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Speaker 1: a busy college basketball weekend to talk about. Bruce Pearl

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Speaker 1: The Bengals have passed an early season test this and

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Speaker 1: an extraordinarily important offseason. If the Bengals are going to

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Speaker 1: have lost their first two games post Olympic break. There

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Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden tonight to take on the New

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Speaker 1: York Rangers. You are caught up.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: This hit the internet and went viral. More on Dalton

434
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Speaker 1: Rise Ern the Bengals coming up here in a little bit.

435
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Speaker 1: Miami plays Toledo tomorrow and then the RedHawks will play

436
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Speaker 1: oh you in Athens on Friday, and if Miami wins

437
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Speaker 1: both of those games, they will have gotten through the

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Speaker 1: regular season with an unblemished record. And obviously with each

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Speaker 1: game that the RedHawks win, like ideally this is a

440
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Speaker 1: moot point, because they win the MAC Tournament and they're

441
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Speaker 1: in as the max automatic qualify fire at that point.

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Speaker 1: If they do that with no losses, it'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see where they get seated in the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 1: But yes, it is totally fair to wonder what will

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Speaker 1: happen with Miami if the RedHawks lose a game. Now,

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Speaker 1: if they lose a game in the regular season, had

447
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Speaker 1: they lost that game on Friday, that would have been

448
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Speaker 1: a Q four loss. That would have been devastating to

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Speaker 1: the RedHawks. If they win these last two games and

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Speaker 1: then lose in the MAC Tournament, I guess the question becomes, well,

451
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Speaker 1: when did they lose and who did they lose to?

452
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Speaker 1: But they're at large. Bona Fides are one of the

453
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Speaker 1: hotter topics in all of college basketball right now, so

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Speaker 1: much so that it was brought up on TNT's coverage

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Speaker 1: of college basketball this weekend. TNT has been awesome covering

456
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Speaker 1: college hoops. There's a real big game field to a

457
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Speaker 1: lot of the games, even some games that aren't quite

458
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Speaker 1: that big. But as one might imagine, Miami's NCAA tournament

459
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Speaker 1: bonafide did get discussed, and these comments from Bruce Pearl

460
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Speaker 1: have drawn the ire of a lot of Redhawk supporters.

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Speaker 7: Miami or howe, here's the deal. Are we gonna select

462
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Speaker 7: the sixty eight most deserving teams or are we gonna

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Speaker 7: sixty select the sixty eight best teams. If we're selecting

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Speaker 7: the sixty eight best teams, then Mimbo how is gonna

465
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Speaker 7: have to win their tournament to qualify as a champion

466
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Speaker 7: because as in at large, they are not one of

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Speaker 7: the best teams in the country and that's gonna be

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Speaker 7: a difficult choice for the committee to make.

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Speaker 1: So, and the ad David Saylor, has clap back at him.

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Speaker 1: I guess Bruce also said that Miami would finish in

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Speaker 1: last place in the Big East. I didn't see that,

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Speaker 1: didn't hear that. I was not watching T and T

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Speaker 1: or True TV whatever it was when Bruce Pearl made

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Speaker 1: those comments. I did see that they, as we say,

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Speaker 1: went viral. So let me give you my take on Miami,

476
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Speaker 1: and it's it's really been unchanged. If they pull this off,

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Speaker 1: if they win their last two games, and they'll be

478
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Speaker 1: favorite at home tomorrow against Toledo, Kenpalm dot Com gives

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Speaker 1: them a seventy eight percent chance of winning, and I

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Speaker 1: believe they'll be favored against Ohio, a team they beat

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Speaker 1: by sixteen at Malett Hall. That game would be on Friday.

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Speaker 1: They're given us seventy four percent chance of winning that game.

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Speaker 1: That point thirty one to oh Now, for the purposes

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Speaker 1: of seeding them and selecting them to the tournament, they

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Speaker 1: would be twenty eight to zero because they had three

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Speaker 1: non D one games that don't count. But they will

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Speaker 1: have pulled this off. If they do, I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna make it. The schedule lack thereof, you might argue,

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Speaker 1: is going to be considered will make their seed ceiling

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Speaker 1: very very low. But I would be really surprised, and

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Speaker 1: I'm no bracketologists, but I'd be very surprised if the

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Speaker 1: committee ignores the zero and simply does not put them

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Speaker 1: in the tournament. That would be surprised me. That has

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Speaker 1: been my take all along. And there's there's there's not

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Speaker 1: there's taking two teams from what has historically been a

496
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Speaker 1: one bid league. And there's you know, understanding that the

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Speaker 1: schedule is weak, there's no getting around it. And and

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Speaker 1: you could factor all of that in. We're not talking

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Speaker 1: about a team with two losses or four losses or

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Speaker 1: or one loss We're talking about a team that will

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Speaker 1: have gotten through its full season, played an entire conference schedule,

502
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Speaker 1: having to go on the road, having played the last

503
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Speaker 1: month or so with a target on their back because

504
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Speaker 1: of having no losses. It cannot help but believe that

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Speaker 1: the tournament selection committee will honor the zero and pick them.

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Speaker 1: So that's been my take for like three weeks. That said,

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Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl is not necessarily wrong, Like that's not me

508
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Speaker 1: saying it. Let's just let's look for example at Kenpalm

509
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Speaker 1: dot com, where the RedHawks are the eighty seventh ranked team,

510
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Speaker 1: like behind teams that have no prayer of making the tournament,

511
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Speaker 1: like Notre Dame, like Mississippi, like George Washington, like Syracuse, Hell,

512
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Speaker 1: they have nearly double the Kem Palm rating of Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: and Cincinnati is a fringe bubble team. Maybe a little

514
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Speaker 1: bit less fringe, but still a bubble team that wouldn't

515
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Speaker 1: be in the tournament right now if the bracket were

516
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Speaker 1: being drawn up. They've got a ton of work to do. So,

517
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Speaker 1: like Bruce Pearl, is not necessarily wrong that you could

518
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Speaker 1: look at Miami versus the field, versus all the other

519
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Speaker 1: teams and you could conclude that they're not one of

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Speaker 1: the best sixty eight teams or not one of the

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Speaker 1: best thirty seven at large teams. That is reasonable. It

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Speaker 1: is also reasonable to say, look the schedule being what

523
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Speaker 1: it is, the flaws of being well established, you simply

524
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Speaker 1: cannot exclude a team that went through the entire regular

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Speaker 1: season without losing a game. Like there's there's room for

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Speaker 1: multiple truths. Miami is an extreme example. Every year there

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Speaker 1: are teams that post really good records that have no

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Speaker 1: chance of getting in as an at large because they're

529
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Speaker 1: not one of the best at large teams. But we

530
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Speaker 1: haven't had anything like this, And if you want to

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Speaker 1: use history as a guy, you know, Saint Joe's in

532
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Speaker 1: two thousand and four went twenty seven to zero, lost

533
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Speaker 1: famously to Xavier in the Atlantic ten Tournament. Not only

534
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Speaker 1: got in, got in as a one seed. Nobody is

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Speaker 1: making the case that Miami should be seated first or

536
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Speaker 1: fifth or anywhere with a single digit next to their name.

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Speaker 1: Now maybe that changes if they win these next two

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Speaker 1: games and then win the MAC Tournament. So, like Bruce

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Speaker 1: Parl is not necessarily wrong, you could argue, and I

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Speaker 1: think successfully, He's maybe not the person that you want

541
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Speaker 1: to hear this from because he coached Auburn until the

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Speaker 1: day before practice started and then he left basically engineered

543
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Speaker 1: things so that the school had no choice but to

544
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Speaker 1: hire his son. His son's team has been very much

545
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Speaker 1: a bubble team this year. I felt like it burst

546
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Speaker 1: this weekend. And so is he coming from a completely

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Speaker 1: objective place. I don't know that the answer is yes

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Speaker 1: or no, but it's fair to wonder. So, like if

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Speaker 1: anybody else says that he's on set with Jamal Mashburn,

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Speaker 1: Jamal Mashburn, who I think is like a blossom does

551
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Speaker 1: a color commentator doing college games for Turner. If that's

552
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Speaker 1: Jamal Mashburn saying that with no emotional skin in the

553
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Speaker 1: game because his kid's not coaching Auburn, maybe it's taken

554
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Speaker 1: a little bit differently. But when you remove that and

555
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Speaker 1: just look at the comments or listen to them, like,

556
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of metrics that will tell you that

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Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl is not wrong. That said, we're we're not

558
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Speaker 1: talking about a four loss Miami team, or a two

559
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Speaker 1: loss Miami team, or again right now, at least a

560
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Speaker 1: one loss Miami team. This will change entirely. Perhaps if

561
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Speaker 1: they lose one of the next two and losing Cleveland

562
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Speaker 1: in the MAC Tournament, my guess is then they're on

563
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Speaker 1: the outside looking in. But it's a team that won

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Speaker 1: all their games. It's something extreme. It's an extreme example

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Speaker 1: of a team succeeding in part at least due to

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Speaker 1: the schedule. And so for me, I just could be

567
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Speaker 1: dead wrong about this. There's no shortage of people I'm

568
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Speaker 1: sure who would disagree. I think if a team gets

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Speaker 1: through a four month season without losing a game, I

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Speaker 1: care about the schedule. The schedule will impact their seating.

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Speaker 1: Their schedule is why we're talking about them. To begin with.

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Speaker 1: There are not that many other teams in college basketball

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Speaker 1: that if they were undefeated on March second, we would

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Speaker 1: still be wondering are they going to make the tournament.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like the schedule is being ignored. But

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Speaker 1: sure it's fair to say they're probably not one of

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Speaker 1: the best sixty eight teams. A lot of metrics will

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Speaker 1: tell you that. Now the net rating has them within

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Speaker 1: the best sixty eight teams. But you know, it's interesting

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Speaker 1: when they release the preliminary bracket. I heard nobody with

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Speaker 1: the committee use the net rating as something that they

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Speaker 1: talked about. We'll see. Ideally, Travis Steel's team wins the

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Speaker 1: next two. They went out in Cleveland, and they go

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Speaker 1: into the NCAA tournament basically as the automatic qualifier, and

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Speaker 1: they have a zero in the lost column, and then

586
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Speaker 1: they're even more interesting once the tournament gets here. But like,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's taken a Bruce Pearl's taking a lot

588
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Speaker 1: of heat. Sure it's coming at him on social media.

589
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl opines about a lot of things that have

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with sports, and so for that reason,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's why he's in a lot of people's crosshairs.

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Speaker 1: But as it relates to his specific criticism of the RedHawks,

593
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Speaker 1: like that's not coming from a it's not coming from

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Speaker 1: a crazy place. That's not a hot take. He just

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Speaker 1: might not be the person to be able to objectively

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Speaker 1: opine on on Miami's resume and their bonafides, because you

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Speaker 1: could wonder whether or not he's being objective due to

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Speaker 1: the fact that the Sun coaches Auburn. That's it twelve

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Speaker 1: and four. Your phone calls are coming up at five

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Speaker 1: touched on the Bearcats, who win again. And you talk

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Speaker 1: about there being multiple truths. This is something we discuss

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Speaker 1: all the time. There's room for multiple truths when it

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Speaker 1: comes to UC basketball. Will do that coming up in

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Speaker 1: This report is Wayne has gone deep his second of

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Speaker 1: the spring. That's the good news. They're winning the game

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Speaker 1: on the hill for Cincinnati after Brady Singer win two,

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Speaker 1: a better second inning than his first. Ma mclan is

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Speaker 1: now batting five thirty eight during Cactus League games. You

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Speaker 1: are reasonable if you go that that that's nice, but

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Speaker 1: it doesn't guarantee that he's gonna have a productive season

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. That's fine, but it's it's okay

626
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Speaker 1: to look for signs that might suggest that possibly he'll

627
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Speaker 1: be better this coming season than he was last year.

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Speaker 1: Ma mclan is a huge part of this organization. He's

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Speaker 1: a huge part of this team, and like it is,

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Speaker 1: as as much as we've talked about a Uhaneo Soarez

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Speaker 1: McClain as a cornerstone. The leash for him last season

633
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: was exceptionally long. There were times last year where I

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Speaker 1: didn't necessarily understand why we did the whole thing in

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Speaker 1: April and May last year about worrying about Matt McClain

636
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Speaker 1: versus not worrying about Matt mcclan. The reality is, like,

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Speaker 1: this team's chances of being better offensively are enhanced the

638
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Speaker 1: more players that they have that have quality seasons. You

639
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: can't have that many guys who have seasons that look

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Speaker 1: like Matt mcclin's last year. And by the way, like

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Speaker 1: I mean thinking about Key Brian Hayes a lot, Key

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Speaker 1: Brian Hayes is a below average offensive player. And that's

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Speaker 1: putting it gently. In a day and age, and this

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Speaker 1: is a somewhat harsh way of looking at it, but

645
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Speaker 1: in a day and age where the pitcher no longer bats,

646
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Speaker 1: the Reds still have a guy who basically represents close

647
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Speaker 1: to an automatic out. Now those words will be thrown

648
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Speaker 1: in my face the first time Key Brian Hayes has

649
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: a big offense game. But if you're going to accept

650
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Speaker 1: his offensive deficiencies because he's that great with the glove,

651
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Speaker 1: that's cool, But it does put a little bit more

652
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: pressure on some of the other guys on the team.

653
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: You can't have more than one offensive zero. Last year,

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00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: at times it felt like Matt McLain was an offensive zero.

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Speaker 1: He has been, excuse me, so far, anything but an

656
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Speaker 1: offensive zero in the Cactus League. And Matt McClain homeward

657
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Speaker 1: for the second time this spring. None of that guarantees anything.

658
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,919
Speaker 1: This team desperately needs Matt McClain to be better. It's

659
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Speaker 1: reasonable to look for things that happened during the spring

660
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,959
Speaker 1: that would suggest that maybe we're going to see better

661
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Speaker 1: results this year. And Noele Marte went deep as well,

662
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Speaker 1: his first of the spring, both homers off the Cubs

663
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Speaker 1: starter Jamison Tyn. Obviously, we'll update you on that as

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Speaker 1: the afternoon unfolds on what looks like a gorgeous afternoon

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Speaker 1: in Goodyear. I like it when they play the Cubs

666
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Speaker 1: because the ballpark looks full. Let's face it, not a

667
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Speaker 1: lot of folks go to Goodyear. Most Reds home spring

668
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Speaker 1: training games aren't played in front of that many people,

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Speaker 1: but there are teams. You know, the Cubs have been

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Speaker 1: training there for decades. They have a big spring training park.

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Speaker 1: Always a lot of folks that go to Goodyear when

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Speaker 1: it's the Cubs, when it's the Dodgers, when it's the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Today is to day where it looks like the park

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Speaker 1: is not to capacity, but fuller than it usually is.

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Speaker 1: the mock drafts so you don't have to, and he

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Speaker 1: was terrific. So is Kelsey Conway who joined us from

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Speaker 1: the Combine. So is Paul Danner Junior who joined us

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Speaker 1: was awesome as well. If you missed any of the

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Speaker 1: really good Combine stuff from this show last week, make

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Speaker 1: phone number. By the way, Dalton Reisner is back. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about what's next there and more on the college

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Speaker 1: troops from this weekend as well. I'm Aleager. This is

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Speaker 1: ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station, looking for the park

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Speaker 1: at Cincinnati's Sports Station, ESPN fifteen thirty. That's us good

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Speaker 1: afternoons fifteen thirty Moeger, Thanks for listening today and hope

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Speaker 1: you had a good weekend and survived all the winter

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Speaker 1: weather we didn't get this morning. My daughter last night's

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Speaker 1: like delay. I think we got a delay. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: see think we got school. Oh and it like rained

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Speaker 1: overnight so she had to go uh five fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 1: We'll take phone calls in just a second. The I

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Speaker 1: guess the big story of the day today the Bengals

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Speaker 1: got a deal with Dault Reisner done, which today is

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Speaker 1: the day that I've I've used the word layup more

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Speaker 1: than at any point in the history of this show.

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Speaker 1: I've used it more in reference to the Bengals signing

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Speaker 1: a guy that I have any area college basketball team.

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Speaker 1: This was the first test to pass this offseason, and

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Speaker 1: they did. Now the next layup is getting deals done

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Speaker 1: with Dax Hill and DJ Turner. Now it's not Apple's apples.

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Speaker 1: Dalton Reisner was due to be a free agent. Either

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Speaker 1: DJ or Dax or due to be free agents. Dalton

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Speaker 1: Reisner was telling everybody like, hey, man, I want to

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Speaker 1: sign a deal with the Bengals. Is not gonna cost

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Speaker 1: all that much. Go ahead and keep me. You're not

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Speaker 1: getting something similar from either DJ or Dax, but like

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Speaker 1: this to me will be We talk about litmus tests sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Want to show me you're different. Want to show all

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Speaker 1: of us you're different. Instead of screwing around the way

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Speaker 1: you have with so many other players you've been in

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00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: contract disputes with. Find a way to get deals done

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00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: reasonably early with DJ Turner and Dax Hill. By the way,

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Speaker 1: if I was either DJ or Dax, which I wish,

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Speaker 1: I wish, I wish I was, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I'm signing something here before free agency. I want to

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Speaker 1: see what happens to the cornerback market during free agency.

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Speaker 1: I want to have a better idea of maybe what

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Speaker 1: I could get once a whole slew of uh free

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Speaker 1: agent quarterback sign like the markets can change. A salary cap,

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00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: by the way, has gone up per team north of

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars, like I don't think it's reasonable to

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Speaker 1: expect it either player signs right now. And the Bengals

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Speaker 1: have had a hard time, by their own admission, multitasking

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Speaker 1: in recent years. And so okay, fine, focus in the

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Speaker 1: short term and acquiring players from outside. But let's avoid

742
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Speaker 1: this sort of thing that we've had with other players before,

743
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: seeping into training camp, becoming a distraction, kind of taking

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Speaker 1: on lives of their own. You want these two players,

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00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 1: these two players want to stay here. You're going to

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Speaker 1: offer both players some degree of financial security, like it

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00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: might not be next chronologically, but it should be on

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Speaker 1: the list of relatively easy things we have to do.

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Speaker 1: Let's avoid Dax Hill and DJ Turner's contracts becoming a

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Speaker 1: thing because the Bengals have dealt with way too many

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Speaker 1: things here in recent years. We'll see, but the Dalton

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00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: Reiser thing is done good for them. I talked last

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Speaker 1: hour about the Miami Radhawks. The UC Bearcats are being mentioned.

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Speaker 1: If you read articles like bubble Watch, a. Cincinnati still

755
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 1: needs a lot to happen to make the NCAA Tournament,

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Speaker 1: starting with beating BYU and AJ DEBANSA tomorrow at home.

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Speaker 1: By the way, chances are you know this, if you

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Speaker 1: care about UC hoops at all, that was a seven

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00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: o'clock game. It's now a nine o'clock game. That is

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Speaker 1: not going to be easy. And winning on the road

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Speaker 1: at TCU on Saturday also not going to be easy.

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Speaker 1: So start there, and then they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: win some games in Kansas City. Now they may avoid

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Speaker 1: the first day, maybe have to win two, maybe have

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Speaker 1: to win three. They have a ton of work to do.

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Speaker 1: I hate to say this as a UC fan, but

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Speaker 1: the odds are not in their favor. They have no

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Speaker 1: five game winning streak this season. If they win the

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Speaker 1: next two, that's three consecutive wins, then two in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: that's five. They will have done something they haven't done

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Speaker 1: all season long. They will have won a home over BYU.

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Speaker 1: I've not seen a betting line out, but Ken Palm

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Speaker 1: does not like the Bearcats chances of winning the game.

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Speaker 1: They should be road dogs against TCU, could be a

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Speaker 1: dog in any of those games in Kansas City, and

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Speaker 1: some of the teams that are trying to leapfrog have

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Speaker 1: to help. Cincinnati got some help from Seaton Hall losing

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Speaker 1: this weekend, they got some help from Ohio State, and

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Speaker 1: not Ohio State. Indiana losing this weekend, although not a

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Speaker 1: terrible loss, didn't get any help from Ohio State. Like

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Speaker 1: that's the part of this that sometimes we don't consider. Like,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's say Cincinnati is team number seventy six

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Speaker 1: or seventy seven. To go from seventy six or seventy

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Speaker 1: seven to sixty eight, some of those teams between you

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00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: and sixty eight have to be complicit in their own demise,

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Speaker 1: so it will take a ton. The frustrating thing is

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Speaker 1: it'll take a ton for them to be a tournament team.

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Speaker 1: But right now they are playing like one, and it

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Speaker 1: may be too little too late, maybe too little too

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00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: late for UC's tournament chances. I guess time will tell

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Speaker 1: if it's too little too late for West Miller, which

792
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: that conversation has changed entirely, But they have spent the

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00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:37,399
Speaker 1: last three weeks not playing flawlessly again. The barometer here

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Speaker 1: is tournament team. The bar to clear is tournament team.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's saying that they're playing like a Final four team.

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00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: Nobody is saying they're playing like the best team in

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Speaker 1: the Big twelve or a top ten or top five team.

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Speaker 1: Playing like a tournament team. Playing like a tournament team

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Speaker 1: allows for some shaky performances in games that you still

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Speaker 1: win like Utah, allows for losses on the road to

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Speaker 1: good teams like the one to Texas Tech six days ago.

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Speaker 1: But for the most part over the last few weeks,

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00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: they have legitimately played well in four of the games

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Speaker 1: they've been in. Scored ninety two against UCF, absolutely smoked

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00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: a bad Kansas State team, won by sixteen points on

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Speaker 1: the road against Kansas, and essentially toyed with Oklahoma State

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. In between, there the close call against Utah,

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00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: which that game was way closer than it should have been.

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Speaker 1: In the loss of Texas Tech. For the most part,

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Speaker 1: over the last three plus weeks, the bear Cats have

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Speaker 1: looked and played like an NCAA tournament team, and that

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Speaker 1: is it's something that you could talk from a standpoint

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Speaker 1: of admiration that a lot of us counted this team

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Speaker 1: out three weeks ago. You know, they scored fifty four

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Speaker 1: at home to West Virginia, West Miller in the postgame

816
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: show is bearing his soul, and frankly, that kind of

817
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: felt like the end, and you kind of wondered a

818
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: lot of us did at that point, like how much

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00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: worse can can this get? Will it get sideways? And

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00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: it hasn't. The play is improved. Their big man Combo

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00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: is terrific, and Boba Miller and Mustafa Cham they're making shots,

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Speaker 1: and when you're making shots, it just makes you look

823
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 1: better than you are. But they've run some decent offense.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that they've carved out an identity, but

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Speaker 1: they scored ninety two in one game, ninety two in

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Speaker 1: another game the other day on offense, ninety one against

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, eighty four on the road against Kansas Like

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good sample size of games help for

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Speaker 1: what it's worth. They lost the game, shot poorly over

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Speaker 1: the final thirty minutes, made their first nine shots against

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech. They look like and are playing like an

832
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament team right now. That obviously doesn't mean they're

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00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,760
Speaker 1: going to be one. Can't emphasize this enough. The number

834
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Speaker 1: of things that have to happen for them to even

835
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Speaker 1: have a chance to have their name called on selections

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Speaker 1: sound is longer than any of us would like to admit,

837
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: but it does say something about the collective group and yes,

838
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 1: the head coach that when they were being counted out

839
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. From then to now they've rallied. It's

840
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: also deeply frustrating because and Tony has talked about this

841
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: a lot, and it just you could dwell on it

842
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: too much. If they beat Eastern michiganan Xavier, they're eighteen

843
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: and eleven with a five hundred record in Big twelve play,

844
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: no bad losses, and not only are they probably an

845
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament, we're talking about what seed they could get

846
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: today instead of how they have to scratch and claw

847
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: their way in. Again, the odds are not in their favor.

848
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm the very first to admit that. But the frustrating

849
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: thing is the way they're playing now, like they've shown

850
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: their potential. They've shown their potential over the last couple

851
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: of weeks. Boba Miller has been terrific, but Staffa Chom

852
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: has been really good. It feels like roles are being

853
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 1: carved out and this is all stuff we hoped we

854
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: would have seen back in November and December so we'll

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Speaker 1: see conversation can shift a little bit if they went

856
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Speaker 1: at home tomorrow against BYU, can continue to shift if

857
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Speaker 1: they went on Saturday against TCU, and then you could

858
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Speaker 1: legitimately talk about the Big Twelve Tournament as a chance

859
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: giving them a chance to play themselves in. And the

860
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: good news is they're trending upward in terms of what

861
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: they're putting on the floor. It's when you look at

862
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Speaker 1: the team sheet that there's a couple of things keeping

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Speaker 1: them from the outside looking in, namely the thirteen in

864
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: the lost column. Fourteen minutes after four o'clock. Over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: Kentucky wins. It kind of feels like Kentucky has played

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Speaker 1: itself back into being a lock for the NCAA Tournament

867
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Speaker 1: by beating Vanderbilt at home. I want Bruce Thornton to

868
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Speaker 1: get a chance of playing the Big dance. Ohio State

869
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Speaker 1: wins kind of an interesting game yesterday afternoon where the

870
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Speaker 1: the Buck guys at home take care of a Purdue

871
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Speaker 1: team that feels like it's going in the wrong direction

872
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Speaker 1: and Xavier over the weekend. I think for about five

873
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: minutes midway through that game on Saturday, you kind of

874
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: wondered are they actually going to lose a home to Georgetown.

875
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: The Musketeers do win, and they they do have a chance.

876
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, They'll play Seaton Hall tomorrow at

877
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: home final regular season home game, final home game for

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Speaker 1: the Musketeers, and then go to Villanova. If they win

879
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Speaker 1: those last two, they'll finish the regular season with a

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00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: winning record. And back in November, there is no one

881
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Speaker 1: who thought that that was even a possibility. And it's

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Speaker 1: at least one now. And I had one other thing

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Speaker 1: and I totally neglected it. Quarter after four. All right,

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Speaker 1: I'm McClean just homeward again. Twelve six. There scoring some

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Speaker 1: runs in good here today danger number three of the

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Speaker 1: Cactus League for Matt. Yeah, give me the audio, let's

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Speaker 1: hear the homer to legit quid tmmer just just to

901
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Speaker 1: mean a full time while you uh okay, Matt McClain

902
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: has driven in six runs. It's twelve six. Brady Singer

903
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: started the game for Cincinnati. His first inning did not

904
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Speaker 1: go well. It's it's been that's been a little bit

905
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Speaker 1: of a recurring theme because Hunter Green got clubbed by

906
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: the Brewers on a Saturday. But Matt mcclan's been doing

907
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:22,359
Speaker 1: some clubbing three homers this spring too. Today Red's still

908
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Speaker 1: batting up twelve to six, bottom of the thirty and

909
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Speaker 1: given the highlight tarn.

910
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 8: They's hit could tie it up. The pitch and McClean swings,

911
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,240
Speaker 8: he hammers it. This ball is tagged to left field

912
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 8: and deep and way out of here, to the back

913
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Speaker 8: of the Burma, three run blast for Matt McClain to

914
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Speaker 8: put the Reds on.

915
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: Top at six to four. That was the first one.

916
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Speaker 9: Old, there's a second one and that has hit swung

917
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,879
Speaker 9: on and hit well by mcclan over the center fielders.

918
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,360
Speaker 1: And that one has gone.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, a two home run day for Matt McClain won

920
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Speaker 9: the left center field, a three run bomb here in

921
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Speaker 9: the third inning to right center field. And Welcome to

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Speaker 9: the Matt McClain Show.

923
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Speaker 1: Matt McClain, n L m VP odds coming up in

924
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Speaker 1: just a few minutes. Tommy Thrall and Chris Welsh on

925
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Speaker 1: the Reds Radio Network and seven hundred WLW All right, Uh, oh,

926
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They're on thirteen sixty today. Yes, yeah, well

927
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Speaker 1: don't lease should be listening to us, and they're on

928
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports thirteen sixty today. Very good, very good, which

929
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Speaker 1: means we're preempting what are were were you preempting? Which

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Speaker 1: show would be on Fox Sports? Doug Gotten? It's not

931
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Speaker 1: Oh it's Stu Gotts, that's right, ste Gotts. Yes, all right,

932
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Speaker 1: very good. Here, Uh Mike, go ahead. You're on ESPN

933
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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty. Good afternoon, Mike. How are you.

934
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Speaker 8: I'm always better, I'm always better.

935
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Speaker 1: Part well, thank you very much. Can you can you

936
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Speaker 1: take me off the speaker phone please? Well? I was

937
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Speaker 1: just I understand all good, All good, Mike? What on

938
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Speaker 1: your mind?

939
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,879
Speaker 2: Tons of stuff. They usually okay, But I will tell

940
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Speaker 2: you one thing, because of the moeger affinity for cool

941
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Speaker 2: or for warm weather. It's seventy five degrees with eighteen

942
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Speaker 2: percent humidity. I'm sitting out on the leni, which is

943
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Speaker 2: a patio, looking at the specific ocean. But I only

944
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Speaker 2: get to do that for about fifteen minutes twice a day.

945
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Speaker 2: It's kind of like being in prisoned. But you would

946
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Speaker 2: love it, Mo, You would love it. I'm telling you

947
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Speaker 2: you would love it. You'd be out there at Tory

948
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Speaker 2: Pines every day playing with so Lefty so Nickelson.

949
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Speaker 1: What is the greens for your Tory Pines run?

950
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Speaker 2: You really want to know?

951
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:43,439
Speaker 1: Yeah?

952
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, about eight hundred and fifty All.

953
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Speaker 1: Right, little rich for my blood. Well I am. I

954
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Speaker 1: am headed to Arizona later this week, and maybe the

955
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: weather isn't quite as good as it is where you are,

956
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Speaker 1: but my understanding is the weather in Arizona this coming

957
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Speaker 1: weekend is going to be awesome. There'll be no humidity,

958
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: that's for sure. A lot of baseball beer, I can't wait.

959
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of sunshine, so he'll be a happy camper.

960
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 2: I love this Dalton Riisoner things. I am the biggest

961
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Speaker 2: fan of Dalton and Raising right now, he is my

962
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Speaker 2: dude boy, and I hope he makes all pro this year.

963
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 2: But you know, he reminds me of you a little bit,

964
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Speaker 2: and I'll tell you why.

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00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: Okay, I've never been compared to an NFL guard before.

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Speaker 2: Well, this wouldn't be from a physical standpoint, This would

967
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 2: be from me in a general context. What what we

968
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Speaker 2: like about him is his enthusiasm for being in Cincinnati.

969
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 2: I love that part to that in the clubhouses, and

970
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 2: his compliments for mister Ted Carriss are wonderful. But the

971
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Speaker 2: real correlation with you is that you love being in Cincinnati.

972
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 2: And like you said, he doesn't cost much and you

973
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 2: don't cost a hurt very much.

974
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Speaker 1: We're very similar in that regard. Yes, yes, now Dalton

975
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: Reiser does cost more than me, but yes, we both

976
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Speaker 1: love Cincinnati. I've been here longer and neither one of

977
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Speaker 1: us demand a hefty salary. Yes, that is that, but

978
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: you know what it's there's something about that, Mike.

979
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Speaker 7: Like.

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00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 1: This past Bengals season was miserable. This was not a

981
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: fun year. Burrow gets hurt, defense terrible, They lose a

982
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: bunch of games they should win. Basically, out of the

983
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: hunt by early November. Just a thoroughly miserable season. To

984
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: have somebody before the thoroughly miserable season even technically ends,

985
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: step out and say I want to be here, I

986
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:52,400
Speaker 1: want to be a part of this was refreshing. Was

987
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 1: very refreshing, And there's maybe reasons for that to go

988
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: beyond what we see on the field, but that was

989
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: at the the end of a season where all we

990
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: did was talk about, like, God, does Burrow really want

991
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: to stay here? And trust me, if the Bengals lose

992
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 1: more this season and don't make the playoffs, those conversations

993
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: are only going to be amplified. But to hear a

994
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Speaker 1: guy who had a good season and may have free

995
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: agency options state actually, I love it here and I

996
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: want to be here. Let's go ahead and get this

997
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: done was extraordinarily refreshing.

998
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 2: Oh again, it has to be somewhat contagious in the clubhouse,

999
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 2: especially if the other guys you know, I can't respect him,

1000
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 2: what have you. But I think that's just.

1001
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Dalton talk today about Joe Burrow

1002
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Speaker 1: kind of doing what he could behind the scenes to

1003
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Speaker 1: help get this done. Now, look, I mean, he's got

1004
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: to play at a high level. The Bengals offensive line

1005
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,439
Speaker 1: collectively in twenty twenty six does need to be better

1006
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: than it was in twenty twenty five. But I think

1007
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: the fun thing about it is Number One, you got

1008
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Speaker 1: a player saying that he wants to be here, and

1009
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Speaker 1: then the Bengal going ahead and ensuring that he stays here.

1010
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: Number Two, if the trend we saw late in the season,

1011
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,919
Speaker 1: if the offensive line continues to progress at the level

1012
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: we saw late last year, it's fun to think about

1013
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: what this offense could be because for years it's been

1014
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Speaker 1: watching Joe Burrow in spite of his offensive line, watching

1015
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Speaker 1: the Bengals in spite of their offensive line, wondering, God,

1016
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Speaker 1: what could this ever look like if the Bengals ever

1017
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Speaker 1: actually had a good offensive line. Amarus Mems looks like

1018
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: he's going to be a really good NFL player. Dylan

1019
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: Fairchild looks like the guys which has a chance to

1020
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: be a solid NFL player. Ted Carris is still a

1021
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: solid NFL player, Dalton Reisner is a solid NFL player.

1022
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Speaker 1: I do wonder about Orlando Brown, what sort of version

1023
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: of him we see this year, But it legitimately does

1024
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: feel like they could have a bona fide good, maybe

1025
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: not great, maybe not elite, but good offensive line and

1026
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:59,479
Speaker 1: they haven't really had that in a decade.

1027
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 2: No, I remember you saying this even in the Super Bowl,

1028
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 2: You're your biggest fear for Jill was that damn cart Yes.

1029
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, you can play behind a great offensive

1030
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: line and still get hurt. It only takes one hit.

1031
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: But uh, it feels like they've tapped into something with

1032
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: two guys they've drafted. It feels like they found something

1033
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: with Dalton Reisner and they didn't screw it up and

1034
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Speaker 1: let him go elsewhere. And so that's that's a really

1035
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: good place to be when you start to talk about

1036
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: this season coming up, and you and you you start

1037
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: to imagine the possibilities for this offense. You can now

1038
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: do so not assuming that the offensive line is going

1039
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: to be a liability.

1040
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Speaker 2: Uh, I'm with you. Can I change. You re a

1041
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 2: quick to college hoop.

1042
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Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want, Mike. I know Florida

1043
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: one crushed Arkansas. You're excited about that?

1044
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 2: No, they are putting money in my pocket. Handle. They

1045
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 2: cover everything, They cover everything. I mean, this team is

1046
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 2: I you know, you can we can talk about Arizona

1047
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 2: and we can talk about Yukon and we can talk

1048
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 2: talk about it. They stay embarrassed. Arkansas did, and that's

1049
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 2: a good basketball team. What do you think about this?

1050
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 2: I mean, this thing is dangerous, both dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.

1051
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 1: Yes, we've we've talked about them a bunch. I did

1052
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Speaker 1: not see. I thought they would beat Arkansas. I didn't

1053
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 1: think it would be it was one eleven to seventy seven, right,

1054
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: one eleven to seventy six. I did. I didn't have

1055
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Speaker 1: them winning that gamey by twenty seven points. They were,

1056
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: they were favored by nine and a half, and I

1057
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: thought that was a little hefty. As good as Florida

1058
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Speaker 1: has been, I didn't see them winning by thirty four points,

1059
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Speaker 1: which ended up being the final margin. And by the way,

1060
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, for what it's worth. So you

1061
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: talk about them covering everything, Now that's they're speaking my language.

1062
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Speaker 1: Now Florida has covered as favorites. They have been favored

1063
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Speaker 1: in uh in every game they have played since since

1064
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Speaker 1: mid December if you look at but they've obviously won.

1065
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: I think it's eight consecutive games. They have covered in

1066
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Speaker 1: six of them. So you're right, they're they're covering and

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Speaker 1: they're covering big numbers. They're covering favored by fifteen, they're

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Speaker 1: covering favored by thirteen, they're covering favored by thirteen and

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Speaker 1: a half. They're covering favored by fifteen and a half.

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01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 1: And on Saturday against a good Arkansas team, they covered

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Speaker 1: by nine and a half.

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Speaker 2: And you know why because their guard play just keeps

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01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 2: it better and better and better. That kid they got

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01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 2: out of Princeton and they stole him, yes, I don't know,

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01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 2: I forget his name. He is really special. That kid's okay,

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01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 2: one more Reds thing if you'll allow me. Yeah, well,

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01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 2: so what what?

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Speaker 9: What's well?

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01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 2: Real quick? Before I get the hunt. I was just

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01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 2: I was able to start ticking up the KLAC Dodger

1081
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 2: playing training games the last few nights, and they you know,

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01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 2: I'm looking at this team though they have four left

1083
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 2: handed power hitters and three right handed power power is

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01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 2: it's not fair, but it is there because they're playing

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01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 2: and within the rules. As you say, So, what's up

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01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 2: with Hunter? What's this? I don't understand this ABS thing.

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01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 2: Explain this to me because I don't get it.

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01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: Well, I'll see if I could do this as as

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01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 1: best I possibly Hunter Green got just crushed in the

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01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: first inning against Milwaukee through twenty two pitches, gave up

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01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 1: a lot of hard contact. In spring training, you can

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01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: come out and then re enter the game, and so

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01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: he came out in the first in the first inning

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01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 1: without giving up an out, and then came back and

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Speaker 1: pitched the second inning. He was much better in the

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Speaker 1: second inning.

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Speaker 2: He was.

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Speaker 1: He talked after the game about how he's adjusting to

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Speaker 1: the ABS and so, you know, his approach was based

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Speaker 1: on the new system, and so he was throwing a

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01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: lot of pitches down the middle of the plate. When

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01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: you do that against a good team, he's trying to

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01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: figure out how you know that the ABS system is

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01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: going to work at the top of the zone. So

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01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 1: he was throwing a lot of pitches up and down

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01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 1: the middle of the plate. Big league hitters are are

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01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: going to hit that. In terms of like the the

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01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: dimensions of the strike zone, it's basically now the same

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Speaker 1: for everybody.

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Speaker 2: M Okay, well, yeah, I can't be for a guy

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01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 2: five to ten and the guy six or five.

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Speaker 1: It's basically is a roundabout way of putting it is

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01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: is typically like if you're a six foot six guy,

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01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: the strike zone has been I'm trying to figure out

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01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: the best way to do that. I'm doing a terrible

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01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: job the in fact, i'm gonna you know what I'm

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01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: gonna do. What I'm what I'm going to now, what

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01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm what I'm going to do is is read this verbatim.

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01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna read this. I'm gonna read this

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Speaker 1: verbatim so I don't screw this up now. Instead of

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Speaker 1: applying a standardized strike zone, ABS uses the batter's height

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01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: to set precise top and bottom boundaries. The top of

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Speaker 1: the strike zone is fifty three and a half percent

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01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 1: of a player's height and the bottom is twenty seven percent.

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01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: So they've they've detailed it based on I guess your height.

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01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,600
Speaker 1: But there's more room at the top of the zone

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01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: than it is at the bottom of the zone.

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense, Well, it seems like it does

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Speaker 2: compensate for a height different it does.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so I misspoke before in terms of it. In

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01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: terms of its implementation, that's not that hard to follow.

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Speaker 1: Each team gets two challenges. If you challenge a call

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01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 1: and it's a successful challenge, you retain your challenge. If

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01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: you challenge a call and you're not successful. You lose

1135
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: the challenge, you'll get an extra challenge, an extra innings.

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Speaker 1: Only a pitcher, a batter, or a catcher can challenge.

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01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: A lot of teams have told their pitchers don't challenge it.

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01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: We want to leave that up to the catcher because

1139
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: he's got a better view. It's simple. You got to

1140
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:08,240
Speaker 1: tap the top of your head. You don't have a

1141
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 1: lot of time. You got to do it right after

1142
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: a pitch. But in terms of like the way they've

1143
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: calibrated this, I've done a very poor job of explaining it.

1144
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: But I'll do a better job of understanding it by

1145
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 1: the time the season gets here.

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01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:20,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry.

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01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to put all good. I should have

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01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 1: had Mike, thank you. I should have had a better

1149
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,919
Speaker 1: answer for you, and I did not. But essentially, Hunter

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01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: Green on Saturday outlined why he left a lot of

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01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: pitches out and over the plate because he's he's essentially

1152
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: trying to get used to how the ABS system is

1153
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: going to work. I think as a replay device, it's

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01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: non intrusive, so I'm a fan, But it does seem

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01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 1: like and I made it sound as impossible to understand

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01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 1: as one possibly could. But it's gonna take some getting

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01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:58,720
Speaker 1: used to. There's a there's a flaw in my flaw

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01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 1: in my game, and it's it's it's not being able

1159
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: to totally articulate how the ABS system is going to work,

1160
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 1: and that's on me. Sports headlines are next on ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 1: Dalton Riisner to a one year contract for the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six season, eighth year player in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: As Dalton joined the Bengals last August. Played in fourteen games,

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Speaker 1: started eleven. By the way, the window to franchise tag

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Speaker 1: players closes tomorrow at four o'clock. Trey Hendrickson has yet

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01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 1: to be tagged, which means he has yet to be

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01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: tagged and traded. Reds are playing the Chicago Cubs right now,

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01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: bottom of the sixth inning. Cincinnati is a twelve six lead.

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01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 1: They trailed early for zip. Brady Singer gave up four

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Speaker 1: runs in the first since then an offensive explosion. Matt

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Speaker 1: McClain two homers he has driven in six, Noel de

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01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: Marte a couple of hits, including his first home run

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Speaker 1: of the Cactus League. Twelve six Reds as they bat

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01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 1: bottom of the fourth in Goodyear. One other NFL note,

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Speaker 1: Mount Healthy's David Montgomery traded by the Detroit Lions. Two

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. College basketball Miami up to nineteenth latest

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Speaker 1: AP Top twenty five men's college basketball poll. Kentucky enough

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Speaker 1: votes for twenty eighth, Louisville enough votes for twenty seventh.

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Speaker 1: Ohio State got one vote. The Richard Patino Radio Show

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Speaker 1: will be tonight at seven o'clock on fifty five KRC

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Speaker 1: and Hockey. This evening, the Blue Jackets try to break

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Speaker 1: a two game losing streak on the road at MSG

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Speaker 1: against the New York Rangers. Reds Today, by the way,

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Speaker 1: also sent to minor league camp Connor Burns, Michael Chavis,

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Speaker 1: Cam Collier, Carson Spyers, Michael Trollia, and Joel Valdez. Red's

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Speaker 1: camp roster down to fifty one. Opening day twenty four

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Speaker 1: days away. We will be at Smoke Justice. Don't forget.

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Speaker 1: Make your plans now three weeks from Thursday, broadcasting the

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Speaker 1: three of us together, Tony Austin and myself noon to

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Speaker 1: three Smoke Justice. It's going to be awesome. It will

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Speaker 1: be more awesome if you're there. I will be there.

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Speaker 1: Tarn Bland will be there.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: The entire ESPN fifteen thirty programming staff, full time programming staff,

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Speaker 1: willbe at Smoke Justice Thursday, March twenty sixth before the

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Speaker 1: Reds take on the Boston Red Sox. Can't wait, can't wait?

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Speaker 1: We have we have broadcasts from Smoke Justice. Like with

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Speaker 1: the exception of the COVID year every year since that

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Speaker 1: establishment opened up. Can't wait gonna be fun looking forward

1214
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, the Matt McClain thing is not insignificant.

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01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: Austin just said to me in the hallway, like, have

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Speaker 1: you looked up Matt McClain NLMVP odds yet and he

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01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: has not posted. Elie de la Cruz has Euhaneo Suarez has.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you could. You could overscore enough how

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01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 1: important Matt McClain is to this team. Like today he's

1220
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 1: he's batting second, and like the Reds offense had a

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01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 1: very low ceiling last year. They had no real offensive identity.

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Speaker 1: They should hit more home runs this season. Hopefully Sal

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Speaker 1: Stewart helps with that. By the way, sal Stewart has

1224
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:08,719
Speaker 1: a double today. Euhaneo Suarez was signed because he counted

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01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 1: the ball out of the ballpark. But they also weren't

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Speaker 1: very good at scoring in ways that didn't involve the

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01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: home run. They didn't run as much. They weren't a

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Speaker 1: great little ball team. They were sort of stationed to

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01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 1: station and they weren't constructed in a way that had

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys who were really good at getting

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01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: on base. Imagine what it would be like if this happened.

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01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: More home runs and more dudes getting on base at

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01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 1: the top of the order. Now. TJ. Friedel had a

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01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: good season last year, but the Reds two hole production

1235
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: was among the league's worst. Think of where this offense

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01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 1: can go, Let's look at it from a few different perspectives.

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01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:59,679
Speaker 1: One is obviously more dingers. If Gino is healthy, Let's

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01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: say he could hit thirty five, which would be way

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01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,559
Speaker 1: down from forty nine last year, but still thirty five homers.

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Speaker 1: If Sal Stewart makes the team, which everybody expects him to,

1241
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: maybe he can hit twenty five to thirty four them.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Ellie dela Cruz, hopefully healthy, hits more bombs,

1243
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,920
Speaker 1: so there's more power. However that may look, there should

1244
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:24,120
Speaker 1: be more power, there should be more running if Ellie

1245
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: dela Cruz is healthy. Like Terry Francona, I felt like

1246
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:32,639
Speaker 1: dialed back a little bit too much the daring nature

1247
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:35,680
Speaker 1: of the Reds offense from twenty twenty three. But I

1248
01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: do feel like if Ellie Delacruz's legs were where he

1249
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 1: and they and we want them to be, that they

1250
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 1: would have been a little bit more open to running

1251
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: last year. So you're expecting Ellie to run more If

1252
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:50,680
Speaker 1: Ellie runs more, the team is probably going to be

1253
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 1: better equipped to put more pressure on opposing defenses. And

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01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 1: then just figure what it would look like if the

1255
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: Reds two hole production was close to the top of

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01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:04,800
Speaker 1: the league or even just middle of the pack. And

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01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,840
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we dwell on Matt McClain's twenty twenty

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01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:09,719
Speaker 1: three a little bit too much because it was only

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01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: eighty nine games. There's a larger sample size of Matt

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01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,840
Speaker 1: McClain struggling at the big league level than there is

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01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:20,280
Speaker 1: of him having success at the big league level. But

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01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 1: if and it's a big if, if you can get

1263
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: all of those things to work, better production at the

1264
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: top of the order, more guys on base, healthier fast guy.

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01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: Now you're running more and more homers lower in the

1266
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Speaker 1: batting order. You know, the thing about last year is

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01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: Reds offense, as frustrating as it was at times, it's

1268
01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: not like they were dead last in the league and

1269
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 1: run scored. They were fourteenth in runs per game. Middle

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01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 1: of the pack. Got to be better than middle of

1271
01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:52,680
Speaker 1: the pack. But you're not trying to impro improve upon

1272
01:12:52,760 --> 01:12:54,640
Speaker 1: a place where you're like close to the worse in

1273
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 1: the league. It's fun to think about the possibilities. I'm

1274
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 1: not overreacting to Ma McLain having a good game in

1275
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 1: spring training, but they have shown a lot of faith

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01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 1: in him. If he rewards their faith, these are big,

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Speaker 1: big ifs, then you could start to talk about the

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Speaker 1: possibilities for this offense. A quarter to five on ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty five point three seven four nine, fifteen thirty

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Speaker 1: is our phone number. We were loaded last week with

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Speaker 1: really good guests from the combine. I talked to a

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Speaker 1: lot of folks last week. A dude that we're going

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Speaker 1: to get back on the show close to the Draft

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Speaker 1: is our guy, Ben Robinson from Grinding the Mocks, where

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Speaker 1: he kind of aggregates all the different mock drafts that

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Speaker 1: are out there and uses his work to kind of

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Speaker 1: predict who's going to pick which players. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be a valuable tool if you missed Ben on the

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Speaker 1: show last week. Conversations available on the iHeartRadio app. Podcasts

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals have a lot of tests this offseason. They

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Speaker 1: passed a significant one. We'll get to that coming up

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Speaker 1: in five oh five on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: what the company promotes. On thurn or three hours eight

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Speaker 1: away from five o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen thirty. By

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Speaker 1: the way, one programming note, the Mark Pope Radio Show

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Speaker 1: is not gonna happen tonight. This has been moved. Typically

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Speaker 1: the Mark Pope Radio Show airs on Mondays. It is

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Speaker 1: being moved to Wednesday. The Wildcats coming off the victory

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Speaker 1: over Vanderbilt a play on the road, so they're en

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Speaker 1: route to college station to Battle Texas A and M tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: which means the Mark Pope Show. If you're looking for

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Speaker 1: it tonight, not gonna find it, you have to go

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Speaker 1: to I don't know. I'm sure there's Mark Pope radio

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Speaker 1: shows that are put on the internet and you can

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to them again and again and again.

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Speaker 1: If that's your thing, go for it. But you'll hear

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Speaker 1: it Wednesday night instead of tonight. There is your programming note.

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Speaker 6: I have it too soon to be looking at SEC seatings.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, not not necessarily. Are Is there a

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Speaker 1: reason why you're asking? I mean, you know we carry

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Speaker 1: Kentucky right here on we do. Yes, Home of the Wildcats. Yes,

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Speaker 1: usually they affect our show. They do. I know, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, for years they were always the one seed

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Speaker 1: in the SEC and uh so they had a lot

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Speaker 1: of years where they would tip at noon and we

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Speaker 1: would start Lake. Kentucky is currently tied with Missouri and Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The Wildcats have beaten Tennessee both times they played. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how a three way tiebreaker would work. The

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Speaker 1: Wildcats lost to Missouri at Reperina UK's next two games

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Speaker 1: final two games of the regular season, are against Texas

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Speaker 1: A and m we just mentioned, and then Mike's beloved

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Speaker 1: Florida team, which clinched a share of the SEC regular

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Speaker 1: season title. So it it feels like they could end

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Speaker 1: up anywhere from the two seed, which doesn't seem likely,

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Speaker 1: all the way down to possibly I don't know lower.

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Speaker 6: I'll just I'll just say this, if they're five or four,

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Speaker 6: we won't have a show.

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Speaker 1: If they're the fifth or if they're the fourth or

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Speaker 1: fifth seed, we won't have a show on what day.

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Speaker 6: If they're the five seed, we won't have a show Thursday.

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Speaker 6: And then obviously if they win, they won't have a show.

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Speaker 6: They won't have show on Friday, back to back no

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Speaker 6: shows for US, Yes, and then but if they if

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Speaker 6: they're a fourth seed, then obviously we'll be on Thursday,

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Speaker 6: but not Friday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But here's the thing, though, Like, you know, I

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Speaker 1: get it, you know you want a day off, free

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Speaker 1: day off without having a burna, a vacation day. But

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Speaker 1: like that's right in the middle of Bengals free agency,

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Speaker 1: and so like that is my favorite week in sports.

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Speaker 1: I love conference tournament week. There are times that I'm

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Speaker 1: on while conference tournaments are on and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I should have taken the day off, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see how things unfold. But it's worth

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Speaker 1: paying attention to back when we carry Louisville games, which

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Speaker 1: we don't anymore. We carried them for seventeen years, and invariably,

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Speaker 1: whether it was a Kentucky game or a Louisville game,

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Speaker 1: this show would get bumped, sometimes delayed. Sometimes we'd be

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Speaker 1: done early. Sometimes we'd be bumped entirely. We'll see, we'll see,

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Speaker 1: but it's worth keeping an eye on Kentucky in the

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Speaker 1: SEC tournament. They could get four seeds in play. Four

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Speaker 1: and five seeds are both in play, so we'll see.

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Speaker 1: It could be a could be a free day off

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Speaker 1: for Mo and Tarn. We will see, and then, like

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Speaker 1: you know, what'll happen is the Bengals will make their

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Speaker 1: biggest splash in free agency of all time, like sign

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Speaker 1: like four dudes all that day and we'll be off.

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Speaker 6: I have a theory we could do. I don't know

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Speaker 6: if we can pay for it. Yeah, what if we

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Speaker 6: like live stream your show just on your Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how we can make to I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know technically you can make that work. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Logistically beyond I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We'll see, I don't know, especially if all the Bengal

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Speaker 1: stuff happened. Like you say, I mean you have to

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Speaker 1: be on yeah, because the Bengals can't do anything without

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Speaker 1: without the city hearing my reaction, I don't know. We

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Speaker 1: will as we say, well, cross that bridge. It's next week.

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Speaker 1: Next week's conference tournament week. Actually, conference tournaments begin tonight.

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Speaker 1: The Horizon League, which has the goofiest tournament bracket I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen. They have a play in game tonight between

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Speaker 1: seven and twenty four IU Indianapolis and ten and twenty

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Speaker 1: one Cleveland State, and the winner of that game will

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Speaker 1: advance to the next round. NKU is going to play

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. The Norris did not get a home game,

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Speaker 1: so they have to go to Oakland and take on

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Speaker 1: Greg Campy's Grizzlies team on Wednesday for the right to

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Speaker 1: advance to Indianapolis, where they play in that just awful

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Speaker 1: building that the Horizon League insists on staging its tournament in,

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Speaker 1: although according to our guy Rick Brooring, the possibility now

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Speaker 1: exists that the Horizon League tournament moving forward could move,

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Speaker 1: which would be awesome. And then I asked Rick to

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Speaker 1: elaborate on that, and he was a little hesitant and

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Speaker 1: didn't want to get in trouble with the league office.

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Speaker 1: And I don't want Rick to get in trouble with anybody.

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Speaker 1: So but yeah, conference tournaments. The NCAA Tournament, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: is the best event in all of sports. But the

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Speaker 1: best week, I think is the week leading up to it,

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Speaker 1: the dash to get in, all the different scenarios that unfold.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Would love it more if I had

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Speaker 1: a team that didn't need that week in order to

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Speaker 1: make the tournament. But I do love that week. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: college basketball long starting at like eleven o'clock in the morning,

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Speaker 1: which who could have any objection to that? All right,

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Speaker 1: there you go. Five point three seven four nine fifteen

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Speaker 1: thirty is our number. Eight sixty six seven oh two

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Speaker 1: three seven seven six works as well. The Cincinnati Bengals

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Speaker 1: passed a test, an easy test, but they passed a test.

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Speaker 1: Will explain. You'll hear from Dalton Reisner a lot to

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Speaker 1: get to between now and six on ESPN fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Sports Station, Cincinnati Sports Station. Now, I seem to

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Speaker 1: remember last year during the baseball season, this became a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a thing where the Reds would score

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Speaker 1: a ton of runs one day, then like one run

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Speaker 1: the next day, then score a ton of runs one day,

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Speaker 1: and then like zero runs the next day, And so

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Speaker 1: every time they scored a lot of runs, people would complain,

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Speaker 1: proactively complain about a game the next day that hadn't

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Speaker 1: happened yet. We'll see now they have no chance to score.

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Speaker 1: Reason I bring this up is the Reds have scored

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Speaker 1: fifteen runs and it's still just in the fifth inning.

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Speaker 1: South Stuart, give me the salth Stewart dinger tear and

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Speaker 1: give it to me. They're not going to swing and

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Speaker 1: miss on as much.

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Speaker 8: Stewart elevates this ny in the air deep center field.

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Speaker 8: Back goes McCormick. He's out of room. That ball is

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Speaker 8: over the batter's eye in dead center. A three run

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Speaker 8: bomb from Sal Stewart.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 1: That's Tommy Thrawl. With Chris Welsh on the call, Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports thirteen sixty and the Reds Radio network, it is

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Speaker 1: fifteen to six in favor of the Reds. Cincinnati is

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Speaker 1: batting to the home team today, bottom of the fifth inning,

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Speaker 1: It's been a big offensive day. Sal Stewart a couple

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Speaker 1: of hits, a double of homer. He has driven in four.

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Speaker 1: Matt McClain has two home runs on the afternoon, his

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Speaker 1: second and third of the Cactus League. He is driven

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Speaker 1: in six. Noelfe Marte also a couple of hits. He

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Speaker 1: went deep today. Key Brian, He's with a big day today.

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Speaker 1: So far. He has a couple of hits, he has

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Speaker 1: driven in three, and it's fifteen to six reds to

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01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 1: get a shaky start from Brady Singer, who gave up

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Speaker 1: four runs in the first inning. We will keep you

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Speaker 1: up to date on what's happening in Goodyear as the

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Speaker 1: hour unfolds. Good news today for the Bengals. Bengals have

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Speaker 1: made their layup.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is a term that we used right when the

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Speaker 1: offseason started. Got to make your layups, got to make

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Speaker 1: your layups. The Bengals today made a layup. Dalton Reisner

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Speaker 1: has been re signed. This was the easy one. The

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Speaker 1: Bengals have a lot of really hard things in front

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Speaker 1: of them. Roster construction is hard. Nailing it in free agency,

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Speaker 1: even if you have a lot of money in cap

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Speaker 1: space at your disposal, Nailing it in free agency is hard.

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Speaker 1: Nailing it and the draft is hard. Signing a guard who,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season helped give you, I

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Speaker 1: think the best offensive line that Joe Burrow has ever

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Speaker 1: played behind. Giving a guard who stated publicly at the

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Speaker 1: end of last year I want to be here giving

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Speaker 1: him a one year contract before free agency actually starts

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Speaker 1: not hard. The Bengals have made the layup. They've passed

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Speaker 1: an early season test. You can't make your threes until

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Speaker 1: you make layups. You can't take and make high degree

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Speaker 1: of difficulty shots if you can't make the bunnies. This

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Speaker 1: was a layup. This was easy. If you want to

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Speaker 1: start talking about doing the hard things, and the Bengals

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01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 1: have a lot of hard things in front of them,

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Speaker 1: that's cool. Can you do the easy stuff first? At

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Speaker 1: times in their recent history it has felt like the

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Speaker 1: answer is no. It's why you ended up paying more

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01:24:58,479 --> 01:25:00,600
Speaker 1: money to Jamar Chase than you would have had to

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Speaker 1: pay him had you gotten the deal done well before

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01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:07,160
Speaker 1: he actually did. Same with t Higgins. Heck, I would

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01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: argue with the way the Trey Hendrickson thing is unfolded

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01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 1: and the way it's gonna likely unfold now trading him

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01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 1: a year ago that should have been easy. Signing Dalton

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01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 1: Reisner extraordinarily easy and a refreshing player. Talked about this

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Speaker 1: a little bit last hour, but refreshing from this perspective,

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Speaker 1: last season was one of the worst, I believe in

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Speaker 1: the history of the franchise. Not because of their record,

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01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:35,880
Speaker 1: although obviously the record wasn't very good. They've had seasons

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01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: where they've had a worse record, but relative to expectation,

1489
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:44,839
Speaker 1: relative to how they achieved their record, Joe Burrow's injury,

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01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 1: Jake Browning not working out, the games where they scored

1491
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 1: a bunch of points but couldn't stop anybody, and so

1492
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 1: they lost just the overall tone and tenor of the season.

1493
01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:58,840
Speaker 1: This was a miserable season, and yet at the end

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01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:01,760
Speaker 1: of it, here you had a guy who just got

1495
01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:05,680
Speaker 1: here in August who's letting people know I want to

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01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:08,280
Speaker 1: be here. I love it here, I want to play

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01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:10,479
Speaker 1: for this team, I want to live in this city.

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01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:13,760
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of the solution. That

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01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: was refreshing. It's refreshing to see the Bengals do something

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01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,600
Speaker 1: easy toward the end of the season. Last year, the

1501
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 1: Bengals offensive line might not have been league best, and

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01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:28,200
Speaker 1: I don't have a ranking of offensive lines in front

1503
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 1: of me. What I can tell you, though, is this,

1504
01:26:30,360 --> 01:26:33,040
Speaker 1: toward the end of the season, I think most of

1505
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:35,400
Speaker 1: us stopped worrying about the offensive line. They might not

1506
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:38,240
Speaker 1: have been flawless, but toward the end of the season,

1507
01:26:38,320 --> 01:26:40,640
Speaker 1: we were watching an offense function with a group up

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01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 1: front that was not a problem, felt like the pass

1509
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: protection was there, felt like the run blocking was there,

1510
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 1: felt like they achieved a level of consistency and performance

1511
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:55,559
Speaker 1: that has eluded this team for a long time. Dalton

1512
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: Reisner was merely one part of that. Marius Mims is

1513
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:01,160
Speaker 1: a huge part of that. Have to be even bigger.

1514
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,639
Speaker 1: Dylan Fairchild was a big part of that. Is gonna

1515
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:06,559
Speaker 1: have to be even better his second season. And like,

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01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:08,720
Speaker 1: you watch the offensive line last year, and if you're

1517
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:10,640
Speaker 1: like me, there were probably times where you thought, you

1518
01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:13,760
Speaker 1: know what, it feels like Orlando Brown's best football is

1519
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 1: behind him. How much longer is this gonna work? And

1520
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:20,759
Speaker 1: it's a fair question for twenty twenty six, But collectively speaking,

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01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 1: last year, toward the end of the season, we stop

1522
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 1: talking about the Bengals offensive line, and let's be honest,

1523
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:29,920
Speaker 1: you never really talk about an offensive line unless it stinks.

1524
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 1: We know what it looks like when an offensive line

1525
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:37,200
Speaker 1: here stinks. Last year's toward the end of the season

1526
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 1: did not. And so one of the primary objectives coming

1527
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 1: into the offseason was, let's maintain some continuity. Let's not

1528
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:50,960
Speaker 1: fix what's not broken. Let's not add to our problems.

1529
01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 1: Let's not add to the to do list. Guard what

1530
01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 1: they have up front is working. There's chemistry, there's performance.

1531
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:05,679
Speaker 1: Their offensive line is trending toward being a good Don't

1532
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 1: screw with it, don't mess around with it. Bring the

1533
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:12,639
Speaker 1: dude back, Bring the dude back who says he wants

1534
01:28:12,680 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 1: to be here. Bring the dude back. Who's not going

1535
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 1: to cost a lot of money. Something in the neighborhood

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01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:20,559
Speaker 1: of one year for four and a half million dollars.

1537
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:24,799
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? That is a layup. The Bengals

1538
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 1: today made their layup. And now and now you could

1539
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:33,599
Speaker 1: really talk about the hard stuff, right and boy, there's

1540
01:28:33,640 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 1: some hard stuff. Finding a backup quarterback may be kind

1541
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: of hard. Like this is a market where Malik Willis

1542
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: might get a really hefty contract. Malik Willis. This is

1543
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:48,479
Speaker 1: a market where Joe Burrow may find a team, according

1544
01:28:48,479 --> 01:28:50,719
Speaker 1: to some that pay him like seven and a half

1545
01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:53,960
Speaker 1: eight and a half million dollars to maybe start games.

1546
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: Finding a backup quarterback that you can rely on. I

1547
01:28:57,280 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: feel like the Jake Browning thing has passed. Finding a

1548
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 1: backup quarterback and then all the hard things they have

1549
01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:08,040
Speaker 1: on defense. We make fixing the defense sound easy, and

1550
01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 1: the good news is they have money to spend. You

1551
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:14,120
Speaker 1: really can't go wrong addressing any area of that unit,

1552
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:17,680
Speaker 1: like it's a bad group. But while they're not going

1553
01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 1: to leave the offense itself alone, my guess is a

1554
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:24,400
Speaker 1: lot of the draft conversations are going to focus on tackle,

1555
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 1: offensive linemen, depth pieces, swing tackle, long term replacement for

1556
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:34,719
Speaker 1: Orlando Brown, finding long term depth pieces, finding short term

1557
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:38,639
Speaker 1: depth and long term starters. Like they're probably not done

1558
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 1: addressing the offensive line. That's cool and all right. Maybe

1559
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,400
Speaker 1: a third wide receiver is somebody they add in the

1560
01:29:45,479 --> 01:29:48,520
Speaker 1: draft long term because they're not going to sign Andre Yoshabas.

1561
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:52,360
Speaker 1: But by and large, you could leave the offense alone

1562
01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:56,080
Speaker 1: right now and feel pretty damn good. Now, there have

1563
01:29:56,160 --> 01:29:58,400
Speaker 1: been other years obviously here where you could look at

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01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 1: the offense and go, well, you want the quarterback. Obviously,

1565
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 1: you want the weaponry, you like the running back, added

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01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:06,920
Speaker 1: a tight end, But boy, the offensive line may be

1567
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:12,920
Speaker 1: a liability. The offensive line may sink this team. I

1568
01:30:12,920 --> 01:30:14,720
Speaker 1: don't think any of us feel that way right now.

1569
01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:17,160
Speaker 1: I will be accused, and that's fine. This is how

1570
01:30:17,160 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: it works. I will be accused of making the Bengals

1571
01:30:20,320 --> 01:30:24,160
Speaker 1: offensive line seem better than it's been. Like, I get it.

1572
01:30:25,280 --> 01:30:27,760
Speaker 1: The group they had in twenty fifteen might be the

1573
01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:30,040
Speaker 1: best offensive line the Bengals have had in my lifetime.

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01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:32,840
Speaker 1: Eighty eight would say something about that, two thousand and

1575
01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 1: five would say something about that. They're not there. They're

1576
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:39,160
Speaker 1: probably not any elite unit. But if they ever are

1577
01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 1: going to be, chances are that's going to happen on

1578
01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:45,679
Speaker 1: the shoulders of players they've drafted and then bit players

1579
01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:50,160
Speaker 1: like Dalton Reisner who signed relatively cheap contracts. That's exactly

1580
01:30:50,240 --> 01:30:53,839
Speaker 1: what Dalton Reisner did. Bengals took something that has worked,

1581
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:57,439
Speaker 1: they've doubled down on it. They didn't overthink the room,

1582
01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:01,439
Speaker 1: they didn't overthink themselves. They didn't take what was easy

1583
01:31:01,479 --> 01:31:03,559
Speaker 1: and make it more complicated than it needs to be.

1584
01:31:04,880 --> 01:31:07,120
Speaker 1: How much credit you can give a team for doing

1585
01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:10,240
Speaker 1: something that is this simple. We can debate, we can discuss,

1586
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:13,439
Speaker 1: but they at least didn't add to their list of

1587
01:31:13,479 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 1: things they got to get done. They at least didn't

1588
01:31:16,240 --> 01:31:19,960
Speaker 1: create a problem. They've at least leaned into continuity in

1589
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:23,160
Speaker 1: ways that go beyond having the same coach, having the

1590
01:31:23,160 --> 01:31:27,719
Speaker 1: same coordinators, having the same player personnel. Guy. This should

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01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 1: have always been and for me at least, it was

1592
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:33,360
Speaker 1: item number one on the list because it was the easiest.

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01:31:34,040 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 1: Take care of the hard stuff, but first knock off

1594
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:40,080
Speaker 1: a few easy things. Signing Dalton Reisner was one of them.

1595
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 1: This is also the most I've ever talked about the

1596
01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:47,160
Speaker 1: Bengals signing a guard to a one year contract, but

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01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:49,200
Speaker 1: it is true, like I think the fear for a

1598
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: lot of us was, Dalton said what he said, and again,

1599
01:31:52,240 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: it could not have been more refreshing for a season

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01:31:55,400 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 1: that occurred against the backdrop of people wondering, is Joe

1601
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:01,000
Speaker 1: Burrow going to try to wheeze is way out of town?

1602
01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:02,760
Speaker 1: Here you have a guy at the end of an

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01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 1: awful season saying I want to be here, playing a

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01:32:06,800 --> 01:32:09,040
Speaker 1: position that the Bengals have had a hard time with

1605
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: in recent years. It would have felt very Bengals like

1606
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 1: to to just unnecessarily create a problem, unnecessarily add to

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01:32:24,280 --> 01:32:28,920
Speaker 1: the to do list and instead cross off offensive line

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01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:32,200
Speaker 1: to a degree. We're going to go into the offseason,

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01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:35,880
Speaker 1: which begins effectively this week. We're going to go into

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01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:38,599
Speaker 1: the offseason for the first time in a very long

1611
01:32:38,680 --> 01:32:42,919
Speaker 1: time feeling comfortable about who they have on the offensive

1612
01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: line and feeling like that group has a pretty high ceiling.

1613
01:32:46,840 --> 01:32:50,000
Speaker 1: Now that's one of the storylines, right Can the Bengals

1614
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:51,920
Speaker 1: go from having an offensive line that by the end

1615
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:54,360
Speaker 1: of the season was playing better to one that next

1616
01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:56,799
Speaker 1: year is actually among the better units in the league.

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01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:00,519
Speaker 1: That's not off the table. Good for the Bengals for

1618
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:04,519
Speaker 1: making a layup sixteen minutes after five o'clock. Five point three,

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Speaker 1: seven four nine fifteen thirty is our number eight six

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Speaker 1: Uh Miami won a game on Friday that you could

1624
01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 1: argue they shouldn't have. If you're gonna finish the season undefeated,

1625
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 1: that sort of thing is going to happen. By the way,

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01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:32,840
Speaker 1: Reese Hines has just homeward his first of the Cactus League,

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01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:36,160
Speaker 1: sixteen to six, good guys in front of Chicago in

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01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 1: a game that means nothing. But don't tell me that

1629
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:41,919
Speaker 1: Reese Hine's hitting a home run isn't cool, because it is. Anyway.

1630
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:44,639
Speaker 1: Miami wins and then got talked about over the weekend.

1631
01:33:44,680 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl talked about him and it made people. Man.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss. We'll play the audio next on ESPN

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Speaker 1: This report. Hey freed after four o'clock. This is ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen to thirty. Reds don't have a game tomorrow, so

1645
01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:39,000
Speaker 1: we're not worrying about them not scoring any runs tomorrow

1646
01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:41,559
Speaker 1: because they scored too many runs today. Because there's no

1647
01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:44,880
Speaker 1: there's got to be like a game on the backfields

1648
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:47,479
Speaker 1: or something involving guys who are probably not going to

1649
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:52,599
Speaker 1: be on the club. We'll see the college basketball from

1650
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:57,000
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Miami won a game that I think

1651
01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 1: you could argue they maybe shouldn't have. And if you're

1652
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,519
Speaker 1: we're going to finish the season undefeated, I have focused

1653
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: a lot on their record against the spread as something

1654
01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 1: reflective of their relative dominance, and they have been awesome

1655
01:35:12,040 --> 01:35:14,479
Speaker 1: this year against the spread coming into this weekend, the

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01:35:14,479 --> 01:35:17,799
Speaker 1: best in the country. They obviously did not cover against

1657
01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:22,920
Speaker 1: Western Michigan, needed the Trey Perry shot to beat the

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01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:26,360
Speaker 1: Broncos in Kalamazoo, avoiding what would have been a Q

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01:35:26,479 --> 01:35:30,400
Speaker 1: four loss. Had they lost that game, then this entire

1660
01:35:30,439 --> 01:35:35,760
Speaker 1: conversation becomes about them winning the MAC Tournament. But they

1661
01:35:35,760 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 1: did win the game. And if you're gonna finish the

1662
01:35:37,960 --> 01:35:44,000
Speaker 1: season undefeated, they've had some close ones right both Buffalo games,

1663
01:35:44,240 --> 01:35:49,120
Speaker 1: the Kent State game, another one on Friday against Western Michigan,

1664
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:53,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to win games like that. This kind

1665
01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:57,680
Speaker 1: of went viral on Saturday, TNT college basketball analyst and

1666
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:03,160
Speaker 1: former Auburn, Tennessee and Milwaukee head coach Bruce Pearl talking

1667
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:07,080
Speaker 1: about the Miami RedHawks NCAA Tournament resume as an at

1668
01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:08,240
Speaker 1: large team.

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Speaker 7: Miami, Howe, here's the deal. Are we gonna select the

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01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 7: sixty eight most deserving teams or are we going to select

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01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:18,240
Speaker 7: the sixty eight best teams. If we're selecting the sixty

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01:36:18,240 --> 01:36:21,559
Speaker 7: eight best teams, then Mimbo Howe's gonna have to win

1673
01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:24,680
Speaker 7: their tournament to qualify as a champion, because as in

1674
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:26,960
Speaker 7: at large, they are not one of the best teams

1675
01:36:26,960 --> 01:36:28,639
Speaker 7: in the country. And that's going to be a difficult

1676
01:36:28,680 --> 01:36:29,680
Speaker 7: choice that of committee to make.

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Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl, Now, it's been my perspective, my position for

1678
01:36:37,120 --> 01:36:39,559
Speaker 1: what it's worth. If Miami wins the next two, they

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01:36:39,560 --> 01:36:42,000
Speaker 1: have Toledo at home tomorrow, then they go to OEU

1680
01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:45,599
Speaker 1: on Friday. If they win those two games, I think

1681
01:36:45,600 --> 01:36:48,240
Speaker 1: then it may depend on if they lose in the

1682
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,280
Speaker 1: MAC Tournament, which who says they will. But if they do,

1683
01:36:51,640 --> 01:36:54,240
Speaker 1: when do they lose, Who do they lose against? Do

1684
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:57,200
Speaker 1: they lose to Akron in the final. Do they lose

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01:36:57,400 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: earlier in the MAC Tournament to a team that they're

1686
01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:04,040
Speaker 1: quote supposed to beat. I could be dead wrong about this.

1687
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:06,559
Speaker 1: I've been wrong about millions of things in my life.

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01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:09,080
Speaker 1: This will not be the last if I improven wrong.

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01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 1: But if they finished the season undefeated, I have a

1690
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:17,800
Speaker 1: hard time believing that the committee is going to leave

1691
01:37:17,840 --> 01:37:21,920
Speaker 1: them on the outside looking in. Again. Could be dead

1692
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 1: wrong about that, but you may feel that way. That

1693
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:35,160
Speaker 1: doesn't make what Bruce Pearl said incorrect. Like metrics are

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Speaker 1: telling us exactly that. And I'm not doing this to

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01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:41,640
Speaker 1: pick on Miami. Trust me, man, It'd be awesome as

1696
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:44,519
Speaker 1: hell if they finished the season undefeated. We've talked about him.

1697
01:37:44,520 --> 01:37:46,599
Speaker 1: We've talked about Miami basketball in this show this year

1698
01:37:46,640 --> 01:37:48,200
Speaker 1: more than we have at any point since I've been

1699
01:37:48,200 --> 01:37:51,439
Speaker 1: doing it. The Travis Steel redemption story is cool. The

1700
01:37:51,439 --> 01:37:54,120
Speaker 1: way they're doing it with a throwback kind of roster

1701
01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:59,000
Speaker 1: is awesome. The resurgence of that program and the surge

1702
01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:03,679
Speaker 1: of interest has been terrific. Man, Like I, if they're

1703
01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:06,840
Speaker 1: undefeated in losing the MAC Tournament and don't make it

1704
01:38:06,880 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 1: in that would stink. It would invalidate an entire season

1705
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:14,439
Speaker 1: to a degree, and it would be a shame for Travis,

1706
01:38:14,439 --> 01:38:17,479
Speaker 1: would be a shame for those players. It would be

1707
01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:19,920
Speaker 1: really really hard to say, you won all your games,

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01:38:20,280 --> 01:38:22,200
Speaker 1: you took care of the things that you can control

1709
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:24,280
Speaker 1: as a team, and we're not putting you in the

1710
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:27,599
Speaker 1: big dance. Hope that doesn't happen, and I don't think

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01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:29,560
Speaker 1: it will. And again, they're going to be pretty substantial

1712
01:38:29,600 --> 01:38:34,160
Speaker 1: favorites against Toledo. My guess is they're going to be

1713
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:36,600
Speaker 1: at least slight favorites on the road against Ou, a

1714
01:38:36,640 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 1: team that they have already beaten once. But what you

1715
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:50,240
Speaker 1: heard Bruce Pearl say is not necessarily incorrect. Right now

1716
01:38:50,240 --> 01:38:54,800
Speaker 1: in Ken Palm, the RedHawks are ranked eighty seventh right

1717
01:38:54,800 --> 01:38:57,360
Speaker 1: now on bart Torvik, which is these are metrics that

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01:38:57,360 --> 01:39:00,679
Speaker 1: the committee is told to use their ranks. Seventy eighth.

1719
01:39:02,680 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 1: Like metrics, math data, which factors in the schedule, is

1720
01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:12,160
Speaker 1: telling you that Miami is not one of the best

1721
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:17,040
Speaker 1: sixty eight. Now, Bruce Pearl may be coming at it

1722
01:39:17,080 --> 01:39:22,080
Speaker 1: from a less objective perspective than these metrics based websites

1723
01:39:22,120 --> 01:39:25,240
Speaker 1: because he was the coach at Auburn. He quit the

1724
01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 1: day before practice started now his son's at Auburn, so

1725
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:33,240
Speaker 1: he is possibly coming at this from a biased perspective.

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01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:36,160
Speaker 1: I don't know that he is. I don't know that

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01:39:36,200 --> 01:39:38,320
Speaker 1: he is or isn't, but it's fair to wonder is

1728
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:41,880
Speaker 1: he giving a completely objective take? Is his analysis of

1729
01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:47,160
Speaker 1: Miami completely independent of any bias? Maybe the answer is yes.

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01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:51,040
Speaker 1: But when you just got done coaching Auburn and your

1731
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:53,400
Speaker 1: son is coaching Auburn, and Auburn is looked at as

1732
01:39:53,400 --> 01:39:57,639
Speaker 1: a bubble team, there's gonna be very legitimate questions about

1733
01:39:57,640 --> 01:40:00,800
Speaker 1: whether or not your analysis is skewed because of your

1734
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:05,000
Speaker 1: rooting interest in your former program and your son. But

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01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:09,680
Speaker 1: if you look at what is objective and metrics, the

1736
01:40:09,720 --> 01:40:13,240
Speaker 1: beauty of analytics and the beauty of stats is they're objective,

1737
01:40:14,160 --> 01:40:17,760
Speaker 1: they have no rooting interest. They're telling you Miami is

1738
01:40:17,800 --> 01:40:20,200
Speaker 1: not one of the best sixty eight teams. They're telling

1739
01:40:20,240 --> 01:40:22,920
Speaker 1: you Miami is likely not one of the best thirty

1740
01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:25,679
Speaker 1: seven at large teams. And again, all of this is mood.

1741
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:28,080
Speaker 1: If they just win the MAC Tournament, which they have

1742
01:40:28,120 --> 01:40:30,400
Speaker 1: a very good chance to, why would we discount that

1743
01:40:30,439 --> 01:40:35,920
Speaker 1: when they've won every game so far. All of that said, though,

1744
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:40,360
Speaker 1: we are not talking about a three loss team. We're

1745
01:40:40,400 --> 01:40:44,599
Speaker 1: not talking about a four loss team. We're discussing the

1746
01:40:44,640 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 1: resume of a zero loss team. And that and this

1747
01:40:51,200 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: is my guess, but this is also what should happen.

1748
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:58,920
Speaker 1: That should trump what the data says. It should trump

1749
01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:02,960
Speaker 1: what the schedules says. Zero losses in the regular season.

1750
01:41:06,479 --> 01:41:08,680
Speaker 1: It's been my opinion for years that we don't put

1751
01:41:08,680 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 1: as much weight into the regular season as we should

1752
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:13,760
Speaker 1: because it's it's hard, man, It's I think winning a

1753
01:41:13,760 --> 01:41:17,080
Speaker 1: regular season conference title in college basketball, regardless of what

1754
01:41:17,240 --> 01:41:22,080
Speaker 1: league you're in, is difficult. To go through the entire schedule,

1755
01:41:22,160 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 1: to play true road games, to survive the dog days,

1756
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:28,919
Speaker 1: to take another team's best shot on a consistent basis

1757
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:32,479
Speaker 1: on their floor. Like that's not easy to do. It

1758
01:41:32,520 --> 01:41:35,639
Speaker 1: doesn't get as much, it doesn't get celebrated as much

1759
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:38,680
Speaker 1: as it should in this sport. You get through the

1760
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:41,120
Speaker 1: four month gauntlet. Say what you want about the word

1761
01:41:41,120 --> 01:41:43,719
Speaker 1: gauntlet being used there. You get through the entire four

1762
01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:47,880
Speaker 1: months late, and you don't lose a game like that,

1763
01:41:47,880 --> 01:41:52,040
Speaker 1: that should trump. If I'm sitting on the committee, that

1764
01:41:52,240 --> 01:41:58,560
Speaker 1: trump's whatever, whatever, I don't know, whatever. Criticism of the

1765
01:41:58,640 --> 01:42:01,280
Speaker 1: schedule or factoring in the the schedule that one may

1766
01:42:01,280 --> 01:42:03,000
Speaker 1: want to do by though the schedule is not being ignored.

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01:42:03,040 --> 01:42:05,760
Speaker 1: The schedule is why we're having this conversation to begin with, Like,

1768
01:42:05,800 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 1: nobody is ignoring the schedule, but we're not talking about

1769
01:42:09,920 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 1: a one loss team or and again we're doing imaginary scenarios.

1770
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:18,559
Speaker 1: We're doing hypotheticals. What if they win the next two

1771
01:42:18,560 --> 01:42:23,679
Speaker 1: and then lose in Cleveland. But the Bruce Pearl thing,

1772
01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 1: as much as you may not want to hear it,

1773
01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:28,599
Speaker 1: as much as you know you may question whether he's

1774
01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:34,040
Speaker 1: being completely unbiased, he's not wrong, and that's okay to

1775
01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:38,080
Speaker 1: admit that multiple things can be true. Right, the metrics

1776
01:42:38,080 --> 01:42:40,200
Speaker 1: are telling you they're not one of the best sixty eight,

1777
01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:44,280
Speaker 1: But all right, the card that the RedHawks may be

1778
01:42:44,320 --> 01:42:47,360
Speaker 1: able to play is yeah, but zero losses? Say which

1779
01:42:47,400 --> 01:42:51,240
Speaker 1: one about our schedule? Zero losses? Twenty nine away from

1780
01:42:51,640 --> 01:42:54,360
Speaker 1: six o'clock. By the way, no Mark Pope show tonight,

1781
01:42:54,439 --> 01:42:57,479
Speaker 1: so you'll hear that on Wednesday. Sports headlines are next

1782
01:42:57,520 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 1: on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 1: life kelseyshev dot com. Bengals today assigned Dalton Reisner announced

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01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:55,320
Speaker 1: that they have signed Dalton Reisner, who his wife is

1796
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Speaker 1: becoming quite the social media star one year deal, four

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Speaker 1: and a half million. Dalton, who started eleven games for

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Speaker 1: the Bengals last season and helped make up probably the

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Speaker 1: best offensive line that Joe Burrow has played behind since

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Speaker 1: entering the NFL. One other NFL note of significance, Mount

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Speaker 1: Healthy He's David Montgomery has been traded by the Lions

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01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:21,720
Speaker 1: to the Houston Texans in Goodyear. Today, the Reds are

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01:44:21,760 --> 01:44:26,480
Speaker 1: piling on the Chicago Cubs. Garrett Hampson the latest Cincinnati

1804
01:44:26,479 --> 01:44:29,320
Speaker 1: player to go yard. That is his first home run

1805
01:44:29,320 --> 01:44:32,280
Speaker 1: of the spring. It is seventeen to six in favor

1806
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:34,560
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati as the Cubs gets that to come to

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01:44:34,600 --> 01:44:37,400
Speaker 1: the plate in the top of the eighth inning. Noelve

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01:44:37,560 --> 01:44:39,920
Speaker 1: Martez Homer. Today, Matt McLean has hit a couple of

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Speaker 1: home runs. Sal Stewart a home run his second of

1810
01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:45,880
Speaker 1: the spring, re signs his first of the spring on

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01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:48,679
Speaker 1: the mound. Brady Singer pitched. It didn't go well, gave

1812
01:44:48,760 --> 01:44:53,080
Speaker 1: up four runs in the first was charged with five overall.

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01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:57,120
Speaker 1: Cincinnati up seventeen to six over the Cubs, Chicago batting

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01:44:57,240 --> 01:45:01,839
Speaker 1: top of the eighth inning. In good college basketball, Miami

1815
01:45:01,880 --> 01:45:04,800
Speaker 1: is up to nineteenth latest AP Top twenty five men's poll.

1816
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 1: RedHawks take on Toledo tomorrow, trying to maintain an unbeaten record.

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01:45:10,040 --> 01:45:13,600
Speaker 1: Just on the outside looking in. Louisville twenty seventh, Kentucky

1818
01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 1: twenty eighth, Ohio State coming off the home victory over

1819
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:20,559
Speaker 1: Purdue yesterday, one vote. The Richard Patino Radio Show is

1820
01:45:20,680 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 1: tonight at seven o'clock on fifty five KRC and hockey. Tonight,

1821
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:29,280
Speaker 1: the Blue Jackets skate at Madison Square Guard to take

1822
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:31,479
Speaker 1: on the New York Rangers. I had a couple of

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01:45:31,520 --> 01:45:34,040
Speaker 1: other college basketball items really quick and one let me

1824
01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:36,760
Speaker 1: do this Red's item. I am like going out of order.

1825
01:45:37,680 --> 01:45:41,360
Speaker 1: The Reds assigned a minor league camp Connor Burns, Michael Chavis,

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01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:46,080
Speaker 1: Camp Collier, Carson Spires, and Michael Tolia. Roster is now

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01:45:46,120 --> 01:45:50,040
Speaker 1: down to fifty one NK used Donovan Oday named to

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01:45:50,080 --> 01:45:53,280
Speaker 1: the All League Second Team Horizon League Postseason Awards. Coming

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01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:58,880
Speaker 1: Out tay Dos your All Defensive Team honors. U S's

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01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:03,240
Speaker 1: Mustapha Chom for the second time this season, was named

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01:46:03,240 --> 01:46:07,559
Speaker 1: to the Big Twelves Starting five. And I had one

1832
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:10,519
Speaker 1: other thing. I totally lost it second time today. That

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01:46:10,600 --> 01:46:11,160
Speaker 1: has happened.

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01:46:12,240 --> 01:46:12,360
Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Roddy Anderson of a Xavier named to the Big Eiast

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01:46:15,160 --> 01:46:18,800
Speaker 1: honor roll. Averaged twenty four and xus two games last week.

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01:46:18,920 --> 01:46:23,800
Speaker 1: Musketeers play their final home game tomorrow against Seaton Hall.

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01:46:24,160 --> 01:46:29,800
Speaker 1: That I believe is everything. Three weeks ago, a little

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01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:33,400
Speaker 1: bit more than three weeks ago, it felt like U

1840
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:37,920
Speaker 1: se basketball had hit a rock bottom of sorts. Wes

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01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:40,759
Speaker 1: Miller's bearing his soul after a game where they scored

1842
01:46:40,800 --> 01:46:47,280
Speaker 1: fifty four points, and it was reasonable at that point

1843
01:46:47,479 --> 01:46:52,320
Speaker 1: to wonder, in the short term, how bad might this get?

1844
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:55,559
Speaker 1: You know, the postgame press conference for a few weeks

1845
01:46:55,560 --> 01:46:57,599
Speaker 1: had kind of become a bigger story than the actual

1846
01:46:57,640 --> 01:47:02,000
Speaker 1: games themselves. It was fair at that point to wonder

1847
01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:06,960
Speaker 1: how much worse may this get? Instead, they've won five

1848
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:13,000
Speaker 1: out of six. Now the bear Cats have entered the

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01:47:13,040 --> 01:47:18,240
Speaker 1: conversation for the tournament. They're not likely to make the tournament.

1850
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:21,800
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna do the list of you know,

1851
01:47:21,960 --> 01:47:27,200
Speaker 1: bubble watch locks should be in work to do long shot.

1852
01:47:28,360 --> 01:47:31,600
Speaker 1: The Bearcats are probably somewhere between work to do and

1853
01:47:31,680 --> 01:47:35,639
Speaker 1: long shot. You can't have the conversation about like bubble

1854
01:47:35,640 --> 01:47:40,120
Speaker 1: teams without mentioning that Cincinnati has played themselves, at least

1855
01:47:40,200 --> 01:47:44,240
Speaker 1: under the fringes of the conversation. This means their chances

1856
01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:47,439
Speaker 1: are not likely. A. They've got to keep winning games.

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01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:50,960
Speaker 1: They already have thirteen losses. They cannot afford to have

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01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:55,439
Speaker 1: fifteen on Selection Sunday. B. They need a lot of

1859
01:47:55,439 --> 01:47:58,200
Speaker 1: the teams between where they are and where the end

1860
01:47:58,240 --> 01:47:59,960
Speaker 1: of the bracket is. They need a lot of these

1861
01:48:00,120 --> 01:48:03,360
Speaker 1: teams to lose, and they need. They need more losses

1862
01:48:03,400 --> 01:48:06,200
Speaker 1: for a lot of different teams, and they need some

1863
01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:11,360
Speaker 1: of those losses to be bad losses. And for the

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01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 1: most part in conference play, you're not going to find

1865
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:16,800
Speaker 1: a whole lot of like Q four losses. So you know,

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01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:19,599
Speaker 1: you could use more losses from Seaton Hall. If you're

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01:48:19,600 --> 01:48:22,479
Speaker 1: a UC fan, you're a big Xavier fan tomorrow, and

1868
01:48:22,520 --> 01:48:26,160
Speaker 1: you could use VCU and TCU in Indiana and Auburn

1869
01:48:26,240 --> 01:48:29,880
Speaker 1: and Cal in New Mexico and Ohio State. You need

1870
01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:35,160
Speaker 1: a lot of teams to help out. But you can

1871
01:48:35,360 --> 01:48:39,639
Speaker 1: have the conversation without mentioning that Cincinnati, if they're team eighty,

1872
01:48:40,040 --> 01:48:42,639
Speaker 1: they're better than they were three weeks ago. If their

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01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:45,639
Speaker 1: team seventy six, they're better than they were three weeks ago.

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01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:50,760
Speaker 1: And so a there's something admirable or something you have

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01:48:50,840 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: to give Wes Miller and his team credit for the

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01:48:54,160 --> 01:48:57,120
Speaker 1: fact that they pulled themselves off the heap and have

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01:48:57,160 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 1: at least played competitively enough. And that's putting it gently

1878
01:49:02,400 --> 01:49:05,840
Speaker 1: to join the conversation that at no point prior to

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01:49:06,400 --> 01:49:08,800
Speaker 1: the last week or so have they been a part of.

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01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:14,360
Speaker 1: It's also, and I put this on social media on Saturday,

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01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:20,040
Speaker 1: they they're probably not going to make the tournament now. Obviously,

1882
01:49:20,040 --> 01:49:21,760
Speaker 1: as a fan, I want to be wrong about that.

1883
01:49:21,960 --> 01:49:23,680
Speaker 1: But for them to make the tournament, they're going to

1884
01:49:23,760 --> 01:49:29,439
Speaker 1: have to defy the odds. But they're playing like a

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01:49:29,439 --> 01:49:34,040
Speaker 1: tournament team right now. Offensively, they have spent most of

1886
01:49:34,080 --> 01:49:37,960
Speaker 1: the last three weeks playing really, really well, running the

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01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:42,519
Speaker 1: offense through the bigs, getting a front a great front

1888
01:49:42,520 --> 01:49:45,439
Speaker 1: court combination with the play they've been getting from Mustapha

1889
01:49:45,520 --> 01:49:48,559
Speaker 1: Cham and Boba Miller. They've made outside shots, and they've

1890
01:49:48,600 --> 01:49:51,280
Speaker 1: made some outside shots that you might ordinarily not want

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01:49:51,360 --> 01:49:54,320
Speaker 1: guys to take, and teams just naturally look better when

1892
01:49:54,360 --> 01:49:57,559
Speaker 1: the balls going through the hoop. But still, they're playing

1893
01:49:57,600 --> 01:50:02,360
Speaker 1: like a tournament team right now, and the shame of

1894
01:50:02,439 --> 01:50:05,280
Speaker 1: it is there's a very good chance they're not one.

1895
01:50:06,080 --> 01:50:09,360
Speaker 1: So but look at the very least three weeks ago,

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01:50:09,400 --> 01:50:12,080
Speaker 1: if I'd have said, after today scored fifty four against

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01:50:12,120 --> 01:50:15,679
Speaker 1: West Virginia that UC fans would be checking out bubble

1898
01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:17,960
Speaker 1: Watch and bracketology, you would have said there's no way.

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01:50:17,960 --> 01:50:20,760
Speaker 1: And yet here they are, and that's a credit to

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Speaker 1: how they have come together over the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: It is sixteen away from six o'clock. This is ESPN

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Speaker 1: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 1: I bet e Zelac with traffic this report. He is

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Speaker 1: sponsored by Just TJ and Tone Pitched and pitched well.

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Speaker 1: Today an inning of hitless, scoreless work. Struck out a

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Speaker 1: batter tj antone. Having gone through four Tommy John surgeries,

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Speaker 1: Cubs have plated free in the I'm charting this game

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Speaker 1: and talking about this game like it actually matters. Chicago

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Speaker 1: has scored three runs in the top of the eighth

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Speaker 1: inning against Junior Marte. It is a seventeen to nine

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Speaker 1: in favor of Cincinnati. As Chicago continues to hit in

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Speaker 1: the top of the eighth inning, Reds have exploded offensively today,

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Speaker 1: Matt McLean is homered. Sal Stewart is homered. Matt McLean

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Speaker 1: is homer twice. Re Signs is homered. Signs is interesting, Garrett,

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Speaker 1: I've sent his homer today and a good offensive day.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen runs on fourteen hits, which was fun to talk about,

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Speaker 1: in fun to watch. There you go, There you go.

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Speaker 1: The Matt McLain thing man like Matt McClain last year

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Speaker 1: was not just penciled in, was written in black magic

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Speaker 1: marker to be the two hole hitter and the starting

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Speaker 1: second basement on opening day. And you know, they had

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Speaker 1: a lot of things that they were hoping would go

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Speaker 1: really well last year that did not. Christian and Karnassi

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Speaker 1: on strand, Ellie de la Cruz having not the top

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Speaker 1: to bottom. He had an awful season because there was

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Speaker 1: that stretch right before the All Star break where he

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Speaker 1: was really good, but the entire team was built around

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Speaker 1: Ellie Teyler Cruz being a superstar. In last year he

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Speaker 1: did not have a superstar type season. But I just

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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated as to how this offense, the high end

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Speaker 1: of this offense, and if the Dingers come, if there's

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Speaker 1: more guys getting on base with regularity, and if they

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Speaker 1: run a little bit more, which will happen if Eli

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Speaker 1: Danila Cruz is healthy and on base frequently and by

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Speaker 1: the way, getting rave reviews for his work in shortstop too. Hopefully, Hopefully,

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Speaker 1: this is the last year. This has nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with the offense. This is the last year where we

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Speaker 1: stop where we debate where he should be playing. Because

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Speaker 1: you will still find people, and they may be right,

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Speaker 1: who believe that Ellie is best suited to play shortstop.

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Speaker 1: There are people in the organization who will tell you

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Speaker 1: that they believe that Ellie is his best suited to

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Speaker 1: play center field. Hopefully he is so good at shortstop,

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Speaker 1: and that's got to start by him consistently making the

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Speaker 1: routine play that we're not talking any more about where

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Speaker 1: else he could play, or him playing center field or

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Speaker 1: wondering what that would look like like. That's ideally this year,

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Speaker 1: this is a season where when the ball is hit

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Speaker 1: the shortstop, none of us hold our breath anymore. That

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Speaker 1: was not the case last year. So there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of things that have to happen. But again, the Matt

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Speaker 1: McClain thing. If the Dingers come and the two hole

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Speaker 1: production is there and they run more. Then it is

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Speaker 1: fun to think about what the high end for this

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Speaker 1: offense could look like. And it's worth repeating. We talked

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Speaker 1: so much about their offensive issues and the need for

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Speaker 1: a bad and all the things they didn't do nearly

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Speaker 1: as well last year. We are not talking about a

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Speaker 1: league worst offense from twenty twenty five for all of

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Speaker 1: their issues, and they had a bunch of them, and

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Speaker 1: they were wildly inconsistent. It's not like they were dead

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Speaker 1: last in run scored per game. It's not like they

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Speaker 1: were dead last and home runs per game. They're starting

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Speaker 1: from somewhere in the middle of the pack. That's not

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Speaker 1: a terrible place to start. But the Mat McClain spring

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Speaker 1: so far, and we're still more than three weeks away

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Speaker 1: from opening day, so things can change. But the Matt

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Speaker 1: McClain spring so far has been encouraging, even if his

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Speaker 1: production so far doesn't guarantee anything. One thing I we

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Speaker 1: will guarantee you, though, is Bengals are gonna get a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit for doing the obvious. And that's fine, man,

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Speaker 1: because sometimes they don't. The off season begins in earnest

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Speaker 1: really next week, but they have a long to do list, man,

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Speaker 1: and they have a lot of things they need to

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Speaker 1: address in free agency. This is a vital draft for

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Speaker 1: this franchise. It's a vital off season for this franchise.

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Speaker 1: Many of us did wonder when Dalton Reisner made it

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Speaker 1: known toward the end of the season that he wanted

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Speaker 1: to stay here. How many of us wondered, how are

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Speaker 1: they gonna screw this up? Will they miss a layup?

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Speaker 1: Will they overly complicate things? Will they have another idea

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Speaker 1: for who's gonna play Dalton Reisner's position when you have

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Speaker 1: a guy who played the position at a pretty good

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Speaker 1: level last year, and instead they did the easy, they

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Speaker 1: did the obvious. And if you think about how we've

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Speaker 1: talked about this team for such a long time now,

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Speaker 1: it has been impossible to spend much time in the

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Speaker 1: offseason without spending time on the offensive line, focusing on

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Speaker 1: it in the draft, focusing on it in free agency,

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Speaker 1: wondering if it was going to be even league average.

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Speaker 1: Who knows how good this group is going to be,

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Speaker 1: but the way they performed at the end of the

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Speaker 1: season would suggest that with more seasoning for guys like

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Speaker 1: Fairchild and Mims, with more continuity bringing back Dalton Reisner,

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Speaker 1: that it has a chance to be, and we have

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Speaker 1: wondered about this being the case for a while. This

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Speaker 1: unit this year has a chance to be the best

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Speaker 1: offensive line that Joe Burrow has ever had block for him.

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Speaker 1: Music means the show's over. Got to go tomorrow in

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Speaker 1: the show Paul Danner Junior at three o'clock hour, we

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Speaker 1: are looking forward to that an ink. Why Brackett guy?

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Speaker 1: When is the Nky Bracket guy.

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Speaker 6: Joining us five.

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Speaker 1: Oh five with our guys, Superstar Hunter Sansum on the RedHawks,

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Speaker 1: the Bearcats, the Wildcats, the buck Eyes, the Hoosiers. I

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Speaker 1: don't don't get mad at me. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: we have to bring up the Musketeers, not that I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be happy to, but they're they're not a tournament team,

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Speaker 1: and maybe the Bearricats aren't either, but they're on the bubble.

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Speaker 1: I don't know Hunter's gonna join us at five oh five.

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Speaker 1: Stoke for that, have a great night, Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Taran for producing. We'll talk to you tomorrow.

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