WEBVTT - Chick Ludwig 10/10/26 0:00:27.470 --> 0:00:38.120 Never knew what we could be. Don't you kiss me. Baby, please. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.440 608 in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig, 700 WLW. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:47.060 This is Sports Talk. Russ Jackson is tonight's producer. We're 0:00:47.100 --> 0:00:50.700 going all the way to 9 o'clock. And the Bengals 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:55.510 are attempting to halt a two-game losing streak. Tomorrow at Miami. 0:00:56.250 --> 0:01:00.720 And we all know how the Shield, the NFL, wants parity. 0:01:01.820 --> 0:01:05.860 How dangerous are the Dolphins? And can the Bengals get 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.220 back on the winning track to help us answer these questions? 0:01:10.140 --> 0:01:15.250 I turn to retired Bengals wide receiver and my great friend, 0:01:15.370 --> 0:01:16.130 Tim McGee. 0:01:16.250 --> 0:01:18.290 Tim, how are you today, sir? 0:01:19.430 --> 0:01:20.790 I am doing excellente, Tim. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.390 Dealing with this, I guess I look out the window 0:01:25.420 --> 0:01:27.770 and it's not the prettiest day in the world, but 0:01:27.830 --> 0:01:30.029 I'm talking to the texture and that's all that matters 0:01:30.069 --> 0:01:30.789 right now, brother. 0:01:31.069 --> 0:01:32.410 Oh, fantastic, Tim. 0:01:32.650 --> 0:01:37.790 And are the Bengals walking into a trap tomorrow against 0:01:37.810 --> 0:01:38.380 the Dolphins? 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.259 You know, it's absolutely funny. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.420 I'm sitting here doing my research and I write down 0:01:45.700 --> 0:01:48.810 trap game. My first part of my notes is definitely 0:01:48.830 --> 0:01:51.530 a trap game. Because when you think about it, this 0:01:51.630 --> 0:01:54.070 is a team, when you look at the Miami Dolphins, 0:01:54.810 --> 0:01:58.510 there's just absolutely on paper nothing desirable about this team. 0:01:58.530 --> 0:02:02.380 I think they're bringing back maybe three or four starters 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.580 and players from their last year's roster. They don't have 0:02:05.620 --> 0:02:08.380 a lot of stars. They're not solid at the quarterback position. 0:02:08.419 --> 0:02:12.990 They're not solid pretty much anywhere. And they're definitely in 0:02:13.030 --> 0:02:16.030 the rebuild mode. And you go on the road and 0:02:16.070 --> 0:02:17.950 you think this is going to be not just a 0:02:18.510 --> 0:02:20.590 big game for you. When I say big game, I'm 0:02:20.610 --> 0:02:22.730 talking about statistically that you're going to go down there 0:02:22.750 --> 0:02:25.130 and just blow them out. So, yeah, I mean, it 0:02:25.190 --> 0:02:27.980 has all the makings of a trap game that you 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.700 can get comfortable and not play your best. Or they 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.919 look at it as an opportunity and just play their 0:02:33.980 --> 0:02:36.840 best and come out with a win. And the Bengals 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.860 come out with a loss. So we hope that doesn't happen. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.560 But it's definitely a trap game. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.750 And, Tim, the talk all week has been about the Bengals. quote-unquote, 0:02:46.230 --> 0:02:50.970 offensive balance or lack thereof. My feeling is you got 0:02:51.010 --> 0:02:53.570 to do what you do best. If Joe Burrow is 0:02:53.630 --> 0:02:58.730 not comfortable under center, why try to fit a square 0:02:58.850 --> 0:03:02.820 peg in a round hole, stay with the shotgun and pistol, 0:03:03.540 --> 0:03:07.600 and follow the money? Because the money is with Joe, Jamar, 0:03:07.660 --> 0:03:11.630 and T. The problem is both Jamar and T, and 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:16.880 T Higgins are listed as questionable with injuries and without them, Hey, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.820 they got to lean on Dante Myers and Mitch Tinsley, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.480 possibly Colby young. And then the tight ends in Micah 0:03:24.540 --> 0:03:28.000 Secchi and hopefully Eric all shows up. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:29.680 You know, it's tick. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:34.380 It's terribly disappointing that when you hear perspectives from people 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.500 outside of the locker room who don't pretty much know 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.280 what the hell they're talking about, uh, And you have 0:03:39.460 --> 0:03:42.900 a superstar quarterback in Joe Burrow and you look at 0:03:42.940 --> 0:03:44.820 the stats and I know you say, he threw the 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.220 ball 50 plus times, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.440 You do have Jamar Chase and you do have Tee Higgins. 0:03:50.460 --> 0:03:52.520 You do have, that's the team is built on the 0:03:52.580 --> 0:03:55.380 offensive side of the football. Yes, they upgraded the defense 0:03:55.420 --> 0:03:57.720 big time, but let's just face it, Joe Burrow is 0:03:57.740 --> 0:03:59.100 not just your star quarterback. 0:03:59.140 --> 0:04:01.370 He is the actual franchise. 0:04:01.970 --> 0:04:05.430 And You do when Zach Taylor, you do know Zach 0:04:05.450 --> 0:04:08.830 Taylor was hired to be an offensive guru or offensive talent. 0:04:08.930 --> 0:04:11.410 And so that's what they're going to do. They're going 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.280 to throw the football rightfully so. That's who they are. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.640 That's their money. And consequently, if they didn't throw. 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.599 The ball, they just tried to force the ball, tried 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.560 to run the game, tried to run the game, tried 0:04:21.580 --> 0:04:24.680 to run game. And not successful, people are going to 0:04:24.860 --> 0:04:27.369 instantly criticize. Well, why in the hell are you trying 0:04:27.410 --> 0:04:29.370 to run the ball when you got these great receivers 0:04:29.430 --> 0:04:31.830 and you got a great quarterback in Joe Burrow? 0:04:31.870 --> 0:04:34.450 So it's just you can't win and you're not. 0:04:34.529 --> 0:04:37.230 Going to be successful in the National Football League every 0:04:37.270 --> 0:04:41.190 single weekend. So it's a little disturbing, but just like 0:04:41.230 --> 0:04:44.900 you alluded to, they got the word cut out that 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.280 I think Jamar Chase will be 100% coming back from 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:49.240 a concussion. 0:04:49.300 --> 0:04:52.289 Typically, there's no residual damage. effects of it. 0:04:52.529 --> 0:04:55.590 And T is probably one that concerns me most of all, 0:04:55.650 --> 0:04:58.890 because he has that groin and that ab injury. And 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.279 those things are just so annoying that they just bother 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.550 you and you cannot accelerate and you're constantly thinking about it. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.370 So yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see how well. 0:05:09.150 --> 0:05:10.510 Those guys play if they play. 0:05:10.570 --> 0:05:12.520 If not, The backup guy is going to have to 0:05:12.550 --> 0:05:15.850 step it up and prove when they get the opportunity 0:05:15.890 --> 0:05:17.250 that they can do something with the football. 0:05:17.510 --> 0:05:18.420 Tim McGee is with us. 0:05:18.510 --> 0:05:22.549 And Tim, we wouldn't even be having this conversation about 0:05:23.490 --> 0:05:29.760 the offensive balance if Cedric Johnson had not roughed the 0:05:29.980 --> 0:05:33.380 Pittsburgh punter. Because you're getting the ball back with the lead. 0:05:33.420 --> 0:05:37.760 You're going to win that football game without two major 0:05:38.910 --> 0:05:44.300 special teams blunders. And this team would be 3-1, possibly 4-0, 0:05:44.740 --> 0:05:46.219 and everything would be right with the world. 0:05:47.660 --> 0:05:49.159 Yeah, and that's just the way it goes. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.360 But just remember, there's 31 other teams that pretty much 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.270 say the same thing. They come up with a scenario 0:05:55.350 --> 0:05:56.830 and they say, well, if we could have done this 0:05:56.890 --> 0:05:58.750 and this didn't happen and the ball went this way 0:05:58.810 --> 0:06:00.450 and maybe we didn't do this, we'll be in a 0:06:00.529 --> 0:06:01.289 better position. 0:06:01.390 --> 0:06:04.450 And every single one is right. Unfortunately, it is what 0:06:04.470 --> 0:06:04.770 it is. 0:06:05.310 --> 0:06:08.159 I think we really have to, again, kind of manage 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.500 our expectations of the Bengals. And when I say that, 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.910 when you look at their two wins, they've won They 0:06:13.950 --> 0:06:17.570 won against Tampa and the Texans, and they're going to probably, 0:06:17.670 --> 0:06:21.039 let's just say, probably beat the Dolphins. I mean, those 0:06:21.070 --> 0:06:21.880 teams are collective. 0:06:22.339 --> 0:06:22.610 They're 1-12. 0:06:25.420 --> 0:06:27.940 It's easy, and you're supposed to win those games. But 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.480 the tough games, they're going to have to beat the Pittsburghs. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.739 And now, look at the Cleveland Browns. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.659 Oh, my gosh. Who would have thought? 0:06:34.700 --> 0:06:38.800 They'll be leading the division right now. But that's just 0:06:38.820 --> 0:06:41.160 the AFC North. Chick, we know it. We've said it 0:06:41.230 --> 0:06:43.310 year in and year out. It is just not a 0:06:43.350 --> 0:06:45.550 division one team is going to run away with. It's 0:06:45.589 --> 0:06:47.510 going to be tough, and you're going to have upsets. 0:06:47.610 --> 0:06:50.430 And I don't think the Bengals are in a great position, 0:06:50.490 --> 0:06:52.089 and I don't think they're in a bad position. 0:06:53.170 --> 0:06:56.230 Tim is with us, Tim McGee and Tim. Did the 0:06:56.290 --> 0:07:00.130 Houston Texans, even in a loss to the Bengals, give 0:07:00.170 --> 0:07:03.740 the NFL the blueprint on how to beat Cincinnati? 0:07:04.330 --> 0:07:07.659 Run the ball to the outside and throw the ball. 0:07:08.100 --> 0:07:10.480 Then we saw Pittsburgh throw it, what, on its first 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.160 five plays of the game. And I just think the 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.000 Texans gave the league the blueprint on how to beat 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:17.420 these guys. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.580 I would agree so because what you have in Dexter Lawrence, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.780 you have the middle of the offensive and defensive line. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.420 You have that pretty much sold up. So I think 0:07:27.460 --> 0:07:28.760 that's closed off right now. 0:07:28.780 --> 0:07:30.800 There's a detour that said go left, go right, but 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:35.850 don't come up the middle. So teams have- Not tried 0:07:35.870 --> 0:07:38.750 to outsmart themselves and just said, okay, you got a 0:07:38.850 --> 0:07:42.370 perennial all pro there. And a guy that's just absolutely 0:07:42.410 --> 0:07:45.670 controlling the line of scrimmage. We go left, we go right. 0:07:46.270 --> 0:07:49.270 We get them tired by running some plays outside. And 0:07:49.310 --> 0:07:51.680 then we throw the ball. And we know that's where 0:07:51.690 --> 0:07:54.010 the Bengals soft spot of their defense is. 0:07:54.060 --> 0:07:57.640 They're not that great in the secondary. They're improving. Don't 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:58.140 get me wrong. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.140 They're improving on the second and third level. But Right now, 0:08:02.180 --> 0:08:06.100 the strength of the Bengals' defense is their defensive line, 0:08:06.700 --> 0:08:07.900 particularly their interior. 0:08:08.620 --> 0:08:11.060 This team won its first two games last year and 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.330 then lost four in a row. With the veterans they 0:08:14.370 --> 0:08:16.770 brought in here, and they've been saying, hey, we've got 0:08:16.810 --> 0:08:19.210 to nip this thing in the bud. Man, they've got 0:08:19.230 --> 0:08:24.610 to lean on these leaders on this team to get 0:08:24.650 --> 0:08:29.250 this thing stopped and get things turned back around in 0:08:29.270 --> 0:08:30.190 the right direction here. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.520 Yeah, but that's tough. That's kind of easier said than done. 0:08:34.620 --> 0:08:37.020 And when you look at the veterans that you turn to, 0:08:37.420 --> 0:08:40.580 even your Dexter Lawrences of the world, none of them 0:08:40.620 --> 0:08:44.300 have been overly successful with other teams or the Bengals. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.160 So it's not like they have this resume that they're 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:48.959 used to winning and this is how we do it 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:50.020 and this is how we've done it. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.559 In the past. They're all still searching. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.600 They're searching for how to get back where they had 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.660 so much success with the Super Bowl year. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:58.900 They're all trying to get back there. 0:08:58.940 --> 0:09:00.800 But let's just face it, you had a roster that 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:06.079 had major turnover since then, including not just defensive personnel, 0:09:06.460 --> 0:09:07.540 but coaches as well. 0:09:07.700 --> 0:09:10.900 So again, I don't think that it's right now. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.800 I don't think it's time to really panic or really 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:14.679 be concerned. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.020 They beat the Dolphins. They'll get back on track. 0:09:18.700 --> 0:09:22.380 When you look at the schedule and you've lost your 0:09:22.420 --> 0:09:24.610 last two games and you look and you see We 0:09:24.650 --> 0:09:28.590 got a team 0-1-4, and it's the Miami Dolphins. Hey, 0:09:29.110 --> 0:09:31.630 if you don't get caught in the trap situation, yeah, 0:09:31.670 --> 0:09:34.550 you probably got the team that you want to kind 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.600 of restart the season and regenerate some excitement and some 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.960 confidence in the football team. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:47.660 Joe Burrow, under pressure last week, getting hit and throwing 0:09:47.740 --> 0:09:51.620 for well over 400 yards. He played a magnificent game, 0:09:51.710 --> 0:09:57.140 except all we'll remember is is the red zone interception 0:09:57.500 --> 0:10:00.020 and then the inability to keep that drive alive down 0:10:00.059 --> 0:10:04.640 the stretch. I think he's playing well, but he's, yeah, 0:10:04.700 --> 0:10:08.240 that's all fans are going to remember. And the criticism 0:10:08.380 --> 0:10:09.800 is coming with the picks. 0:10:11.460 --> 0:10:12.960 Well, that's what fans do. 0:10:13.110 --> 0:10:16.230 And that's an area of concern I have when you 0:10:16.410 --> 0:10:21.830 underappreciate when you have such an absolutely wonderful talent in 0:10:21.850 --> 0:10:25.709 the quarterback position. And when you look at the professional 0:10:25.730 --> 0:10:29.350 or college sports in here in Cincinnati and surrounding areas, 0:10:29.830 --> 0:10:33.089 Joe Burrow is your number one guy. Why would you, again, 0:10:33.190 --> 0:10:35.340 I totally get you want to assess him in the 0:10:35.380 --> 0:10:39.100 proper fashion. However, I mean, there's going to be mistakes. 0:10:39.140 --> 0:10:39.940 He's not perfect. 0:10:39.980 --> 0:10:41.460 I mean, when you're looking back at some of the 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.310 greatest quarterbacks in ever in the National Football League. 0:10:44.330 --> 0:10:45.090 I think we can. 0:10:44.990 --> 0:10:47.770 Talk about, hey, this guy, Brett Favre, threw a lot 0:10:47.790 --> 0:10:49.010 of interceptions, and this guy. 0:10:48.929 --> 0:10:49.530 Didn't do nothing. 0:10:49.570 --> 0:10:52.950 Dan Marino never made it to the Super Bowl, etc, etc, etc. 0:10:52.970 --> 0:10:56.969 So I think he is the perfect quarterback. But if 0:10:56.990 --> 0:10:59.910 you're saying perfectionism, he never, ever is going to make 0:10:59.950 --> 0:11:03.929 a mistake. They're always going to score. Well, again, I 0:11:05.030 --> 0:11:08.200 think you need to reset your sights and understand the game. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.420 There's professional, there's 11 professional players on the other side, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.079 and they're Sometimes just as good, if not better, than 0:11:14.100 --> 0:11:14.620 your best. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.720 Tim is with us for a couple more minutes. And Tim, 0:11:19.300 --> 0:11:22.570 back in the day, not that long ago, the St. 0:11:22.610 --> 0:11:26.250 Louis Rams were called the greatest show on turf with 0:11:26.470 --> 0:11:32.650 Isaac Bruce, Torrey Holt, Az Zahir Akeem, and Ricky Prohl. Gosh, 0:11:32.670 --> 0:11:36.370 can the Bengals be, I'm not saying that good because 0:11:36.390 --> 0:11:39.670 that team won a Super Bowl, but can they remind 0:11:39.730 --> 0:11:41.890 us of that great Rams team? 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.930 I'm laughing because I wrote that down. The greatest show 0:11:48.030 --> 0:11:53.580 on turf, the comparison. Yes, yes, they can be. However, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.750 I don't know if they have the second and third 0:11:57.809 --> 0:11:59.250 level on the defensive side. 0:11:59.309 --> 0:12:01.110 I don't know if they have the pass protection. I 0:12:01.270 --> 0:12:01.609 don't know. 0:12:01.690 --> 0:12:03.650 We know they don't have the run game at this 0:12:03.730 --> 0:12:05.170 point in time. We're talking right now. 0:12:05.610 --> 0:12:08.790 Can they be? Absolutely. Do they have the potential to be? 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:09.580 Absolutely. 0:12:09.620 --> 0:12:12.640 Will this surprise me if they run a streak of 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:13.559 seven to eight games? 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:14.380 It would not. 0:12:15.179 --> 0:12:20.890 Consequently, They're not there yet, but I really believe that 0:12:21.010 --> 0:12:24.510 in that locker room, they may not have something special, 0:12:24.550 --> 0:12:27.609 but they have something that we are taking advantage of 0:12:27.690 --> 0:12:28.150 big time. 0:12:28.250 --> 0:12:30.910 They can compete. The Cincinnati Bengals. 0:12:30.670 --> 0:12:33.929 Roster right now can compete with every single team in 0:12:33.950 --> 0:12:38.380 the NFL. As we speak, as they sit here right now, 0:12:38.940 --> 0:12:40.280 they could not just compete with them. 0:12:40.540 --> 0:12:41.300 They can beat them. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:46.520 And yes, it is disappointing when they fall short. However, 0:12:47.350 --> 0:12:49.770 I don't think we should be taking for granted that 0:12:50.210 --> 0:12:54.510 this team that's comprised right now can not just compete, 0:12:54.929 --> 0:12:58.750 can win, and can win consistently. And when they don't, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.000 just understand it. This is a sport that you're going 0:13:02.059 --> 0:13:04.240 to lose a lot of games. And we talk about 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.660 every year, no matter how good the Bengals are, as 0:13:06.700 --> 0:13:10.730 an example, the Pittsburgh Steelers seems to beat them one game. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.550 They split. Okay, it is what it is. They're in 0:13:13.570 --> 0:13:16.350 a division with the Baltimore Ravens. Okay, it is what 0:13:16.410 --> 0:13:19.140 it is. The Cleveland Browns is getting better. 0:13:19.380 --> 0:13:22.959 It is what it is. Just be happy and content. 0:13:23.460 --> 0:13:26.000 And long as we qualify for that tournament that's called 0:13:26.020 --> 0:13:28.940 the playoffs in the NFL, anything can happen at that 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:29.459 point in time. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:30.300 But I would agree. 0:13:30.340 --> 0:13:32.580 They need to get a run game and the defense 0:13:32.660 --> 0:13:35.780 has to play consistently or your greatest show on turf. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.900 It just won't be compared to the Rams with the 0:13:39.940 --> 0:13:41.180 Marshall Fox and crew. 0:13:41.580 --> 0:13:47.960 And with that, You want to host an AFC championship 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.490 game sometime, like the Bengals did in their first two 0:13:52.540 --> 0:13:56.970 Super Bowl appearances against the San Francisco 49ers. But with 0:13:57.050 --> 0:14:03.230 every loss, man, there's Kansas City and Buffalo, the specter 0:14:03.270 --> 0:14:07.620 of those two teams. So the AFC, to me, is loaded. 0:14:07.630 --> 0:14:08.280 Yeah. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.860 That's why it's just so important for this team to 0:14:11.900 --> 0:14:14.640 win tomorrow. Going into a bye week, you don't want 0:14:14.660 --> 0:14:16.470 this thing to fester for two more weeks. 0:14:17.929 --> 0:14:18.750 Oh, there's no question. 0:14:18.790 --> 0:14:21.110 But again, I think we got to focus on when 0:14:21.150 --> 0:14:23.750 you look at the four games that they've played, two 0:14:23.850 --> 0:14:25.370 of them we knew would be competitive. 0:14:25.730 --> 0:14:27.410 And they were. And they lost. 0:14:27.770 --> 0:14:31.630 But the other two, the Tampa Bay and the Texans, well, 0:14:31.870 --> 0:14:33.850 obviously we thought the Texans would be a lot better. 0:14:33.870 --> 0:14:36.880 But Tampa, we thought they would win. So right now, 0:14:37.590 --> 0:14:40.470 They'll win three games. They should be in a position 0:14:40.510 --> 0:14:43.330 that their third win came against a team that wasn't 0:14:43.370 --> 0:14:47.380 very good. And again, like I said, right now, they're 1-12, 0:14:47.410 --> 0:14:49.880 somewhere around there. But as long as they keep, I 0:14:50.820 --> 0:14:53.360 want to see the Bengals, when they have to play 0:14:53.380 --> 0:14:57.500 the tougher teams, see if they can play with them, 0:14:57.700 --> 0:15:01.800 play better than them, more consistent, and string together some wins. 0:15:02.420 --> 0:15:03.560 It's not going to. 0:15:03.540 --> 0:15:06.670 Be, whoever wins the division, It's not going to be 0:15:06.710 --> 0:15:08.650 a blow away. It's just not going to happen. So 0:15:08.890 --> 0:15:10.770 this is what you should expect. This is what the 0:15:10.810 --> 0:15:13.750 fans should expect. And there will be some growing pains 0:15:13.790 --> 0:15:15.930 and there will be some highlights and some good times. 0:15:16.270 --> 0:15:18.550 But we just got to qualify for that playoff. And 0:15:18.570 --> 0:15:22.090 like you said, if you can host, that would be wonderful. 0:15:22.530 --> 0:15:24.910 But at this point in time, I don't think we 0:15:24.930 --> 0:15:26.650 need to put the cart before the horse. Let's just 0:15:26.670 --> 0:15:29.890 get some wins together so we can qualify for the playoffs. 0:15:29.990 --> 0:15:35.440 And Tim, last question. How about your hometown? Playing in 0:15:35.500 --> 0:15:39.460 the American League Division Series today. First pitch at 8 0:15:39.460 --> 0:15:44.770 o'clock against the Chicago White Sox. The Cleveland Guardians hopefully 0:15:44.910 --> 0:15:47.670 will play against the Tampa Bay Rays. And then the 0:15:47.770 --> 0:15:52.780 Browns are in first place. How cataclysmic are the times 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:53.600 up in Cleveland? 0:15:54.620 --> 0:15:57.760 You know, it's a very exciting time because no one 0:15:58.140 --> 0:16:01.560 wanted to baseball season and of course football season expect 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.600 this to take place. So they're enjoying it. All my 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.920 people up in Cleveland, they're enjoying it because obviously they're winning. 0:16:08.940 --> 0:16:12.000 They're in a position that they're just, you know, when 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.020 you look at them and you look at the Guardians, 0:16:15.260 --> 0:16:18.470 you look at their payroll, you're going, What. 0:16:17.870 --> 0:16:19.840 The hell is going on? How are they doing this? 0:16:21.300 --> 0:16:22.520 You're literally, and. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.780 Here in Cincinnati, I know we're going, okay, the Reds 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.860 could do the same thing. But everything is just coming 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.360 together for them. And they just got to keep playing. 0:16:30.420 --> 0:16:32.160 And as long as they get a little luck on 0:16:32.180 --> 0:16:35.500 their side, maybe we'll see them in the World Series. 0:16:36.020 --> 0:16:38.180 It would be so great to see them in the 0:16:38.220 --> 0:16:38.880 World Series. 0:16:40.130 --> 0:16:43.460 When the Yankees didn't make it or teams with those major, 0:16:43.500 --> 0:16:45.920 major payrolls did not make it, it would be wonderful 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.280 for baseball because I know they're going into a lockout 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:49.880 next year or whatever the hell is going to happen. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:50.620 Yes, sir. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.540 Tim, you're the best. Really appreciate your time tonight as always. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:55.360 Thank you, sir. 0:16:55.380 --> 0:16:57.540 Appreciate you having. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:57.680 Me, Chick. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.980 Thank you so much. That's Tim McGee. Great, great wide 0:17:02.020 --> 0:17:04.200 receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. He had a cup of 0:17:04.270 --> 0:17:08.030 coffee with the then Washington Redskins but came back to 0:17:08.070 --> 0:17:10.899 Cincinnati today. And we're so glad that he did a 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.199 message to all the loyal listeners out there. There's going 0:17:15.220 --> 0:17:19.119 to be some Cleveland theme running through this, this show tonight, 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.520 because after the bottom of the hour news, we're going 0:17:21.540 --> 0:17:24.500 to go up to Cleveland to progressive field and talk 0:17:24.540 --> 0:17:27.100 to a sports writer, friend of mine and Jeff Shudell. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.570 And who's going to a preview the guardians and white socks. 0:17:31.609 --> 0:17:34.350 When we return, this is sports talk with your host, 0:17:34.410 --> 0:17:35.550 Chick Ludwig on 700 WLW. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:44.760 In February of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, over 200 people 0:17:44.820 --> 0:17:50.540 were prosecuted for witchcraft. After an immunity deal, H. 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And the headline on MLB.com says, 0:18:27.710 --> 0:18:33.220 Hard-Fought Series Reaches Its Crescendo With the ALCS Trip on 0:18:33.260 --> 0:18:33.780 the Line. 0:18:33.900 --> 0:18:35.919 Only one will be left standing. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.500 After tonight's American League Division Series Game 5 in Cleveland, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.600 let's go up to Progressive Field and bring in my 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.689 former colleague at the News Herald in Willoughby, Jeff Schudel. Jeff, 0:18:49.530 --> 0:18:53.310 the excitement, the intensity is palpable at Progressive Field. 0:18:53.350 --> 0:18:55.550 I can feel it all the way down here in 0:18:55.570 --> 0:18:56.170 the Natty. 0:18:56.550 --> 0:18:59.969 Game 5, winner take all with the winner facing the 0:19:00.010 --> 0:19:01.020 Tampa Bay Rays. 0:19:01.430 --> 0:19:03.220 Man, what a night in Cleveland. 0:19:04.180 --> 0:19:08.520 It is chicken. The fans are filing in. It's still 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.120 about an hour and a half before the first pitch, 0:19:12.140 --> 0:19:15.689 but it is going to be exciting. Fans are going 0:19:15.710 --> 0:19:18.190 to be decked out in red, just like the White 0:19:18.250 --> 0:19:22.350 Sox fans wearing black for games three and four, and 0:19:22.810 --> 0:19:24.290 it's going to be a fun night down here. 0:19:24.750 --> 0:19:27.370 How crazy is it, Jeff, that the Guardians lose two 0:19:27.410 --> 0:19:29.810 at home, then go on the road with their backs 0:19:29.869 --> 0:19:32.950 against the wall, win two in Chicago, and then get 0:19:32.990 --> 0:19:38.860 to come home I'll tell. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.560 You what, I think the White Sox thought they had 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.119 it wrapped up when they won the first two games here, 0:19:42.740 --> 0:19:47.490 especially because they are so good at home. But the Guardians, 0:19:47.590 --> 0:19:51.960 I think they're experienced. in the playoffs the last two 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.109 years really came to the fore in those two games 0:19:56.170 --> 0:20:00.190 in Chicago. And now clearly the Guardians have the momentum. 0:20:01.300 --> 0:20:04.179 These two teams are so even, Jeff, with Cleveland winning 0:20:04.220 --> 0:20:07.760 the AL Central by one game. Both teams were a 0:20:07.820 --> 0:20:12.020 part of first place for so long. Thirteen games decided 0:20:12.060 --> 0:20:15.240 by three runs or fewer. Eight of their 17 games 0:20:15.300 --> 0:20:18.790 decided by a run and four walk-offs. Man, what do 0:20:18.810 --> 0:20:20.950 you like about this Guardians team? 0:20:22.190 --> 0:20:25.070 Well, I think where the Guardians will win is their 0:20:25.109 --> 0:20:28.660 pitching is better. Their bullpen is clearly better, and they're 0:20:28.700 --> 0:20:34.330 starting pitching. Now, Sean Burke pitching for the White Sox tonight, 0:20:35.770 --> 0:20:39.810 he came in relief in the first game. He's starting tonight. 0:20:40.430 --> 0:20:43.149 And Gavin Williams for the Guardians. So I think that's 0:20:43.170 --> 0:20:45.490 going to be a good pitching matchup. But when it 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.540 does get to the bullpen, especially at the back end, 0:20:49.180 --> 0:20:55.780 Cade Smith is clearly the best. in this game, the 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:56.980 Guardians closer. 0:20:58.380 --> 0:21:02.310 What does Jose Ramirez mean to this squad, man? I 0:21:02.410 --> 0:21:03.690 love watching that guy play. 0:21:04.990 --> 0:21:05.970 You know what, Chick? 0:21:05.990 --> 0:21:10.970 When you saw those first two games, and really September, 0:21:11.190 --> 0:21:13.780 and you can even go back to August, he just 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.600 was not himself. He had a broken handmaid bone on 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.560 his left hand in June, and And he never really 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.880 came around to being a Jose Ramirez, we all know, 0:21:25.310 --> 0:21:30.270 until they needed him most in game three in Chicago 0:21:30.710 --> 0:21:34.130 and again in game four. And so now when he 0:21:34.170 --> 0:21:36.929 steps to the plate, whoever is on the mound for 0:21:36.950 --> 0:21:40.560 the White Sox at that moment has to be fearful 0:21:40.580 --> 0:21:43.979 because he knows one bad pitch and it could be 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:44.680 over the wall. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.200 And Jeff Schudel is with us from the News Herald 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.959 in the Cleveland suburb of Willoughby. We worked together for 0:21:51.020 --> 0:21:56.010 two and a half years back in the late 70s. And, Jeff, 0:21:56.650 --> 0:21:59.530 just heady days here in Cleveland. I mean, it's awesome 0:21:59.570 --> 0:22:01.550 to be a Cleveland sports fan right now with the 0:22:01.590 --> 0:22:06.570 Browns in first place, where the Guardians are hopefully playing, hopefully, 0:22:06.650 --> 0:22:08.230 in the ALCS. 0:22:08.970 --> 0:22:11.130 Man, what's it like up there? 0:22:11.150 --> 0:22:11.230 Yeah. 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.280 I'll tell you what, Chick. I mean, for the Browns 0:22:14.300 --> 0:22:18.360 to be 3-1, no one expected that. And they have 0:22:18.380 --> 0:22:23.010 a game with the Jets in the Meadowlands tomorrow. Now, 0:22:24.180 --> 0:22:28.520 the Browns are 3-1, the Jets are 1-3, but the 0:22:28.540 --> 0:22:33.659 Jets are one-and-a-half point favorites. And I picked the Browns, 0:22:33.700 --> 0:22:36.719 but I have a sneaking feeling the Jets are going 0:22:36.740 --> 0:22:39.990 to pull it out. The Browns won the last three 0:22:40.050 --> 0:22:44.950 games on comebacks led by Deshaun Watson. Can they keep 0:22:44.990 --> 0:22:51.300 that up? If they win that game tomorrow, then they're 0:22:51.540 --> 0:22:55.660 playing the Ravens for first place a week from tomorrow 0:22:55.940 --> 0:22:59.030 here in Cleveland. That is going to be a really 0:22:59.090 --> 0:23:01.230 crazy game. Oh, it really will be. 0:23:01.250 --> 0:23:04.330 And speaking of crazy games, Scott, just looking ahead, the 0:23:05.930 --> 0:23:09.730 The Ravens are in Cincinnati on New Year's Eve, and 0:23:09.750 --> 0:23:11.560 the game will end right around midnight. 0:23:11.910 --> 0:23:14.540 I mean, it's just going to be incredible, incredible. 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.660 The one thing I love about the Guardians, man, gosh, 0:23:19.380 --> 0:23:21.420 the Reds need a leadoff hitter. 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:23.270 Man, I like Stephen Kwan. 0:23:24.250 --> 0:23:27.470 You know, he's had his moments, and they're going to 0:23:27.510 --> 0:23:30.430 need him as the leadoff batter here tonight. 0:23:31.830 --> 0:23:32.050 Right. 0:23:32.090 --> 0:23:34.830 Now, Stephen Kwan, the first half of the year, he 0:23:35.030 --> 0:23:38.990 was struggling. But right around the all-star break, Chick, he 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:44.600 just completely turned it around. And now he's that leadoff guy, 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:48.220 like you just mentioned. And when you get your leadoff 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:51.960 better on either by a hit or a walk, he's 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:55.500 very patient at the plate. And he's fine with taking 0:23:55.520 --> 0:24:00.040 a walk. And then you have Jose, who Ramirez batting second, 0:24:00.420 --> 0:24:04.460 Chase DeLauder, a Rookie of the Year candidate, batting third. 0:24:04.500 --> 0:24:07.380 The top of the order is very strong. And when 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:10.650 I look at the Reds, I like Tito Francona. I 0:24:12.130 --> 0:24:14.369 wish he had a better bullpen down there, because I 0:24:14.410 --> 0:24:16.730 think if he did, I think the Reds would have 0:24:16.750 --> 0:24:18.210 been a better team this year. 0:24:18.910 --> 0:24:22.409 Yeah, and you talked about the pitching matchups tonight. Sean 0:24:22.470 --> 0:24:26.750 Burke of the Chicago White Sox, he's 11-7 with a 0:24:26.730 --> 0:24:31.790 3.34 ERA. And then Gavin Williams for the Guardians at 0:24:31.810 --> 0:24:36.590 14-8 with a 3.76 ERA. Gosh, these teams are so even. 0:24:38.170 --> 0:24:41.399 The emotion in that, gosh, progressive field is going to 0:24:41.430 --> 0:24:44.639 be incredible. And you just hope that that can translate 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:46.840 to this team. I know they want it really, really 0:24:46.900 --> 0:24:47.720 bad for their fans. 0:24:48.780 --> 0:24:51.480 They do, Chick, and you're so right about that. And 0:24:51.540 --> 0:24:56.190 I think what the Guardians proved, though, even in Chicago, 0:24:56.250 --> 0:25:01.290 was the White Sox got off to a lead, and 0:25:01.310 --> 0:25:05.690 the poise I talked about earlier, the Guardians were able 0:25:05.970 --> 0:25:09.250 to overcome that. I mean, for them to score nine 0:25:09.310 --> 0:25:14.470 runs in back-to-back games after having only seven hits total 0:25:14.609 --> 0:25:17.800 in the first two games... shows me that, yeah, okay, 0:25:18.180 --> 0:25:21.660 the Guardians know what's at stake, but they're ready for 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:24.909 that pressure. And I'm not sure that the White Sox are. 0:25:24.930 --> 0:25:27.149 I think that's going to be a big tell in 0:25:27.170 --> 0:25:32.530 this game. The Guardians were not patient enough at the 0:25:32.609 --> 0:25:35.530 plate in the first two games. And that was clear. 0:25:36.369 --> 0:25:39.389 They struck out 19 times total. And then when you 0:25:39.410 --> 0:25:43.600 think about the White Sox strike out 21 times in 0:25:43.630 --> 0:25:48.360 game three, that's I don't even imagine. But I think 0:25:48.380 --> 0:25:51.490 the team that's patient at the plate will win this game. 0:25:52.330 --> 0:25:55.889 I just, yeah, reminds me of the Reds with all 0:25:55.930 --> 0:25:58.910 the strikeouts. But Jeff, you know, we all love football. 0:25:59.850 --> 0:26:03.410 The one thing I love about baseball more than football, 0:26:03.580 --> 0:26:04.430 there's no phantom football. 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:08.920 Offensive holding calls. 0:26:09.100 --> 0:26:13.480 There's no phantom flags on the pass interference. You got 0:26:13.500 --> 0:26:16.810 to pitch it, hit it, field it, catch it, throw it. 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:19.870 And it's all right in front of you. And man, 0:26:20.010 --> 0:26:27.430 every pitch in the postseason just is packed with, gosh, emotion, 0:26:27.570 --> 0:26:28.850 intensity and pressure. 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:33.110 You're right. And to upon the point you just made, 0:26:33.210 --> 0:26:35.669 that's a good point, because when we talked to Stephen 0:26:35.710 --> 0:26:40.710 Kwan about playing at home, he said, I asked him, 0:26:40.750 --> 0:26:43.720 what's it like for a visitor when you go to 0:26:43.820 --> 0:26:48.290 a ballpark? I said, like Yankee Stadium. And he said, 0:26:49.950 --> 0:26:53.469 if you do something, you get distracted. And he said 0:26:53.490 --> 0:26:58.020 that one millisecond of being distracted could be the difference 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:01.320 between winning a game and losing a game. And as 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:04.580 you mentioned earlier, all these games with the White Sox 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:08.780 during the regular season anyway were one-run games. So that 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:13.270 emphasizes the point that Stephen Kwan was making, that one 0:27:13.350 --> 0:27:17.750 little mistake, maybe you get caught too far off base, 0:27:17.770 --> 0:27:21.010 you get picked off, or an error, or whatever. One 0:27:21.030 --> 0:27:24.369 little mistake could be the difference between winning and losing. 0:27:24.970 --> 0:27:25.630 Absolutely. 0:27:25.730 --> 0:27:30.250 And what do you think the bottom-line difference could be tonight, Jeff, 0:27:30.290 --> 0:27:31.040 for the Guardians? 0:27:31.990 --> 0:27:35.719 Well, I think if it does become a bullpen game, 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:39.600 then the Guardians will win. Because as I said earlier, 0:27:39.619 --> 0:27:42.359 they have a better bullpen, especially at. 0:27:42.340 --> 0:27:43.120 The back end. 0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:47.960 The White Sox have done a lot of bullpen games 0:27:48.900 --> 0:27:51.920 because they don't really have that deep starting rotation like 0:27:51.940 --> 0:27:56.600 the Guardians do. But if it's a tight game in, say, 0:27:56.640 --> 0:28:00.070 the seventh, eighth, ninth innings, I'm going with the Guardians 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:04.310 because they do have... Kate Smith is the best closer 0:28:04.330 --> 0:28:08.689 in the game. And that's a pretty remarkable... In fact, 0:28:08.910 --> 0:28:13.460 because Emmanuel Clause was so good until he got suspended 0:28:13.540 --> 0:28:21.740 for allegedly throwing bad pitches intentionally. Case Smith moved in 0:28:21.780 --> 0:28:26.169 that closer role. He lights out. He had 41 saves 0:28:26.790 --> 0:28:30.070 here in the regular season. And so I think that 0:28:30.090 --> 0:28:31.330 will be the difference in the game. 0:28:31.590 --> 0:28:35.750 Playoff baseball, Jeff Judell, there's nothing like it. And you're 0:28:35.770 --> 0:28:37.470 about to experience it tonight, man. 0:28:39.270 --> 0:28:41.650 Yeah, and you're right about the fans. I mean, it's 0:28:41.670 --> 0:28:44.469 going to be so loud. I'm not sure if we'll 0:28:44.490 --> 0:28:46.790 have the press box windows open because it's a little 0:28:46.870 --> 0:28:49.860 chilly up here, but it's great to hear those fans 0:28:50.500 --> 0:28:53.800 cheering like they do. That's one problem I have with 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:57.280 Brown's press box. We're like hermetically sealed in there. 0:28:57.380 --> 0:28:58.600 Oh, yeah. 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:01.520 We normally don't get to hear the fans as much 0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:05.830 as we did in the old stadium because those— There 0:29:05.870 --> 0:29:08.930 were louvered windows on the top of the press box 0:29:08.970 --> 0:29:12.190 windows so you could hear the fans. But it's going 0:29:12.210 --> 0:29:13.290 to be loud here tonight. 0:29:13.770 --> 0:29:16.960 Last question, Jeff Schudel of the News Herald in Willoughby. 0:29:18.500 --> 0:29:22.140 We saw what happened in Cleveland when the Cavaliers won 0:29:22.620 --> 0:29:26.780 the World Championship in the NBA. What would a World 0:29:26.860 --> 0:29:30.180 Series victory be like in Cleveland? 0:29:30.220 --> 0:29:33.920 Oh, Chick, I would love to... I can't wait to 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:39.050 see that parade because it'll be, I mean, if you 0:29:39.070 --> 0:29:43.450 think about this, the Indians at that time, they haven't won, 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:47.040 this franchise has not won the World Series since 1948. 0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:55.209 And a lot of people never experienced that. You know, 0:29:55.230 --> 0:30:01.640 that's almost, 80 years ago. So if that happens, that 0:30:01.680 --> 0:30:05.540 would be, especially when you think about this, the Guardians 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:11.030 have the lowest payroll in baseball, the absolute lowest. And 0:30:11.070 --> 0:30:14.830 if they could be out saying that it's the Dodgers 0:30:14.870 --> 0:30:19.260 or the Brewers, if they would win the World Series 0:30:19.300 --> 0:30:22.880 with the lowest payroll in baseball, that would be very remarkable. 0:30:23.120 --> 0:30:23.700 It would be. 0:30:24.040 --> 0:30:26.380 Jeff, hey, can't thank you enough for taking time out 0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:28.860 of your schedule to join us tonight from Progressive Field. 0:30:29.260 --> 0:30:30.700 Have a blast tonight. 0:30:30.860 --> 0:30:34.870 Anytime, Chuck. I miss... It's longer than two and a 0:30:34.890 --> 0:30:37.290 half years, but those are a lot of two and 0:30:37.310 --> 0:30:39.390 a half fun years when we are together at the paper. 0:30:39.590 --> 0:30:44.150 Yes, and at 7.35 tonight, Teddy Ballgame. Ted Tieden, our 0:30:44.210 --> 0:30:45.610 former boss, is going to join us. 0:30:46.990 --> 0:30:49.800 Oh, that's really great. Oh, good. By the time I 0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:50.380 say hello. 0:30:50.940 --> 0:30:53.580 I sure will. Thank you so much, Jeff. Appreciate you. 0:30:53.620 --> 0:30:54.180 All right, Jake. 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:54.459 See you later. 0:30:54.580 --> 0:30:54.740 Bye-bye. 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:55.620 All right, take care. 0:30:55.720 --> 0:30:59.480 That is Jeff Schudel live from Progressive Field in Cleveland 0:30:59.900 --> 0:31:04.580 for tonight's Game 5 winner-take-all, the ALDS, the American League 0:31:04.620 --> 0:31:09.900 Division Series Championship. The Cleveland Guardians hosting the Chicago White 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:14.360 Sox with the winner facing the Tampa Bay Rays, for 0:31:14.380 --> 0:31:18.140 the ALCS title and a trip to the World Series. 0:31:19.060 --> 0:31:22.570 This is Sports Talk on 700 WLW with your host, 0:31:22.640 --> 0:31:27.290 Chick Ludwig, going until 9 o'clock tonight on 700 WLW. 0:31:28.770 --> 0:31:34.710 Passing gas. Everyone does it. 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So tune in and phone in. 0:31:55.730 --> 0:31:56.650 Monday at 3 on 700-WLW. 0:31:59.490 --> 0:32:02.410 I know that hiring can be challenging you need someone 0:32:02.430 --> 0:32:04.770 to match your role perfectly well. 0:32:04.610 --> 0:32:06.090 Now you can meet them. 0:32:05.970 --> 0:32:10.980 Fast on wick 700 wlw it is i've said numerous 0:32:11.020 --> 0:32:16.520 times every saturday feels like bowl day in college football 0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:19.240 and there are some good ones going on right now 0:32:19.300 --> 0:32:26.290 how about the red river rivalry texas oklahoma Texas just 0:32:26.310 --> 0:32:29.010 scored a touchdown, kicked the extra point. The game is 0:32:29.110 --> 0:32:36.730 tied with 632 remaining. At Oklahoma, 24 all. Wow, what 0:32:36.770 --> 0:32:41.640 a finish that's going to be. Other top 25 scores, No. 0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:42.300 9 Ole Miss. 0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:47.720 Leeds-Vanderbilt, 52-10. UCLA is trying to hang on. Oregon just scored, 0:32:47.740 --> 0:32:48.280 but No. 21 ranked UCLA. 0:32:54.790 --> 0:32:59.390 He has a 17-15 lead over No. 13, Oregon, with 0:32:59.390 --> 0:33:02.790 2 minutes and 16 seconds remaining. At the start of 0:33:02.830 --> 0:33:06.870 the fourth quarter in Columbus, at the shoe, Ohio State 0:33:06.930 --> 0:33:07.670 leads Maryland. 0:33:07.690 --> 0:33:07.990 The No. 0:33:08.010 --> 0:33:14.910 5-ranked Buckeyes 38, and the Maryland Terrapins 16. Middle of 0:33:14.930 --> 0:33:23.960 the fourth quarter, 15th-ranked Tennessee leads at Arkansas 17-14. So 0:33:24.000 --> 0:33:27.240 those are some top 25 scores for you. I want 0:33:27.270 --> 0:33:29.810 to give a shout out to a couple of friends 0:33:29.870 --> 0:33:35.350 of mine from the 1986 Ohio State Buckeyes. They're being 0:33:35.510 --> 0:33:42.010 honored today, co-Big Ten champions in today's game against Maryland. 0:33:42.850 --> 0:33:46.010 Dwight Smith, I work with Dwight at Middletown High School. 0:33:46.570 --> 0:33:50.980 And of course, the great Chris Carter, Pro Football Hall 0:33:51.020 --> 0:33:56.170 of Famer. were on that 1986 team being honored today 0:33:56.330 --> 0:34:00.430 in Columbus. And the Buckeyes that year started 0-2 with 0:34:00.490 --> 0:34:03.830 losses to Alabama in the kickoff classic and to Washington. 0:34:04.730 --> 0:34:09.980 And then a big-time turnaround, rebounded with nine consecutive wins, 0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:13.860 including a close victory over Colorado and a share of 0:34:13.900 --> 0:34:17.980 the Big Ten co-championship, but lost a tight 26-24 battle 0:34:18.020 --> 0:34:23.450 to No. 6 Michigan, after a late field goal attempt missed, 0:34:23.550 --> 0:34:28.320 costing them the outright conference title and a Rose Bowl berth. Nevertheless, 0:34:28.380 --> 0:34:33.260 they finished the year with a dominant Cotton Bowl win, 0:34:33.280 --> 0:34:38.420 28-12 against Texas A & M, and finished seventh-ranked in 0:34:38.460 --> 0:34:42.960 the final Associated Press poll. I think we'll all remember 0:34:43.540 --> 0:34:48.280 Earl Bruce in the fedora against Texas A & M 0:34:49.360 --> 0:34:53.070 in that Cotton Bowl win. So congratulations to Dwight Smith, 0:34:53.150 --> 0:34:57.049 my buddy, and Chris Carter, who I covered while he 0:34:57.110 --> 0:35:00.650 was a phenomenal wide receiver at Middletown High School and 0:35:00.670 --> 0:35:01.270 the Middies. 0:35:01.810 --> 0:35:02.490 Yeah, I got that. 0:35:02.410 --> 0:35:06.390 Purple blood with Elder, who pulled out a, what, a 0:35:06.410 --> 0:35:11.810 30-27 victory last night at Highlands. I always say my 0:35:12.010 --> 0:35:14.839 weekend is going to go well, starting on Friday nights, 0:35:14.930 --> 0:35:18.620 if Elder can get a win. But back-to-back losses to St. 0:35:18.660 --> 0:35:22.000 Xavier and a Moeller. And then Elder got back on 0:35:22.020 --> 0:35:25.600 the winning track last night against an outstanding Highlands team 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:31.040 in northern Kentucky. So when we come back after the 0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:33.180 top of the hour, we're going to continue to talk 0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:39.430 some baseball here with Hal McCoy, Hall of Fame baseball 0:35:39.469 --> 0:35:42.230 writer at the Dayton Daily News, my colleague for 30 years, 0:35:43.170 --> 0:35:46.650 and what he makes of the Cincinnati Reds right now. 0:35:47.330 --> 0:35:49.730 How can the Reds get this thing turned around? 0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:57.250 With their payroll, knowing that the Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Guardians, 0:35:58.030 --> 0:36:02.490 and Tampa Bay Rays are getting it done. You're listening 0:36:02.530 --> 0:36:06.160 to Sports Talk. One hour down, two to go. Chick Ludwig, 0:36:06.700 --> 0:36:07.560 NewsRadio 700, WLW. 0:36:29.739 --> 0:36:34.390 Never knew how complete I could be. But you kissed 0:36:34.590 --> 0:36:35.390 me and said. 0:36:35.530 --> 0:36:41.550 Baby, please. 0:36:41.550 --> 0:36:45.800 708 in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig, 700 WLW. 0:36:46.300 --> 0:36:49.920 This is Sports Talk. Russ Jackson is tonight's producer. We 0:36:49.980 --> 0:36:52.960 are going all the way to 9 o'clock. And we're 0:36:52.980 --> 0:36:56.240 talking some baseball first here. And when I think of baseball, 0:36:56.260 --> 0:36:58.960 I think of our next guest. It's always an honor. 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:02.460 to bring in Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy, 0:37:02.520 --> 0:37:05.540 the Dayton Daily News, my colleague for 30 years there. 0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:09.800 And Hal, we are geeked for the Guardians. How fired 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:10.400 up are you? 0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:14.570 I am very fired up, Chick, and it has been 0:37:14.620 --> 0:37:17.190 a long, long time since 1948. I covered the World 0:37:17.210 --> 0:37:19.989 Series in 1997, and Cleveland landed the ninth inning of 0:37:20.010 --> 0:37:28.219 Game 7. And I already had a game story written 0:37:28.280 --> 0:37:31.219 and sent to the paper with the tribe winning. And 0:37:31.280 --> 0:37:33.920 Tony Fernandez made an error in the bottom of the ninth. 0:37:34.660 --> 0:37:38.550 Marlins scored a walk-off win. Last time we've had a 0:37:38.610 --> 0:37:40.270 chance to do it. Unbelievable. 0:37:40.290 --> 0:37:42.770 So I'm fired up. Fired up for tonight. 0:37:43.110 --> 0:37:43.790 Absolutely. 0:37:43.910 --> 0:37:47.410 And as an Akron native, Hal, who grew up rooting 0:37:47.489 --> 0:37:51.819 for the then Cleveland Indians, man, this is personal for you. 0:37:52.860 --> 0:37:54.190 Yes, absolutely it is. 0:37:54.310 --> 0:37:57.469 I've been rooting for them, never gave up on them 0:37:57.510 --> 0:38:01.489 through all the drudgery years. Like you said, I grew 0:38:01.570 --> 0:38:04.970 up in Akron, and I was eight years old in 0:38:04.969 --> 0:38:08.160 1948 when they won the World Series and been a 0:38:08.260 --> 0:38:14.080 fan ever since. And 1954 was another disappointment. They won 0:38:14.080 --> 0:38:17.680 111 games, and then Willie Mays made the great catch 0:38:17.760 --> 0:38:20.820 on Vic Wirtz in the World Series, and the Giants 0:38:20.880 --> 0:38:21.460 beat him, so. 0:38:22.219 --> 0:38:24.220 It's been a tough postseason for our tribe. 0:38:25.239 --> 0:38:29.890 Just incredible, this series, the way it's gone, with Cleveland 0:38:29.930 --> 0:38:32.509 hosting the first two games, losing, and then with their 0:38:32.570 --> 0:38:35.610 backs against the wall, going into Chicago and winning two. 0:38:36.239 --> 0:38:36.880 Oh, my goodness. 0:38:37.000 --> 0:38:39.960 And then to be able to come home and hopefully 0:38:40.000 --> 0:38:42.060 get some redemption here, it's got to be special. 0:38:43.110 --> 0:38:45.210 Yeah, let's hope that they can win a game at 0:38:45.250 --> 0:38:48.469 home after losing those first two at home. Should be 0:38:48.530 --> 0:38:52.410 interesting tonight. Both teams have used up all their pitching. 0:38:52.550 --> 0:38:55.090 And this time of the year, you know, the pitchers 0:38:55.150 --> 0:38:58.529 are tired and worn out. And both teams have had 0:38:58.550 --> 0:39:00.730 to use a lot of pitchers in the last two games. 0:39:00.790 --> 0:39:03.870 So I look for a high scoring game tonight. I 0:39:03.890 --> 0:39:08.810 don't think either pitcher is going to last too long. 0:39:08.810 --> 0:39:11.049 17 games they played against one another. Eight of them 0:39:11.090 --> 0:39:12.350 decided by one run. 0:39:12.350 --> 0:39:15.600 13 decided by three runs or less. There have been 0:39:15.700 --> 0:39:19.200 four walk-offs. Man, these teams are just so close. They've 0:39:19.300 --> 0:39:23.240 shared or a share of the lead in the AL 0:39:24.010 --> 0:39:27.610 Central for most of the year. And of course, Cleveland 0:39:27.830 --> 0:39:33.200 finally winning that division by one game. And, yeah, this 0:39:33.260 --> 0:39:35.480 is what it's all about. This is what it's all 0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:36.060 about tonight. 0:39:36.580 --> 0:39:40.739 It makes sense that these two are playing for advancement 0:39:40.820 --> 0:39:44.470 after what they've gone through during the regular season. And, 0:39:45.090 --> 0:39:47.050 you know, the Tribe's going to have to beat the Pope. 0:39:47.730 --> 0:39:51.600 I'm going to have to beat a team that's a great, 0:39:51.700 --> 0:39:55.200 great story, a team that lost more than 100 games 0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:58.300 three years in a row, and here they are trying 0:39:58.340 --> 0:40:01.340 to advance to the championship series. 0:40:01.860 --> 0:40:06.770 Is there anything more awesome than postseason baseball, Hal? 0:40:07.870 --> 0:40:09.069 No, no. 0:40:10.190 --> 0:40:13.109 Covering the Reds all year, that was a disappointment and 0:40:13.650 --> 0:40:16.520 became kind of a drudgery at the end of the year, 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:19.960 although you got to see Ellie Delacruz play a great September, 0:40:20.020 --> 0:40:23.240 and Sal Stewart is going to be the unanimous rookie 0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:25.920 of the year. But other than that, it wasn't a 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:30.080 whole lot of fun. So when it gets to the postseason, 0:40:30.980 --> 0:40:34.989 you see great teams playing great baseball. And what I 0:40:35.050 --> 0:40:40.430 love the most is that three of the five teams 0:40:40.450 --> 0:40:44.430 that are left are in the lower echelon of payrolls. 0:40:45.070 --> 0:40:48.810 And that's why I'm pulling for Milwaukee and the tribe 0:40:48.890 --> 0:40:51.430 to make it to the World Series. 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:53.020 How great would that be? 0:40:53.260 --> 0:40:54.480 Oh, that'd be fantastic. 0:40:54.500 --> 0:40:57.580 And I just had Jeff Schudel on live from Progressive Field, 0:40:57.980 --> 0:41:01.060 former co-worker at the News Herald in Willoughby. And the 0:41:01.140 --> 0:41:04.719 one thing I love about baseball more than football, man, 0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:07.569 you've got to pitch it, hit it, field it, catch it, 0:41:07.630 --> 0:41:10.009 throw it. It's all there in front of you. There's 0:41:10.050 --> 0:41:15.710 no phantom flags. And there's replay. So one little mistake 0:41:15.790 --> 0:41:18.590 can cost you a game, can cost you a series. 0:41:19.690 --> 0:41:24.500 Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, you can't run out the clock. 0:41:24.580 --> 0:41:28.400 You've got to record 27 outs in nine innings. So, 0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:31.580 you know, there's no such thing as sitting. 0:41:31.380 --> 0:41:34.520 On the ball or any kind of delaying. You've got 0:41:34.540 --> 0:41:35.759 to get that last out. 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:39.170 And sometimes that last out is the hardest one to get, 0:41:39.330 --> 0:41:41.890 and sometimes it decides the ballgame. 0:41:42.530 --> 0:41:45.009 We got to see the Guardians play against the Reds 0:41:45.090 --> 0:41:48.920 and just so impressed with this team. And what do 0:41:48.940 --> 0:41:51.720 you like about it, Hal? They've got a terrific leadoff 0:41:51.760 --> 0:41:55.100 hitter in Stephen Kwan. And we all know what Jose 0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:57.380 Ramirez means to this franchise. 0:41:58.460 --> 0:42:00.830 I was so happy to see Ramirez come alive in 0:42:00.850 --> 0:42:04.350 those two games in Chicago because he was struggling up 0:42:04.410 --> 0:42:07.310 until then. But he's the kind of guy, you know, 0:42:07.810 --> 0:42:09.370 put the team on my shoulder. 0:42:09.070 --> 0:42:09.740 And I'll carry you. 0:42:10.340 --> 0:42:14.239 And that has been outstanding to see. But what I 0:42:14.280 --> 0:42:18.080 like most about the Guardians is they play the game right, 0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:21.710 as does Milwaukee and as does Tampa Bay. You know, 0:42:21.730 --> 0:42:26.100 it's not all about strikeouts and home runs. uh, every 0:42:26.180 --> 0:42:29.020 facet of the game. And, uh, I think, uh, you know, 0:42:29.060 --> 0:42:32.319 Milwaukee is the best team in baseball. They do everything right. 0:42:32.739 --> 0:42:36.640 You make one mistake and they jump on it. And, uh, that's, uh, 0:42:36.860 --> 0:42:39.080 you know, that's why I like Milwaukee so much. And 0:42:39.100 --> 0:42:41.980 it's another reason why I like the guardians other than 0:42:42.020 --> 0:42:43.080 I've liked them all my life. 0:42:43.500 --> 0:42:43.719 Yes. 0:42:44.200 --> 0:42:46.660 Uh, Hal McCoy is with us and how just turning 0:42:46.700 --> 0:42:49.569 to the reds here for a few minutes, man, so 0:42:49.590 --> 0:42:54.219 many questions, uh, that they've got to get accomplished. Uh, Man, 0:42:54.260 --> 0:42:59.590 starting with, really, starting with a pitching coach, yeah, it 0:42:59.910 --> 0:43:04.350 departed midway through the season and never came back. And 0:43:04.370 --> 0:43:10.540 so that's huge. And then trying to get some offensive upgrades, yeah. 0:43:10.560 --> 0:43:13.390 Got a lot of holes to fill together, though. I 0:43:13.430 --> 0:43:15.469 think they have to upgrade the bullpen a little bit. 0:43:15.489 --> 0:43:17.610 They've got a couple of guys that are fine, but 0:43:18.390 --> 0:43:21.070 they need some help there. And, you know, we started 0:43:21.110 --> 0:43:24.950 last year with what everybody thought was a great rotation. 0:43:25.030 --> 0:43:28.290 It looked like a great rotation. Then you lose Hunter Green, 0:43:28.370 --> 0:43:33.320 and most of them, other than Brady Singer, suffered injuries. 0:43:34.400 --> 0:43:37.120 And when they did come back, they didn't perform too well. 0:43:37.600 --> 0:43:39.180 So I think they need a little bit of an 0:43:39.239 --> 0:43:42.989 upgrade with a veteran starting pitcher. That could help them 0:43:43.050 --> 0:43:43.350 a lot. 0:43:43.910 --> 0:43:47.290 Gosh, the lowest batting average in baseball at 229, lowest 0:43:47.450 --> 0:43:51.090 on-base percentage at 305, and the most strikeouts. 0:43:51.820 --> 0:43:54.180 Wow, 1,544. Right, yeah. 0:43:55.460 --> 0:44:00.200 It's crazy. It was a struggle. So frustrating when they 0:44:00.219 --> 0:44:04.110 would get runners in scoring position. They were worse at 0:44:04.170 --> 0:44:08.890 producing runs with runners in scoring position. Too often, instead 0:44:08.930 --> 0:44:12.210 of trying to bring those runners in with a base 0:44:12.230 --> 0:44:15.649 hit to right field or sacrifice fly or ground ball 0:44:15.690 --> 0:44:17.569 to the right side, they strike out. 0:44:17.820 --> 0:44:19.160 It's just so frustrating. 0:44:19.500 --> 0:44:23.239 Yes, and gosh, runners on second or third, and there's 0:44:23.280 --> 0:44:26.340 Matt McClain grounding it to short or third instead of 0:44:26.380 --> 0:44:29.799 going the other way. Just some situational things that just 0:44:29.880 --> 0:44:31.609 drove our fans crazy. 0:44:32.580 --> 0:44:33.520 Yeah, absolutely. 0:44:33.560 --> 0:44:36.640 And that's what makes the teams that are still alive 0:44:36.700 --> 0:44:40.120 so good. They do those things. They hit the ball 0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:42.900 the opposite way. They put the ball in play. They 0:44:42.920 --> 0:44:45.819 make the defensive plays. They make the correct plays. They 0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:49.810 steal bases. They do all the things that makes baseball 0:44:49.850 --> 0:44:50.350 what it is. 0:44:51.070 --> 0:44:53.930 And Hal McCoy with us for a couple more minutes. 0:44:54.030 --> 0:44:59.440 And Hal, Phil Castellini's speech, really, to the fans. And 0:44:59.680 --> 0:45:03.100 one thing that really struck me was it sounds like 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:07.189 he's going to let baseball people make baseball decisions. So 0:45:07.650 --> 0:45:10.770 when I hear that, there's just been too much meddling 0:45:10.910 --> 0:45:13.790 from the front office with the baseball people. 0:45:13.870 --> 0:45:15.029 That's how I interpret that. 0:45:16.140 --> 0:45:17.259 Yeah, I do too. 0:45:17.340 --> 0:45:21.240 And, you know, words are nice, but actions speak louder 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:24.550 than words. Let's see if they actually put into play 0:45:24.590 --> 0:45:28.390 what he's promised the fans. I am still dubious about that. 0:45:28.510 --> 0:45:32.370 I'll wait to see what actually happens. But, yeah, I 0:45:32.410 --> 0:45:36.259 thought the same thing, Chick. It sounded like that Jerry 0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:40.780 Francona had to deal with some front office meddling. 0:45:41.739 --> 0:45:48.030 And how this week was the anniversary– of our trip separately, 0:45:48.070 --> 0:45:53.160 of course, to Chavez ravine in Los Angeles Dodger stadium 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:57.200 for the last time, the Reds won a post-season series. 0:45:58.980 --> 0:45:59.700 Yeah. 0:45:59.700 --> 0:45:59.770 1995. 0:45:59.760 --> 0:46:03.120 Um, that's a long, that's a long time. 0:46:03.200 --> 0:46:03.399 Yeah. 0:46:05.510 --> 0:46:05.740 Yeah. 0:46:05.780 --> 0:46:06.709 That was a great trip. 0:46:06.750 --> 0:46:09.570 We had to, uh, Chavez ravine, which is one of 0:46:09.610 --> 0:46:12.850 my favorite venues, uh, to watch a baseball game. It's 0:46:12.890 --> 0:46:16.029 just a great place. And, uh, But it's the last 0:46:16.070 --> 0:46:21.560 time the Reds have done anything. It's 31 years ago. 0:46:22.180 --> 0:46:24.400 I got on a plane and about five hours later, 0:46:24.440 --> 0:46:26.750 I was talking to Mike Piazza down the left field 0:46:26.790 --> 0:46:29.810 line at Chavez Ravine. I had to pinch myself going 0:46:29.830 --> 0:46:33.819 into Tommy Lasorda's office with all the movie star pictures. 0:46:34.440 --> 0:46:37.050 I was starry-eyed. I really was. 0:46:37.070 --> 0:46:41.450 That's a trip to go into Lasorda's office. Not only 0:46:41.469 --> 0:46:44.589 were all the celebrity pictures on the wall, sometimes you'd 0:46:44.630 --> 0:46:48.230 go in there and you'd see Captain Antonio in there. 0:46:48.670 --> 0:46:52.560 You'd see some live celebrities in there in the office 0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:55.319 with Lasorda. And I was like you. I would just 0:46:55.739 --> 0:46:58.040 sit down starry-eyed and listen to them. 0:46:58.440 --> 0:47:01.950 Wow, fantastic. And then it was on to Atlanta. and 0:47:02.010 --> 0:47:05.250 Bobby Cox and what the Braves did to this team. 0:47:05.330 --> 0:47:08.670 So at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. 0:47:09.770 --> 0:47:10.850 Yeah, absolutely. 0:47:10.930 --> 0:47:14.400 And for some reason, Jim Bowden decided that the Braves 0:47:14.460 --> 0:47:19.500 were susceptible to left-handed pitching, so started left-handed pitchers. 0:47:19.219 --> 0:47:20.060 In every game. 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:21.500 Didn't that work? 0:47:21.980 --> 0:47:23.340 No, no, it didn't. 0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:27.229 So, and one last thing here, Hal, I know, you know, 0:47:27.250 --> 0:47:32.000 being from Northeast Ohio, Gosh, it's cataclysmic. 0:47:32.160 --> 0:47:34.520 The Browns are in first place. What in the world 0:47:34.580 --> 0:47:35.259 is going on? 0:47:36.500 --> 0:47:40.700 Yeah, I'm still pinching myself to see if this is reality, 0:47:41.090 --> 0:47:45.410 that the Browns have started out 3-1 and played some 0:47:45.450 --> 0:47:48.090 really good games down the wire at the end of games, 0:47:48.710 --> 0:47:52.729 games that they would usually blow. But so far, so good. 0:47:52.790 --> 0:47:55.790 But let's see what happens to the end. But right now, 0:47:56.270 --> 0:47:57.270 thoroughly enjoying it. 0:47:58.080 --> 0:48:01.060 And I was doing some research, Hal, on this date 0:48:01.120 --> 0:48:05.420 in Red's history. Game one of the 1970 World Series, 0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:17.530 the debacle at home plate with the– gosh, with Bernie Carbo, with– yeah. Hendricks, 0:48:17.790 --> 0:48:23.540 Elrod Hendricks, the catcher, and the plate umpire– Ken Burkhart, 0:48:23.660 --> 0:48:26.480 I mean, it was just an absolute debacle. And the 0:48:26.540 --> 0:48:29.490 Reds had, I believe, a three-run, three-to-nothing lead in that 0:48:29.530 --> 0:48:31.130 game and then loses four-to-three. 0:48:32.130 --> 0:48:34.970 Yeah, I know. That sets the tone for the series, too. 0:48:35.870 --> 0:48:37.069 Never recovered from that. 0:48:37.410 --> 0:48:37.670 Yes. 0:48:38.230 --> 0:48:40.669 Well, beautiful stuff, Hal. 0:48:41.850 --> 0:48:44.910 As always, you're thinking we're talking. 0:48:44.650 --> 0:48:45.390 About the Browns. 0:48:45.410 --> 0:48:49.770 The last time they won a championship was 1964. Correct. 0:48:50.350 --> 0:48:53.700 I covered that championship game. I was there to see 0:48:53.739 --> 0:48:57.050 that and cover it. And so last time they won. 0:48:57.090 --> 0:48:59.700 So I offered the Browns that I would come back 0:48:59.820 --> 0:49:02.200 and help them out. But I haven't received any answer. 0:49:02.480 --> 0:49:05.940 All those names on that team are absolutely magic. And 0:49:06.400 --> 0:49:10.239 people don't realize how that it was a dynasty. under 0:49:10.280 --> 0:49:11.680 Paul Brown, and yeah. 0:49:12.620 --> 0:49:16.489 Yeah, they won that championship game 27 to nothing, and 0:49:16.510 --> 0:49:20.990 Gary Collins caught three touchdown passes from Donovan. Frank Ryan 0:49:21.050 --> 0:49:24.680 and had Jim Brown, and you're speaking about starry-eyed. I 0:49:24.719 --> 0:49:27.400 couldn't even interview Jim Brown because I was so starstruck. 0:49:27.780 --> 0:49:28.420 Absolutely. 0:49:28.500 --> 0:49:34.839 Ernie Green, gosh, Milt Morin, Mo Jalewski, Glass, Feichner. I mean, 0:49:34.940 --> 0:49:36.020 the names are magic. 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:38.560 Great team. Great team. 0:49:38.900 --> 0:49:42.430 Absolutely. Hal, thank you so much for your time. 0:49:43.390 --> 0:49:45.520 Thank you, Chick. As always, I appreciate it. 0:49:45.640 --> 0:49:49.790 Really appreciate it and enjoy the game tonight. Guards need it. 0:49:50.760 --> 0:49:54.319 Winner take all, game five, ALDS. Doesn't get any better 0:49:54.340 --> 0:49:54.680 than this. 0:49:55.600 --> 0:49:57.570 Nope, it sure doesn't. Looking forward to it. 0:49:57.719 --> 0:49:59.620 All right, all the best to you and Nadine. Thank 0:49:59.640 --> 0:50:00.930 you so much, Hal. Thank you, Chick. 0:50:01.130 --> 0:50:01.610 All right. 0:50:02.130 --> 0:50:05.650 This is Sports Talk with your host, Chick Ludwig, on 0:50:05.650 --> 0:50:12.010 700 WLW. Stephanie, World Series game one. And the Orioles 0:50:12.030 --> 0:50:16.580 won that game 4-3. They wound up winning game 2, 6-5. 0:50:17.790 --> 0:50:22.259 In game 3, 9-3, the Reds win game 4, 6-5 0:50:23.719 --> 0:50:27.280 in Baltimore, but then lose 9-3 in game 5. But anyway, 0:50:27.300 --> 0:50:30.799 that first game, the Reds strike in the first inning 0:50:30.860 --> 0:50:34.060 on Bobby Tolan's double and Johnny Bench's single off Jim 0:50:34.120 --> 0:50:37.690 Palmer for a 1-0 lead. Then Lee May added a 0:50:37.730 --> 0:50:39.940 two-run homer in the third to make the score 3-0. 0:50:41.820 --> 0:50:43.719 And then the Orioles tie the score in a pair 0:50:43.760 --> 0:50:46.580 of home runs off Gary Nolan, a two-run blast by 0:50:46.680 --> 0:50:49.989 Boog Powell in the fourth inning, and a solo shot 0:50:50.030 --> 0:50:54.830 by Elrod Hendricks in the fifth. Then came the controversial 0:50:54.950 --> 0:51:00.149 red sixth inning. Bernie Carbo walked with one out, went 0:51:00.170 --> 0:51:05.279 to third on Tommy Helm's single. Ty Kline, pinch hitting 0:51:05.460 --> 0:51:11.109 for Woody Woodward. then followed by chopping a high bouncer 0:51:11.140 --> 0:51:15.150 in front of the plate. Oriole catcher Elrod Hendricks fielded 0:51:15.170 --> 0:51:17.910 the ball in front of the plate and was surprised 0:51:17.950 --> 0:51:22.750 to find Carbo heading down the third baseline. Hendricks wheeled 0:51:22.810 --> 0:51:25.750 around to tag Carbo with his glove, but the ball 0:51:25.770 --> 0:51:29.630 was in his bare hand. Home plate umpire Ken Burkhart, 0:51:30.010 --> 0:51:33.350 who had not expected Carbo to try to score, managed 0:51:33.390 --> 0:51:37.690 to get in the way of the Reds' baserunner and 0:51:38.230 --> 0:51:40.790 Burkhart sitting in a cloud of dust with his back 0:51:40.830 --> 0:51:46.650 to the play called Carbo out, touching off a long argument. 0:51:47.280 --> 0:51:51.580 And Carbo, however, never touched home plate except inadvertently during 0:51:51.620 --> 0:51:54.460 the course of the argument. So it was a strange 0:51:54.540 --> 0:51:57.279 case in which the base runner missed the plate, the 0:51:57.320 --> 0:52:00.620 catcher missed the tag, and the umpire missed the entire 0:52:00.700 --> 0:52:05.450 play and went All the confusion was settled. Brooks Robinson 0:52:05.510 --> 0:52:07.770 won the game with a home run off Nolan in 0:52:07.810 --> 0:52:10.350 the seventh inning. So, wow. 0:52:11.290 --> 0:52:12.330 Absolutely crazy. 0:52:13.330 --> 0:52:19.640 And tonight's producer, Russ Jackson, reminded me that during that 0:52:19.780 --> 0:52:26.280 series in Los Angeles that the Reds won in 1995, gosh, 0:52:26.640 --> 0:52:31.360 that was the O.J. Simpson verdict coming down. 0:52:31.980 --> 0:52:32.219 Man. 0:52:34.260 --> 0:52:36.240 Those were incredible times. 0:52:36.580 --> 0:52:40.779 And we also talked about the reason the newspaper, the 0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:43.340 Dayton Daily News, sent me to Los Angeles with Hal. 0:52:44.100 --> 0:52:47.770 Hal was covering, naturally, for the newspaper. I was a 0:52:47.950 --> 0:52:52.430 trial balloon, a test tube baby for the Internet. And 0:52:52.750 --> 0:52:58.760 Cox Enterprises had an initiative called Fastball on the Internet. 0:52:59.420 --> 0:53:00.259 So I was. 0:53:00.930 --> 0:53:03.810 sending stories really on the half out on the half 0:53:03.930 --> 0:53:08.469 inning back to the paper. And it was being sent 0:53:08.489 --> 0:53:11.350 to Auburn, Alabama, and then going out on the worldwide web. 0:53:11.810 --> 0:53:14.610 But the newspaper turned me loose for a month and 0:53:14.630 --> 0:53:17.910 I was doing Reds trivia. I was traveling with the 0:53:17.950 --> 0:53:23.410 team to Los Angeles and to Atlanta and filing on 0:53:23.430 --> 0:53:26.790 the half inning and then filing post game stories. 0:53:27.710 --> 0:53:29.669 And it was, it was just an awesome time. 0:53:30.400 --> 0:53:34.279 To be a sports writer at that time at really, 0:53:34.739 --> 0:53:38.690 as the internet was just, man, in its infancy and 0:53:38.730 --> 0:53:43.810 really taking off online with sports. So, hey, when we 0:53:43.850 --> 0:53:45.670 come back, we're going to go back up to Cleveland 0:53:46.489 --> 0:53:49.520 and speak to my former boss at the News Herald. 0:53:49.540 --> 0:53:52.160 And we've got a great story to tell about the 0:53:52.160 --> 0:53:57.110 1978 Gator Bowl eventually happening. His name is Ted Dyett, 0:53:57.150 --> 0:53:59.190 and I can't wait to talk to my former boss. 0:53:59.590 --> 0:54:01.910 After the bottom of the hour news, this is Chick Ludwig, 0:54:01.910 --> 0:54:03.830 700 WLW. 0:54:04.610 --> 0:54:08.140 News, traffic, and weather. News Radio 700 WLW. 0:54:08.160 --> 0:54:08.520 Cincinnati. 0:54:12.550 --> 0:54:18.069 A Russian diesel deal sparks diplomatic friction with the 7.30 report. 0:54:18.370 --> 0:54:21.850 Travis Laird breaking now. A new diesel fuel agreement between 0:54:21.870 --> 0:54:24.670 the United States and Russia is drawing heavy criticism from 0:54:25.050 --> 0:54:30.000 Capitol Hill and international allies. President Donald Trump defended the 0:54:30.040 --> 0:54:34.920 decision to import Russian refined diesel under a six-month Treasury 0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:38.239 sanctions waiver, citing the need to reduce national trucking and 0:54:38.300 --> 0:54:40.580 logistics fuel costs, which average $ 6. 0:54:40.480 --> 0:54:41.120 28 per gallon. 0:54:42.520 --> 0:54:46.200 Diplomatic tensions escalated after President Trump publicly called for new 0:54:46.219 --> 0:54:50.270 political leadership in Ukraine during a White House press briefing, 0:54:50.570 --> 0:54:55.430 prompting immediate rebuttals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and congressional 0:54:55.489 --> 0:54:56.770 foreign affairs committees. 0:54:56.890 --> 0:54:59.810 Now, let's take a look. That's the latest. 0:54:59.550 --> 0:55:03.790 Traffic and weather together. Let's see here. Still looking pretty good. 0:55:03.850 --> 0:55:08.180 No major accidents or slowdowns to report. Actually, it seems 0:55:08.239 --> 0:55:11.140 to be moving along pretty well, even on 75 coming 0:55:11.180 --> 0:55:13.219 into the city through Kentucky. 0:55:13.300 --> 0:55:15.480 So, yeah, everything looks all right. 0:55:15.980 --> 0:55:19.279 Here is the latest weather forecast from NewsRadio 700 WLW. 0:55:22.739 --> 0:55:24.460 While there will be some dry time out there for 0:55:24.500 --> 0:55:26.799 Blink tonight, there will continue to be some hit and 0:55:26.820 --> 0:55:30.120 miss showers as well. Those continue overnight and into Sunday 0:55:30.180 --> 0:55:33.060 morning as we cool off to 58. Tomorrow, also some 0:55:33.080 --> 0:55:35.220 good dry time mixed in, but that hit and miss 0:55:35.280 --> 0:55:37.730 rain will continue to be out there, keeping us mostly 0:55:37.770 --> 0:55:40.489 cloudy and cool with a high near 69, and then 0:55:40.510 --> 0:55:43.310 we drop to 57 for Monday morning. From your severe 0:55:43.330 --> 0:55:46.859 weather station, I'm 9 First Warning Meteorologist Mark Stitz. News 0:55:46.940 --> 0:55:48.819 Radio 700 WLW. 0:55:49.000 --> 0:55:51.379 Nothing's really changed in the last half hour or so. 0:55:51.440 --> 0:55:54.740 Still raining just a little bit. 59 degrees at beautiful 0:55:54.800 --> 0:55:57.379 historic Lunkin Airport. You know who doesn't have to worry 0:55:57.420 --> 0:56:00.469 about the rain? Cincinnati Bengals. They'll be in Miami tomorrow 0:56:00.510 --> 0:56:03.129 playing the Dolphins. That kicks off at 1 o'clock. Of course, 0:56:03.150 --> 0:56:04.750 we'll have that for you right here on the home 0:56:05.110 --> 0:56:07.710 of the best Bengals coverage. For that game, it should 0:56:07.730 --> 0:56:10.890 be about 90 degrees or so, mostly cloudy. This game 0:56:10.930 --> 0:56:15.530 day forecast built by TLG Peterbilt Cincinnati, keeping customers for life. 0:56:15.989 --> 0:56:19.820 Northern Kentucky police have updated a deadly gas station shooting 0:56:20.100 --> 0:56:23.300 in Covington. Police confirmed the male victim shot multiple times 0:56:23.380 --> 0:56:26.080 at the Speedway station on 4th Street early on Saturday morning, 0:56:26.400 --> 0:56:29.530 and he died from his injuries at University of Cincinnati 0:56:29.700 --> 0:56:33.250 Medical Center. 21-year-old Jacob Combs was arrested at the scene. 0:56:33.290 --> 0:56:35.830 He remains booked in the Kenton County Detention Center on 0:56:35.930 --> 0:56:39.530 intentional murder charges. A formal arraignment is scheduled Monday morning 0:56:39.950 --> 0:56:44.500 in Kenton District Court. And independent state referee has issued 0:56:44.540 --> 0:56:47.759 a formal recommendation urging the Milford Board of Education to 0:56:47.840 --> 0:56:50.400 reinstate athletic director Aaron Zupka. 0:56:50.700 --> 0:56:53.100 Referee Robert T. Dunleavy Jr. 0:56:53.219 --> 0:56:56.870 Concluded the school board lacked just cause under state law 0:56:57.150 --> 0:57:01.230 to terminate Zupka's contract following August hearings. The report found 0:57:01.270 --> 0:57:05.970 no evidence that Zufka misappropriated or intentionally benefited from $ 91, 000 0:57:05.410 --> 0:57:11.020 in corporate sponsorship funds routed to athletic boosters, finding he 0:57:11.140 --> 0:57:15.420 acted reasonably under district guidance. 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Of course, that also 0:57:47.190 --> 0:57:50.310 means you need to believe your kids when this happens. 0:57:51.590 --> 0:57:55.350 State correctional officials confirm condemned inmate Krista Pike has been 0:57:55.390 --> 0:57:59.560 transferred back to Debbie Kennel Special Management Unit at the 0:57:59.600 --> 0:58:04.200 Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville. Pike received specialized inpatient 0:58:04.260 --> 0:58:09.570 medical care following... Let's say complications from a failed lethal 0:58:09.610 --> 0:58:14.890 injection execution attempt last month. And finally, regional sports former 0:58:14.970 --> 0:58:19.010 University of Kentucky basketball guard Care Creasa has entered a 0:58:19.090 --> 0:58:22.110 guilty plea in federal court to wire fraud charges stemming 0:58:22.180 --> 0:58:27.240 from an extortion scheme involving college athletes. Creasa faces statutory 0:58:27.280 --> 0:58:32.400 sentencing in U.S. District Court December 22nd. 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And I'm all excited about 0:59:28.770 --> 0:59:29.490 our next guest. 0:59:30.280 --> 0:59:32.980 Before he moved on to the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 0:59:33.720 --> 0:59:36.720 a variety of roles, he was sports editor of the 0:59:36.760 --> 0:59:40.820 News Herald in the northeast Cleveland suburb of Willoughby. My 0:59:40.890 --> 0:59:45.430 boss for nearly two and a half years from 1977 0:59:45.430 --> 0:59:52.730 through 1979. He put up with my intensity, belligerence, silliness, 0:59:53.050 --> 0:59:56.610 and hyperbole. It is an honor, pleasure, and privilege for 0:59:56.630 --> 0:59:59.660 me to welcome in my good friend, Ted Dyedon. 0:59:59.800 --> 1:00:00.820 Ted, how are you? 1:00:01.960 --> 1:00:04.840 I'm great. Good to hear from you, Chuck. It's been 1:00:04.900 --> 1:00:05.280 a while. 1:00:05.680 --> 1:00:06.540 Oh, it has been. 1:00:06.560 --> 1:00:09.910 Hey, man, did you see that Texas just lost? 1:00:11.310 --> 1:00:11.870 One more time. 1:00:12.930 --> 1:00:14.810 Did you see that Texas just lost? 1:00:14.870 --> 1:00:15.970 Yes, yes. 1:00:16.510 --> 1:00:18.830 I am loving life and living large. 1:00:19.550 --> 1:00:23.850 The Red River rivalry, a late field goal, Oklahoma 27 1:00:23.850 --> 1:00:24.890 to 24. 1:00:24.890 --> 1:00:25.730 We are loving it. 1:00:25.770 --> 1:00:27.490 That's so cool. It really is. 1:00:28.110 --> 1:00:32.410 These are, Ted, these are professional athletes representing universities. 1:00:32.490 --> 1:00:33.090 Would you agree? 1:00:33.410 --> 1:00:34.410 Yep, they sure are. 1:00:34.650 --> 1:00:35.230 Absolutely. 1:00:35.510 --> 1:00:38.550 Hey, Ted, these are... Yeah, go ahead. 1:00:40.570 --> 1:00:43.790 I always thought that it was crazy that when everybody 1:00:43.830 --> 1:00:46.390 ran out on the field, the only ones who weren't 1:00:46.410 --> 1:00:49.610 getting paid for all those 80, 90, 100,000 people in 1:00:49.650 --> 1:00:52.410 the stands were the people that they're paying to see. 1:00:52.450 --> 1:00:55.970 But I think it's gotten way out of control now. Yeah. 1:00:57.050 --> 1:00:59.630 Ted, well, these are heady times to be a Cleveland 1:00:59.690 --> 1:01:02.810 sports fan with the Guardians getting ready to host the 1:01:02.850 --> 1:01:06.830 Chicago White Sox. Game five of the ALDS with the 1:01:06.870 --> 1:01:10.970 winner advancing to face the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALCS. 1:01:11.350 --> 1:01:14.050 And the Cleveland Browns are in first place in the 1:01:14.110 --> 1:01:14.950 AFC North. 1:01:16.860 --> 1:01:19.700 It's cataclysmic. Is the world coming to an end? 1:01:22.200 --> 1:01:24.520 But i i gotta tell you chick we've been here 1:01:24.580 --> 1:01:27.400 before so we don't in cleveland we don't take anything 1:01:27.460 --> 1:01:31.410 for granted you know the way things go but before 1:01:31.430 --> 1:01:33.630 we get going though i gotta tell you i was 1:01:33.730 --> 1:01:35.650 out in the yard uh about an hour and a 1:01:35.710 --> 1:01:38.150 half ago i was talking to my neighbor and i 1:01:38.190 --> 1:01:40.610 said hey you you remember the news herald a guy 1:01:40.650 --> 1:01:43.090 named chick ludwig he said hell yes i read him 1:01:43.130 --> 1:01:45.310 all the time so i just wanted you to know 1:01:45.330 --> 1:01:47.280 that that you know that the uh you know, the 1:01:47.340 --> 1:01:49.940 legend remains here 45 years later. 1:01:49.960 --> 1:01:54.070 That is incredible. I really appreciate that. And, uh, gosh, Ted, 1:01:54.090 --> 1:01:56.610 how crazy is it? The guardians lose two at home, 1:01:57.110 --> 1:01:59.150 then go on the road with their backs against the 1:01:59.190 --> 1:02:01.530 wall and win two in Chicago and then get to 1:02:01.570 --> 1:02:03.770 come home for hopefully some redemption. 1:02:04.950 --> 1:02:05.230 Yeah. 1:02:05.350 --> 1:02:05.950 Yeah, I know. 1:02:06.030 --> 1:02:08.460 And boy, yeah, those, those last two games up there 1:02:08.480 --> 1:02:11.560 right at the end, even with a big lead, we, we, 1:02:11.620 --> 1:02:13.980 we weren't taking anything for granted. Like I said, I 1:02:14.020 --> 1:02:17.480 watched that last inning with, uh, With Gavin Williams out 1:02:17.520 --> 1:02:20.400 there coming in, the first time he ever relieved, you know, 1:02:20.420 --> 1:02:22.540 through spread fingers. I had to go out and walk 1:02:22.600 --> 1:02:26.360 the dog when he started to lose his control. But 1:02:27.280 --> 1:02:30.680 he came in, they won. And tonight, boy, I'll tell you, 1:02:30.700 --> 1:02:35.190 if we have the good Williams instead of the okay Williams, 1:02:35.210 --> 1:02:36.270 we'll be in great shape. 1:02:36.550 --> 1:02:37.130 Absolutely. 1:02:37.830 --> 1:02:40.730 He's just unpittable when he's on, that's for sure. 1:02:41.090 --> 1:02:44.890 Hey, we had Jeff Shudell on earlier, and he says hello. 1:02:44.910 --> 1:02:45.150 Did you? 1:02:45.490 --> 1:02:50.610 We just had an awesome sports staff with guys, gosh, 1:02:50.630 --> 1:02:53.930 the Lytle brothers, one going to Austin, Texas, one going 1:02:53.950 --> 1:02:57.290 to the Charlotte Observer. I came to the Dayton Daily News. 1:02:57.670 --> 1:03:01.330 I mean, we just had an award-winning staff. You and, gosh, 1:03:01.930 --> 1:03:05.110 Hall of Fame baseball writer, gosh. 1:03:06.090 --> 1:03:07.500 Paul Hoynes. 1:03:07.520 --> 1:03:08.780 Paul Hoynes, yes. 1:03:09.460 --> 1:03:09.880 Cruz. 1:03:10.340 --> 1:03:10.660 Cruz. 1:03:11.080 --> 1:03:13.820 Those were great times because we had like about a 1:03:13.920 --> 1:03:18.450 six-man sports staff And yet we tried to compete with 1:03:18.470 --> 1:03:22.330 the guys downtown, and everybody worked way, way, you know, 1:03:22.630 --> 1:03:23.890 every day practically. 1:03:23.950 --> 1:03:26.650 And everybody was just on top of things. 1:03:26.670 --> 1:03:28.910 It was such a pleasure being with you at the 1:03:28.950 --> 1:03:32.189 beginning of your long and storied career here. 1:03:32.330 --> 1:03:33.350 It's really cool. 1:03:33.450 --> 1:03:34.850 Well, a great Boston. 1:03:34.930 --> 1:03:37.890 It's great to be in Cleveland now, though. Like you said, 1:03:37.910 --> 1:03:41.630 the Browns. And the, I still call them the Indians, 1:03:41.650 --> 1:03:43.490 but I'll go with the Guardians. 1:03:43.110 --> 1:03:43.910 If that's okay. 1:03:44.030 --> 1:03:45.000 And Ted, I loved it. 1:03:45.150 --> 1:03:49.560 The Cavaliers got to the conference finals and, you know, 1:03:49.580 --> 1:03:52.080 we up here in Cleveland, we still claim the Buckeyes. 1:03:52.220 --> 1:03:55.880 And Ted, you know, I know what it was like 1:03:55.920 --> 1:03:59.120 in Cleveland when the Cavaliers won the world championship at 1:03:59.200 --> 1:03:59.800 the NBA. 1:03:59.860 --> 1:04:00.960 Oh yeah. 1:04:01.140 --> 1:04:05.500 What, what would happen in Cleveland if, if the Guardians 1:04:06.000 --> 1:04:07.200 could capture a world series? 1:04:08.650 --> 1:04:10.410 Well, we were almost there. 1:04:10.430 --> 1:04:15.550 I was downtown at the end of the seventh game 1:04:15.570 --> 1:04:19.470 of the World Series against the Cubs in 2016, and 1:04:19.530 --> 1:04:21.169 people were going nuts down there. 1:04:21.190 --> 1:04:24.280 And, of course, you know what happened right at the end. 1:04:24.780 --> 1:04:27.620 They lost, but that didn't come as a surprise to 1:04:27.720 --> 1:04:29.360 any true Clevelanders. 1:04:29.860 --> 1:04:32.800 So, I don't know. I'll tell you, if the Browns 1:04:32.860 --> 1:04:33.400 ever won. 1:04:33.260 --> 1:04:35.600 The Super Bowl, they'd tear the place down because of 1:04:35.620 --> 1:04:38.420 the Browns here. are still number one in, in, uh, 1:04:38.440 --> 1:04:40.560 you know, in the hearts of sports fans here, but 1:04:40.930 --> 1:04:42.520 that would be so cool. 1:04:42.300 --> 1:04:44.170 If the Indians were to do it. I don't know. 1:04:44.190 --> 1:04:45.730 I don't, I don't see. 1:04:45.570 --> 1:04:49.350 Them going either, either team gone too far in the 1:04:49.370 --> 1:04:50.370 playoffs this year. 1:04:50.390 --> 1:04:53.530 I'm sorry to say, but you know, but I, I mean, 1:04:54.030 --> 1:04:54.950 anything can happen. 1:04:55.190 --> 1:04:59.390 So Ted, Ted Dinan was my boss from February of 1:04:59.390 --> 1:04:59.910 77 to June of 79. 1:04:59.890 --> 1:05:06.650 And, uh, Great times. Loved it, except for the winners, 1:05:06.710 --> 1:05:07.170 of course. 1:05:07.750 --> 1:05:11.490 And I still get claustrophobic thinking about the Cleveland Browns 1:05:11.650 --> 1:05:15.250 press box at Municipal Stadium. 1:05:16.070 --> 1:05:17.890 Yeah, that was really something. 1:05:18.510 --> 1:05:22.000 We used to have to take the elevator down because 1:05:22.040 --> 1:05:23.800 there was no way to get out of the press box. 1:05:23.820 --> 1:05:26.640 We used to have to take the elevator down to 1:05:26.680 --> 1:05:29.540 the field level and go out through the dugout and 1:05:29.620 --> 1:05:32.260 watch the game the last two minutes there so we 1:05:32.280 --> 1:05:35.520 could get out of the crowd and into the locker 1:05:35.540 --> 1:05:36.620 room to interview the players. 1:05:36.660 --> 1:05:40.040 So I watched Red Right 88 from. 1:05:39.900 --> 1:05:43.080 The sideline down there in 1980 when the, you know, 1:05:43.380 --> 1:05:47.200 Sipes threw the interception and Oakland went on to win 1:05:47.380 --> 1:05:48.800 the Super Bowl. 1:05:48.820 --> 1:05:49.500 So that was. 1:05:49.780 --> 1:05:52.280 Yes. What memories. What memories. 1:05:52.320 --> 1:05:53.240 Oh, yeah. 1:05:53.540 --> 1:05:57.980 When Todd Monken was named head coach, I mean, I 1:05:58.020 --> 1:06:00.340 didn't know what to think. He wasn't a household name. 1:06:00.980 --> 1:06:03.410 but so far he's doing a hell of a job. 1:06:04.930 --> 1:06:05.950 He is. He is. 1:06:06.010 --> 1:06:08.610 He's got the team rolling and, and, uh, he's, he's 1:06:08.650 --> 1:06:11.830 done a great job with, uh, with Deshaun Watson. He 1:06:11.850 --> 1:06:15.310 got booed in the preseason and now he's getting cheered. 1:06:15.430 --> 1:06:18.870 All it takes is a couple of late drives and, and, uh, 1:06:19.270 --> 1:06:20.790 away we go. But, you know, you look at the 1:06:20.830 --> 1:06:24.650 coaches that we have here and they've, they've piled up coach. 1:06:24.450 --> 1:06:26.890 Of the year and manager of the year awards like crazy. 1:06:27.370 --> 1:06:30.300 You know, you know, Kenny Atkinson from the Cavs won in, uh, 1:06:30.820 --> 1:06:34.800 two years ago. And, and, uh, and Stefanski, who got 1:06:35.120 --> 1:06:38.150 fired after winning the coach of the year twice. 1:06:38.370 --> 1:06:38.610 Yes. 1:06:38.810 --> 1:06:42.870 And then, uh, then Steven Vogt is a two-time reigning 1:06:43.870 --> 1:06:47.400 manager of the year. And before that, Terry Francona won it. And, uh, 1:06:47.380 --> 1:06:50.479 2022 and then last year he was running up runner 1:06:50.540 --> 1:06:52.580 up for you guys so we're doing something. 1:06:52.300 --> 1:06:56.420 Right absolutely uh gosh i i love stephen kwan leading 1:06:56.540 --> 1:06:59.720 off for the uh for the guardians and yes and 1:06:59.820 --> 1:07:02.490 like you mentioned jose ramirez what does he mean the 1:07:02.530 --> 1:07:04.990 heart gosh he's like the heart and soul man what 1:07:05.010 --> 1:07:06.530 does he mean to the squad. 1:07:07.170 --> 1:07:10.310 He has been so frustrated this year because he had 1:07:10.350 --> 1:07:14.310 that handmade surgery and that knocked him out about halfway 1:07:14.350 --> 1:07:16.990 through the season and he was kind of got off 1:07:17.010 --> 1:07:19.490 to a slow start, which isn't the first time, but. 1:07:19.750 --> 1:07:21.630 They really, really have missed him. 1:07:21.650 --> 1:07:24.470 And to see him come alive in the last couple 1:07:24.510 --> 1:07:27.270 of games and as the team leader that he is 1:07:27.330 --> 1:07:29.930 and the way he runs bases and hustles and holds 1:07:30.010 --> 1:07:32.670 everybody to a high standard, you know, that guy is 1:07:32.710 --> 1:07:35.990 something else. So, boy, he's right on time getting it 1:07:36.030 --> 1:07:39.300 back and feeling like himself again. So, you know, they 1:07:39.320 --> 1:07:41.300 got a lot of good young players. They got rookies 1:07:41.360 --> 1:07:44.180 all over the place and they're doing well. So that's, 1:07:44.220 --> 1:07:48.050 you know, that's, for they keep on reloading and, uh, 1:07:48.070 --> 1:07:51.830 you know, and they've, they've been very good for the last. 1:07:51.970 --> 1:07:54.610 Many years, you know, just not quite good enough. 1:07:54.730 --> 1:07:57.850 But Ted died is with us for a few more minutes, uh, 1:07:57.990 --> 1:08:00.450 went on to a great career from the news Herald 1:08:00.510 --> 1:08:03.330 to the Cleveland plane dealer in a variety of roles, 1:08:03.390 --> 1:08:08.110 still writing, uh, what a guest column or so for, uh, cleveland.com. 1:08:09.010 --> 1:08:10.090 And yeah, I do. 1:08:10.230 --> 1:08:14.810 I do a, uh, a general interest column, uh, a 1:08:14.870 --> 1:08:17.810 lot of politics. I'm, I'm the only conservative on the 1:08:17.870 --> 1:08:21.130 editorial board. So like I said, I won't quit and 1:08:21.170 --> 1:08:24.340 they won't fire me. They need me for balance because 1:08:24.400 --> 1:08:27.019 I'm here for the duration, but, uh, it's a lot 1:08:27.060 --> 1:08:29.420 of fun. I, I write, I write about sports every 1:08:29.460 --> 1:08:32.180 now and then, and I get my hand back in, 1:08:32.220 --> 1:08:35.700 but I, uh, my son, I can't write about the Browns, unfortunately, 1:08:35.740 --> 1:08:38.750 because my son-in-law works for the Browns. 1:08:38.830 --> 1:08:41.470 So, uh, you know, I've been, uh, front off in 1:08:41.510 --> 1:08:42.090 the office. 1:08:42.130 --> 1:08:46.080 So, uh, So conflict of interest, I can't do that, 1:08:46.660 --> 1:08:48.519 which is kind of frustrating. 1:08:48.560 --> 1:08:50.320 But it's a lot of fun to watch them. I 1:08:50.360 --> 1:08:51.680 still have my season tickets. 1:08:52.340 --> 1:08:52.880 Beautiful. 1:08:53.360 --> 1:08:57.090 Ted, I was there in the late 70s. And, yeah, 1:08:57.189 --> 1:08:59.970 I remember what it was like, you know, being downtown. 1:09:00.130 --> 1:09:05.189 kind of really kind of depressing, you know, at the lakefront. Gosh, 1:09:05.270 --> 1:09:07.939 the fires on the river and all that. But man, 1:09:08.450 --> 1:09:12.759 with the it's really been an awesome resurgence for really 1:09:12.800 --> 1:09:16.920 an international city. It is it's a phenomenal place to 1:09:16.960 --> 1:09:18.179 live and work. 1:09:19.970 --> 1:09:22.170 Yeah, it sure is. It's a great place. 1:09:23.050 --> 1:09:29.760 Cleveland used to be a joke for the comedians. 1:09:28.490 --> 1:09:31.640 And everything else. My attitude is I love it there. 1:09:32.060 --> 1:09:34.840 One of the reasons it's nice is that it's not 1:09:35.540 --> 1:09:38.879 overcrowded and you can get from here to there without 1:09:39.460 --> 1:09:43.599 taking two hours like you have to in Charlotte and 1:09:43.930 --> 1:09:48.070 Nashville and even sometimes in Columbus. So I always tell people, 1:09:48.689 --> 1:09:51.849 You're absolutely right. Cleveland's a terrible place. Don't move here. 1:09:51.870 --> 1:09:52.530 Stay where you are. 1:09:52.870 --> 1:09:54.220 Yeah, all right. 1:09:54.689 --> 1:09:58.120 Let's go back, if we could, to a Friday night, 1:09:58.300 --> 1:10:05.650 December 29th, 1978, the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. 1:10:06.130 --> 1:10:07.849 Okay, what I remember was. 1:10:08.830 --> 1:10:11.710 We wanted to put the paper to bed, the news Herald, 1:10:11.850 --> 1:10:14.550 and then go to your house where you were going 1:10:14.590 --> 1:10:16.880 to cook steaks for us. And then we were going 1:10:16.900 --> 1:10:20.580 to watch the replay of the game. And then I 1:10:21.520 --> 1:10:25.960 don't know if we found out, you know, via television 1:10:26.160 --> 1:10:29.280 in the, in the, in the newsroom, you know, the 1:10:29.320 --> 1:10:30.390 Woody Hayes punch. 1:10:30.870 --> 1:10:32.830 We were, we were sitting there in the newsroom and 1:10:32.850 --> 1:10:35.590 the TV was on and, and the Woody lost his 1:10:35.630 --> 1:10:39.540 mind and grabbed the, Charlie bombing by the throat, and 1:10:39.560 --> 1:10:44.830 of course, we couldn't leave, so we all had to 1:10:44.990 --> 1:10:47.910 pitch in and rewrite the story and get it in 1:10:47.950 --> 1:10:48.290 the paper. 1:10:48.310 --> 1:10:52.380 We were right on deadline, but And I recall we 1:10:52.400 --> 1:10:54.320 did go over there and eat steak. Didn't we? It's 1:10:54.400 --> 1:10:55.680 like two o'clock in the morning. 1:10:55.840 --> 1:10:56.520 You know, we did. 1:10:56.660 --> 1:10:59.060 And then the next day, man, it was all hands 1:10:59.180 --> 1:11:01.839 on deck. I remember getting a hold of John Mummy 1:11:01.860 --> 1:11:05.400 and getting a hold of a player from Willoughby who 1:11:05.439 --> 1:11:07.540 was on the Buckeyes team. 1:11:07.920 --> 1:11:09.340 And we were able to. 1:11:09.960 --> 1:11:10.800 Yes. Yes. 1:11:10.900 --> 1:11:13.430 We were able to put together an incredible section. 1:11:14.060 --> 1:11:15.260 On Woody's firing. 1:11:15.360 --> 1:11:18.020 Yes. Well, that was the great thing about that staff. 1:11:18.060 --> 1:11:19.420 And you were a main part of it. 1:11:19.460 --> 1:11:22.860 Just, you know, the enthusiasm and the love everybody had 1:11:22.939 --> 1:11:26.320 for the sports and each other and the pride we had. 1:11:26.420 --> 1:11:29.830 And with just such a small staff, you know, we 1:11:29.850 --> 1:11:35.250 won best sports section in the state year after year 1:11:35.310 --> 1:11:38.300 when you were there. And you were a star. a 1:11:38.340 --> 1:11:40.660 big part of it, boy, you were everywhere. 1:11:40.920 --> 1:11:46.460 Well, I tried to make every story, including, uh, gosh, a, uh, 1:11:46.800 --> 1:11:50.550 a Saturday afternoon high school football game out in Jogga County. 1:11:50.970 --> 1:11:53.950 Sound like, sound like the Superbowl. 1:11:54.970 --> 1:11:55.970 Yeah. So, yeah. 1:11:56.450 --> 1:11:59.790 Oh, thank you for enthusiasm, my friend. 1:11:59.950 --> 1:12:03.309 Thank you for your patience with me. And, uh, Yeah, 1:12:03.390 --> 1:12:06.090 living in Willowick. Gosh, it was awesome. I could walk 1:12:06.130 --> 1:12:08.750 down the street, basically, to Lake Erie. 1:12:09.270 --> 1:12:14.850 Yeah, that's right. That's where you live, yeah. You had 1:12:14.900 --> 1:12:16.490 that nice old landlady there. 1:12:16.979 --> 1:12:17.700 Oh, yes, Mrs. 1:12:17.740 --> 1:12:18.219 Toman. 1:12:18.560 --> 1:12:18.860 Yes. 1:12:20.479 --> 1:12:21.820 She put me up in her room. 1:12:23.460 --> 1:12:26.180 But yeah, we'll never forget the night Woody slammed his 1:12:26.240 --> 1:12:30.880 right forearm under The Clemson player Charlie Ballman's chin after 1:12:30.920 --> 1:12:35.240 the nose guard made the game-saving interception to preserve a 1:12:35.260 --> 1:12:40.730 17-15 Tigers victory over the Buckeyes and Arch Leaster. 1:12:41.350 --> 1:12:44.549 Yeah, yeah. Well, I was sorry to see that happen 1:12:44.590 --> 1:12:46.030 with Woody. I liked Woody. 1:12:46.189 --> 1:12:50.530 He didn't like sports writers very much. But I remember 1:12:50.550 --> 1:12:51.810 I covered the Ohio State. Yeah. 1:12:56.270 --> 1:12:58.450 For several years there, but Woody, you know, we, so 1:12:58.470 --> 1:12:59.710 we get down to the locker room. 1:12:59.750 --> 1:13:03.010 We talked to Barry Switzer, whoever the, whoever was the 1:13:03.070 --> 1:13:05.630 visiting coach. And then we go over there and wait 1:13:05.689 --> 1:13:07.910 and wait and wait. And sometimes for an hour after 1:13:07.950 --> 1:13:10.890 the game to get a word in with Woody and 1:13:10.930 --> 1:13:13.090 he'd finally come in and say, Oh, I'm sorry guys, 1:13:13.150 --> 1:13:15.679 but I was with a bunch of recruits in there 1:13:15.720 --> 1:13:17.820 and looked around. He said, not one of you guys 1:13:17.900 --> 1:13:20.240 is ever going to score a touchdown for me. So 1:13:20.540 --> 1:13:21.680 that's where I had to be. 1:13:21.960 --> 1:13:25.559 Oh, that's a great stuff. And, Yeah, what a staff. 1:13:25.820 --> 1:13:29.099 Paul Hoynes, got to be so proud of his career. 1:13:29.120 --> 1:13:31.130 I know. Baseball Hall of Famer. 1:13:31.150 --> 1:13:32.210 I was in Cooperstown. 1:13:32.229 --> 1:13:36.690 I was in Cooperstown when he got inducted a month 1:13:36.710 --> 1:13:37.309 or two ago. 1:13:37.670 --> 1:13:40.129 Great, and I saw a photo with you and Leo Roth. 1:13:40.590 --> 1:13:43.769 Yeah, on Facebook. Yeah. 1:13:43.950 --> 1:13:44.980 Yeah, toasting. 1:13:45.020 --> 1:13:47.580 That is fantastic. 1:13:48.439 --> 1:13:49.720 Have you been to Cooperstown? 1:13:50.100 --> 1:13:51.220 No, I have never been there. 1:13:51.960 --> 1:13:54.020 Oh, you got to go, man, and then And the 1:13:54.080 --> 1:13:56.830 time to go, the time to go is, is, uh, 1:13:57.990 --> 1:14:00.590 is during the hall of fame week because they have 1:14:00.610 --> 1:14:04.210 this parade down main street and Cooperstown and, and so 1:14:04.270 --> 1:14:06.830 many of the, of the living, uh, hall of fame 1:14:06.870 --> 1:14:10.650 members are, you know, riding, buying convertibles and trucks and everything. 1:14:11.070 --> 1:14:16.880 We were in the, uh, we were in the thing and, uh, watching, uh, Paul, uh, 1:14:17.120 --> 1:14:20.400 give his remarks and be honored. And I looked in 1:14:20.479 --> 1:14:23.530 front of me and there's Sandy Koufax sitting there and I, 1:14:23.960 --> 1:14:26.939 I went to, I was there with Mike Starkey who, uh, who, 1:14:27.100 --> 1:14:28.929 who worked with, I don't know if he ever worked 1:14:28.950 --> 1:14:31.030 with you, but he was, he's been there for a while, 1:14:31.910 --> 1:14:34.210 but he and I were trying to get out of the, uh, 1:14:35.330 --> 1:14:39.010 the row after, after the thing was over and this 1:14:39.550 --> 1:14:43.480 kind of stooped little guy comes walking by and Mike says, 1:14:43.760 --> 1:14:44.759 that's Johnny bench. 1:14:45.080 --> 1:14:46.059 So yeah. 1:14:46.260 --> 1:14:46.500 Yeah. 1:14:47.160 --> 1:14:51.559 Uh, unbelievable. The sites you see here. Yeah. Oh, great stuff, Ted. 1:14:51.880 --> 1:14:53.460 This has been a lot of fun, man. 1:14:53.479 --> 1:14:57.930 Um, And really, really appreciate you joining us tonight. And 1:14:58.020 --> 1:15:01.190 two years and four months are the greatest of my life. 1:15:02.090 --> 1:15:05.970 Well, thank you very much. It was a pleasure, Jack. 1:15:06.130 --> 1:15:09.189 And you've really put together a great career. Good to 1:15:09.229 --> 1:15:12.290 hear you on the radio. And thanks a lot for 1:15:12.729 --> 1:15:14.250 inviting me on. I've enjoyed it. 1:15:14.650 --> 1:15:16.110 And all the best to the Guardians. 1:15:16.310 --> 1:15:19.170 And the Bengals and Browns will be getting together soon. 1:15:19.290 --> 1:15:19.910 That's for sure. 1:15:20.290 --> 1:15:21.759 Absolutely. I'll be there. 1:15:22.100 --> 1:15:23.040 Thank you so much, Ted. 1:15:23.080 --> 1:15:23.780 All right, my friend. 1:15:24.040 --> 1:15:25.900 All right, appreciate it. Thank you. 1:15:25.920 --> 1:15:26.639 You do the same. 1:15:26.720 --> 1:15:31.620 Best to you and your family. Ted Dyedon, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1:15:32.060 --> 1:15:34.009 and the News Herald in Willoughby. 1:15:34.130 --> 1:15:36.929 Great, great memories. Loved it there, except for the winners. 1:15:37.229 --> 1:15:37.709 Brutal. 1:15:39.030 --> 1:15:41.550 This is Sports Talk with your host, Chick Ludwig, 700 WLW. 1:15:44.250 --> 1:15:47.570 It's a must-see if you're in Bristol, Connecticut, North America's 1:15:47.650 --> 1:15:49.290 tallest elevator test tower. 1:15:49.630 --> 1:15:52.950 We hear the tests have their ups and downs. I 1:15:53.070 --> 1:15:53.650 don't get it. 1:15:54.060 --> 1:15:56.340 Wherever you roam, take us with you. 1:15:56.979 --> 1:16:00.920 Listen to the 700 WLW live stream on the iHeartRadio app. 1:16:01.400 --> 1:16:04.680 In this edition of the Marketer's Report, Monica Tam, head 1:16:04.720 --> 1:16:05.560 of brand media. 1:16:05.600 --> 1:16:08.950 You're listening to Sports Talk on 700 WLW. And in 1:16:08.990 --> 1:16:12.930 this final hour, a two-part question for the fans out there. 1:16:13.729 --> 1:16:17.800 Growing up as a kid, what were your weekend sports traditions? 1:16:18.500 --> 1:16:21.460 And is there anything more frustrating than being forced to 1:16:21.560 --> 1:16:25.770 attend a family event, like a wedding or some kind 1:16:25.810 --> 1:16:29.190 of anniversary, that causes you to miss a big sporting event? 1:16:30.220 --> 1:16:34.820 Oh, my goodness. You scheduled your wedding day on Ohio State, 1:16:34.979 --> 1:16:37.939 Michigan Saturday. That can't be right. 1:16:38.620 --> 1:16:43.490 So I want to hear from you at 513-749-7000, 1-800-THE-BIG-ONE. 1:16:43.630 --> 1:16:48.410 I'm going to tell you, I was, yeah, I'm a 1:16:48.490 --> 1:16:52.190 culprit with all that. We're going to have some fun 1:16:52.250 --> 1:16:54.830 here in this last hour. But I want to thank 1:16:54.850 --> 1:16:58.870 Tim McGee and Jeff Shudell and Hal McCoy and Ted Dyedon. 1:16:59.479 --> 1:17:02.520 for hooking up with us, but I mostly want to 1:17:02.550 --> 1:17:06.110 thank all the loyal listeners of 700 WLW and all 1:17:06.130 --> 1:17:09.889 the chick magnets out there listening to sports talk. We'll 1:17:09.910 --> 1:17:13.310 go over some college football scores later. Oh, my goodness. 1:17:13.750 --> 1:17:19.540 Oklahoma beats Texas and UCLA knocks off Oregon. Oh, love 1:17:19.560 --> 1:17:22.280 and life and live in large right here on News 1:17:22.360 --> 1:17:22.950 Radio 700 WLW. 1:17:25.530 --> 1:17:32.530 News, traffic, and weather. News Radio 700 WLW. Cincinnati. 1:17:32.610 --> 1:17:37.930 A little road diet cuts speeding in half along Beekman Street. 1:17:38.670 --> 1:17:41.800 With the 8 o'clock report, I'm Travis Laird. 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No major 1:18:22.680 --> 1:18:26.040 accidents or slowdowns to report throughout the tri-state this hour. 1:18:27.080 --> 1:18:31.280 Now, the latest forecast from the Jake Sweeney Chevrolet Weather Center. 1:18:31.580 --> 1:18:37.320 Jake Sweeney Chevrolet Tri-County, serving the tri-state for over 100 years. Together, 1:18:37.500 --> 1:18:38.160 let's drive. 1:18:38.979 --> 1:18:41.630 Scattered showers will continue at times tonight and through the 1:18:41.710 --> 1:18:44.610 overnight hours as temperatures fall back to 58 for your 1:18:44.670 --> 1:18:48.130 Sunday morning. Tomorrow afternoon, some hit and miss leftover rain, 1:18:48.170 --> 1:18:51.030 but not for everyone. That'll keep us motivated. cloudy and 1:18:51.150 --> 1:18:53.650 cool with a high near 69. We drop to 57 1:18:53.650 --> 1:18:56.960 for Monday morning. From your severe weather station, I'm Night 1:18:57.000 --> 1:18:58.820 First Warning Meteorologist Mark Stitz. 1:18:59.160 --> 1:19:02.720 News Radio 700 WLW. You know who does not have 1:19:02.740 --> 1:19:05.900 to worry about the rain? Your Cincinnati Bengals, who will 1:19:05.939 --> 1:19:09.760 be facing the Miami Dolphins tomorrow in Miami. That game 1:19:09.780 --> 1:19:12.979 kicks off at 1 o'clock. Bengals are trying to turn 1:19:13.000 --> 1:19:16.780 the season back around. Started off great. Lately hasn't been 1:19:16.860 --> 1:19:20.650 so great. Anyway, for that game, should be about 90 degrees, 1:19:20.710 --> 1:19:25.070 mostly cloudy. This game day forecast built by TLG Peterbilt Cincinnati, 1:19:25.410 --> 1:19:30.849 keeping customers for life back in Cincinnati. We're looking at 1:19:30.850 --> 1:19:33.000 59 degrees, and it looks like the rain's let up 1:19:33.020 --> 1:19:33.400 a little bit. 1:19:33.439 --> 1:19:36.010 It's overcast, but don't worry. It'll be back. 1:19:37.420 --> 1:19:41.460 Speaking of stuff to do tonight, blink night three. Drawing 1:19:41.500 --> 1:19:45.620 large crowds to the illuminated footprint spanning 35 blocks across 1:19:45.640 --> 1:19:49.030 downtown Cincinnati and over the Rhine into Covington. Featured highlights 1:19:49.090 --> 1:19:52.950 include nightly suspension bridge lighting and dual riverfront drone spectacle 1:19:52.990 --> 1:19:56.070 scheduled for 8 and 10 p.m. So one should be 1:19:56.090 --> 1:19:59.410 kicking off right around now. Pedestrians are reminded that the 1:19:59.450 --> 1:20:03.189 Roebling Bridge remains closed to vehicular traffic through Sunday night. 1:20:03.350 --> 1:20:05.840 Hopefully the rain holds off long enough for them to 1:20:05.880 --> 1:20:09.580 get through that. In Boone County, industrial safety investigators with 1:20:09.600 --> 1:20:15.690 Kentucky OSH are reviewing equipment lockout tagout protocols at Boone 1:20:15.750 --> 1:20:19.590 Ready Mix in Burlington following Saturday morning's emergency extraction of 1:20:19.630 --> 1:20:23.410 a worker who was trapped inside a concrete auger. The 1:20:23.430 --> 1:20:26.939 worker remains hospitalized in critical condition at University of Cincinnati 1:20:26.979 --> 1:20:33.099 Medical Center with severe limb-crushing trauma. In Ohio gubernatorial campaign news, 1:20:33.140 --> 1:20:37.460 Democratic candidate Dr. Amy Acton announced a working families tax 1:20:37.500 --> 1:20:41.720 cut proposal during a campaign stop in Bexley, advocating refundable 1:20:41.860 --> 1:20:46.240 child tax credits. 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I'm going to Kevin in Columbus. 1:23:02.030 --> 1:23:02.250 What? 1:23:02.290 --> 1:23:04.850 You miss an Ohio State game? No way. 1:23:05.050 --> 1:23:05.590 Yeah. 1:23:06.010 --> 1:23:10.060 January 1st, 1985, I was in the Navy, and then 1:23:10.140 --> 1:23:12.940 Ohio State's playing USC for the up-team. 1:23:12.600 --> 1:23:13.780 Time in the Rose Bowl. 1:23:14.040 --> 1:23:14.300 Yes. 1:23:14.939 --> 1:23:17.260 Very tight game. Now, we're trying to get the chip 1:23:17.540 --> 1:23:20.519 lit off, which I mean ready to go out to sea, which, 1:23:20.729 --> 1:23:22.590 you know, you don't just start it up like a car. 1:23:22.870 --> 1:23:23.470 Let's go. 1:23:24.110 --> 1:23:24.420 It's a. 1:23:24.390 --> 1:23:28.930 24, it takes a while checking all these systems, and 1:23:28.950 --> 1:23:30.910 we're trying to get going. Things aren't going well, and 1:23:30.930 --> 1:23:33.269 we have the game on the TV in the mess decks, 1:23:34.090 --> 1:23:36.830 and I'm trying to pay attention to that, but things 1:23:36.910 --> 1:23:38.880 aren't going well, and I ended up having to. 1:23:38.840 --> 1:23:39.800 Hear the score later. 1:23:39.840 --> 1:23:43.700 They lost 20-17, and even the USC coach was saying, 1:23:43.720 --> 1:23:47.800 we're lucky we won that game. Remember, the Big Ten 1:23:47.840 --> 1:23:50.080 wasn't winning the Rose Bowl much in those days. 1:23:50.200 --> 1:23:50.560 You're right. 1:23:51.420 --> 1:23:54.600 And weren't you sick of losing? How many tight games 1:23:54.640 --> 1:23:55.980 did we lose to USC? 1:23:57.020 --> 1:23:59.729 The guys at the LA Times would just make fun 1:23:59.780 --> 1:24:03.170 of everybody coming out west from the Midwest. 1:24:03.650 --> 1:24:06.850 Yes, but Iowa State was confident. 1:24:06.950 --> 1:24:09.589 It's not like they were getting blown out or anything. 1:24:10.390 --> 1:24:12.330 And why is the game always out there? I wish 1:24:12.370 --> 1:24:14.570 they would have had a game in Ann Arbor or 1:24:14.689 --> 1:24:18.309 Columbus on January 1st, but of course that's never going to. 1:24:18.170 --> 1:24:18.809 Happen, right? 1:24:18.830 --> 1:24:18.990 Oh, man. 1:24:19.590 --> 1:24:21.610 No place like the Rose Bowl. 1:24:21.810 --> 1:24:23.950 But I know it isn't a family outing, but it 1:24:23.990 --> 1:24:26.969 was the same thing. I'm trying to keep tabs on that, 1:24:27.050 --> 1:24:31.770 but couldn't. And I know that day must have killed you, too. Hey, 1:24:32.000 --> 1:24:33.400 can I say one more thing about what you were 1:24:33.439 --> 1:24:33.940 talking about? 1:24:33.979 --> 1:24:35.100 Sure, yeah. 1:24:35.360 --> 1:24:38.600 That 1970 World Series you were talking about, that was 1:24:38.640 --> 1:24:42.320 the last World Series that was played entirely in the daytime. 1:24:43.640 --> 1:24:47.720 Well, that and the first World Series, I believe, on AstroTurf, too. 1:24:48.570 --> 1:24:50.050 So, yeah, right, right. 1:24:50.090 --> 1:24:50.570 With the reds. 1:24:50.689 --> 1:24:50.870 Right. 1:24:50.890 --> 1:24:51.070 Yeah. 1:24:51.110 --> 1:24:53.690 But they would be nice. But that's all I got, Chick. 1:24:53.850 --> 1:24:54.170 All right. 1:24:54.210 --> 1:24:55.190 Appreciate it tonight. 1:24:55.310 --> 1:24:56.210 I hope you're on more. 1:24:56.290 --> 1:24:56.610 Thanks. 1:24:56.689 --> 1:24:57.470 Thanks so much. 1:24:57.530 --> 1:25:00.229 Well, as a kid growing up on Cincinnati's west side 1:25:00.689 --> 1:25:03.670 at the corner of West 8th and Rosemont, a short 1:25:03.750 --> 1:25:05.950 walk to St. William's School and a short walk to 1:25:06.030 --> 1:25:10.110 Elder High School. Man, my my fall weekends followed a pattern. 1:25:10.150 --> 1:25:13.070 My dad liked to work on his car. And I'm 1:25:13.140 --> 1:25:15.160 out there with him. He'd send me into the house 1:25:15.200 --> 1:25:18.120 for different things. Well, then I would disappear because I'd 1:25:18.460 --> 1:25:22.280 slip away and watch the ABC college football game of 1:25:22.320 --> 1:25:27.340 the week with Chris Shankle and Bud Wilkinson. God, Texas 1:25:27.380 --> 1:25:31.670 and Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, man. Those were, those were 1:25:31.870 --> 1:25:36.870 awesome memories. And then Sunday mornings, Notre Dame highlights with 1:25:37.010 --> 1:25:41.390 Lindsay Nelson moving to further action. Yeah. 1:25:42.170 --> 1:25:44.729 Who remembers that? Well, and I sang in the St. 1:25:44.750 --> 1:25:45.750 William Boys Choir. 1:25:45.750 --> 1:25:52.310 11 o'clock high mass, run home, check out Jack Moran's 1:25:52.370 --> 1:25:57.770 King of TV Bowling, and then Frank Lieber with Warren 1:25:57.840 --> 1:26:02.900 Lahr live from Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Cleveland Browns football. 1:26:03.120 --> 1:26:07.820 But I can still see my dad in his recliner 1:26:08.380 --> 1:26:13.680 in 1968 saying, hey, The Browns fired Art Modell. We 1:26:13.740 --> 1:26:18.309 are now Bengals fans. So, man, what were your traditions 1:26:18.410 --> 1:26:22.950 growing up as a kid? And was there anything that, 1:26:23.030 --> 1:26:26.990 you know, a big family event like a wedding that 1:26:27.050 --> 1:26:30.710 caused you to miss, man, a World Series, to miss 1:26:30.850 --> 1:26:35.750 a Ohio State-Michigan game, a Notre Dame game? And I've 1:26:35.770 --> 1:26:38.460 got to admit that I was a culprit on this 1:26:39.420 --> 1:26:43.710 because today— Back in 1987, 39 years ago. 1:26:43.729 --> 1:26:45.930 The Chickster got married. 1:26:47.189 --> 1:26:49.870 And it happened to be the darkest day in Ohio 1:26:49.890 --> 1:26:57.800 State football history. Indiana University broke a 36-year drought and 1:26:57.810 --> 1:27:02.640 31-game winless streak against then No. 9 Ohio State with 1:27:02.700 --> 1:27:08.960 a 31-10 victory in Columbus. And Earl Bruce called it 1:27:08.979 --> 1:27:13.969 the darkest day in Ohio State football history. Now, didn't 1:27:13.990 --> 1:27:18.130 go on the honeymoon right away. Waited till the winter. 1:27:19.630 --> 1:27:25.440 And my father-in-law took the family to Hawaii for the 1:27:25.500 --> 1:27:31.800 University of Dayton playing in the Chaminade Christmas Classic. They 1:27:31.840 --> 1:27:34.540 played Chaminade and won the first game. 1:27:35.300 --> 1:27:37.559 They lost to Oklahoma State. 1:27:38.510 --> 1:27:45.450 And Billy Tubbs, head coach, 151 to 99 in game 1:27:45.510 --> 1:27:50.760 two out in Honolulu. And then while I'm on my honeymoon, 1:27:51.380 --> 1:27:54.960 a knock on the door, and it's Bucky Albers' daughter. 1:27:56.040 --> 1:27:59.160 Bucky's a colleague at the Dayton Daily News and the 1:27:59.200 --> 1:28:03.060 Dayton Journal-Herald. Dad wants to see you. So I go 1:28:03.080 --> 1:28:05.700 down the hall to Bucky's room. He says, Chick, the 1:28:05.760 --> 1:28:13.740 Philadelphia Inquirer needs a stringer for the Dayton-LaSalle game, and 1:28:13.780 --> 1:28:18.519 LaSalle had the great Lionel Simmons. Dayton wound up losing 1:28:18.580 --> 1:28:23.140 a close game to the LaSalle Explorers, who won the 1:28:23.200 --> 1:28:27.090 NCAA championship the year I was born, 1954, with Tom Gola. 1:28:27.790 --> 1:28:30.050 Go, Gola! Gola, goal! 1:28:30.250 --> 1:28:33.190 Number 15. That number is sacred to me. 1:28:33.210 --> 1:28:34.890 It is sacred. 1:28:35.370 --> 1:28:37.580 I've got a couple numbers that are sacred. 15 with 1:28:37.620 --> 1:28:41.400 Tom Gola and number 31 with Vic. Janowitz of the 1:28:41.439 --> 1:28:45.460 Ohio State Buckeyes. But anyway, I wound up, so I 1:28:45.740 --> 1:28:47.240 talked to my wife about it and she said, well, 1:28:47.280 --> 1:28:49.280 you're going to be at the game anyway. If you 1:28:49.320 --> 1:28:51.780 want to write it for the Philly Inquirer, go ahead. 1:28:52.240 --> 1:28:55.080 And I did. And they warned us that trying to 1:28:55.120 --> 1:29:01.120 get an outside line on Christmas Day was brutal. You 1:29:01.140 --> 1:29:03.620 had to just keep trying. And I'm trying to get 1:29:04.260 --> 1:29:07.510 an editor at the Philly Inquirer calling the number over 1:29:07.530 --> 1:29:12.270 and over again. Finally got through, dictated a story. And gosh, 1:29:12.650 --> 1:29:16.510 a few weeks later, I get a check for, what, $ 125, whatever. 1:29:17.010 --> 1:29:21.230 But I did work on my honeymoon. So, and tonight's producer, 1:29:21.310 --> 1:29:23.939 Russ Jackson, he's got some stories. 1:29:24.360 --> 1:29:24.740 And Russ. 1:29:25.860 --> 1:29:27.800 I don't know if you can talk here right now, but, man, 1:29:27.840 --> 1:29:31.240 I love the story about your parents being in Honolulu 1:29:31.260 --> 1:29:34.530 or out in Hawaii when the Reds were playing in 1:29:34.550 --> 1:29:36.549 the 1975 World Series. 1:29:36.670 --> 1:29:37.850 That's right. They're out there. 1:29:37.870 --> 1:29:41.130 It was a— because my dad was a truck dealer, GMC 1:29:41.330 --> 1:29:44.750 trucks back in those days, and they always had trips 1:29:45.140 --> 1:29:48.220 for their dealers. And so they're out there in Hawaii, 1:29:48.360 --> 1:29:52.099 and it's the week the Reds are in the World Series. 1:29:53.360 --> 1:29:58.320 So they go out there, and luckily, we had tickets 1:29:58.360 --> 1:30:00.510 to the Reds game, so luckily my sister and I 1:30:00.860 --> 1:30:02.320 got to go to all the games, which was great. 1:30:02.780 --> 1:30:05.650 My parents missed the games, but they didn't miss the 1:30:05.689 --> 1:30:09.429 games because they're out there, and because of the time difference, 1:30:09.470 --> 1:30:11.630 it's earlier in the day, right? Out there in Hawaii, 1:30:11.670 --> 1:30:14.810 five-hour time difference, and they were getting to listen to 1:30:14.850 --> 1:30:17.790 the games because there were these guys out there playing 1:30:17.830 --> 1:30:20.510 volleyball on the beach, and this one guy had a 1:30:20.550 --> 1:30:23.520 big boom box. And my dad goes over to him 1:30:23.540 --> 1:30:25.420 and asks, hey, is it possible? Could you turn the 1:30:26.000 --> 1:30:28.780 baseball game on? He's like, guy says, sure. So he 1:30:28.800 --> 1:30:31.340 turns on the boom box and get to listen to 1:30:31.380 --> 1:30:34.929 the radio call the game on NBC radio. The guy 1:30:34.970 --> 1:30:36.550 with the boom box was Will Chamberlain. 1:30:37.210 --> 1:30:40.570 That is just unbelievable. I knew he played volleyball. The 1:30:40.610 --> 1:30:42.970 guy was just an unbelievable athlete. 1:30:43.530 --> 1:30:48.500 Wow. That is crazy. And, Russ, were you married on 1:30:48.680 --> 1:30:52.450 New Year's Day? I was married on New Year's Day 2011. And, yeah, 1:30:53.910 --> 1:30:56.610 we missed the bowl games. 1:30:57.430 --> 1:30:59.410 And also, but for the group I was with, the 1:30:59.430 --> 1:31:06.210 guys in my groomsmen, What we were more angry about 1:31:06.250 --> 1:31:09.470 was the outdoor winter classic the NHL had. That year 1:31:09.510 --> 1:31:12.150 was the Penguins and the Sabres. And we missed that. 1:31:12.170 --> 1:31:14.380 We were all watching it, the start of it, before 1:31:14.410 --> 1:31:16.190 we had to go over to the wedding. It's like, 1:31:16.229 --> 1:31:17.070 do we really have to? 1:31:17.110 --> 1:31:17.810 Yeah, you got to go. 1:31:18.740 --> 1:31:19.260 Oh, man. 1:31:19.340 --> 1:31:19.580 Yeah. 1:31:20.120 --> 1:31:20.680 Yeah. 1:31:21.280 --> 1:31:24.920 And my son had a birthday party. It's the day 1:31:24.939 --> 1:31:27.559 of the Michigan-Ohio State game. So I'm in a bowling 1:31:27.720 --> 1:31:33.400 alley watching a monitor with Ohio State and Michigan. I'm 1:31:33.420 --> 1:31:37.120 just going crazy. wishing I was home or with friends 1:31:37.860 --> 1:31:39.559 to watch the big game. 1:31:39.920 --> 1:31:41.360 So great stuff. 1:31:41.680 --> 1:31:43.620 Man, I would love to hear from some fans out 1:31:43.660 --> 1:31:48.929 there about your weekend sports traditions then or now. Man, 1:31:49.930 --> 1:31:53.770 let's turn back the clock. The numbers to dial, 513-749-7000, 1-800-THE-BIG-ONE. 1:31:53.790 --> 1:31:55.510 Your weekend sports traditions as a kid growing up, hopefully 1:31:55.729 --> 1:32:11.460 in the natty. or elsewhere on 700-WLW. 820 in the 1:32:11.540 --> 1:32:15.100 Queen City of Cincinnati, Chick Ludwig, 700-WLW. 1:32:16.400 --> 1:32:17.580 We're talking. 1:32:18.939 --> 1:32:25.120 Traditions, sports traditions in your family as a kid growing up. Man, 1:32:25.150 --> 1:32:28.950 the Ludwigs were a sports-crazed family. 1:32:29.290 --> 1:32:32.090 Still are. Let's go out to the phones. 1:32:32.650 --> 1:32:37.250 John in Westwood brings back some great memories here. 1:32:37.610 --> 1:32:37.969 John? 1:32:42.100 --> 1:32:45.300 On Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, we had a big blowout 1:32:45.500 --> 1:32:48.820 at Oz Camp. It was called the Pow Wow, featuring 1:32:48.860 --> 1:32:52.820 a big bonfire and lots of adult drinks. And then 1:32:52.880 --> 1:32:56.460 Thursday morning, Thanksgiving morning, we'd get up early and watch 1:32:56.500 --> 1:33:00.020 the Thanksgiving Day Parade that went from Western Hills down 1:33:00.060 --> 1:33:04.300 to Elver. And then there was the football game. Well, 1:33:04.400 --> 1:33:08.740 in 1972, I think you remember that, Elder was undefeated, 1:33:08.820 --> 1:33:12.450 but they couldn't go upstate because they had to play 1:33:12.550 --> 1:33:15.350 the Elder West High football game on Thanksgiving. 1:33:15.370 --> 1:33:17.269 And I believe. 1:33:17.070 --> 1:33:19.530 That was the last one. Was that the last time 1:33:19.550 --> 1:33:20.030 they played? 1:33:21.530 --> 1:33:23.820 I think they did it one more year, but after that, 1:33:23.900 --> 1:33:27.100 they moved the Elder West High game earlier in the year. 1:33:28.360 --> 1:33:31.740 But anyway, so then, so then we didn't have nothing 1:33:31.760 --> 1:33:33.679 to do on Thanksgiving morning. So me and my brothers, 1:33:33.720 --> 1:33:36.320 we'd go rabbit hunting. So we did that for several years, 1:33:36.540 --> 1:33:37.580 but that's my Thanksgiving. 1:33:37.780 --> 1:33:40.720 Well, the, uh, that game was always what at 10 1:33:40.720 --> 1:33:44.589 30 in the morning, elder West high. That was, uh, 1:33:44.750 --> 1:33:47.550 those games were so special. I was a student manager 1:33:48.150 --> 1:33:53.009 at elder for gosh, four years. And, uh, I was Ken, 1:33:53.090 --> 1:33:55.490 one of Ken help student managers. And it was kind 1:33:55.510 --> 1:33:58.570 of a tradition to, uh, win the game and then 1:33:58.910 --> 1:34:02.090 toss the coach into the showers, uh, in the locker 1:34:02.110 --> 1:34:05.880 room after the game. Cause then it was over, but yeah. Uh, 1:34:05.960 --> 1:34:12.799 then the next year I graduated in 1972. So that fall, yeah. 1:34:12.920 --> 1:34:18.000 Elder was like undefeated, untied, unscored upon until, uh, I 1:34:18.020 --> 1:34:20.210 think they won the Thanksgiving day game, like 42 to 21, 1:34:20.200 --> 1:34:21.509 but they, did they lose the. 1:34:21.360 --> 1:34:27.850 X, uh, No, it was a 6-6 tie. 1:34:27.870 --> 1:34:28.950 6-6 tie. 1:34:28.990 --> 1:34:32.040 They were unscored on except for a 6-6 tie to St. X. 1:34:32.110 --> 1:34:33.050 That's exactly right. 1:34:33.290 --> 1:34:36.799 Well, then West High did score some points in that 1:34:36.880 --> 1:34:37.520 final game. 1:34:37.580 --> 1:34:41.660 But, yeah, 6-6 tie. Unbelievable. But great. 1:34:41.700 --> 1:34:44.560 You didn't happen to wear a leopard skin vest, did you? 1:34:44.990 --> 1:34:46.370 I did at a pep rally. 1:34:46.390 --> 1:34:46.850 Yeah. 1:34:47.229 --> 1:34:47.429 Yeah. 1:34:47.729 --> 1:34:51.800 I did at a pep rally. Oh, my goodness. That 1:34:51.820 --> 1:34:52.420 was awesome. 1:34:53.380 --> 1:34:54.660 You was a slave to fashion. 1:34:54.680 --> 1:34:55.310 That's no doubt. 1:34:55.510 --> 1:34:58.550 It lives in infamy, John. Yes, sir. 1:34:58.870 --> 1:35:00.650 Hey, good times, brother. 1:35:00.670 --> 1:35:01.010 Take care. 1:35:01.030 --> 1:35:02.910 Oh, fantastic. Great stuff. 1:35:03.830 --> 1:35:04.070 Yeah. 1:35:04.630 --> 1:35:07.990 Class of this student where I substitute teach asked me, 1:35:08.390 --> 1:35:09.330 how old are you, Mr. 1:35:09.390 --> 1:35:09.800 Ludwig? 1:35:09.840 --> 1:35:10.139 I'm there. 1:35:10.189 --> 1:35:14.940 Well, you do the math. 1972 was my high school 1:35:14.960 --> 1:35:22.640 graduating year. And now I am 72. So great, great stuff. Gosh, 1:35:22.650 --> 1:35:25.939 the elder West high game. That was a unbelievable tradition. 1:35:26.280 --> 1:35:29.540 And then you'd head to grandma's house after, after the game, 1:35:29.820 --> 1:35:35.729 no doubt. But those, uh, man, those Saturdays, not only the, 1:35:36.200 --> 1:35:39.890 the football, the college football game of the week, but 1:35:39.930 --> 1:35:48.140 how about ABCs and, and Russ Jackson probably knows about this. The, uh, Yeah, 1:35:48.439 --> 1:35:52.000 the bowling that was on on Saturday afternoons, ABC with 1:35:52.080 --> 1:35:58.640 Chris Shankle and, yes, Bo Burton. Chris Shankle was just 1:35:58.860 --> 1:36:02.300 my idol, one of my media idols as a kid 1:36:02.340 --> 1:36:08.400 growing up. Loved his college football with Bud Wilkinson. And then, man, 1:36:08.439 --> 1:36:11.349 got to see him over in Indianapolis because he would 1:36:11.410 --> 1:36:17.620 always be the emcee at the Sullivan Awards at the, yeah, just, uh, 1:36:17.790 --> 1:36:20.610 over an Indy and my bosses at the Dayton daily 1:36:20.630 --> 1:36:23.670 news sent me over there a few times for the 1:36:23.729 --> 1:36:28.830 Sullivan awards, uh, the honoring the top amateur athlete, uh, 1:36:28.910 --> 1:36:33.630 in the United States. So David Robinson, I don't know 1:36:33.650 --> 1:36:35.530 if he won it that year, but he showed up 1:36:35.600 --> 1:36:43.700 as a finalist in his man, his dress blacks were, uh, Navy, just, uh, unbelievable, 1:36:44.120 --> 1:36:49.720 good stuff. Is this Richard in Dayton? Can we put 1:36:49.760 --> 1:36:50.280 Richard on? 1:36:51.860 --> 1:36:52.420 Is this Dick? 1:36:53.660 --> 1:36:54.939 Hey, Chick, how you doing? 1:36:55.020 --> 1:36:55.420 All right. 1:36:55.640 --> 1:36:56.799 Richard, how we doing? 1:36:58.100 --> 1:36:59.000 I just wondered. 1:36:59.060 --> 1:37:01.429 I didn't get the state. Have you heard anything about 1:37:01.470 --> 1:37:09.510 the state game? Anything about the state game? 1:37:10.850 --> 1:37:12.130 Are we talking Ohio State? 1:37:12.970 --> 1:37:13.250 Yeah. 1:37:13.750 --> 1:37:14.010 Yeah. 1:37:14.229 --> 1:37:18.460 Ohio State beat Maryland today. 45 to 16. 1:37:18.460 --> 1:37:20.620 Oh, right. 1:37:20.780 --> 1:37:21.980 I've been trying to get it. 1:37:21.960 --> 1:37:23.460 45 to 16. 1:37:23.460 --> 1:37:25.720 It was a 4 o'clock. It was around a 4 1:37:25.720 --> 1:37:29.689 o'clock start. So it is over now. And you'll be 1:37:29.750 --> 1:37:34.130 happy to know that number one Texas went down to Oklahoma. 1:37:34.750 --> 1:37:35.510 I'd love that. 1:37:35.510 --> 1:37:37.230 27 to 24. 1:37:37.229 --> 1:37:37.450 Yes. 1:37:37.810 --> 1:37:39.550 That's going to help the Buckeyes, isn't it? 1:37:39.710 --> 1:37:42.059 Well, I want to be number one at the end 1:37:42.070 --> 1:37:43.059 of the year, not the beginning. 1:37:44.040 --> 1:37:44.620 No, no. 1:37:44.640 --> 1:37:50.410 Because Texas knocked them off. Yeah, early on. 1:37:52.880 --> 1:37:56.040 I've got a thing tomorrow. The Bengals got to straighten 1:37:56.120 --> 1:37:58.560 up tomorrow. I don't want to see any mental mistakes, 1:37:59.340 --> 1:38:00.800 you know? 1:38:00.860 --> 1:38:03.719 Head Tim McGee on at the start of the show, 1:38:03.939 --> 1:38:07.010 and we both agree it is truly a trap game. 1:38:08.510 --> 1:38:12.930 You better be careful going in there. The league wants parity, 1:38:13.930 --> 1:38:16.639 and they want Miami to win. They would like Miami 1:38:16.680 --> 1:38:20.400 to win a football game and not go 0-17. You 1:38:20.439 --> 1:38:24.269 just don't want it to happen tomorrow. 1:38:25.310 --> 1:38:26.550 I love your show, man. 1:38:26.710 --> 1:38:29.970 You know, the Biggles postgame, it's great. 1:38:30.439 --> 1:38:30.900 It's a great show. 1:38:30.920 --> 1:38:31.719 Oh, thanks so much. 1:38:31.939 --> 1:38:33.400 We've got Jim Breach tomorrow. 1:38:33.460 --> 1:38:38.880 We'll be in studio from 530 to 830 after Box 1:38:38.939 --> 1:38:43.510 Miller goes off the air. The Tri-State Chevy Dealers postgame 1:38:43.520 --> 1:38:47.620 sports talk. Presented by R & L Carriers right here 1:38:47.680 --> 1:38:54.150 on 700 WLW and simulcast with Cincinnati's ESPN 1530. 1:38:54.150 --> 1:38:55.150 Well, thank you, Chick. 1:38:55.290 --> 1:38:56.630 I'm going to be rooting tomorrow. 1:38:56.850 --> 1:38:58.130 All right. Same here. 1:38:59.210 --> 1:39:02.310 Dick, when you're a sports writer, you've got to be balanced. 1:39:03.729 --> 1:39:05.910 That's what we want out of the Bengals' offense a 1:39:05.930 --> 1:39:09.400 little bit more. But, hey, I'm on the air. I 1:39:09.420 --> 1:39:14.660 want the Bengals to win. But I'm worried, put. 1:39:14.560 --> 1:39:14.980 It that way. 1:39:16.340 --> 1:39:20.340 We'll see who gets activated tomorrow. I don't expect T. 1:39:20.380 --> 1:39:25.920 Higgins to play. That's for sure. That groin abductor muscle, man, 1:39:25.960 --> 1:39:31.720 that is severe. There's no operation. It just takes rest. 1:39:32.770 --> 1:39:37.430 And hopefully, Jamar Chase can be ready to go. And 1:39:37.470 --> 1:39:43.030 I'm waiting, waiting for Chase Brown to break one. Just 1:39:43.310 --> 1:39:47.889 one time. Bust through the line. And take it to 1:39:47.910 --> 1:39:51.030 the house just once. Is that too much to ask? 1:39:52.510 --> 1:39:52.850 Man. 1:39:54.790 --> 1:39:58.809 But it truly is a trap game. And Miami has played. 1:39:59.330 --> 1:40:05.470 They were playing Minnesota tough last week. And don't throw 1:40:05.510 --> 1:40:11.190 the ball to the other team. Just want to update 1:40:11.229 --> 1:40:16.690 a few more scores here. LSU at two minutes to 1:40:16.720 --> 1:40:21.719 go in the second quarter. LSU, the 10th-ranked Tigers, have 1:40:21.760 --> 1:40:26.260 a 17-14 lead at Kroger Stadium in Lexington against the 1:40:26.340 --> 1:40:30.460 Kentucky Wildcats. But the Wildcats hanging tough. Three points down. 1:40:31.080 --> 1:40:35.910 Georgia has an early lead over Alabama, 3-0. And USC 1:40:36.030 --> 1:40:38.110 and Penn State are tied at 14. Utah has a 1:40:38.110 --> 1:40:39.790 14-0 lead over Kansas. 1:40:39.810 --> 1:40:39.890 So. 1:40:45.280 --> 1:40:49.580 Notre Dame just clobbered Stanford. The No. 3 ranked Fighting 1:40:49.700 --> 1:40:50.030 Irish 58-7. 1:40:51.979 --> 1:40:53.460 And No. 1:40:53.460 --> 1:40:57.900 9 ranked Ole Miss with a 52-17 victory over Vanderbilt 1:40:58.160 --> 1:40:59.020 in Nashville. 1:40:59.600 --> 1:41:01.000 So those are some scores there. 1:41:01.220 --> 1:41:07.180 And the Cleveland Guardians and the Chicago White Sox, man, 1:41:07.200 --> 1:41:10.040 they're rumbling at progressive field. 1:41:10.520 --> 1:41:11.870 So we'll update those scores, too. 1:41:12.439 --> 1:41:14.040 But I would love to hear from you about your 1:41:14.100 --> 1:41:20.850 weekend sports traditions as a kid growing up. 513-749-7000 1-800 1:41:20.870 --> 1:41:26.889 the big one. Chick Ludwig Sports Talk 700 WLW. 837 1:41:26.890 --> 1:41:30.830 in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig 700 WLW. 1:41:30.870 --> 1:41:33.490 This is Sports Talk. We're going to the top of 1:41:33.530 --> 1:41:38.700 the hour. 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Once again, at Empowered Community Services. For 1:42:42.060 --> 1:42:45.340 being such a loyal listener to 700 WLW. And to 1:42:45.400 --> 1:42:49.849 thank Deborah Chance-Perman of Springboro for hooking me up with Jacob. 1:42:51.250 --> 1:42:54.189 Bless his heart, man. He loves this radio station as 1:42:54.229 --> 1:42:57.110 much as we do. Let's go out to the phones. 1:42:57.170 --> 1:43:01.470 We are talking. Man, as a kid, what were your 1:43:01.510 --> 1:43:05.160 weekend sports traditions? And did you ever have to miss 1:43:05.260 --> 1:43:13.270 a big sporting event because of a family function? 513-749-7000. 1-800-THE-BIG-ONE. 1:43:13.310 --> 1:43:17.010 Let's go up to Fairfield, home of the Indians, and 1:43:17.250 --> 1:43:21.950 welcome in Dan. Dan, thanks for calling 700-WLW. 1:43:21.990 --> 1:43:27.070 How are you? Dan, are you there? 1:43:29.710 --> 1:43:29.950 Wow. 1:43:32.450 --> 1:43:34.790 Dan, feel free to call back. I can't hear you. 1:43:34.810 --> 1:43:34.950 So.... 1:43:40.070 --> 1:43:41.090 Dan, are you there? 1:43:45.250 --> 1:43:49.170 Russ Jackson, tonight's producer, tells me that, well, we had 1:43:49.229 --> 1:43:54.450 a listener in Little Rock, Arkansas, checking us out tonight. 1:43:54.600 --> 1:44:00.520 We really appreciate that. Coming in loud and clear. And 1:44:02.120 --> 1:44:09.450 we love the iHeartRadio app. On the radio, fantastic. Man, 1:44:10.070 --> 1:44:14.290 the reach of this station is special. How many states 1:44:14.350 --> 1:44:19.229 in Canada? 40 plus. 38 states and half of Canada. 1:44:19.510 --> 1:44:24.950 That is great, great stuff. Yeah, all kinds of sports 1:44:24.990 --> 1:44:33.560 traditions here. Big one tomorrow, the Bengals against the Dolphins 1:44:33.720 --> 1:44:38.740 in Miami. And on my Facebook page, There's a photo 1:44:39.040 --> 1:44:44.160 of me with Kevin Goheen of the Cincinnati Post and 1:44:44.240 --> 1:44:50.530 Mark Curnute of the Cincinnati Enquirer. And it was taken 1:44:51.010 --> 1:44:57.250 on December 30th from the press box at Hard Rock Stadium. 1:44:57.810 --> 1:45:00.700 Back then it was Dolphin Stadium. That stadium's had about 1:45:00.700 --> 1:45:06.679 10 different names. And that was a special occasion because 1:45:07.720 --> 1:45:10.900 The Bengals finished 7-9 that year, but they beat the 1:45:10.960 --> 1:45:15.700 Dolphins that day. And it was cause for celebration because 1:45:15.760 --> 1:45:19.550 when Kevin Goheen of the Post hit the send button 1:45:19.630 --> 1:45:23.430 on his story, it was the last story he was 1:45:23.510 --> 1:45:26.870 writing for the Post because the Post went out of 1:45:26.970 --> 1:45:33.320 business either that day or the next day. Final publication 1:45:33.860 --> 1:45:38.050 at the end of 2007. And I remember being in 1:45:38.090 --> 1:45:42.260 that press box and talking to the guy with the 1:45:42.300 --> 1:45:48.000 Dolphins who was basically, he was a, not a police officer, 1:45:48.080 --> 1:45:54.370 but a custodian slash security guard. And he was telling 1:45:54.430 --> 1:46:01.480 us that day, he couldn't believe that the Miami Marlins 1:46:02.520 --> 1:46:07.470 were in the National League And the Tampa Bay Rays. 1:46:10.090 --> 1:46:11.750 Are in the American League. 1:46:12.570 --> 1:46:16.509 And he said because folks who live on the East Coast, 1:46:16.990 --> 1:46:22.710 Boston and New York, they vacation on the Atlantic side 1:46:22.770 --> 1:46:27.099 of Cincinnati from Boca Raton down to Fort Lauderdale and Miami. 1:46:27.810 --> 1:46:31.960 That the Marlins would have a ton of fans, retired fans, 1:46:32.660 --> 1:46:36.670 who move to that or vacation and move to that 1:46:36.770 --> 1:46:43.330 side of the state of Florida. Whereas the Midwesterners, mostly, 1:46:43.350 --> 1:46:52.640 I'm being general here, vacation on the Gulf side, what, St. Petersburg, Tampa, 1:46:53.380 --> 1:47:01.490 down to Naples, and they would attract more Midwesterners to Tampa, 1:47:03.110 --> 1:47:04.870 if they were in the National League. 1:47:06.590 --> 1:47:09.200 So it would be awesome. 1:47:09.600 --> 1:47:13.120 I think it'll never happen if they just flip-flop leagues 1:47:13.479 --> 1:47:18.040 and to see what attendance would be like, especially for 1:47:18.060 --> 1:47:22.320 the Miami Marlins, if Miami was in the American League. 1:47:23.550 --> 1:47:28.170 So that's just for what that's worth. But yeah, remember 1:47:28.189 --> 1:47:32.309 it well, 2007 with Kevin Goheen and Mark Curnute. And 1:47:32.350 --> 1:47:38.349 back then, covering the Bengals from 1997 through the 2009 1:47:38.350 --> 1:47:41.970 and 2010 seasons, before I took early retirement from the 1:47:42.010 --> 1:47:45.290 Dayton Daily News, there were just a handful of beat 1:47:45.330 --> 1:47:51.240 writers from the Enquirer, the Post, the Dayton Daily News, 1:47:52.020 --> 1:47:57.260 and the Columbus Dispatch. Basically four of us. And now, man, 1:47:57.300 --> 1:48:00.800 with the internet, with everything else, man, the press box 1:48:00.860 --> 1:48:02.320 is stuffed with. 1:48:04.910 --> 1:48:09.270 So many, gosh, so many writers online. And it's just 1:48:09.470 --> 1:48:12.099 a whole different world then. And back when I covered 1:48:12.120 --> 1:48:14.780 the club, they didn't have a team in Los Angeles. 1:48:15.680 --> 1:48:18.330 Now they have two, the Chargers and the Rams. 1:48:19.350 --> 1:48:22.500 But the Chargers. of course were in San Diego and 1:48:22.520 --> 1:48:27.240 the Rams of course back then were in St. Louis so. 1:48:29.080 --> 1:48:32.650 Used to I visited every stadium back then but there's 1:48:32.660 --> 1:48:35.890 a whole bunch of new ones now so a lot 1:48:35.910 --> 1:48:40.230 has changed a lot has happened in the years since 1:48:40.350 --> 1:48:44.879 I was a Bengals beat writer from 1997 through 2010. So, hey, 1:48:47.020 --> 1:48:50.560 we'd love to hear from you about your family traditions. 1:48:51.960 --> 1:48:58.330 I remember fondly running home from church on Sunday mornings, 1:49:00.550 --> 1:49:04.970 Notre Dame highlights with Lindsay Nelson and moving to further action, 1:49:06.090 --> 1:49:10.260 and then singing in the St. William Boys Choir and 1:49:10.300 --> 1:49:13.860 running home to watch Jack Moran's King of TV Bowling 1:49:15.240 --> 1:49:21.060 from Hoinky Lanes and other places on Sundays. And then 1:49:21.100 --> 1:49:25.950 that would bleed right into Cleveland Browns football at one o'clock. 1:49:27.270 --> 1:49:31.410 And I had Ted Dyden on earlier talking about the 1:49:31.410 --> 1:49:36.430 1964 NFL champion Cleveland Browns the last time they won 1:49:36.470 --> 1:49:41.860 a championship. And Blanton Collier was the head coach of 1:49:42.479 --> 1:49:47.010 the Cleveland Browns taking over for the late, great Paul Brown. 1:49:47.850 --> 1:49:52.969 And when the Bengals trained in Georgetown College, wow, making 1:49:53.010 --> 1:49:55.870 a trip over to the actual college away from Toyota 1:49:55.910 --> 1:50:02.150 Stadium where the team practiced, I saw a plaque that 1:50:02.510 --> 1:50:08.650 Blanton Collier, a Georgetown, Kentucky college grad back in the day. 1:50:08.910 --> 1:50:11.790 Great stuff. Hey, we're going to take a break. Come 1:50:11.830 --> 1:50:13.729 back and take your calls. It looks like Dan and 1:50:13.790 --> 1:50:19.390 Fairfield is back and others too. 1:50:19.410 --> 1:50:19.990 513-749-7000. 1:50:20.010 --> 1:50:23.570 1-800-THE-BIG-ONE. Chick Ludwig Sports Talk to the top of the 1:50:23.610 --> 1:50:29.680 hour on 700-WLW. 850 in the Queen City of Cincinnati. 1:50:29.720 --> 1:50:32.700 Chick Ludwig, 700-WLW. This is Sports Talk. 1:50:33.400 --> 1:50:35.719 We're going to the top of the hour and then 1:50:36.780 --> 1:50:38.440 the 12-car pileup. 1:50:39.780 --> 1:50:42.380 Donna D. Hope she doesn't mind me saying that. 1:50:42.660 --> 1:50:47.830 We'll take you from 9 to midnight tonight. We're talking 1:50:47.850 --> 1:50:51.350 some family traditions when you were a kid, sports traditions. 1:50:52.990 --> 1:50:57.350 And did you miss a major sporting event because of 1:50:57.390 --> 1:50:59.269 a family function like a wedding? 1:51:00.270 --> 1:51:04.809 Oh, brutal. Let's go out to Dan in Fairfield. 1:51:06.130 --> 1:51:06.590 He's back. 1:51:07.050 --> 1:51:07.430 Hi, Dan. 1:51:09.720 --> 1:51:10.740 Hey, how you doing, Chick? 1:51:11.220 --> 1:51:13.589 Fantastic. Yeah, what is on your mind, Dan? Thanks for 1:51:13.600 --> 1:51:14.160 calling back. 1:51:15.610 --> 1:51:18.410 Yeah, I don't know how, but my phone dropped the 1:51:18.450 --> 1:51:23.130 call earlier, but my comment is on family tradition. 1:51:23.370 --> 1:51:23.689 Yes. 1:51:25.210 --> 1:51:29.220 I remember I'm going on 65 years old, and I 1:51:29.260 --> 1:51:32.540 remember to this day when I was six years old 1:51:33.640 --> 1:51:36.139 and helping my father work on a car. 1:51:36.580 --> 1:51:36.880 Yes. 1:51:38.479 --> 1:51:42.019 And my one and only job was to hold the flashlight. 1:51:42.720 --> 1:51:42.940 Yep. 1:51:43.979 --> 1:51:47.660 And I'll never forget how many times he yelled at me. 1:51:47.840 --> 1:51:48.100 Yeah. 1:51:48.320 --> 1:51:51.120 Will you hold that daggone thing still? 1:51:51.400 --> 1:51:53.240 Yes. Yeah. 1:51:55.760 --> 1:51:58.479 It was weird because I'm like, why are you yelling 1:51:58.580 --> 1:51:58.880 at me? 1:51:58.900 --> 1:51:59.520 No kidding. 1:51:59.540 --> 1:52:02.200 And I'm doing the best I can, but I never 1:52:02.260 --> 1:52:05.220 seem to put the flashlight in the right spot. 1:52:05.400 --> 1:52:06.320 Oh, my goodness. 1:52:06.620 --> 1:52:09.460 Yeah, my dad would say, we had a workbench in 1:52:09.500 --> 1:52:14.540 our basement, okay? And he would say, Chucky, before I 1:52:14.560 --> 1:52:17.680 was Chick, go in and try to find this one 1:52:17.820 --> 1:52:18.940 tool or whatever. 1:52:19.600 --> 1:52:21.120 I'm there, man, I couldn't find it. 1:52:21.770 --> 1:52:25.370 And so I would slip up into the TV room 1:52:25.990 --> 1:52:28.450 and turn on the college football game of the week 1:52:28.550 --> 1:52:32.090 on ABC. He knew where I was. And so I'd 1:52:32.130 --> 1:52:33.930 come back out and he'd say, what's the score? 1:52:34.910 --> 1:52:36.590 Who's winning? What's the score? 1:52:37.470 --> 1:52:41.729 So it all started back then, man. Dad taking me 1:52:41.750 --> 1:52:46.490 to Crosley Field. What's going on up behind the home 1:52:46.550 --> 1:52:48.870 plate there, Dad, with the lights on? Oh, that's the 1:52:48.930 --> 1:52:51.950 press box. Those are the sports writers up there. They 1:52:51.970 --> 1:52:56.889 get in free. I think right about that age 10, 1:52:56.890 --> 1:52:57.309 that's what. 1:52:57.210 --> 1:52:59.450 I wanted to do. It's all I ever wanted to do. 1:53:01.229 --> 1:53:04.770 But it only took 55 years to get on the radio. 1:53:07.020 --> 1:53:07.280 Wow. 1:53:07.439 --> 1:53:12.040 Well, you know, after getting cursed at for not holding 1:53:12.060 --> 1:53:17.000 the flashlight correctly, fast forward about seven years later when 1:53:17.040 --> 1:53:20.970 I was 12, I was helping my uncle replace a 1:53:21.030 --> 1:53:26.650 transmission on his car. And I don't know what all 1:53:26.710 --> 1:53:30.050 that was about at that age, but I remember he 1:53:30.210 --> 1:53:33.750 took a part loose, and I took a shower from 1:53:33.810 --> 1:53:37.129 the shoulders up in transmission fluid. 1:53:37.450 --> 1:53:38.570 Oh, no. Wow. 1:53:39.680 --> 1:53:43.580 Yeah, it took me two weeks to get that out 1:53:43.620 --> 1:53:44.219 of my hair. 1:53:44.580 --> 1:53:48.700 Oh, I believe it. I believe it. Good stuff, Dan. 1:53:48.979 --> 1:53:49.689 Appreciate it. 1:53:51.080 --> 1:53:51.479 All right. 1:53:51.500 --> 1:53:56.019 I'll remember that story when I'm driving to Fairfield Freshman School. 1:53:56.880 --> 1:53:57.280 Yeah. 1:53:58.020 --> 1:54:05.620 Good stuff. Family traditions, man. Just great memories as a kid. 1:54:05.700 --> 1:54:09.059 Wouldn't change it for the world. Living on the west 1:54:09.100 --> 1:54:13.080 side of Cincinnati, the best side. But the beauty of 1:54:13.140 --> 1:54:15.780 being a, you know, people ask, what do you do? Well, 1:54:16.430 --> 1:54:19.170 I just put it in a nutshell. Ump ref, teach, 1:54:19.229 --> 1:54:23.990 and talk. Talk on the radio. Substitute teach. Umpire girls, 1:54:24.030 --> 1:54:28.190 fast pitch softball. And referee, a whole bunch of volleyball. 1:54:28.560 --> 1:54:31.800 And the season is winding down with what? Another one 1:54:31.960 --> 1:54:36.220 full week. And then tournaments are starting. And looking forward 1:54:36.280 --> 1:54:39.500 to all that. I just love the games. What do 1:54:39.540 --> 1:54:45.410 you like more? Can't say. Both sports are an addiction. 1:54:46.690 --> 1:54:53.550 a uh passion and an obsession so uh but so 1:54:53.650 --> 1:54:56.950 is so is radio too and it's awesome to be 1:54:56.990 --> 1:54:59.170 with you uh on this saturday night and we'll be 1:54:59.210 --> 1:55:03.590 back again next saturday six to nine because uc football 1:55:04.230 --> 1:55:08.050 is playing west virginia at noon and the way the 1:55:08.070 --> 1:55:13.050 schedule is the radio schedule we're uh Our Saturdays are 1:55:13.090 --> 1:55:18.990 paralyzed by the UC football schedule. So my window is 1:55:18.990 --> 1:55:23.340 6 to 9. Donna D's is 9 to midnight. And 1:55:23.760 --> 1:55:29.080 we wait to see, because of television, what happens with 1:55:29.120 --> 1:55:32.600 the UC football schedule. But when it comes out, they're 1:55:32.620 --> 1:55:35.920 on their bye week this week to regroup after the 1:55:35.980 --> 1:55:41.730 beating they took out in Tucson, Arizona. Very, very disappointing because... 1:55:42.350 --> 1:55:46.460 the UC team that I saw that night, nowhere near 1:55:46.520 --> 1:55:50.140 resembled what we saw the first four weeks of this season. 1:55:51.100 --> 1:55:56.950 When they get an interception in great field position and 1:55:56.990 --> 1:56:00.510 can't score, and then get to the doorstep of the 1:56:02.030 --> 1:56:06.010 Arizona Wildcats one-yard line and go for it on fourth 1:56:06.050 --> 1:56:10.040 down and can't get a score, that was tough. So, 1:56:13.390 --> 1:56:18.770 Hopefully the Bearcats will use this bye week wisely and 1:56:19.310 --> 1:56:24.550 can rebound against the Mountaineers of West Virginia. We're in 1:56:24.570 --> 1:56:27.480 the top of the fourth inning at Progressive Field in 1:56:27.540 --> 1:56:34.720 Cleveland in the White Sox and Guardians scoreless. In game five, 1:56:35.700 --> 1:56:39.120 winner take all of the American League Division Series and 1:56:39.150 --> 1:56:42.870 the winner will face the Tampa Bay Rays, in the 1:56:42.930 --> 1:56:47.150 American League Championship Series for the right to go to 1:56:47.250 --> 1:56:54.420 the World Series. And the Dodgers against the Milwaukee Brewers. 1:56:55.520 --> 1:56:58.700 Brewers have been the best team in baseball. They've acquitted 1:56:58.740 --> 1:57:02.800 themselves nicely here in the postseason. And now they go 1:57:02.860 --> 1:57:06.560 up against the big, bad Los Angeles Dodgers with that 1:57:07.200 --> 1:57:08.339 unbelievable payroll. 1:57:09.430 --> 1:57:09.860 So.... 1:57:11.860 --> 1:57:17.440 Tonight's been an absolute blast hosting Sports Talk here on 1:57:17.440 --> 1:57:23.630 700 WLW. And I want to update some football scores 1:57:23.710 --> 1:57:28.610 for you as you're driving in your car or truck. 1:57:30.010 --> 1:57:34.010 Hope you've fastened your safety belt and get home safely 1:57:34.150 --> 1:57:38.560 or wherever you are going. And at halftime, the unranked 1:57:38.580 --> 1:57:45.040 4-1 Kentucky Wildcats win have a 21-17 lead over the 1:57:45.100 --> 1:57:52.180 10th-ranked LSU Tigers at Kroger Stadium or Kroger Field? Kroger 1:57:52.260 --> 1:57:59.270 Field at Commonwealth Stadium in beautiful Lexington, Kentucky. Man, I'm 1:57:59.310 --> 1:58:01.550 hoping the Wildcats can hold on and win that game. 1:58:02.590 --> 1:58:05.110 And at the 536 mark of the second quarter, the 1:58:05.150 --> 1:58:09.200 Georgia Bulldogs, number two ranked in the nation. They're in 1:58:09.240 --> 1:58:12.860 Tuscaloosa to face the sixth ranked Alabama Crimson Tide with 1:58:12.900 --> 1:58:19.410 Georgia holding a 10-7 lead. USC, the Trojans, the 211 1:58:19.410 --> 1:58:23.250 mark of the second quarter. The 19th ranked Trojans have 1:58:23.290 --> 1:58:26.870 a 17-14 lead over the Nittany Lions at Penn State. 1:58:29.260 --> 1:58:35.170 12th-ranked Utah, a 14-7 lead. Early second quarter over visiting Kansas. 1:58:37.590 --> 1:58:43.390 And the finals now. Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping 1:58:43.450 --> 1:58:44.110 down the plane. 1:58:44.130 --> 1:58:44.630 27-24 winners. 1:58:44.650 --> 1:58:46.370 Upsetting No. 1-ranked Texas Longhorns, 27-24. 1:58:47.300 --> 1:58:47.420 No. 1:58:47.440 --> 1:59:01.530 3-ranked Notre Dame crushes Stanford, 58-7 in Ohio State. Fifth-ranked, 1:59:01.550 --> 1:59:06.370 45-16 over Maryland. And seventh-ranked, Indiana. Ekes out a 20-17 1:59:06.570 --> 1:59:14.210 victory at Nebraska. And for Ohio State, Julian Sane, 13-21 1:59:14.270 --> 1:59:18.410 for 242 yards and four touchdowns. And Jeremiah Smith, four 1:59:18.470 --> 1:59:25.320 catches for 93 yards and a couple of touchdowns. Ole 1:59:25.360 --> 1:59:29.120 Miss over Vanderbilt. UCLA upsets Oregon. 1:59:31.000 --> 1:59:31.560 17-15. 1:59:31.580 --> 1:59:36.140 Hey, and this has been Sports Talk. And until next time, 1:59:36.680 --> 1:59:40.400 this is the Chickster, Chick Ludwig, saying thanks for listening 1:59:41.480 --> 1:59:44.210 to the home of the Reds and the best Bengals coverage, 1:59:44.210 --> 1:59:45.690 700 WLW. 1:59:46.590 --> 1:59:53.490 News, traffic, and weather. News Radio 700 WLW. Cincinnati. 1:59:59.930 --> 2:00:04.160 Tragic pond discovery in Warren County with the 9 o'clock report. 2:00:04.500 --> 2:00:08.480 Travis Laird breaking now. A search for a missing 10-year-old 2:00:08.560 --> 2:00:12.690 nonverbal autistic boy has ended in tragedy in Warren County. 2:00:12.710 --> 2:00:16.240 Hamilton Township Police responded to a missing child report. Around 2:00:16.240 --> 2:00:19.960 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon in the Hammerwood Court subdivision, 2:00:20.200 --> 2:00:26.770 first responders from Hamilton Township Fire and Rescue alongside Deerfield 2:00:26.810 --> 2:00:30.650 Township deployed water recovery teams discovering the child's body in 2:00:30.670 --> 2:00:34.690 a nearby subdivision pond shortly thereafter. Police confirm an active 2:00:34.730 --> 2:00:39.080 investigation is underway. There is no indication of criminal activity. Now, 2:00:40.000 --> 2:00:42.800 taking a look at the latest traffic and weather together. 2:00:43.320 --> 2:00:45.240 Looks like no major accidents or slowdowns.