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Speaker 2: This is sports Talk Shoeless.

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Speaker 1: Joe Waddell is Tonight's producer, and like Eric Carmon and

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Speaker 1: the Raspberries, were going all the way to eight thirty,

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Speaker 1: And I'll be sticking around after the game and take

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Speaker 2: It's sports rights of Spring.

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Speaker 1: The NCAA Men's and women's basketball tournaments, the Masters Golf

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Speaker 1: five hundred Champ Car Race. It's often said it's the

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Speaker 1: this week. Many thanks to all the loyal listeners tuning

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Speaker 1: And as we hit the airwaves today, televisions everywhere are

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Speaker 1: tuned into the NCAA Men's basketball tournaments. How's your bracket looking?

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Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen by midnight Sunday, and then we'll overdose once

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Speaker 1: With the Power Conference teams playing so many Quad one games,

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Speaker 1: Chick Ludwig, seven hundred WLW, This is Sports.

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Speaker 2: Talk Reds Tonight, nine oh five. First pitch.

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Speaker 1: It's a critical start here for Andrew Abbott, who is

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Speaker 1: And that is a very very positive sign. Recent recently,

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Speaker 1: this is Sports Talk. We're going all the way to

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Speaker 1: eight thirty tonight, and that's when Red's Baseball Cactus League

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Speaker 1: Red Snite against the Chicago White Sox. Well right up

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Speaker 1: the road fifty miles north, the boys State Basketball tournament

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Speaker 1: is taking place at two venues Wright State's Iervan J.

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Speaker 1: and as we speak right now the Division one semifinals,

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Speaker 1: Were talking reds, We're talking NCAA basketball man. What does

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for tuning in. It's madness out

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Speaker 1: And if we go all the way back to nineteen

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the reminder fifty years ago. Getting my

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Speaker 5: What's going on, Chick, Congratulations on that fifty year anniversary.

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Speaker 1: Fifty Yeah, and when June comes around, it'll be fifty

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Speaker 2: Awesome.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm in my fifty first year of baseball, so

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Speaker 2: Wonderful, Chick.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to bring out a topic that I don't

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Speaker 5: people think people are looking at the truth of a

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Speaker 5: old pitcher and I had three different operations by doctor

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: Carlos Redon for the Yankees, chick had the exact same situation.

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Speaker 3: Check you know what bothers me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it's bothering you. It's bothering me,

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Speaker 1: and it's probably bothering every Reds fan. If I have

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Speaker 2: Help my team.

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Speaker 5: Exactly. I mean, there's something terribly amiss in this whole situation.

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Speaker 5: And like I said, it's a two year problem for

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Speaker 1: And that's why the Reds, with all the fans screaming

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Speaker 1: So there's there is all this mystery around Hunter Green.

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Speaker 1: And I've got to ask the question man, the long

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Speaker 5: Well, Chick, I think he can be a closer. You know,

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Speaker 5: Skiings in only a second year is a pitcher. Hunter

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Speaker 5: Green has never become a pitcher. He's still a thrower.

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Speaker 5: He's got dominant stuff. You know, when he is on,

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Speaker 5: But that's only about one out of every five or

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Speaker 5: He's seven years into his career.

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Speaker 3: Chick.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't change, you know, he is who he is.

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Speaker 5: It's not going to change his mindset. You know, he

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Speaker 1: He's always hurt and he's never really pitched an entire

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Speaker 2: Has he been healthy?

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Speaker 1: No, And welcome to two thousand twenty six where he

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Speaker 1: That's what he's hoping for, That's what the club is

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Speaker 5: Yes, available, Well, I mean in the Chase Burns kid chick.

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Speaker 5: He's mechanically his mechanics are not good. He has a

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Speaker 5: He's got a great slider. I'm just worried. I mean,

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Speaker 5: Your arm is eight times weaker than your legs.

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Speaker 6: Cooper claimed Iron's navy isn't sailing, its tactical fighters are grounded,

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Speaker 6: launch missiles and drones. Despite this, Iran fied dozens of

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Speaker 6: missiles and drones at regional countries after his remarks. Questions

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Speaker 6: remain about how long the US will continue military operations

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Speaker 6: against Iran now.

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Speaker 7: One of the objectives that the President had listed that

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Speaker 7: to guard and police the Straight of Hormos. That is,

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Speaker 7: of course, the critical waterway we've been talking about for

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Speaker 7: weeks well. So far, no allies have committed to getting

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Speaker 7: militarily involved in that. They have made it very clear

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Speaker 7: that this isn't a war they started. This is not

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Speaker 7: their fight. President Trump, at the same time he has

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Speaker 6: ABC Selenawaian It's tide to check the roads the latest

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Speaker 6: traffic and weather together. Roads are overall flowing pretty smoothly

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Speaker 6: on this Saturday evening. The only major issue I'm seeing

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Speaker 6: right now is that State Route seven forty seven is

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Speaker 6: closed in both directions from Meyer Lane to Logston Meadow Drive,

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Speaker 6: and that is going to be right up right under

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Speaker 6: the Butler CA Veterans Highway in both directions, so please

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Speaker 6: Other than that, I'm not seeing any other major issues,

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Speaker 6: so therefore no other major accidents or delays to report

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Speaker 6: at this hour now.

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Speaker 4: The latest forecast from the Jake Sweeney Chevrolet Weather Center

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Speaker 8: After an amazing Saturday, temperatures dropped down to fifty seven

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Speaker 8: for your Sunday morning, and the warm up continues for

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Speaker 8: your Sunday afternoon. A mix of sun and clouds with

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Speaker 8: a high near eighty four degrees, just shy of the

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Speaker 8: Sunday evening and night, a few hit and miss strong

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Speaker 8: storms will be possible. From your severe Weather station, I'm

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Speaker 8: nine first warning ned alois Mark Stitz News Radio seven

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Speaker 8: hundred WLW.

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Speaker 6: Raiders showing sonny skies and it is seventy three degrees

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Speaker 6: right now. In the tri State, Cincinnati police say a

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Speaker 6: man is under arrest after a pregnant woman was robbed

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Speaker 6: and assaulted inside her home. Investigators say alleged twenty nine

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Speaker 6: anneal Cordale Griffin forced his way into a Westwood home

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Speaker 6: earlier this week, where he punched and kicked the victim

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Speaker 6: and struck her with a gun before taking her bank cards.

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Speaker 6: Police say he was booked into the Hamilton County Justice

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Speaker 6: Center Friday and is now facing an aggravated burglary charge.

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Speaker 6: Officers also note a prior criminal history as bones set

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Speaker 6: at one hundred thousand dollars, with his next court date

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Speaker 6: schedule for March thirtieth.

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Speaker 2: The investigation is still ongoing.

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Speaker 6: Drivers in East walnut Hill should prepare for weekend detours

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Speaker 6: around Vice President JD. Vans's home, where the city says

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Speaker 6: portions of William Howard Taff Road and Collins Avenue will

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Speaker 6: be closed near the residents. Officials are encouraging drivers to

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Speaker 6: use Torrance Parkway, Madison Road, and Woodburn Avenue to get

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Speaker 6: around the area. Commuters should also expect a heavy law

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Speaker 6: enforcement presence and added security checkpoints. A grand jury has

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Speaker 6: indicted an Evendale man accused of possessing illegal images of

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Speaker 6: young children.

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Speaker 9: Twenty four year old Rain Phoenix Brown was arrested after

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Speaker 9: investigators discovered hundreds of thousands of illicit videos and votos,

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Speaker 9: including images generated by artificial intelligence. Parents at Saint Susanna

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Speaker 9: School in Mason say the suspect is the son of

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Speaker 9: one of their teachers. Police have informed the school that

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Speaker 9: no Saint Susanna students are believed to be victims of

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Speaker 9: any crimes. I'm Travis Laird News Radio seven hundred wl

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Speaker 9: W seven one hundred.

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Speaker 6: WLW Sports March Madness update. Number one Michigan defeat a

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Speaker 6: number nine Saint Louis this afternoon ninety five to seventy two.

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Speaker 6: Number six Louisville lost against number three Michigan State seventy

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Speaker 6: seven to sixty nine. Number one Duke and number nine

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Speaker 6: TCU are currently tied at forty four apiece with just

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Speaker 6: under fourteen minutes left to go in the first half.

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Speaker 6: Number two Houston, number ten Texas, A and M are

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Speaker 6: in action right now. In the closing minutes of the

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Speaker 6: first half. Houston is up forty one to twenty four

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Speaker 6: with about a minute and fifteen seconds left. Number three

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Speaker 6: agains Zaga. Number eleven Texas are is going to be

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Speaker 6: tipping off just in about five minutes. Number three Ellinois

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Speaker 6: against number eleven VCU tonite at seven five fifty. Number

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Speaker 6: five Vanderbilt and number four Nebraska are on at eight

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Speaker 6: forty five, and number four Arkansas is up against number

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Speaker 6: twelve high Point at nine forty five. The Reds are

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Speaker 6: in action tonight, looking it back to five hundred. Taking

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Speaker 6: you on the Chicago White Sox up in spring training.

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Speaker 6: Pregame covers at eight thirty five. Right here on the

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Speaker 6: Big one at first pitch at nine oh five, Andrew

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Speaker 6: Abbott will start for Cincinnati. As opening day is just

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Speaker 6: five days away. Our next update is seven thirty with

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Speaker 6: breaking news anytime. I'm Brady Hopkins News Radio seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 10: Want to make the most of your tax.

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Speaker 1: Seven nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. This is Sports Talk Joe wat Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Tonight's producer, Like the raspberries were going all the way

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Speaker 1: to eight thirty, and that's when Cincinnati Reds Cactus League

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Speaker 1: Baseball takes over the airwaves with a nine oh five

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Speaker 1: first pitch against the Chicago White Sox and the desert's

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Speaker 1: one hundred degree heat. And I'll be sticking around after

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Speaker 1: the game and take you to midnight.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Opening Day is Thursday, and then the crescendo builds for

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Induction celebration weekend April

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Speaker 1: twenty four through twenty six. And it's always a honor, pleasure,

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Speaker 1: and privilege to welcome in our next guest, the Reds

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Speaker 1: Hall of Executive Director, the one and only Rick Walls. Rick,

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Speaker 1: what a month it's going to be sir oh.

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Speaker 11: We are pumped up Opening Day this Thursday, the parade,

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Speaker 11: the block party, the game, and then what a weekend

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Speaker 11: kind of set of games and activities as well. I mean,

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Speaker 11: it doesn't just start an end on Thursday, but it

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Speaker 11: feels like it's a kickoff to a brand new season

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Speaker 11: with new hope. And you know, everybody's looking forward to

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Speaker 11: this new team that's out there. It's playing pretty well

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Speaker 11: out in spring training and at the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 11: We're just ready for the fans to come down and

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Speaker 11: pack the ballpark and visit the museum, take in a

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Speaker 11: lot of history and hopefully this will be the year

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Speaker 11: for the ball club.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I love the overhead shots of the banks

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Speaker 1: on opening Day where everyone is wearing red and packed

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Speaker 1: in like sardines.

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Speaker 2: Man, it is it is special.

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Speaker 11: It's the best time. It's it's you know, you think

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Speaker 11: about the last game of the season. We made the playoffs.

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Speaker 11: You know, the team's made a lot of moves in

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Speaker 11: the offseason. Players are playing pretty well right now, Soarez's

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Speaker 11: back on the team and spring training has gone well.

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Speaker 11: So here we are getting ready for opening Day. It's

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Speaker 11: been a kind of a long winter. It's been a

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Speaker 11: cold winner, a snowy winner, and I think everybody's ready

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Speaker 11: for baseball, certainly coming down to the ballpark and being

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Speaker 11: part of that atmosphere, being around the parade, being around

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Speaker 11: the block party. And then if you can get lucky

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Speaker 11: and go to the game, that's even better. If you

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Speaker 11: don't make that game, because it's going to be sold out.

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Speaker 11: If it isn't already, then you're going to need to

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Speaker 11: get the Saturday or Sunday's game because we're playing the

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Speaker 11: Red Sox and that's unusual, right to bring in an

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Speaker 11: American League team, and was fifty years ago last year,

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Speaker 11: I guess you could say when we beat them in

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Speaker 11: the World Series in nineteen seventy five. So we're celebrating

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Speaker 11: the fifty the anniversary of the seventy six World Series

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Speaker 11: this year at the Hall of Fame. Of course, the

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Speaker 11: Reds took down the Yankees in four straight that year.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Oh man, if you're old enough to remember

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, four games to three, an absolute thriller

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Speaker 1: to win at Fenway Park, just in credible and Doggy

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Speaker 1: Perez going deep to turn that game around. Arguably to me,

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Speaker 1: one of the most important home runs in Red's history.

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Speaker 11: And memorialized at the ballpark with the Tony Perez statue,

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Speaker 11: and a lot of your listeners probably don't know that

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Speaker 11: if you are standing at the Perez statue and you

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Speaker 11: look across the street on top of the apartment building,

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Speaker 11: you'll find a baseball that is almost the same trajectory.

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Speaker 11: And we figured this out of Tony's monstrous home run

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Speaker 11: and went over the Green Monster off Bill Spaceman Lea

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Speaker 11: the little Ethis pitch that Perez deposited over the net

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Speaker 11: everything there and really got the team back into the game,

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Speaker 11: and then the rest was history.

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Speaker 3: Amen to that.

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Speaker 1: Rick Walls with us from the Reds Hall of Fame Museum,

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Speaker 1: presented as always by Dinsmore. Wow, and what a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame celebration is going to be. Aaron Harang, Brandon Phillips,

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Speaker 1: Lou Panela, Reggie Sanders. Four guys that made an indelible

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Speaker 11: Strong class, really strong, maybe one of our strongest and

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Speaker 11: more recent years. I think all of us are pretty

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Speaker 11: familiar with watching brand in play and the way he

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Speaker 11: played defense. He brought power to the game. At thirty

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Speaker 11: thirty second basement. You know, it's only him, Lark and

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Speaker 11: Davis that are the thirty thirty players for the Reds.

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Speaker 11: Aaron Harang, just the stud on the mound, super durable,

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Speaker 11: started five opening days. This guy could do it all

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Speaker 11: and he really led the league in strikeouts and he

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Speaker 11: one year just just super player, super guy. I talked

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Speaker 11: to both of them. They're excited about coming into town,

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Speaker 11: just like Lou Panella and Reggie Sanders, I mean the

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Speaker 11: manager of the nineteen ninety World Series team. And you know,

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Speaker 11: Reggie Sanders' career was awesome. I think if people remember

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Speaker 11: him for ninety five and you know that playoffs against

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Speaker 11: the Braves. But Reggie has just wonderful numbers, big time contributed,

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Speaker 11: probably could have been one of those superstars. Reminds me

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Speaker 11: a little bit of Eric Davis the way he played

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Speaker 11: the game. Had a lot of power, speed and just

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Speaker 11: could make contacts. So not a big strikeout guy. So

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Speaker 11: this guy, that class of four is going to be

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Speaker 11: really strong. April twenty four, twenty five, twenty six. The

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Speaker 11: induction ceremony on the field is on the twenty fifth,

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Speaker 11: and the twenty six is our gal that's the big

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Speaker 11: fundraiser for the museum at the First Financial Center downtown,

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Speaker 11: so maybe over a thousand people will come to that

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Speaker 11: and you can still get tickets. So I encourage people

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Speaker 11: to go to our website and check out the induction

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Speaker 11: festivities and Redsmuseum dot org learn how to attend all

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Speaker 11: these events.

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Speaker 1: Ed Rick Walls with us from the Reds Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame Museum, the executive director. I remember nineteen ninety five

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Speaker 1: extremely well. The Dayton Daily News sent me with Hal

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Speaker 1: McCoy out to Los Angeles and they beat the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: in the gosh and what the first round and then

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Speaker 1: we went on to Atlanta and you know it was.

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Speaker 2: Tough sledding there.

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Speaker 1: Reggie Sanders had had a difficult series, but you're right,

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Speaker 1: a five tool player who really could do it all

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Speaker 1: and reminding you of an Eric Davis, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: No doubt.

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Speaker 11: And you know, seeing them come into town and just

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Speaker 11: knowing how they excited they are to be inducted, with

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Speaker 11: a lot of friends and family are coming in to

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Speaker 11: support that. I think you'll see a lot of Loop

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Speaker 11: Panella's players as well coming in to salute him. It's

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Speaker 11: it's just going to be a great week, and it's

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Speaker 11: earlier than normal in April, so be a cool day

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Speaker 11: probably at the ballpark on that Saturday when they're inducted.

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Speaker 11: You to want to come early, So make sure your

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Speaker 11: tickets for the April twenty five game get there early

653
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Speaker 11: because with four inductees, we've got four speeches. The program

654
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Speaker 11: is going to be awesome. Just want everyone to come

655
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 11: down and witness that and be around the Hall of

656
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Speaker 11: Fame because this is a celebration of not just the

657
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Speaker 11: four but the history of the game. We would invite

658
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Speaker 11: all of the Hall of Famers back to Cincinnati, so

659
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Speaker 11: many of the previous Hall of Famers are going to

660
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Speaker 11: be in Cincinnati. The Johnny Benches, the Larkins, the Davis's,

661
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 11: and including the four inductees, they'll all be in the

662
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Speaker 11: Hall of Fame for meet and greets. With Hall of

663
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Speaker 11: Fame admission, you're going to be able to meet these players.

664
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Speaker 11: We'll have them scheduled Friday, Saturday, and Sunday all weekend,

665
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Speaker 11: So good opportunity to meet the greatness and Rick.

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Speaker 1: When I think of Aaron Harang, I just think of

667
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: man his durability and his and his production just he

668
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 1: was just so consistent over the years.

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Speaker 11: Well, you needed that and every starting rotation needs that

670
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Speaker 11: sort of a pitcher. And you think about him, his

671
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 11: last year was twenty ten when we won the Division,

672
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Speaker 11: of course, and then we want it again in twelve.

673
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Speaker 11: But guys like him and Bronson Arroyo, who's already in

674
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Speaker 11: the Hall of Fame, every rotation needs that consistency. You

675
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,439
Speaker 11: can have guys that dominate, you know, one game here,

676
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Speaker 11: one game there, and they go down in history as Wow,

677
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 11: they've had a great fastball. But when you can pitch

678
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 11: and I'll just throw, that means a lot to the club.

679
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Speaker 1: And you know, our last segment, we were talking Reds

680
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Speaker 1: and yeah, a lot of fans wanted that power back

681
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: over the you know, over the offseason, and they finally

682
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Speaker 1: acquired one in au Haaneo Suarez. What are performance he

683
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Speaker 1: came through with for Venezuela and the World Baseball Classic

684
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Speaker 1: just incredible. But the Reds hoarded their starting pitchers and

685
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: it was probably a good thing.

686
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Speaker 3: Rick.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's nice to have the rotation, the depth that

688
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Speaker 11: we had with our starting pitchers. That could have made

689
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Speaker 11: some moves to bring in that power hitter, it seems like,

690
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:27,479
Speaker 11: but they've got Suarez. He's so happy to be back

691
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 11: in a Reds uniform and where he started here, the

692
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Speaker 11: Reds gave him his shot.

693
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Speaker 2: And he's playing really well.

694
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Speaker 3: Right.

695
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Speaker 11: He played well last year and he's playing well now.

696
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 11: He played well in the WBC. You know, we wanted

697
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Speaker 11: the United States to win. But if I guess, if

698
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Speaker 11: you were gonna you're gonna lose, you might as well

699
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Speaker 11: let one of the Reds do it for you. Keep

700
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Speaker 11: him on a roll, bring him to Cincinnati so he

701
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Speaker 11: can just crush it here with us and the you know,

702
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Speaker 11: maybe Great American Ballpark's going to treat him well again.

703
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Speaker 1: And Rick I talked about a reel that I saw

704
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: on Facebook with Pete Rose talking about the gosh the

705
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Speaker 1: importance of two positions that the Reds had during their

706
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 1: days of dominance in the seventies, Catcher and second basement

707
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Speaker 1: with Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan, a pair of Hall

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Speaker 1: of famers, And man, what would it mean if Matt

709
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Speaker 1: McClain can continue this streak here of the spring uh

710
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Speaker 1: and uh and then have the production from your catchers

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Speaker 1: in Tyler Stevenson and Jose Travino.

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Speaker 2: It'd be special.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, McLean hit another home run yesterday. I think he's

714
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Speaker 11: got seven on the spring training he's hitting over five hundred. Yeah,

715
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Speaker 11: you're your catcher, such an important role. You're right, Pet's right.

716
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Speaker 11: You know, I listen with Pete says something about your team,

717
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Speaker 11: I'm gonna listen. And he had one of the great

718
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Speaker 11: catchers in Johnny Bench and the greatest of all time

719
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Speaker 11: there and then the greatest second base and maybe of

720
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Speaker 11: all time. So having those guys smart baseball players but

721
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Speaker 11: also extremely talented baseball players. You know, Matt Flane is

722
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Speaker 11: one of those Guys' there number one draft pick. He

723
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Speaker 11: had an off season last year, of course, and this

724
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Speaker 11: year looking to reb I think it means a lot

725
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 11: to the club to have him. Hopefully he wants to

726
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Speaker 11: get in that number two spot and they need him

727
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Speaker 11: in that place. Really opens, you know, sets the stage

728
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Speaker 11: or the table for daily Cruz and Suarez and the

729
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Speaker 11: rest of the crew. But I hope Stevenson has a

730
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Speaker 11: wonderful year behind the plate as well, or Trevino both

731
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Speaker 11: and put tuning in and out and really put it

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Speaker 11: together for us.

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Speaker 1: And Rick with Terry Francona being in the second season,

734
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Speaker 1: I just think he just has a better feel and

735
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:31,800
Speaker 1: a better grip really on all facets of the team,

736
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Speaker 1: no doubt.

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Speaker 11: Well, I think that's a lot of people said, you know,

738
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Speaker 11: get him into his second year as a Hall of

739
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 11: Fame manager down the where. We know that for sure.

740
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Speaker 11: But you know, even though you're you have that pedigree

741
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 11: and you come into a new club, it does take

742
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 11: a little bit of time to kind of learn the club,

743
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 11: learn the players, learn their talents, and work with all

744
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Speaker 11: of your coaches. And certainly year two for somebody, especially

745
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:59,439
Speaker 11: with that sort of ability and skill in Tito, he's

746
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 11: going to bring that at a new level, I think

747
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 11: to the team this year. And if you look at

748
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 11: that and you look at the progression of the players

749
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 11: that they've had, and the depth and the starting rotation

750
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Speaker 11: and even in the bullpen, the way they've built that

751
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 11: up this year, you've got to be feeling pretty good

752
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 11: about the team this year. And you know, they made

753
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Speaker 11: the playoffs last year. So if we're moving forward and

754
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 11: that's the idea, just keep moving forward, I think that

755
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 11: looks pretty good for us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love you know, checking out your website all the

758
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Speaker 1: times of when the Hall of Fame is open and everything,

759
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: and I like this man. I like the online auctions man.

760
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame online auctions. People ought to check

761
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Speaker 1: that out well.

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Speaker 11: A lot of things going on down at the museum.

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Speaker 11: Of course, the exhibits are changing all the time, something

764
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Speaker 11: new this year if you were there last year. We've

765
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Speaker 11: got a life size holographic display that's going to feature

766
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Speaker 11: Reds Hall of Favor, Marty Brunneman greeting everybody in the

767
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Speaker 11: Big Red Machine exhibit. A lot of new things, new

768
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Speaker 11: artifacts on display. We'll also mentioned Reds on Film. Our

769
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Speaker 11: theater is going to be showing multiple films on Reds,

770
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Speaker 11: including some of the highlights from last year, the nineteen

771
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Speaker 11: seventy six season, some blooper roles, just a lot of fun,

772
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Speaker 11: fun stuff going on there. The Step into History Saturdays

773
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 11: is going to be a big thing if you like

774
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 11: to meet Reds players and former players, and that's going

775
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 11: to be the day to come down. We're going to

776
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Speaker 11: have alumni in every Saturday throughout the season. Hands on

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Speaker 11: History is an opportunity for you to hold artifacts, literally

778
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Speaker 11: hold historical artifacts, and then with Reds on Film, and

779
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Speaker 11: then some of the instructional clinics will take place with

780
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Speaker 11: former players. There's going to be a lot going on

781
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Speaker 11: at the museum. So you're right, You're right. You've come

782
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 11: down to the museum. You've got to come off in

783
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 11: check out our merchandise, autographed items. Something that we're going

784
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 11: to be announcing next week too, on Monday is in

785
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 11: autograph signing with Auhineo Suarez and David Concepcion at the

786
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Speaker 11: Hall of Fame on Friday, so the day after opening day.

787
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Speaker 11: So there's a little breaking news for you. The details

788
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 11: will be coming out of Monday.

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Speaker 2: That is fantastic.

790
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Speaker 1: And yeah, the Friday after Opening Day is always dark,

791
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Speaker 1: just in case there would be a rain out. But

792
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to Saturday, my first extra innings of

793
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Speaker 1: the year right here on seven hundred WLW from about

794
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Speaker 1: seven ten till nine o'clock after hopefully the Reds win

795
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Speaker 1: again over the Boston Red Sox. And that is Kids

796
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Speaker 1: Opening Day. What is in it for a family, a

797
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Speaker 1: mom and dad that bring their kids down on Kids

798
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: Opening Day, Well, this is a.

799
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Speaker 11: Great opportunity to meet the players. There's a red carpet

800
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Speaker 11: parade or all of the players come out in uniform,

801
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:42,280
Speaker 11: walk down the red carpet, suppose for photographs, give high five.

802
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 11: You know, the Reds mascots are there. It's just an

803
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 11: hour or so of this coolest interaction, the opportunity to

804
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 11: meet their heroes. I think this is the strong connection.

805
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 11: You know, we're building a fan base all the time.

806
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 11: Of course, you think back into history of why you

807
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 11: are a Reds fan, a lot of people had person

808
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 11: interactions with players. So I like this for the younger kids,

809
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 11: I mean this is you know, adult to adults love

810
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 11: this too. I mean it's just a really neat opportunity

811
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 11: to see them in person on the street on Crosley

812
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 11: Terrace down Main Street, or Joe Knucks all way in

813
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Speaker 11: front of the Hall of Fame. You're going to want

814
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Speaker 11: to come early for that, and there'll be all kinds

815
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 11: of kids' activities during the game to just make it

816
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 11: a real special time. We know Opening Day cannot be

817
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 11: something for everybody. Not everybody can attend Opening Day, but

818
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 11: you can go down on kids Opening Day, and there

819
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 11: are still tickets available for that. So I really would

820
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Speaker 11: encourage families to attend.

821
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Speaker 1: And of all the rights of Spring Rick Walls, the Masters,

822
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: the NCAA Men's and women's basketball tournaments, the Kentucky Derby,

823
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis five hundred Reds Opening Day and really the

824
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: start of the red season is at the top of

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Speaker 1: my list.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine it's for you too. It is totally

827
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Speaker 2: for us.

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Speaker 11: You know, we used to wish everybody would come into

829
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 11: the Hall of Fame on that day, and obviously we

830
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 11: can't do that. And how the Hall of Fame is

831
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 11: open and we encourage you to visit at some point.

832
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 11: But I know how important Opening Day is to the city,

833
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 11: to the region, and to Reds fans everywhere. It is

834
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 11: important part of everything Reds Baseball is about. So we

835
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 11: want everyone to attend that parade, to tend that block

836
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 11: party and celebrate. This is a moment to celebrate everything

837
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 11: that's good about Red's Baseball and just get excited about

838
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 11: this season. So I think everybody gets behind the club

839
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 11: and room on and be there for Opening Day. It

840
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 11: is a special, special day.

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Speaker 1: He is the executive director of the Reds Hall of

842
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: Fame and Museum, presented by Densmore. Our good friend, the

843
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 1: one and only Rick Walls. Rick can't thank you enough

844
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: for joining us tonight. Really appreciate you.

845
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 11: I can't thank you enough for having me on. And

846
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 11: let's go.

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00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: Right, amen, All right, all the way to man. Let's

848
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: bring back a pennant and get to the World Series again.

849
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:54,399
Speaker 1: That would be special, no doubt. Thank you so much, Rick,

850
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: Thank you all right. And what's it like to be

851
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: a Major league taking the field on opening Day? We're

852
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: gonna find out from one of our good friends and

853
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: a World Series with a World Series ring when we

854
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 1: come back. This is Chick lud Wig Sports Talk, seven

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Speaker 1: hundred WLW, seven thirty nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati, Chicklodg,

856
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: This is sports Talk.

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00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: We're going till eight thirty tonight and then I'm going

859
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: to stick around after Reds Baseball and take you from

860
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: eleven thirty to midnight. We're at the dawn of a

861
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: brand new Major League Baseball season. The color, the pageantry,

862
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 1: the anticipation, the promise of a new season. What's it

863
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 1: like for a Major League Baseball player to take the field.

864
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 2: On opening Day? Well, let's find out.

865
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Speaker 1: Let's bring in a guy who has a World Series

866
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: Baseball ring, World Championship ring from the nineteen sixty eight

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Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers. Our good friend, a great friend of the show,

868
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Speaker 1: the one and only John Ward and John Welcome to

869
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:08,240
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW.

870
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 2: Once again, Chick.

871
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 3: They're always glad to be with you, buddy.

872
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 12: The other day in Paradise ball season.

873
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: Opening day, this ride around the corner, Baby, absolutely, I

874
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: know you're fired up. You had your fantasy draft today

875
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: with a whole bunch of baseball players.

876
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:25,760
Speaker 2: Man, that had to be fun.

877
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 1: And John, what's it like to take the field and

878
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:30,399
Speaker 1: get introduced on opening day?

879
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 12: I'll tell you, Chick, I was twenty one years old,

880
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 12: youngest guy on either team, four years out of high school.

881
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 3: It was just surreal.

882
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 12: I mean I almost couldn't feel my legs touching the ground.

883
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 12: You get so psyched up for it. And but the

884
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 12: other guys were almost the same way. I talked to them, like, Hey,

885
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 12: what's opening day like this? The guys, this is it.

886
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 12: Everybody's zero zero, buddy, everybody's got a shot. We're all

887
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 12: tied for first. So you get to bear down and

888
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 12: kick butt man and go out and do.

889
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 3: As well as you can.

890
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 12: And whoever won the year before, you got to go

891
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 12: after them and win the next year. The Red Sox

892
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 12: won in sixty seven. But it's so tough to repeat.

893
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 12: I don't care how good you are in what sport,

894
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 12: no matter, it's football.

895
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:25,759
Speaker 3: Basketball, baseball.

896
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 12: It's so tough to come back, even with the same

897
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 12: club pretty much, it's hard to repeat the same thing

898
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 12: and come back and win two in a row, three

899
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 12: in a row. So those guys that do that, that's

900
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 12: extra special. But to come out there that first game

901
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 12: and stand on the baseline and back then they would

902
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 12: everything was on TV and they call every guy's name

903
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 12: out number thirty nine, John Warden and I they eyd

904
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 12: goosebumps bigger than you can imagine.

905
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: How man a left handed pier old lefty selected by

906
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers in the fourth round of the nineteen

907
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: sixty six Amateur Draft. I was twelve years old, John,

908
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: and you are seventy nine now, and I'll bet you

909
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: still look at that ring and the memories come flooding back.

910
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 12: Looking at it right now, and it always there. I mean,

911
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 12: it just seems like it was just like a snap

912
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 12: of the finger. And then I was back there on

913
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 12: third baseline watching the other guys getting introduced and just thinking, boy,

914
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 12: I didn't even know these guys, some of these guys

915
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 12: last year. You know, I went to spring training in

916
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 12: sixty six on the bas league roster. I had no

917
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 12: idea I was going to make the big league roster

918
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,360
Speaker 12: in sixty eight. I mean, sit in sixty eight. I

919
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 12: knew three guys off the forty man roster. I wanted

920
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 12: to go around and get Kline signed my glove. Oh,

921
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,399
Speaker 12: I didn't know all of these guys, and they're looking

922
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 12: at me like, who the hell is this guy?

923
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 3: You know?

924
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 12: A farm boy, flat top from Harrisburgo High population three

925
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 12: hundred and forty people. But it just was meant to be.

926
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 12: And there's nothing I ever wanted to do. People used

927
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 12: to ask me in the village, but what are you

928
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 12: gonna do when you grow up, Johnny? You gonna be

929
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 12: a fireman? Or are you gonna run the farm? Or

930
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 12: what are you gonna do? It said, I'm gonna be

931
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 12: in the big leagues. And they'd laugh, and I said, no,

932
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 12: go ahead and laugh. You don't never make any money

933
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 12: playing baseball. I said, well, that's probably true, but if

934
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 12: you can make money doing it, and I want to

935
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 12: do it, and I don't care if they pay me

936
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 12: or not.

937
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 3: I want to be a big league player.

938
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: John crazy question, Gosh, what was the salary like for

939
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: you back in sixty eight?

940
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 3: Sixty eight?

941
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 12: The salary just got bumped from seventy five hundred. I

942
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 12: made ten thousand dollars.

943
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: Man, Wow, yeah, yeah, a four to one record, a

944
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: three point six y two era with twenty five strikeouts.

945
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: And John, the story never gets old how you started

946
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: your career and really in historic fashion.

947
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, came out, came out the shoot.

948
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 12: We lost Opening Day to the Red Sox, and of

949
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 12: course they were loaded. They were defending miracling champs. The

950
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 12: Cardinals beat him in the old Series, but they had

951
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 12: a guy named Carl Yustremsky was pretty pretty tough to

952
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 12: look at out there.

953
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 13: Man.

954
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 12: They had that big swing and had a triple crown

955
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 12: winner in sixty seven. So I in the second game.

956
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 12: We beat Opening Day and had the day off like

957
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 12: the reds do.

958
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 3: And you know, you know the story on that.

959
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 12: I think somebody mentioned it on WLW today about why

960
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 12: is there was a day off, well in case if

961
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 12: rain's out, and you got that that bear day there

962
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 12: in the opening days the next day yep, and so

963
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 12: but anyway, the next day there was a free day,

964
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 12: and then we had the next day and then Denny

965
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 12: mcgleane McLean and he got taken out after the after

966
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 12: the seventh and and they brought in me and I said,

967
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 12: oh my god, I'm gonna they're gonna find out real

968
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 12: quick because they had a bad bullpen the here before.

969
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 12: And I go out there and I get the first

970
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 12: two guys out, uh, back.

971
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 3: To back, no problem, just boom, boom boom. And uh.

972
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 12: So here comes Bill Freehand, Michigan graduate. You know, I'm

973
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 12: buck Eye's buddy. So he comes trotting out there with

974
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 12: that big ten trot. He said, lefty, don't let this

975
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 12: guy beat us with the home run. I said, no kidding, Bill,

976
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 12: and I wouldn't never thought of that. No wonder you

977
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 12: with the Michigan Hell, you couldn't have got into Ohio state.

978
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 12: So he said, just let's just bust him in and

979
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 12: keep the ball inside. Don't let him extend you, and

980
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 12: let's get out of the singing went in the bottom

981
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 12: of the ninth. I said, yes, sir. So he goes

982
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 12: back to the Uh. The guy, of course, back of

983
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 12: my leg was twitching like you wouldn't believe.

984
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 3: When the car will get Chewsky.

985
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 12: We're getting three to two, and he calls for a

986
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 12: slider in and I gave it the biggest I turned

987
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 12: on that thing like he wouldn't believe. Well, when you

988
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 12: overthrowing a ball, you have a tennessee the ball. You'll

989
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 12: hear him say, well, the ball backed up on him. Well,

990
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 12: the ball backed up on you ass. And that thing

991
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 12: kept coming in on him, and he.

992
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 14: Had his eyes lit up like old boy. And I'm thinking, oh, man,

993
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 14: don't go over the roof, don't go over the roof,

994
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 14: cause here come that big swing. And he swung and

995
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 14: that ball just came back in and he swung and missed,

996
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 14: and I went, oh, thank you, thank you. Mom.

997
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:43,919
Speaker 12: She's home, she's up in the stands watching that game.

998
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:49,479
Speaker 12: And he swung and miss. I walk off that Mount Chick.

999
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:52,439
Speaker 12: I didn't feel my feet hit the ground. Man got

1000
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 12: in the dugout there all pat me on the back,

1001
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 12: said good job, Lefty, and I was due up. I

1002
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 12: was the leadoff hitter. But back then the pitchers could hit.

1003
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 12: So a guy named Gates Brown that that year was

1004
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 12: a just an iconic pinch hitter. I think he hit

1005
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 12: like almost four sixty four seventy as a pinch hitter

1006
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 12: in sixty eight. So he hit he pinch hit for me.

1007
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 12: A guy named John Wyatt was on the Red Sox staff.

1008
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 12: He commanded there to throw gates. Brown takes him to

1009
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 12: the upper deck and Big John is one to oh

1010
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 12: in his first appearance, and I'm.

1011
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 3: I just couldn't believe it. I'm cheering, Hey we won.

1012
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 12: Uh, we're one and one, we're five hundred team now

1013
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 12: and everything. And the guy goes, hell, you get to

1014
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 12: win for that. I went, oh, my golly. Two days later,

1015
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 12: we played Cleveland at home. I strikeout Lee may n

1016
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 12: a ye may guy on first doll, tried to chill

1017
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 12: second three and through.

1018
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 3: Him Ount he's, uh, he's out of there. Bob the

1019
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 3: ninth horton the we win. I'm two and zero.

1020
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 12: Two days later, we go to Chicago play the White Sox.

1021
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 12: Come in the ninth inning, we're up, We're up one.

1022
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 12: I come into the bases loaded one out about top

1023
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 12: of the bottom of the ninth. Ken Boyer remember that name, Cardinals.

1024
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:25,919
Speaker 3: Big time hitter.

1025
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 12: Now he's in his last year and I was in

1026
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 12: my first year, and I thought, I'm looking in the

1027
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 12: dugout chick. I swear I'm looking in the dugout lefty

1028
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 12: against the right. He, like Ken Boyer in Mayo, just

1029
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 12: wasn't even He's looking around I guess, I said, well,

1030
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 12: I guess he's really trying me.

1031
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 3: Now I'm going to face Ken Boyer.

1032
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 12: I threw a hanging curveball that he hit a frozen

1033
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 12: pe to third base to Don Wark. He catches the

1034
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 12: tags third have the inning, top of the top of

1035
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 12: the tenth. Horton hits the double, A couple of runs

1036
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 12: scored Dennis Rye mackhams in the penises of the tenth.

1037
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 5: We win.

1038
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 3: I end up three and oh I ended up right.

1039
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 12: Now.

1040
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 3: To this date, I am the only.

1041
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 12: Pitcher in major league history to win his first three

1042
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 12: appearances in major league history.

1043
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 2: Just phenomenal.

1044
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 3: How about that? Amazing?

1045
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 2: It is the greatest story, It really really is.

1046
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: And John, you've got a monitor, Yeah, you've got a

1047
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: moniker here because I'm looking on on you. One of

1048
01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: your pages here it says clown prints of Baseball. All

1049
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: I know is that you brought you bring fun to

1050
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 1: the game. And I'm sure you did that your rookie season.

1051
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 3: I was the uh, I was a clown. I did

1052
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 3: everything that.

1053
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 12: Well.

1054
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 3: Max Pack and I love Max Pack. And if anybody

1055
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 3: ever saw.

1056
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 12: Max in the minor leagues, back when it's the older people,

1057
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 12: lucky these young guys didn't good chance to see him.

1058
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 12: But I used to do Max's out out everything. I

1059
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 12: spit the water, slide on this on the dirt, I'd

1060
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 12: have stuff all over me. And Jack McKeon was managing

1061
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 12: me and trip away with the Omahall Royals. I got

1062
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 12: drafted later by the Royals Agoing Expansion. Yes, and Jack said, hey,

1063
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:19,479
Speaker 12: when he coaches third, when he leaves third this inning,

1064
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,040
Speaker 12: you on the next inning, you go coach third while

1065
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 12: he's coaching first. I said really, he goes, yeah, come on,

1066
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 12: cause Jack was really a fun guy. And so Maxic

1067
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 12: goes over the first base and he's going to his

1068
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 12: routine and I'm out there doing mine. I'm spitting the

1069
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 12: water up in the air, and Max stopped and looked

1070
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 12: over and the little goose neck of his and he looked.

1071
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 3: Over at me, like what the hell are you doing?

1072
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 3: It fell.

1073
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 13: We had the best time, and then it just sort

1074
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 13: of caught down and there was a big article in

1075
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 13: the Sporting News and having me had Max and I together,

1076
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 13: had my hat on sideways.

1077
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, I just uh stuffed. It came to me

1078
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 3: and I was like, have a good time. I always

1079
01:04:56,720 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 3: like to have fun. And I love to win playing baseball,

1080
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 3: and it was a great time.

1081
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: Seventy nine years old now John Warden back on October one,

1082
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 1: born in nineteen forty six, but still a kid at

1083
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: heart who loves.

1084
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Speaker 2: The game of baseball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you bet it is now.

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Speaker 1: You spoke at the forty fifth anniversary celebration of the

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01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: sixty eight World Championship team at Camerica Park in Detroit.

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Speaker 2: What what was that experience like?

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Speaker 12: Well, it was it was great to see all those

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Speaker 12: guys come back, and uh, you know, we had about

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Speaker 12: twenty let's see eight eight about eighteen, we had about

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01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 12: eighteen guys there. I think at that point we lost about, yeah,

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01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 12: twenty five man roster. We lost like seven guys or

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01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 12: you know, six guys I forget altogether. And so we

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01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 12: had a couple of guys that had come up a

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01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:53,479
Speaker 12: couple of times. And we invited everybody that ever played

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Speaker 12: on that sixty eighteen But it was great, and everybody said,

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01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 12: just let Wharton do it. I said, no, you guys,

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Speaker 12: everybody's gonna talk. Kline hated the microphone. He say, I

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01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 12: ain't talking. He didn't like talking. But I was voted

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Speaker 12: to get up there and talk, and I'd introduced the

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01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 12: guys and let them talk, and I introduce the next

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01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 12: you know, and then.

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Speaker 3: Run the thing a little bit.

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Speaker 12: But I just sort of everybody's got a certain gift,

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01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 12: you know. And and but Cayline loved me. He and

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01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 12: I got along the great. He was just a tremendous guy.

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01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:29,800
Speaker 12: But it was so fun to be associated with those

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01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 12: guys and to see that the heart of the fans

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Speaker 12: in Detroit.

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Speaker 3: Detroit's got some.

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Speaker 12: Of the best fans and they just they love those tigers, man,

1113
01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 12: And I'm telling you, and they're.

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01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 3: Winning now, you know.

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Speaker 12: They had a great couple of last couple of years.

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01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 12: And then they're in some trouble just like we are

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Speaker 12: here with their owner and stuff about paying money to

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01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 12: some top players. And they're gonna lose them if they

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01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 12: don't scooble kid up there in Detroit.

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Speaker 3: He's he's an icon. He's just a tremendous picture.

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Speaker 12: And they just they got opened the first books up

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01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 12: or they're gonna lose him and then they're gonna be

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Speaker 12: people being the uproar.

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Speaker 3: But you gotta pay it. You gotta pay it if

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Speaker 3: you're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But yeah, and you eventually attended and graduated from

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01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: the Ohio State University, where you met your Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame wife, Carol with a K and a hall of

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01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: fame OHSAA official in several supports.

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Speaker 12: Yes, best thing that ever happened to me, chick, She's

1131
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 12: the best.

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01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 3: But for her, I'd probably been dead ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: And you follow the redsly, You follow the Reds extremely

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01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: closely here living in the suburban Cincinnati.

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01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:45,920
Speaker 2: And what do you what do you hope for the

1136
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 2: Reds this year?

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Speaker 12: Well, my hope is we can stay healthy, which we

1138
01:07:50,560 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 12: proved we haven't. We got green on the d O

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01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 12: I I mean, and that that hurts us right off

1140
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 12: the bat. But we got to have these other guys

1141
01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 12: pick it up, you know, just go out and do

1142
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 12: your job. Do your job, getting as many innings we

1143
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 12: need to. Starting pitchers go deep in the line and

1144
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 12: then the end of the game. We got the guys

1145
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 12: being out there six to seven innings. We got two

1146
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 12: best eighth and ninth pitchers in the in the league.

1147
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:16,640
Speaker 12: Those two guys can pitch almost every day, which they

1148
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 12: don't need to. But we got to get guys that

1149
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:22,799
Speaker 12: will go in to the eighth and ninth innings sometimes

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01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 12: even to save these guys arms for the last part

1151
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 12: of the season. Yes, we just can't put on and

1152
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 12: those guys can't just take it all. And I know

1153
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 12: they want to pitch, but they can't warn themselves out.

1154
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 12: Let those middle guys get East some innings up, eat

1155
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 12: them up. Man.

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01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:43,680
Speaker 3: But uh, I think that that helps. Uh, it's going

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01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 3: to be amazing.

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01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:44,760
Speaker 12: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The young man who any I mean, do you see

1160
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,800
Speaker 3: his face and the attitude of it in the World game.

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Speaker 1: Unbelievable coming yes, coming through with that double to lead

1162
01:08:57,560 --> 01:08:59,719
Speaker 1: Venezuela to over the United States.

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01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:02,600
Speaker 3: Man, you know what, I kept thinking, that guy's on

1164
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 3: our team, buddy, that's it.

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01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:06,439
Speaker 12: He is on our team and he's not on your team,

1166
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:10,200
Speaker 12: and he's gonna bring so much to our team. I

1167
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 12: think it's gonna carry over. I mean, I'm so excited

1168
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 12: about that McClain is hitting the ball. I think he's

1169
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 12: got just so much confidence right now, just watching them,

1170
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 12: the way he carries himself, he's like, look at me,

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01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:24,840
Speaker 12: I'm back.

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01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:28,559
Speaker 3: You know, let's go East type of guy. He can't

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01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:30,920
Speaker 3: wait to get started, as wait to get started.

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Speaker 2: John, This is a yeah.

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01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:36,280
Speaker 1: This has always been fun, really really appreciate your time tonight.

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01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 1: All the best of you and Carol and your family.

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Speaker 3: Hey, my best time is a huge chicker. Anytime you

1178
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 3: want me, Buddy, I'm there.

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Speaker 2: Bud Man, really appreciate that. Love you guys, take care now,

1180
01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 2: all right.

1181
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 3: Go Rids, Go Reds, Go Tigers.

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01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,640
Speaker 1: Fantastic. Hey we are We're wide open here in the

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01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:58,719
Speaker 1: eight o'clock hour? Is we inch closer to Red's Baseball?

1184
01:09:59,320 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 2: Nine oh five?

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01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:04,120
Speaker 1: I first pitch Reds Chicago White Sox tonight. This is

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01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: Sports Talk on seven hundred WLW eighth nine in the

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01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:51,680
Speaker 1: Queen City of Cincinnati. Chicklog Win, seven hundred W l W.

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01:10:51,920 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: This is sports Talk. We're going to the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the hour and then Reds Baseball against the Chicago White

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01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:01,639
Speaker 1: Sox takes over these air waves. And I'm sticking around

1191
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:04,280
Speaker 1: after the game to take you from eleven thirty to

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01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:08,400
Speaker 1: midnight tonight. And we are five days away from Opening

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01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:12,160
Speaker 1: Day Thursday, March twenty six, four to ten. First pitch

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01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:15,960
Speaker 1: against the Boston Red Sox at Great American Ballpark with

1195
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:19,879
Speaker 1: Andrew Abbott on the mound. Do you have a favorite

1196
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 1: Opening Day memory? And what does Red's Baseball mean to you?

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01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,080
Speaker 1: Let's go out to the phones. He's been waiting for

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01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:30,440
Speaker 1: a while. Our good friend in Columbus where I graduated

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Speaker 1: fifty years ago, with fifty thousand of my closest friends,

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01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: Kevin in Columbus, Hi, Kevin, Hey, all right.

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01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:42,760
Speaker 15: Yeah, okay, with opening day, it's what I remember most

1202
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 15: is and I don't know how long ago it's Bennis,

1203
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 15: when the Reds started the season, they did it a

1204
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 15: day before everyone else. Now I don't know when that ended,

1205
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 15: but I don't know. Maybe you need to go talk

1206
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 15: to Major League Baseball and tell him what that means

1207
01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 15: to this city.

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01:11:58,360 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 2: And at eight, right, and nothing you.

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01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:01,560
Speaker 3: Can do about it.

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01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: I guess that's business. I guess that's that's right. It's

1211
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 1: uh that that ship is sailed. Unfortunately, the Reds were

1212
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 1: always the first team to open and.

1213
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:12,639
Speaker 15: I mean no one has more history than the Reds.

1214
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 2: That's right, the first professional baseball team. Yeah, and uh,

1215
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:18,200
Speaker 2: it's great to hear.

1216
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 5: I guess it's set.

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01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 15: You're doing saturdays for your set to do saturdays for

1218
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 15: ex trading.

1219
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 1: Well, and I'm gonna hopefully do some Friday nights too.

1220
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 1: But this Friday night, the Reds are dark this Friday.

1221
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,360
Speaker 15: But we'll hear you at least once a week so

1222
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:36,360
Speaker 15: we get your take on how they're doing and everything.

1223
01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:39,479
Speaker 15: And hey, I'm just gonna hang it. I'm so excited

1224
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 15: about over there, hang up and listening to what you've

1225
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 15: got to say about what may happen this year.

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01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate it, Kevin and uh yes, love

1227
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 1: doing extra innings after Reds games on weekends. And do

1228
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:58,759
Speaker 1: we have Sue on the line, one of our oil

1229
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 1: listeners and frequent callers.

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Speaker 5: Hi, Sue, Oh oh you got me? Oh I been.

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01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 16: I wasn't paying attention. But anyway, I'd like to show

1232
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 16: about nineteen ninety three and the game was on the Easter.

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01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 16: And Sunday night was forty degrees and it might have

1235
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:26,800
Speaker 16: gone down to thirty five when we sat there through that,

1236
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:32,960
Speaker 16: and the next day it turned out to be sixty degrees. Yeah,

1237
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 16: and that's when they played that one.

1238
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 3: All right.

1239
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 17: So yeah, there's the other one is an opening day

1240
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 17: or its snow, yes, And my brother and his girlfriend

1241
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:46,519
Speaker 17: did not think they were going.

1242
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:50,679
Speaker 16: But at eleven thirty I get a call at work.

1243
01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:53,800
Speaker 16: Do you know where the stadium blanket is?

1244
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 18: Oh?

1245
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 16: I said, yes, I do if you look upstairs from

1246
01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 16: the Hulk lots it and it's green and black, and

1247
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:08,680
Speaker 16: they took it. But to today's state, I do not

1248
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 16: know who has it now. But have a good one

1249
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 16: an opening day and hope second base and catcher can

1250
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 16: do good on Thursday.

1251
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:21,599
Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, thank you so much. So you mentioned

1252
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 2: all year.

1253
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 16: Thanks a lot, all right.

1254
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 2: Fantastic, appreciate it.

1255
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 1: And one of my favorite opening day memories came on

1256
01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:33,839
Speaker 1: April eighth, nineteen eighty five. The Reds beat the Montreal

1257
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 1: Expos four to one. Pete Rose had three hits, three RBIs.

1258
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:44,679
Speaker 1: There were two snow delays in that game. Yeah, just crazy, Oh.

1259
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:46,599
Speaker 16: No, but that was the one.

1260
01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 12: Don't ask me.

1261
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 16: I have a red, white and blue African birth America.

1262
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:55,320
Speaker 2: Now, okay, all right, see hey, thank you so much.

1263
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 2: That's fantastic.

1264
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: An update from the the boys state basketball tournament up

1265
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 1: in the Dayton area. This happened at the Nutter Center today.

1266
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:10,880
Speaker 1: Just finished not long ago in the Division one State

1267
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: semifinals Princeton. The Vikings defeated Lakewood Saint Edwards seventy seven

1268
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:21,120
Speaker 1: to fifty one, and Princeton will play the winner of

1269
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: the Hilliard Bradley Pickerington Central Game, which is going on

1270
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 1: right now at the Nutter Center. Princeton will play for

1271
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:36,719
Speaker 1: the state Division one title tomorrow Sunday, March twenty second,

1272
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:42,080
Speaker 1: at ud Arena at three point fifteen, and hopefully they'll

1273
01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:46,480
Speaker 1: bring home keep a state championship right here in Cincinnati.

1274
01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: Division one, good luck to the Princeton Vikings Division three champions,

1275
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: the Trotwood Madison Rams out of the Dayton area Division three,

1276
01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 1: Division four state champions Wyoming Cowboys crushed Cleveland Glenville seventy

1277
01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:07,719
Speaker 1: three to forty eight. And how about in Division five,

1278
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:13,759
Speaker 1: Cleveland Heights Lutheran East a fifty to thirty six winner

1279
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: over Gehanna Columbus Academy, and that is Lutheran East's fourth

1280
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 1: consecutive state championship. And then we come to Divisions six

1281
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 1: and seven and we've got Maria Stein Marion Local against

1282
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: Berlin Highland and that game is taking place at seven

1283
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: point thirty tonight. It's being played right now at the

1284
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:54,839
Speaker 1: University of Dayton Arena. And in Division seven state champion

1285
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:58,759
Speaker 1: Delpha Saint John out of the same conference, the Midwest

1286
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:02,639
Speaker 1: Athletic Conference, the same as Maria Stein Marion Local.

1287
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 2: So the mac.

1288
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:11,719
Speaker 1: The Midwest Athletic Conference has generated one hundred and fifty

1289
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 1: six state championships in all sports in their history, and

1290
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 1: they could add a one hundred and fifty seventh and

1291
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:25,280
Speaker 1: I want to mention all those schools Anna, Coldwater, Fort Recovery, Marion,

1292
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 1: Local Minster, New Bremen, New Knoxville, Parkway, Delpha, Saint John's,

1293
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 1: Saint Henry, and Versales. And Saint Henry won the Division

1294
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: seven state championship in girls basketball last weekend. That was

1295
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 1: their first state championship. And then also Versales. So the

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01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 1: Midwest Athletic Conference has won very special special conference. We've

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Speaker 1: got one more segment to go. We'll come back and

1298
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:57,240
Speaker 1: put a bow on this show. What is your favorite

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Speaker 1: Opening Day memory? It's the Chickster chicklood Wig with you

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Speaker 1: till the bottom of the hour and then again at

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Speaker 1: eleven thirty tonight on seven hundred WLW eight twenty two

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Speaker 1: in the Queen City of Cincinnati, Chickalogwig, seven hundred WLW,

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Speaker 1: this is sports Talk till the bottom of the hour.

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Speaker 1: And then the Reds Baseball Cactus League Baseball in one

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Speaker 1: hundred degree desert Arizona, while the Reds and the Chicago

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Speaker 1: White Sox tonight, nine oh five, first pitch, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sticking around after the game to take you to midnight

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Speaker 1: from about eleven thirty to midnight tonight. So looking forward

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Speaker 1: to us stick around in the studio and hearing the call.

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Speaker 1: Reds Baseball can't wait for Opening Day five days away Thursday,

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Speaker 1: four to ten. First pitch. Andrew Abbott on the mound.

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Speaker 1: And he's on the mound tonight, making his final start

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Speaker 1: in preparation for Opening Day. He's been waiting a while.

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Speaker 1: Let's go out to the phones. Richard is in Dayton.

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Speaker 11: Hey, hey, check, how.

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Speaker 2: Are you fantastic? How about yourself?

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Speaker 3: You're the guy the first hour you had about the

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Yes, all those jerseys.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that brings back memories. It's pretty neat.

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Speaker 2: It really is. What a place it really is. It

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Speaker 2: really was.

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Speaker 18: And I like what you said about what was it

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Speaker 18: April eighth, nineteen ninety five? It snows nineteen eighty five, Yes,

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Speaker 18: in nineteen eighty five, I remember it rose.

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Speaker 15: It was pretty bad that day, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: There were two snow delays. Yeah, but they got it in.

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Speaker 3: They got it in.

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Speaker 18: But I think I think it's the pitching this year

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Speaker 18: is they got to hold the lead in the nineteenning.

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Speaker 18: But the offense I think can do it.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's a.

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Speaker 18: Young team and I got I think they can really

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Speaker 18: pull it through check.

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Speaker 1: You know, well they've they've got some depth here at pitching,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, and yes, and I hope the bats come around,

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Speaker 1: and I just want this to be a special year.

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Speaker 3: Dick.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well listen, have a good day.

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Speaker 1: But okay, hey, fantastic. Really appreciate it, and thanks Dick.

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Speaker 1: You heard the commercial there with Moeeger talking about salth

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Speaker 1: Stuart Ben. You gotta love this guy. He's still technically

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Speaker 1: a rookie. He's played sixteen games here in spring training

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Speaker 1: here in the Cactus League and fourteen hits in thirty

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Speaker 1: nine abs. He's batten three point fifty nine. He's got

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Speaker 1: four doubles, three home runs, eleven RBIs, excuse me, seven RBIs,

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Speaker 1: and nine walks. This guy brings a tremendous amount of

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Speaker 1: energy to the ball club. And you've heard Tom Nichols,

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Dayton Dragons, talk at length about

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Speaker 1: Sal Stewart, how he's the kind of guy that gets

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Speaker 1: under the skin of the opposing team. You love him

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Speaker 1: on your team, you don't like him if you're the opponent.

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Speaker 1: So uh man, I just can't wait to see South

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Speaker 1: Stewart this year and what and what he brings. And

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Speaker 1: Matt McClain's just had an unbelievable spring twenty six hits

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Speaker 1: in forty eight at bats over sixteen games, two doubles,

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Speaker 1: a triple, seven home runs and sixteen RBIs, with five

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Speaker 1: walks in a couple of stolen bases. He's batten five

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Speaker 1: forty two. Is it possible to have that carry over

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Speaker 1: to the regular season? And how about Daane Myers who

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Speaker 1: they acquired in the offseason here and he's batten four

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Speaker 1: to twenty three with eleven hits in twenty six at bats.

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Speaker 1: So Daane Myers looking to be the backup center fielder

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Speaker 1: behind TJ.

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Speaker 2: Friedel.

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Speaker 1: It maybe Friedel plays some left field with Dane in centerfield.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of moving parts for this for this offense.

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Speaker 1: And with Matt McClain man bringing some juice there in

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Speaker 1: the number two hole ahead of Elie de la Cruz

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Speaker 1: and then with ahu Hanio Suarez baton clean up man,

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Speaker 1: the top of the order hopefully will look awesome. While

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Speaker 1: we've got time here before we close the show, I

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Speaker 1: want to man give out a huge congratulations to Kelly Whalen,

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Speaker 1: a true trailblazer Cincinnati high school basketball referee and official.

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Speaker 1: She's retired after a historic fifty year career. The first

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Speaker 1: female to officiate boys high school basketball games in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: she has worked thousands of games, including eighteen state final fours,

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Speaker 1: and she has been inducted into not only the Ohio

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Speaker 1: High School Athletic Associateation Hall of Fame, but the Greater

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame. A true trailblazer, she started

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen seventy six, the year I graduated from

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Speaker 1: the Ohio State University, and she broke the gender barrier

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Speaker 1: in the Greater Cincinnati League the GCL. The good news

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Speaker 1: is even though she's retiring from active on court officiation officiating,

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Speaker 1: she plans to continue mentoring young officials. So Kelly Whalen, man,

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Speaker 1: congratulations and I'm looking at a headline here and she

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Speaker 1: just is so appreciative. It's been the greatest joy of

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Speaker 1: my life, she says. Retiring after fifty years as a

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Speaker 1: basketball referee man, the first to do boys basketball here

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, just a phenomenal, phenomenal career. I also want

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Speaker 1: to take this opportunity to thank Chris and Daniel Goadter.

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Speaker 1: Chris and his son Daniel, they took care of me

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Speaker 1: and my partner, John Gerring today officiating some cyo volleyball

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Speaker 1: at Ascension Catholic School in Dayton. So Chris and Daniel,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. And also want to give out

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Speaker 1: some praise here for some loyal listeners and the newest

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Speaker 1: chick Magnets here, loyal listeners of seven hundred WLW Wes

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Speaker 1: and McKenna England of Farmersville and Ellen and Joe Dillon

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Speaker 1: of Fairfield, the newest chick magnets out there. So we

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Speaker 1: didn't get a chance tonight to talk Cincinnati Bengals. I

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Speaker 1: like what the Bengals are doing and we're building to

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Speaker 1: a crescendo here for Draft Night, and I'll be with

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Speaker 1: awesome Austin Elmore from ten to midnight on Draft Night.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to that and as the Cincinnati Bengals continue

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Speaker 1: to build on what they've accomplished here in a free

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Speaker 1: agency So Cincinnati Reds Baseball is next on seven hundred

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Speaker 1: WLW