifteen, Ezekiel Elliott Russia
Speaker 2: for two one hundred and forty six yards and four touchdowns.
Speaker 2: The Buckeyes win the National title, running over Oregon forty
Speaker 2: two to twenty. And on this date, twenty seventeen, the
Speaker 2: Chargers announce a move from San Diego to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Speaking of National title games, cannot wait one week from
Speaker 2: tonight Indiana versus Miami. By the way, I listened to
Speaker 2: our guy Luke Brenneman and the broadcast of his crew
Speaker 2: on the way home Friday night out of Bloomington. They
Speaker 2: do the games for Indiana University Radio. They were stellar,
Speaker 2: good job, captured the moment, painted the picture, really enjoyed
Speaker 2: it on the way home, and cannot wait one week
Speaker 2: from tonight to see the Indiana Hoosiers. What I performance
Speaker 2: on Friday night to take out Oregon unbelievable. All right,
Speaker 2: So tomorrow night I follow Red's Hot Stove at eight,
Speaker 2: So we're on seven to nine. I'm working on a
Speaker 2: project and I don't know if I can convince myself
Speaker 2: of it, but I'm trying to get creative, and I'm
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how the Reds can get a bat.
Speaker 2: They still don't have a bat, and yet their payroll
Speaker 2: is if we're if we're to believe what they're saying,
Speaker 2: it's close to bumping up right against their limit. But
Speaker 2: a couple of things to ponder. Do you realize the
Speaker 2: Reds are going to spend this year just over thirteen
Speaker 2: million dollars on three catchers. They're going to go to
Speaker 2: arbitration with Tyler Stevenson and he's gonna make a round
Speaker 2: when it's all said and done, around six and a
Speaker 2: half million. They're paying Jose Travino five and a half million,
Speaker 2: and they're paying Ben Rourtvett, who they claimed on waivers
Speaker 2: from the Dodgers a million two. Now he doesn't have
Speaker 2: any options, so they can't send him back to the miners.
Speaker 2: So that's just over thirteen million on three catchers. Could
Speaker 2: you envision a scenario where they would trade Tyler Stevenson.
Speaker 2: Clearly there's something going on that they couldn't reach an
Speaker 2: agreement and they're going to arbitration over two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars. Nobody does that, but the Reds and
Speaker 2: Tyler Stevenson are and he's entering the final year of
Speaker 2: his contract. What would you be able to do with
Speaker 2: six and a half million if you traded him? In
Speaker 2: terms of putting it towards a bat, would you be
Speaker 2: willing to live with an offense of Jose Travino and
Speaker 2: Ben Rourtvett who's a catch first catcher and can't hit.
Speaker 2: Then you're down to little offense behind the plate and
Speaker 2: a little offense at third. Could I convince you to
Speaker 2: be okay and believe that Chase Burns in rhet Ladder
Speaker 2: combined could cover Brady Singer and the Reds trade Brady
Speaker 2: Singer's twelve million dollar if you put together Singer and Stevenson.
Speaker 2: That's eighteen and a half million. You could put towards
Speaker 2: a bat, either in trade or in free agency, but
Speaker 2: you'd have to depend on Louder and Burns to cover Singer,
Speaker 2: who was the most reliable starter on the staff, and
Speaker 2: you'd have to live with no offense behind the plate
Speaker 2: and at third. But you'd add a bat in theory,
Speaker 2: either for first base or left field. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I can convince myself of that, but I've been
Speaker 2: toying with that and I think I'll be ready to
Speaker 2: present it tomorrow night. Let's hang out tomorrow night at
Speaker 2: the Red Hot Stove. Thanks to Rus Jackson for producing,
Speaker 2: Thanks to you for listening, Stick around the News, and
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