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Speaker 2: You want answers. I think I'm entitled, Joe, answer the truth.
Speaker 2: You can't handle the truth.
Speaker 3: Truth, Truth.
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Speaker 2: six twenty in a matter of minutes. Jeff Hopsonbengals dot
Speaker 2: Com six thirty five. You're gonna hear from Joe Flacco today.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it was really impressive and you're
Speaker 2: gonna hear, and I'm gonna I'm gonna give you more
Speaker 2: of the the human less of the football like X's
Speaker 2: and o's talk of what he said today, but more
Speaker 2: of the human reality of life and playing to age
Speaker 2: forty and the impact of the trade on his family.
Speaker 2: Really good stuff coming up at six thirty five. Then,
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Speaker 2: a time out and we come back. Jeff Hoobson from
Speaker 2: Bengals dot Com as at all ready to break down
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Speaker 2: for hanging out tonight. Settle in. We've got Bengals conversation early,
Speaker 2: we'll spray to all fields with various topics to follow.
Speaker 2: After that, let's talk Bengals packers, Let's talk Joe Flacco.
Speaker 2: It's what everybody's talking and everybody's writing about, including our
Speaker 2: next guest. Always a pleasure to hook up with the
Speaker 2: man from Bengals dot Com. That would be Jeff Hobson.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 4: Great to talk to you, Alas, thanks for having me
Speaker 4: on at Red Sox for about two and a half
Speaker 4: bats short, but I think Flaco might have enough choice
Speaker 4: to get the Bengals through somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everybody here can relate to being a
Speaker 2: bat or too short with the Reds lineup as well.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Joe Flacco. He talked with you
Speaker 2: guys today. How what's the sense for how he's adjusting
Speaker 2: to and getting up to speed with all of this.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, he's a higher gun. He's a confident guy,
Speaker 4: you know, as a Bengals villain. I had never talked
Speaker 4: to him before, so he struck me a little bit
Speaker 4: more than a little bit more soft open, and I
Speaker 4: thought of dying would be you know, he kind of
Speaker 4: has a has he kind of has a high court.
Speaker 2: He's got a high.
Speaker 5: Edge to him.
Speaker 4: You know, he's got a jersey guy, uh play tough
Speaker 4: and yet he's you know, you talk to him in
Speaker 4: person and he's a he's a a thoughtful guy until
Speaker 4: he's been around and uh, you know, gave some thoughtful
Speaker 4: answers today, Jeff.
Speaker 2: As this week has unfolded and you've made your way
Speaker 2: through that locker room, what's the sense for what this
Speaker 2: trade means and how it's received by everybody else in
Speaker 2: that locker room?
Speaker 4: Well, I think it. I think it meant a bunch
Speaker 4: of things. I think it's sent. The message from management
Speaker 4: was well received. This division is wide open.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: They believe they can uh, you know, they believe they
Speaker 4: can win it. They think they have the That's how
Speaker 4: they put this team together, uh with you know, with
Speaker 4: all in uh with winning your division and uh without
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow or not. And UH think they feel like
Speaker 4: they've got enough talent out there that if they can
Speaker 4: get a facilitator, get the get the thing into the
Speaker 4: uh into the hands of their playmakers, you know they've
Speaker 4: got a shot. And I you know, talking to veterans
Speaker 4: like Orlando Brown and and guys who have been around,
Speaker 4: you know, to get a veteran like this in mid season,
Speaker 4: it does give you a spark. Guy talking to a
Speaker 4: guy like Jordan Battle, a young defender who actually intercepted
Speaker 4: Flack on opening day, he said, you know, he's he's
Speaker 4: you know, we've got two Joe Cools. He says, they're
Speaker 4: both ice. So, uh you know, I think battle kind
Speaker 4: of get a center of him across the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: And if I do think it's given them, uh you know,
Speaker 4: the message has been sent, and I think they like
Speaker 4: the message. And uh so I think they've got a
Speaker 4: uh you know, they've got all the all the potentially
Speaker 4: they had a spark dare in slack.
Speaker 2: Off Jeff in a in a perfect world, what can
Speaker 2: he do for this offense? What might it look like
Speaker 2: if it's working.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a great question, uh Lance I I you know,
Speaker 4: that's what we're gonna find out. I guess uh uh
Speaker 4: I gotta believe it's gonna be uh you know, it's
Speaker 4: probably gonna be. Uh it's it's not gonna be as
Speaker 4: simple as we think it is, but I'm sure it's
Speaker 4: not gonna be intricate. But uh, you know, they've been
Speaker 4: up all hours here, so uh you know they've en up.
Speaker 4: Uh so they're contracting something. And I think it's you
Speaker 4: just make you make him comfortable, you know, you make
Speaker 4: him comfortable in the pocket, and you know, you give him.
Speaker 4: You know, he can find these guys. He's got the
Speaker 4: ability to find these guys. He's played eighteen years in
Speaker 4: the league. He's a Super Bowl MVP. He just he's
Speaker 4: just two years shy of uh doing this for Cleveland
Speaker 4: and become and comeback Player of the Year. So you know,
Speaker 4: and I think the thing, the thing is, if you
Speaker 4: give him time, those guys are gonna get open. And
Speaker 4: you know, that's what he said today. You know, uh, I,
Speaker 4: I've been asking.
Speaker 7: All week, what do you do about Tim?
Speaker 4: You know, these these guys make these unbelievable plays on
Speaker 4: Sunday that they've been together for weeks and months, you know.
Speaker 4: But Flacco was pretty matter of fact. He said, those
Speaker 4: two guys talking about JAMAI chasing T Higgins day the
Speaker 4: best in the world of what they do. If you
Speaker 4: can't get on the same page or throw it to them,
Speaker 4: you're in trouble, which I thought was a pretty good answer.
Speaker 4: Kind of reminded me of Joe mccatthey and Ted Williams.
Speaker 4: Jill McAthy said, if I can't Jill mccatthey said, if
Speaker 4: I can't get along with a four hundred hitter, that's
Speaker 4: my fault.
Speaker 2: Jeff Hobson jacking in Bengals dot Com talking about Sunday's
Speaker 2: matchup against the Packers. You mentioned Orlando Brown. You have
Speaker 2: an excellent Q and A with him on Bengals dot
Speaker 2: Com and explain the connection for those aren't aware. He's
Speaker 2: got a connection to Joe Flacco. Back to what when
Speaker 2: he was twelve years old, Yeah, he was.
Speaker 4: He was Joe Flacco's ball boy. He was the Ravens
Speaker 4: ball boy in Raven's pennycamp. You know, his dad, the
Speaker 4: late great Orando Brown year uh plate was was a
Speaker 4: staple for the Ravens and he retired by the time
Speaker 4: Flacco was a rookie, but Orlando hung around working there.
Speaker 4: So not only did he work with not only was
Speaker 4: he Flacco's ball boy, but Flaco was his quarterback eight
Speaker 4: years later when he made his first three NFL starts
Speaker 4: because the raven the hometown Raven straft in Orlando in
Speaker 4: the third round. So, you know, but like Orlando said,
Speaker 4: he hasn't had time, you know, hasn't had time to
Speaker 4: go down memory lane. You know, they're just trying to
Speaker 4: They're just trying to, you know, they're trying to get
Speaker 4: on the same page when it goes as you know,
Speaker 4: as far as detection, whereas Flacco is going to be
Speaker 4: in the pocket. And you know they're talking about that stuff,
Speaker 4: not not balloons in candies.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's let's talk about this defense which seems to
Speaker 2: be turning in a positive direction of progress being made incrementally.
Speaker 2: And one guy TJ. Slaton who goes home this weekend,
Speaker 2: obviously against the Packers, what he showed against the Lions,
Speaker 2: Jeff has to be the kind of the impact they
Speaker 2: were looking for when they signed him to begin with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's exactly right. He's a he's he's
Speaker 4: he's a space eater. You know, got to stop and run.
Speaker 4: And that's exactly what they did. I mean, that's what
Speaker 4: got lost in Sunday's game really was. You know, that's
Speaker 4: a very good punishing running attack that Detroit hes, you know,
Speaker 4: and they and they and they went three point sixty
Speaker 4: eys on thirty three carries. So it wasn't like, you know,
Speaker 4: a small sample size. They stopped a very good running game.
Speaker 4: And you know, Slayton ran a pretty stout group there.
Speaker 4: You know, the linebackers filled the rains pretty well too,
Speaker 4: but you know, uh, you know they're gonna uh it's
Speaker 4: gonna be the same type of game up in Green Bay.
Speaker 4: The Packers rely on that run game a lot like
Speaker 4: the Lions do. Josh Jacobs is one of the best
Speaker 4: backs in the league, and uh, you know they don't
Speaker 4: want to put Jordan Love and third and you know
Speaker 4: in third and long, you know, if he gets bounced
Speaker 4: around back there, you know, he he he has trouble
Speaker 4: finding his footing, so uh, early downs a key. DJ
Speaker 4: Slayton Chris Jenkins Junior is really having a hell of
Speaker 4: a year, you know. Uh, he's he's coming into his
Speaker 4: own and uh, you know, I think that Clayton is
Speaker 4: really I think the last couple of games, I think
Speaker 4: he's had a bit. He's kind of had to readjust
Speaker 4: to carry Montgomery, but I think he's kind of had
Speaker 4: some fits and starts. But he seems to be, uh,
Speaker 4: he seems to be getting into a groove right now,
Speaker 4: and just some time to go back to the team
Speaker 4: to play the team to draft him.
Speaker 2: Obviously difficult times for when Jake Browning, you've been around
Speaker 2: him during this ride and roller coaster, what what's your
Speaker 2: sense of how he's handled this week?
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't think you could ask him anything better.
Speaker 4: You know, Jake's a stand up guy. He was in
Speaker 4: front of his locker, you know, Wednesday, and Joe Flockow
Speaker 4: was on the other side of him. You know a
Speaker 4: lot of guys, I mean, I've been around when you know,
Speaker 4: guys would run into the training room or maybe you know,
Speaker 4: and I wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Meet the press.
Speaker 4: You met the press, took every question question And I think, listen,
Speaker 4: if there's one guy who knows that he's got to
Speaker 4: be ready, it's Jake Browning. I mean, you know, uh
Speaker 4: so I think you know, he he showed exactly that.
Speaker 4: You know, he said, uh, you know, he's not going
Speaker 4: to be moping around like a competitor. He said he
Speaker 4: was mad, but uh, you know, I think he knows,
Speaker 4: uh you know, this team needs and he's the backup quarterback.
Speaker 4: What do they say, right, he's a high feed away yep.
Speaker 2: Last question, I want to go back to the offensive
Speaker 2: line with the injury status. How might the offensive line
Speaker 2: look from the guard position on Sunday?
Speaker 4: Fair Child came back today the rookie left gud doing
Speaker 4: fair Child miss uh missed the first two days of
Speaker 4: practice with a knee with a knee issue, he's listed
Speaker 4: as questionable. Uh if he can't go, Uh, they at
Speaker 4: least have one veteran in reserve and Dalton uh Riisinger.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if Lucas Patrick is ready to go.
Speaker 4: He remember, he just came off injury reserve this week
Speaker 4: when he went full. The last two days he's listened
Speaker 4: as questionable. Not sure what his status would be. So,
Speaker 4: you know, I think they're just trying to Uh, they've
Speaker 4: got some options there. I think they do like what
Speaker 4: you know. Fair Child has kind of had a rough
Speaker 4: end through his game on Sunday when he gave up
Speaker 4: the safety, but I you know, the fact that he
Speaker 4: came out of the medical tent and uh played, you know,
Speaker 4: and played for as long as he did. I just
Speaker 4: think he's really been a guy that I think they
Speaker 4: think they believe in the next several years they can
Speaker 4: hang a hang a hat on.
Speaker 2: It has been too long. I appreciate you making time tonight.
Speaker 2: Good catching up in safe travels to Green Bay this weekend.
Speaker 4: Same here, Lance, appreciate it. In five minutes, I'll be
Speaker 4: posting a story about how this is really up in
Speaker 4: rambeau Field. It's kind of like a like a backyard babecue,
Speaker 4: a lot of connections. Everybody knows everybody.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to read it. Thank you, sir. All right,
Speaker 2: you as well. There you go, Jeff Hopson, how good
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 5: Talk?
Speaker 2: A little Bengals football out of the shoot? Let's keep
Speaker 2: talking little Bengals football we come back. You're gonna hear
Speaker 2: a little bit of Joe Flacco and I'm gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: and I've never listened to Joe Flacco speaking at any
Speaker 2: length of time. I'm gonna give you, and he spoke
Speaker 2: for if it's fifteen minutes, I've condensed into about two
Speaker 2: and a half or so. But it's the stuff about
Speaker 2: life and being this age and still playing football, in
Speaker 2: the impact of the trade on him and family, and
Speaker 2: in what the last three weeks have been like. You'll
Speaker 2: hear that as we continue. It's Arnel Carrier Sports Talk
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Speaker 2: fans in just a second, I don't want to start
Speaker 2: here with Joe Flacco. I was struck by what Jeff
Speaker 2: Hobson said as well about never interviewing Joe Flacco and
Speaker 2: just the intry, interesting perspective he got. In hearing Flacco
Speaker 2: talk today, I was struck by the same thing. I
Speaker 2: probably heard, you know, a SoundBite two over the years
Speaker 2: of you know, fifteen twenty seconds long. Joe Flacco was
Speaker 2: talking after a game. I've never really paid attention to it,
Speaker 2: but in listening to him today and he spoke for
Speaker 2: twelve fifteen minutes, And to consider what he's been through
Speaker 2: over the last to three weeks, yeah, I mean. He
Speaker 2: signed with the Browns in the off season, comes here
Speaker 2: as the starter a couple of weeks into the season,
Speaker 2: gets benched. They travel to London and Dylan Gabriel is
Speaker 2: the starting quarterback. They come back from London and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, this week on a Tuesday, he gets
Speaker 2: traded to the Bengals. He's in a car driving to
Speaker 2: pay Corpse Stadium and a five hour conversation with the
Speaker 2: head coach, and after a couple of practices, he's going
Speaker 2: to be starting against the Green Bay Packers on the
Speaker 2: road on Sunday. And I was struck by his perspective
Speaker 2: on this change in his life and how it's impacted
Speaker 2: not just him but his wife, family and all that
Speaker 2: comes with it, and playing football at the age of forty.
Speaker 2: So I thought it'd be worth taking a listen to
Speaker 2: just a couple of minutes of this Joe talking about
Speaker 2: the impact of the trade and what starting with what
Speaker 2: the car ride was like talking with Zach Taylor. Here's
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco earlier today. What was the car ride down
Speaker 2: like with Zach? Kind of on that phone call just
Speaker 2: as you were.
Speaker 5: Good, I mean I was tired.
Speaker 8: You know, I would have drove down myself, but they
Speaker 8: were nice enough to kind of take us down with me,
Speaker 8: and Zach got on the phone with me a little bit,
Speaker 8: just kind of going over some of the basic things
Speaker 8: that they had kind of have kind of had in
Speaker 8: for for this week, and then honestly, I kind of
Speaker 8: like crashed a little bit, like with my wife next
Speaker 8: to me and just got a little bit of rest.
Speaker 8: You know, we just got back from London and like
Speaker 8: waking up is easy, but like at eight.
Speaker 2: O'clock I was like hitting the wall.
Speaker 8: So it was nice to be able to just kind
Speaker 8: of get a little bit of rest on the drive
Speaker 8: after talking to him for a little while.
Speaker 9: Did you and your wife have a moment where you
Speaker 9: looked at each other and like, what does this actually happen?
Speaker 8: I think the last couple of weeks we've had those moments.
Speaker 8: You know, with everything in life, when things happen to you,
Speaker 8: you just like, all right, how do we get how
Speaker 8: do we go forward? What's the next step? And you
Speaker 8: don't it doesn't really hit you too hard, but the
Speaker 8: people that care about you, they almost wear it on
Speaker 8: their sleeve, all these different emotions more than you do.
Speaker 8: So honestly, like when this ended up happening, I think
Speaker 8: there was a little bit of excitement from her and yeah,
Speaker 8: we sure we looked at each other and we're like,
Speaker 8: you know, what the hell, but you could see I
Speaker 8: think it was ultimately excitement on you know what the
Speaker 8: future holds.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're stepping in a situation where
Speaker 2: you can be a guy that can help this.
Speaker 10: Team stay and play on picture in that playoff conversation.
Speaker 5: I sure hope.
Speaker 8: So that's what I play for, is to win football
Speaker 8: games and help everybody be at their best. You know,
Speaker 8: I hope I can come in here and give these
Speaker 8: guys my best and you know, elevate us as much
Speaker 8: as I as I possibly can, and you know, see
Speaker 8: if we can win a few football games.
Speaker 9: Find out right away I think you're starting five days
Speaker 9: from that.
Speaker 5: Well, it's the first thing that costs in your head.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think my personality probably ends up helping me here.
Speaker 8: But you just kind of have to go with it
Speaker 8: and embrace whatever it is and meet it head on.
Speaker 8: And then also, like when you when you're in these situations,
Speaker 8: it's a good reminder of the fact that we get
Speaker 8: to play a game for a living. It makes it
Speaker 8: almost a little bit easier to not make it bigger
Speaker 8: than it actually is.
Speaker 9: Eighteen years in Super Bowl MVP, plenty of money in
Speaker 9: the bank, young family, Why are you still doing.
Speaker 8: This at forty I just feel like I have like
Speaker 8: a lot to offer to a football team. I feel
Speaker 8: like I've put in a lot of work, my whole
Speaker 8: life to get to this point in just terms of
Speaker 8: playing in the NFL in general, I hopefully will have
Speaker 8: a long life when I'm done, But you only get
Speaker 8: a chance to play in the NFL once.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've worked really hard, like I said,
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 8: A guy that gets to play in the NFL, and
Speaker 8: I don't want to take that for granted. I still
Speaker 8: feel like I can play the game at a high level,
Speaker 8: and I want to be able to look at myself
Speaker 8: in the mirror when I'm fifty years old and be
Speaker 8: able to say that, you know, I gave it everything
Speaker 8: I had.
Speaker 2: I found that really impressive. Again, having never really listened
Speaker 2: to him for any extended amount of time, I just
Speaker 2: I love the perspective and how he's approaching what has
Speaker 2: been laid before him. For this weekend, I want to
Speaker 2: do this because this has been the topic all week
Speaker 2: and I wrote about this earlier today and posted this
Speaker 2: on x and also at seven hundred WLW dot com
Speaker 2: and on my Facebook page at Lance Bacallister Sports Talk,
Speaker 2: and I thought it'd be worthy of conversation tonight with
Speaker 2: you because you've been living this for over five weeks
Speaker 2: and feeling this and absorbing it like a blind side hit.
Speaker 2: And a Bengals season that started with hopes and dreams
Speaker 2: and excitement took a sad and very gutting turn with
Speaker 2: the Joe Burrow injury, and then things turned dark and
Speaker 2: ominous and towards hopeless as Jake Browning melted down before
Speaker 2: our eyes. The last three weeks, I think we're being honest,
Speaker 2: they have felt like we were thrust at warp speed
Speaker 2: back into the nineties. I mean visions of Achille Smith
Speaker 2: and David Shula and Bruce Coslin and David Klingler dancing
Speaker 2: in our heads. And I said this earlier in the week.
Speaker 2: I'll admit I walked into Pakor Stadium for Bengals line
Speaker 2: on Monday, cringing at the thought of, man, there are
Speaker 2: twelve games left in this season, and they've dropped three
Speaker 2: straight and scoring three points in the first half of
Speaker 2: the last three games and been out score at asle whatever.
Speaker 2: The number one thirteen to thirty seven, and the volume
Speaker 2: of cries for tanking and draft talk was already being raised.
Speaker 2: And we're in October. I had fans reaching out and
Speaker 2: say they had flipped their calendars to count the days
Speaker 2: till pictures and catchers were reporting, wait a minute, the
Speaker 2: baseball season against ended last week. It felt desperate, and
Speaker 2: what's the old saying? Desperate times called for desperate measures,
Speaker 2: And on Tuesday, in maybe the biggest and boldest in
Speaker 2: season move in this franchise's history, the organization dropped back
Speaker 2: to pass and through a hail Mary, a trade, but
Speaker 2: not just any trade in intra division trade with the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns for Joe Flacco. I mean, like, what on
Speaker 2: earth is happening here? A trade so surprising that I
Speaker 2: feared I was being duped by the report, Like, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, let me let me check this Twitter account?
Speaker 2: Is this real? Forty years old, eighteen year veteran, he
Speaker 2: jumped in a car with his wife and was driven
Speaker 2: five hours to Cincinnati this week, all the while absorbing
Speaker 2: a crash course in Zach Taylor's offense over the phone.
Speaker 2: It's stuff movies are made of. But as I wrote
Speaker 2: this morning, will this will this screenplay produce a horror flick,
Speaker 2: a faery tale story of a comeback and redemption, or
Speaker 2: a slapstick comedy. Tuesday Night on sports Talk words like
Speaker 2: hope and revival were used by callers. The trade played
Speaker 2: to a seventy two percent approval rating on my Twitter
Speaker 2: question seventy two percent? Do you know how difficult it
Speaker 2: is to get seventy two percent of Bengal fans to
Speaker 2: agree with anything the organization does? Now? The dissenters declared
Speaker 2: a fear for Joe Flacco's well being, you'll ever survive
Speaker 2: and they longed for Russell Wilson or Jamis Winston. I
Speaker 2: thought my lunch conversation this week with friends boiled it
Speaker 2: down to the the cornycopia of feelings, and that's what
Speaker 2: led me to making it a topic.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 2: There's the there's the crowd that says, I'm in just
Speaker 2: a game out of the AFC North, one game out
Speaker 2: of a playoff spot veteran quarterback gun for an arm.
Speaker 2: There's another segment that says, and is loudly declared, I'm
Speaker 2: out no chance. They are cooked. They were cooked before,
Speaker 2: and they're really cooked with this statue of a quarterback
Speaker 2: in the pocket behind that offensive line. And then there's
Speaker 2: the third component in the like the the cornucopia of
Speaker 2: feelings I get from the fan base, the segment that says,
Speaker 2: I really have no idea what to expect, but I'm
Speaker 2: here for it. I'm curious enough to find out. How
Speaker 2: about you punk lines open first time tonight. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about that. Let's talk about this week and how it's
Speaker 2: played out before your eyes and the sense that it's
Speaker 2: left you for this team in out curio, curious enough
Speaker 2: to find out? Five one, three, seven four nine, seven thousand, one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred the Big One Talk with you next RNL
Speaker 2: Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WLW
Speaker 2: coming up seven o'clock. We'll drop in some UC football conversation.
Speaker 2: If you have been to lambeau Field, if you have
Speaker 2: ever been to historic lambeau Field, I am looking for
Speaker 2: you and your perspective that to follow for the moment.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for a perspective on how this has been
Speaker 2: absorbed this week and the feeling it has left you with.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the poll results here in a second.
Speaker 2: Are you in? Are you out? Or are are you
Speaker 2: curious enough to find out about what's gonna happen uh
Speaker 2: to this team? Now? What would Joe Flacco said to
Speaker 2: Alexandria Chris you were on seven hundred WLW going on, I'm.
Speaker 11: Gonna say I'm on the fence because I mean, I
Speaker 11: was starstruck when I heard the news. I work like
Speaker 11: you were. I had to double chess.
Speaker 12: Sorts and whatnot.
Speaker 11: But I'm on the fence because once I cooled down
Speaker 11: and got to really thinking, I got to thinking about
Speaker 11: Tom Brady and going down to Tampa Bay Brandon. I
Speaker 11: don't think it was an end season trade, but I
Speaker 11: mean almost the same level as trade.
Speaker 2: Maybe he finds the fountain of youth at age forty
Speaker 2: and paired with the two best receivers he's ever thrown to.
Speaker 2: There's a new chapter written in the career of Joe Flacco.
Speaker 2: How cool would that be?
Speaker 5: It'd be cool.
Speaker 11: I mean, we'll have to see. We'll just have to
Speaker 11: see if the team performs along with them.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. Chris, thank you and enjoy
Speaker 2: your weekend. The question posed on Twitter Bengals are two
Speaker 2: and three, Joe Flacco takes over, how are you feeling
Speaker 2: about all of this? Three choices? I'm in, I'm out,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, let's find out, and running right now
Speaker 2: at about fifty nine percent, say you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure, but let's find out. I want to do that.
Speaker 2: I want to carry this over into the seven o'clock
Speaker 2: hour at five, one, three, seven, four, nine, seven, one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred, the Big One because the lunch conversation I
Speaker 2: had sparked this, because I heard all three sides of
Speaker 2: it at the table. You've if you've listened this week,
Speaker 2: you've heard me lay out a scenario where, hey, the
Speaker 2: reality is that this this may not feel very good.
Speaker 2: And certainly after Sunday it did not feel very good.
Speaker 2: It felt dark and bleak and ominous and hopeless. And
Speaker 2: then if you look at the standings, you say, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, is that right? Are the Are the Bengals
Speaker 2: only a game out of the AFC North behind the Steelers?
Speaker 2: Does anybody believe the Steelers are really that good? I don't.
Speaker 2: And then you look and say, wait a minute. In
Speaker 2: the AFC playoff picture, the Bengals are really the number
Speaker 2: eight seed in a seventeen player field. I posted that
Speaker 2: on my Facebook page this week and said, ah, you're
Speaker 2: trolling people. Yeah, I'm like, it's just the standings. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying they're gonna make the playoff. I mean to say,
Speaker 2: right now, the reality is seven teams make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: and right now, after all, that's happened. They're number eight,
Speaker 2: and they're ahead of the likes of Kansas City, and
Speaker 2: they're ahead of the likes of Houston, and they're ahead
Speaker 2: of the likes of Buffalo. That's reality. That's not me
Speaker 2: giving an opinion on it.
Speaker 5: That's just how it is.
Speaker 2: So fifty nine percenter saying not sure, let's find out,
Speaker 2: fourteen percent say I'm out, and about twenty seven percent
Speaker 2: say I'm in. And let me be clear on this,
Speaker 2: I don't think Sunday is the determining factor of whether
Speaker 2: this will work or not. I'm not saying win or
Speaker 2: lose will determine how the remaining eleven games will go,
Speaker 2: because I would expect they lose on Sunday. I'd love
Speaker 2: for him to win, but let's understand the reality of
Speaker 2: this situation. They're on the road, they're a fourteen point
Speaker 2: under the and the starting quarterback has had three practices,
Speaker 2: so I would anticipate the shock would be if they won.
Speaker 2: I would love it. I would anticipate they lose, but
Speaker 2: with this game to get under his belt, I know
Speaker 2: it's a quick turnaround to next week, but it's also
Speaker 2: a very familiar opponent in the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'll take
Speaker 2: my chances. I don't think this is the determining factor
Speaker 2: if they lose now, I would prefer I think it
Speaker 2: is important that they look more competitive than they have
Speaker 2: the last three weeks, because for three weeks they have
Speaker 2: not looked competitive. They not look like an NFL team.
Speaker 2: They certainly did not get NFL caliber play from the quarterback.
Speaker 2: I'm looking on a couple of sites. ESPN right now
Speaker 2: has the Packers' odds to win at eighty point four percent.
Speaker 2: Eighty point four percent. I'm looking at another site as
Speaker 2: the Packers ninety chance to win.
Speaker 5: Ye yee.
Speaker 2: So let's take a time out, Let's get a check
Speaker 2: on news, your calls to start the seven o'clock hour
Speaker 2: on this. I want to get into a lambeau Field
Speaker 2: as well, but I'm I'm looking for your your state
Speaker 2: of emotion right now with this team in out, we're
Speaker 2: curious at least five one, three, seven, nine, seven thousand,
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Speaker 2: The off the Beaten path topic. One of the beauties
Speaker 2: of getting back to a more regular routine of sports
Speaker 2: talk and Friday nights is the off the beaten path topic.
Speaker 2: We've got a fun one coming up two hours from now,
Speaker 2: but up next your calls after we check news. It's
Speaker 2: right now. Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet seven
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Speaker 1: Takes place between seven pm and eight pm.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's keep moving. Seven oh eight, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: The weekend is here. You are here, I'm here, Drew
Speaker 2: Western Iety is here. Let's see what we can do
Speaker 2: with this in this hour. I know what we're going
Speaker 2: to do in the next hour. The off the Beaten
Speaker 2: Path topic coming up in the eight o'clock hour, and
Speaker 2: then Sterling Tonight takes over at nine. We've got ground
Speaker 2: to cover, let's get to it. First hour spent talking
Speaker 2: with Jeff Hobson from Bengels dot com. Some really good
Speaker 2: insight on jamar Or, on Joe Flacco and TJ. Slayton
Speaker 2: and more that'll be available in podcast form at seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW dot com and through the iHeartRadio app. You
Speaker 2: heard from Joe Flacco. If you were around, you heard it,
Speaker 2: and I'd hard not to be impressed with what he
Speaker 2: said and how he's handling this week. And it's led
Speaker 2: to the sense and this was our running conversation at
Speaker 2: lunch this week, and I was part of a three
Speaker 2: person conversation, and each person represented a different perspective on
Speaker 2: this team. And I said, that's a topic for Friday night.
Speaker 2: Because I heard in terms of Bengals being two and
Speaker 2: three with Joe Flacco now quarterbacking, I heard, I am out,
Speaker 2: they are done, they're cooked. I heard talk of tanking.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means or how you
Speaker 2: think that would would look. And there's twelve games left
Speaker 2: and they're a game out of the division lead, and
Speaker 2: they're a game out of the playoffs. Who tanks when
Speaker 2: you're a game out of the division and a game
Speaker 2: out of the playoffs. And that was part of the
Speaker 2: conversation at lunch, and I heard, you know what, I
Speaker 2: really have no idea what to expect now, but I'm
Speaker 2: here for it. I can't wait to see how things
Speaker 2: look come Sunday at lambeau Field. And I'm more of
Speaker 2: the mindset of I'm I'm in because they're just a
Speaker 2: game out and it's a veteran quarterback with a gun
Speaker 2: for an hour, who's got twelve games left. And if
Speaker 2: there was ever an offense that needed juice a boost,
Speaker 2: an enhancement. I know, I have to tell you it's
Speaker 2: this one. They're averaging seventeen points a game. The only
Speaker 2: team's averaging fewer points per game the Raiders, the Browns,
Speaker 2: and the Titans. Do you realize right now? T Higgins
Speaker 2: is on pace for a grand total of forty four
Speaker 2: catches for five hundred and thirty seven yards. Chase Brown,
Speaker 2: who I had visions of twelve hundred yards rushing, is
Speaker 2: on pace for five hundred and forty four. He's averaging
Speaker 2: two and a half yards to carry. He's averaging five
Speaker 2: point three yards a catch, five point three. Mike Kasicki
Speaker 2: has been targeted a grand total of sixteen times for
Speaker 2: the season. He's on pace for twenty seven catches. Do
Speaker 2: you you know how many catches Mike is sick? He
Speaker 2: had last year sixty five. He's on pace for twenty seven.
Speaker 2: So that's where I come from and thinking, man, Joe Flacco.
Speaker 2: Now it's like Joe Flacco kama. If they can just
Speaker 2: keep him upright, Comma and they can just run the
Speaker 2: ball a little bit. I can't wait to see how
Speaker 2: that looks. Let's go out to the phones. Five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
Speaker 2: seven thousand, what eight hundred the big one to jump
Speaker 2: in with us in pleasant Ridge? Hey, Matt, what do
Speaker 2: you make of all this?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 13: I was optimistic until I heard all you're a stack.
Speaker 2: Well wait a minute, it is supposed to work the
Speaker 2: opposite way.
Speaker 13: Right, No, I actually think he's gonna do pretty good.
Speaker 13: I mean, with what they had available out there to
Speaker 13: choose from. And I heard earlier today that they were
Speaker 13: maybe I don't know if they talked to Carolina about
Speaker 13: getting Andy Dalton.
Speaker 14: I'm sure they wanted an armlag.
Speaker 13: But for the trade that they made, they didn't really
Speaker 13: lose anything. I mean, they've lost a fifth round pick
Speaker 13: and they went back one round. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 13: I mean we're talking about the Cleveland Browns. They may
Speaker 13: pick a quarterback again in the fifth round. But no,
Speaker 13: I'm I'm excited. I'm kind of concerned about him being
Speaker 13: kind of mobile and have to run for his life.
Speaker 15: But you know, but with a leader like him, he's
Speaker 15: got a super Bowl under his belt. You know, I'm
Speaker 15: I'm looking forward to Sunday's game. I'm not going to
Speaker 15: hide under the covers.
Speaker 14: So but.
Speaker 13: I'm I'm really excited. I was, and I actually go
Speaker 13: on a thought, I wonder if they would trade Plato,
Speaker 13: and then when they did, Yeah, I'm kind of excited.
Speaker 13: And I think, you know, he's coming in with a
Speaker 13: good attitude and he's upbeat, and we'll see, you know.
Speaker 13: I mean, maybe they only lose by three Sunday, or
Speaker 13: maybe they went by three Sunday. I don't know, but
Speaker 13: I think it's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 2: That's uh go ahead.
Speaker 13: And hopefully Chase uh gets over whatever he's got and
Speaker 13: he can. Yeah, so either that or t Higgins, we'll
Speaker 13: have a few more catches and so I don't know,
Speaker 13: but yeah, I can't wait. I'm excited.
Speaker 2: I like it. Hey, Matt, enjoy your weekend. Thank you. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the lot of the night, and that I've heard
Speaker 2: so many earlier in the week. It was it was
Speaker 2: touted as a revival, and that sound overly dramatic. I
Speaker 2: know what he was saying, because maybe it can be
Speaker 2: in simplest terms. Maybe it's simply this. It's better than
Speaker 2: what they had. It's the alternative. It's the best, best
Speaker 2: alternative because you couldn't. I couldn't. We couldn't watch Jake
Speaker 2: Brown and quarterback again. Nothing against the guy. Nothing personal
Speaker 2: against the guy, but it has not been NFL caliber
Speaker 2: play for three consecutive weeks. You're gonna get a much
Speaker 2: better shot at seeing NFL caliber play from Joe Flacco
Speaker 2: this weekend. And I what the caller just said. I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to Sunday's game. I'm not going to hide
Speaker 2: under the covers. Let's go to Florence. Hey, Zach, what
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 16: Hey Lance, what's happening?
Speaker 2: You tell me?
Speaker 16: Well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 17: I think it was Tuesday.
Speaker 16: I had since three sixty on like I always do.
Speaker 16: And Austin, Uh. It was Austin and Joe Danaman doing
Speaker 16: a regular Tuesday and Joe Daniman's talking, He's doing his thing,
Speaker 16: and out of nowhere, Austin hits the breaking news button
Speaker 16: and I said, all the boy, I know what's coming.
Speaker 16: Who did we get because mind you, I might have
Speaker 16: just gotten cut yea earlier?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 16: And uh, And I hear Austin all I can all
Speaker 16: I remember it saying was he and rapping for so?
Speaker 16: I knew it was juicy And then the words come
Speaker 16: out of his mouth, it's Joe Flacko, Oh my kidness.
Speaker 18: Who So.
Speaker 16: I was like they went out and got the most.
Speaker 19: Immobile quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 18: And that was my knee jerk reaction.
Speaker 16: So then I settled down and I looked at it,
Speaker 16: and I said, well, let's look at it. He's got
Speaker 16: a career passer rating of ninety. I get that an
Speaker 16: eight minus. And for what it's worth, Aaron Rodgers has
Speaker 16: a one or two and Joe Burrow sits at one
Speaker 16: oh one. And I said, well, let me think about
Speaker 16: this year. He's got a super Bowl. Obviously, he never
Speaker 16: was really required to lead the team, to take put
Speaker 16: the team on his back, you know. He always had
Speaker 16: a little bit of help around, especially on defense. But
Speaker 16: compared to him and Jake Browning, I think when Joe
Speaker 16: Burrow went down, Jake Browning saw it, and I think
Speaker 16: he immediately felt the pressure because this team had high
Speaker 16: expectations this season, almost super Bowler partner. So I think
Speaker 16: Jake Browning wasn't ready for this moment this year. And
Speaker 16: I really believe he was out there, you know, quote
Speaker 16: seeing ghosts, and so I believe flat though, has the
Speaker 16: ability to feel that pressure coming. But seventeen years of experience,
Speaker 16: he can feel and collapsing on the left and right,
Speaker 16: And I really just hope he can. He can step
Speaker 16: up into the pocket, go through one reto read get
Speaker 16: the ball out to chase work you sicky like you said, Noah, Fan,
Speaker 16: I mean, we've got the weapons, and I think he
Speaker 16: can get the ball to them and probably probably avoid
Speaker 16: the sack, you know. And and and I was also
Speaker 16: look at what day Browning has eight interceptions and if
Speaker 16: Blaco has six, well, you know, through of those interceptions
Speaker 16: where it gets the Bengals, where are his receivers, you know, Cedric.
Speaker 2: Tillton right right, Yeah.
Speaker 16: They bounced, they bounced off of them, and the bangles
Speaker 16: happened to get the interceptions. And I think that happened
Speaker 16: again in another game they played, and I can't remember.
Speaker 20: So you look at six interceptions, that's what the stat
Speaker 20: seat says, but that's that's not true.
Speaker 21: Uh.
Speaker 16: I'm excited, man, you know, I'm excited. I can't wait
Speaker 16: for Sunday.
Speaker 17: And you know, if we could just.
Speaker 16: Stay afloat and you know, baby, if Joe comes back,
Speaker 16: he was he was in the walking boot. And you know,
Speaker 16: I think Joe Danaman hinted ad that maybe that's a
Speaker 16: sign of a of a faster healing process than we
Speaker 16: all imagine.
Speaker 2: So buckle up and let's go. There you go, Let's
Speaker 2: go and can't wait. Yes, sir Zach, thank you you
Speaker 2: you as well, enjoy your weekend. We'll come back. I
Speaker 2: want to squeeze in a couple more on this and
Speaker 2: we'll transition to a little bit of lambeau Field talk
Speaker 2: as well. It's rn L Carrier Sports Talk presented by
Speaker 2: Kelsey Chevallet seven hundred WLW. Earlier in the week, when
Speaker 2: the announcement became official with Joe Flacco, words like hope
Speaker 2: and revival were used by callers checking in and reflecting
Speaker 2: on their emotions towards this team. Tonight, to callers said quote,
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to Sunday's game. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: hide under the covers. How about you in Mount Zion, Tim,
Speaker 2: Welcome to seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 22: Hey Lance, how's it going, buddy?
Speaker 2: Very well? How are you?
Speaker 21: Oh?
Speaker 22: Not that I still have not forgiven Matt McLean for
Speaker 22: his iniquities in the baseball season, But besides that, h
Speaker 22: this football NFL season is that's crazy. I mean, you
Speaker 22: got the game last night, Giants blowing out the Eagles.
Speaker 22: Who saw that coming? I mean who says that the
Speaker 22: Bengals can't go into lambeau Field and you know, give
Speaker 22: the Packers a pound and after seeing you know how
Speaker 22: this football season is going. Yeah, yes, I'm going to
Speaker 22: be optimistic and hopefully the defense gets it together and
Speaker 22: the Bengals and Joe Flacco U can get the Dolphins
Speaker 22: rolling even without Jamar Chase. It sounds like, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you hit on it. It's a classic. It's going
Speaker 2: to take a village. They've got to protect him, they've
Speaker 2: got to run the ball more, and if everybody does
Speaker 2: a little, then it may Can you imagine if we
Speaker 2: were sitting here on Monday and the Bengals had one
Speaker 2: Ingreen baby get the three and three? Holy cow?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 22: Man, reality.
Speaker 2: So yeah, let's hold off on that. Let's just hold
Speaker 2: off on that for the moment. A right, thanks to them,
Speaker 2: are you as well? Columbus we go? And then Westchester? Hey, Jeff,
Speaker 2: welcome to sports Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey, how you doing. I'm okay?
Speaker 2: How about you?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 16: No, mad?
Speaker 5: Not bad?
Speaker 19: Yeah, the I think if the opposite line where let's
Speaker 19: just say even twenty in the league, Yes, I feel
Speaker 19: pretty good about this trade working out. But at this point,
Speaker 19: I mean that caller said he can feel the pressure. Well,
Speaker 19: if that's true, he's gonna feel it before the football
Speaker 19: touches his head.
Speaker 12: That line sucks.
Speaker 19: I don't think Orlando Brown Junior has touched a defensive
Speaker 19: player in three weeks.
Speaker 2: Jeez, yeah yeah, And oh, by the way, Dylan yeah,
Speaker 2: oh by the way, Dylan Fairchild may not play, and
Speaker 2: they they may have the Alton Reisner or somebody.
Speaker 19: The line of ranked fiftieth out of thirty two when
Speaker 19: they're getting worse this week, not better this This team
Speaker 19: the offensive line can't move people, which is why Chase
Speaker 19: Brown is on pace.
Speaker 16: For five hundred yards O.
Speaker 2: It's amazing to.
Speaker 19: Make a decision with a football in one point seven seconds.
Speaker 16: And Joe Flacco, who can throw the.
Speaker 19: Deeple I like the guy, you need four seconds to
Speaker 19: throw the deep ball.
Speaker 20: How's this line gonna give.
Speaker 19: Him four seconds? Maybe we could convert to steamboats for
Speaker 19: a week and see if he can get it down
Speaker 19: the field.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with this. How about this? Could you
Speaker 2: buy this? I'm gonna think you know, Tom Brady was
Speaker 2: never considered mobile, but he made it work. Maybe Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco can find a way to make it work on Sunday.
Speaker 19: Well, I would agree with you if the line could
Speaker 19: hold up. Remember Brady played behind some really good lines.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go, making sense. So I did like
Speaker 2: your line. The ranked fifth, so that means they're rank
Speaker 2: behind thirty two NFL teams and seventeen Division One teams.
Speaker 2: So the Bengals land fiftieth for the lot.
Speaker 19: I would feel better about the Ohio State offensive line
Speaker 19: than I.
Speaker 2: Would another line of the night. Hey Jeff, have a
Speaker 2: great weekend. All right, all right, thank you. You guys
Speaker 2: are on your game. This is fun. How about Westchester
Speaker 2: and Brian? Welcome to seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 17: Hey good even laughs.
Speaker 2: How you doing, I'm very well. Thank you for calling.
Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
Speaker 4: So I have somewhat I have some hope.
Speaker 17: Okay, yes, And the reason being is I've been really
Speaker 17: really impressed with Rivers playing guard the last two games
Speaker 17: in Denver and a large part in Detroit. Brownie had
Speaker 17: some pockets, but he just got skiddish and ran outside.
Speaker 17: I mean, he could have stepped up and made some
Speaker 17: throws if he was patient enough to do it. And
Speaker 17: I also think that the running game is going to
Speaker 17: be better with Joe Flacco, like to be like, he
Speaker 17: likes to be under center more and when you're a
Speaker 17: shotgun there's only so many run concepts that you can
Speaker 17: do out of shotgun, and I think with him being
Speaker 17: under center, it would it would make the defense guests.
Speaker 4: A lot more than they have been in the past.
Speaker 17: And Joe Burrow, of course is good enough to overcome that,
Speaker 17: but Jake Browning is not. So I anticipate the offense
Speaker 17: will look better. I think the Bengals will put up
Speaker 17: you know, somewhere in the upper twenties this weekend and
Speaker 17: possibly win.
Speaker 5: Brian.
Speaker 2: I think, let's see, Brian, you made a great point,
Speaker 2: and I think it's the fascinating aspect of Sunday. How
Speaker 2: are they going to kind of massage and morph this
Speaker 2: offense into more of a Joe Flacco And how much
Speaker 2: do they have him under center? I can't I mean,
Speaker 2: I will be counting on my sheet. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: counting the number of times he goes under center. I
Speaker 2: can't wait to see what is going to look like.
Speaker 16: Yeah, me either.
Speaker 17: I gotta feeling, you know, Chase Brown's gonna have a
Speaker 17: decent game. I think it's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 17: surprise on Green Bay, because, yes, Joe Flacco is prepared
Speaker 17: in a new offense, but Green Bay is prepared for
Speaker 17: a new quarterback offense, so they haven't seen in this offense.
Speaker 17: So it's gonna be a little bit of an element
Speaker 17: of surprise for the Green Bay defense too. So and
Speaker 17: our defense has been playing pretty well given the fac
Speaker 17: our offense has been no existence. So I'm excited about
Speaker 17: the young offensive line. I think I think we got
Speaker 17: a good future ahead of us.
Speaker 2: Hey, Brian, I enjoyed this. Have a great weekend, all right,
Speaker 2: you two, sir? Thank you. How about that conversation over
Speaker 2: the last hour, man, that was that was really good.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed that. Yeah. How how different do they do
Speaker 2: they approach this? How much is he under center? How
Speaker 2: much does he use the tight end? How much does
Speaker 2: he use Chase Brown out of the backfield, short passes,
Speaker 2: dump off passes, and let them do their thing. We'll
Speaker 2: find out Sunday starting at four twenty five. All right,
Speaker 2: I have a request if I could. I've got two
Speaker 2: segments plotted out for this the off the beating path
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Speaker 2: hundred WLW. Lambeau Field opened September twenty ninth, nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 2: At that time there were thirty two thousand, one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty seats. Lambeau now has over eighty one thousand,
Speaker 2: second largest stadium in the NFL. The waiting list from
Speaker 2: what I saw today The current waiting list for season
Speaker 2: tickets nearly one hundred and fifty thousand names, so with
Speaker 2: a renewal rate of more than ninety nine percent, names
Speaker 2: come off the list slowly. Thirty to forty year weights.
Speaker 2: Babies are added to the list upon birth. Read a
Speaker 2: story about a fan named Corey Vogel of Green Bay
Speaker 2: who was put on the list when he was two.
Speaker 2: He's now fifty one and recently got Packers' season tickets.
Speaker 2: I've been too fortunate to have visited historic Kinklefield House.
Speaker 2: I've been to the Rose Bowl. I've been to the Brickyard,
Speaker 2: Old Boston Garden, Old Chicago Stadium, Notre Dame Stadium, Madison
Speaker 2: Square Garden, the Big House, the Horseshoe, Wrigley. Did I
Speaker 2: say Boston Garden? I think I said Boston. I have
Speaker 2: never been to lambeau Field. What's it like in Burlington, Tom,
Speaker 2: You have been to iconic historic the frozen tundra of
Speaker 2: lambeau Field.
Speaker 10: It's amazing. Oh you gotta go, you really and you
Speaker 10: really need to go in the winner. You know, I
Speaker 10: mean nothing against Sunday Afternoon. Uh, but you know it's
Speaker 10: not the Frozen Hungry yet I was there for a
Speaker 10: playoff game between the Niners and the Packers out a
Speaker 10: little over twenty years ago. Brett Farv in this prime,
Speaker 10: my cousin was the quarterbacks coach for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 10: So it was Jeff Jeff Garcia to t o and
Speaker 10: we were ahead at halftime because Farv was crappy in
Speaker 10: the first half and then Farv did what Farv does
Speaker 10: and and boat raced us in the second half. It
Speaker 10: was a divisional playoff game, so they won and then
Speaker 10: they the next week was the NFC championship game. But
Speaker 10: the fans, the fans are are beyond friendly. I mean,
Speaker 10: I was wearing Niners gear. A buddy of mine we
Speaker 10: had we had Niners gear on. We're just there to
Speaker 10: support my cousin and and uh, you know, coaching up
Speaker 10: Jeff Garcia, who was never supposed to be that good,
Speaker 10: but he was really good. And uh that we tailgated,
Speaker 10: like we just walked around and we got invited. We
Speaker 10: ate more broths than we knew what to do with.
Speaker 10: The beers were handed to us. They are friendly asking
Speaker 10: us about the experience. It's really it really is a community.
Speaker 2: It sounds community like well.
Speaker 16: It's a community.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a mindset.
Speaker 16: They were welcoming.
Speaker 10: You know, there were no I mean yeah, people were
Speaker 10: having beers, but nobody was hammered beyond belief. Nobody was
Speaker 10: puking in their seat, nobody was looking to throw down.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 10: There was nobody getting up to get nachos on third
Speaker 10: and one in the fourth quarter when it's tied, like
Speaker 10: they do at pay Corps. So yeah, maybe they watched
Speaker 10: the damn game there and that's exciting. And right behind
Speaker 10: me were guys who lived in the same apartment complex
Speaker 10: with the starting linebacker, starting middle linebacker for the Packers.
Speaker 10: They're like, oh, yeah, you know so and so I
Speaker 10: can't remember who it was. And I go yeah, and
Speaker 10: they go, he lives three doors down from me, you know.
Speaker 10: And it was a true a true community. And you
Speaker 10: got to go and go in the winner. Yeah, it's
Speaker 10: in the town is magical. It's like Cooperstown. It's like
Speaker 10: Cooperstown with a pro team in it. It was just
Speaker 10: if the Yankees played in Cooperstown. It would be that vibe.
Speaker 5: All right, what a.
Speaker 2: Perfect call that, Tom, That is exactly what I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: Thank you for calling.
Speaker 14: Sure, Thanks Liam.
Speaker 2: Have a great night. I love stuff like that.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Fairfield, Donna, you've been to Lambeau Field.
Speaker 3: Lance, I have been to Lambeau and you gotta do it.
Speaker 3: You gotta put it on your bucket list. You know.
Speaker 3: One of my best best experiences is Joe Knoxall Miracle
Speaker 3: League Field. But Lambeau is a bucket list item, and
Speaker 3: I went there as a lifetime Bengals fan. I went
Speaker 3: to a Sunday night game. They played the Browns of
Speaker 3: all teams and the game was at seven o'clock Central time.
Speaker 3: We got there at nine am and we were late
Speaker 3: to the party. And there's it's it's a magical place.
Speaker 3: One of my friends has her family had season tickets.
Speaker 3: We're about twenty twenty rows up fifty yard line than
Speaker 3: Man and it's it's a place where it's a big
Speaker 3: party with the friendliest people and a football game breaks out.
Speaker 2: Magic magic magic to do it.
Speaker 3: Lance.
Speaker 2: It is on the list. Donna, have a great weekend.
Speaker 6: Thanks Lancer too, Thank you man.
Speaker 2: I couldn't ask for better. You're you're painting the picture
Speaker 2: for me Newport and then we'll grab Otis after Malcolm. Malcolm,
Speaker 2: You're on seven hundred WLW. You've been to lambeau Field.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have, lance I echo everything said before me.
Speaker 4: It's a bucket list item if you're into going to
Speaker 4: the stadiums.
Speaker 5: I went up there.
Speaker 4: It was not the frozen Tundra. It was early September
Speaker 4: that that's when Chad Johnson did the Lambo Leap if
Speaker 4: you remember. Oh, yes, back in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 4: So we and we're actually leaving early tomorrow to go
Speaker 4: up there again this weekend. Yes, it's We've been to
Speaker 4: several SEC stadiums, several college and pro stadiums, Bengals games
Speaker 4: across the country. Lamba's Field is like church festival that
Speaker 4: meets SEC tailgating.
Speaker 2: That's it's.
Speaker 10: It's it's such a small town that it's it's almost
Speaker 10: like these bars pop up and it's like a like
Speaker 10: a you get a festival kind of field, but it's
Speaker 10: the pageantry. The locals really take pride in the experience there.
Speaker 10: You can tell, and I think everybody's there is on
Speaker 10: a road trip because the town is real small. There's
Speaker 10: this thing they I remember back in the eighties they
Speaker 10: used to play some of their games in Milwaukee, and
Speaker 10: so there's a thing where there's Milwaukee season ticket holders
Speaker 10: and there's Green Bay season ticket holders.
Speaker 4: So I think the last time we went it was
Speaker 4: a Milwaukee season ticket holder game. So it's everybody's in
Speaker 4: a great mood. They're there to see some football, they're
Speaker 4: there to have fun, and it's definitely it reminds me
Speaker 4: of Tennessee. We went to Texas Austin, Texas last year.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of that. It's just one of those
Speaker 4: things you've got to do. There's a Raignishki practice field
Speaker 4: real close to Lambeau, at least it was the last
Speaker 4: time we were there, and it's just like it's just
Speaker 4: like everything pops up for the crowd coming in and
Speaker 4: it's like a festival. And the best thing was is
Speaker 4: we beat them in two thousand and nine I think
Speaker 4: it was, and then went to brett Ford Steakhouse. I
Speaker 4: don't think that's there anymore, but it was one of
Speaker 4: the finest stakes I've ever had.
Speaker 2: Ah, very nice. Oh you have painted the perfect picture, man, Malcolm.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening, Thanks for calling, Thank you. Lam
Speaker 2: all right, have a good night. And I've also heard it.
Speaker 2: I guess I should just pull it up on Google maps,
Speaker 2: like when you're driving there, you're you're in like an
Speaker 2: it's neighborhood, neighborhood, houses, house's house, boom, there's Lambeau like
Speaker 2: right in the middle of like the neighborhood. And I
Speaker 2: was looking online. I assume the Hall of Fame, Do
Speaker 2: I understand it correctly? They have moved the Packer Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame into or like it attaches to the stadium.
Speaker 2: Now what did it used to be separate? And now
Speaker 2: part of Lambeau is? And maybe I understand it. I
Speaker 2: maybe if I just go I would know they answered
Speaker 2: all these questions. Otis talk to me, what was Lambeau? Like?
Speaker 7: Hey, lance to what it is? I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 12: It's hard.
Speaker 7: It's hard to add a lot to what they have
Speaker 7: to say. But we actually went up there in between
Speaker 7: seeing the Reds at Wrigley and then on Monday night
Speaker 7: we went and saw the Reds play the Brewers. So
Speaker 7: it was kind of a little surprise thing that that
Speaker 7: got thrown at us at the last minute. We were
Speaker 7: staying in Milwaukee. We got up at dark thirty and
Speaker 7: went over to a bar where they were already serving
Speaker 7: Bloody Mary's and beers and and got on a bus
Speaker 7: and you get on this bus and you know you're
Speaker 7: on there with a bunch of bans and and and
Speaker 7: the aisleway is just filled with bags with beer and
Speaker 7: wine and liquor. When you get up to go back
Speaker 7: to the bathroom, you can't walk down the aisleway.
Speaker 16: You got to hold on to the railings above. And
Speaker 16: when you go by, everybody's.
Speaker 7: Yelling at you, green and yellow, green and yellow, go,
Speaker 7: pat go. And it was so amazing. I mean, the
Speaker 7: trip there was amazing. It took about almost two hours
Speaker 7: to go through their beautiful sunrise farms in the middle
Speaker 7: of nowhere. And then I said, when you know, when
Speaker 7: you get there, it is like that. I mean, it's
Speaker 7: this small town that's got this amazing stadium in the
Speaker 7: middle of it. And if they ever lost that team,
Speaker 7: they would never they would never get it back. All
Speaker 7: the houses around there. The bus stop and dropped us
Speaker 7: off at a house and we went up in the
Speaker 7: backyard and they were cooking all kinds of raps and
Speaker 7: sandwiches and burgers and just serving drinks intil's like you
Speaker 7: just had whatever you wanted. There was little, you know,
Speaker 7: souvenirs and footballs. You played in the yard and you
Speaker 7: hung out and they said, all right, man, it's just
Speaker 7: it's it's time.
Speaker 16: To go, and you walk over there.
Speaker 7: You can't miss it. There's no way to miss it.
Speaker 16: It's just right in the middle of town.
Speaker 2: You go over there.
Speaker 7: Now, we're big time Reds fans, but when I was
Speaker 7: a kid, we moved to Florida, and since that he
Speaker 7: didn't have a team, Florida didn't have a team, might
Speaker 7: have worked for ge. We got transfer down there. So
Speaker 7: I'd always seen those Packer things, the slow motion things,
Speaker 7: the guy's voice, the frozen thunder everything. So like my
Speaker 7: wife and I just you know, hey, we're we're we're
Speaker 7: Packer fans and we're actually Tacker owners. We each have
Speaker 7: a share of that. And incredibly to go back, it's
Speaker 7: twenty eighteen. We can't wait to go back. It's the
Speaker 7: best experience.
Speaker 14: Had so much fun.
Speaker 7: You go in there and I mean you just buy yourself,
Speaker 7: you know, a home jersey, and you sit around and
Speaker 7: talk to everyone. They played Minnesota. There was a couple
Speaker 7: of Minnesota fans on the bus. Everybody gave them shit.
Speaker 7: But I'm osorry with that mud. I mean, everybody gave
Speaker 7: them crap, but not in a bad way, you know,
Speaker 7: And everybody teased them. And it was the game in
Speaker 7: twenty eighteen in September where they played five quarters.
Speaker 1: To a tie.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh yes, yes, yes man, Oh I am
Speaker 2: so jealous. I'm so what a description otis. Thank you
Speaker 2: for calling tonight. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 7: Yeah you too, sir, My play all right?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, I really gotta go. That was fantastic.
Speaker 2: That was absolutely fantastic. Thank you for those who took
Speaker 2: the time to contribute to that painting of the picture. Hangtight,
Speaker 2: come back, wrap up the hour. Transition to the off
Speaker 2: the Beaten Path topic. It deals with the o left hander.
Speaker 2: It's our yearly off the Beaten Path topic. It is
Speaker 2: ahead RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW.
Speaker 9: Since zero Framer runs out of bounds and off Bearcats
Speaker 9: our victorious. The student section comes pouring out onto the
Speaker 9: field here at Nebrick Stadium.
Speaker 23: It is not an upset, It is an uprising. As
Speaker 23: Cincinnati knocks off undefeated fourteenth ranks Iowas State five a
Speaker 23: final score to thirty eight to thirty.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch the Bearcats. Listen to the
Speaker 2: Bearcats tomorrow four and one home at use against UCF
Speaker 2: nipper noon here on seven hundred WLW. Will Win gets
Speaker 2: them to five and one, and all Likeliho gets them
Speaker 2: into the top twenty five and then they go to
Speaker 2: a bad Oklahoma state team next weekend Man. I talked
Speaker 2: with Keithan Nicholson last night from Bearcat Journal, part of
Speaker 2: the Roundtable Show. And the one thing that has stuck
Speaker 2: out to me in following this UC team and every
Speaker 2: Tuesday night when I'm driving home, I'm listening to the
Speaker 2: Scott Saderfield Show. And in a day and age of
Speaker 2: nil and transfer portal and a lot of new faces,
Speaker 2: you never know how things click and fit and if
Speaker 2: all the pieces do fit together, and this team seems
Speaker 2: like it really fits together well and they like each other.
Speaker 2: Not to sound all goofy and corny, but I asked
Speaker 2: Keegan about this team and kind of the makeup of
Speaker 2: this roster. Here's what he told me.
Speaker 24: Kawie Walker, he said it himself on Tuesday at the
Speaker 24: radio show. Plainly, he said, there is more belief and
Speaker 24: heart in this team, and it starts from the top
Speaker 24: down with the leaders one of those leaders is Brendan Survey,
Speaker 24: who looks I love this dude's game. How he runs
Speaker 24: the ball, how he s throws the ball, how he plays.
Speaker 24: He looks like he's having fun. But he's genuinely just
Speaker 24: a really really good dude. Like he's a really really
Speaker 24: good human being that you would just want to sit
Speaker 24: down and have a conversation with. And the most impressive
Speaker 24: thing about him to me is after that last PCU
Speaker 24: game last year and they go five and seven, loose
Speaker 24: five straight, he was very very quick to commit to
Speaker 24: coming back after the game. He could have said, you know,
Speaker 24: I want to keep my options open. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 24: with my agent and my parents and we'll see what happens,
Speaker 24: because there were some schools coming after him. But he
Speaker 24: wants to win at Cincinnati. He wants to win for
Speaker 24: Scott Saderfield.
Speaker 2: And that kind.
Speaker 24: Of leadership and that commitment kind of trickled down throughout
Speaker 24: the entire team on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 2: Keegan Nicholson Bearcat journalized that on the Roundtable show. Now,
Speaker 2: remember last year they beat Arizona State, big win over
Speaker 2: Arizona State, got to five and two. I hand raised,
Speaker 2: I did the topic, how do you feel about Scott
Speaker 2: Sadderfield now has the corner been turned? Are you back
Speaker 2: yet on Scott's Sadderfield? And then what happened. They promptly
Speaker 2: didn't win the rest of the year. They lost every
Speaker 2: game the rest of the way. And so I asked
Speaker 2: Keegan last night, what's the difference this year compared to
Speaker 2: last year at this point when when they couldn't win
Speaker 2: the rest of the year, what will make it different
Speaker 2: this season? Here's what he told me.
Speaker 24: The biggest thing for me, and it's really really plain,
Speaker 24: is their wide receivers are faster, and when you have
Speaker 24: a quarterback like Brendan Sourpey, when you have three wide
Speaker 24: receivers who can stretch the field, it opens up so
Speaker 24: much to the playbook for Scott Sadderfield, who's that offensive
Speaker 24: mind and the guy that wants to call the plays.
Speaker 2: Last year they.
Speaker 5: Had good wide receivers.
Speaker 24: Tony Johnson got a big payday to go to Miami.
Speaker 24: Jamoynees made the Bengals roster and Xavier Henderson was their
Speaker 24: one and he had some length and a little bit
Speaker 24: of speed. But what they were finding is that teams
Speaker 24: are just king in on Joe Royer like daring the
Speaker 24: receivers to try to get open, and it just wasn't
Speaker 24: working in the last half of the season. So now
Speaker 24: that you have Cyrus Allen and now that you have
Speaker 24: cayleb Goody, who are all guys that have.
Speaker 5: Had multiple explitsive plays.
Speaker 24: You saw the Goodie posts that he had opened against
Speaker 24: Iowa State. The offensive line is obviously really good thing,
Speaker 24: and that you had so much turnover and if they're
Speaker 24: still good, But if I had to point to the
Speaker 24: number one reason it'd be different, it's that they.
Speaker 5: Have some burners on the outside.
Speaker 24: And a really really good quarterback's taken that year two
Speaker 24: jump to give them the ball.
Speaker 2: Keegan Nicholson Bearkad Journal. That entire conversation in podcast form.
Speaker 2: It's seven hundred WLW dot com and through the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Remember everything said is a podcasted last night's Roundtable show
Speaker 2: Sports Talk individual interviews. If you miss Jeff Hobson earlier
Speaker 2: in the show, all right, we put two in the
Speaker 2: books already. Wow, this is perfect. Up next the return
Speaker 2: of the off the beaten Path topic, and it deals
Speaker 2: with the old left hander. You're gonna want to hear
Speaker 2: what's going to lead off the eight o'clock hour. It's
Speaker 2: Arnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep rolling, no raising to slow down.
Speaker 2: Now we have blown through the first two hours of
Speaker 2: Friday night Sports Talk. The downside to doing this is
Speaker 2: that means the red season is over. The upside is
Speaker 2: I love three full hours and on a Friday night,
Speaker 2: it allows us a chance to do the off the
Speaker 2: beaten path topic. If you're new to the show, one
Speaker 2: Welcome two on Fridays, I always consider the eight o'clock
Speaker 2: hour a chance to It's the end of the week.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to rant, raven, scream and yell, and I
Speaker 2: always try to do a fun, light topic. And that
Speaker 2: can be sports, but it can be TV, movies, music list,
Speaker 2: you name it. And I'm always looking for an off
Speaker 2: the beaten path topic. I stress a lot during the week.
Speaker 2: Kelly will attest to the fact that sometimes I'm not
Speaker 2: in the best of moods if I'm struggling to come
Speaker 2: up with it off the beaten path topic. If you
Speaker 2: ever have one, email me Lance at lancebacallister dot com
Speaker 2: and I'll give you full credit if I use it.
Speaker 2: It's just a way to end the week and have
Speaker 2: some fun. And I love I love the list, and
Speaker 2: I love storytelling. I love allowing you to connect back
Speaker 2: to a memory in your life that brings a smile
Speaker 2: to your face. I love hearing people tell stories. And
Speaker 2: that's the biggest part of why I enjoy the Off
Speaker 2: the Beaten Path topic. Tonight we roll it out, and
Speaker 2: the anniversary happened last Friday. And I have certain off
Speaker 2: the Beaten Path topics I circle on my calendar or
Speaker 2: they're in my Google calendar, and they pop up in
Speaker 2: a week in advance like it's coming up, and I
Speaker 2: love them. And last week, on Friday night, it was
Speaker 2: the anniversary of this moment, and I was not on
Speaker 2: the air. I was off. Ironically, I was off because
Speaker 2: I was at a Joe Nuxhall Miracle League Fields event,
Speaker 2: a night for Hope and the amazing work they're doing
Speaker 2: and building towards the Hope Center, which is just going
Speaker 2: to be an amazing facility. But I said, I can't
Speaker 2: pass on the topic because I've said as long as
Speaker 2: I'm blessed fortunate enough to do this show. I'm going
Speaker 2: to do this topic at this time of year. Last
Speaker 2: Friday night, October third, twenty, two thousand and four, the
Speaker 2: anniversary Joe Nuxall signed off for the final time, retired
Speaker 2: after sixty years of service with the Reds thirty one
Speaker 2: of those, with his broadcast partner Mardy Brenneman, and I
Speaker 2: have for you the postgame show his final words as
Speaker 2: he signed off. This runs about seven or eight minutes,
Speaker 2: might require a Kleenex at some point, but it's going
Speaker 2: to lead us into conversation about nusy and moments and memories.
Speaker 2: And the idea is not to be sad what I
Speaker 2: just I like hearing Joe's voice. But the idea is
Speaker 2: to make us remember Joe and then share stories and
Speaker 2: reflect on Marty and Joe and Joe's impact on you.
Speaker 2: And maybe there's somebody listening for the first time who
Speaker 2: didn't get to listen to Joe or is unaware of
Speaker 2: the impact he had on this city or on you.
Speaker 2: That's why I want to share the stories. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to take you back for this to October third,
Speaker 2: two thousand and four, Reds and Pirates had wrapped up
Speaker 2: the season and this is the final postgame show and
Speaker 2: sign off from the old left hander Joe Nuxhall.
Speaker 25: Take a listen, Marty thirty one years foul, and I
Speaker 25: guess we go back to that first day and Brandentton,
Speaker 25: Florida when you joined the ball club.
Speaker 21: That was okay, but then we move up to a
Speaker 21: Lopez field.
Speaker 5: That's correct, that's right.
Speaker 26: I remember like it was yesterday, Chicago White Sox. You
Speaker 26: and I were sitting up there at the top of
Speaker 26: the stands. I'm here, ken Kimball is there. You're over here,
Speaker 26: and I welcome people to al Michaelsfield. I mean, good lord,
Speaker 26: and I get no help from you. That's about the
Speaker 26: only time I figured yous me out to drive one years.
Speaker 5: I know you were I couldn't talk.
Speaker 26: And as soon as you go to the commercial break,
Speaker 26: you said, I'll be damned, we ain't got to the
Speaker 26: regular season yet. I've got material for the bank of
Speaker 26: the circuit next fall, which made me feel even better.
Speaker 5: And of course I go back to UH.
Speaker 21: We go to that eventful day and uh Dayton, Ohio
Speaker 21: when you joined us on the Reds caravan, and uh,
Speaker 21: I think we had to go to a studio oneed
Speaker 21: to get a picture.
Speaker 26: We went to a photography studio in Dayton and uh, well,
Speaker 26: I mean, we'll have a.
Speaker 5: Hard time getting through this now, Oh, we'll make it.
Speaker 5: I think, you know, it's it's.
Speaker 26: We haven't talked about it all year, and we chose
Speaker 26: not to because we knew this day was going to come.
Speaker 21: It's here, and it's you know, it's it's you know,
Speaker 21: I don't know how to explain it. I really thought
Speaker 21: that by doing just a few games during the course
Speaker 21: of the year and make it this this particular day,
Speaker 21: I'm not easier.
Speaker 5: But it hasn't. It's been thirty one years.
Speaker 21: And we've had some great times together. I guess you
Speaker 21: look back on the seventy ball clubs and then the
Speaker 21: ninety club, which no one really expected that much out
Speaker 21: of to go wire to wiren Yeah, to sweep the
Speaker 21: Oakland A's four games.
Speaker 5: What a great time we.
Speaker 26: Had well in the old ballpark, and being here in
Speaker 26: Great American Ballpark for two seasons now and and and
Speaker 26: as wonderful as this facility is, and as devoted as
Speaker 26: it is exclusively in one percent to the game of baseball,
Speaker 26: it'll be hard pressed to equal the run of years
Speaker 26: at that ballpark next doorhead. I mean with players and
Speaker 26: teams and moments. You know, I've been lucky because I
Speaker 26: was here through the most fruitful period in this club's history,
Speaker 26: and of course sitting side by side with you for
Speaker 26: thirty one years.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 26: Now you got me. I know you shouldn't have said that,
Speaker 26: you know, I knew, But you know, I told people
Speaker 26: I think I think. I think that's the most macho
Speaker 26: thing a man can do. And I've told people for years.
Speaker 26: I said, he can joke and cry at door openings,
Speaker 26: the sun coming up, it doesn't make any difference. And uh,
Speaker 26: and I knew it wouldn't take long to get you.
Speaker 26: In fact, I've been working on it. I've got my
Speaker 26: own stop watching my head to see how long it
Speaker 26: would take.
Speaker 21: Well, you know, it's just well it's been my life,
Speaker 21: you know. Yeah, I decade's sixty years of playing and
Speaker 21: watching the game of baseball, and all of it was
Speaker 21: the same club. I hope people understand how difficult this
Speaker 21: is to say goodbye to you in a sense, as
Speaker 21: far as sitting in this booth and the players, the
Speaker 21: association with them, it's it's tough, and we're going to
Speaker 21: get through it, but who I'm want to miss you?
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 26: Like I said in that open letter of the day,
Speaker 26: there's golf to be played and laughs to be had,
Speaker 26: and hopefully a lot of that will be with me
Speaker 26: down the road because I'm going to be around. And
Speaker 26: you know, thirty one years in our business, and I
Speaker 26: don't know that people realize it. This is about as
Speaker 26: transient a business as there is. Guys are always looking
Speaker 26: for a stepping stone to something bigger and better. And
Speaker 26: to have two people sit side by side for thirty
Speaker 26: one years, which by the way, is one thing I'm
Speaker 26: as proud of as anything that I've ever accomplished. That's
Speaker 26: a record for broadcasters in Major League Baseball. Nobody, Jack Buck,
Speaker 26: Mike Shannon, no one was together that long, and I
Speaker 26: don't think anybody will ever be that together that long again,
Speaker 26: And that says something I'm very proud of.
Speaker 21: That ditt oh here, I think our relationship has been outstanding.
Speaker 21: You look back on some of the things we just
Speaker 21: talked about, and when you think of thirty one years
Speaker 21: sitting in a booth side by side, that you would
Speaker 21: have some disagreements. I think we can honestly say we've
Speaker 21: not had one serious one, the only one serious one,
Speaker 21: and then we'll let you go.
Speaker 27: And that was the day I got trapped in the astrodome.
Speaker 27: Well that way a minute. That's a stretch. Now, you
Speaker 27: didn't get trapped. You didn't get trapped if you just
Speaker 27: decided not to come back.
Speaker 5: Well, they kept trying to score, and the.
Speaker 26: Game won sixteen innings, and I was hotter than a match.
Speaker 26: I mean, I was not real happy.
Speaker 5: I got to be honest with you. I started back up.
Speaker 26: I know you did, and somebody would score and then
Speaker 26: the other team would counter, and I kept looking at
Speaker 26: that board. Now it's at twelve, Now it's the fourteenth.
Speaker 26: Now it's the sixteenth, and I'm saying, where in the
Speaker 26: hell is he?
Speaker 2: He never game back again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they wouldn't let me out on the field and
Speaker 5: look up and say hi.
Speaker 26: I know he wouldn't. He wouldn't call time out, say
Speaker 26: good wave at me. That would have really lit me up.
Speaker 5: Well, Marty again, thank you, it's been.
Speaker 26: No thank you, Joe, thank you, thank you. It's been
Speaker 26: the best. I guarantee you. There's been nobody that's worked
Speaker 26: together in this business that ever derived as much fun
Speaker 26: out of broadcasting ball clubs games as we have had
Speaker 26: over the last thirty one years.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's impossible.
Speaker 26: And this is a business where you're working together every
Speaker 26: day for six months. If you don't like the guy
Speaker 26: you're working with, this job can be absolutely hell on earth.
Speaker 26: And thank god two left handers came together in February
Speaker 26: of nineteen seventy four and we were often running from
Speaker 26: that point.
Speaker 21: Well, it's been great and I want to wish you
Speaker 21: the best and certainly been a check. See you later, paps.
Speaker 21: We'll have more after these words. We thank Marty for
Speaker 21: sitting here and kind of chatting with us. It's, as
Speaker 21: we said, been a great thirty one years and personally
Speaker 21: we're sorry to see it come to an end, but
Speaker 21: it has and this will be kind of it. I
Speaker 21: guess a lot of people we want to thank before
Speaker 21: we leave the air, certainly Montgomery in and the folks
Speaker 21: out there, the Gregory's for their sponsorship of this show,
Speaker 21: front Gate Catalog, Outlet Center. We want to thank them,
Speaker 21: and of course some of the other sponsors have been
Speaker 21: such a part of our broadcast over those years. Pepsi Cola, Budweiser,
Speaker 21: the Kroger folks and many others, and certainly want to
Speaker 21: thank the media who have been so nice to us
Speaker 21: over the years, even as a player and in the
Speaker 21: broadcast business. All the players that we've been associated with
Speaker 21: over these years have been just super and we're talking
Speaker 21: about a lot of the visitors players also, and certainly
Speaker 21: to Hid and Say who sit behind us each and
Speaker 21: every day, you know what a job they have done,
Speaker 21: as Marty has pointed up, and certainly to Marty who
Speaker 21: it's been my pal for thirty one years and will
Speaker 21: continue on certainly in that vein, and hopefully we can
Speaker 21: match up in a golf game here and there. I'm
Speaker 21: sure we will, and not i'd let you folks out,
Speaker 21: you fans, you've been absolutely unbelievable and we appreciate every
Speaker 21: bit of support you've shown to us into the ball club.
Speaker 21: It's been a glorious career and I mean that sincerely.
Speaker 21: And for last Saturday night, what a big night that
Speaker 21: was for my family. I want to thank you for it.
Speaker 21: It's been great. And so the last time, this is
Speaker 21: the old Laft hander running third and heading from home.
Speaker 5: Good afternoon everyone.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. That that gets me every done. I play
Speaker 2: it every year and I say I'm not going to
Speaker 2: get choked up this time, and I do, in fact
Speaker 2: get choked up each time. Man, do I miss him?
Speaker 2: Let's do this. Let's take a time out and come back.
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your thoughts and reflections on the
Speaker 2: old left Hander. Five one, three, seven four nine, seven thousand, one,
Speaker 2: eight hundred The Big One. It's Arnel Carrier Sports Talk
Speaker 2: presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred wlck hour. The Arnel
Speaker 2: Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet. We got a hustle,
Speaker 2: we got to run, We've got stuff to get to.
Speaker 2: This must be big. Well, the topics big because certainly
Speaker 2: Joe's legacy big. But the celebrity hotline has been ringing.
Speaker 2: Let's answer that celebrity hotline. Is this, Bobby Schmid, it
Speaker 2: is Lance.
Speaker 10: How you doing?
Speaker 14: Brother?
Speaker 2: I am well, give me a thought on the old
Speaker 2: left hander?
Speaker 14: Joe Nusall, Oh man, I got I got a great story.
Speaker 14: And it actually Marty. He tells his story whenever he
Speaker 14: does a sports stag, and I've been to a few
Speaker 14: of them and brings tear in both our eyes. But
Speaker 14: it was on Friday, November the ninth, my brothers had
Speaker 14: bought an auction package to play four some at Kenwood
Speaker 14: Country Club with Marty and Joe at the spring of
Speaker 14: and so it got later in the year and they
Speaker 14: hadn't got a chance to get together because of the
Speaker 14: red schedule and stuff. So they finally got in on
Speaker 14: the calendar for Friday, November the ninth, and I'll never
Speaker 14: forget it. Jerry asked me to play because I knew
Speaker 14: Marty and Seg and all those guys from doing the
Speaker 14: Sugar Racer Report and.
Speaker 5: All that stuff.
Speaker 14: But I just remember him saying, hey, you know, will
Speaker 14: you fill out this force my I go, that'd be great.
Speaker 14: So we show up and it's a Friday, but it
Speaker 14: was like thirty five degrees but it was glorious. I mean,
Speaker 14: a blue sky, there's just it was beautiful day, but
Speaker 14: it was really kind of cold. And Marty's there and
Speaker 14: we're talking into parking lot and Joe pulls up and
Speaker 14: honestly got he gets out and he had had chemo
Speaker 14: earlier that week. He was starting to get sick, and
Speaker 14: he had had a chemo treatment earlier in the week,
Speaker 14: and he just looked really kind of frail. And he
Speaker 14: gets out of the car and he's got like, you know,
Speaker 14: like one of those reds windbreakers. It's like as sick
Speaker 14: as a piece of paper, you know. The first ten
Speaker 14: thousand people get on. I mean it was like so
Speaker 14: thin and a golf shirt, short sleeve golf shirt. I'm
Speaker 14: cold looking at him.
Speaker 18: And I said, Joe, you don't have to do this.
Speaker 14: He goes, no, no, no, you guys pay for this.
Speaker 2: I got to do I.
Speaker 14: Got really seriously, you know, I want to do this
Speaker 14: with you. So we go out we play, and I mean,
Speaker 14: lance there's nobody at the golf course. I mean nobody.
Speaker 14: And it was a Friday because it was kind of
Speaker 14: chilly out. So we play the whole day. It was
Speaker 14: so cool. It's Jerry and I and the cart and
Speaker 14: then Marty and Joe and they're they're rolling through there
Speaker 14: and we're asking him questions on every hole, like what's
Speaker 14: your top three plays you've ever called? You know, Joe
Speaker 14: Oliver down Field. Oh, it was so it was so awesome.
Speaker 14: So we get through the day and we get to
Speaker 14: the last hole and I said, hey, man, you know,
Speaker 14: we got to get a picture of each other. So
Speaker 14: I got a picture of Marty and Joe and it's
Speaker 14: on the eighteenth Green It's it's just iconic.
Speaker 5: And that was on Friday afternoons.
Speaker 14: So we go to leave and Marty says to Joe.
Speaker 14: He goes, hey, left hander, I'm going on the Red's
Speaker 14: caravan just next week, and as soon as I get back,
Speaker 14: I'll connect with you. Because he knew he was getting
Speaker 14: kind of, you know, not really doing great, so he
Speaker 14: got no problem. So we split up. We so I
Speaker 14: got I had to go to Florida for a business trip.
Speaker 14: And the next Thursday, the fifteenth, my brother Jerry calls
Speaker 14: me and he goes, hey, He goes, can you believe
Speaker 14: that about Joe? I go, what are you talking about?
Speaker 14: He goes, you didn't hear? I go, I'm in Florida.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
Speaker 14: He goes, Joe just passed away today.
Speaker 4: I go, what.
Speaker 14: So I'm in shock, and I said, oh my god.
Speaker 14: So I called Marty and he was on the cruise
Speaker 14: and I cannot even believe this.
Speaker 2: I called him.
Speaker 14: He picked up the phone and I go, Marty, I'm
Speaker 14: just so sorry. I can't even express my feelings right
Speaker 14: now about Joe. And I said, I really can't tell
Speaker 14: you how grateful I am for last week when we
Speaker 14: were golfing together and he said, I said, I've got
Speaker 14: that picture of you and you and Joe on the
Speaker 14: eighteenth green, and he was crying and very emotionally. He goes,
Speaker 14: oh my god, he goes, can you send that to me?
Speaker 14: I go absolutely, So we emailed him the picture, and
Speaker 14: I swear every time I see him, we bring this up.
Speaker 14: And he had a bunch of those pictures printed off
Speaker 14: and he was autographing it says the last time eleven
Speaker 14: nine oh seven Marty Branneman, and it's the picture of
Speaker 14: him and Shoe.
Speaker 2: Oh good.
Speaker 14: Iconic And he still to this day gets so emotional
Speaker 14: telling that story. But we were blessed to be with
Speaker 14: him literally the week before he passed away.
Speaker 2: What a story, man. I'm glad you were listening. I
Speaker 2: glad you, glad you took the time to share it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 14: Hey, thanks buddy, take care, I have.
Speaker 2: A great night. Thanks for checking in. Let's let's do this.
Speaker 2: Let's run this till the top of the hour. If
Speaker 2: you're on hold, I'm going to get to you. Sterling
Speaker 2: will be here at nine. He'll take you nine to midnight.
Speaker 2: The Off the Beaten Path topic is in memory of
Speaker 2: Joe's final sign off from the broadcast booth. Think of
Speaker 2: it twenty one years ago, his last broadcast twenty one
Speaker 2: years ago, and Joe passed away eighteen years ago.
Speaker 5: Think about that.
Speaker 2: But I love hearing stories and I love sharing stories
Speaker 2: about just the kindness and the connection he made around
Speaker 2: here over the years. We'll grab Fran and Tony and
Speaker 2: Jen and Mike and others after we check news. Are
Speaker 2: now carry sports Dog presented by Kelsey Chevelet, seven hundred
Speaker 2: WLW her we got a hustle, Let's take care of
Speaker 2: what we can and then Sterling's in tough of the hour.
Speaker 2: Let's head to love one. Let's welcome in my guy, Fran,
Speaker 2: Welcome to sports Dog.
Speaker 28: Thank you Lance, and I'm so glad you're doing this
Speaker 28: show every year.
Speaker 2: This is this is the best.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 28: I was fortunate enough to remember Joe not only as
Speaker 28: a broadcaster, even before Marty, so he's probably got forty
Speaker 28: years as a broadcaster, and I remember him also as
Speaker 28: a player in the late nineteen fifties. He went away
Speaker 28: then a few years and came back and had another
Speaker 28: nice run with the reds Now. I never met Joe,
Speaker 28: but when I was working. I did work with a
Speaker 28: couple older guys who happened to be from Middletown.
Speaker 4: They were brothers.
Speaker 28: They were excellent athletes, and if you might know, Hamilton
Speaker 28: and Middletown had a great rivalry.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, so they were.
Speaker 28: They were contemporaries of Joe. They played against him, they
Speaker 28: watched him all through his career.
Speaker 4: Of course, he was.
Speaker 28: An excellent baseball player, and they would talk about that,
Speaker 28: but they were so impressed with him as a basketball player.
Speaker 28: Joe was probably six' two or six. Three you, know
Speaker 28: he's one hundred and eighty pounds eighty years. Ago that's
Speaker 28: a big young. Man so he is playing. BASKETBALL i
Speaker 28: think he was even All state honors his senior year At.
Speaker 28: Middletown so he's an excellent. Athlete he could do it.
Speaker 28: ALL i, mean you, know the guy loved to. Golf
Speaker 28: he And marney on the golf. COURSE i know you
Speaker 28: love interesting facts or Feat i'm gonna give you one
Speaker 28: here That joe. Did in nineteen sixty, Four Ken, houston
Speaker 28: The Houston colt forty, five pitched a no hitter against
Speaker 28: The reds and The reds one won to. Nothing was
Speaker 28: a winning pitcher for The reds happened to Be Joe.
Speaker 28: Knuxall he picked a complete, game five hitch. SHUTOUT i
Speaker 28: don't know if a feat like that's been, baseball but
Speaker 28: that's Typical, joe just like a complete.
Speaker 2: Game have you ever heard of?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 28: Yeah, Yeah and one of the things you can probably
Speaker 28: look this, up BUT i Think joe still holds the team,
Speaker 28: record The red's career record for most appearances by a left.
Speaker 2: Hander i'm not, sure.
Speaker 28: BUT i think and and he's been you, know he
Speaker 28: played sixty six was his last appearance for The Red
Speaker 28: so that record stands almost sixty.
Speaker 5: Years how.
Speaker 28: Bad thank, You, LACE i appreciate.
Speaker 2: IT i love those. Stories, joe thank, you and send
Speaker 2: my best. Fellows all, RIGHT.
Speaker 28: I will thank you so.
Speaker 5: Much thank, you all.
Speaker 2: RIGHT i love stuff like. That you, Know joe hit
Speaker 2: fifteen home runs in his. Career fifteen home runs as
Speaker 2: a batter in his major league career In. Kentucky, Hey,
Speaker 2: jan welcome to sports. TALK i.
Speaker 29: GUESS i grew up listening To marty And john on the.
Speaker 29: Radio and the thing THAT i remember was the game
Speaker 29: THAT i believed The hamilton baseball, team and it's The World,
Speaker 29: Series Little League World series And joe was down leading
Speaker 29: the chicken.
Speaker 13: BANDS i can.
Speaker 29: REMEMBER i remember Being deck got My university Of kentucky
Speaker 29: clothing AND i had my picture taken AND i believe
Speaker 29: it was With. Kim let me say, this there's no
Speaker 29: family nicer and all of baseball than The nextell family
Speaker 29: AND i AND i would just like to give a
Speaker 29: PICTURES i made for The Miracle league and all that.
Speaker 29: Business levin In.
Speaker 28: Kentucky levin In.
Speaker 29: Kentucky a few years, ago a friend AND i had went.
Speaker 7: Over we would have went twice once we're IN.
Speaker 29: Covid but then we went again When John kasey brought
Speaker 29: his all stars down. Here i'll tell you that the
Speaker 29: place is. Amazing AND i just think that the fact
Speaker 29: That kim is carrying on jay stream of The Miracle
Speaker 29: league and something. Else joe will always have a special
Speaker 29: place in my. Heart a. Family and it's funny, because
Speaker 29: LIKE i, Said i'm sixty five years old AND i
Speaker 29: grew up listening to The reds and to, me there's
Speaker 29: no better combat ever call a game Than martie And.
Speaker 29: Joe AND i thank you for giving me this. Opportunity
Speaker 29: And i'd just like to say for anybody that hasn't
Speaker 29: listened To Joe younger people tried YouTube it and this man,
Speaker 29: was he, was he, was he Was Cincinnati. Baseball nobody
Speaker 29: ever said a bad word About. Joe in, fact they
Speaker 29: never said a bad word About Jim scott And joe
Speaker 29: always go down his history as one of the, favorite
Speaker 29: my favorite. Announcers And i'm glad that you give me
Speaker 29: this TIME i talked to you about, This.
Speaker 2: JANE i am so. GLAD i am so glad you.
Speaker 2: CALLED i have chills and just hearing the passion you
Speaker 2: have behind it means so. Much and it was so,
Speaker 2: eloquent so well, said thank you for sharing your.
Speaker 5: Memories thank.
Speaker 29: You HAVEN'T i seen?
Speaker 2: That thank you you as. Well man Oh man here
Speaker 2: standing up on my. ARMS i. WAS i was at
Speaker 2: the Next All Miracle league Fields kelly AND i last
Speaker 2: week ago. Tonight that's WHY i wasn't on and couldn't
Speaker 2: do the topic on the. Anniversary but The evening Of
Speaker 2: hope event that they, had and it's all part of
Speaker 2: the dream of and they're they're raising funds for The Hope,
Speaker 2: center which is just is going to be a year
Speaker 2: round indoor facility and thirty one thousand square feet and
Speaker 2: it Was joe's dream and the time and the effort
Speaker 2: and the passion and the love and the sweat and
Speaker 2: the tears being put into that by the The Joe
Speaker 2: Nuxs All America League fields and that group is just
Speaker 2: it's it's. Incredible and to be there a week ago,
Speaker 2: tonight to be able to share in the message and
Speaker 2: hear the message that was being delivered by the parents
Speaker 2: of kids who are are part of The Nuxs All
Speaker 2: America League, fields it was as powerful an even as
Speaker 2: as you could possibly. Imagine and we were honored to be,
Speaker 2: there And jan thank you for sharing those. Thoughts Cole
Speaker 2: rain we. Go, Hey, tony welcome to seven HUNDRED Wlw.
Speaker 4: Hey thanks for taking my.
Speaker 5: Call man's.
Speaker 18: SURE i grew up In North side And i'll tell you.
Speaker 18: What every other house WHEN i was growing. Up i'm
Speaker 18: fifty two years, old and every other house had the
Speaker 18: ballgame on WHEN i was growing, up and it was
Speaker 18: like it was what led me home every.
Speaker 10: Night and those guys.
Speaker 18: The other, Day, marty he sang out a little song
Speaker 18: the other day and it took me.
Speaker 4: BACK i could.
Speaker 2: Smell beans and cornbread.
Speaker 30: Cooking you, know you're walking home and you get so
Speaker 30: hungry because you smell everybody else's smooth cooking and. Stuff
Speaker 30: and he sang this little song when he was talking
Speaker 30: about working With, joe and it, Goes, uh the whole town's.
Speaker 12: Batty Over cincinnati was a. Team was a, team you know.
Speaker 12: IT i went right back, there, yes the food, cooking
Speaker 12: AND i was playing wiffleball out in front of my
Speaker 12: of my neighbors'.
Speaker 18: Houses he he would.
Speaker 30: Call the games like he Was marty Or. Joe he
Speaker 30: would call him and we play. Whiffleball and it just
Speaker 30: took me. Back and SO i Know joe's up there
Speaker 30: and he's watching. Down he's seen how it all ended this.
Speaker 30: Year but it was such a Great steezon with the
Speaker 30: ups and. Downs JUST i think we're fined for next.
Speaker 30: Year mac, McClain, PLEASE i HOPE i don't have no
Speaker 30: haters on me because of.
Speaker 5: This but starting, Immediately.
Speaker 2: TONY i really appreciate you sharing those. MEMORIES i was
Speaker 2: going back as you were telling the. STORIES i feel,
Speaker 2: IT i hear, it And i'm so glad you called in.
Speaker 2: Tonight thank, You you're. Welcome all, right have a good,
Speaker 2: Night let's take a. TIME i come. Back i'm gonna
Speaker 2: get everybody who's on, hold and we'll we'll wrap this
Speaker 2: up twenty. One you think about twenty one years, ago
Speaker 2: Last friday, night his final broadcast and sign, off and
Speaker 2: there are and by the, WAY i WILL i have
Speaker 2: it posted right. Now if you want to listen to that,
Speaker 2: AGAIN i have that postgame at seven HUNDRED wlw dot.
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Speaker 2: seven HUNDRED. Wlup heading down the Stretch news in ten,
Speaker 2: minutes ten, Minutes, Sterling i've confirmed his presence in the.
Speaker 2: Building he'll be on at. Nine he's got you nine to.
Speaker 2: Midnight checking in by. Text austin Elmore, in reporting in From, Appleton,
Speaker 2: wisconsin about thirty minutes outside Of Green, bay said we're
Speaker 2: coming in loud and clear on his car Radio, Appleton.
Speaker 2: HELLO i was In appleton for following The South Bend White.
Speaker 2: Sox this would have been let's see eighty eight to
Speaker 2: probably ninety nineteen NINETY i was following the Minor League
Speaker 2: South Bend White, sox playing The Appleton somebody's in A
Speaker 2: Midwest league playoff series and doing live shots from that
Speaker 2: series as. Well it's the only Time i've been In.
Speaker 2: Appleton we were In Lake geneva last year From Big
Speaker 2: age and that's a cool. Place let's go back to
Speaker 2: the phones and round it out in ooh, oh my stomping.
Speaker 2: Grounds double shot, There mike And. Independence welcome to seven HUNDRED. Wlw,
Speaker 2: mike are you? There mike is maybe not? There all,
Speaker 2: right let me, go let me stay in. Events, jim
Speaker 2: you're on seven HUNDRED. Wlw welcome to the. Show, hi
Speaker 2: good talking to. You what's on your?
Speaker 6: Mind SO i have a much lighter story About joe
Speaker 6: and a Picture i'm certain is one of a kind Of.
Speaker 6: Joe SO i had the OPPORTUNITY i went on To
Speaker 6: Fantasy Camp Red Fantasy camp in two thousand And joe
Speaker 6: was one of the coaches for.
Speaker 5: One of the.
Speaker 6: Teams but so as you, KNOW i know you've been
Speaker 6: on one or, two maybe after a kangaroo. Court every,
Speaker 6: evening guys tend to huddle around different pros and listen
Speaker 6: to stories and. Such so there was about five or
Speaker 6: six of us that we're sitting Around joe and we're
Speaker 6: just sitting in chairs there and just listened to one.
Speaker 6: Story they got pretty, late the beverages were flowing pretty,
Speaker 6: good and one of the guys literally was sitting in
Speaker 6: a chair and fell. Asleep And i'm, thinking how in
Speaker 6: the world we're sitting around their knocksall how can you?
Speaker 6: EVEN i was on pins and needles the entire night
Speaker 6: listen To. Joe so somebody had the, idea, hey let's
Speaker 6: get a picture of all of.
Speaker 4: This mooney, No.
Speaker 7: So joe was all.
Speaker 5: Win so we all.
Speaker 6: Huddle around this guy sleeping in the. Chair everybody dropped
Speaker 6: trout and somebody got a. Picture and to this, DAY
Speaker 6: i have a picture Of Joe's oh.
Speaker 2: My, goodness oh my. Goodness.
Speaker 6: Oh and as you, know those, guys those pros are
Speaker 6: just like normal, guys and it wants to get to know.
Speaker 4: Him it's just and he just had a.
Speaker 6: Ball And i'll tell you, What that's a MEMORY i
Speaker 6: will take with me.
Speaker 2: Forever what a, Story, jim thank you for sharing it.
Speaker 2: Today sure. Thing all, right now that's a. Story all,
Speaker 2: right let me get one, more one more final. Word
Speaker 2: what a treat this Is dick And. Dayton welcome To Sports.
Speaker 10: Talk Hey, la how you, doing?
Speaker 18: BUDDY i am.
Speaker 2: Well do you have a memory Of Joe? Knutsall?
Speaker 20: Yes, UH i had my dad at the base and
Speaker 20: every every you, know and The reds were one he always, had,
Speaker 20: Uh marty And joe on AND i can REMEMBER i
Speaker 20: had talked To marty a couple of. Times oh it
Speaker 20: was on sports. Feedback BUT i Remember dad AND i
Speaker 20: used to be in the garage and my MEMORY i
Speaker 20: would sit out there with the chair and listened to Him.
Speaker 20: Joe and how good was? That oh my, Goodness, yeah
Speaker 20: it was so. COOL i mean he deserved it and.
Speaker 20: Everything AND i dismissed my dad because he always had
Speaker 20: the radio and he was mechanically of, course you, Know
Speaker 20: i'm in, music BUT i just think it was you,
Speaker 20: KNOW i loved. It he was the, better you, know
Speaker 20: the one was the, best no, doubt no.
Speaker 5: Doubt.
Speaker 2: Dick thank you for sharing your. Memories have a great. Weekend,
Speaker 2: okay all, right thank. You let's before we get out of.
Speaker 2: Here let's track the machine and figure out what happened
Speaker 2: on this date in sports. History first tracking The machine
Speaker 2: and honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the nineteen seventy
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Speaker 2: Ago right? Now we were on the, verge The reds
Speaker 2: were In. Boston it was the eve Of game one
Speaker 2: of the nineteen seventy Five World, series AND i got
Speaker 2: to tell, you nine year old me was all kinds
Speaker 2: of fired up because it was the first TIME i
Speaker 2: was alive in seventy was, FOUR i was alive in seventy,
Speaker 2: two don't really, recall but that seventy five team my.
Speaker 2: Team and when you're nine years old and your team's
Speaker 2: about to play in The World, Series holy COL i,
Speaker 2: MEAN i didn't sleep fifty years ago tonight they would
Speaker 2: play On saturday afternoon at one. O'clock it was drizzling
Speaker 2: that day For game one At. Fenway The reds entered
Speaker 2: that series at one oh eight and fifty, four one
Speaker 2: hundred and eight wins and fifty four. Losses The Red
Speaker 2: sox entered at ninety five and sixty. Five the game
Speaker 2: one starters in that Series Don gellet fifteen and four
Speaker 2: in the season with a two forty two earned run.
Speaker 2: Average Louis tiant won eighteen games that. Year get this
Speaker 2: tiont pitched two hundred and sixty innings that, year and
Speaker 2: Fran And leveland mentioned complete. Games Louis tiant in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy five had eighteen complete games for The Red. Sox
Speaker 2: do you know HOW i looked it? Up you know
Speaker 2: how many complete games there were in all Of Major
Speaker 2: League baseball this? Year twenty nine in all of. Baseball
Speaker 2: so we were on the eve of the nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: Five World, series arguably the Greatest World series ever to be.
Speaker 2: Played The reds were in The World series for the
Speaker 2: third time in six, years and the pressure was. Building
Speaker 2: they had made it in seventy and lost to The,
Speaker 2: orioles made it in seventy, two lost to The a's
Speaker 2: And man this series At Red sox were in the
Speaker 2: series for the first time since sixty seven when they
Speaker 2: lost in seven to The Saint Louis. Cardinals we were
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Speaker 2: on this. Date oh, YES i mentioned the Seventy World
Speaker 2: series on this. Date in seventy The reds Loss game
Speaker 2: one of That World series to The. Orioles before fifty
Speaker 2: three thousand and thirty one At, riverfront controversy came in
Speaker 2: the sixth Inning orioles CATCHER L Rod hendricks the phantom
Speaker 2: tag Of Bernie carbo to home. Plate the home plate
Speaker 2: Umpire Ken, burkhart not Expecting carbo to try to, score
Speaker 2: had his back, turned almost Blocking carbo off the. Plate
Speaker 2: he never saw the. Play hendricks Tagged carbo with his,
Speaker 2: glove but the ball was in his bare, hand and
Speaker 2: Yet burkhart called him. Out at the. Plate no replay
Speaker 2: obviously in those. Days this date in nineteen seventy, three
Speaker 2: the fifth and deciding, game The mets win The National League,
Speaker 2: pennant beating The reds seven to. Two nineteen eighty, three
Speaker 2: on this, DATE i know exactly WHERE i. WAS i
Speaker 2: was At Riverfront stadium For Monday night Football Bengals steelers.
Speaker 2: Controversy vicious play By steeler rookie defensive End Keith gary
Speaker 2: On Ken. Anderson gary Grabbed Ken anderson face, mask yanked
Speaker 2: his head around in like an exorcist like, moment almost
Speaker 2: broke his. Neck gary was, penalized later, fined never were.
Speaker 2: Suspended kenny watched the rest of the game from Christ
Speaker 2: hospital with the next brain missed the next three. Games
Speaker 2: The bengals lost the game twenty four to. Fourteen in
Speaker 2: the third, Quarter gary was flagged for a penalty for
Speaker 2: a late hit On Turk, schoener who was the backup
Speaker 2: into the game at that. Point and one more nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: Five by the, way the photo the photo Of Keith
Speaker 2: gary turning the helmet and the neck around of Can
Speaker 2: it's one of the scariest things and most incredible things
Speaker 2: you'll ever see in nineteen ninety. Five on this, Date
Speaker 2: reds Lose game one of THE nlcs to The braves
Speaker 2: two to one and eleven innings before a crowd of
Speaker 2: just forty three hundred and eighty. Two the low attendance
Speaker 2: number became a national story and was blamed on the
Speaker 2: lingering resentment from the strike and the cancelation of the
Speaker 2: previous season and the wipeout of The World series in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety. Four all of that happening this date And
Speaker 2: cincinnati sports. History All, RIGHT i gotta get out of.
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