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Speaker 2: Welcome back our three Friday Football Frenzy thanks to Penn Station.

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Speaker 2: Here on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. All right,

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Speaker 2: here we are. We don't want this to be the

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Speaker 2: last opportunity to talk to with our guy, Tommy g

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Speaker 2: of FC since nay, the voice of the Orangine Blue.

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Speaker 2: And for that not to be the case, well, the

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Speaker 2: ne f C Cincinnati's gonna have to take care of

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Speaker 2: business tomorrow night at TQL Stadium against that rival, the

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Speaker 2: Columbus Crew. It's hell is real. It's win or go

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Speaker 2: home in the MLS playoffs. I don't know what else

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Speaker 2: you could ask for. This is it the whole season

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Speaker 2: culminates tomorrow night. So for now, what we're guaranteed is

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Speaker 2: one more chance to talk to Tom Gillier. He joins

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Speaker 2: us right now. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, what's.

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Speaker 3: Up, Tony, Tony, Tony, Happy Friday, Happy to be here

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Speaker 3: with you. And listen, boys, you're guarantee chances to talk

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Speaker 3: with me no matter what happens tomorrow. Let's be crystal clear.

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Speaker 3: But let's also plan to have some more match previews. Yes,

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Speaker 3: after Z had to get this win tomorrow at TQL Stadium,

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Speaker 3: but I'm doing great. A little bit of rain today,

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Speaker 3: but that's fine. Tomorrow is supposed to beautiful. I think

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Speaker 3: the boys will be ready and I am. I'm fired up.

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Speaker 3: What is this? The third matchup Cincinnati and Columbus. Hell

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Speaker 3: is real and thirteen days I think count So man,

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Speaker 3: the energy, I thought the energy obviously was amazing in

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Speaker 3: game one. In Game two there was a ton of

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Speaker 3: energy for the enemy and rightfully so. And then I

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Speaker 3: think the Tikio Stadium is just going to be on

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Speaker 3: fire as that match gets going at six o'clock tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Well, in order sometimes to go forward, you must at

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Speaker 2: times go back and finish with what happened. Let's talk

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Speaker 2: about last weekend and the win for Columbus, a four

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Speaker 2: nail victory. It obviously didn't help planing shorthanded with Uyakubo

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Speaker 2: getting the red card in the thirty eighth minute outside

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Speaker 2: of just playing shorthanded, Tommy, what went wrong in that

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Speaker 2: match for FC Cincinnati as it seemed to kind of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be fair Tony, it felt like to me.

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Speaker 3: And I thought that f C Sinatti r on the

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Speaker 3: I just they they weren't ready in the moment as

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Speaker 3: Columbus came out and blitzed them and went after him

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Speaker 3: and controlled the whole match from the opening whistle to

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Speaker 3: the final whistle. And so to that you give the crew,

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Speaker 3: worthy winners. The good news is that it's not a

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Speaker 3: two game series and an aggregate score otherwise to be over,

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Speaker 3: you know, just as it was good news for the

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Speaker 3: crew that it wasn't the old one and done format

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Speaker 3: and and after Cincinnati were advanced after game one, So look,

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Speaker 3: they get to come back and have this amazing darby

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Speaker 3: matchup that'll you know, have every emotion you could dream

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Speaker 3: of and plenty of heartburn. I am sure get your

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Speaker 3: because this is gonna be a you know, buckle up.

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Speaker 3: I think mccroney used to call it a rock fight, right,

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Speaker 3: It's going to be an old, slugged out rock fight

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Speaker 2: Then I don't know what will The margin for air

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Speaker 2: But how much at the root of this, Tommy, do

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they have to be. And I think

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Speaker 3: They're licking their wounds a little bit. It's interesting as

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Speaker 3: Pat nowt in four years now is the head coach.

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Speaker 3: In those four years, he's only lost by more than

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Speaker 3: two goals, so three or more goals now six times, wow,

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Speaker 3: how many games that is? But four years of regular

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Speaker 3: season games that's uh, you know what one hundred and

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Speaker 3: twelfth playoff game, so eleven more so, that's one hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty seven games, and they've only lost by you know,

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Speaker 3: they got their twenty five thousand fans behind them screaming

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Speaker 2: How much how much role do the fans play in

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Speaker 2: if it got to a Game three in the first

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Speaker 2: This is why you put in work throughout the whole season.

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Speaker 2: How much of an impact do the fans have.

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Speaker 3: I think it's massive, man. I think we've seen it

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Speaker 3: in both games of this series, the impact that the

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Speaker 3: energy kind of puts you over the edge. Right, It's

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Speaker 3: like playing nip at night Tony when you look in

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Speaker 3: as you as you marched out there. Absolutely. I remember

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure it's the same way as those guys

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Speaker 3: I love it when there's a big moment in the

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Speaker 3: That's what you worked for. That's why you got to

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Speaker 2: Winner of this series. We're going to face the winner

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Speaker 2: to have everyone available. From just a health standpoint going

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Speaker 3: Pretty good? Which was great when Patti nt to Express

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Speaker 3: shocked to see him back in at the starting lineup.

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Speaker 2: It is also adding to the excitement. It's to standalone

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Speaker 2: wait to feel what that atmosphere is. To hear you

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Speaker 2: guys on the call very simply put Tommy to advance

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Speaker 2: in the MLS playoffs to end the Columbus Crew season.

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Speaker 3: What are the biggest keys for tomorrow night? I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think, listen, we kind of started the kind of

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Speaker 3: station here, but Game one, the team followed the game

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Speaker 3: plan so well, and it felt like they got away

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Speaker 3: from that in game too. And we've had this conversation

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Speaker 3: on these fridays here in the same time a lot

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Speaker 3: a lot this year that you know, where there's been

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Speaker 3: problems that the team has not been able to execute

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Speaker 3: the game plan. And and look to credit Columbus, they

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Speaker 3: took them out of the game plan, I'm sure in

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Speaker 3: many ways, but I think they're gonna be ready. You know,

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Speaker 3: I think that there's change on the back line, probably

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Speaker 3: coming with Nick Haglan back into the lineup would be

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Speaker 3: my guess, you know. So I think you get some

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Speaker 3: stability back there, and with everything, it starts with defense,

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Speaker 3: because you know, I talked about how Sea since and

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Speaker 3: he hasn't really been blown out much, you know, across

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Speaker 3: the pat noon and there they also, you know, don't

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Speaker 3: blow teams out very often, and so I'd imagine this

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Speaker 3: is gonna be a tight one. That's why I told

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Speaker 3: you got to have your an ascids ready because heartburner

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Speaker 3: as it goes along. But if they're strong defensively and

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Speaker 3: you get some production from that front three who's been

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Speaker 3: very quiet through two games. You have one goal between Denk,

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Speaker 3: the Vander and Brenner through two playoff games, and I

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Speaker 3: was kind of a tap in there for Kevin, right,

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Speaker 3: So I think we'll do a big offensive moment from

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Speaker 3: a couple of those guys, and if that happens and

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Speaker 3: the defense is strong, then yeah, we're talking about a

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Speaker 3: victory and getting ready for Nashville or Miami, which is

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Speaker 3: pretty darn exciting.

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Speaker 2: Tom Galltder, the voice of FC Cincinnati, can't wait to

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Speaker 2: hear you on the call tomorrow night, and we'll be

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Speaker 2: talking next week ideally we're talking about the next round

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Speaker 2: of the MLS playoffs. Appreciate your time as always, enjoyab

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Speaker 2: not only have a great call, but as you mentioned

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Speaker 2: with Kevin, just enjoy the moment tomorrow night as well.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you already know, happy to happy to do

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Speaker 3: all that. We're gonna have a great time and hopefully

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Speaker 3: there's a couple of double high fives up there in

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Speaker 3: the booth and let's go. We'll be rocking.

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Speaker 2: Tom Gallader, the voice of FC Cincinnati. Tommy, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk soon, all with Tony. My pleasure.

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