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Speaker 1: The Bengals like ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports station.

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Speaker 2: Here we go, Opening day, Cincinnati, Ohio. It doesn't get

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Speaker 2: any better than this. Thank you for choosing me. It's

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Speaker 2: the Moegar Show. You just heard Moegar. He's been on

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Speaker 2: the radio since what like four o'clock this morning, Sean. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been on the radio a long time. So he's

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Speaker 2: gonna get the rest of the day off. That's that's okay.

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Speaker 2: I am in my normal opening day spot, sitting here

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Speaker 2: high atop the Death Star in Kenwood. The Death Star,

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Speaker 2: I know, right, it's all glass like, it's not a circle,

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Speaker 2: but it's kind of got some Death Star vibes to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: a little bit now that now that you mention it.

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Speaker 2: It was in another radio life. That's what we called

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Speaker 2: this place.

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Speaker 3: Many many moons moons away whatever it did long ago

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Speaker 3: in a galaxy far far away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Star Wars. I mean, I you know, I like,

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Speaker 2: I like the originals. I never really got into the

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Speaker 2: prequels or the sequels. I've watched them and watch them.

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Speaker 2: I'm more of a comedy guy, and my ADHD doesn't

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Speaker 2: let me really focus on movies all that long. I'm

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Speaker 2: like a half hour show. Guy like twenty three minutes

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Speaker 2: of entertainment and then I'm on to something else. But

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Speaker 2: Opening day here in Cincinnati Sean McMahon on the Ones

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Speaker 2: and twos. We will be chopping it up throughout the

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Speaker 2: day obviously, you know, one of the biggest listener days

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Speaker 2: of the year. Everybody from four o'clock on will be

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Speaker 2: listening to us and we'll let you know what's going

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Speaker 2: on with the Reds. Yeah, that's how this works. I

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Speaker 2: like that. I don't even think my dad is going

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Speaker 2: to listen today. That's harsh. My dad's a pretty like

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Speaker 2: my dad consumes. As we put out a crap ton

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Speaker 2: of content on Bearcout Journal, my dad manages to consume

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Speaker 2: most of it. He's dedicated today he's going to watch

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Speaker 2: the Reds. You know what on a daylight today. You

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Speaker 2: can't blame the guy. No, I'm not. It's not his fault.

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Speaker 2: I don't blame him. It's the holiday it is. It

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Speaker 2: is one of the last work things I will do

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Speaker 2: until I'm on vacation starting Sunday. So that's good. Headed West,

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Speaker 2: Sean where to uh Three days in San Diego, three

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Speaker 2: days on Venice Beach in La very nice, very nice.

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Speaker 2: My daughter knows my weak spot, like, you know, instead

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Speaker 2: of like most kids would be, like, can we go

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Speaker 2: to Florida for spring break? I don't really care for Florida. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: not much of a Florida guy, probably because I've you know,

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Speaker 2: I've just done Florida vacation a lot. There's nothing new, yep, Like,

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Speaker 2: where do you want to go? I want to go

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Speaker 2: are you going to see some old friends out there? Possible? Possible?

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Speaker 2: I might see Mike. Okay, there you go. I've got

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Speaker 2: Mike's number and try to hook up with We're hook

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Speaker 2: up with Mike on our San Diego leg Uh. He's

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Speaker 2: right up the road from where it's worst stay and

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Speaker 2: is literally on the beach. About that, so I'm excited

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Speaker 2: about that. But that, you know, that's Sunday, So I

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Speaker 2: gotta get through radio today, spring football practice tomorrow, and

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Speaker 2: then it's full steam ahead. We leave it like six

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Speaker 2: TSA lines like, do we do I really need to

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Speaker 2: go to the airport at like midnight to catch a

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Speaker 2: six am flight? I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's that early. I mean, it

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to sleep at home? Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: In the airport? No, I'm saying like I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to sleep at Oh okay, I got you. Like I'm

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Speaker 4: It's I don't recommend it. It's awful. I've done it

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Speaker 4: before too, It's terrible. You work in this business, you're

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Speaker 4: bound to do it. Yeah, it becomes part of life

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. It never gets easier. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm ready I'm ready. It's been August and September. We're

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Speaker 2: pretty good in bear cat Land, Sean. Yeah, since November.

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Speaker 2: November was rough. November was not a lot of fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: felt a lot of healing yesterday. We're gonna get to

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Speaker 2: this later in the show. I felt, what has it

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Speaker 2: been two thousand and five since Bob Huggins was let go?

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Speaker 2: And look, Mick Cronin was part of the family, but

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Speaker 2: there were still people that were mad about how things

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Speaker 2: was always somewhat divided to no fault of mix. Mick

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Speaker 2: you listen to the press conference yesterday from both John

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Speaker 2: Cunningham and Jared Calhoun, have you ever seen this before,

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Speaker 2: another university. Yeah, you don't hear that for bringing this together.

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Speaker 2: But Huggs was there yesterday. A lot of former players

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Speaker 2: it's the first I've been doing this for This is

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Speaker 2: my twentieth year on the UC beat. I started mc

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Speaker 2: cronin's first year. It feels like everybody is marching in

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Speaker 4: That's a huge feeling too, it is, I mean, and

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Speaker 2: If he can win, you're about to see a very

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Speaker 2: there's not going to be the infighting. Even when Nick

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Speaker 2: Like you know, there's just there was just this always

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Speaker 2: You've seen it. It's it's kind of basically all you've known. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: like come keep it, keep it keep it clean, guy,

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Speaker 2: it clean. And it felt like yesterday was finally a

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Speaker 2: And I'm interested in your thoughts on this, Sean. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it didn't feel so many And I've got I've done

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Speaker 2: sure I do that. I didn't feel like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he wasn't crossing off any boxes. He was just

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Speaker 2: We'll get into this a lot now or two, because

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Speaker 2: we you know, they want us to do cross programming

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Speaker 2: when the Red talk about the Reds until the Red start,

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Speaker 2: all kinds of other stuff, So we'll do a lot

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Speaker 2: spinning off of that, the Jared Calhoun Rick Patino junior

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Speaker 2: and what does that look like? Because these guys don't

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Speaker 2: in the NFL, maybe more critical than any other sport

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Speaker 2: because of the injuries. Because of the violent, physical nature

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Speaker 2: you feel pretty good. If you go through the starters,

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Speaker 2: you get to that bench, they got a lot of

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Speaker 2: work to do still, You got a lot of work

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Speaker 2: to do still. So we'll go over that and Sean

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Speaker 2: and I will both give our thoughts on Okay, here's

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Speaker 2: this position group. How do we feel about the starters.

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Speaker 2: I'm guessing the answer is usually going to be pretty good.

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Speaker 2: How do we feel about the bench? I'm guessing the

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Speaker 2: answer is usually going to be they better stay healthy

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't happen in the NFL, teams just don't

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Speaker 2: stay healthy through the year. But that's our three. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about the Sweet sixteen coming up tonight, kicking off

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Speaker 2: tonight and hour three so plenty to get to. But

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Speaker 2: our number one Cincinnati Reds, So let's get to it.

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Speaker 2: Starting lineup, opening day, four to ten. First pitch leading

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Speaker 2: off the center fielder t J Friedol, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: I could have gotten into that world. Batting second at

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Speaker 2: second base, Matt McLeay, third, Elie de la Cruz at shortstop,

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Speaker 2: The Redsit's seventy seven wins? Wow? Really, I do? Interest.

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Speaker 2: I bought you lunch? Does that? Does coffeen something to know?

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Speaker 2: I would complain. I introduced Sean. I won't say whey

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, it is here we go again, same injury,

428
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Speaker 2: same problem. Moist hands, moist hands. For Nick Lodolo, I

429
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Speaker 2: just worry because I now that these three guys louder Burns,

430
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 2: Williamson are up on the big league roster. If anything

431
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Speaker 2: else happens, Where do you go? Where do you go?

432
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Speaker 2: Where's that? Phil Castellini? Could you know what I'm talking about?

433
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: Where are you going to go? I was here the

434
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Speaker 2: opening day that they that he said it? Oh really?

435
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, man, I was. I was still in college.

436
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 4: That was a trip.

437
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 2: I remember. Social media is going crazy on that now.

438
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 2: The Reds did pick up Jose Franco and added him

439
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Speaker 2: to the starting or to the opening day roster. He's

440
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Speaker 2: a guy that can give you some innings can provide

441
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Speaker 2: some of that kind of depth that we've been talking about.

442
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 2: But I just I look at it and I I

443
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 2: wonder where does it? Where does it go if things

444
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 2: get even you know, a little bit more bumpy from

445
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 2: where they're at right now, because God, we've seen this

446
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Speaker 2: franchise come out of the gate and fall flat on

447
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Speaker 2: their face a.

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Speaker 4: Bunch of times, a bunch of times twenty twenty three. Yeah,

449
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,479
Speaker 4: that was rough out of it by Mother's Day. Yeah,

450
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Speaker 4: you can't win the division in April.

451
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Speaker 2: Do you can lose it? You can lose it. And

452
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Speaker 2: they have done that quite a bit. Oh yeah, quite

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Speaker 2: a bit.

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Speaker 5: Chad.

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Speaker 4: I've got a question for you, two questions. If you

456
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Speaker 4: want to do it after a break or you want

457
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Speaker 4: to do it now. We got a little bit of

458
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Speaker 4: time here. Okay, who are you most excited about coming

459
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Speaker 4: out of spring? And who are you least excited about

460
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Speaker 4: or most concerned about.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. It's a couple guys. I mean,

462
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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see if Matt McLean can keep this

463
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Speaker 2: up because he was a guy that even like going

464
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Speaker 2: back and when when the Reds got him looking at

465
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Speaker 2: that college tape that that short compact, straight to the

466
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Speaker 2: you know, straight to the ball. Looked like he had

467
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Speaker 2: great control, great balance, looked like he was he was

468
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Speaker 2: destined to be just one of the better solid contact,

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Speaker 2: put the ball in play gap to gap, got a

470
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Speaker 2: little bit of pop, but like, he's not a not

471
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Speaker 2: a debt you know, home run home run guy, and

472
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Speaker 2: then that just did not exist coming off of the

473
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 2: injury last year. But I'm super interested in South Stewart

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Speaker 2: and and what this looks like. I I'm gonna be

475
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 2: honest one. The one thing I don't love. I don't

476
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: love hitting him forth right away like they are today. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean I get it. I guess the the in

478
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Speaker 2: theory Ellie in front of him and uh behind him,

479
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 2: those guys strike out a lot, like people get it

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Speaker 2: better get used to that. Yes, they're gonna strike out

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Speaker 2: a lot. So yes, you're giving him some protection in

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Speaker 2: terms of fear, right, people fear the lineup ahead him,

483
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Speaker 2: behind him. But if those guys are striking out two

484
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Speaker 2: times a game, how much protection is he really getting?

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Speaker 2: And I don't want to see the kid press early

486
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Speaker 2: like I want him to feel comfortable. I would liked

487
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Speaker 2: maybe to have seen him hit sixth for a little

488
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Speaker 2: while and then earn moving up into that four spot.

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Speaker 2: But that's it's kind of be a nitpicky. I will

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Speaker 2: fess up to that, man up to that that that's

491
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Speaker 2: kind of being a little bit nitpicky. The guy that

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Speaker 2: I'm worried about the most, and I don't even know

493
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Speaker 2: if it's worried as much as it's time for Noelvie

494
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Speaker 2: Marte to be a guy. Yeah, I agree, we haven't.

495
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Speaker 2: We've seen it in the little flashes. We've seen it

496
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Speaker 2: in spurts, but it's always been in fits and starts.

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Speaker 2: It's never been with a whole lot of consistency. So

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Speaker 2: I worry about Marte a little bit. He's hitting eighth.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's good for him. Maybe he's he's going to

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Speaker 2: be able to take advantage of what I think they

501
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: should be doing for South Stewart. Hit a little bit lower,

502
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 2: get a little bit of a weight off your shoulders.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like you're being asked to be a

504
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Speaker 2: middle of the order guy when maybe you weren't ready

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Speaker 2: for it. So maybe that's a good thing for Marte.

506
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: But I think time's kind of ticking on that it's

507
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 2: time for him to show he's a major factor, even

508
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Speaker 2: if it's going to be in the bottom third of

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Speaker 2: this lineup. How about you.

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Speaker 4: Well, i'll tease my answers. I'll tell you when we

511
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Speaker 4: come back. How's that all right?

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Speaker 2: More after this the Muegger's Show, not Moeger Cincinnati's fifteen thirty,

513
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: rounding out our number one. Opening Day the best sports

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Speaker 2: day of the year in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: Easily, easily easily. It's not even close better than Shootout Day. Yes,

516
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Speaker 4: there's not a parade for Shootout Day. As much as

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Speaker 4: I love the Shootout, there's nothing like Opening Day. I

518
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Speaker 4: think that's spring in the air, that everybody's in a

519
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Speaker 4: good mood. Ideally, yea, ideally, ideally, nothing beats Opening Day.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll let you have it. I'll let you have

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Speaker 2: it here to finish your point.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So back to what we were talking about earlier chat,

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Speaker 4: I had asked you about who you're most excited about,

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Speaker 4: who you're most concerned about. I think for me, I'm

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Speaker 4: most excited to see Matt McLean. I'm excited to see if,

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Speaker 4: like you mentioned, he can keep it up out the

527
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Speaker 4: gate in the spring. Yeah, an amazing spring that doesn't

528
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Speaker 4: always translate. But I'm excited nonetheless to see if it does.

529
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Speaker 4: And then Nathaniel Lowe is who I'm also excited to see. Okay,

530
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Speaker 4: he had a great story in the spring too, so

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to see what he can do for the roster.

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Speaker 4: Most concerned, and I feel like I'm picking It's it's

533
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Speaker 4: like picking on a quarterback here. But Andrew Rabbit. Yes,

534
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Speaker 4: he did not have a strong spring.

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Speaker 2: He had a bad spring. Yeah, we can say it. Yeah,

536
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 2: we can be honest, right, bad spring. Yes.

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Speaker 4: So I'm concerned because I hope he's not putting too

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Speaker 4: much pressure on himself to win opening Day. I mean

539
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 4: you should have pressure because winning Opening Day means a lot.

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00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 4: Being the opening next the opening day starter means a lot.

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Speaker 4: The Reds came so close to winning last year, so

542
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 4: close one strike, you know, can they win it this year?

543
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 4: Can Andrew Rabbit have a good game? You know It's again,

544
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Speaker 4: I feel like I'm picking on a quarterback here.

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Speaker 2: But this is part of Also my concern is because

546
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Speaker 2: I think Andrew Abbott is a fine major League baseball pitcher.

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Speaker 2: When he's on, man, he's on, I think he's a three. Yeah,

548
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 2: he's like for a good team. I think he's a

549
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,760
Speaker 2: number three starter. Yeah, and guess what, the good teams

550
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 2: have really good number three starters. That is not in

551
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Speaker 2: any way a shot at Andrew Rabbit. No guy made

552
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 2: the All Starlet team last year. But I think he's

553
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 2: a three. Yeah, so that gives me pause that right

554
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 2: now he's the one until you get Lodolo back. I

555
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 2: don't think that'll be long. Hopefully, hopefully they can get

556
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 2: this blister thing squared away fairly easy. But Hunter's not

557
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 2: coming back until July. So at least until July. Abbitt,

558
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 2: you're two and for right now, Oh, he's your one.

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00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 2: That makes me nervous, very very nervous. I don't think

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00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 2: he's I don't think he's a one or two. I

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00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 2: just I think he might actually settle in to being

562
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 2: like an awesome four. But because he made the All

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Speaker 2: Star Game last year and he had the great, you

564
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Speaker 2: know start to the year, I'll give him a quality

565
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Speaker 2: third starter.

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Speaker 4: Here's the bottom line. The stone Cold said, so being Gil,

567
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Speaker 4: but also just play well. I don't care where you

568
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Speaker 4: are in the rotation. Just play well.

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Speaker 2: I'll take it, Wendy. They're out for the national anthem.

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Speaker 2: They've got the uh the flag stretched essentially from foul

571
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Speaker 2: pole to foul pole. It looks wonderful. The drone shots

572
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: are beautiful. Patron shots are beautiful. Oh, I'm sorry, I

573
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Speaker 2: thought she said something else. The drone shot. The drone.

574
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: The drone shots. The drone shots are beautiful. My brain

575
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Speaker 2: is somewhere else. It's opening day, I can hear it.

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00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 2: I don't get to enjoy Opening Day quite like most

577
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Speaker 2: of the rest of the city, and you don't either.

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00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 2: We gotta get I'm talking too long. We're gonna take

579
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Speaker 2: a break more after this, since that he's ESPN fifteen

580
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Speaker 2: thirty hour, number two, The Moegger Show. I'm not Moeger.

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Speaker 2: There's a couple of seconds, lay chump. Sorry, all right,

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Speaker 2: I think we can live with a couple of seconds.

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Speaker 5: Jay.

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Speaker 2: When people come off the elevator and they're just not nice,

585
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Speaker 2: I just felt like the people who are not nice

586
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 2: in general, I know, like it would be nice. Yeah,

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00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 2: I didn't. Like, I'm not I'm not a I do

588
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: hate elevator crowders, Like they just standing at the door

589
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 2: and then you're like, I need to get out, and

590
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 2: they come in before you get out, Like that's not.

591
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 4: Proper thatte man elevator etiquette.

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Speaker 2: You stand a couple steps back just to I mean,

593
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 2: I've made the mistake every now and again because it happens.

594
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 2: But then you're like, oh my bad, my bad, not

595
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 2: this time, not this time. I was like five steps

596
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Speaker 2: back from the elevator and the person getting off was

597
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Speaker 2: was not pleasant. Oh well, you know that's in the past.

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00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 2: Now it is. You know what the good news is?

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00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 2: What's that? It is Opening Day. We are moments away,

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Speaker 2: mere moments, mere moments away from first pitch at Great

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Speaker 2: American Ballpark. Let's go back over the starting lineup. TJ

602
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Speaker 2: freeda leading off in center field in my regular voice,

603
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Speaker 2: I'm not doing the stadium voice batting second number two,

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00:37:50,719 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: second baseman Matt McLay. Crowd goes crazy in the three hole.

605
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 2: Ellie de la Cruz playing short Salth Stewart clean up

606
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Speaker 2: rookie at first base. Aujanio Suarez makes his reds return,

607
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 2: batting fifth at designated hitter, Spencer Steer batting sixth in

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Speaker 2: left field, Tyler Stevenson batting seventh at catcher Noel v

609
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Speaker 2: Marte and right batting eighth. Brian Hayes batting ninth at third,

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Speaker 2: and Andrew Abbott on the mound for the Reds opening day.

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Speaker 4: You want some good news, ched, what's that the Cubs

612
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 4: are losing and the Pirates are losing. The bad news

613
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Speaker 4: the Brewers are winning, but they're also playing the White Sox.

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Speaker 4: So that's like saying we breed air to survive. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: of course the Red Sox Roman Anthony leading off in left,

616
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Speaker 4: Trevor's Story at short batting second, Jared Duran the DH

617
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Speaker 4: batting third, Wilson Contreras at first, batting clean up, Caleb

618
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Speaker 4: Durban at third, batting fifth, Wiler a Bray, You and

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Speaker 4: Wright batting sixth, Isaiah, what's this one? You're on your falfa,

620
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Speaker 4: You're on your own batting seventh, at second, Carlos Navarez

621
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Speaker 4: behind the dish, batting eighth, Saiddanye.

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Speaker 2: Raphaeia, you're starting to sound like cowboy. I mean, you

623
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Speaker 2: know I didn't practice these. Neither does he. It's his job,

624
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 2: it's not my I mean, I guess it is also

625
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 2: my job. Garrett Crochet on the mound for Boston. So

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Speaker 2: it's going to be a tough one for the Reds. Bats.

627
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet very very good, but that's what you You

628
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Speaker 2: got to expect. You're getting the other team's best on

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Speaker 2: opening day. But what is your your feeling here for

630
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Speaker 2: the Reds on opening day? The Red Sox I are

631
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 2: expected to also have a really good bullpen offense, probably

632
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 2: at a premium. I want to have faith in Andrew Abbott,

633
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Speaker 2: but boy, that that's spring. It's concerning, is concerning. Maybe

634
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Speaker 2: getting out of the heat of Arizona is good for him.

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Speaker 2: This is a good Red Sox lineup, Like I don't

636
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Speaker 2: feel great about today from a Cincinnati perspective.

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Speaker 4: Apparently this is the first time they've ever started the

638
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Speaker 4: season against the Red Sox, so you know there's potential

639
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:48,959
Speaker 4: history to be made here today as well.

640
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not surprising you generally, I'm surprised. I don't

641
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 2: like playing the American League right out of the gate.

642
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 4: No, you start with the National League. An understand that

643
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 4: it feels like history. I guess as I get older

644
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 4: that means a little bit more. I know, when I

645
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 4: was younger, I didn't care about any of that stuff,

646
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 4: like history changes, history evolves, So I didn't feel like

647
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 4: back then that it was a big deal.

648
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 2: But you know, this is my forty eighth. Opening Day

649
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 2: is a Reds fan. Forty seventh. I guess I was

650
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: born in October, so that first year doesn't count. I

651
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: didn't see an opening day forty seventh. Opening Day is

652
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 2: a Reds fan. I hate that they're not in the

653
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 2: first game anymore. I completely agree with that sentiment. Like

654
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 2: I understand, like if you want to do the night

655
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: before thing, you like, Okay, I get it, But today, today,

656
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:53,919
Speaker 2: the Reds should be the first game.

657
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 4: Yep, maybe the only game. No, you don't want to

658
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 4: go that far. No, I wouldn't go that far.

659
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 2: But it was always it was written in stone that

660
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 2: the first pitch on Opening Day happened in Cincinnati. Yep.

661
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 2: I don't like that that that's that, that's not a

662
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 2: thing anymore. Completely agree with you. Why can't we do

663
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:20,439
Speaker 2: that because MLB hates us? Do you think Cincinnati had

664
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 2: something to do with that? Because it's just easier to

665
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 2: do the parade and all the pomp and circumstance on

666
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 2: a four o'clock start as opposed to like a game

667
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 2: started at like noon today, right, Yeah, I.

668
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 4: Guess so it's maybe they don't backload at night TV

669
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 4: ratings and whatnot. Yeah, I guess, well, the Sweet sixteen's

670
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:41,760
Speaker 4: on today.

671
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 2: That is that is also a thing that you face

672
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 2: as well. That's true. I also like, here's another thing

673
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 2: I don't like. I liked I I didn't like. I

674
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 2: loved when opening Day was the final Like the Final

675
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: four generally was either the Monday of the championship game

676
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 2: or the Tuesday after the championship game, where like the

677
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 2: Reds Opening Day, twelve ten first pitch whatever, you got

678
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 2: all the red stuff throughout the day and then that

679
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: night you settled in for the NCAA championship game. That

680
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 2: sounds like a much better setup.

681
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 4: I think that's before my time, at least in my

682
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 4: conscious time.

683
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you were probably that's probably a baby,

684
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 2: but yeah, maybe even you like Toddler a little bit

685
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 2: older than that. But like there was a period where

686
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 2: like it coincided with the college basketball National Championship game. Yeah,

687
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 2: I like that. I like that a lot.

688
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 4: I think a twelve to ten first pitch sounds way better,

689
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 4: you know, because people get there super.

690
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 2: Early and they're going to wait all the way till

691
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: four o'clock. Now, I will tell you I did in

692
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: another you know, in a previous radio life, as I

693
00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: have talked about I uh drove a radio station van

694
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 2: in the parade. How about this? And we would have

695
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 2: to get there at like six thirty seven o'clock in

696
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,359
Speaker 2: the morning. Yoh, yeah, I was in the parade one year.

697
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: I was in great school. Well, the Red season is

698
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 2: one pitch old and the Red Sox have a single

699
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 2: great start, one pitch one. We're not gonna do play

700
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 2: by play, We're not. They don't like when I do that.

701
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 2: They want you listening to seven hundred WLW right now

702
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 2: if you're on the radio. But anyhow, one pitch, single,

703
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 2: right back up the middle. So the season is underway,

704
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 2: and I've always like baseball season is super interesting for

705
00:44:52,640 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 2: me in that there's no other commitment in sports. Double play.

706
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 2: Let's go there, you go. You're a little bit behind me.

707
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,919
Speaker 2: I'm trying not to spoil it. Okay, good, Uh, there's

708
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,760
Speaker 2: no other commitment in sports like being a baseball fan. Yep.

709
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 2: It is six months every day, every day, like it

710
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 2: feels like once every other week. I don't think that's

711
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 2: a double play. Do you think they review it? I don't.

712
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 2: Do you have to ask for it? Right? Yeah? Well

713
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 2: they did not, so I think he was safe. Like

714
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 2: I think his I think his toe was on the

715
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 2: bag before the ball got there. You get up there

716
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,240
Speaker 2: and you throw a pitch quick.

717
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 4: Could be could be bold to throw a challenge out early,

718
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 4: but the second batter into the season, Yeah you got

719
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 4: the challenge flag is on the field.

720
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be a little bold. Maybe not. Maybe

721
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 2: you need to be bold. I don't know, but.

722
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 4: You know, started off a little week. But hey, they

723
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 4: bounced back. Well, now we might have a challenge.

724
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 2: Oh they're looking at it.

725
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 4: They're calling for a challenge. That's close. It didn't getting

726
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 4: closer than that. I'll just say that run against the tie, right, Yeah,

727
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 4: that looks.

728
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: Like a tie. His toe is on there and the

729
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 2: ball is in the mid at the same time. I

730
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 2: think it's a tie. Well you get rid of the

731
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 2: lead of the lead runner. So yeah, I got that.

732
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 2: That might have been That would have been a force out,

733
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 2: so we all could you know, it all could be

734
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 2: for just for window dressing that there's two outs in

735
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 2: a runner on first. The commitment is incredible to be

736
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 2: a baseball fan football one day a week, right, like

737
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 2: maybe maybe a Monday here and there, maybe a Thursday

738
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 2: check practice reports. Yeah, but like you don't have to

739
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 2: spend three hours doing it.

740
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 4: And on top of that, if you're a diehard baseball fan,

741
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 4: you're following the minor league clubs too for your franchise.

742
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 2: God who has how do you have that much time?

743
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 4: I have a friend who follows that. Him and I

744
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 4: are gone a current goal to see all the Reds

745
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 4: minor league teams. We've seen the Dragons, we saw him

746
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago.

747
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 2: Now that's fun.

748
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 4: We saw the Bats last year in like July or August,

749
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 4: and then this year we're gonna head down Chattanooga.

750
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 2: Like that's super fun. Yeah, we're looking forward to it.

751
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 4: Chat Neuguy, I've heard is a pretty cool little town,

752
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,439
Speaker 4: so I'm pretty excited to check it out.

753
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 2: But following the minor leagues ever, like, like, I don't

754
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 2: know how he does it, combing over the minor league

755
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,800
Speaker 2: box scores every night, Like I know, my guy Clay

756
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 2: Snowden from Just Baseball. Uh, it's you know, it keeps

757
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 2: up with all of that stuff.

758
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 4: I don't know how. I don't know how it's possible

759
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 4: in the most respectful way possible. Yeah, those guys are sickos,

760
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 4: and I love it. I respect the heck out of it.

761
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 2: It's dedication to another level. Challenge, denied challenge, denied runnerund

762
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:18,439
Speaker 2: first two outs, top of the first inning, opening game

763
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 2: of the season. But yeah, it's it's settling in.

764
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 4: Like.

765
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 2: The interesting thing now, Sean is the commitment to like

766
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 2: get you know, the reds used to just be whatever

767
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 2: part of your cable package. Yeah, oh man, this is

768
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 2: a nightmare. Now you got to spend a hundred bucks. Yeah,

769
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 2: Like what did are you just immediately like, okay, I'm

770
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 2: dropping the hundred bucks me. Do you just in general

771
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: or do you want like do you need to see it? Like,

772
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 2: I give me a weekord, let me see what this

773
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,760
Speaker 2: looks like before I make a hundred dollars commitment.

774
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 4: You know, I think I do would like to see,

775
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 4: but it looks like. The other thing, too, is my

776
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 4: parents have Alti Fiber, and I'm sure integrating that into

777
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 4: our house would be a bit of a nightmare for me.

778
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 4: But I don't know. I mean, I also work here

779
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 4: and uh I again, so usually like.

780
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you you're you're doing mornings now mostly right,

781
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 2: You're doing a lot of mornings now.

782
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that does make it somewhat difficult for me

783
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 4: to follow depending on the the you know, the first

784
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 4: pitch time, which I think generally they start earlier at

785
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 4: like six ten or six o five, and then they

786
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 4: move to like sixty six. That's change it right here,

787
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 4: you're right six forty, Thank you. I was trying to remember.

788
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 4: But yeah, then they bump it up or they move

789
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 4: it back. I guess rather about a half hour to

790
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 4: seven ten seven o five for the summertime when the

791
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 4: kids are out of.

792
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 2: School and stuff.

793
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 4: So yeah, for me, it can be difficult. I mean,

794
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 4: let's be honest. I'm up till eleven o'clock anyway.

795
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not much of a sleeper.

796
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I you know, my mindset is all right. If

797
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 4: I don't get a lot of sleep, I've got all

798
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 4: day to take a nap. I'll be fine.

799
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've gotten spoiled in the whole, like you know,

800
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 2: kid at school thing.

801
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 4: I'm like, I get what I coming up this summer.

802
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 4: She gets her license, so I won't have to worry

803
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 4: about it anymore.

804
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: How about that? Well, actually, when we get back from vacation,

805
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 2: one of her good friends lives like two streets over

806
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 2: from us. She gets her license while we're on vacation

807
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,720
Speaker 2: and she's going to start taking Kelsey to school boom.

808
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 2: So tomorrow might be the last day that I have

809
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 2: to take her to school. Now, I'm perfectly good, Like

810
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 2: I'm expecting there's going to be mornings where it's like, hey,

811
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 2: Haley's not going to school today, you got to take me. Yeah,

812
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 2: but I might be out of that duty. But I like,

813
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 2: I would come home if I had to work late,

814
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 2: you know, and not get to sleep until an unfair hour.

815
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 2: I would come back home and take a nap. Yeah,

816
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 2: well that's good for you. Yeah, potentially, potentially. Yeah.

817
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 4: I haven't made the commitment yet to buy the Reds

818
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:00,800
Speaker 4: season package.

819
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 2: No, I don't know that I will. Honestly, I listened

820
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 2: to a lot of radio. I have game cast up.

821
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 2: I'm also doing podcasts every night at like eight o'clock. Yeah,

822
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 2: so I'm not even I don't even get to watch it. Right,

823
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: we're rambling. Let's take a break. Reds get out of

824
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 2: the top of the first unscathed pitchcount got up probably

825
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 2: a little bit more than you wanted, but we go

826
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 2: to the bottom of the first Reds coming to pat

827
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 2: for the first time this season, Let's talk to some

828
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 2: Jared Calhoun. When we come back, let's go Cincinnati's ESPN

829
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. Now you're speaking my language. Well, day loss

830
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 2: soul just felt right for the day, He myself and I. Yeah,

831
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 2: what happened to the reds top of the bottom of

832
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 2: the first. It disappeared in a heartbeat. Legitimately, I was

833
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 2: looking up a couple of things. I turned away for

834
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:16,240
Speaker 2: what felt like two minutes. What do you throw five pitches?

835
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 4: I honestly missed it because I blinked, and they were

836
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 4: two outs, oh Man.

837
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 2: Two pitches to Freedo, one pitch to McClean, one pitch

838
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 2: to day Light Cruise. Gary Crochet threw four pitches in

839
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 2: the bottom of the first. I swear I did not

840
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 2: see a pitch. Yeah, I don't think I did either.

841
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 2: That's deadly efficiency. I was looking something up, thinking I

842
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 2: had some time, right, you think you have it like

843
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 2: ten minutes, you know, not even landing. I don't even

844
00:52:55,560 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 2: it was. How long was that break? Four minutes? Yeah,

845
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 2: we literally went to break as they were running off

846
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 2: the field. Came back from break four minutes later and

847
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 2: the Red Sox were already batting. That's unlike I don't

848
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 2: know that I've ever seen anything go that that was

849
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 2: almost literally the perfect like three pitches, three outs, a

850
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 2: perfect first inning. If that's a sign of things to

851
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 2: come today, my goodness, don't give up hope yet. Man,

852
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 2: We're only in the second I mean, I get it.

853
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 2: I haven't given up hope yet. I know I'm legitimately

854
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 2: saying I don't know how that happened. I don't know

855
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 2: how that happened. Oh, Jared Calhoun in the parade today,

856
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 2: in the parade today, Corey Evans, the general manager in

857
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 2: the in the back seat with Jared, the new brain trust,

858
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 2: the one two punch of the Cincinnati basketball program. I

859
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 2: don't know how you could not be impressed with Jared

860
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 2: Calhoun yesterday.

861
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 5: Like it.

862
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 2: He felt like he was already like a part of

863
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:34,439
Speaker 2: the program. And I think that is one of the

864
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 2: reasons why people are so antsy always, or or you know,

865
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 2: they have their heart set on getting somebody that has

866
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 2: a connection to to whatever it is. We see it

867
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 2: with the Reds. Bring back Barry Larkin or you know

868
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 2: when Pete Rose was the manager coach, Yeah, make Joey

869
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 2: Vada the hitting coach. And it's not just the Cincinnati thing.

870
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 2: It happens everywhere, yep, But yesterday felt like why it

871
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 2: happens everywhere? Because I don't know how. You know, you're

872
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 2: very early in your career. I am a little farther

873
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 2: down the road. That's a fair statement. A little farther

874
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 2: down the road. But back when I was your age,

875
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 2: there were opportunities for me to leave town and to

876
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 2: go start a sports talk journey somewhere else, and I

877
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 2: never did it because I never thought I could be

878
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 2: authentic covering teams that I don't have any emotional attachment

879
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 2: to talking about. You know, moved to Kansas City and

880
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 2: you're talking about the Royals and the Chiefs, Kansas Jayhaw

881
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:05,800
Speaker 2: like all fine organizations, right, But I have no skin

882
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 2: in the game, and I think that makes it incredibly difficult,

883
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 2: especially in like a press conference setting where you're up

884
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 2: there at the mic and you know, somebody I saw

885
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 2: this on the internet yesterday and I don't remember who's

886
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: I think it was just a you know, a regular

887
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 2: poster on one of the social media sites, and they

888
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:38,720
Speaker 2: were talking about like Wes Miller and Wes Miller's press

889
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 2: conference compared to Jared Calhoun's press conference, and they were

890
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 2: actually doing it from a very fair perspective, and that

891
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 2: perspective was Wes Miller had. He was very fond of

892
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati program. But he was fond of the Cincinnati

893
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 2: program because when he was growing up from Afar, from

894
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 2: North Carolina, the Cincinnati program was cool, right, yep. I

895
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 2: remember that press conference. It was He obviously had a

896
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 2: lot of respect and had a lot of you know,

897
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 2: thought highly of who Cincinnati was as a program, what

898
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 2: Cincinnati basketball meant.

899
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 4: And it gave you a good amount of excitement too, Yes,

900
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 4: a healthy amount, I would.

901
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 2: Say, I agree, But he never he didn't live it. Yeah,

902
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 2: it wasn't ingrained in his DNA. Jared Calhoun from Cleveland

903
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 2: grew up as a kid in that era. Then after

904
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 2: a couple of years playing for Raleigh Massamino at Cleveland State,

905
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 2: moved down to Cincinnati as a student assistant and got

906
00:57:55,360 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 2: to be around Bob Huggins and Bearcat basketball and it

907
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 2: became part of him and he carried that with him.

908
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 2: And I thought you could feel that yesterday that there

909
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:18,120
Speaker 2: was connective tissue in his DNA that Cincinnati basketball wasn't

910
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 2: something that he admired as a kid from Afar and

911
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 2: looked at as. Yeah, I'd love to, like, I know

912
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 2: that place. Basketball means something there. That's how Wes looked

913
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 2: at it. It was right, basketball means and you know,

914
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 2: if you listen to any of my content, it's part

915
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 2: of when things weren't going well this year. That was

916
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,959
Speaker 2: one of the things I said, is you can't take

917
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 2: a job and say you took the job because you

918
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 2: know basketball at Cincinnati meant something and then not understand

919
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 2: why the fans were upset when you weren't winning enough.

920
00:58:56,440 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 2: They're upset because it means something. They're upset because to them,

921
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 2: Cincinnati basketball holds a higher standard, and you're to be

922
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 2: held to that standard. That's why you took the job.

923
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 2: You can't wonder why things are like that when there's

924
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 2: not success. Calhoun, it feels like has the DNA. He

925
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 2: doesn't look at the DNA and say, that's a DNA

926
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 2: I'd like to be part of. He says, that's already

927
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 2: in me. I was here with Bob Huggins, I was

928
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 2: here with Jason max Eel and James White and Eric

929
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 2: Hicks and John Meeker and Lenny Stokes, like he knows

930
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 2: what it means. And I thought that was different from

931
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 2: listening to Luke Fickle talk, or listening to Butch Jones

932
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 2: or Tommy Tubberville or John Brannon, who was a Xavier

933
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 2: fan growing up, or Wes Miller, Like it just felt

934
00:59:56,560 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 2: different yesterday because it felt like Jared Calhoun understood. And

935
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 2: that's a good feeling to have too. If you're a fan,

936
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 2: it is because you feel like he said something yesterday.

937
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a break. He said something yesterday. I

938
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 2: don't think it's gonna mean anything to you, but I

939
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 2: think there's a lot of people out there that when

940
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 2: I say it, we'll understand exactly what I'm talking about,

941
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 2: and then we'll get into a little bit of Patino Calhoun.

942
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 4: What does the shootout look like going forward? Sincenat He's

943
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 4: ESPN fifteen thirty.

944
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 2: Welcome back our number two rolls along Sinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

945
01:00:53,840 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 2: Chad Brendle, Bearcat Journal dot Com in Vermoegger, Red's threatening

946
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 2: bottom of the second, first and second two outs, Noel

947
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 2: v Marte at the plate. This for me. You get

948
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 2: a double from Stuart, get a walk from Steer in

949
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 2: between swore As with a flyout to right. Stevenson Marte, Hayes.

950
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 2: Can they deliver If this offense is to take a

951
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 2: step forward, those guys can't be easy outs. They can't

952
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 2: be easy outs. You're gonna have guys on Freedom, McClain,

953
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 2: day Light, Cruz, Stewart, Suarez, Steer. The bottom of the

954
01:01:51,440 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 2: lineup is gonna have opportunities. Can they get it done? Uh?

955
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 2: Jared Calhoun in official in the opening day parade, that's

956
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 2: a done deal. And look, you got to give John

957
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 2: Cunningham some credit because Sean, I think this is about

958
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 2: to get crazy in college basketball. Yeah, you got that right.

959
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 2: North Carolina open will Wade today leaves n C State

960
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 2: to go back to LSU. NC State open the two

961
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,919
Speaker 2: North Carolina school how about that? Yeah? And look they

962
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 2: there's rumors, depending on what happens, do could be open too.

963
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 5: Wow.

964
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard those rumors or not.

965
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 2: I have not. This is the first I've heard of that.

966
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 2: So the belief is and this could tie into North

967
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 2: Carolina as well. Nlvie Marte strikes out, they leave two on,

968
01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 2: don't get a run across a leadoff double from Sal Stewart.

969
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 2: He does not move past second base. They are the

970
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 2: Kings of that girl right, get him on, get him over,

971
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 2: get him in, and not that nobody can hit a

972
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 2: ground ball to the right side of the infield Sean

973
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 2: Evidently not.

974
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 4: I'm telling you man, they are the kings of the

975
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 4: stat category of leaving guys on base, especially when the

976
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 4: bases are loaded.

977
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 2: You know, a fly pop out essentially to right field.

978
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 2: Now Stevenson made good contact, flew out to the wall,

979
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 2: you know the warning track and left, and then Marte

980
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 2: strikes out. You don't get the guy over. It's annoying.

981
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 2: It's it's basic baseball. I know Garrett Crochet is really good.

982
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 2: Like it's it's hard to do that. But if you're

983
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 2: gonna be good, it's what you gotta do. What was

984
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 2: I saying, Jered, you're talking about Carolina be cas Well.

985
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:57,479
Speaker 2: Uh So the Bulls are believed to be They're gonna

986
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 2: let go Billy Donovan. Okay, john Shire is a Chicago

987
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 2: basketball legend. Wow sore he grew up. It's his family

988
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 2: is where he's from. There are reports that the Bulls

989
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 2: would make a run of john Shire. And you've potentially

990
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:24,200
Speaker 2: got Bill self retiring. I think Kelvin Sampson's going to

991
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 2: retire really now that one, it's going to his son. Okay,

992
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 2: so you know, if Kelvin retires, he would still be around,

993
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 2: probably in an advisory role, and his son would take

994
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 2: over the program. Like they wouldn't really scared. That one

995
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:46,160
Speaker 2: wouldn't affect the market much. But something Jared Calhoun said yesterday,

996
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 2: thirteen one seventy six. Does that mean anything to you, Sean,

997
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 2: thirteen one seventy seven six? Yeah? Is that a complete

998
01:04:57,760 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 2: number or is there a dash between them? Nope, that

999
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 2: is a complete number, thirteen one seventy six. U let's

1000
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 2: take a stab at it. Okay. I don't know. I'm

1001
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 2: not as confident that thirteen thousand, one hundred and seventy

1002
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 2: six that's the number.

1003
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 4: Is that the total number of wins that you see

1004
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 4: basketball has accumulated?

1005
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 2: No? No, that was the number indicating a sellout at

1006
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 2: fifth Third Arena what used to be the Shoemaker Center.

1007
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 2: And people have a certain age, Sean, Okay, know that

1008
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 2: number by heart because it was every night, Yeah, tonight's

1009
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 2: attendance thirteen thousand, one seventy six every night. And if

1010
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 2: you're my age to probably a little bit, you know,

1011
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 2: obviously older than me, but all the way down to

1012
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 2: like late thirties, I would say hearing thirteen one seventy

1013
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 2: six meant something to you. And Jared Calhoun in that

1014
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 2: press conference yesterday said, man, you'd come out here and

1015
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 2: you'd look around him, there'd be thirteen one seventy six

1016
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 2: and like he get like, that's him. That's the guy.

1017
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,560
Speaker 2: That was your jaw dropping hit that floor. No, it

1018
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 2: like didn't hit the floor, but it was. That's the guy.

1019
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 2: If you can, if you can stand up there and

1020
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:24,080
Speaker 2: just casually, like when I walked out and I looked

1021
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 2: around and I knew there was thirteen one seventy six

1022
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 2: in the building. If you're of a certain age, everybody

1023
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:35,120
Speaker 2: everybody reacted. I can guarantee you that that that was

1024
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 2: of that age. That was like, yep, nail on the head.

1025
01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 2: This is the guy. He knows what thirteen one to

1026
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 2: seventy six is. He's one of us. And you just

1027
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 2: proved that point by asking me the question too. Yeah,

1028
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 2: you're I mean, you're a younger guy, so that wouldn't

1029
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 2: mean as much now it's twelveenty twelve, and look for

1030
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 2: a lot of years, like how old were you in

1031
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 2: two thousand and six?

1032
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:57,080
Speaker 3: Uh?

1033
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 2: First eight months I would have been five. That's when

1034
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 2: McK cronin got here. And for the first four years

1035
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 2: that place was never full because it was a rebuild

1036
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 2: and people's feelings were hurt and it took time it

1037
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 2: got back there. But thirteen one seventy six wasn't a

1038
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,800
Speaker 2: thing Undermick. That was a Bob Huggins thing, right, So

1039
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:22,320
Speaker 2: it makes sense that you don't know it. But boy,

1040
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 2: people of my generation that resonated yesterday, I guarantee it.

1041
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 2: I would love to hear people's thoughts on that from

1042
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:32,920
Speaker 2: that are from that that era.

1043
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 4: As soon as you as soon as I heard, as

1044
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 4: soon as I like, that's okay, he knows, he knows,

1045
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 4: he's a knower.

1046
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 2: He's a knower.

1047
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 4: Stake a break more after this since an as ESPN

1048
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 4: fifteen thirty people, all right, and here.

1049
01:07:55,160 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 2: We go, close it out the hour. I don't I

1050
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 2: don't do this for anyone, but I'm gonna do this

1051
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 2: for Mike today. Mike. We got two options here. Okay,

1052
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 2: are you there, Mike, Mike's at a party. Oh there

1053
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 2: he is. He's back. He's back, Mike.

1054
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 5: J Well, we checked into this hotel here. I'm not

1055
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 5: far from Dodger's Stadium for the game, and they got

1056
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 5: the music turned up too damn loud.

1057
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 2: Well, we got one or two ways to do this, Mike. Okay,

1058
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 2: I got about three and a half minutes now, or

1059
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 2: we can wait until the top of the hour and

1060
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 2: I'll have more time.

1061
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 5: Oh, that would be great. Thank you for being so cooperative.

1062
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:47,080
Speaker 2: For sure, not a problem. I'll talk to you in

1063
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:53,240
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. Okay, thanks you, no problem. But

1064
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 2: there's I can't get Mike in and out in three

1065
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 2: three and a half minutes. Yeah, that guy deserves more time.

1066
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 2: It's not possib Yeah. Richard Patino Jared Calhoun. I'm interested

1067
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,400
Speaker 2: to see how this goes because these don't seem like

1068
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 2: angry guys. They've had nice things to say about each other.

1069
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 2: They have competed twice last year, not last year, the

1070
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 2: year before in the Mountain West, when Patino was at

1071
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 2: New Mexico Calhoun was in his first season at Utah State.

1072
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:31,000
Speaker 2: Do you do you think that they need some spice

1073
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 2: in this rivalry? Do you do you think it suffers

1074
01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:36,640
Speaker 2: a little bit if the two guys kind of like

1075
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 2: each other.

1076
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, definitely. It's better when the two head coaches.

1077
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:43,600
Speaker 4: I don't want to say at each other's throats, but

1078
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 4: when they have a little bit of.

1079
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 2: Bad blood. Yeah, because you know you've got bad luck. Man,

1080
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 2: I got a fifteen year old daughter. Like you know

1081
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 2: how much Taylor Swift I've listened to rely too much? Yeah,

1082
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:04,200
Speaker 2: I know, I'm aware. I've been to two Taylor Swift concerts.

1083
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I hope you enjoyed it though, actually I did.

1084
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 2: It's a pretty good show. Okay, fair enough, I'm not

1085
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 2: gonna lie it wasn't It wasn't bad by any stretch

1086
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 2: of the imagination. Yeah. I would think someone like her

1087
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 2: would put on a good production. Yeah. I can't believe

1088
01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:20,680
Speaker 2: how much she like moved, Like the stage is like

1089
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:22,599
Speaker 2: seventy yards and she is up and back and up

1090
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 2: and back and up and back and up and back

1091
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 2: like it's a lot of you get a lot of cardio. Yeah.

1092
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 2: I do think like there needs to be some some

1093
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:35,679
Speaker 2: contentious personalities, some contankerism. Yeah.

1094
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,679
Speaker 4: I think you're much more likely to get that out

1095
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:42,120
Speaker 4: of Jared Calhoun, him having that history of being a

1096
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:47,160
Speaker 4: UC guy, being in Ohio. Yeah, rick I'm sorry, Chino, Yes,

1097
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:51,400
Speaker 4: thank you, little Ricky yeah, a little ricky. Yeah, you're

1098
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 4: probably not gonna get that out of him now, I

1099
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 4: guess unless something started between the two of them, some

1100
01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:00,040
Speaker 4: kind of beef, which I can't anticipate that happening. But

1101
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 4: I think Jared Calhoun is a guy who knows exactly

1102
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 4: what this rivalry means to the city, exactly what it

1103
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:10,479
Speaker 4: means to win that game. I think Wes understood there

1104
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 4: was a lot of pressure to win it because he

1105
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:14,760
Speaker 4: heard it constantly.

1106
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 2: He won, you know, of the five Crosstown shootouts.

1107
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 4: Teams in he won one and he was three different

1108
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:23,560
Speaker 4: Xavier head coach, you know all that stuff. So he

1109
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 4: knew there was a lot of pressure to win that game.

1110
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 2: But it did.

1111
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 4: It didn't have the meaning to him that you know

1112
01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:31,679
Speaker 4: it will for Jared Calhoun. And that's fine. I wouldn't

1113
01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 4: expect it to you know, you talked about it earlier.

1114
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 4: You know, you didn't have skin in the game. It

1115
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 4: just isn't the same for someone who's not from here

1116
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 4: to really fully grasp what it means. Now, he can

1117
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 4: maybe relate it to the Duke North Carolina rival he

1118
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 4: can relate it, but that's the same, it's not the same.

1119
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 4: So I think Jared Calhoun is the most likely candidate

1120
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 4: to kind of maybe spark the one side of it.

1121
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 4: But we'll see, we'll see. I'm I'm interested to see

1122
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 4: that too as well.

1123
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:05,680
Speaker 2: Nick and Nick Cronin and Chris Mick knew each other

1124
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 2: their whole lives. Yeah, they didn't care for each other.

1125
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:12,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see if it develops.

1126
01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 2: We'll see if it grows organically. Breneman and Jones on

1127
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 2: baseball Coming up, Cincinnati's ESPN thirteen.

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01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 1: Thirty, ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

1129
01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:52,520
Speaker 2: Here we go our number three, The Mowagger Show. Opening Day, Cincinnati.

1130
01:12:54,720 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 2: There's no better place to be than Cincinnati on opening Day. Yeah,

1131
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:06,440
Speaker 2: don't let the Saint Louis fans tell you. They look.

1132
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 2: They've had a better baseball franchise than the Reds over

1133
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:15,679
Speaker 2: the last however many decades you'd like to count, correct,

1134
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:22,440
Speaker 2: But they don't do opening Day like Cincinnati. No, nobody

1135
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 2: does opening Day like the Cincinnati Reds. The Cincinnati Reds

1136
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 2: batters not doing great on opening Day. The Reds have

1137
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 2: one hit through four innings. Garrett crochet Is, I think

1138
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 2: it like forty five pitches through four. The Reds are

1139
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:51,599
Speaker 2: trying to be aggressive. They're going up there and getting

1140
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:56,120
Speaker 2: their cuts in. It's not resulting in hits and or

1141
01:13:56,200 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 2: base runners. You had the double from Stewart and then

1142
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 2: one two batters later, a walk from Steer. Those have

1143
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 2: been the only two base runners allowed. Not great, Bob,

1144
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:36,679
Speaker 2: not great. How are we looking? Not good? Good? Not good?

1145
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:43,559
Speaker 2: So we go to the fifth nothing nothing give credit.

1146
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 2: I mean Andrew, Andrew Abbott has not been as as dominant,

1147
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 2: but it's still been effective. He's he's given up five hits,

1148
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 2: he's given up a walk, he has worked around all those.

1149
01:14:55,880 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 2: We've seen a pair of double plays. But it look

1150
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 2: I know it's Garrett Crochet. I know it's one of

1151
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 2: the best pitchers in baseball. But for a team that

1152
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:19,680
Speaker 2: we're looking at and going, man, the pitching has me

1153
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:26,720
Speaker 2: a little worried. It's a concern. On Day one, we're

1154
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:29,639
Speaker 2: through four innings, They've had two base runners. Zero point

1155
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 2: five whip for Garrett Crochet. That's pretty good. So, like

1156
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 2: I said, we moved to the fifth. Bottom of the

1157
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:48,760
Speaker 2: Red Sox order coming up. Let's get to Mike. See

1158
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 2: what Mike wants to talk about. Mike, how's it going,

1159
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 2: my friend, You're you're ready for Dodgers Opening Day. I

1160
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,479
Speaker 2: take it I'm.

1161
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:57,479
Speaker 5: More ready for you coming to the visit, coming to

1162
01:15:57,520 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 5: California than that.

1163
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 2: I'm ready to get out there. I am ready to

1164
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:05,960
Speaker 2: hit the hit the road. I'm worried about the airports.

1165
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:08,680
Speaker 2: They don't sound great, but.

1166
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 5: Lax is always nuts. Man doesn't matter when it can

1167
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 5: be three in the morning.

1168
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 2: Mike, I got a question. Have you ever had Don's

1169
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:23,680
Speaker 2: Chilake heelays, say it again, Don's Chila keelays, you know

1170
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:24,719
Speaker 2: what Chilike Keelay's are.

1171
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, but I don't know about the don part.

1172
01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 2: It's in La there's a couple of locations. There's one

1173
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 2: in Long Beach, there's one kind of near downtown. I've

1174
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 2: heard very good things. I think I'm gonna go. We

1175
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 2: get off the plane at like eight fifteen Sunday morning.

1176
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna go get some Don's Chila.

1177
01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 5: Keelays, No, that's perfect, and actually they're they're just I

1178
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 5: don't know if they've opened a new one down in

1179
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 5: San Clemente. Okay, down in Orange County because I lived

1180
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 5: down at Dana Point. You know that. Yeah, down it

1181
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 5: just a little south of the Newport. Uh gosh, I

1182
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 5: haven't been to one of the one of their joints

1183
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:10,640
Speaker 5: for you know, I don't know, not that long, a

1184
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 5: couple of years. Oh yeah, blow your mind, dude.

1185
01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:16,679
Speaker 2: I love and you gotta go green, right, you gotta

1186
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 2: go green. You don't go right, you got to go green.

1187
01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 5: You gotta go And that's my opinion. Now other people

1188
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:27,719
Speaker 5: will say otherwise, but I personally was much for further green.

1189
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 2: I'm ready for some Mexican food.

1190
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna well, I don't have your phone number.

1191
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:40,240
Speaker 2: I have yours. I'm gonna get in touch with you

1192
01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:40,879
Speaker 2: this weekend.

1193
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then uh, and then I'll give you I'll

1194
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 5: work on that the next day or so and come

1195
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 5: up with four or five joints that won't be you know,

1196
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:53,920
Speaker 5: long drice for you in the family to check out.

1197
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're staying in Pacific Beach when we're in San Diego,

1198
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 2: and then and we're staying right in Venice when we

1199
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 2: get to.

1200
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 5: La Okay, I'll tell you another good resource when you

1201
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:08,519
Speaker 5: want to do something like that. I don't care.

1202
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 2: Where are you going to?

1203
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:11,719
Speaker 5: The United States? Is a guy Fieri?

1204
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always check out Triple D and see what

1205
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 2: triple D spots are around.

1206
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 5: So because those are all the mom and pops me

1207
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:19,960
Speaker 5: and those are the hidden.

1208
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 2: Traders that we all love, that's what I prefer me too.

1209
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 5: Well, they brought twenty of us up here, and I'm

1210
01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 5: thankful for it, but it's it's a it's a kind

1211
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 5: of a bit of an arduous experience physically because a

1212
01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 5: lot of guys have a lot of gear they got

1213
01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 5: to bring, and yeah, stuff like that. But but hey,

1214
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 5: how can you turn down third base seats in the

1215
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 5: top of the bottom section there and not just be

1216
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 5: grateful as hell? And they're putting us up in the

1217
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:55,120
Speaker 5: hotel here. So I apologize about that earlier.

1218
01:18:55,720 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 2: That's all good, But we were talking about Oh my god,

1219
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:05,599
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, what just it's like the fourth

1220
01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 2: bad call at first base by Cebe Buckner.

1221
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:11,720
Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't know where you were on that one,

1222
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 5: so I got a little lost.

1223
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:17,320
Speaker 2: Oh come on, not you, you're fine, Not you, you're fine.

1224
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,479
Speaker 5: Well, you know, if they're going against dude Crochet, gonna

1225
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:23,679
Speaker 5: not be an easy task, you know.

1226
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 2: Right, That's why it's important you don't get screwed over

1227
01:19:26,080 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 2: by the umpires.

1228
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 5: Hey, schemes got hammered by the Mets.

1229
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 2: He did. It was not a good day for him.

1230
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 5: See, so it can happen to the best of them.

1231
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:38,680
Speaker 5: You guys might just start blowing hitting, hitting crochet like

1232
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 5: you know, ping pong ball.

1233
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:42,639
Speaker 4: Here a little bit, Mikey, he's throwing like forty five

1234
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 4: pitches through four innings.

1235
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:50,439
Speaker 5: Whoa right, I think he's on his game a little bit. Yes,

1236
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 5: how many hits they got too?

1237
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 2: The Reds have one hit, the Red Sox have seven.

1238
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 5: Oh gosh.

1239
01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 2: It's not trending in a good direction, my friend.

1240
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 5: No, And that makes people upset on opening day. But

1241
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:06,559
Speaker 5: that's not what opening day is about. Opening Day, well

1242
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 5: it should be.

1243
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 2: But opening days, he'd like to get a win.

1244
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:12,720
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, because when it comes right down to it,

1245
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:14,720
Speaker 5: opening days here and going, and then we're down to

1246
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:17,599
Speaker 5: the nitty gritty, right right. But I want to talk

1247
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 5: about U see real quick basketball because I heard you

1248
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:25,000
Speaker 5: about the thirty thirteen seven sixty one.

1249
01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:25,839
Speaker 2: I think it's thirteen.

1250
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm dyslexic a little bit, that's okay, But Ted,

1251
01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 5: I swear my dad took me to my first UC basket.

1252
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 5: I think it was called the wasn't it called the

1253
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 5: Armory field House.

1254
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Armory field House. Oh no, yep, Well now

1255
01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 2: what South Stewart just took a line drive off his

1256
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:51,840
Speaker 2: arm hand arm area. He wrists dropped his glove immediately.

1257
01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:56,599
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is not going great, Mike, it's

1258
01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 2: not going great.

1259
01:20:57,680 --> 01:21:01,080
Speaker 5: Curse this team is cursed. I swear to the course

1260
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 5: post nineteen seventies. This team was.

1261
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:09,320
Speaker 4: Col right at the base of the palm, like right

1262
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:13,400
Speaker 4: where the palm and the wrists meet on the inside,

1263
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 4: right at the like the bottom of the glove.

1264
01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:19,479
Speaker 5: Not a compound fracture.

1265
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:25,519
Speaker 2: Uh, it was immediate. He was down. Great that blows.

1266
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:29,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that blows real hard. Well, well, anyway, well

1267
01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 5: I know you gotta get going. But what I was

1268
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 5: going to do? Remember, okay, thanks my dad taking me

1269
01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:38,760
Speaker 5: down there when I was five years old. No, no,

1270
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 5: I was probably about seven and uh, and Oscar was

1271
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 5: still playing for US. And it's funny, ched I talked

1272
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 5: to so many people over the years that said, yeah,

1273
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 5: I was unreal. Oscar went for a three peet. I

1274
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:54,639
Speaker 5: should know, brother Oscar was gone. He was gone.

1275
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 2: He got him to a final four, but he never

1276
01:21:56,840 --> 01:21:57,799
Speaker 2: got a title.

1277
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 5: I never got him the title. And I but then

1278
01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 5: they had started taking me down the other games. And

1279
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:06,599
Speaker 5: I'll never forget those guys with Paul Hoag and Tony

1280
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 5: Yates and Larry Shankleton and Tom Thacker. Tom Packer was

1281
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 5: my favorite. And then after that it was George Wilson

1282
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 5: and Ron Bonm and we beat Ohio State twice. And

1283
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 5: you know, I'm showing my age, but boy, that was

1284
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:24,120
Speaker 5: the heyday of DUC basketball, wasn't it.

1285
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:28,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I think people think that they won

1286
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 2: two titles and that was it. They don't realize they

1287
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 2: went to five straight final fours.

1288
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then they got beat by Loyola on the

1289
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 5: three peat with Jeff Parkner was there. Loyal of Chicago

1290
01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:43,760
Speaker 5: was their star player, and Jucker went, I don't know

1291
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 5: if he went into a stall.

1292
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 6: Then or what.

1293
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 5: But we I don't know, did we lose that in overtime?

1294
01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 5: It might have been an over.

1295
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:54,599
Speaker 2: I think it was. I mean, I I was still

1296
01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:56,800
Speaker 2: a I was a couple of years from being born

1297
01:22:56,800 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 2: at that point.

1298
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I was so because I was tall.

1299
01:23:02,160 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 5: I was already real tall for my age. So that's

1300
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 5: why I ended up playing basketball.

1301
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 2: Uh.

1302
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,200
Speaker 5: I didn't play football much, so I played basketball and baseball,

1303
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:13,599
Speaker 5: and I was so attached to you. See, Ron Bonham

1304
01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 5: had the most beautiful baseline jump shot I've seen in

1305
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 5: a while.

1306
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of I've always heard people talk

1307
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:23,479
Speaker 2: about his his mid ran and how good he could

1308
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:24,840
Speaker 2: have been if there was a three point line, how

1309
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:26,920
Speaker 2: much better he could have been if there was a

1310
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:27,759
Speaker 2: three point line.

1311
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll just stay on and listen to your play eight.

1312
01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:36,640
Speaker 5: Uh can you leave the line dedicated to me so

1313
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 5: I can listen to Upstate? Okay, I'll talk to you

1314
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 5: this weekend or communicating someway stay or form before you leave?

1315
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:48,000
Speaker 2: All right, enjoy the game.

1316
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:50,479
Speaker 5: Thank you, Chad, You're my budd.

1317
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:55,080
Speaker 2: No problem. Thanks Mike Dick from Dayton, Dick, how you doing, brother?

1318
01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:57,799
Speaker 5: How are you Chid?

1319
01:23:58,080 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 2: I'm good at South Stewart's State.

1320
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 6: Well, I just wanted to tell you Dayton made a

1321
01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:07,280
Speaker 6: good Uh. There's going to be a lot of people happy.

1322
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:10,000
Speaker 6: You know the hotels, I could, you know, for the

1323
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 6: for the tournament, you know, for d you know, for

1324
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:16,280
Speaker 6: the madness. They're going to generate a lot of money

1325
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:17,599
Speaker 6: for basketball.

1326
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:19,120
Speaker 2: Aren't they sure? Sure?

1327
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:26,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's good, it's pretty good. Well did your Hey, congratulations.

1328
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 5: To uh, Miami, whatdy gear? They had? Right?

1329
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 2: The great season was a great season. I mean you

1330
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:35,840
Speaker 2: know they were eventually going to run into a team

1331
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 2: that was bigger and stronger and faster. That was inevitable.

1332
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 2: But they absolutely made the best of it.

1333
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:43,680
Speaker 6: Yeah they did, did they?

1334
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:44,000
Speaker 5: Now?

1335
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 6: Did your teams make it?

1336
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 2: Take my team? Cincinnati?

1337
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:54,080
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah? Yeah? But come on, what's the matter with

1338
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 5: come on?

1339
01:24:55,160 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 6: But you know I called my friend, uh we we

1340
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:06,040
Speaker 6: we got where last year and Dave. I thought Dave

1341
01:25:06,080 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 6: maybe would give me some bread stickets. But you got

1342
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 6: to meet my friend. Sometimes he comes gets me and

1343
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 6: uh uh uh we go to uh, you know, different

1344
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:19,760
Speaker 6: places to see everybody. Oh, I want you to say

1345
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:20,679
Speaker 6: hi to somebody.

1346
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:25,880
Speaker 4: Hi, somebody, Hi, how are you Hi?

1347
01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 5: I can't hear on this, dame, hold on.

1348
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:32,280
Speaker 2: I can't either. It's fine, Hi, how are you? I'm

1349
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:33,280
Speaker 2: wonderful yourself.

1350
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:34,960
Speaker 5: Can you hear me?

1351
01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:36,640
Speaker 2: I can hear you? Can you hear me?

1352
01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:38,760
Speaker 5: Okay?

1353
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:43,879
Speaker 2: This is Jimmy. How you doing? I'm doing good? What's

1354
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 2: your Red win total for this year? How many? How

1355
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:49,880
Speaker 2: many win games? Of the Reds gonna win all of them?

1356
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:54,799
Speaker 2: All of them? One hundred and sixty two and oh Okay,

1357
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:56,680
Speaker 2: I love that. There you go.

1358
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:00,080
Speaker 3: All right, Well, nice talking to you.

1359
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 6: Here goes okay, yeah, just this never it's great up here.

1360
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:11,679
Speaker 6: You know, I know people basketball and I'll played music.

1361
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:13,400
Speaker 5: But I'm having a good time.

1362
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:16,759
Speaker 2: All right. You have a great day, Dick. Okay, Okay,

1363
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:21,879
Speaker 2: see you later. What that was a hoot? Just happened?

1364
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 2: I'm so confused, don't you love rud Live Radio? Ah,

1365
01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 2: should have kept talking to Mike the second break.

1366
01:26:35,360 --> 01:26:52,880
Speaker 4: It's not easy SB at fifteen thirty. Little reggae action, okay, okay,

1367
01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 4: just fits the day.

1368
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:57,400
Speaker 2: It's I'm going for the vibes today. You know, the

1369
01:26:57,479 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 2: vibes have been good. Yeah, the vibes have been good.

1370
01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:05,639
Speaker 2: Let's get to a little Bengals. There's been a lot

1371
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 2: of talk surrounding the roster construction and how things look

1372
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 2: coming out of free agency. And that doesn't mean they

1373
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:23,719
Speaker 2: can't sign free agents. Obviously, there are still guys out there,

1374
01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 2: but the rush of free agents is over. The first wave,

1375
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:33,719
Speaker 2: the second wave, however you want to call it. That's

1376
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 2: in the books. You'll see some guys getting cut, some

1377
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:42,640
Speaker 2: additions made that way, but for all intents and purposes,

1378
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:46,479
Speaker 2: everybody's now looking at the draft and the in roster building,

1379
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:51,439
Speaker 2: and so I was looking at, you know, Paul Dayner's

1380
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,719
Speaker 2: article this week. I think it came out on maybe

1381
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:59,599
Speaker 2: Monday about the Bengals depth chart titled linebacker remains glaring

1382
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 2: need how to toward NFL Draft. And then you start

1383
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:10,719
Speaker 2: going through and you started start looking, I'm concerned about

1384
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:15,440
Speaker 2: the depth of this roster. In a league where injuries

1385
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 2: are just part of the deal, just part of the deal,

1386
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:27,160
Speaker 2: you are going to have injuries in the NFL. It

1387
01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:32,200
Speaker 2: is a violent sport. That's not telling anybody new. If

1388
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:36,760
Speaker 2: you're trying to build a championship roster, yes, you need

1389
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:41,599
Speaker 2: to have great players at the top. But man, you're

1390
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 2: through free agency, you're going into the draft. This is

1391
01:28:45,400 --> 01:28:51,439
Speaker 2: a rough look as we go through the roster, and

1392
01:28:51,479 --> 01:28:53,160
Speaker 2: we'll try to do this quickly and then we'll talk

1393
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:58,240
Speaker 2: about it after we take a break. But sean quarterback,

1394
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, Joe Flacco, Okay, that's fine, that's fine. Yeah,

1395
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 2: two guys deep, we can we can. We can work

1396
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 2: with that running back Chase Brown the starter, samaj p

1397
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:11,120
Speaker 2: Ryan and Tosbrooks behind him. You'd like to maybe have

1398
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:13,080
Speaker 2: a little bit more depth there. I'm sure that that

1399
01:29:13,080 --> 01:29:17,320
Speaker 2: that's something that that they will address, getting like a

1400
01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 2: special team's type, you know, depth piece at running back.

1401
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 2: I'm not not sweating running back and tight end. I

1402
01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 2: think is is reasonable. I don't think it's a great

1403
01:29:29,439 --> 01:29:33,240
Speaker 2: tight end room, especially you've got Mike Gaseki and Drew

1404
01:29:33,280 --> 01:29:36,880
Speaker 2: Sample and then on the bench Tanner Hudson and Eric All.

1405
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:39,840
Speaker 2: I would I would have this higher if we were

1406
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:43,360
Speaker 2: confident that Eric All is going to be able to

1407
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:44,479
Speaker 2: play NFL football.

1408
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:49,920
Speaker 4: Right, he looked great when he started, Yes, but that

1409
01:29:50,080 --> 01:29:55,040
Speaker 4: knee is not great. Yeah, multiple h A c L surgeries.

1410
01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:59,360
Speaker 2: It's a lot wide receiver starts to get a little

1411
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 2: a little interesting here, Jamar Chase T Higgins, Josebash in

1412
01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:09,920
Speaker 2: the slot. I don't trust him. It's a great story,

1413
01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:13,840
Speaker 2: seems like an awesome guy. I don't trust him to

1414
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 2: be a high level slot receiver. And then behind them

1415
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:23,880
Speaker 2: Charlie Jones, Keishawn Williams, Michael Tinsley, woof Mitch Tinsley or

1416
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:28,240
Speaker 2: Mitch Tinsley. Mitchell Tinsley. He might he might be the

1417
01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:32,040
Speaker 2: the one that that actually saves that room from being

1418
01:30:32,160 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 2: like a kind of a disaster. Except for the fact

1419
01:30:35,520 --> 01:30:37,200
Speaker 2: that obviously you've got two of the best in the

1420
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 2: NFL and at the top of the room. I'm not terrible, Tarry,

1421
01:30:40,439 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 2: I'm not mad about that, but when one of those

1422
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:47,040
Speaker 2: guys gets hurt, that goes from a strength to a weakness.

1423
01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:53,120
Speaker 2: We've seen it how many times offensive line love the starters,

1424
01:30:53,720 --> 01:31:01,559
Speaker 2: Brown fair Child, Keris Riisner, mems good with that behind them,

1425
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:06,000
Speaker 2: Cody Ford, Matt Lee, Jalen Rivers, Oh no, oh no,

1426
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:09,080
Speaker 2: that's not good.

1427
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 4: No, and Cordell of oosen Volson also got dropped recently. Yeah,

1428
01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:16,640
Speaker 4: so there's less depth there, and even if whatever your

1429
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:19,680
Speaker 4: opinion was, it's still one less guy you got in

1430
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:20,080
Speaker 4: the room.

1431
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:24,520
Speaker 2: Defensive line, Miles Murphy, Jonathan Allen, TJ. Slayton, Boye, Mafe.

1432
01:31:26,760 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 2: It's not gonna win any awards for best defensive line

1433
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:37,200
Speaker 2: in the NFL. But it's not bad. It's not bad

1434
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:39,760
Speaker 2: that they need to be more productive. But I don't

1435
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:44,960
Speaker 2: I'm not overly terrified at the starters, but backups. BJ Hill,

1436
01:31:45,439 --> 01:31:51,479
Speaker 2: I think his best time has passed him. Chris Jenkins, No,

1437
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:55,240
Speaker 2: Shamar Stewart, I mean, I guess, I don't know, but

1438
01:31:56,320 --> 01:32:01,599
Speaker 2: so far, not a lot. Cedric Johnson. Who McKinley Jackson.

1439
01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be surprised, honestly, if McKinley Jackson makes this team,

1440
01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 2: unless it's just a matter of we don't have enough.

1441
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:15,800
Speaker 2: Hendrickson gone a Saigone. They replaced Hendrickson with Mafe, They

1442
01:32:15,840 --> 01:32:20,439
Speaker 2: did not replace Osai. I don't think defensive line is great.

1443
01:32:20,520 --> 01:32:26,599
Speaker 2: Linebacker goodness, starters Brett Carter, Demetrius Knight, backups Owen Burke's

1444
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:36,240
Speaker 2: Joe Giles, Harris, Shaka Hayward. That's clearly a bad place.

1445
01:32:37,400 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 2: And then defensive backs at corner DJ Turner and Dax Hill,

1446
01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:44,760
Speaker 2: Jalen Davis, the nickel Brian Cook and Jordan Battle. The

1447
01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:48,439
Speaker 2: safeties not bad there, but you go to the bench

1448
01:32:48,520 --> 01:32:56,240
Speaker 2: Josh Newton, DJ Ivy, PJ. Jewles, that's it. You see

1449
01:32:56,280 --> 01:33:00,679
Speaker 2: a lot of injuries in the secondary like that. That's

1450
01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 2: just a spot. And they don't you know, they don't

1451
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:06,400
Speaker 2: always seem to be like super serious. But guy misses

1452
01:33:06,640 --> 01:33:10,120
Speaker 2: a game or two and you gotta you gotta slide

1453
01:33:10,120 --> 01:33:15,800
Speaker 2: somebody in there behind him. There's no depth on this team,

1454
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:19,320
Speaker 2: Sean ye none. I've got a question for you, but

1455
01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:21,040
Speaker 2: I'll leave it for when we come back. All right,

1456
01:33:21,120 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 2: let's take a break. We will will break that down

1457
01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 2: now that we've set the stage. We'll break that down

1458
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:35,759
Speaker 2: when we come back. Since that's ESPN thirteen thirty, Reds

1459
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:42,880
Speaker 2: are threatening. Finally, Sean, finally, we've been here before. We

1460
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:45,760
Speaker 2: have South Stewart up one out in the bottom of

1461
01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:49,960
Speaker 2: the sixth, McLain on second, Dela Cruz on first, Andrew

1462
01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:53,519
Speaker 2: Abbott done for the day, six scoreless innings, gave up

1463
01:33:53,520 --> 01:34:00,880
Speaker 2: seven hits, give up a walk. Oh boy, I know

1464
01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:06,200
Speaker 2: you're behind me, so I'm being careful here. Okay, okay,

1465
01:34:07,120 --> 01:34:10,200
Speaker 2: Basis loaded Stewart single second hit of the day for

1466
01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:14,559
Speaker 2: the rookie. Whoever drives that first run across is going

1467
01:34:14,600 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 2: to get a standing ovation. Gino Basses juiced in the sixth.

1468
01:34:23,760 --> 01:34:27,759
Speaker 2: See if he's got some of that World Baseball Classic magic. Yes,

1469
01:34:29,040 --> 01:34:31,599
Speaker 2: But you were saying about the Bengals and the depth

1470
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:32,800
Speaker 2: as we've gone through it.

1471
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 4: Now I'm going to ask you a question I was

1472
01:34:35,400 --> 01:34:40,240
Speaker 4: just asked yesterday in an interview, who do you think

1473
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:41,240
Speaker 4: the Bengals should draft?

1474
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:44,160
Speaker 2: And to me, it's three possible answers, but I'll let

1475
01:34:44,200 --> 01:34:46,840
Speaker 2: you go first. So here's the thing I think there

1476
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:52,439
Speaker 2: are six defenders that I like. Okay, most every mock

1477
01:34:52,560 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 2: I've seen has all six of those defenders going before

1478
01:34:57,479 --> 01:35:01,439
Speaker 2: the Bengals drafted ten. That checks out. Yeah, it would

1479
01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:05,280
Speaker 2: be great if even one of those guys fell. I

1480
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:08,880
Speaker 2: think you and I probably have three in common. But

1481
01:35:08,960 --> 01:35:10,880
Speaker 2: go ahead. We only have three of the six in

1482
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:12,599
Speaker 2: common because I only have three.

1483
01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 4: But I'm curious to hear who your six are and

1484
01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:19,040
Speaker 4: if I have three of the same.

1485
01:35:21,400 --> 01:35:30,680
Speaker 2: Well, obviously Aara Reese okay, Ruben Bain yep, that's one

1486
01:35:30,720 --> 01:35:39,080
Speaker 2: of mine. Starnay Styles yep, Okay, Caleb Downs, that's.

1487
01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:39,400
Speaker 5: My other one.

1488
01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:44,639
Speaker 4: My second one, the the pass rusher from Texas Tech.

1489
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:50,720
Speaker 2: That's six, right, that was you? Are you saying? Was

1490
01:35:50,720 --> 01:35:52,600
Speaker 2: that your sixth one? Yeah? I think that was Was

1491
01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:56,519
Speaker 2: that six? I think that was four or five? There's

1492
01:35:56,520 --> 01:36:00,759
Speaker 2: at least five? Yeah? What about what about a Key mesidor?

1493
01:36:02,920 --> 01:36:10,800
Speaker 2: I don't know if here's the thing. Reese Bailey is

1494
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:14,839
Speaker 2: the edge from Texas Tech, Caleb Downs, Sunny Styles, Reuben

1495
01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 2: Bain and was it only five? I thought it was.

1496
01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:21,120
Speaker 5: Downs?

1497
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:29,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, two, three, four, five? That was only five? Maybe

1498
01:36:29,439 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 7: it was only five? Okay, more is better?

1499
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:43,320
Speaker 2: I everybody keeps putting mansor Delaney in that ten spot

1500
01:36:43,360 --> 01:36:50,160
Speaker 2: to the Bengals, That would tell me that that is

1501
01:36:50,200 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 2: a play for the future. Would it added depth this year? Yes,

1502
01:36:53,320 --> 01:36:54,800
Speaker 2: but it is a play for the future, and that

1503
01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:59,720
Speaker 2: you don't intend to resign both DJ Turner and dex Hill,

1504
01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:06,840
Speaker 2: And I think you need so much defensively, I think

1505
01:37:06,840 --> 01:37:10,320
Speaker 2: you have to sign both of those guys. You need

1506
01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:19,240
Speaker 2: them right now. I would probably trade back if I

1507
01:37:19,280 --> 01:37:22,639
Speaker 2: could at ten. Okay, interested to hear your thought process

1508
01:37:22,640 --> 01:37:26,320
Speaker 2: on this. I don't think. I don't think Delaney is

1509
01:37:26,360 --> 01:37:30,040
Speaker 2: who I would spend the tenth pick on. So if

1510
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:34,639
Speaker 2: I can add they need so much, if I can

1511
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 2: move back a couple spots and add a pick or

1512
01:37:39,240 --> 01:37:41,800
Speaker 2: two in the in the third round, the fourth round,

1513
01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:46,080
Speaker 2: I think that would be wildly beneficial. And you still

1514
01:37:46,240 --> 01:37:54,240
Speaker 2: could probably, like if Delaney's not there, I still think

1515
01:37:54,240 --> 01:38:00,360
Speaker 2: you could get Jed Jemal McCoy from Tennessee. How depending

1516
01:38:00,439 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 2: on how far you go back, Avian Terrell from Clemson.

1517
01:38:05,040 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 2: The Reds can't get it done. What did I tell

1518
01:38:08,520 --> 01:38:08,960
Speaker 2: you earlier?

1519
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:12,680
Speaker 4: They're the best when the bases are loaded at not

1520
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:14,160
Speaker 4: getting anybody across the fleet.

1521
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:19,200
Speaker 2: Unbelievable. More the same. The more things change, the more

1522
01:38:19,240 --> 01:38:25,480
Speaker 2: they stay the same. Bases loaded one out and Suarez

1523
01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:31,000
Speaker 2: and Steers strakeout swinging. Welcome back to the red season again.

1524
01:38:31,200 --> 01:38:34,840
Speaker 2: Garrett Crouchet is very good. But you gotta find a

1525
01:38:34,880 --> 01:38:37,680
Speaker 2: way to scratch a run across. Maybe you don't hit

1526
01:38:37,760 --> 01:38:41,280
Speaker 2: him for four, you gotta find a way to get one.

1527
01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:46,680
Speaker 2: I would trade back. I think the five guys that

1528
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:50,000
Speaker 2: I think are the best options. I don't think they're

1529
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:53,960
Speaker 2: gonna trade up, No, I don't think so. So I

1530
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 2: would trade back and get extra picks if one of

1531
01:38:56,240 --> 01:38:59,000
Speaker 2: those five guys wasn't there. I don't love a corner

1532
01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 2: at at ten. How far up do you think they

1533
01:39:02,560 --> 01:39:08,400
Speaker 2: could trade if they decided they wanted to, like maybe seven, maybe,

1534
01:39:08,840 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 2: but you could I think you get one of those

1535
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:15,080
Speaker 2: five guys at seven. Yeah, I think so too. And

1536
01:39:15,120 --> 01:39:18,840
Speaker 2: they need help on defensive line. I mean, I guess

1537
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:20,760
Speaker 2: you could say they're okay at safety, but you could

1538
01:39:20,760 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 2: always use another defensive back and downs, and they need

1539
01:39:24,400 --> 01:39:25,160
Speaker 2: help a linebacker.

1540
01:39:26,160 --> 01:39:29,240
Speaker 4: They need help, period. Yeah, the defense just isn't enough.

1541
01:39:29,320 --> 01:39:30,160
Speaker 4: Blanket statement.

1542
01:39:30,320 --> 01:39:35,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's take our last break, sweet sixteen tonight, get

1543
01:39:35,160 --> 01:39:36,720
Speaker 2: a couple of quick thoughts on that before we get

1544
01:39:36,720 --> 01:39:54,599
Speaker 2: out of here, since I e's ESPN thirteen thirty. All right,

1545
01:39:54,920 --> 01:40:02,320
Speaker 2: home stretch, we go. We're no longer tied. Pierce Johnson

1546
01:40:02,360 --> 01:40:05,160
Speaker 2: and his first appearance as a Red gives up a

1547
01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:08,800
Speaker 2: double on his second pitch, a sack punt to get

1548
01:40:08,880 --> 01:40:13,120
Speaker 2: him to third, and then on the third batter face

1549
01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:14,920
Speaker 2: to single up the middle of the reds now trail,

1550
01:40:14,960 --> 01:40:20,879
Speaker 2: one to nothing, top of the seventh Sweet sixteen. Tonight,

1551
01:40:22,400 --> 01:40:27,080
Speaker 2: four games, Texas and Purdue, and that's it for Pierce Johnson.

1552
01:40:27,880 --> 01:40:30,040
Speaker 2: Three batters, he got one out, gave up a run.

1553
01:40:30,400 --> 01:40:37,880
Speaker 2: Fast about that bullpen? What were you saying earlier? This

1554
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:40,479
Speaker 2: is what happens when you get bases loaded with one

1555
01:40:40,520 --> 01:40:45,360
Speaker 2: out and you strike out twice. You put no pressure

1556
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:47,200
Speaker 2: on the other team. How many times did we see

1557
01:40:47,200 --> 01:40:48,040
Speaker 2: that with Hunter Green?

1558
01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1559
01:40:49,479 --> 01:40:51,960
Speaker 4: I mean that was one of the storylines of twenty

1560
01:40:52,040 --> 01:40:54,879
Speaker 4: twenty four. It was Hunter Green would have great games,

1561
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:59,599
Speaker 4: the offense would stink, and they'd lose because of it. Yep,

1562
01:41:00,240 --> 01:41:02,519
Speaker 4: Hunter would have an amazing game and the offense just

1563
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:03,200
Speaker 4: couldn't produce.

1564
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:10,200
Speaker 2: Uh seven Tonight Texas and Purdue. I think Texas wins

1565
01:41:10,240 --> 01:41:10,639
Speaker 2: this game.

1566
01:41:11,320 --> 01:41:15,760
Speaker 4: I Oh, for racket's sake, I really hope you're wrong.

1567
01:41:15,960 --> 01:41:20,719
Speaker 2: Purdue generally overwhelms you with size. Texas has great size,

1568
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:25,799
Speaker 2: they do, so like, Purdue is not gonna overwhelm Clough

1569
01:41:26,080 --> 01:41:32,800
Speaker 2: and Kaufman Wren are not gonna overwhelm Texas with their size.

1570
01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:37,599
Speaker 2: I like Traymon Mark like I I think Texas wins.

1571
01:41:37,640 --> 01:41:40,800
Speaker 2: And you know, I think it's gonna be really funny

1572
01:41:40,800 --> 01:41:43,720
Speaker 2: if Sean Miller goes to the Elite eight, goes to

1573
01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:49,840
Speaker 2: the Elite eight, you're one at Texas second game, Iowa Nebraska,

1574
01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:55,040
Speaker 2: I mean, good for Nebraska. Good for Nebraska. I know

1575
01:41:55,160 --> 01:41:58,360
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor's happy. I talked to Zach about this on Tuesday. Oh,

1576
01:41:58,479 --> 01:42:01,479
Speaker 2: very nice. He was at both games last week. Wow.

1577
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:05,719
Speaker 2: Nebraska's never won a NCAA tournament game, Yeah, till this year.

1578
01:42:05,760 --> 01:42:11,479
Speaker 2: And now they're in the sweet sixteen. Incredible. I don't

1579
01:42:11,520 --> 01:42:14,400
Speaker 2: know here. I think Nebraska is the better team. I

1580
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 2: think Iowa wins. I think they're more physical. Ben McCollums outstanding. Yeah,

1581
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:22,120
Speaker 2: he's outstanding. It's the battle of the farm boys. Yeah. Oh,

1582
01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:26,360
Speaker 2: these and these two schools hate each other. Oh yeah, hate.

1583
01:42:27,400 --> 01:42:30,000
Speaker 2: You love to see that in the Sweet sixteen. Yeah,

1584
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:36,920
Speaker 2: uh tonight Arkansas and Arizona. Arizona is the best team

1585
01:42:37,520 --> 01:42:42,479
Speaker 2: left in this tournament. Arkansas has the best player in

1586
01:42:42,479 --> 01:42:47,639
Speaker 2: this tournament. Darius Acuff, if you have not watched him, is.

1587
01:42:47,840 --> 01:42:52,519
Speaker 4: Electric, insane, electric with the ball in his hands.

1588
01:42:53,760 --> 01:42:55,439
Speaker 2: But I don't think he can do it alone. And

1589
01:42:55,520 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 2: I think that defense of Arizona is gonna make it

1590
01:42:58,160 --> 01:43:01,960
Speaker 2: a lot tougher on him than pretty much anybody else has.

1591
01:43:02,360 --> 01:43:07,200
Speaker 2: To this point. I think Arizona wins. I think it's

1592
01:43:07,200 --> 01:43:09,840
Speaker 2: going to be closed, but I just don't think Acuff

1593
01:43:09,840 --> 01:43:12,080
Speaker 2: has enough juice to do it by himself.

1594
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:15,160
Speaker 4: What if I told you I have Arkansas in the

1595
01:43:15,240 --> 01:43:17,960
Speaker 4: National Championship game, Well, I mean, look, you're going with

1596
01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:19,680
Speaker 4: the best player in the tournament. I can't hate you

1597
01:43:19,680 --> 01:43:26,960
Speaker 4: for that. I just was going on the coach Calf, I've.

1598
01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:28,040
Speaker 2: Got him going through Arizona.

1599
01:43:28,160 --> 01:43:30,720
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, I'm I'm tied for first place on the

1600
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:35,840
Speaker 4: iHeartMedia Bracket Pool Challenge right now, tied for first.

1601
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:38,040
Speaker 2: The guy has had more talent than any coach in

1602
01:43:38,080 --> 01:43:41,920
Speaker 2: the history of basketball. He's won one tournament and that

1603
01:43:41,960 --> 01:43:48,760
Speaker 2: team was absurd. Coach col and then stylistically one of

1604
01:43:48,800 --> 01:43:52,920
Speaker 2: the more interesting games you'll see all season. Illinois number

1605
01:43:52,920 --> 01:43:57,320
Speaker 2: two in the country in offensive efficiency. Houston a top

1606
01:43:57,360 --> 01:44:03,880
Speaker 2: five defense always under Calvin Samson. I think the big

1607
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:08,640
Speaker 2: thing here is Houston lives on dominating the glass. I

1608
01:44:08,640 --> 01:44:12,800
Speaker 2: think Illinois matches them on the glass. Yeah, two very

1609
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:19,599
Speaker 2: physical teams. I love Calvin Samson. I love that Houston program. Uh,

1610
01:44:20,200 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 2: but I think Illinois wins.

1611
01:44:21,520 --> 01:44:22,920
Speaker 4: What if I told you I have them winning it

1612
01:44:22,960 --> 01:44:27,559
Speaker 4: all Illinois Houston, Houston, I would tell you you're not

1613
01:44:27,760 --> 01:44:28,479
Speaker 4: going to be at.

1614
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:34,000
Speaker 2: The top of the iHeart brackets for long. I just

1615
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:38,519
Speaker 2: I worry about their They're so young. Yeah, Flimmings is

1616
01:44:38,560 --> 01:44:42,080
Speaker 2: a freshman. Snack's a freshman. You know. They've got a

1617
01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:44,200
Speaker 2: couple of freshmen that come off the bench. Like they

1618
01:44:44,479 --> 01:44:47,320
Speaker 2: just got a lot of youth across the board for

1619
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:50,800
Speaker 2: Houston that they don't normally have. They're usually old. They're

1620
01:44:50,840 --> 01:44:53,479
Speaker 2: usually a very veteran ridden team. Yeah, and I and

1621
01:44:53,560 --> 01:44:59,000
Speaker 2: I don't think Jojo Tugler, who is an excellent defender,

1622
01:44:59,560 --> 01:45:02,639
Speaker 2: but he has not rounded out his game like you saw,

1623
01:45:02,800 --> 01:45:07,080
Speaker 2: like Juwan roberts Do, who's spent forty three years. Juwan

1624
01:45:07,200 --> 01:45:11,200
Speaker 2: Roberts was a freshman on five Slamm of jama and

1625
01:45:11,520 --> 01:45:12,960
Speaker 2: now he's a senior.

1626
01:45:16,200 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 4: I don't know it's gonna be fun. All I know

1627
01:45:18,560 --> 01:45:20,120
Speaker 4: is it's March and anything's possible.

1628
01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:24,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be two really really good games tonight.

1629
01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:27,880
Speaker 2: Thanks to everybody for tuning in. Sam Maul got out

1630
01:45:27,880 --> 01:45:31,120
Speaker 2: of the jam. So we are at the seventh inning stretch.

1631
01:45:32,160 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 2: It's one nothing, Boston Stevenson, Marte Hayes coming up for

1632
01:45:38,920 --> 01:45:43,040
Speaker 2: the Reds. Sean, It's been a absolute pleasure today, sir.

1633
01:45:43,120 --> 01:45:43,840
Speaker 2: Always fun with you.

1634
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:44,160
Speaker 5: Jed.

1635
01:45:44,560 --> 01:45:46,240
Speaker 2: I'm glad look forward to I'm glad you like the

1636
01:45:46,280 --> 01:45:50,280
Speaker 2: Mongolian barbecue. It's one of my favorite things. Looking forward

1637
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:53,280
Speaker 2: to it later. All right, Well, thanks to everybody for

1638
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 2: tuning in. Take me out to the ballgame, take me

1639
01:45:56,479 --> 01:45:58,559
Speaker 2: out to the crowd, Get me out of this studio,

1640
01:45:58,760 --> 01:46:00,600
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty