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Speaker 1: They don't. Having that in your history, having that in

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Speaker 1: your background cannot hurt. Maybe he shouldn't be the main

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Speaker 1: It's hard to believe Bob Huggins remains an extraordinarily popular

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Speaker 1: you know, folks still sit around and sometimes they do this,

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Speaker 1: the school has brought him back, and he's been back

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Speaker 1: for a couple of different events and all of that

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Speaker 1: arm's length. And part of that is for most of

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Speaker 1: that time he's been coaching at different programs. He's obviously

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Speaker 1: not now. I don't think Bob is ever going to

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Speaker 1: be a coach again, for what that's worth, But if

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Speaker 1: if there could be some degree of maybe closure is

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Speaker 1: not the right word, but something that allows for a

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Speaker 1: permanent and sustainable and meaningful connection to be made from

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Speaker 1: If if somebody like Jared Calhoun being, for lack of

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Speaker 1: of the day, the dude's going to be judged by

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Speaker 1: how much he wins. And at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: the main reason to hire him was track record of success,

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Speaker 1: like all that stuff mattered more. But if as an

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Speaker 1: ancillary benefit it's easier to bridge whatever gap is there

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Speaker 1: between the school and one of its most significant figures

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Speaker 1: all the matters for the most part is does he win.

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Speaker 1: But it is felt like while the relationship between the

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Speaker 1: it feels like there's still a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: Huggins is not in UC's Hall of Fame, which, as

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Speaker 1: I don't understand that, and and maybe maybe that's reflective

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Speaker 1: and if hiring somebody who has direct ties to the

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Speaker 1: a pretty good thing. Seventeen away from four o'clock. Phone

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Speaker 1: I'll make that make sense next.

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Speaker 1: Reports, Giants and Yankees. It's the first game that counts.

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Speaker 1: I won't make any editorial comments about why that first

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Speaker 1: game should always be played here. That's you talk about

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Speaker 1: an old topic. There's one. ESPN's projections have the Reds

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Speaker 1: winning seventy eight games, Fangraft seventy seven, Baseball Prospectus seventy

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Speaker 1: seven point eight, so seventy eight. The Athletic dot Com

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Speaker 1: seventy seven, CBS Sports dot Com canvassed all five of

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Speaker 1: their regular baseball reporters slash experts. Not one of them

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Speaker 1: has the Reds winning the National League Central Not one

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Speaker 1: of them has the Reds finishing higher than third place.

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Speaker 1: Not one of them has the Reds making the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Sean Zarrillo, who is That's maybe not a name that

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Speaker 1: you know, but he is. I subscribe to the Action Network,

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Speaker 1: which is a sports betting website, and he's like their

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Speaker 1: baseball guy. He's been on this show before. He is

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Speaker 1: betting heavy on the Reds to not make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: this year. So I'm sure you will find people on

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Speaker 1: various outlets who have the Reds in the postseason. I

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Speaker 1: just there's six of them that I looked at over

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Speaker 1: lunch this afternoon. The consensus is this is not a

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Speaker 1: ninety win team. The consensus is this is not an

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Speaker 1: eighty five win team. The consensus seems to be that

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Speaker 1: this is not going to be a team that wins

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Speaker 1: more games than it loses. So the Rads this year

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Speaker 1: are going to have to defy the consensus. Now, think

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Speaker 1: about that in a year that is going to be

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Speaker 1: judged here in Cincinnati solely by do they make the

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Speaker 1: postseason and advance? And I feel like that's the expectation here,

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Speaker 1: right And if it's not, then what have they been

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Speaker 1: doing for a half decade? That's the expectation here. Outside,

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Speaker 1: And now I do think and this is not exclusive

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Speaker 1: little bit more of a tendency to sort of overrate

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Speaker 1: how good your team is. God knows, We've been guilty

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Speaker 1: that here. I think it's an eighty three win team.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't necessarily mean the Reds are going to have the

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Speaker 1: same team as last year, but I feel like they're

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Speaker 1: going to achieve that. Look a look at the team

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Speaker 1: on paper, I see eighty three win team. This has

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Speaker 1: no major significance. But for what it's worth, this time

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Speaker 1: last year I said eighty three wins. Folks got mad

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Speaker 1: at me. Some said I was too optimistic. They won

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Speaker 1: eighty three games. Eighty three was enough to get them

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Speaker 1: to the postseason last year. I do not believe it

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Speaker 1: will be enough to get them to the postseason this year.

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Speaker 1: So they're going to have to outperform my stupid projection

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Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs in all likelihood. One of

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Speaker 1: the reason why, and I can only speak for myself,

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Speaker 1: I'm not quite as bullish on their chances is what's

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Speaker 1: happened to the starting staff over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: So forget the exasperation with the relationship that appears to

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Speaker 1: be at least somewhat fractured between Hunter Green and the Reds.

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Speaker 1: Whether you think Hunter is soft, doesn't like baseball, whether

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Speaker 1: you think he's misunderstood, whether you blame him for the

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Speaker 1: reason that he's on the injured list, whether you blame

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Speaker 1: the Reds wherever you want to aim your eyre at

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Speaker 1: the fact that he is going to miss roughly half

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Speaker 1: the season best case. He's still going to miss roughly

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Speaker 1: half the season best case. And that's a blow man,

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Speaker 1: Like I think sometimes here and I've done it. We

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Speaker 1: talked so much about other arms they have and RT

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Speaker 1: Louder and Chase Burns and the depth of starting pitching

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Speaker 1: that like, Hunter Green's the guy Hunter Green would be pitching.

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Speaker 1: I'm imagining on opening day if he was healthy like

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Speaker 1: he is, he is still the guy who, at the

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Speaker 1: major league level for the Cincinnati Reds has accomplished the most.

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Speaker 1: He's still the guy with the most upside. He's still

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Speaker 1: the guy that game in and game out gives you

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Speaker 1: the best chance to win. Not having him for at

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Speaker 1: least half a season is a blow, and it's a

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Speaker 1: blow to your team's depth. It's a blow to the

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Speaker 1: top your rotation. So when we are wondering about the

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Speaker 1: Reds having a top five starting staff in the sport,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you do that when you don't

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Speaker 1: have your staff ace. And then you add to it

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Speaker 1: the Nickeolodolo blister thing, and like love Nick, Like who

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Speaker 1: doesn't like Nicklodolo, but he keeps having blisters. He may

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Speaker 1: have to start the season on the injured list, and

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Speaker 1: maybe he comes off quickly enough and he misses two starts.

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Speaker 1: But again it's like it's another health issue with Nicklodolo, who,

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Speaker 1: like Hunter Green, his career has been marked by health issues.

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Speaker 1: The back end of the rotation, there is a ton

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Speaker 1: of upside with each of the trio of Chase Burns

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Speaker 1: and Rat Louder and Brandon Williamson. There's a lot to like.

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Speaker 1: Like Chase Burns, we all remember his big league debut

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Speaker 1: against the Yankees last year. How could you not imagine

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Speaker 1: some of the things that this dude could accomplish? But

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Speaker 1: I think you could go broke by putting a little

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Speaker 1: bit too much stock into the success of inexperienced pitchers,

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Speaker 1: and there's still an experience gap. Chase Burns has pitched

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Speaker 1: in less than fifty big league ginnings. Brandon Williamson hasn't

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Speaker 1: pitched in a Big League game aside for a handful

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Speaker 1: of innings since twenty twenty three. Rat Louder hasn't pitched

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Speaker 1: in a big league game since twenty twenty four. Are

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Speaker 1: each of those guys capable of very good starts? Of

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Speaker 1: course they are? Are each of those guys capable of

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Speaker 1: authoring really good big league careers. I would bet on

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Speaker 1: those things happening. But if this team is going to

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Speaker 1: defy the consensus, if this team is going to outpace

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Speaker 1: last year's team, they're going to need those guys to

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Speaker 1: grow up in a hurry. And I'm just not sure

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Speaker 1: that that's something you can completely bank on happening. Would

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Speaker 1: love to be wrong. I watched a team in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two lose one hundred games despite having a really

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Speaker 1: promising trio of pitchers that year Nicolodolo and Graham Ashcraft

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Speaker 1: and Hunter Green, and each guy showed glimpses of what

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Speaker 1: they could do, but each guy went through their growing pains.

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Speaker 1: And there were a million reasons why that team lost

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Speaker 1: one hundred games that season, But one of the reasons,

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Speaker 1: maybe not the biggest reason, but one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: was their starting pitching is not very deep, which this

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Speaker 1: year's team should be deeper. But it's also there's an

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Speaker 1: experience gap. You add to it if you want Andrew

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Speaker 1: Abbott pitching evenly here in the spring. It's just I

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Speaker 1: think it's hard to feel better about the starting staff

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Speaker 1: than you did going into spring training, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's reasonable to feel a little bit more unease about

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Speaker 1: the collection of starting pitchers as a whole than we

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Speaker 1: did seven weeks ago. Now, I don't believe anybody views

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Speaker 1: this team as a ninety lost squad or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that would be I think a big surprise.

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Speaker 1: But if the idea of this season is to be

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Speaker 1: better than last year, contend for a division title, and

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Speaker 1: the consensus is the Cubs are gonna win it, and

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Speaker 1: I agree with that consensus, though I think there's insane

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Speaker 1: value on Cincinnati, then the starting pitching debth is gonna

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Speaker 1: have to be a major factor. It's gonna have to

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Speaker 1: be an asset. Some guys are gonna have to grow

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Speaker 1: up quickly, and they're gonna have to stop getting hurt.

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Speaker 1: And they're not off to a very good start in

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Speaker 1: that regard. More on that coming up in the four

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Speaker 1: o'clock hour. I want you to put yourself in the

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Speaker 1: shoes of two different Bengals coaches.

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Speaker 6: Next, Wait, this is a soda in fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 1: I won't do that, David, what's up? This is ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty. Moll Leger, thank you for listening. Our guy,

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Speaker 1: our sports legal expert attorney Stewart W. Penrose from the

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Speaker 1: Manila Law Group in thirty minutes plus Brendiman and Jones

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Speaker 1: on baseball. Don't forget tomorrow Opening Day Eve. We are

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Speaker 1: broadcasting as we do every year from the Cincinnati Laggerhouse.

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Speaker 1: It's my Happy Hour, It's my Opening Day Eve Happy

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Speaker 1: Hour tomorrow three to six. And on the show tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we'll chat with Tommy Thrall with Sam Lequura, will chat

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Speaker 1: with John Morossi of the MLB Network. I'll also chat

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Speaker 1: with Jared Calhoun, the new head coach of the UC

644
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Speaker 1: men's basketball team. I believe I'll spend a few minutes

645
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Speaker 1: with John Cunningham as well. So a star studded showed tomorrow.

646
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Speaker 1: We look forward to that. Join us from a three

647
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Speaker 1: to six from the Cincinnati Loggerhouse formally known as the

648
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Speaker 1: Marline Loggerhouse right next to GABP. If you've missed it,

649
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Speaker 1: U S did make it official today Jared Calhoun hired

650
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Speaker 1: as the new head coach at U SEE. He will

651
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Speaker 1: be formally introduced at a press conference that is open

652
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Speaker 1: to the public, by the way, at one o'clock tomorrow,

653
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Speaker 1: So there you go quickly here. Paul Dayner, Junior did

654
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Speaker 1: not join us this week. He is on vacation, so

655
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Speaker 1: we didn't do an All Bengals Hour on Thursday. On

656
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: Tuesday at the three o'clock hour like we normally do.

657
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: There's not a ton going on. Zach Taylor and Duke

658
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: Tobin were at UC's pro day today, which I stop

659
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Speaker 1: by for a little bit. Pro days are, frankly not

660
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,879
Speaker 1: all that exciting. You do see a lot of people

661
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: wearing different team gear. But Zach was there, Duke was there,

662
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: which I don't know if that is going to hinder

663
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: or help their search for a linebacker. It remains to

664
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Speaker 1: me astounding, astounding that fifteen days after the league's legal

665
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: tampering period started, the day that we found out the

666
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: Bengals are signing Brian Cook and Boye Mafe, fifteen days later,

667
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: Dave added no linebackers. It's astounding. It is hard at

668
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: this stage of my life for anything the Bengals do

669
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: to truly astound me. Like you root for this team

670
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: for long enough, you follow this team long enough, you

671
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: kind of become numb to things that might astound others.

672
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: This is astounding to me, astounding. Where this massive weakness

673
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: on last year's team, which was linebacker play has been

674
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: completely unaddressed. And it's I just I hear from folks

675
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: all the time. Well, they've got a lot of faith

676
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: in Barrett Carter and Demetrius Knight, and that is fine.

677
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: They drafted those players for a reason. I don't know

678
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Speaker 1: anybody who is saying that they should give up on

679
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: those guys, that they should move on from them, that

680
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: they should just totally overhaul the linebacker room. Like everybody

681
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 1: I know who cares about this team, follows this team,

682
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: covers this team, will acknowledge that Barret Carter and Demetrius

683
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: Knight have spots on this team that are relatively safe,

684
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: and understands why the Bengals front office and maybe the

685
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: coaching staff still has high opinion of those players, is

686
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Speaker 1: reluctant to move on from them. And yet pretty much

687
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: everybody who will say those things or acknowledge those things

688
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: will also point out that they could use some help

689
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: at that position, a veteran player to provide some guidance,

690
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: somebody who could give them, at least to the beginning

691
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: of the season, some degree of reliability at a position

692
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: where the Bengals did not have a lot of that

693
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: last season. It is astounding to me. Zach Taylor, when

694
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: he is asked about whatever they do at linebacker, is

695
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: going to say all the right things. Whatever approach the

696
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: Bengals taken free agency or in the draft, the head

697
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: coach of the team, who is the de facto spokesperson,

698
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: is going to express publicly belief in whatever they're doing

699
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: or whoever they have. But don't you think it would

700
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: be interesting if you could inject Zach Taylor with truth

701
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: serum or get him off the record over a beer

702
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: or two, and maybe get Al Golden to join. Don't

703
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 1: you think it'd be interesting if you press those guys

704
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 1: on how they feel about what's happened so far at linebacker.

705
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: I don't you feel like they'd say, yeah, we wish

706
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: we had somebody else. I mean, we were doing this

707
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: again fifteen days ago, looking at the list of possible acquisitions,

708
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: looking at the list of available free agents, looking at

709
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: a long list of guys at linebacker, debating the pros

710
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: and cons of each, and it felt like, I honestly,

711
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,919
Speaker 1: it sort of felt like it doesn't matter which one

712
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Speaker 1: they get, Just go get one.

713
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 8: Now.

714
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Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't quite that simple, but you could kind

715
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: of make that argument like, all right, fine, experienced linebackers

716
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,399
Speaker 1: up and down the list, like, don't really care, give

717
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: me a live body who's played the position before that

718
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Speaker 1: at the very least the two guys you had last

719
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Speaker 1: year could attach themselves to. I know we're not necessarily

720
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Speaker 1: covering new ground here. I mean I not. I'm far

721
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: from the only person who have talked about what they

722
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,280
Speaker 1: haven't done at that position. But oh boy, the approach

723
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: seems dangerous. It seems perilous, and it seems like the

724
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: kind of approach that if it doesn't work out, gets

725
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: people fired, and maybe that person ends up being Duke

726
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: Tobin by the way. Maybe also what they're doing at

727
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: linebacker works and the front office looks really smart, and

728
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: if that's the case, they will get and deserve credit

729
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: for it. But the people who take the most heat

730
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: for a team's lack of success or the coaches, are

731
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 1: the head coach are the coordinators? Do you really believe

732
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: that Zach Taylor and Al Golden individually are completely on

733
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Speaker 1: board with what they've not done so far at linebacker?

734
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: You might not believe that Zach Taylor is a very

735
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: good head coach. Might not want him to be the

736
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: head coach of the team. But do you really believe

737
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor is completely on board with not addressing that

738
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: position so far? And when we say not addressing that

739
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: position so far, like at this point, they're picking up

740
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: table scraps if it's veteran players, and I get it.

741
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: I watched NFL Network this morning, which I'm glad to

742
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: see original NFL Network people are on because the ESPN

743
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: bought it. But bock draft they had this morning had

744
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 1: them getting Sonny Styles, which would be awesome. You can't

745
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: draft Sonny Styles and also sign a veteran. It is astounding, astounding,

746
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Speaker 1: I said five point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty.

747
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: We'll jump back to the Rats coming up a little

748
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Speaker 1: bit later on and more on Jared Calhoun as well.

749
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Speaker 1: If I can grab the correct mouse, we'll take a

750
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Speaker 1: phone call or two. Go ahead, Mike, you're on ESPN

751
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: fifteen thirty. Good afternoon, Mike, How are you?

752
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 8: Thank you so much? Mo, very welcome, congratulator. Congratulations to

753
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 8: mister Calhouny sounds like a positive.

754
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Speaker 9: THEO regarding his hire. Um, I'm kind of with you

755
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 9: that the accolades from the people that he knows are

756
00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 9: charming and wonderful, but we get down to what we

757
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 9: always get down to right now, winning games. So God

758
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 9: blessing my i't be you know, for I inform an

759
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 9: open phone because God you want you see to be

760
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 9: back and be relevant someday for crying out loud. So

761
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 9: do you think, what's what's your feel your gut feeling on.

762
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: This comes down to getting dudes and winning games. And

763
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: in order to do that, you gotta have money in

764
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: the coffers. I don't think you see had a cheap

765
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: roster last year. So if if the baseline place to

766
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: start is what the mic? What is that beeping behind you?

767
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 8: Oh? That damn nurse? Which is stupid thing? Man? Could

768
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 8: you please turn that off? I'm sorry, moll, it went off.

769
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Speaker 8: It's off. She turned it off. I'm sorry.

770
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Speaker 1: Now, are you in some sort of medical peril because

771
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Speaker 1: that was turned off?

772
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 8: No? No, no, no, no no no. Actually, I'm gonna

773
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Speaker 8: vehicle being transported to uh have a uh some testing done,

774
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Speaker 8: so I'm gonna it's not an ambulance. It's like a

775
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 8: van when them cooked up to and stuff.

776
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So my gut feeling, my good feeling is optimistic.

777
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 1: My gut feeling is you see hired a coach who

778
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: has the kind of profile that you are looking for

779
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: when you're a Big twelve school looking for a coach,

780
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: somebody who has had a track record of success, somebody

781
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: who you know has ties to the school which don't hurt,

782
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: but you know, at the end of the day, it's

783
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: can he get guys and do they have the resources

784
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: needed to get guys. I don't know that last year's

785
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: roster was cheap, you know. I think the frustration with

786
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: Wes Miller the last couple of years was that they

787
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: were underperforming relative to the talent they had. And they

788
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 1: had talent because they spent money to get the talent.

789
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: If that continues and it can be built on, then

790
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that Jared Calhoun will have players

791
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: who collectively are at least as good as the one

792
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: that Wes had. And again, I think the reason why

793
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: everybody got exasperated with Wes was he had good players.

794
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: He had an All League a second team All League

795
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,479
Speaker 1: guy this year. He had another honorable mention All League

796
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: Guy this season. We've made a big deal about the

797
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: number of players from the team in twenty twenty five

798
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 1: that ended up at high major programs, including Dylan Mitchell,

799
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: who's starting for Saint John's in the Sweet sixteen. So

800
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: if if the infrastructure is in place that allowed the

801
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: previous coach to get dudes and this dude, this coach

802
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: can get guys at the same rate, I'm going to

803
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that

804
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: he can coach them better. And that sounds like a

805
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: slap at Wes Miller, but again it's it's reflective of

806
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: the fact. I don't believe that anybody has ever has

807
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: viewed uc in the era of Nil, especially the last

808
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: two years. I don't think anybody has viewed UCY as

809
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: being bereft of talent. If I assume that won't continue,

810
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: that I will assume that this coach can do better

811
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: with talent that Wes couldn't win enough with.

812
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 8: Changing subjects, do you think Mick would have possibly won

813
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 8: that game with you coon if I had his best player.

814
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: Certainly give him a shot to have played that game. Yeah,

815
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 1: I don't know. They had a long scoring drought. They

816
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: took a two point lead early in the second half,

817
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: right when it felt like Yukon had delivered a knockout punch,

818
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: and then just offensively, as is unfortunately the case so

819
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: many times for Mick cronin coach teams in the n

820
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: c ANDAA tournament. They just went dry. But I'm sure

821
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: Mick would be the first to tell you he'd loved

822
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: to have played that game with a healthy roster.

823
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 8: Well, you took the words down in my mouth for Mick.

824
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 8: All these years, he just couldn't get it done offensively.

825
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 8: You know, it was just weird, and I was bummed out.

826
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 8: I was really rooting for him hard. Hey, real quick.

827
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 8: With the Reds, I think our problem, the base problem

828
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 8: is we just got too many. I guess you'd call

829
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 8: him unproven. To this point, players steer because of injuries

830
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 8: and stuff, the Klain injuries and stuff. Stewart, he's a rookie.

831
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 8: I can kind of go on and on, and then

832
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 8: we got a sind bench and then we know about

833
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 8: the pitching. So this is this is why I think

834
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 8: it's going to be tough for the Reds. I think

835
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 8: I think they're too swim now, these teams that are

836
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 8: spending all the money. If they get somebody to go down,

837
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 8: they got somebody really pretty good to come in. Neither

838
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 8: usually and then try to fill in a little bit.

839
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 8: So this is what worries me about the Reds.

840
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: Mall yeah, I mean I think they're a little bit

841
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: deeper than you do. I think when when you could

842
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: when you could go North without JJ Bledat and resigns

843
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: after the spring training results they put up, I think

844
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: that speaks to your depth. When when you can bring

845
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: Nathaniel Lowe off the bench, that's pretty good. But as

846
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: a general rule, I think you're right. I still feel

847
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: like there aren't enough guys that you could wrap your

848
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 1: brains around what they're going to do for you statistically,

849
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: Like we hope Matt McClain is better, but can anybody

850
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: wrap their brain around what his season's going to look like?

851
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: Even Elie de la Cruz, Okay, well he's healthy and

852
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: so he should make Elipe, well he should, but will

853
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: he like, can you really wrap your brain around what

854
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: his numbers are going to look like? Can you do

855
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: that with Sol Stewart? Can can you do that with

856
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Speaker 1: any of the outfielders? And I don't feel like the

857
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: answer is yes to the degree that it should be

858
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: at this stage in the in the in the in

859
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: the franchise's evolution, this is the.

860
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Speaker 8: One time of the year when I really miss being

861
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 8: at home because I just love Opening Day with the

862
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,280
Speaker 8: Reds and the whole all the festivities, and it almost

863
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 8: makes me cry because I wish I could find out

864
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 8: a way to be able to get home to just participate.

865
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 8: So I'll listen to you guys, and you'll make me

866
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 8: feel close to it, and I appreciate you much.

867
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Speaker 1: We'll all right, that's what we're going to try to do, Mike.

868
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: We're going to try to on on Thursday. You know

869
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: we Opening Day is the best day of the year,

870
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: and it's it's easy in this game. It's easy in

871
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: the sports talk radio game to pretend to be the

872
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: guy who's like, it's okay, nah, man, it's the best

873
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: day of the year. I don't care how jaded and

874
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: cynical a person you are. And you and I both

875
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: know among us there's a lot of jaded and cynical

876
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: people a not like Opening Day in Cincinnati, and so

877
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: ideally you could partake. I hear from people. I hear

878
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: from people all the time who listen from other parts

879
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: of the country who will say that whether it be

880
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: what we do or what some of our colleagues down

881
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: the hall do, that we do a good enough job

882
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: of sort of capturing the spirit and the mood of

883
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: the day that it makes them feel like they're back

884
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: at home. And that's kind of what we try to do,

885
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: is paint a picture and capture a vibe that's unlike

886
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: any other. And we will do that from noon to

887
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: three on Thursday at Smoke Justice. It's a great day.

888
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: When I was an angry guy in my twenties, I

889
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: did everything I could to sort of like talk myself

890
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: into the idea that opening days overrated. I couldn't do

891
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: it because it's not stay of the year. It's the

892
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: best day of the year by far, nineteen minutes after

893
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,760
Speaker 1: four o'clock five point three, seven, four nine, fifteen thirty.

894
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: But I think at the end of the day that's

895
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: kind of one of the problems with this team, Like

896
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of ifs, and even with established players,

897
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: the beauty of sports is we don't know. You can

898
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: project what they're going to do, but you know they

899
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: may exceed or they may fall short of those projections.

900
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: I think with this team, if you look at most

901
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 1: individual players and what their numbers are projected to be

902
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,879
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six, in some cases, we're talking about

903
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: good players, but in no cases are we talking about

904
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: the Reds having elite players, And like, how many guys

905
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: are gonna have like standout career years, how many guys

906
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: are gonna have the sort of seasons that make you

907
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: feel like, you know what, that guy's a top five

908
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 1: player at his position. Maybe it happens with one guy,

909
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: maybe it happens with the two. But at the outset

910
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: of the season, as you're trying to wrap your brain

911
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: around how good the team is going to be with

912
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: how many guys can you really go, you know what,

913
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: this dude's gonna do this this year and it's going

914
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: to be a net possible for just aren't that many

915
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: And you can include the pictures in that conversation because

916
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: of lack of experience in the back end of the

917
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: rotation and right now health uncertainty at the top of it.

918
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: Twenty minutes after four o'clock, This is ESPN fifteen thirty

919
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Sports.

920
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 2: Station Cincinnati, WCKY, Cincinnati and iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed Human ESPN

921
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty.

922
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 1: I heard radio Joey Vado has a gifted the Reds

923
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: a clock, a custom built I assume this is Verdin's

924
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: street clock as a thank you to the Reds and

925
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: Reds fans for their support during his twenty two years

926
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: in the Reds organization. He says, quote Joey in a

927
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: statement released by the Reds just like two minutes ago, quote,

928
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,479
Speaker 1: I am excited about giving the clock to the city,

929
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,439
Speaker 1: the team, and its fans. Being the oldest professional team,

930
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: I wanted this clock to add to the charm and

931
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 1: mystique of the Cincinnati Reds experience. It's a clock crafted

932
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: by the Verdin company V E.

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00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 8: R d N.

934
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: I assume it's not verdein. I'm not that up on

935
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: my clock companies. The clock stands at sixteen feet eight

936
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:23,919
Speaker 1: inches tall with four thirty six inch dials, and it's

937
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: located on Crosley Terrace, just outside the main ballpark entrance.

938
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: Reds have sent out some photos and it's a nice

939
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 1: looking clock as street clocks go. And I can't tell

940
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: you that I am a connoisseur of street clocks, but

941
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: as street clocks go, that's a nice looking item. It

942
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: resides not too far from where the Joey Vado statue

943
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: should one day reside outside the ballpark. But that's a

944
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: conversation for another day. Maybe they'll put the statue up

945
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: when Joey Vado goes to Cooperstown. See that's a possibility.

946
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: That's a possibility. But for now, when you go to

947
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,320
Speaker 1: the game, if you're going Thursday, if you're going this weekend,

948
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: if you're going at any point during this season, make

949
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: sure you stop by and check out the beautiful Joey

950
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: Vado gifted clock right outside the ballpark because in this

951
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: day and age, specifically, like you never know when you're

952
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: gonna need the time, standing outside the ballpark, not sure

953
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: what time it is. Boom, Now Joey is taking care

954
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:31,479
Speaker 1: of you with a clock. I'm gonna make first pitch

955
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 1: on time. Don't have my phone with me, not wearing

956
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: a watch, need the time? You don't want to ask

957
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: a stranger. Just look up. There's a clock. Clock's important.

958
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: It is a nice looking clock. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,

959
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,479
Speaker 1: fifteen thirty and eight six six, seven oh two three

960
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: seven seven six. I talked about this at the at

961
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: the top of the show when it comes to to

962
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: Jared Calhoun UH talk thinking about coaching hires. Has it

963
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: has never been worse, It's never been more difficult. I

964
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: should say, because the answer is the same like Mark

965
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: Pope got hired at UK two years ago and look

966
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: Kentucky Ties had played at Kentucky, it got the blessing

967
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 1: of Rick Patino. His teams at BYU played a really

968
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: fun style of offensive basketball. The instant question was I

969
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: guess there. Word two one is is he going to

970
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: embrace having an ordered team in ways that John Caliperry

971
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: toward the end did Number two? Is he going to

972
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: be able to get guys? Will he have resources to

973
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: get guys? How much resources will be at his disposal?

974
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:45,399
Speaker 1: Richard Patino got hired last year. Richard Patino. You could

975
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 1: debate what he did at Minnesota and New Mexico. You

976
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: could talk about, you know, the fact that Xavier went

977
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: quote outside the family for the first time in a

978
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: couple of years, and the pros and cons of that.

979
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, one thing mattered is

980
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: he going to have what he needs to go get guys?

981
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 1: And we used to have those conversations and it was

982
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: like facilities, Does he have a plane at his disposal,

983
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,839
Speaker 1: what's the assistant coaches pool going to be, Where does

984
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: he have ties to where? What parts of the country

985
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: has he made in runs in recruiting at now it's

986
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: what kind of cash's he going to have to wave

987
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: in front of players? And so Jared Calhoun, it's the

988
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: same thing. It's not so much the league that you

989
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: see as in the conference or the facility of the arena,

990
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: it's how much money is he going to have to

991
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: go get players? And by the way, I think to

992
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: a degree that most people who talk about nil and

993
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: available funds with any amount of certainty are kind of pretending.

994
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: Again for me, Man, I think Wes Miller wore out

995
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: his welcome and it was yes, five years without making

996
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: the tournament, but I think there was a real sense

997
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: over the last two seasons that relative to the players

998
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: he had, there was under achievement. Again on this year's team,

999
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: they had two All league players. Relative to the talent

1000
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: that Wes had, they didn't really come close to making

1001
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: the tournament. So that tells me that player acquisition, or

1002
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: at least funding a roster wasn't a huge issue, and

1003
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: so hopefully it's not for the new guy. So we

1004
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: got a couple of different sports legal issues to get to,

1005
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,600
Speaker 1: including whether or not the networks will listen to the

1006
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: president who when he says he's gonna have an executive

1007
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: order putting the Army Navy game in its own window.

1008
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: That incredible topic and more with our guy from the

1009
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: Manila lawgroots to W Penrose.

1010
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:48,800
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1011
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Speaker 1: Sports Headlines Service, a Kelsey Chevrolet. Are this a Jared

1022
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: Calhoun officially named UC's head coach. They'll introduce him at

1023
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: one o'clock tomorrow. You'll hear my interview with him at

1024
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 1: three twenty tomorrow. At least we think Reds and Brewers

1025
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: played their final exhibition game. In Milwaukee later this afternoon

1026
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:49,439
Speaker 1: at five ten on Wednesdays at this time, we talked

1027
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: sports in the law with our sports legal expert, attorney

1028
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: Stewart W. Penrose from the Manilo Law Group. He joins

1029
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: us every single Tuesday at this time and he's with

1030
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: us now. It's awesome to have you as all, Stuart.

1031
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: How are you.

1032
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 10: I'm doing great, excited for the Calhoun era, you see

1033
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 10: you and.

1034
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: Me both my friend, no question. So at the very

1035
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: top of my sports bucket list right now is attending

1036
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: the Army Navy Game, which I've promised myself I'm going

1037
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: to do at some point over the next two or

1038
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: three years. What's interesting is the Army Navy game many

1039
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: have wanted about. You know, it's placement on the calendar,

1040
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: and if we move the college football playoff up or

1041
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: if we expand it, we're going to have the Army

1042
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: Navy game opposite playoff games. Is that really good for

1043
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: that event itself? Well, the President of the United States

1044
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: has signed an executive order that's aimed at protecting that

1045
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: exclusive TV window that the Army Navy game gets. I

1046
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: guess what I want to know is this, is that

1047
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 1: something that television networks and college conferences. Maybe the NCAA

1048
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: itself have to adhere to or will they essentially ignore it.

1049
01:00:55,760 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 10: They're not going to essentially ignore it, but no unlikely

1050
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 10: that that's going to be binding on them. They're private

1051
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 10: businesses that have contracts to air games at certain times

1052
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 10: and certain games on certain networks. An executive order can

1053
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 10: control you know, when when ESPN schedules their playoff games

1054
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 10: and you.

1055
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: Know when Army and Navy are.

1056
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 10: Put on that said MO, there's clearly a lot of

1057
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 10: indirect pressure that it's going to put on it, and

1058
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 10: it can. It can alter things in different ways, like

1059
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 10: attaching federal funding to you know, requirements to federal funding

1060
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 10: to things that benefit the networks or or or benefit

1061
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 10: the powers that be in the sport. So it certainly

1062
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 10: creates indirect pressure to comply and have some sort of compromise.

1063
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: So if the people who run the college football playoff decide,

1064
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: you know what, we're going to put first round games

1065
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: opposite the Army Navy game, aside from public pressure and

1066
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: aside from maybe whatever the President might put on social media,

1067
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: there's there's nothing legally that can stop them from doing that.

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01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 10: Very unlikely, very unlikely. That said, there's going to be

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Speaker 10: a lot of public pressure with it, and it can

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Speaker 10: hit them, like I said, in indirect ways with different

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Speaker 10: you know, federal fundings that can be taken away or

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Speaker 10: different requirements that can be changed if they don't do

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Speaker 10: certain things.

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Speaker 8: So in all likelihood there'll be some.

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Speaker 10: Sort of compromise, and you know, perhaps they leave that

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Speaker 10: time splot open for Army Navy as a standalone game

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Speaker 10: and you know, have to playoff games before and after

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Speaker 10: and that same day. You know, that would be a logical,

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Speaker 10: you know, one of the logical conclusions to something like that.

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Speaker 1: You and I have talked about prediction markets like Calshie

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Speaker 1: and polymarkets. So there's a new bill that has been introduced,

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Speaker 1: this as a bipartisan piece of legislation introduced in the

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Speaker 1: Senate this week that would ban such prediction markets like

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Speaker 1: Calshi and polymarket from accepting or listing transactions related to

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Speaker 1: sporting events. So what might this mean for folks who

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Speaker 1: like to use cal she and polymarket.

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Speaker 8: Well, it's very interesting.

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Speaker 10: You know, we'll see what happens here.

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Speaker 11: But if it goes through Congress, I mean, this is

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Speaker 11: absolutely within Congress's jurisdiction to you know, to pass a

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Speaker 11: law banning a sports from being from being used in

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Speaker 11: prediction markets that they choose to do.

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Speaker 10: So, Uh, there's going to be a lobbyists on all

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Speaker 10: sides of this. Certainly the states are gonna want to

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Speaker 10: law banning that you know, draft Kings fan due over

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Speaker 10: all the regular sports budding websites are going to want

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Speaker 10: that ban too because they want the business. So the

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Speaker 10: lobbyists are going to get involved. But also how big

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Speaker 10: of a priority is this going to be for Congress

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Speaker 10: as well too? It's a very interesting topic. But we'll

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Speaker 10: see how long it takes for them to get there.

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Speaker 8: But but but it.

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Speaker 10: Does appear appear that there is some bipartisan support to

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Speaker 10: it most so it's going to be really interesting to

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Speaker 10: see where it takes off. But if it passes, it

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Speaker 10: could be the end of prediction markets in terms of

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Speaker 10: in terms of sports.

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Speaker 1: Is this one of the only pieces of bipartisan legislation

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Speaker 1: that's out there, because it feels like I'd never read

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Speaker 1: about anything that's actually bipartisan anymore.

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Speaker 8: It certainly seems that way. Yes, it definitely seems that way.

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Speaker 1: Mo it does. Unfortunately, it definitely does what is the

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Speaker 1: likelihood that something like this actually gets through.

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Speaker 10: Well, we'll see. I mean, Congress has bigger things on

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Speaker 10: their plate. They have to pass budgets. We've kind of

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Speaker 10: shut down right now. We'll see how much of a

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Speaker 10: priority it is for them. And a lot, like I said,

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Speaker 10: the lobbyists get involved whether it gets passed or not.

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Speaker 10: As anybody's guest, quite frankly, yeah, but it's very interesting

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Speaker 10: and there's going to be some powerful people on both

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Speaker 10: sides that want to see something happen one way or another.

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Speaker 1: How stoked were you in VC you beat North Carolina

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Speaker 1: essentially end in the Hubert Davis era. Mo.

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Speaker 10: I literally almost did a backflip in my basement as

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Speaker 10: I watched it. I was very close to attempting it,

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Speaker 10: and that was the only moment in my life. I

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Speaker 10: think I had enough adrenaline in me that I could

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Speaker 10: have pulled it off.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 1: I wish I would have been there for that. I

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Speaker 1: wish I would have seen that. Next time a backflip

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Speaker 1: is possible, let me know so somebody can video it.

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Speaker 1: We'll bring the canvas most definitely. All right, you're the man.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk next week. Thanks much from the Manila Law group.

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Speaker 1: That's our guy. Attorney Stewart W. Penrose are sports legal experts.

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Speaker 1: See amy sports talk radio shows where you get a

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Speaker 1: segment where they talk about bipartisan legislation. Army Navy game

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Speaker 1: is currently at the top of my bucket list. I

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Speaker 1: don't believe in anybody telling networks what they can or

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Speaker 1: can't do, but there is a large part of me

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Speaker 1: that wishes that game did sort of have its own window.

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Speaker 1: How that happens when that happens. Not necessarily sure, I

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Speaker 1: want anybody in the government dictating it, but it'd be

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Speaker 1: kind of cool if it did. There you go, there's me.

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Speaker 1: There's me straddling the fence. Uh five point three seven,

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Speaker 1: four nine, fifteen thirty. Don't forget Thursday opening day. We

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Speaker 1: By the way, we thank Smoke Justice for the food

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Speaker 1: have a ticket, If you do have a ticket, walk

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Speaker 1: Before the Reds take on the Boston Red Sox four

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Speaker 1: to ten. First pitch from GABP. It is seventeen away

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Speaker 1: from five o'clock. Brenneman and Jones on Baseball's Coming Up

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Speaker 1: on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 1: This report is perhaps it's twelve from five o'clock.

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Speaker 9: This is.

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Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty Molegger. Anything you may have missed on

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Speaker 1: this show you can find on the iHeartRadio app, including

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Speaker 1: yesterday about this time, we found out that yes, Jared

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Speaker 1: Calhoun is going to be the head coach at you

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Speaker 1: See And with almost no notice, our guide Chad Brendle

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Speaker 1: jumped on and talked about that with us. If you

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Speaker 1: miss that, it's on the app. Our GUYE Jeff Carr

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Speaker 1: locked on Reds. I had to say this man. We

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Speaker 1: had a dude on Sean King yesterday who is the

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Speaker 1: new head coach of the Cincinnati Slingers International Arena League team.

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Speaker 1: And I've interviewed a lot of football coaches, many of

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Speaker 1: them really really fun and engage to talk to. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I have ever gotten the sort of

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Speaker 1: hardcore x's and o's that we got from our guys

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Speaker 1: Sean King yesterday. And I simply asked him, like to

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Speaker 1: go through some of the nuances when you look at

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Speaker 1: the differences between eight on eight football, which is what

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Speaker 1: arena of football is, and eleven on eleven football, which

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Speaker 1: is what quote traditional football is. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I was expecting from his answer. I got more

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Speaker 1: than I bargained for. So if you want, like it

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Speaker 1: was a ten minute interview, like a good seven minutes

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Speaker 1: of it. If you like that wonky sort of tape

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Speaker 1: head football stuff, my guy Sean King is for you.

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Speaker 1: You can hear that conversation as well on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: were talking on yesterday's show about the NCAA tournament ratings,

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Speaker 1: and this has been a thing of mine for a while.

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Speaker 1: I am not ignorant, and well you might argue that

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Speaker 1: I am, but I'm not ignorant of the issues that

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Speaker 1: college basketball as an institution has to wrestle with. And

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01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:38,360
Speaker 1: in society we have rules. It feels like in college

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Speaker 1: sports we don't have a ton of rules. It'd be

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Speaker 1: great to have some it'd be great to have some structure.

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Speaker 1: I understand the frustration that a lot of people have with,

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Speaker 1: you know, the player movement being out of control. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why anybody would begrudge any player from getting

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Speaker 1: what the market dictates that he or she can get,

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Speaker 1: but it does feel like there needs to be some

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Speaker 1: things that get rained in. One of the takeaways that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people have had in the aftermath of

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Speaker 1: the first four days that the tournament is that Cinderellas

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01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: are dead and like we do have one double digit

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Speaker 1: seated team in the sweet sixteen, it's Texas. Texas, the

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Speaker 1: most well funded athletic department in the country. Doesn't exactly

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Speaker 1: feel like a Cinderella. I mean, obvious culprit is well

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Speaker 1: nil nil and the portal if you get a really

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Speaker 1: good player at a low major or a high major,

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01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: he or she is not going to stay there for long,

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Speaker 1: and in men's basketball to he not gonna stay there

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Speaker 1: for long because they're gonna go to a bigger school

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Speaker 1: where they can make more money. It is a fair observation.

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Speaker 1: What I don't hear anybody pointing to though, as a

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Speaker 1: culprit for the decline in Cinderella's and I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: how many of us really like Cinderella's. Is conference realignment.

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Speaker 1: Think of all of the leagues that have been made

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Speaker 1: weaker by the strengthening of the Big Ten, the SEC,

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve, and the Biggie. I say, this is

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Speaker 1: a fan of a Big twelve school, one who is

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Speaker 1: glad that the teams that he roots for play in

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. But a league like the American Athletic

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Speaker 1: Conference was instantly made weaker, instantly made weaker when Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: UCF and Houston joined the Big Twelve, and so then

1245
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 1: the American Athletic Conference had to go pluck some schools.

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Speaker 1: The eight ten was made weaker when the Xavier left

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Speaker 1: for the Big East. The Horizon League was made weaker

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Speaker 1: when Butler left to go join the Big East. The

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Speaker 1: Missouri Valley Conference was made weaker when Creighton left for

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Speaker 1: the Big East. The A ten then goes and gets

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Speaker 1: VCU and George Mason from the Colonial Athletic Association. Davidson

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Speaker 1: goes to the A ten from the Southern Conference. Loyola

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Speaker 1: goes to the A ten from the Missouri Valley. The

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Speaker 1: Valley also loses Wichita State, which bolts to the American

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Speaker 1: Athletic Conference. Like there's been a domino effect. The American

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Speaker 1: loses not just UCF and Cincinnati and Houston, but they

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Speaker 1: also lose SMU. So they then go grab schools from

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Speaker 1: leagues like the Missouri Valley and the A Sun and

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Speaker 1: the CEA CIA. So like, I think that has much

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Speaker 1: to do with the decline of Cinderella's as anything, and

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Speaker 1: yet nobody seems to topine for those other leagues to

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Speaker 1: best defensive player in baseball because key Bryan Hayes might

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Speaker 1: be both. Hayes won the National League's Gold Glove Award

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Speaker 1: for third baseman last season after splitting the year between

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. In his two months with the Reds,

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Speaker 1: he often showed off his excellent defensive form, and for

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Speaker 1: the fourth time in five years, Hayes led all third

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Speaker 1: basemen with nineteen defensive runs safe. The Reds won't be

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Speaker 1: asking Hayes to do a ton with his bat, but

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Speaker 1: he did hit fifteen home runs for the Pirates in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and for what it's worth, he did

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Speaker 1: homer in his Red State U last July. Meet Red's

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Speaker 1: third baseman. Keep Brian Hayes for more player profiles, keep

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Speaker 1: it here on ESPN fifteen thirty. Oh, it's six minutes

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Speaker 1: after five. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. My name is Moeger.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. I hope you're having an unbelievable

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Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon. It's Opening Day, Eve Eve. The Reds are

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Speaker 1: getting set to take on the Milwaukee Brewers. What do

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Speaker 1: you think the over under is on that game? That

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Speaker 1: game is starting here in like five minutes, five to ten.

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Speaker 1: First pitch. This is this is not something to my

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Speaker 1: recollection that they have done before. They've played exhibition games

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Speaker 1: against minor league teams, They've played a game and date,

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Speaker 1: and they've played a game in Louisville day or two

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Speaker 1: before Opening Day. They had that Red's prospects game a

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Speaker 1: number of years ago, which was like the night before

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Speaker 1: Opening Day, played at GABP. Chase Burns is going to

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Speaker 1: start that game for Cincinnati. It's gonna start here in

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Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes. If you want to listen

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Speaker 1: to it. It's on Fox Sports thirteen sixty and by

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Speaker 1: all means, you're not gonna hurt my feelings if you go.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna listen to a game between

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Speaker 1: the Reds and Brewers that doesn't count instead of you.

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Speaker 1: I can't recall them playing another major league team in

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Speaker 1: an actual major league venue a couple of days before

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Speaker 1: Opening Day, played one last night, got clobbered by the Brewers.

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Speaker 1: The game today, this show will be over in fifty

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Speaker 1: two minutes. That game might be in the ninth day.

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Speaker 1: That's an exaggeration. That game ain't going to be played

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Speaker 1: in two and a half hours. Not if the players

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Speaker 1: have anything to say about it. You'll want to be

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Speaker 1: a lot of first pitch swinging there in Milwaukee Reds

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Speaker 1: and Red Sox in Now, let's see forty seven hours

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Speaker 1: Opening Day. Cannot wait to broadcast tomorrow on Opening Day

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Speaker 1: Eve from the Cincinnati Lockerhouse. More on the Reds later

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Speaker 1: on this hour, we got to jump back to the

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Speaker 1: Bengals as well. Seven and a half is the over

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Speaker 1: under on what inning the game will be in when

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Speaker 1: we're over, Yes, all right, all right, I'll go. I

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Speaker 1: will My prediction is when we leave the airwaves when

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Speaker 1: this show ends, I'll go slightly under. I'll say the

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Speaker 1: Brewers are batting in the bottom of the sixth. This

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Speaker 1: is gonna be the quickest baseball game ever played. You

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Speaker 1: ever go to Game one sixty two, also a very very,

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Speaker 1: very very quick game. You see maned official today. Jared

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Speaker 1: Calhoun is the new men's basketball head coach at the

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Speaker 1: University of Cincinnati. He will be introduced at fifth Third

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Speaker 1: Arena tomorrow at one o'clock. I will have him on

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Speaker 1: this show tomorrow. We're gonna run it at three twenty.

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Speaker 1: I'll just I'll pull back the curtain so we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get Jared Calhoun. I'm gonna go to the media event.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna act like a big boy, grown member of

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Speaker 1: the media. I'm gonna go down there and after the

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Speaker 1: press conference, I'm gonna get like ten to fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: with Jared Calhoun. I'll take my tape recorder and I'll

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Speaker 1: interview the coach on my tape recorder and we'll play

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Speaker 1: the interview at three twenty tomorrow. Barring something unforeseen, I

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Speaker 1: also believe gonna get a chance to chat with John

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Speaker 1: Cunningham a well.

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Speaker 5: Loadus Show tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Loaded Show, we got, we got Tommy Thrall, we

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Speaker 1: got that's a fat uh. That's at in the five

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Speaker 1: o'clock hour. We got Sam Lecurre at four oh five.

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Speaker 1: We have John Morosi of the MLB Network at three

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Speaker 1: thirty tomorrow. Plus John John from Kiss one O seven

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Speaker 1: is gonna hang out with me. Loaded Show, Loaded Host

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at the Cincinnati Loggerhouse, right across from a GABP.

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Speaker 1: Jared Calhoun takes over as the head coach at U

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Speaker 1: SEE and again you'll hear from him tomorrow. This this

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01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: has felt inevitable for a while, and even during that

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Speaker 1: time when it felt like Wes was maybe saving his

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Speaker 1: job when the Bearcats were playing well there mid to

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Speaker 1: late February, it still felt like the most likely outcome

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Speaker 1: was UC was going to have a new head coach,

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Speaker 1: and when you accepted that reality, which I think most

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Speaker 1: fans wanted to, it felt it has felt like for

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Speaker 1: months at the odds on favorite was Jared Calhoun, and

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Speaker 1: it felt like like when Wescott let go eleven days ago,

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Speaker 1: that there was no real need for a hot board.

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Speaker 1: Nothing against our guy, Chad Brendle and the folks at

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Speaker 1: Bearcat Journal, but even that day that they let Wes go,

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Speaker 1: we joked like, does your hotboard have to be anybody

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Speaker 1: beyond Jared Calhoun? So who knows if this is gonna work, right,

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Speaker 1: that's the beauty of sports. We don't know. And if

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Speaker 1: it doesn't work, then there's gonna be a lot of

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Speaker 1: attention being aimed at John Cunningham. But it did feel

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Speaker 1: like John Cunningham had a plan and the plan got executed.

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Speaker 1: And maybe it was easier to execute because there just

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Speaker 1: weren't that many other really good jobs out there. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it was easier to execute because relative to the other

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Speaker 1: gigs that maybe Jared Calhoun could have gotten, this one

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Speaker 1: always made the most sense for him. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it did feel like there was a plan in place.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna to move on from Wes and when we do.

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Speaker 1: Jared Calhoun's our guy. He's ended up being the guy

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Speaker 1: that is, by definition, the execution of a plan. So

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Speaker 1: what matters more than anything else are the results. And

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Speaker 1: whether or not Jared Calhoun wins. Time will tell if

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Speaker 1: he does. But if you are a believer in giving

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Speaker 1: credit to people, even much maligned people like John Cunningham,

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Speaker 1: then there's some measure of credit that has to be

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Speaker 1: thrown his way. I think it's inevitable no matter who

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Speaker 1: your head coach is, no matter what school it is,

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Speaker 1: no matter what sport it is, they're always compared to

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Speaker 1: their predecessor, and sometimes even their predecessor's predecessor. The last

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Speaker 1: two times that you see as hired a head coach

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Speaker 1: in the short term, there have been some things working

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Speaker 1: against him. John Brandon walked into a situation where, yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: he had some things going for him. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: it's not like his first season they were terrible. Remember

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Speaker 1: they played in like seven overtime games. They were right

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Speaker 1: there on the bubble when the season got scrapped because

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Speaker 1: of COVID and maybe they would have made it, maybe

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have made it, but he did. You know,

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Speaker 1: it was a different day and age feels like forever ago.

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Speaker 1: But he was going to inherit Jared Cumberland and Tray Scott,

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Speaker 1: and there were some pieces in place that you thought

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Speaker 1: was going to give him an opportunity to be competitive

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Speaker 1: that first year. But still he got the job in

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Speaker 1: mid April. And this isn't to excuse whatever failures ended

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Speaker 1: up littering his two years that you see, but he

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Speaker 1: got the job late, and it felt like he was

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Speaker 1: playing catch up from day one, putting together a staff,

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Speaker 1: getting to know the players, putting together a roster, and

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Speaker 1: then you know, COVID just totally threw things out of

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Speaker 1: whack the second year. But it was like two years

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Speaker 1: of just instability one the first year because of the

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Speaker 1: timing of hiring a head coach, the second year because

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Speaker 1: every program in the country was unstable when Wes Miller

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Speaker 1: got the job. They're coming out of that COVID season

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty twenty twenty one, which, if you remember,

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Speaker 1: there were game cancelations and games being made up on

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Speaker 1: the fly and games being created on the fly, and

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Speaker 1: the tournament was played all in one place in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and the separation from John Brannon didn't just happen right

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Speaker 1: after the season. It went into April, and so Wes

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Speaker 1: Miller gets the job and again from day one playing catchup.

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Speaker 1: And I remember Wes Miller that season gets the gig

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Speaker 1: and he throws out the first pitch at a Reds game,

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Speaker 1: and I think it was so early in the season.

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Speaker 1: This is the twenty twenty one baseball season. It's so

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Speaker 1: early in the season that there were still COVID rules

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Speaker 1: in place, meaning they couldn't yet pack the ballpark. The

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Speaker 1: first pitch that he threw out was actually on the

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Speaker 1: little kids field down the right field line. They actually

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01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:02,720
Speaker 1: couldn't have him do it on the mountain. And I

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Speaker 1: met him that Dan. We were talking about like, dude,

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Speaker 1: you got the gig late here, like this is going

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Speaker 1: to be even more of a whirlwind than usual. And

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Speaker 1: he was talking about like I'm just trying to put

1429
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Speaker 1: together a team. I'm trying to cobble together a coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: And it felt like from the jump he was swimming upstream.

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01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: He was playing catch up. Oh and by the way,

1432
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Speaker 1: like during this time, everybody's learning about the new rules.

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01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:27,760
Speaker 1: NIL that year had just become a thing. Nil became

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Speaker 1: a thing. Wes Miller's first year at UC, on top

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Speaker 1: of learning a new gig, on top of having to

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Speaker 1: put together a team, and all the different things that

1437
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:39,760
Speaker 1: come with being a new head coach. And by the way,

1438
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 1: when it felt like after two years things got settled,

1439
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: then they jumped to the Big twelve. I bring this

1440
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Speaker 1: stuff up because it does feel like for Jared Calhoun,

1441
01:22:50,280 --> 01:22:54,759
Speaker 1: he walks into more stability than I would argue any

1442
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: of the three previous UC head coaches, that includes Mick Cronin.

1443
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: I remember when Bob Huggins was hired by UC. If

1444
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 1: you want to go back that far, let me tell

1445
01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 1: you something. That was a picture of instability then. So,

1446
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 1: for the first time in forever, you see is hiring

1447
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: a head coach in an environment of relative stability. Now,

1448
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: there's a very good chance the official men's basketball roster

1449
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: at you see within a couple of days is going

1450
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 1: to be empty. That's just a reality of being a

1451
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:31,559
Speaker 1: coach in a new place. It is a reality. I'm

1452
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:34,559
Speaker 1: sure for some coaches who didn't move, they just all

1453
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 1: their players left. Richard Patino had to deal with it

1454
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 1: last year, and Mark Pope had to deal with it

1455
01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:43,679
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and so that makes things

1456
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 1: just naturally unstable. But you're not in a situation where

1457
01:23:48,760 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 1: you have to like beg fans to come to games

1458
01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: from the get go. This isn't football. When Brian Kelly

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01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:56,439
Speaker 1: took over, They're not going to be changing leagues at

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01:23:56,520 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 1: least I don't think anytime soon. It feels like as

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01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:03,959
Speaker 1: much as NIL has shaken the world and the foundation

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01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:07,240
Speaker 1: of college basketball to a degree that maybe nobody would

1463
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 1: have predicted, and as much as the transfer portal has

1464
01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 1: rocked the sport, it feels like everybody kind of understands

1465
01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: the rules now, even if there aren't a ton of rules,

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01:24:16,120 --> 01:24:19,200
Speaker 1: everybody sort of understands how the sport works. Nobody is

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01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:22,639
Speaker 1: getting used to NIL. People are begging for more NIL money.

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01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: But by the way, Jared Calhoun's gonna do that. Mick

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01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 1: Cronin did it on Sunday night at UCLA, so it

1470
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 1: does feel like he's not gonna have to play catch

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01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: up from day one. Your guess is as good as

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01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:37,280
Speaker 1: mine as to who he brings with him from Utah State.

1473
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 1: Your guess is as good as mine as to which

1474
01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,519
Speaker 1: players he brings from other programs. Your guess is as

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01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: good as mine as to whether or not he's gonna

1476
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: be able to successfully get guys who are at UC

1477
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:51,400
Speaker 1: this past season to stay and play for him this

1478
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 1: upcoming season. I don't know, but it does feel like

1479
01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 1: there's a little bit more of a stable atmosphere for

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01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:04,240
Speaker 1: Jared Calhoun relative to how things work in college basketball.

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01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,320
Speaker 1: Then you could say about any of the previous few coaches.

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01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:13,559
Speaker 1: You add to that a resume that's pretty damn good.

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01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 1: And I know what a lot of us did because

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Speaker 1: I did it.

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Speaker 10: Man.

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Speaker 1: It's not like I watch a ton of Utah State basketball,

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01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 1: but I watched on Friday night against Villanova and I

1488
01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:27,080
Speaker 1: watched on Sunday against Arizona, And I think the two

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01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: things that you had to have noticed if you watch

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Speaker 1: those games. Number One, Utah State had some pretty good players.

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Speaker 1: There's a reason why they won their league in the

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01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:36,639
Speaker 1: regular season. There's a reason why they won their conference tournament.

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01:25:36,680 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 1: There's a reason why they were seeded where they were

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01:25:38,920 --> 01:25:41,200
Speaker 1: in the NCAA tournament. There's a reason why they won

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01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: a game. But offensively, they just looked really well structured,

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01:25:46,400 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 1: really well put together, looked like they ran really good stuff.

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Speaker 1: What I loved about the game on Sunday though, they're

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Speaker 1: playing Arizona, and late in the first half it's like

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01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:01,559
Speaker 1: thirty three to nineteen, and you're thinking, like, all right,

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Speaker 1: Utah State, the coach knows he's leaving. The players have

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01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:08,759
Speaker 1: to know he's leaving. Maybe the players know they're leaving,

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01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 1: and maybe some are going with him. They're playing Arizona,

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01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: maybe the best team in the country, certainly a team

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01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,360
Speaker 1: that has a chance to win the whole thing. That

1505
01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 1: Utah State team on Sunday just would not die, just

1506
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:25,600
Speaker 1: would not go away. Is that more reflective of the

1507
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: players in the coach? Certainly you could argue that, But

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01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: does the coach have something to say about that? Yeah,

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01:26:31,479 --> 01:26:33,600
Speaker 1: And it felt like every time Arizona was on the

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01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:37,439
Speaker 1: verge of really separating itself from Utah State, they had

1511
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 1: an answer on the offensive end. If there has been

1512
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: one constant since I started rooting for UC basketball thirty

1513
01:26:47,439 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 1: five years ago, it's been this. We've been waiting and

1514
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:55,240
Speaker 1: wanting to see an offense that year in and year out,

1515
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:58,800
Speaker 1: was well run, was smooth, where there was an offensive

1516
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:03,400
Speaker 1: system maybe lightly independent of the players. There's no guarantee

1517
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 1: UC's gonna have that. With Jared Calhoun but if you

1518
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 1: look at what he's done historically metrically offensively, if you

1519
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 1: look at how they played at Utah State this weekend,

1520
01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:16,160
Speaker 1: there are some indicators that would suggest that maybe you

1521
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:19,760
Speaker 1: see basketball is entering a new era where offensively they're

1522
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:21,760
Speaker 1: a little bit different than for the most part, what

1523
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:23,880
Speaker 1: they've been for quite a long time. That is no

1524
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:28,120
Speaker 1: knock on any previous Bearcat team, because many of them

1525
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:31,800
Speaker 1: were awesome, but there's a lot to like, there's a

1526
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 1: track record of winning. You have to take some of

1527
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:39,160
Speaker 1: these results with grains of salt. His record at Youngstown

1528
01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 1: State was one to eighteen and one oh six. Youngstown

1529
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:47,840
Speaker 1: State basketball was a death trap for years. Show me

1530
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 1: a coach who in Youngstown State was a D one member,

1531
01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: which goes back to the early eighties, had any kind

1532
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:56,679
Speaker 1: of success. Prior to twenty twenty three, Youngstown State had

1533
01:27:56,720 --> 01:28:00,120
Speaker 1: never won a regular season conference championship. They did did.

1534
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:05,599
Speaker 1: Jared Calhoun was the coach. The previous five coaches before

1535
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:10,839
Speaker 1: Jared Calhoun at Youngstown State each finished well below five hundred.

1536
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:16,760
Speaker 1: Jim Clemens thirty two under John Stroya when twenty nine

1537
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 1: to eighty one. Dan Peters won seventy eight and eighty seven.

1538
01:28:20,080 --> 01:28:25,160
Speaker 1: John Robick finished fifty nine games under five hundred. Jerry

1539
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:29,240
Speaker 1: Slocum nearly one hundred games under five hundred. Jared Calhoun

1540
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 1: twelve over conference championship, what he did at Utah State

1541
01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. So there's a lot to like.

1542
01:28:37,400 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 1: There's also ties to the past. Jared Calhoun. We've talked

1543
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: about this now for a while. Work for Bob Huggins,

1544
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:46,719
Speaker 1: worked for Bob Hunkins at You see work for Bob

1545
01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 1: Huggins at West Virginia that in itself doesn't guarantee success.

1546
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:54,599
Speaker 1: Having a tie to Bob Huggins shouldn't necessarily have been

1547
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:57,720
Speaker 1: a requirement for whoever the next head coach was going

1548
01:28:57,800 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 1: to be, but it couldn't have hurt, Let's be honest.

1549
01:29:02,200 --> 01:29:04,920
Speaker 1: When John Brannon got hired, that felt like a no brainer.

1550
01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:08,680
Speaker 1: Didn't work out for a variety of reasons. But when

1551
01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:12,759
Speaker 1: he got hired, you heard some some chirping from former

1552
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:16,160
Speaker 1: players and people who are connected to UC's basketball past

1553
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:19,120
Speaker 1: who wanted to see wanted to see a bridge built

1554
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 1: to the past, and maybe wanted to see some Some

1555
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: people with connections to the programs at least be considered

1556
01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:27,719
Speaker 1: along with John Brannon. Same was true when they hired

1557
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 1: Wes Miller, and Wes say what you want about what

1558
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,719
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to accomplish here. Wes worked really hard

1559
01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 1: to establish relationships with figures from UC's basketball past, and

1560
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 1: I think did a good job with Jared Calhoun. You

1561
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:48,560
Speaker 1: don't hear any of that because it feels like I

1562
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:51,719
Speaker 1: would imagine, and I've talked to three former players about Jared,

1563
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:54,479
Speaker 1: two of whom would say they know him well. One

1564
01:29:54,479 --> 01:29:57,840
Speaker 1: would say, don't know him that well, but they can

1565
01:29:57,880 --> 01:30:01,040
Speaker 1: appreciate the fact that Jared c like one of their own.

1566
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:03,559
Speaker 1: What is that going to mean for winning and losing?

1567
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:06,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. But isn't it nice if you remember

1568
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: the last two coaching searches. Isn't it nice to not

1569
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:15,160
Speaker 1: hear whispers or not here chirping from folks who perhaps

1570
01:30:15,240 --> 01:30:18,439
Speaker 1: quite understandably wanted to see one of their own get

1571
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 1: a shot at the gig because they feel like one

1572
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:23,160
Speaker 1: of their own got a shot at the gig. Again,

1573
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:25,840
Speaker 1: maybe that matters, Maybe it doesn't, but it is a thing.

1574
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't matter at all that he worked with

1575
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:30,719
Speaker 1: Bob Huggins and at the end of the day, Jared

1576
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:32,840
Speaker 1: Calhoun is going to be judged by one thing, and

1577
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:34,760
Speaker 1: one thing only. Do you win? Do you win big?

1578
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 1: Start by getting to the tournament, make it happen here soon,

1579
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 1: and then like we gotta stop talking about UC basketball

1580
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:44,840
Speaker 1: sometime soon in terms of simply getting to the dance

1581
01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:50,680
Speaker 1: and get back to talking about them being regular attendees

1582
01:30:50,720 --> 01:30:54,680
Speaker 1: of the dance, regular participants in the tournament, maybe one

1583
01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:57,840
Speaker 1: day advancing in the tournament, perhaps sometime competing at the

1584
01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:00,880
Speaker 1: upper reaches of the Big twelve. But if in that

1585
01:31:01,120 --> 01:31:07,400
Speaker 1: environment there's something that could finish off the be repaired,

1586
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:12,160
Speaker 1: although still not completely repaired, relationship between the school and

1587
01:31:12,280 --> 01:31:15,320
Speaker 1: one of its most iconic figures, then that's a cool

1588
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:18,240
Speaker 1: benefit to hiring Jared Calhoun. It's not the most important

1589
01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:21,599
Speaker 1: reason why you hire him. His job, first and foremost

1590
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:26,559
Speaker 1: is to win games. But all in all, I think

1591
01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:28,920
Speaker 1: relative to every other time you see has had a

1592
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:32,479
Speaker 1: basketball coaching vacancy, and let's be honest, in my life,

1593
01:31:32,560 --> 01:31:35,680
Speaker 1: there haven't been that many, this feels the one that

1594
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:37,680
Speaker 1: like the one that the most amount of people are

1595
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:41,720
Speaker 1: on board with, and I think that's refreshing. Well, see,

1596
01:31:41,720 --> 01:31:44,760
Speaker 1: if it works, there's no guarantee that it will. There

1597
01:31:44,800 --> 01:31:46,840
Speaker 1: will be things that work against him. Coaching in the

1598
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:51,960
Speaker 1: Big Twelve is I don't even know how you begin

1599
01:31:52,040 --> 01:31:56,479
Speaker 1: to prepare for it. And yeah, man, you could look

1600
01:31:56,479 --> 01:32:00,280
Speaker 1: at a coach's a track record in a league like

1601
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:03,919
Speaker 1: the Horizon League, which is you know, obviously what Youngstown

1602
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 1: State was in, or despite their success over a number

1603
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:13,040
Speaker 1: of coaches, you could look at what Utah State has

1604
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:15,360
Speaker 1: been able to accomplish and what Jared Calhoun was able

1605
01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:17,160
Speaker 1: to do in the Mountain West over the next last

1606
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:20,200
Speaker 1: couple of years. There's nothing like competing in a high

1607
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 1: major league like the Big Twelve, and unfortunately Wes Miller

1608
01:32:23,200 --> 01:32:27,080
Speaker 1: sort of learned that the hard way. But there's a

1609
01:32:27,120 --> 01:32:29,800
Speaker 1: lot of indicators that would suggest that this has a

1610
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:32,720
Speaker 1: very good chance to work. And I think there are

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01:32:32,720 --> 01:32:34,840
Speaker 1: some things that would suggest this has a chance to

1612
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:37,360
Speaker 1: work in the relative short term because the one thing

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01:32:37,400 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 1: that Jared Calhoun is going to walk into that West

1614
01:32:41,400 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 1: didn't the John Brandon didn't necessarily walk into is going

1615
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:50,639
Speaker 1: to be a fan base that's extraordinarily impatient. I count

1616
01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 1: myself among them. You see basketballs and played in an

1617
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:57,320
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament game in seven years hasn't won an NCAA

1618
01:32:57,360 --> 01:32:59,960
Speaker 1: tournament game in eight years, hasn't made a sweet say

1619
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:05,799
Speaker 1: sixteen in fourteen years in fact, just to this century,

1620
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: and so there's always a little bit of a grace period,

1621
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:11,799
Speaker 1: as there should be. He could be coaching a brand

1622
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:13,960
Speaker 1: new roster. He'll be coaching in a brand new place.

1623
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:17,880
Speaker 1: But while there is more stability, and while there's a

1624
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:20,600
Speaker 1: lot of things that he has working for him that

1625
01:33:20,680 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 1: maybe his predecessors didn't, he's gonna walk into a situation

1626
01:33:25,400 --> 01:33:29,960
Speaker 1: where fans want to see results pretty soon. We'll see

1627
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:32,120
Speaker 1: if he can deliver on them. We are way late

1628
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: twenty six. What have we got, Terren's got the breaking

1629
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:35,519
Speaker 1: news thing happening? What's going on?

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01:33:36,080 --> 01:33:39,040
Speaker 5: The Bengals have re signed quarterback Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco is back. All right? That didn't take as

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01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:46,600
Speaker 1: long as a lot of suspected. Joe Flacco back with

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01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. Who are we crediting the reporting.

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01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:55,120
Speaker 5: To Adam Schefter and Jordan Schultz.

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Speaker 1: Adam Schefter and Jordan Schultz, Friend of the Show, Jordan

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Speaker 1: Schultz one year deal with THENGS. Joe Flacco back with

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals, that's a damn experience. Quarterback room, by

1638
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:10,680
Speaker 1: the way, Joe Flacco, Josh Johnson, and Joe Burrow, all right,

1639
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:14,479
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco back. Joe Flacco unfortunately doesn't play linebacker. This

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Speaker 1: Flacco back with the Bengals year deal. This was originally

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Speaker 1: reported by his agent, who I guess would know. Joe

1690
01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:10,080
Speaker 1: joined the Bengals last October one year deal. Uh. This

1691
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Speaker 1: this ends, This ends the suspense. Although I'm not sure

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01:37:13,040 --> 01:37:14,519
Speaker 1: that's the right word. I think a lot of his

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01:37:14,680 --> 01:37:17,479
Speaker 1: kind of expected, you know, a few more months to

1694
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Speaker 1: unfold and then you know, late in the game, maybe

1695
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Speaker 1: right before camp, maybe once camp got started. Flakka was

1696
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Speaker 1: going to sign instead. We know who the Bengals backup

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Speaker 1: quarterback is going to be. What this means for Josh Johnson,

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01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. Here's what I think you'll agree with.

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01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:39,559
Speaker 1: It became extraordinarily easy to be a Joe Flacco fan

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01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:43,240
Speaker 1: based on what he did in a very short amount

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01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:47,000
Speaker 1: of time here in Cincinnati. You know, when he got here.

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01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:51,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. Joe Flacco has mainly played in

1703
01:37:51,680 --> 01:37:54,599
Speaker 1: the AOC North and he's had a terrific career, has

1704
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:58,519
Speaker 1: been a Super Bowl MVP. He's played forever. Prior to

1705
01:37:58,600 --> 01:38:01,200
Speaker 1: him coming here, I had no real life opinion of him.

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01:38:01,479 --> 01:38:05,439
Speaker 1: But when he got acquired by the Bengals, number one,

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01:38:05,600 --> 01:38:08,080
Speaker 1: they needed somebody who was going to be a very

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01:38:08,160 --> 01:38:13,920
Speaker 1: quick study, which meant they needed a level of professionalism, experience,

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01:38:14,520 --> 01:38:18,439
Speaker 1: and preparedness that you felt like Joe Flacco even at

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01:38:18,439 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 1: this age, which means even at perhaps this diminished state

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01:38:24,120 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: that he's in from a skills standpoint, that's something that's

1712
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:32,800
Speaker 1: exactly what they needed. There was also, I think a

1713
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:39,720
Speaker 1: level of humor and just outward appreciation for the absurdity

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01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:44,280
Speaker 1: of the situation he found himself in being traded inside

1715
01:38:44,320 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 1: the division to a team he had already played against

1716
01:38:47,240 --> 01:38:49,559
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, when he was going to have to

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01:38:49,560 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: play a road game on Sunday and then turn around

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01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:55,559
Speaker 1: and play a divisional game that next Thursday, which was

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01:38:56,160 --> 01:39:00,600
Speaker 1: obviously the Pittsburgh game. I don't know about you. I

1720
01:39:00,640 --> 01:39:03,439
Speaker 1: became a huge Joe Flacco fan. Nobody wants to see

1721
01:39:03,479 --> 01:39:07,080
Speaker 1: him play extensively next season. But and to me, this

1722
01:39:07,280 --> 01:39:10,599
Speaker 1: is the lens through which most of us should look

1723
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:14,200
Speaker 1: at backup quarterbacks. It's not about them playing sixteen games

1724
01:39:14,280 --> 01:39:16,879
Speaker 1: or ten games or five games. It's in the offense

1725
01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:20,080
Speaker 1: function if something happens to the quarterback for a half,

1726
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:23,559
Speaker 1: for a game, for a series, and I think most

1727
01:39:23,600 --> 01:39:26,040
Speaker 1: of us would feel pretty good about Joe Flacco running

1728
01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 1: the offense for a short amount of time if circum

1729
01:39:29,760 --> 01:39:33,799
Speaker 1: circumstances dictated that he had to. So Welcome back, Joe Burrow.

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01:39:34,240 --> 01:39:37,840
Speaker 1: Welcome to Cincinnati, Jared Calhoun. He was officially named the

1731
01:39:37,840 --> 01:39:42,480
Speaker 1: next men's basketball head coach at the University of Cincinnati.

1732
01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:45,960
Speaker 1: He will be formally introduced at one o'clock tomorrow. You'll

1733
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:49,040
Speaker 1: hear my conversation with him in the three o'clock hour

1734
01:39:49,120 --> 01:39:53,479
Speaker 1: tomorrow on ESPN fifteen thirty. The Rads are playing their

1735
01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:58,320
Speaker 1: final exhibition game today right now against the Brewers in Milwaukee.

1736
01:39:58,439 --> 01:40:01,679
Speaker 1: Chase Burns the start for since in the first inning

1737
01:40:01,720 --> 01:40:04,840
Speaker 1: he struck out the side in order. In his second

1738
01:40:05,479 --> 01:40:07,360
Speaker 1: inning of work, he gave up a solo homer to

1739
01:40:07,439 --> 01:40:10,320
Speaker 1: Jake Powers. It is one nothing Brewers Reds batting in

1740
01:40:10,400 --> 01:40:14,160
Speaker 1: the top of the third. This game is progressing a

1741
01:40:14,160 --> 01:40:20,320
Speaker 1: little bit slower than I had anticipated. Radio coverage on

1742
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: Fox Sports thirteen sixty.

1743
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:25,840
Speaker 5: By the was a Joe Flacco deal six million that

1744
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:28,680
Speaker 5: can be as high as nine million, with his sentence really.

1745
01:40:29,960 --> 01:40:32,240
Speaker 1: Well, I don't want him to hit you. The incentives

1746
01:40:32,280 --> 01:40:33,800
Speaker 1: are gonna have to do with like stuff he could

1747
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:35,760
Speaker 1: do while he's playing, Like it doesn't have anything to

1748
01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:37,519
Speaker 1: do with like well, number of plays you're holding a

1749
01:40:37,560 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 1: clipboard for, Like I, well, God love Joe, hope. Let's

1750
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:44,080
Speaker 1: hope that he doesn't hit any of those incentives left.

1751
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:46,240
Speaker 5: The Bengals are up at like by fifty points every game.

1752
01:40:46,320 --> 01:40:49,160
Speaker 1: Oh and then he can come in and throw a

1753
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:51,799
Speaker 1: few passes, hand the ball off, play a few snaps.

1754
01:40:52,040 --> 01:40:57,200
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe maybe. Well, welcome to Cincinnati, Welcome back to Cincinnati.

1755
01:40:57,680 --> 01:41:01,280
Speaker 1: It never felt and this is easy to given the

1756
01:41:01,320 --> 01:41:04,200
Speaker 1: fact that he is re up with the Bengals, But

1757
01:41:04,280 --> 01:41:08,559
Speaker 1: it never felt that plausible that he was at the

1758
01:41:08,600 --> 01:41:13,439
Speaker 1: outset of the offseason gonna find a situation where he

1759
01:41:13,600 --> 01:41:18,320
Speaker 1: was gonna be given a legitimate chance to start. He

1760
01:41:18,439 --> 01:41:20,840
Speaker 1: might have found a situation where he was gonna be

1761
01:41:20,880 --> 01:41:23,280
Speaker 1: a backup and had a better chance to play because

1762
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:29,000
Speaker 1: the starter isn't as good as Joe Burrow. But I

1763
01:41:28,760 --> 01:41:32,080
Speaker 1: if you were Joe, and if I were Joe at

1764
01:41:32,080 --> 01:41:34,720
Speaker 1: this stage of the offseason, you took a crack at it.

1765
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:38,679
Speaker 1: Were you really gonna let this play out and see

1766
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:43,960
Speaker 1: if something unfolded with another team? Or were you just

1767
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:46,439
Speaker 1: gonna go back and be in a situation that you

1768
01:41:46,479 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 1: had some success in last year. If you have to play,

1769
01:41:49,560 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 1: you're playing behind an offensive line that played well toward

1770
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:54,160
Speaker 1: the end of the season. You still have Chase and

1771
01:41:54,240 --> 01:41:56,519
Speaker 1: Higgins to throw to. You still have Chase Brown to

1772
01:41:56,560 --> 01:42:00,240
Speaker 1: give the ball to. You're playing behind a h an

1773
01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:04,840
Speaker 1: a lister in Joe Burrow. Like, if your fate is

1774
01:42:04,880 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 1: to be a backup quarterback, especially at this stage of

1775
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:11,640
Speaker 1: his career, you can't do, frankly, much better than the

1776
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:17,879
Speaker 1: situation that Joe Flacco came back to so he is back. Tomorrow.

1777
01:42:17,920 --> 01:42:21,720
Speaker 1: We are broadcasting It's Opening Day eve from the Cincinnati

1778
01:42:21,800 --> 01:42:24,120
Speaker 1: lagger House, which you may have known as the more

1779
01:42:24,200 --> 01:42:27,760
Speaker 1: Line Loggerhouse, broadcasting there from a three to six tomorrow,

1780
01:42:28,240 --> 01:42:32,720
Speaker 1: and we've got all sorts of happy hour specials, beer specials, appetizers.

1781
01:42:32,760 --> 01:42:35,639
Speaker 1: It's going to be a blast. Nobody on the afternoon

1782
01:42:35,680 --> 01:42:38,120
Speaker 1: before Opening Day wants to get any work done, So

1783
01:42:38,479 --> 01:42:41,320
Speaker 1: come on downtown and get the party started early with

1784
01:42:41,400 --> 01:42:45,960
Speaker 1: us at the Cincinnati Laggerhouse. The consensus for the Reds,

1785
01:42:46,520 --> 01:42:50,559
Speaker 1: and I've done this a lot since the weekend, looking

1786
01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:55,680
Speaker 1: at different publications season previews, and pretty much the consensus

1787
01:42:55,880 --> 01:42:59,599
Speaker 1: is seventy seven, seventy eight wins, something in that ballpark,

1788
01:42:59,720 --> 01:43:02,960
Speaker 1: something in that range. I can't find that many folks

1789
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:06,519
Speaker 1: who have the Reds making the postseason. One of the

1790
01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:08,960
Speaker 1: baseball betting experts that I kind of lean in on,

1791
01:43:09,200 --> 01:43:15,040
Speaker 1: Sean Sorillo, has made a heavy wager on the Reds

1792
01:43:15,040 --> 01:43:17,160
Speaker 1: not making the postseason. They're going to have to defy

1793
01:43:17,200 --> 01:43:21,400
Speaker 1: the consensus, which is weird to say. The consensus is

1794
01:43:21,439 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: they missed the postseason when the expectations here are that

1795
01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:29,680
Speaker 1: they make the postseason, I said I was going to

1796
01:43:29,720 --> 01:43:33,599
Speaker 1: do this because I got a request. One of our

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01:43:33,640 --> 01:43:36,759
Speaker 1: frequent callers is our friend Mike from La, who listens

1798
01:43:36,760 --> 01:43:40,320
Speaker 1: to this show religiously pretty much every single day, no

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01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:43,240
Speaker 1: matter what he is doing, and a number of years

1800
01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:47,040
Speaker 1: ago he introduced to us his home dog betting strategy

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01:43:47,040 --> 01:43:50,479
Speaker 1: for the baseball season. And over the weekend I had

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01:43:50,479 --> 01:43:53,840
Speaker 1: somebody who reached out, got an email, actually reached out

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01:43:53,880 --> 01:43:57,240
Speaker 1: and said, well, you explained before the season begins Mike

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01:43:57,280 --> 01:44:02,760
Speaker 1: from LA's home dog betting strategy, which I've employed now

1805
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:05,320
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, and we're gonna try to

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01:44:05,400 --> 01:44:10,240
Speaker 1: document on social media as the season unfolds. The home

1807
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:14,439
Speaker 1: dog's betting strategy is this the first game of every series.

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01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:19,719
Speaker 1: Bet on each home dog if they win, and we're

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01:44:19,760 --> 01:44:23,840
Speaker 1: just doing run line. If they win, don't bet on

1810
01:44:23,880 --> 01:44:28,880
Speaker 1: the rest of the series. If they lose, bet on

1811
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:33,240
Speaker 1: them the next game, double your bet. If they lose

1812
01:44:33,280 --> 01:44:37,679
Speaker 1: that one, bet on them the next game, double your bet.

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01:44:38,560 --> 01:44:41,880
Speaker 1: What you're betting against is a sweep. Most baseball series

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01:44:41,920 --> 01:44:45,559
Speaker 1: do not end in sweeps, so even during the course

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01:44:45,640 --> 01:44:48,040
Speaker 1: of a full one hundred and sixty two game season,

1816
01:44:48,080 --> 01:44:53,160
Speaker 1: wretched teams like recently the Colorado Rockies the Chicago White Sox.

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01:44:53,439 --> 01:44:56,920
Speaker 1: They still find ways to win fifty five sixty games.

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01:44:58,439 --> 01:45:00,280
Speaker 1: Maybe in the White Sox case a couple of years ago,

1819
01:45:00,360 --> 01:45:04,479
Speaker 1: not that many, but still all the time, bad teams

1820
01:45:04,520 --> 01:45:06,439
Speaker 1: find a way to win one game of the series

1821
01:45:06,479 --> 01:45:09,439
Speaker 1: against good teams. You're trying to capitalize on the value

1822
01:45:09,479 --> 01:45:12,560
Speaker 1: of betting on the underdog, and you're essentially betting against

1823
01:45:12,800 --> 01:45:15,640
Speaker 1: their being a sweep. There are obviously going to be

1824
01:45:15,760 --> 01:45:18,280
Speaker 1: series that gets swept and you lose all your money

1825
01:45:18,800 --> 01:45:22,559
Speaker 1: over the course of an entire season. However, say which

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01:45:22,600 --> 01:45:25,320
Speaker 1: one about my guy, Mike. This has been proven to

1827
01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:27,720
Speaker 1: be a pretty damn good betting strategy. So there it is,

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01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:33,240
Speaker 1: the home dog betting strategy. By request, We're gonna do

1829
01:45:33,320 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 1: some MLB futures on Thursday's show from Smoke Justice. Can't

1830
01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:41,240
Speaker 1: wait for that music means we have to go. Don't

1831
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:45,320
Speaker 1: forget more lined No Cincinnati Loggerhouse tomorrow from three to six.

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01:45:45,680 --> 01:45:49,679
Speaker 1: Smoke Justice Thursday noon to three tomorrow on the show

1833
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:55,240
Speaker 1: Tommy Thrawl, Sam Lequire, John Morosi from MLB Network, Jared

1834
01:45:55,320 --> 01:46:00,519
Speaker 1: Calhoun and others. Have a great night. Thank you for listening.

1835
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Speaker 1: Anything you might miss. Go find on the iHeartRadio app

1836
01:46:03,479 --> 01:46:06,880
Speaker 1: or the podcast page of ESPN fifteen thirty dot com.

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Speaker 1: Gotta go talk to you tomorrow. This is ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Sports.

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