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Speaker 2: Good afternoon on mowegar. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for listening. We are broadcasting from the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Logger House, the newly renamed Cincinnati Logger House, directly

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Speaker 2: On Opening Day Eve, it's our Opening Day Eve Happy Hour.

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Speaker 2: We have great weather, It is awesome out and the

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Speaker 2: We do have a loaded show today in an hour,

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Speaker 2: our guys Sam Lequre on the Reds. John Morosi from

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Speaker 2: the MLB Network is gonna join us in thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: He will be broadcasting from GABP tomorrow. And just about

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Speaker 2: an hour ago I got here after having been at

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Speaker 2: the University of Cincinnati for the Jared Calhoun press conference.

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Speaker 2: I had a chance after his press conference to spend

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Speaker 2: you'll hear that coming up at three twenty. My initial impression.

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Speaker 2: And you know, at the end of the day, none

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Speaker 1: He won the press conference.

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Speaker 2: If for no other reason that it genuinely feels like Look,

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Speaker 2: you get a high major job, you get a job

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Speaker 2: in the Big twelve, it's a big deal. It's a

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Speaker 2: what it felt like five years ago. Nothing against Wes Miller,

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Speaker 2: lot of former players with the program. This is no

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Speaker 2: But I got the sense for watching and listening to

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Speaker 2: I don't look at any higher through that lens. But

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Speaker 2: to I hate to say rebuild because it's not like

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Speaker 1: This spring, it was you got to make the team.

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Speaker 2: Everybody loves him. He's been the odds on favorite all along.

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Speaker 2: Sam look here in the four o'clock hour and Tommy

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Speaker 2: afternoon here at the Cincinnati Logger House. Jared Calhoun is

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, thanks for having me on. I

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Speaker 4: You know world. But you know, it's my alma mater.

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Speaker 3: It's I could talk about it for days of what

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Speaker 4: But it's been crazy.

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Speaker 2: The great thing about this program, following it for decades,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's the best way to put it.

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Speaker 3: I think Cincinnati is the best city in the state

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Speaker 3: We have a whole checklist of things that got to

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Speaker 4: You know, sometimes not so good.

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Speaker 2: You know, around the program, Bearcat fans love to go

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Speaker 4: You know, we had four NBA guys on that tea.

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Speaker 8: I know Jim Leland has always said this his two

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Speaker 8: favorite places to be an opening day Detroit and Cincinnati,

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Speaker 8: two places that really appreciate the history of the game,

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Speaker 8: the tradition of Opening Day.

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Speaker 5: So I'm very honored to be there tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: You've been to Opening Day, I'm sure in lots of places.

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Speaker 2: Have you been to Cincinnati for Opening Day?

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Speaker 5: Yet I have, and tomorrow I really want to. So

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Speaker 5: if you see you see me wandering around Finley Market.

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Speaker 8: Good, ready to point me in the right direction of

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Speaker 8: all the plays I should go to.

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Speaker 7: Because while I've been.

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Speaker 8: To Opening Day in Cincinnati before, I have never actually

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Speaker 8: done the fallow experience of walking the parade. So my

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Speaker 8: grand plan is get up early, do my mv's Central

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Speaker 8: hit early, and then walk over to the parade and

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Speaker 8: then come back.

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Speaker 5: That's my plan. So if you see me wandering around.

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Speaker 7: All the great the Cincinnti natives right there.

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Speaker 8: Feel afraid to help me out and navigate. So I'm

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Speaker 8: going to the right places I'm supposed to go to tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, if you say a lot of nice

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Speaker 2: things about the Reds today, that'll ensure that nobody heckles

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Speaker 2: you as you're walking around.

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, sounds good. I'm all set with the

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Speaker 5: optimism right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do it.

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Speaker 2: What's the most interesting thing about this club as the

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Speaker 2: season starts.

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Speaker 8: I think how sal Stuart is going to be utilized,

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Speaker 8: and I really I thought it was interesting to hear

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Speaker 8: Terry Francona's ideas, and Mark Shulder won a great piece

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Speaker 8: about this at MLB dot Com about how potentially you'll

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Speaker 8: see Stuart in between Ellie and Swatted. I think Stuart

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Speaker 8: is someone that we caught glimpses of him last year

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Speaker 8: down the stretch.

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Speaker 5: I am a big believer in Stuart.

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Speaker 8: I think he's got a chance to be a star

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Speaker 8: in for this lineup for years to come.

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Speaker 5: And when you think about.

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Speaker 8: The way that he can compliment the skill sets of

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Speaker 8: Eli Da La Cruz, there's a lot to like about

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Speaker 8: what this could mean for the middle part of Cincinnati's lineup.

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Speaker 8: I also think having McLain back and healthy and in

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Speaker 8: the spring of the ad and obviously we don't always

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Speaker 8: know that the numbers translating. Certainly, he's been hitting at

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Speaker 8: this extraordinary level that's very hard.

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Speaker 5: To duplicate in the regular season. But he looks healthy,

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Speaker 5: he looks.

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Speaker 8: Comfortable again, this is the lineup that I believe will hit.

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Speaker 5: And it's now a question of with some of the

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Speaker 5: injuries pitching.

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Speaker 8: Wise, how they were able to navigate the early part

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Speaker 8: of the season. But you think about Swats coming back,

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Speaker 8: a full year of Stuart, a healthy McClain, I think

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Speaker 8: it's gonna be a fun lineup to watch work this season.

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Speaker 1: You speaking my language.

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Speaker 2: If I can get the Matt McClain just from his

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Speaker 2: rookie season in the two hole, and I can get

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Speaker 2: what I look south Stewart has passed every test they

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Speaker 2: put in front of him. If I can get what

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Speaker 2: I think they can get from him in the four spot,

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Speaker 2: has a chance to be really good. What would be

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Speaker 2: your biggest question or maybe even reservation about this club?

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Speaker 5: The rotation?

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Speaker 8: And I think that's that's probably it's an easy answer,

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Speaker 8: but I think it's the correct one, just based on

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Speaker 8: the blisters. Of course, Lodolo the news in the last

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Speaker 8: twenty four hours about him landing on the injured list,

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Speaker 8: obviously Hunter Green being on the IL.

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Speaker 5: Two that's just a big question.

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Speaker 8: I think for Abbott tomorrow, he's got to set the

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Speaker 8: tone that, at least for the next four to six weeks,

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Speaker 8: as they're waiting me.

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Speaker 5: For somewhere to get back up and to be at

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Speaker 5: full strength.

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Speaker 7: They're going to have to be created with this group.

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Speaker 8: And interesting that Abbot's the first lefty to start an

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Speaker 8: opening day for the Reds since Mike Remlinger.

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Speaker 7: Back in the later years of Riverfront.

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Speaker 5: So this is going back a while.

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Speaker 8: I was thinking to myself as I saw that the

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Speaker 8: news come across Abbit, Okay, lefty, what was the last lefty?

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Speaker 8: And I kept thinking, going back, Okay, obviously.

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Speaker 5: Rang Arriety, Homer, baili Ariety. I was going, Balka is

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Speaker 5: a writing quite Alrighty.

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Speaker 8: I was thinking back all those years and Darnaa was

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Speaker 8: way back in the late nineties, so a different era certainly.

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Speaker 8: But it was funny because actually I shared that that

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Speaker 8: note with Sean Casey and Aaron Bonnet and listen to

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Speaker 8: this guys that's been since.

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Speaker 5: Remblinger, so that they were they were.

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Speaker 7: Following that news as I was sharing it the other day.

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Speaker 8: But I really think in a lot of ways, Mo,

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Speaker 8: it is the rotation they're gonna have to surprise on

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Speaker 8: the positive end for this team to stay in this

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Speaker 8: NL Central race.

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Speaker 5: Early on in the.

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Speaker 2: Year, well, Mike Rombliner started that game, and I remember

537
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Speaker 2: it well because I was in college and Pokey Reese

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Speaker 2: made four errors and they lost ten to two, So

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Speaker 2: I need a different result now, speaking of short stops

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Speaker 2: making errors, here's what's interesting to me. You and I

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Speaker 2: have talked about the Reds for five minutes and we've

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Speaker 2: I don't even think we've mentioned the name Elie de

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Speaker 2: la Cruz.

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Speaker 8: That's good, right, He's unreal, And I just think that

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Speaker 8: when you talk about some of the brightest stars in

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Speaker 8: the game, what he's able to do and and one

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Speaker 8: of my favorite big picture points is this, when you

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Speaker 8: discuss people that have a chance to be stars in

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Speaker 8: this game and face of baseball, the biggest question I often.

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Speaker 5: Have is how durable are they? Can they stand up.

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Speaker 8: To the demands of this profession and be out there

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Speaker 8: every day? And I think one of the things that

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Speaker 8: impressed me the most about Elie is just how available

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Speaker 8: he is and how consistent he is, how dependable he is,

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Speaker 8: and he's someone that I think we haven't even seen

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Speaker 8: the best of him yet, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 8: great baseball still to come for Alie de la Cruz.

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Speaker 8: So I'm thrilled about what his future looks like. I

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Speaker 8: think the Reds know how important he is to their

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Speaker 8: long term success, and when you consider the waves, they're

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Speaker 8: going to have to be I think adaptive and looking

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Speaker 8: to ways to make sure he stays in the fold

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Speaker 8: financially for many, many years to come. Obviously, they pursue

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Speaker 8: Schwarber in the course of the offseason, so they're thinking

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Speaker 8: about those.

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Speaker 5: Those superstar type players.

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Speaker 8: Ellie is the face of the franchise period until something else,

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Speaker 8: something else changes, what.

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Speaker 5: I don't expect is gonna happen anytime soon.

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Speaker 8: He is the guy that everything revolves around, and so

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Speaker 8: I think making sure that he's healthy, dependable, reliable and

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Speaker 8: a long term part of the organization I think has

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Speaker 8: to be that the biggest priority for this team now

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Speaker 8: going forward.

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Speaker 2: John Morossi, MLB Network, appearing from GABP on MLB Network tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: give me an up and down snapshot of the National

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Speaker 2: League Central.

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Speaker 8: Clubs I believe are the favorites coming in. I think

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Speaker 8: that the Bregman signing addressed a weakness they had a

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Speaker 8: year ago, so that's a really big move for them. Cabrera,

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Speaker 8: I've always felt is a bit of an underrated arm

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Speaker 8: I think that was a big move for them.

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Speaker 5: The Brewers might be.

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Speaker 7: And we keep saying this every year, they might be

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Speaker 7: in a.

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Speaker 8: Spot where they eventually take a step back, although man,

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Speaker 8: it seems like they never really quite do.

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Speaker 5: And I think the world of.

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Speaker 7: Pat merv He as an excellent manager.

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Speaker 8: So I think for a lot of those reasons, the

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Speaker 8: Brewers are still right there in the thick of it.

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Speaker 8: But I really like what the Cubs have done with

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Speaker 8: their club over the course of the offseason.

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Speaker 5: Bregman is the kind of.

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Speaker 8: Player that really makes makes a team better up and

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Speaker 8: down the lineup the impact he has on different players.

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Speaker 8: So I look at Bregman as being someone that will

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Speaker 8: have a tremendous impact on the Cubs lineup, up and down.

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Speaker 2: One more before we let you go the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 2: When when this event first was hatched, I could not

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Speaker 2: have been more skeptical. I thought, it's it's glorified spring training.

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Speaker 2: There's not going to be a huge buy in from

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Speaker 2: the players. And now when you were there, I'm watching

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Speaker 2: not just the final, but the entire tournament unfold.

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Speaker 1: It's now at the top of my.

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Speaker 2: Bucket list, like I gotta go to a World Baseball Classic,

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Speaker 2: semi final or final. What's it been like watching that

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Speaker 2: event evolve? What was it like covering it this year? Oh?

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Speaker 8: So many emotions and please do please join us. And then,

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Speaker 8: whether it's fears or four years, make sure you're there.

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Speaker 5: It is my favorite, whether it's.

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Speaker 8: Every third year, every fourth year, event to cover in

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Speaker 8: the entire sports universe. I've attended the Olympics before, and

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Speaker 8: I felt even more connected to this. It was just

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Speaker 8: so beautiful to see that cultural coming together, the way

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Speaker 8: that the Venezuela has reacted when they want it, and

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Speaker 8: how meaningful was to them you saw Alsie is just

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Speaker 8: the emotion all around him, I think said all you

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Speaker 8: need to know about it, and just my ears. It

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Speaker 8: took him probably four or five days more before they stopped.

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Speaker 5: Ringing, And that's okay.

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Speaker 8: I'll take that as a occupational cost any day of

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Speaker 8: the week.

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Speaker 5: Just an amazing experience.

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Speaker 8: And I think the biggest lesson that we can take

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Speaker 8: away is just how many different ways the game has celebrated,

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Speaker 8: whether it's in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Mexico,

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Speaker 8: all around the world.

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Speaker 5: Even now the Italian is getting into it. I think

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Speaker 5: it's important for us to.

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Speaker 8: All just appreciate the number of different pathways that players

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Speaker 8: have to come to this country and play.

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Speaker 5: This game that we love so much, and just a

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Speaker 5: but what a blessing is to share this, this great

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Speaker 5: game with the world.

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Speaker 8: So it was just a really emotional and proud moment

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Speaker 8: for me to just see what it's become and and

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Speaker 8: still moment.

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Speaker 4: It has even more room to grow.

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Speaker 5: So I just cannot wait for the next edition as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was awesome to watch.

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Speaker 2: You got to be a part of it, And again

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Speaker 2: it's on my bucket list now and I didn't think

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Speaker 2: i'd be saying that fifteen years ago. John Morossi appearing

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Speaker 2: for MLB Network on MLB Network from a Great American

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Speaker 2: Ballpark tomorrow on MLB Central at ten o'clock and then

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Speaker 2: on MLB tonight national pregame show. That's a two point

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Speaker 2: thirty juntra safe travels to Cincinnati. Enjoy the experience, and

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Speaker 2: we appreciate the time man, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much more.

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Speaker 8: Really appreciate hoping to seeing the ballpark tomorrow around a

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Speaker 8: Finley market and again, so all the.

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Speaker 7: Cincinnati is out there, feel free to direct me wherever.

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Speaker 8: I should go to the best launch, the best everything there.

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Speaker 8: I know about a couple of the local favorites, but

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Speaker 8: always feel free to let me know any recommendations there.

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Speaker 8: But it's always always a pleasure to be there and

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Speaker 8: then in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, most definitely, John, Thanks so much,

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Speaker 2: MLB Networks. John Morosi again tomorrow ten am on MLB

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Speaker 2: MLB Tonight National pregame show. MLB Network does an awesome job,

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Speaker 2: from four o'clock. You know who else does the direct job?

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Speaker 2: Our guys, Sam le Cure. Sam l Heure joins us

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Speaker 2: every opening day eve and you want a voice of optimism,

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Speaker 2: that's Sam. You'll hear from him in just about twenty minutes.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting from the Cincinnati Lockerhouse. By the way,

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Speaker 2: Com and Red Sox tomorrow in the season opener for

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Speaker 2: both clubs. For TO ten, first pitch the weather for

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Speaker 2: morning and later on tomorrow night, but the weather for

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Speaker 2: the game itself looks awesome. Andrew Abbott Garrett Crochet for

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Speaker 2: TO ten tomorrow on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: The MLB season begins tonight. I don't like this. I

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Speaker 1: haven't liked it in thirty two years.

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Speaker 2: Yankees and Giants in San Francisco, the MLB debut on Netflix.

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Speaker 2: Joe Flacco formally reintroduced today. Bengals made it official this

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Speaker 2: morning he's back with the team to be. Joe Burrows

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Speaker 2: understudy and Jery Calhoun officially introduced as the men's basketball

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Speaker 2: head coach at the University of Cincinnati. The NCAA Tournament

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Speaker 2: resumes tomorrow. In the NIT Tonight, the Dayton Flyers are

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Speaker 2: in action, taking on Illinois State. That game tips off

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Speaker 2: at seven o'clock. One of our most loyal listeners is

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Speaker 2: a woman named Lisa Moran, who told me she would

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Speaker 2: be here today except she's gonna go watch her Alma

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Speaker 2: Mater take on my alma mater, the Redbirds and the

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Speaker 2: Flyers tonight at ud Arena. I hope her team loses.

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Speaker 1: I wish she was here, but one of the most

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Speaker 1: loyal listeners we have her and her husband Mark. It's

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Speaker 1: at fourteen.

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Speaker 2: From four o'clock, We're at the Cincinnati Lockerhouse downtown Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: On Opening Day Eve on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: This report from about four o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: It is Opening Day Eve. It is the Cincinnati Loggerhouse.

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Speaker 2: We are here until six o'clock that we have unbelievable

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Speaker 2: weather for Opening Day eve. We've also got five dollars drafts,

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Speaker 2: five dollars well drinks, five dollar house wines, appetizer specials.

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Speaker 1: We've got the first pitch logger.

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Speaker 2: Our friend John John is here tomorrow broadcasting Opening Day

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Speaker 2: watch parties. So if you want to be a part

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Speaker 2: of the festivities, but maybe you're not going to the game,

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Speaker 2: watch the game with John John and friends. The key

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Speaker 2: is the and friends. By the way, John John's going

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Speaker 2: to stop by a little bit later on. He has

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Speaker 2: threatened to sort of take over our show. I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure we want that, but we will see. He wants

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Speaker 2: me to have that one mailman on who's over there

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Speaker 2: broadcasting with him. And when I mentioned this to friends

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Speaker 2: of mine, they were like, yeah, I'd kind of like

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Speaker 2: to hear that. So I think it's gonna happen. I

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Speaker 2: don't know entirely, but first we have to talk with

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Speaker 2: Sam Lake here, who's almost as interesting as that one mailman.

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Speaker 2: You'll hear from Sam next five away from four o'clock

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Speaker 2: here at the Cincinnati Loggerhouse on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: sports station,