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Speaker 3: I'm Tommy throw the Reds news to talk about there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there are some rumors abound already, and reports are that
Speaker 3: the Reds have added a left handed reliever to their
Speaker 3: bullpen for this upcoming season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the reports are true and the physicals passed, et cetera.
Speaker 4: Ken Roses, oh I think was reporting first that red
Speaker 4: to signed left handed reliever Caleb Ferguson, twenty nine years
Speaker 4: of age, Ohio product. He's up there from God's Country, Columbus.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Uh.
Speaker 4: Throughout the season, the Reds needed someone out of the
Speaker 4: bullpen to face left handed batters for most of the season.
Speaker 4: Their best option was a right handed pitcher in Graham Ashcraft.
Speaker 4: So this fits the bill. Last year, I it was
Speaker 4: one eight four average against him versus left handed batters,
Speaker 4: gave up only two home runs the entire season. Kind
Speaker 4: of changed his pitch repertoire a little bit. So I'm
Speaker 4: not sure you can judge him over the whole career.
Speaker 4: Off judge him on last year, which was really really good.
Speaker 4: Er in the threes. He will help, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I mean like you said, if you look at one
Speaker 3: thing that the bullpen really needed last year, they never
Speaker 3: did quite have a reliable level in high leverage. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: no doubt so. Caleb ferguson seventy games last year between
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh and Seattle as Jim andntioned Era right in the threes.
Speaker 3: So those reports just coming out what about an hour
Speaker 3: hour and a half ago, so still fresh, but still
Speaker 3: some things to button up to get that deal done
Speaker 3: and in writing. Hopefully later this week we'll have official
Speaker 3: word on that. The other exciting news this week that
Speaker 3: came out earlier today the Reds Hall of Fame induction
Speaker 3: class for twenty twenty six, and we've got the executive
Speaker 3: director of the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, Rick Walls,
Speaker 3: with us to talk about it. We'll have Marty Brennaman
Speaker 3: on a little bit later on. Among those elected, Aaron
Speaker 3: Harang will also join us on the show today and
Speaker 3: Reggie Sanders elected as well. He will be on the
Speaker 3: show a little bit later on as well. Brandon Phillips,
Speaker 3: of course, headlines the list, a three time All Star,
Speaker 3: four gold gloves and a silver slugger to his credit,
Speaker 3: in addition to Harangue and Sanders. Lou Panella rounds out
Speaker 3: the list. Really, Jimmy, before we get to Rick, an
Speaker 3: incredible induction class and what a class of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: I saw some people on Twitter saying this might be
Speaker 3: the most deserving class the Reds have had inducted into
Speaker 3: their Hall of Fame of the many, many classes that
Speaker 3: have gone in.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the people had waited for Reggie Sanders
Speaker 4: for a while. Brandon Phillips was a lock, one of
Speaker 4: the fan favorites, one of the most dynamic players that
Speaker 4: put on a Reds uniform ever. Aaron harang was an
Speaker 4: opening day starter so many times and was super reliable
Speaker 4: on a point where the Reds didn't have a lot
Speaker 4: of depth of pitching.
Speaker 3: He was premier guy. And then Sweet Lou.
Speaker 4: I mean when you cap it off with lou Panella,
Speaker 4: who was so he might be top five beloved figures
Speaker 4: all time in Red's history. Definitely top ten. So what
Speaker 4: a class which is say it's something for a guy
Speaker 4: that made it's just the way he did it that, Yeah.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it. Let's bring in Rick Wallas. Rick,
Speaker 3: congratulations on the news today. Obviously exciting stuff. Your reaction.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have a pretty good feel for this
Speaker 3: stuff by this point, you've been at it for a
Speaker 3: long time. I'm sure you had a good idea who
Speaker 3: was going to make it. But now that it's official,
Speaker 3: your reaction.
Speaker 5: You know it's one of the strongest classes we've had.
Speaker 5: I've heard a lot of people tell me the same thing.
Speaker 5: And when the Veterans Committee met and added and we
Speaker 5: knew the results of the modern player ballot. So remember
Speaker 5: there's the two components, right, the modern player ballot, players
Speaker 5: that played within the last fifteen years. That's where Brandon
Speaker 5: and Aaron came through. The Veterans Committee met, They sat down,
Speaker 5: deliberated for about two and a half hours, went over
Speaker 5: all the candidates in detail, and that's where you find
Speaker 5: Loop Penell and Reggie Sanders rising to the level. When
Speaker 5: I knew that we were going to have the four,
Speaker 5: I knew we had a stellar class.
Speaker 3: No doubt. Well talk about Loop Penello for a second.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about no doubt with Marty a little bit
Speaker 3: later on. You talk about a guy getting his due. Boy,
Speaker 3: very very deserving of this honor. Of course, with the
Speaker 3: ninety Wired to Wire team, not a bad way to
Speaker 3: start your managerial career.
Speaker 5: With a team not at all and talking to him,
Speaker 5: you know, he says, I took over a good team
Speaker 5: and Pete Rose's team, and then I added some components,
Speaker 5: and then I helped them gel together, and then we
Speaker 5: just went wired to wire, you know, the first team
Speaker 5: in nationally to do that. And I think you look
Speaker 5: at that team, and you look at those players, you
Speaker 5: talk to them, and they've been back many times. Right,
Speaker 5: this is the thirty fifth anniversary of that team, and
Speaker 5: they talk always at nauseum about Loup Panell and what
Speaker 5: he meant to that club where it's a nasty boys,
Speaker 5: and Davis Hatcher, O'Neil, all these guys say, you know,
Speaker 5: Lou was the guy that held us together. So I
Speaker 5: expect a big turnout when come April, when Lou comes
Speaker 5: back into town.
Speaker 4: And you said April, normally it's mid summer, so we've
Speaker 4: moved that up a bit so we don't have to
Speaker 4: sweat it out there in the scorching heat. I think
Speaker 4: April there's always a lot of interest in the team
Speaker 4: in April.
Speaker 3: Can you speak to the moving that up.
Speaker 5: I think you know this had to do with the
Speaker 5: red schedule. We always like to kind of work ourselves
Speaker 5: around the schedule so the current team can go to
Speaker 5: the induction Gala, which is the big event. It takes
Speaker 5: place at the Convention Center at the end of the weekend,
Speaker 5: so they will all attend. So what that means is
Speaker 5: probably all the players that are coming to be inducted
Speaker 5: this year, at least in Brandon and Harangue, they've been
Speaker 5: to the galla. They know how we treat history, they
Speaker 5: know how important this is to the organization, and in time,
Speaker 5: you know, they'll figure out what it means to them
Speaker 5: even more and more. And I hear that from all
Speaker 5: the players that get inducted. So April, the convention centers available,
Speaker 5: the red schedules available, and we're hoping everybody's going to
Speaker 5: be there. It's going to be a big weekend.
Speaker 3: The dates April twenty four through twenty six the whole
Speaker 3: weekend celebration of this induction class, the galley you're talking
Speaker 3: about the Convention Center will be on April twenty sixth.
Speaker 3: Exciting stuff, Brandon Phillips. You talk about a guy you're
Speaker 3: watching his career play out, and you just know as
Speaker 3: you're watching him, this guy's going to be in the
Speaker 3: team's Hall of Fame at some point, and no real
Speaker 3: surprise there, but going back watching the highlights, the enthusiasm
Speaker 3: that that guy played with pretty fun to be able
Speaker 3: to finally induct him into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: So many people just came to the ballpark to watch Brandon.
Speaker 5: I mean, he was one of those electric players, defensive superstar,
Speaker 5: best defensive player in the league for many years. It
Speaker 5: was just fun to watch. He brought enthusiasm. You never
Speaker 5: knew what he was going to do. Maybe it was
Speaker 5: behind the back to second sometimes you're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 5: don't do they just throw it straight? But he always
Speaker 5: came through and I know he's excited about this on
Speaker 5: or one of the cool things we got to do
Speaker 5: is make the phone calls.
Speaker 4: So that's where I was going to ask you about,
Speaker 4: where were the phone calls? Like, what's that like to
Speaker 4: tell a guy that one of their lifelong dreams has
Speaker 4: been achieved.
Speaker 3: This is one of.
Speaker 5: The perks of the job, right, So to be able
Speaker 5: to do this, and we know we're changing lives, not
Speaker 5: just theirs, their family members, and from now on they'll
Speaker 5: always be called Red's Hall of Famer. You can add
Speaker 5: that to their bio. So you go into each one
Speaker 5: of these calls and you're surprising them because they don't know.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you have to set up a go hey, can
Speaker 5: I call you, you know, and set up a call for
Speaker 5: ten o'clock this time, and they're like, yeah, it might
Speaker 5: be about this. In the case of Aaron Harang and
Speaker 5: I'm sure Aaron's listening right now, but we thought it
Speaker 5: might be about fantasy camp because he's going to be
Speaker 5: a fancy camp rights this year. And start talking to
Speaker 5: him and we break the news and I think, you know,
Speaker 5: you have to ask him how he felt about the
Speaker 5: whole thing. And I think it's kind of a neat
Speaker 5: private moment for them and their family to experience that.
Speaker 5: Some that I'm curious what it's like when they get
Speaker 5: off the phone and then they get to tell everybody
Speaker 5: about it. I did tell them one of the hardest
Speaker 5: things to do is to keep it quiet. Can't you
Speaker 5: can't talk about it until Tuesday when we make the
Speaker 5: announcement And here we are, so they're excited to be
Speaker 5: they finally tell everyone about it.
Speaker 3: Very good again. Folks can get tickets to the gallat
Speaker 3: if they want, right, I mean tickets.
Speaker 5: The whole induction celebration. I'd be remiss if I didn't say,
Speaker 5: you know, our partners PNC is the presenting sponsor of that.
Speaker 5: But you can get tickets right now, get them for
Speaker 5: the game that weekend on the twenty fifth, but also
Speaker 5: on the twenty six, that is the gala over the
Speaker 5: Convention that They are available at Redsmuseum dot org.
Speaker 3: So the actual ballpark ceremony is the twenty fifth, the
Speaker 3: gala at the Convention Center of the twenty six, tickets
Speaker 3: available for both.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, they'll be as we always do. There will
Speaker 5: be meeting greets in the museum. We invite all the
Speaker 5: returning Hall of famers, all Hall of famers that come back.
Speaker 5: It's going to be a great celebration of Reds history.
Speaker 3: Rick certainly appreciate you coming on with us. Congratulations, a
Speaker 3: great class and I know you guys are excited to
Speaker 3: celebrate it coming up in April.
Speaker 5: Ar Thank you, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks Rick. That is Rick Walls, the executive director of
Speaker 3: the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum. We're back with
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame broadcaster and Red's Hall of Famer Marty
Speaker 3: Brenhaman Next this is the Budweiser Hot Stove League presented
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Speaker 3: at Banks talking about the Reds Hall of Fame induction
Speaker 3: class of twenty twenty six and nobody, nobody better to
Speaker 3: talk about this group than the Hall of Famer Reds
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame broadcaster Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty
Speaker 3: Brenhaman joins us. Now, Marty, what's happening? How are you? Man?
Speaker 6: If I was any better, boys, I'd be.
Speaker 3: Twin wins there it is.
Speaker 6: That's all I can tell you.
Speaker 3: Good are you? Are you state side right now braving
Speaker 3: the cold with the rest of us? Are you somewhere
Speaker 3: tropical or No?
Speaker 6: I'm right out here in Anderson Township. I'm in the country.
Speaker 6: It's only temporary, understand, but I'm in the country and
Speaker 6: I'm thrilled to death to be on with you and
Speaker 6: Jim tonight.
Speaker 4: Well, welcome back to the Hot Stove, the show that
Speaker 4: you made famous much more famous than it is right now,
Speaker 4: no doubt. Maybe we should have a caller call in
Speaker 4: and ask if you remember seeing them at a Kroger
Speaker 4: twenty years ago.
Speaker 3: Just a really of old times.
Speaker 4: Anyways, this class, when you first heard, I mean, this
Speaker 4: is a good class, When you first heard the members
Speaker 4: that were in this class, what was your reaction?
Speaker 6: Well, i knew them all beforehand, Tommy, because I'm on
Speaker 6: the Veterans Committee, and I know Rick talked about that
Speaker 6: a minute ago. We spent two and a half hours
Speaker 6: going over the complete list of those who were eligible
Speaker 6: to be considered, and you know, at the end of
Speaker 6: the night we settled on Reggie Sanders and Luke Panella,
Speaker 6: Brandon and I knew about it's and Aaron Harrang also,
Speaker 6: I think, echoing the sentiments of Rick and what you
Speaker 6: guys said, it's a great class. And one of the
Speaker 6: things that nobody's touched on on was not only are
Speaker 6: they deserving, is the fact that I've talked to all
Speaker 6: four of them on the phone the last two days
Speaker 6: and they're thrilled. I mean, they're absolutely beyond that to
Speaker 6: to have gotten the call from Rick, and I was
Speaker 6: on the call when they when they we told Brandon,
Speaker 6: and we called Brandon on Sunday and then and then
Speaker 6: they talked to the other guys, and then I had
Speaker 6: a chance to talk to orangg and Reggie, and I
Speaker 6: talked to Lou this afternoon. Uh, they're thrilled to death
Speaker 6: about it. And that's that's the thing that really makes
Speaker 6: it extra special. Not only are they deserving, but there
Speaker 6: are also people who genuinely wants to be a part
Speaker 6: of it. And and and how excited a guy like Lou.
Speaker 6: You know, it's hard to excite Lou, because Lou's been
Speaker 6: around the block a few times, but he was he
Speaker 6: was struck dumb almost by the fact that he was
Speaker 6: going in. And he talked about his wife Anita, breaking
Speaker 6: down and shedding tears when she found out during the call.
Speaker 6: And when I talked to him today, he reiterated those things.
Speaker 6: So I just think it's a it's a win win Situationally,
Speaker 6: they are they deserving, but they also are truly looking
Speaker 6: forward to being here with their families when they're inducted
Speaker 6: in April.
Speaker 3: You've been around so many managers. Marty obviously Sparky one
Speaker 3: of the most impactful managers on this franchise. I feel
Speaker 3: like there are very few that can make the lasting
Speaker 3: impact on a franchise as a manager in just three years.
Speaker 3: The way Loupenella did talk about just his mark on
Speaker 3: this franchise and what he means here.
Speaker 6: Well, the thing I was impressed so much about, and
Speaker 6: I'd be I'm going to be transparent as I normally am.
Speaker 6: He's my favorite wretch manager that I've ever been associated with.
Speaker 6: And people say what about Sparky. And Sparky and I
Speaker 6: had an incredible relationship, but overall Lou was just not
Speaker 6: only was he a damn good manager, but he was
Speaker 6: a joy to be around. He wore his his you know,
Speaker 6: his emotions on his sleeve, and the players knew that.
Speaker 6: He told them the first day in spring training in
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety in Plant City, Florida, you guys are good
Speaker 6: enough to win everything, and I'm not going to stand
Speaker 6: for a damn thing less than everything you've got. And
Speaker 6: if I don't get it, then you're going to hear
Speaker 6: from me. And I really believe that a lot of
Speaker 6: the success he had was slightly borne out of intimidation
Speaker 6: because he was a tough guy. I mean, as he
Speaker 6: was coming up in Tampa, Florida. He was a tough
Speaker 6: guy and they knew that, but he also had their backs.
Speaker 6: You know, the games that he was ejected from, he
Speaker 6: was incredibly emotional. He was genuinely emotional. He felt like
Speaker 6: they had been short changed and whatever the situation was
Speaker 6: going to be. And not only that, he came from
Speaker 6: the American League that had never been associated with a
Speaker 6: National League club when he took over this team in
Speaker 6: spring training of ninety for the first I don't know,
Speaker 6: two weeks, three weeks whatever have been of the spring
Speaker 6: training games and even into the early days of the
Speaker 6: regular season. He had an all nationally coaching staff who
Speaker 6: was the greatest that coaching staff I've ever been around,
Speaker 6: and he allowed them to pretty much make determinations based
Speaker 6: on the way the game was played in this league
Speaker 6: until he learned. He didn't come in here saying I know,
Speaker 6: I've got all the answers, I don't need the ELP.
Speaker 6: He just embraced this whole situation, and he did it
Speaker 6: with such great class and dignity and at the same
Speaker 6: time a bull in the china shop attitude toward the
Speaker 6: way the game should be played. He had the whole
Speaker 6: package I mean, I'm thrilled that he's going to be in.
Speaker 4: You had a really good relationship with Brandon Phillips, and
Speaker 4: I think that relationship continues to today, maybe even more so
Speaker 4: once he retired. Let's face it didn't always have the
Speaker 4: rosiest of relationship with all players.
Speaker 3: Why Brandon Phillips.
Speaker 6: He's one of the few, but I did. I had
Speaker 6: a great relationship with him, and and you know, I
Speaker 6: talked to him a number of weeks ago about the
Speaker 6: possibility that this thing could happen, and I would be
Speaker 6: less and honest if I didn't say that Brandon had
Speaker 6: some issues with some people when he was here who
Speaker 6: are no longer here. And I'm not going to name names.
Speaker 6: There are people who know who I'm talking about. And
Speaker 6: so I think he has a tendency to hold grudges
Speaker 6: and he's he's come around of the point now where
Speaker 6: he understands how important this is for him. And I
Speaker 6: think for a number of reasons, one of which is
Speaker 6: one of the main priorities to be considered. He was
Speaker 6: an incredible fan favorite, and he was that way because
Speaker 6: he was a fan of the fans, and he gave
Speaker 6: back to them and their adulation and I said, these
Speaker 6: people that followed you all those years knew how wonderful
Speaker 6: you were to them, and how important you were to
Speaker 6: the franchise, and how popular you were. It would be
Speaker 6: a little bit wrong to have an opportunity to go
Speaker 6: into the Retch Hall of Fame and then you don't
Speaker 6: want to come here. And we had a great We
Speaker 6: had a number of conversations on the phone. I have
Speaker 6: great respect for him. If you're going to assume, for
Speaker 6: the sake of argument, that Joe Morgan is the best
Speaker 6: second basement of the history of this franchise, then I
Speaker 6: can promise you that Brandon Phillips is number two. So
Speaker 6: this is where he belongs. He belongs in the Reds
Speaker 6: Hall of Fame. And I think it's going to be
Speaker 6: a great night for he and his family, just like
Speaker 6: it's going to be for the families of Sanders and
Speaker 6: Harangu and Vanilla.
Speaker 3: Well, we can't wait. It's going to be an unbelievable
Speaker 3: gallup coming up at the Convention Center April twenty six.
Speaker 3: Of course at the ballpark on the twenty fifth, Marty.
Speaker 3: Always great to hear your voice in chat with you.
Speaker 3: Thinks for the time, appreciate it and let's talk again soon.
Speaker 6: My pleasure, Tommy, thank you, Thank you, Jim.
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Speaker 3: when we come back a little bit later in the show.
Speaker 3: Reggie Sanders also elected to the Reds Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 7: Utter.
Speaker 3: Welcome back into the Budweiser Reds Hot Stove League presented
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Speaker 3: and lou Patinella have been selected as the Cincinnati Reds
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame's Class of twenty twenty six. The four
Speaker 3: inductees will be honored April twenty fourth through the twenty
Speaker 3: sixth during the Reds Hall of Fame Induction Celebration presented
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Speaker 3: at Reds dot com slash tickets, and Aaron Harang joins us. Now, Aaron,
Speaker 3: thanks so much. First things, first, congratulations and I'm sure
Speaker 3: you are just thrilled beyond words about this, and this
Speaker 3: is an incredible honor. What was your reaction when you
Speaker 3: first heard that you were going into the Reds Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame?
Speaker 7: I was, how are you guys?
Speaker 3: By the way, great doing wealthy.
Speaker 7: I was very very shocked, very surprised, but very honored.
Speaker 7: I mean, it means a lot, and being able to
Speaker 7: be a part of this franchise's history has it's a
Speaker 7: It's an amazing, amazing honor to get to be a
Speaker 7: part of this.
Speaker 4: You had a let's see, six was a five point
Speaker 4: three war. Oh seven six war struck out two hundred
Speaker 4: and sixteen batters, two hundred eighteen batters. What year for
Speaker 4: you stands out the most in a red uniform.
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously those those two were major, major years
Speaker 7: for me. Uh it was, But leading up to that,
Speaker 7: it was it was an important There was a big
Speaker 7: opportunity for me to come to Cincinnati, obviously in a
Speaker 7: rebuild stage, and be given the ball and told go
Speaker 7: hit your pitch count. You got to you gotta work
Speaker 7: out of situations and we'll come get you when your
Speaker 7: pitch counts up, and you know, really made me have to.
Speaker 1: Pitch.
Speaker 7: You know, I was never looking over my shoulder on
Speaker 7: who's coming in to bail me out. It was just, hey,
Speaker 7: go get them. And you know, I don't think if
Speaker 7: if I didn't have that opportunity, you know, it might
Speaker 7: have been a whole different you know, it might have
Speaker 7: been a whole different type of pitcher. So to be
Speaker 7: able to get that opportunity to really build and gain
Speaker 7: my own confidence those first couple of years in Cincinnati
Speaker 7: and learn the ballpark and learn the nuances of it,
Speaker 7: and you know, I think, you know, those first couple
Speaker 7: of years were key factors in what gave me that
Speaker 7: ability to be that much better in you know, six
Speaker 7: and oh.
Speaker 3: Seven let the team in strikeouts four years in a row.
Speaker 3: You had three straight seasons though I think this is
Speaker 3: the strikeouts are great, the wins are great, but the
Speaker 3: thing that stands out is the three straight seasons where
Speaker 3: you had more than two hundred innings pitch. Now, you're
Speaker 3: not that far removed from the game of baseball, but
Speaker 3: it seems like two hundred innings a year is very
Speaker 3: far removed from the game of baseball for a starting pitcher. Uh,
Speaker 3: you talk about getting to your pitch count, but but
Speaker 3: obviously you were doing more than just reaching your pitch count.
Speaker 3: You wanted to make them count. What was the key
Speaker 3: for you to be a workhorse be able to log
Speaker 3: as many innings as you were able to year in
Speaker 3: an year out.
Speaker 7: You know, I think the biggest things for me was
Speaker 7: just I mean, obviously I had to figure out what
Speaker 7: type of picture I was. You know, you could be
Speaker 7: that type of pitcher that goes in and you know throw,
Speaker 7: you know, throws your pitches as hard as you can
Speaker 7: all the time, and not really learn how to control
Speaker 7: your body and know when to back off to hitters.
Speaker 7: Do you know they always said you pitch in and out,
Speaker 7: up and down in front to back on the plate,
Speaker 7: and so being able to add and subtract velocity when
Speaker 7: I wanted to. When I knew, you know, I didn't
Speaker 7: always have to go as hard to be able to
Speaker 7: get you know, uh make a you know, get make
Speaker 7: effective pitches. So their swings weren't as h weren't as solid.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, I think being able to do
Speaker 7: that was a huge factor for me.
Speaker 4: You started, correct me if I'm wrong. I think those
Speaker 4: five straight opening days, and you know how big opening
Speaker 4: day is here in Cincinnati. What did those honors mean
Speaker 4: to you?
Speaker 3: And was it five straight?
Speaker 7: It was five straight, yes, and it was a huge honor.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: I think the first year was a definite shock, very
Speaker 7: very nervous doing it. Obviously we also had the President
Speaker 7: coming in to throughout the first pitch. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: you're you're you really have to adapt. There's so much
Speaker 7: you know, change that first day on opening day, there's
Speaker 7: so much going on. Things can get delayed.
Speaker 3: You know, you have.
Speaker 7: To start your program earlier. You know, when you have
Speaker 7: guys that are very routine oriented that they can struggle
Speaker 7: with that, you know, you have to so you have
Speaker 7: to learn how to adapt your routine around the timing
Speaker 7: of the game and what's going on pregame, and you know,
Speaker 7: I mean that once you kind of learned that, it
Speaker 7: helps out. But yeah, being able to start those five
Speaker 7: five opening days in a row was a definite, definite
Speaker 7: honor for me and something that I really took pride
Speaker 7: in doing.
Speaker 3: You talked about coming over to a team that was rebuilding,
Speaker 3: you turned into a workhorse. How much did you have
Speaker 3: to try to help young pitchers along along the way
Speaker 3: as well as you know, be be the anchor atop
Speaker 3: the rotation.
Speaker 7: You know, you just you kind of went out and
Speaker 7: you you went about your I just went out and
Speaker 7: went about my business. And you know, yeah, I would
Speaker 7: talk to the guys in between starts, and I would
Speaker 7: I was constantly watching how uh you know, they would
Speaker 7: do things. If if I saw, you know, something, I
Speaker 7: would just hey, some of advice might be to try,
Speaker 7: you know, change this up or you know, but it
Speaker 7: wasn't trying to change them. It was just like, hey,
Speaker 7: this is I've had success with this. You know, it
Speaker 7: might be something to think about. And you know, so
Speaker 7: you're always there to and you're always there to answer questions,
Speaker 7: you know, and he always wanted the younger guys to
Speaker 7: come up to you. And I mean I learned from
Speaker 7: the guys ahead of me, you know, I learned from
Speaker 7: the veterans that were around, that had done it, had
Speaker 7: been in starting roles, maybe had been moved to the
Speaker 7: bullpen or to close the role, but their experience helped
Speaker 7: me out. So I always tried to use my experience
Speaker 7: to help the younger players out.
Speaker 3: Aaron certainly appreciate the time, thanks so much, and most
Speaker 3: of all, congratulate.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you, guys. I appreciate it, and uh, I know, uh,
Speaker 7: I know where my me and my family are definitely
Speaker 7: looking forward to coming back out to Cincinnati and April
Speaker 7: and uh to be a part of this. So it's
Speaker 7: truly an honor for me.
Speaker 3: Awesome man, Well, we look forward to seeing you in
Speaker 3: April and enjoy it. Man, congratulations and things for the time.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks guys, take care, really good picture, better
Speaker 4: human being awesome dude, Yeah, yeah, really good stuff.
Speaker 3: Then saying a lot, We're back with Reggie Sanders. Next,
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Speaker 3: and we continue along. Now, this guy's career started as
Speaker 3: a seventh round pick out of Spartanburg Methodist College in Spartanburg,
Speaker 3: South Carolina. He would go on to become an All
Speaker 3: Star and have a decorated, decorated career, spent several years
Speaker 3: in a Red's uniform, eight of them to be specific,
Speaker 3: and now he is a Reds Hall of Famer. His
Speaker 3: name Reggie Sanders. Reggie, congratulations. What was your reaction, we asked, Aaron,
Speaker 3: We'll ask you the same thing, what was your reaction
Speaker 3: when you found out?
Speaker 8: Well, thank you and thank you for having me on.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was so.
Speaker 8: Rick Walls, you know, gave me a call a couple
Speaker 8: of days ago and he said, a reg, this is
Speaker 8: a great call. And before I, before I, you know,
Speaker 8: make this announcement, I want to patch someone in from
Speaker 8: our committee.
Speaker 3: And so which he did.
Speaker 8: And then he Rick went and said, a reg, we
Speaker 8: long overdue. We would like to, you know, induct you
Speaker 8: into the twenty twenty six Hall of Fame class and
Speaker 8: you are honored to We're honored to do so. So yeah,
Speaker 8: it was a it was a It brought so many emotions, uh,
Speaker 8: you know, through my through my veins. But I'm happy to,
Speaker 8: uh to call myself a Hall of Famer for the.
Speaker 4: Red You were with the Reds early to mid nineties,
Speaker 4: and you look down the rosters of those teams, and
Speaker 4: boy were there's some characters and some great players. When
Speaker 4: you're asked about memories of teammates, what comes to mind,
Speaker 4: what guys?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so yeah, there are so many. The one that
Speaker 8: I always talk about is Glenn Braggs. Glenn Braggs was
Speaker 8: a guy that when I first got called up, he
Speaker 8: gave me a car to drive, he let me stay
Speaker 8: in his apartment, he bought me five suits. So he
Speaker 8: really treated me like I was, you know, his brother.
Speaker 8: And then you fast forward that to Eric Davis, which
Speaker 8: is this is a pretty neat story. So when I
Speaker 8: got called up for the first time and Eric got
Speaker 8: as everybody know, Eric got hurt in the ninety World series,
Speaker 8: and then he got hurt again in nineteen ninety one
Speaker 8: of August, and so that's when I got called up.
Speaker 8: And so The very person that I saw when I
Speaker 8: entered the Red Door was Eric Davis and he said, Hey,
Speaker 8: reg I was waiting on you, and I just want
Speaker 8: you to know that we are happy to have you here.
Speaker 8: Don't worry about me. I will be okay. But anything
Speaker 8: that you want, I would take care of you. And
Speaker 8: so that was such a you know, leadership powerful moment
Speaker 8: that Eric Davis was able to pass the torch on
Speaker 8: in a positive way.
Speaker 3: I mean, great, that's incredible. I mean, you're coming up
Speaker 3: with the guys, he gets hurt and then he's there
Speaker 3: to look out for you. I mean, that's that's that
Speaker 3: speaks volumes to a guy's character, doesn't it.
Speaker 8: Absolutely? And you know you take that to Barry Larkin.
Speaker 8: Barry Larkin, you know, we became really close when I
Speaker 8: was with the reds Our families would you know, travel together.
Speaker 8: We would spend a lot of time at each other's
Speaker 8: house and so yeah, So, I mean there's so many
Speaker 8: and then you think about, you know, from a manager standpoint,
Speaker 8: Davy Johnson, who you know, really was like a father
Speaker 8: figure to me at a young at a young age,
Speaker 8: you know, kind of navigating the journey from a from
Speaker 8: a young standpoint, and really, you know, took me under
Speaker 8: his wing and really showed me what a young player
Speaker 8: should do, how he should act, and how he should
Speaker 8: carry himself, all the way down to Jack McKeon as well.
Speaker 8: And so there's so many people that I'm probably forgetting about,
Speaker 8: but you know, those are the ones that I can
Speaker 8: recall right now.
Speaker 3: Well, those were impressiable years for you. I mean, you
Speaker 3: you broke into the big leagues. Obviously, we said the
Speaker 3: Reds drafted. You broke into the big leagues. With the Reds.
Speaker 3: You had some incredible players around you. Of those guys,
Speaker 3: who would you say really kind of helped bold who
Speaker 3: you were as a player. I mean, you went on
Speaker 3: to have a nice career, you want, you won a
Speaker 3: World Series later on with Arizona, but you had a
Speaker 3: seventeen year major league career, get two seventy one, and
Speaker 3: your career by the way as a Red specifically, who
Speaker 3: was it that you feel like kind of helped mold
Speaker 3: you as a player.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I think it's a I don't know,
Speaker 8: I mean it's a culmination of a lot of just things,
Speaker 8: you know, I you know, I think from a foundational standpoint,
Speaker 8: like my mom My mom had me when she was
Speaker 8: seventeen years old, so you think back then they had
Speaker 8: to you know, go to work, and so she didn't
Speaker 8: graduate high school and so she had to go and
Speaker 8: put food on the table, as well as my father,
Speaker 8: who did the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: And so I think it was under that.
Speaker 6: Spirit of.
Speaker 8: Learning how to fight, continuing to move forward through adversity.
Speaker 8: I think they really gave me the foundation of that.
Speaker 3: But then, as you know.
Speaker 8: You think about from you know, from growing up at
Speaker 8: the Boys and Girls Club and starting you know, my
Speaker 8: career there and the impact that the coaches had for
Speaker 8: my development as a young player all the way into college.
Speaker 8: You know, when I think about, you know, my college
Speaker 8: coach at the time when I was at that age,
Speaker 8: I didn't even know that I had the talent that
Speaker 8: I had, but he saw something in me at Spartanberg
Speaker 8: Methodist College for me to come and play, you know,
Speaker 8: for that school, and then transport for the Reds, you know,
Speaker 8: drafting me and then Don Mitchell and then Don Mitchell
Speaker 8: seeing something in me, the Reds seeing something in me,
Speaker 8: and then ultimately I started to see it in myself
Speaker 8: and then this things just started to kind of snowball
Speaker 8: from there.
Speaker 3: Reggie certainly appreciate the time and really look forward to
Speaker 3: seeing you in April at your induction ceremony here in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: So thanks for the time and again, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 8: I appreciate that so much.
Speaker 3: Guys. That is Reggie Sanders one of the newest members
Speaker 3: of the Reds Hall of Fame, and boy, it is
Speaker 3: a short list of all the players in Red's history
Speaker 3: that have more stolen bases and more home runs than
Speaker 3: Reggie Sanders. Very well deserving for his induction and his
Speaker 3: selection to the Reds Hall of Fame. The induction coming
Speaker 3: up the weekend of April twenty fourth through the twenty
Speaker 3: sixth Big Ceremony at the Convention Center, with the gallap
Speaker 3: coming up on April twenty six We'll wrap up the
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Speaker 3: Hall of Fames class of twenty twenty six. And Jimmy
Speaker 3: certainly great to talk with, Aaron Harang and Reggie Sanders,
Speaker 3: Marty Brenneman of course, with some great stories about Loop
Speaker 3: and Nello's very deserving and then Brandon Phillips. I was
Speaker 3: watching some highlights of Brandon earlier to tack him.
Speaker 1: I mean unreal.
Speaker 3: I mean I watched him a little bit from afar uh,
Speaker 3: but but getting getting a chance to watch him on
Speaker 3: a nightly basis had to be special.
Speaker 4: It was special because the he would make the spectacular play,
Speaker 4: I mean, behind the back flip was just like a flip,
Speaker 4: a normal flip for for other guys.
Speaker 3: Some of the.
Speaker 4: Plays that he made were just outstanding, had some flamboyancy
Speaker 4: to him. When he comes into town, I hope he
Speaker 4: doesn't come check me. People can remember that for some interviews,
Speaker 4: but it should be star studded because I'm sure his
Speaker 4: wife's going to be here too. Jade Cargill WWE World
Speaker 4: Champion Jade car Gill. Hopefully she doesn't give me a
Speaker 4: super X on the stage, but it should be good.
Speaker 4: I'm glad they didn't wait too long on Loop Panella.
Speaker 4: Well overdue there, and you know, I can't wait for
Speaker 4: the speeches. I'm sure Phillips speech is going to be
Speaker 4: off the charts.
Speaker 3: I mean, Loup Panella is one of the best characters
Speaker 3: in our game's history. Yeah, I mean when you think
Speaker 3: of like the gold standard for what a manager was,
Speaker 3: especially like in our when we were kids growing up,
Speaker 3: like Loop Panella was what you wanted your manager to be,
Speaker 3: no doubt.
Speaker 4: And it was unfair for the managers that came behind
Speaker 4: him because everyone wanted the Reds manager to be like
Speaker 4: Loup Panela and not everyone is like that or has
Speaker 4: that personality. But man, did he get the best out
Speaker 4: of his team just because he was so fire, he.
Speaker 3: Is so entertaining. Well, it was like what Marty talked about. Look,
Speaker 3: he set the standard right out of the gate. Look,
Speaker 3: this is what's gonna be expected of you do it
Speaker 3: or we're gonna have problems. Yeah, most ways for it.
Speaker 4: Great class, great, great class.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a lot of fun celebrating those guys
Speaker 3: coming up in April. That's all the time we have
Speaker 3: for this show. Big thanks to our guest today, Rick Walls,
Speaker 3: Marty Brennaman, Aaron Harang, Reggie Sanders. Big thanks to David
Speaker 3: the Armbruster are on site. Engineer Sean McMahon running things
Speaker 3: back in our network headquarters for Jim Day. I'm Tommy
Speaker 3: Thrall saying good night, have a merry Christmas. It's Jim
Speaker 3: and Mark Sheldon with you next week on Wednesday on
Speaker 3: the Budweiser redst Stovely. Good Night,