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Speaker 4: Here's the headlines. Then we go. Red's pictures and catchers

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Speaker 4: continued work today. Position players report tomorrow. First spring training

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Speaker 4: game one week from tomorrow, forty one days till Red's

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Speaker 4: opening day. According to Mark Sheldon MLB dot com, the

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Speaker 4: Reds are signing first basement Nathaniel Low to a minor

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Speaker 4: league deal. Thirty year old, left handed hitting a first baseman,

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Speaker 4: The Bengals finalized their coaching staff with the hiring of

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Speaker 4: It's sold out malet the Battle of the Bricks twenty

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Speaker 4: nine minutes from now. Rest of the weekend slate coming

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Speaker 4: up later on the Kelsey Chevallet College Basketball Weekend Preview.

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Speaker 4: It's Miracle on Ice Night Tonight for the Cyclones versus

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Speaker 4: They're back home on Sunday as well, versus Indy Tonight.

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Speaker 4: Twentieth ranked Miami Hockey on the road for a weekend

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Speaker 4: series versus number three North Dakota. The Olympics US women

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Speaker 4: the iHeart Radio Apple. One more note Lindsey Vaughn saying

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Speaker 4: the Daytona five hundred on Sunday. Kyle Busch starts from

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Speaker 4: It's RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven

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Speaker 4: Nine o'clock tip ESPN. He spent seventeen years as a

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Speaker 4: the current baseball coach of those gritty Miami University Middletown Thunderhawks.

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Speaker 4: That would be Mark Adams. How fired up are you

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Speaker 6: Lance? I wish you were here with me right now.

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Speaker 6: I am sitting so In nineteen seventy six, I'll think

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Speaker 6: How great is that?

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Speaker 4: Doesn't get any better than that? Explain to listeners, why

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Speaker 6: Know, at Lancey, you hit the nail on the head.

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Speaker 6: I'm going to go pinball machine on you here in

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Speaker 6: the number one scoring team in the country, almost ninety

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Speaker 6: I have lived with Travis Steele in the RedHawks this week.

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Speaker 6: I've been to every practice. I got a chance to

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Speaker 6: I'm telling you what these red, white and undefeated kids

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Speaker 2: Man oh Man.

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Speaker 4: Now, a season like this needs some the occasional escape

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Speaker 6: They leave the country with six victories. They are six

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Speaker 6: Evan Ipsorrow, who now has injured, won for twenty seven points.

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Speaker 6: Look Lance, Arguably he's their best player. He was their

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Speaker 6: They are enjoying this experience. This is not a weight

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they just need to keep winning, period. I mean,

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Speaker 6: So, they had two wins versus the top one hundred

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Speaker 6: then they would not have made the NCAA tournament. That's

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Speaker 6: right now, Miami's undefeated, one game at the time.

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Speaker 3: Keep winning.

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Speaker 6: Everything takes care of itself, all right.

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Speaker 4: The Miami swim tea has been donning speedo's and they've

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Speaker 4: free throw shooters. I'm getting conflicting reports tonight. Can you

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Speaker 6: I can confirm that I will be with the swim

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Speaker 6: check out my ex account I said to you as well,

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Speaker 6: you can see exactly now. I hope my wife Lance,

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Speaker 6: My wife has no clue what's going on with this.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I haven't told her.

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Speaker 6: I told my twenty year old son, Robbie is going

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Speaker 6: And I have not told her what I am doing.

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Speaker 6: But yes, I will make an appearance with the with

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Speaker 6: All right, Lance, just remember this one word, flamingos.

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Speaker 4: I cannot wait. I cannot wait. Have a great broadcast.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Mark, Thanks buddy, love you. All right, there you go.

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Speaker 4: He is Mark Adams checking in. He's got the call.

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Speaker 4: Tonight on ESPN. That game was flexed ESPN and Mac

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Speaker 4: Showdown at Mallett, The Battle for the Bricks, the two

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Speaker 4: When we continue, you're gonna hear from three high profile

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Speaker 4: A question to lead our Reds conversation and my idea

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Speaker 4: This is your twenty twenty sixth team to begin spring training.

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Speaker 10: I think they're right up there.

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Speaker 4: Conversation Charlie Goldsmith Charlie's Chalkboard sign Up and get it

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Speaker 4: out Fox nineteen dot com. Charlie on the scene in

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Speaker 12: I think the Cubs look like the best team on paper.

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Speaker 12: Again, but we know all too well that we would

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Speaker 12: I've got them third right now. On paper, I think

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Speaker 14: Better than the Brewers, but again, the Brewers always find

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Speaker 8: No.

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Speaker 4: If I were stacking them, i'd put them third behind

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Speaker 2: Don't know.

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Speaker 4: He's only got fifty five played appearances under his belt.

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Speaker 4: last year. I think the core grouping that's left the

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Speaker 4: guys from McClain and Ellie and Steer and Murtey, their

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Speaker 4: track and ark of improvement is going to determine where

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Speaker 4: this team goes. And all those four are not equal.

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Speaker 4: Matt McClain's got a long way to come back. He's

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Speaker 4: got to be better this year, but I think he

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Speaker 4: will be better this year. I think Ellie's going I

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Speaker 4: think it is fair and reasonable. I don't think i'm

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Speaker 4: being a homer if I'm saying I'll bet you Matt

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Speaker 4: mcclan's gonna be much better this year. I'll bet you

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Speaker 4: Ellie's gonna be better this year. I think a Spencer

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Speaker 4: Steer is going to be much better this year.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little less.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, but I would think Marte is gonna

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Speaker 4: be better because he got right field under his belt

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Speaker 4: last year and now he's gonna be there from the

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Speaker 4: start and not playing third and worrying about that and

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Speaker 4: then making the shift. I just that group he would

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Speaker 4: be like the one. I just I don't know how

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Speaker 4: confident I am in what he's going to be this season,

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Speaker 4: but I think he will improve, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: So if you.

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Speaker 4: Factor that in, I would understand on the surface right

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Speaker 4: now looking at this saying they're the third best team

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Speaker 4: in the division. But based on what I think they're

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Speaker 4: going to be able to do in taking a step

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Speaker 4: forward with that grouping, I think that makes them a

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Speaker 4: contender in the National Lake Center Division. How about you

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Speaker 4: five one, three, seven, four nine, seven thousand, one eight hundred,

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Speaker 4: the Big one? Your chance to react? Next, we're talking

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Speaker 4: Reds on a Friday night. Heck yeah, It's Ronel Carrier

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Speaker 4: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred wlw.

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Speaker 14: Oh.

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Speaker 4: We are working our way through three hours of sports

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Speaker 4: talk on a Friday night.

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Speaker 2: Does it get any better? Than that.

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Speaker 4: The off the meat and pat topic around the corner.

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Speaker 4: We've jumped in with both feet into the Reds conversation.

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Speaker 4: We're forty one days to opening day, number forty one,

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Speaker 4: warned by Chris Reetzma who the Reds got for? They

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Speaker 4: traded Dante Baschett to the Red Sox and got Chris Readsman.

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Speaker 4: Ron vallone wore number forty one one, struck out sixteen

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Speaker 4: Cardinals in a complete game, two hit shutout in a

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Speaker 4: Reds uniform. Jeff Shaw the Pride of Washington Courthouse, number

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Speaker 4: forty one, Kevin Shackleford forty one, Andrew Abbott, Tom terrific

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Speaker 4: and number one, number one in our hearts and number

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Speaker 4: forty one in your program. The all left hander Joe

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Speaker 4: knuxall all for the number forty one. With forty one

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Speaker 4: days to Red's opening day? Are they a Are they

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Speaker 4: a contender for the National League Central? Last year eighty

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Speaker 4: three wins finished needed needed to win a tie breaker

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Speaker 4: to get into the Wildcard. One year later, we know

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Speaker 4: what they've added. They've upgraded the bullpen. They've added a

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Speaker 4: bat in a Henio Suarez. The Brewers have taken have

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Speaker 4: lost arguably their best pitcher. By trade, the Cubs have

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Speaker 4: swapped out Kyle Tucker bat for an Alex Bregman bat.

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Speaker 4: The Reds of year ago finished fourteen games out of

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Speaker 4: the division. Fourteen games out they won eighty three. Are

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Speaker 4: they a contender in your mind for the National League Central?

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Speaker 4: I'm not talking wildcard. I'm saying, do you believe they

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Speaker 4: are a contender for the National League Central? I do

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Speaker 4: believe they are. I don't think they're the favorite right now.

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Speaker 4: I think the Cubs and Brewers have come back to

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Speaker 4: the pack. And while they come back, my arms are

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Speaker 4: moving down. I'm now going to tournament and push the

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Speaker 4: Reds up up to that point. I think that makes

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Speaker 4: them a contender in this division. There's gonna be there's

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Speaker 4: gonna be a number of things that have to go right,

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Speaker 4: but I think they're a contender for this division. Prior

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Speaker 4: to Suarez, I would not have thought that way. And

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Speaker 4: maybe that's putting too many of my eggs in one

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Speaker 4: au Andyo Suarez basket. But I wouldn't have been saying

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Speaker 4: that tonight had they not picked up a any in

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Speaker 4: Londlan we Go. Hey, Mark, Welcome to Sports Talk, Doctor McCallister.

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Speaker 15: I think your assessment is perfectly logical. You're looking at

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Speaker 15: the stats. What I'm looking at is theology, and I

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Speaker 15: think we're seeing the birth of a young man turning

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Speaker 15: into a full grown adult. I think our leader psychologically

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Speaker 15: is going to be Ida Cruz, and I think he's

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Speaker 15: gonna inspire the offense. You know, he is the most

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Speaker 15: fun man to watch on the field. But the defense

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Speaker 15: and the pitchers, which are strong this year, stronger this year.

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Speaker 15: They'll be lifted up by the offense. And I believe

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Speaker 15: that the turnaround mindset is going to propel the Reds

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Speaker 15: the first place in our division. That's my prediction based

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Speaker 15: on the mindset.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

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Speaker 4: I like that a lot, and I like the fact

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Speaker 4: from that mindset standpoint, they got a taste of this

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Speaker 4: last year when they made the playoffs and they got

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Speaker 4: the pop champagne, and then they got a taste of

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Speaker 4: the heart break of the suddenness, like the fall off

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Speaker 4: the cliff getting swept.

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Speaker 2: I think that.

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Speaker 4: Cauldron of emotions psychologically gives them a new perspective and

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Speaker 4: a hunger for making sure that doesn't happen on the

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Speaker 4: back end this year.

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Speaker 15: You got it, Lance, Hey, let's have faith and let's

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Speaker 15: pray for leadership.

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Speaker 4: I like that, Mark, thank you, enjoy your weekend, God speed,

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Speaker 4: Ellie dela Cruz. Is it fair and reasonable? And see,

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Speaker 4: that's how I try to look at this. I don't

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Speaker 4: want to look at it as the homer, although I

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Speaker 4: am to a large extent, but I try to look

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Speaker 4: at it and be fair and reasonable and look at

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Speaker 4: it as if I were on the outside looking in,

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Speaker 4: if I were like somebody who covered the cubs of

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Speaker 4: the Brewers, and I truly believe if I were covering

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Speaker 4: another team and looking at this red situation, I would

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Speaker 4: look and say, you know what, that pitching.

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Speaker 2: That pitching.

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Speaker 4: They didn't have to trade any of their starters to

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Speaker 4: upgrade the roster. They made their bullpen better, and they

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Speaker 4: added au Hey who Swarez, and they didn't have to

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Speaker 4: touch any of their starting pitching. And they've got Chase

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Speaker 4: Burns as the fifth guy or Rent Louder as the

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Speaker 4: fifth guy. And those guys are serious when it comes

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Speaker 4: to pitching. And I think I look and say, Elie

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Speaker 4: de la Cruz is going to be a problem because

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Speaker 4: last season he played one hundred and sixty two games,

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Speaker 4: and a portion of that a decent chunk of that

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Speaker 4: with a partially torn quad, didn't have a great season,

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Speaker 4: but certainly didn't have a bad season. Does anybody think

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Speaker 4: Aohity or anybody think Eli de la Cruz this season

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Speaker 4: is going to go what was it a fifty game

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Speaker 4: stretch without hitting a home run?

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Speaker 2: Anybody?

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Speaker 4: Well, I would dare anybody else in the division to

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Speaker 4: bank on La going fifty games without a home run

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Speaker 4: this year. Last year, with a partially torn quad, he

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Speaker 4: hit twenty two homers, he stole thirty seven, and his

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Speaker 4: ops plus made him a better than league average player.

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Speaker 4: What do you think he might do this year healthy

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Speaker 4: at the age of twenty four. Now I was going

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Speaker 4: to say, does anybody believe Matt McClain's going to have

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Speaker 4: the season he had?

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Speaker 2: I'm not as.

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Speaker 4: Confident like backing that up, saying the heck he will,

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Speaker 4: He'll be better. I think how much better may ultimately

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Speaker 4: determine where this team goes in the National League Central

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Speaker 4: and in the postseason. What I do not get though,

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Speaker 4: there are two baseball projections, one from Fangrafts and one

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Speaker 4: from Pakoda, two highly respected projection machines. When it comes

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Speaker 4: to one loss totals, both of them have the Pirates

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Speaker 4: finishing ahead of the Reds.

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Speaker 2: What let's talk about that?

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Speaker 4: Next RNL carrier, Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven

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Speaker 4: hundred WW.

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Speaker 1: And the following takes place between seven pm and eight pm.

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Speaker 4: Man oh Man seven o'clock hour already underway into the

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Speaker 4: second of three big hours of sports talk on a

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Speaker 4: Friday night, just like we like it on. Lance Mccatlester're

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Speaker 4: your host, Russ Jackson, the producer. We thank you as

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Speaker 4: always for being a listener. Sterling's in at nine tonight.

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Speaker 4: We've got an off the beaten Path topic coming up

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Speaker 4: in one hour. I figured it was almost mandatory to

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Speaker 4: make it a Valentine themed topic. So I've tied in

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Speaker 4: sports and Valentines, tight in sports and love. How's that

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Speaker 4: coming up in the eight o'clock hour. Start thinking about

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Speaker 4: this homework assignment over the next fifty one minutes. It's

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Speaker 4: going to be things we love and loved about sports,

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Speaker 4: things we love now, things we love then now and

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Speaker 4: then and now, just things that it's Friday night. I

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Speaker 4: always try to make it a fun, positive, off eaten

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Speaker 4: path topic. I thought it was kind of a layup

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Speaker 4: to include a Valentine's type theme. So I said, all right,

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Speaker 4: I probably put everybody in a good mood if we

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Speaker 4: could just have some fun thinking about the things we

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Speaker 4: love about sports right now and also at the same

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Speaker 4: time remember the things we loved about sports. So that

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Speaker 4: coming up one hour from now, let's your h Let

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Speaker 4: the wheels start turning in your head.

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Speaker 2: This I don't love.

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Speaker 4: And I'm always I'm always curious when it comes to

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Speaker 4: the outside perception of the Reds. I guess I'm always

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Speaker 4: cautious to wonder what am I missing, what don't I

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Speaker 4: see like the forest through the trees. And I've looked

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Speaker 4: at two sites this week, and there are two main

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Speaker 4: projection sites when it comes to Major League Baseball, Fangrafts

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Speaker 4: and the Pakoda Rankings, And long story short, they take

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Speaker 4: a lot of information and they compile it and they

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Speaker 4: run simulations and it it projects performances of players, and

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Speaker 4: it projects performances of teams. And these come out every year.

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Speaker 4: Well this year they came out and they left me

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Speaker 4: wondering what I'm missing because both of these projection sites

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Speaker 4: have the Reds finishing fourth. Fangrabs has the Reds projected

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Speaker 4: to win right at seventy nine games. Eh, that would

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Speaker 4: be a flip of a year ago. They won eighty

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Speaker 4: three and seventy nine last year. The projection is this

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Speaker 4: Reds team. This is with au Ayo Suarez flips to

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Speaker 4: seventy nine and eighty four. The other one thea coda,

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Speaker 4: seventy nine wins for the Reds. What would we be missing?

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Speaker 4: And what is everybody love the Pirates? I know the

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Speaker 4: Pirates spent money for a change, and maybe that's dazzling

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Speaker 4: everybody like a shiny object.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that?

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Speaker 4: According to is it Fangrafts or Plakota one of the

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Speaker 4: two today, I think it's Fangrafts. Only five teams in

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Speaker 4: baseball have better odds to make the playoffs than the Pirates.

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Speaker 4: Five National League teams, so I mean six make the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: So the playoff odds right now say the Pirates are

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Speaker 4: a playoff team playoffs. Fangrafts has the Pirates winning eighty

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Speaker 4: three games, trailing the Cubs, who win the division with

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Speaker 4: eighty six wins. They've got the Cubs at eighty six,

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Speaker 4: Pirates eighty three, Brewers eighty two, Reds seventy nine, Cardinals

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Speaker 4: seventy five. So the Reds finished fourth according to Fangrafts,

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Speaker 4: the Pakoda rankings had the Cubs winning the division at

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Speaker 4: ninety wins, Brewers eighty one, Pirates eighty, Reds seventy nine.

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Speaker 4: Now it is interesting the Pakoda rankings have the gap

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Speaker 4: between second place and fourth place as a game and

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Speaker 4: a half in their projections. One side has the Reds

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Speaker 4: playoff odds at nineteen and a half percent chance to

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Speaker 4: make the playoffs, the other twenty five percent chance based

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Speaker 4: on all the simulations. And these aren't you know, These

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Speaker 4: aren't like RinkyDink somebody living in their mom's basement just

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Speaker 4: writing something down and posting it. These are the Fangraf

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Speaker 4: and Pakoda rankings. I mean, these are like the rankings

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Speaker 4: that I don't know that people take them as the gospel,

655
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Speaker 4: but they're the two rankings in baseball that are most

656
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Speaker 4: looked forward to by baseball people to see what the

657
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 4: projection looks like for players and teams. So when I

658
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 4: saw both projecting the Reds to win seventy nine, I

659
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 4: stopped and said, wait a minute, why what would I

660
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Speaker 4: be missing? And I would assume not like they factor

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Speaker 4: in injury, because that you can't like factor in an

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Speaker 4: injury into into computer analysis. But my fear would be

663
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Speaker 4: that the projection model doesn't believe as much in a

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Speaker 4: Matt McClain bounce back, or a Spencer Steer next step,

665
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Speaker 4: or a know of a Marte next step, stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: That would be my inclination if I was trying to

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Speaker 4: figure out what would be missing from my equation. Probably

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Speaker 4: their projections don't have as much optimism surrounding those.

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Speaker 2: Guys that I do.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, if they finish fourth and win

671
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 4: seventy nine games, it'll be a long summer. I was

672
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 4: looking at this. I figure this up yesterday. I looked

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Speaker 4: at the Reds opening day roster from last year. There

674
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Speaker 4: are thirteen players that are no longer in the organization

675
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Speaker 4: from last year, including the two on opening day that

676
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Speaker 4: were on the injured list. How about this list gone

677
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 4: from the organization? Jaymer Candelario Santiago Espinal, Jake Fraley, Gavin Lux,

678
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Speaker 4: Austin Wins, Jacob Hrdabees, Nick Martinez, Taylor Rogers, Brent Souter,

679
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Speaker 4: Scott barlow I, Jibo, Austin Hayes, Alex Alexis Diaz. Thirteen

680
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Speaker 4: guys they were on the opening day roster last year.

681
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Speaker 4: Two of them started the year on the injured list technically,

682
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Speaker 4: but they were on the team and were later added

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Speaker 4: to the roster when they got helim But thirteen out

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Speaker 4: of twenty six turnover, I'd pump up seventy nine, I

685
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Speaker 4: would admit it's I think they have to. They won

686
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Speaker 4: eighty three last year. They're gonna have to chase eighty

687
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Speaker 4: eight to be in the conversation. Maybe not eighty eight

688
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Speaker 4: to be a wild card, but eighty eight to win

689
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Speaker 4: the division. I don't know that I'd bet on the

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Speaker 4: Cubs winning ninety. I mean, yes, the Cubs. If you're

691
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Speaker 4: asking me whether I'd rather have Kyle Tucker Alex Bregman,

692
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 4: I'd probably rather have Alex Bregman. And that was the swap.

693
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Speaker 4: They lost Tucker to free agency. They signed Alex Bregman

694
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Speaker 4: and he helps him at third base. And they added

695
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Speaker 4: Edward Cabrera, a pitcher Steel's coming off elbow surgery. Don't

696
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,439
Speaker 4: know what he's gonna be, but I put him ahead

697
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 4: of the Reds right now. The Brewers did nothing in

698
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 4: free agency for the most part. They lost Freddy Peralta,

699
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 4: their best pitcher. But they're the Brewers. They've become like

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00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 4: the annoying replacement version of what the Cardinals used to be.

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Speaker 4: That the Brewers, their success never really makes sense, and

702
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 4: you say, how the hell do they do that? And

703
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Speaker 4: yet they do it Pirates, I just don't.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 4: They added, they spent money, and they added Ryan O'Hearn,

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Speaker 4: and they added Marcella Zoon. Now I think Marcella Zoon

707
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 4: is old and of diminishing skills. Brandon Low I know

708
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 4: all star seca and he's got some pop, and Ryan

709
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 4: O'Hearn's got some pop, and they've got Paul Skins. And

710
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 4: they did play better after they fired Derek Shelton. They

711
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 4: were almost a five hundred team for the final four

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Speaker 4: months of the season. You just can't convince me they're

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Speaker 4: going to be better than the Reds this season. Let's

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Speaker 4: go out to the phones, five three, seven hundred, the

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Speaker 4: big one mark, you're on seven hundred WLW plans.

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Speaker 16: How you doing again tonight?

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Speaker 2: I'm okay about you?

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Speaker 16: Good, real good.

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Speaker 4: Hey.

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Speaker 16: A couple of things I think to watch early with

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Speaker 16: the Reds here because I think it's it'll make a

722
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 16: big difference, is to see if this team is going

723
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Speaker 16: to improve, uh with not striking out as much. I mean,

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Speaker 16: ninth motes last year in the league and and I

725
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 16: think you if you turn that around, all of a sudden,

726
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Speaker 16: you become one of the ten best.

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Speaker 15: I think that.

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Speaker 16: Transfers into a lot more runs and a lot more

729
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Speaker 16: exciting ball. And I think if you look at the

730
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Speaker 16: numbers and look at the stats, and I do, you

731
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Speaker 16: look at these teams that strike out the least, they

732
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Speaker 16: score a lot of runs, and I think if this

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Speaker 16: team improves in that area, uh, the run production is

734
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Speaker 16: gonna go up. The home runs are gonna go up

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Speaker 16: because you're not gonna be hitting with two strikes all

736
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Speaker 16: the time. You're gonna be hitting ahead and account more,

737
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Speaker 16: and you're gonna get better pitches. And I think that

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Speaker 16: helps everybody.

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Speaker 4: And if I want and to that point, if you're

740
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Speaker 4: not strike picking out as much, some of that then

741
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 4: is going to result in getting on base more. They

742
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 4: were about they were right at the league average and

743
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 4: on base percentage last year, So that's only fifteenth. They've

744
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 4: got to push closer to the top ten and on

745
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 4: base percentage if they're going to be a playoff team,

746
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Speaker 4: and cutting down strikeouts is a big step towards doing that.

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Speaker 16: Well, you know, and I think you know something I

748
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 16: think everybody misses here. You know, people are ranting and

749
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 16: complaining about the Reds hit two forty or two forty five.

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00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 16: Well that's the league average.

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00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 15: Now, I mean.

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Speaker 7: We're a great point.

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Speaker 4: Let me say that one more time for those who

754
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 4: might not understand it. The average major league hitter last

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00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 4: year hit two forty five. The Reds as a team

756
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 4: hit two forty five. Okay, continue, you.

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00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 16: Know, and I think that the issue really is and

758
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 16: why is that? Well, it's the way the game is managed.

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00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 16: One hundred pitches, five innings, and you know the numbers

760
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 16: don't lie. Third time through the order, averages go up

761
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 16: one hundred points. And that's why the games managed that way.

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Speaker 17: And it means less.

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Speaker 16: So you got you gotta have strong pitching all the

764
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 16: way from starter to the end of the bullpen. That

765
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 16: middle relief spot is going to be huge. And if

766
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 16: the Reds are better there and they're better at not

767
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 16: striking out, then I think this team is right there

768
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Speaker 16: in the contention for the division.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Mark, have a great weekend. Thank you, good hearing

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Speaker 4: you when we come back. The Reds added a first

771
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 4: baseman today. A year ago he had six hundred and

772
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Speaker 4: nine plate appearances. He played one hundred and fifty three games.

773
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Speaker 4: He drove in eighty four runs, and the Reds signing

774
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Speaker 4: today to a minor league contract with an invite to

775
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Speaker 4: big league camp. What I'll tell you about him as

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Speaker 4: we continue and more of your calls. RNL Carrier Sportstock

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Speaker 4: presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. Seven hundred WLW five seven hundred

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Speaker 4: WLW RNL Carrier Sportstock presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. I'm Lance McAllister.

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Speaker 4: They're checking in from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma tonight on the

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Speaker 4: iHeart Radio app. That's awesome and Huntsville, Alabama checking in. Hello,

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Speaker 4: Love Yeah, I Heart Radio App. All right, I love

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Speaker 4: what the Reds did today. According to Mark Sheldon MLB

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Speaker 4: dot Com, the Reds have reached an agreement with first

784
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Speaker 4: baseman Nathaniel Lowe on a minor league deal with an

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Speaker 4: invite to major league camp. Here's what low did. He's

786
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Speaker 4: thirty years old. He's a left handed hitter. Last season

787
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Speaker 4: playing for the Nationals in the Red Sox, he hit

788
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Speaker 4: eighteen homers, drove in eighty four Now he hit two

789
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Speaker 4: twenty eight, didn't get on base a lot. He was

790
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 4: overall about a league average hitter. But here, here's what

791
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Speaker 4: jumps out to me. Were this laid into the game.

792
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 4: He was given six hundred and nine plate appearances. Last year,

793
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 4: he played one hundred and fifty three games. He was

794
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 4: without a job until today. He's got a resume that

795
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 4: includes a Silver Slugger Award in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: That's not that long ago. He hit three to.

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Speaker 4: Oh seven and finished tenth in the American League in

798
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 4: hitting in twenty twenty two. He was an All Star

799
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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three. He won a ring with the

800
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Speaker 4: Rangers in twenty twenty three. That season, he had thirty

801
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 4: eight doubles. Back in twenty twenty two, he hit twenty

802
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 4: seven homers. He's had home run seasons of eighteen, twenty seven, seventeen, sixteen,

803
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Speaker 4: eighteen the last five years. Here's the number of games

804
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Speaker 4: he's played one fifty seven, one fifty seven, one sixty one,

805
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 4: one forty one fifty three. How the heck was he

806
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 4: still out there today? And the Reds get him on

807
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 4: a minor league deal with an invite and look, would

808
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 4: it surprised me if he made the opening day roster?

809
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 4: Absolutely not, because he would be a left handed bat

810
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Speaker 4: with pop off the bench. No, he's talked they have

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Speaker 4: technically six outfielders right now. I think it's safe to

812
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 4: say Dame Myers is gonna make this team because he's

813
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 4: the backup to TJ.

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Speaker 2: Friedel.

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Speaker 4: I think it's safe to say JJ Blede is gonna

816
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 4: make the team. The game a one point four million

817
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 4: dollars deal, that's not a big deal. I would wonder

818
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Speaker 4: with six outfielders, I would wonder. And now, I don't

819
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 4: want to get everybody all worked up, but if you're

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Speaker 4: being real realistic based on this signing today and the possibilities,

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Speaker 4: I'd wonder about the status of the opening day roster

822
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 4: for Will Benson then, because you'd have five outfielders without him,

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Speaker 4: and you'd add a left handed bat with good pop

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Speaker 4: in Nathaniel Lowe if he were to make the opening

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Speaker 4: day roster. Even if he doesn't, he doesn't even have

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Speaker 4: to make the opening day roster. He's insurance at Triple

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Speaker 4: A Louisville. How many teams around Major League Baseball would

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Speaker 4: have the insurance of a first basement at Triple A

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Speaker 4: who was an All Star four years ago, won a

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Speaker 4: Silver Slugger and is a guy who mashes right handed pitching,

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Speaker 4: and he'd be sitting there as insurance and a plan

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Speaker 4: B at first Bason Triple A, Louisville. Look look at

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Speaker 4: it this way, and he doesn't hit right handers very well,

834
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Speaker 4: didn't last season, but I'm sorry, left handed pitching very well.

835
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Speaker 4: But if you look at what he did facing right handers,

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Speaker 4: and that's that's what a platoon player is.

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Speaker 2: You give him what he does best.

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Speaker 4: And if you look at his numbers for his career

839
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Speaker 4: against right handed pitching and even last season, he basically

840
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Speaker 4: performs offensively like somebody like Ian Happ for example.

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Speaker 2: I looked it up.

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00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 4: The career ops against right handed pitching is basically what

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00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 4: Ian Hap does as an offensive player. Who wouldn't take

844
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 4: that and on a minor league deal. Let's go back

845
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Speaker 4: to the phones. How about h Cubs on them? I

846
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,439
Speaker 4: just mentioned Ian Happ. Hey Brendan, you're on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 8: Hey Lant, So I was gonna I was gonna kind

848
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,720
Speaker 8: of bring up the Cubs, But as you were talking

849
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 8: and you were talking to Nate Wow, I kind of

850
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 8: wanted to talk a little bit more about their offseason.

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Speaker 14: Yes, I think to me, I mean you get Frez.

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Speaker 8: That's like the proven pop that they needed right and

853
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 8: then they needed they needed two left handed you know,

854
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 8: legit arms out of the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: They got that.

856
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 8: They needed a back end guy to go with Santiam.

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00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 8: They got Pierce Johnson. They added some depth with Nate

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Speaker 8: Lowe and Date Meyer.

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00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 2: Guys like that to me, and I want to ask

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Speaker 2: you this.

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Speaker 8: Do you feel like this is the most complete off

862
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 8: season and best off season they have had? And say, gosh,

863
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 8: the last fifteen years.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, that's a big powerful statement. I'd have to

865
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Speaker 4: go to the archives and compare. It's certainly better than

866
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 4: last year. Last year they had little bits and pieces

867
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Speaker 4: that they plugged in, but they didn't address that elusive

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Speaker 4: bat as you laid it out there. They added the bat,

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Speaker 4: they added bullpen depth, and I think it's it wasn't.

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Speaker 4: I know everybody wanted Shorber. They weren't going to get Shorber,

871
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Speaker 4: but I will I've said it before, and no disrespect

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Speaker 4: to Kyle, I'd rather have au Andy who Suarez on

873
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Speaker 4: one year at fifteen million than Kyle Schorber on five

874
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Speaker 4: years at fifteen one hundred and fifty million.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, And the other thing too. Is they didn't have to.

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00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 18: Give anything up. Yes, you didn't have to trade. That's

877
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Speaker 18: the king, that's the key. Absolutely, Reet Louder still a red.

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Speaker 18: You didn't have to get rid of any bullpen arms.

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00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 18: You didn't go to create away a guy like Spencer

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00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 18: Steer or a McLean or you know, any of these

881
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 18: guys that kind of had a little bit of.

882
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 19: A lower down year last year.

883
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 8: You've got the same dudes coming back and you've you've

884
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 8: you know, you've reloaded and you've gotten every you've assessed.

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00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 3: Every hole that you had with this with this team,

886
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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 8: I'm just gonna say that. I think if they don't

888
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 8: win more than eighty five games, it's a disappointment.

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00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 4: Hey Brendon, I got to run a news have a

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Speaker 4: great weekend. Thank you, all right, thank you. News time

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Speaker 4: is next Darnell Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey cheval

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Speaker 4: a seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 4: We are rolling tonight the off the Beaten pat topic

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Speaker 4: twenty two minutes or so away coming up after news

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Speaker 4: dating Balks. Xavier Baseball wins their opener today against East

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Speaker 4: Carolina owen Pool with a strike out with the bases

898
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Speaker 4: loaded to record the save and seal the deal. Drop

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Speaker 4: the latch, as Fred Hickman or Nick Charles used to say,

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Speaker 4: drop the latch. Four to three the final score Xavior

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Speaker 4: beats East Carolina. Hey, if you were out and about

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Speaker 4: and their warehouse sale tomorrow and Sunday ten am to

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Speaker 4: four pm. All right, back to the phones and into

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Speaker 4: the conversation to stop in Kentucky. Larry, you are next

914
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 4: on sports Talk. Welcome he THI you, I'm great.

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00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 2: How about you?

916
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 7: Glad to be great, Glad to be for another year. Hey,

917
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 7: this is my favorite time of year. I'm going to

918
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 7: try to make the hair stand up on your head.

919
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:12,280
Speaker 7: But I am excited about what the Reds have done.

920
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 7: I believe they fulfilled all their weaknesses from last year.

921
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 7: I believe the key to this year is going to

922
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 7: be the pitching, which we got a great starting four

923
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 7: and the bullpen I think looks super and if Mole

924
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Speaker 7: ends up being the third left hander in there, I

925
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 7: really love that. Possibly Williamson's I think the key is

926
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Speaker 7: going to be the defense. This is where I'm going

927
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 7: to make the hair stand up on your head.

928
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 6: I wish he.

929
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 7: Would pull a Sparky and put Cruise in right field,

930
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 7: Marte in left, and put Abbot over in short and

931
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 7: he'd put Stewart at second.

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Speaker 17: You got your going down?

933
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 2: Wait, why hair's not standing up? My head's hurting.

934
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Speaker 17: But that's just me.

935
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Speaker 7: But I believe you do that. You run that line

936
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Speaker 7: up out there every day, let it roll, and you'll

937
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Speaker 7: be better off than you were last year. The only

938
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Speaker 7: thing is I know the questions I have is the

939
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Speaker 7: depth in the minor league. I worry about what we

940
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Speaker 7: got with the Arroyo. If we're not going to sign Cruise, well,

941
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Speaker 7: let me.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry about it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, now, hold on now, don't they don't go

944
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Speaker 4: worry about Elli dalea Cruz. He can't even leave if

945
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Speaker 4: he wants to un till twenty thirty. We're only into

946
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty six, right.

947
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 7: Exactly exactly. But if we're not going to sign him

948
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 7: long term, let's start looking ahead. That's just my opinion.

949
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Speaker 7: But with the signing today of Lowe, that really questions

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Speaker 7: in car In carsonel Strand with this team, to me

951
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 7: for the future and what do we why do we

952
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 7: keep a royal? I think those are good trade baits

953
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Speaker 7: if we need some in the summer at the trade deadline,

954
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Speaker 7: if we're in the thick of it, we got a weakness,

955
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Speaker 7: starter grows down or something. I think we got awesome

956
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Speaker 7: trade pieces. I really do. But that's just my thing.

957
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 7: I think the defense hays it. Third does not bother

958
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Speaker 7: me because I think in the long run, if he

959
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Speaker 7: just hits the average and that's a what two forty five,

960
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 7: If he just hits average, plays go glove defense. I'm

961
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 7: tickled to death. But I think the defense is what's

962
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Speaker 7: going to be the key this year on this team.

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Speaker 4: Larry's great hearing from you. Enjoy your weekend. I look

964
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Speaker 4: forward to our next conversation.

965
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Speaker 2: All right, buddy, take care, all right, take care.

966
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Speaker 4: And I know there's a large contingent that one LA

967
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Speaker 4: moved to the outfield. I can just tell you this.

968
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Speaker 4: They're not going to move him to the outfield. He

969
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Speaker 4: is their shortstop until proven otherwise. And I don't even

970
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 4: really make it a topic much anymore because there's not

971
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Speaker 4: really a topic to it.

972
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Speaker 2: I may get into it. I'm gonna do it.

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Speaker 4: I take that back, because I'm going to do an

974
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Speaker 4: l a topic next week about expectations. One of the

975
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Speaker 4: things I'm going to raise again is the comparing contrast.

976
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Speaker 4: And for whatever reason, people seem obsessed with the number

977
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Speaker 4: of errors that Eli makes as a shortstop. And yet

978
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Speaker 4: for as much as this city clings to the big

979
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 4: red machine, it seems a lot of the people who

980
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 4: are hung up on the number of errors that Ellie

981
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 4: makes at this age are not willing to pay any

982
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Speaker 4: attention or remember to any extent the errors that Barry

983
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 4: Larkin and Dave Concepsio made when they were younger. And

984
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 4: if you applied the same thing, they would have been

985
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 4: moved off of shortstop. And then we're with the reds

986
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Speaker 4: be and I could say the same thing about Derek Jeter,

987
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 4: and I could say the same thing about Ozzie Smith.

988
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 2: It's not opinion.

989
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 4: I can show you the number of errors they made

990
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Speaker 4: as young players. Young shortstops tend to make errors. The

991
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 4: hope is they grow out of it. I think it's

992
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 4: safe to say Ellie with a healthy quad will not

993
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 4: be what he was defensively last season. If he is,

994
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 4: maybe we have another conversation in next offseason. But I

995
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 4: wouldn't be expending any energy hoping and wishing and dreaming

996
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 4: that Ellie's going to play any other position than shortstop

997
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 4: this season. We have a I'm a you know, I'm

998
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Speaker 4: a big stat guy, a numbers guy breaking news, but

999
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Speaker 4: I love quirky, like different stats. And I saw one

1000
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Speaker 4: last night that just stopped me. It blew me away,

1001
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Speaker 4: and it led to a lunch conversation I had today.

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Speaker 4: But there's a there's a Twitter account called old Time Hardball.

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Speaker 2: I think it's Old Time Hardball.

1004
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 4: And they had a tweet last night about Pete and

1005
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 4: it was this, And the tweet simply said, if a

1006
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Speaker 4: player got a hit in all one hundred and sixty

1007
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 4: two games for twenty six consecutive years, they would wind

1008
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 4: up forty four hits short of Pete's career total.

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Speaker 2: And I stopped. I looked at that.

1010
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Speaker 4: I said, now that that's a great way of looking

1011
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 4: at it. I lo now let me enter in evidence.

1012
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,919
Speaker 4: If they were to do that for twenty six consecutive years,

1013
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 4: they would blow away Joe Demaijo's hit streak. I realized that.

1014
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 4: But just think about that. If you got a hit

1015
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 4: every game of the season for twenty six straight years, Congratulations,

1016
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 4: you're still forty four behind Pete Rose's all time total.

1017
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 2: I love stuff like that.

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00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:13,399
Speaker 4: I brought it up at lunch today and we were

1019
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 4: doing like rapid fire around the table. Give me a great,

1020
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Speaker 4: like quirky stat. And I love this one. I was

1021
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 4: going to do a topic on it last week, completely

1022
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,240
Speaker 4: forgot and now the time has passed. But it involves

1023
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 4: the Patriots coach Mike Vrabel. Mike Rabel and his career

1024
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 4: as a linebacker caught ten passes as a linebacker.

1025
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 2: They put him in on offense. Obviously he caught.

1026
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 4: Ten passes all ten more touchdowns. That is a great stat.

1027
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 4: I love stuff like that. Here's some of the other

1028
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 4: ones we came up with. We're rolling through the conversation

1029
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 4: at lunch today. Tom Brady has seven Super Bowl rings.

1030
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 4: That's more than any other NFL franchise has. Wilt Chamberlain

1031
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 4: one season averaged forty eight and a half minutes per game. Now,

1032
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,720
Speaker 4: need I remind you the NBA is only forty eight minutes.

1033
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:15,280
Speaker 4: He averaged forty eight and a half minutes per game.

1034
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,880
Speaker 4: How well, he never filed out, never filed out of

1035
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 4: a game in his career. He never came out, and

1036
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 4: he played overtime games that year, so he wound up

1037
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 4: averaging more minutes than an NBA regular season game.

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00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 2: Incredible.

1039
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,760
Speaker 4: That's a great stat There's one I've always loved about

1040
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 4: Achille Smith and Walter Payton. Walter Payton had more career

1041
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 4: touchdown passes than Achille Smith did.

1042
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 2: Let me repeat that.

1043
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 4: Walter Payton through eight touchdown passes in his career, Achille

1044
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 4: through five. Let me give you use just a couple more,

1045
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 4: A couple more. I got time from our conversation today

1046
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 4: at lunch. This is a quirky, interesting one. I would

1047
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 4: assume it to be the record for a pitcher. Warren

1048
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 4: Spawn homered in seventeen straight seasons. I would find it

1049
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 4: hard to believe there's another pitcher who homered more than

1050
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 4: seventeen consecutive seasons. Jack Nicholas, the great stat about the

1051
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 4: Golden Bear eighteen majors, one nineteen second place finishes in majors,

1052
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:28,799
Speaker 4: And this just blows my mind. Stan Musual in his

1053
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 4: career had three thy six hundred and thirty hits. He

1054
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 4: had eighteen hundred and fifteen at home. He had eighteen

1055
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:40,240
Speaker 4: hundred and fifteen on the road. How is that even possible?

1056
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 2: Now?

1057
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 4: I know, well Lance, they played the same number home

1058
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 4: and away, But you would, I mean, one of the

1059
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 4: odds over that did Stan Musual play like twenty three

1060
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 4: twenty four years? How did he wind up with exactly

1061
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,399
Speaker 4: the same number of hits home and road?

1062
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 2: And along those lines.

1063
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 4: Cecil Fielder when he played, hit three hundred and nineteen

1064
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 4: home runs. When Princefielder, his son played, Prince hit three

1065
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 4: hundred and nineteen home runs, unbelievable stat.

1066
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 2: I was thinking about all those last night. After that.

1067
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 2: Pete rose at every game for twenty six years.

1068
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 4: Hey, you're gonna have comeback. Still need another forty four

1069
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 4: more hits. We'll head down the stretch in the seven

1070
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 4: o'clock hour, I've got Oh, I've got time for our

1071
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 4: yearly sports figures with Valentine's themed names ahead. It's our

1072
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 4: NOL Carrier sports doc presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred

1073
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 4: ww ups. On our second of three hours tonight, Prepare

1074
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 4: for fun. With the off the Beaten Path topic coming

1075
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 4: up in the eight o'clock hour, I will need your input.

1076
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 4: I will seek your input on the matter we got

1077
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 4: in Reds in this hour. If you missed the first hour,

1078
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 4: we talked with Mark Adams on the scene. He's on

1079
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 4: the call for ESPN tonight as the Miami RedHawks take

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00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 4: on the Ohio University Bobcats. And we've talked Reds ever since.

1081
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 4: So let's close out so Reds conversation in all Buty, Dan,

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Speaker 4: what's on your mind?

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00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 15: I think they could win the division?

1084
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 3: But I got a question, Yes, do you.

1085
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 15: Think they'll go off to Cauchianus again?

1086
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 4: I do not think they will go after Costianos. They've

1087
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 4: kind of and thank you for your call, Dan, they've

1088
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 4: kind of alluded to that he he won. He doesn't

1089
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 4: have a spot au and Suarez is the DH for

1090
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 4: this team, and Nick is reduced to a DH. And

1091
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 4: it would be an overlap at this point, and I

1092
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 4: just I don't think there's I don't think there's any

1093
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 4: chance the Reds are gonna sniff Nick Costianos as an

1094
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 4: option on this team. I think they are set from

1095
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 4: that standpoint, and I think you combine that with his

1096
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 4: regression as a as a player last year, there's not

1097
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 4: a whole lot there that he could offer them at

1098
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 4: this point.

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Speaker 2: We close with this.

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00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 4: It is our annual look at the Valentines themed sports

1101
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 4: figures whose name ties to Valentine's Day. I would give you,

1102
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 4: in no particular order, as much as it may cause

1103
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 4: traumatic flashbacks. Former Bengals offensive lineman Bobby Hart, I give you,

1104
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 4: golfer Freddie Couples. I give you former Major league pitcher

1105
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 4: Ron Darling. Trey Flowers, former Bengal how about Candy Maldonado,

1106
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 4: Major leg outfielder Ooh Valentine's theme, Let's go old school Bengals.

1107
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 4: Love is in the Air, Tommy Casanova. How about Steeler

1108
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 4: wide receiver of the eighties, Louis Lips Former Bears coach

1109
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 4: Lovey Smith. I'll see your love, Smith and raise you

1110
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 4: a Jordan Love, quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, ooh

1111
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 4: on the love train. How about former Ohio State guard

1112
00:58:54,800 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 4: was he a guard? Ohio State Buckeye Mark Loving on

1113
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 4: the Valentine sports theme? Barry Melrose Pearl Washington, Rick Sweet,

1114
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 4: longtime Red's minor league manager, major league catcher. I'll go

1115
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 4: Bobby Valentine. I'll go, oh, Teddy Valentine, Teddy Bear Valentine

1116
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 4: for our purposes. How about Peter Kiss who played basketball

1117
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 4: Rutgers and Bryant.

1118
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 2: He would make our list.

1119
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 4: How about Jewel Lloyd Las Vegas Aces WNBA diamond Stone

1120
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 4: who played at Maryland and got a cup of coffee

1121
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 4: in the NBA diamond Stone for our Valentines theme. John

1122
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 4: candy Man Candelaria, the former Pittsburgh Pirate, Earl the Pearl Monroe,

1123
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 4: and one last, but not least, he played for the

1124
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 4: Cleveland Spiders. I believe he was a second baseman back

1125
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 4: in the eighteen hundreds. How about Cupid Child's Cupid Childs

1126
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 4: Chocolate Thunder. Darryl Dawkins says Russ Jackson. I'll see your

1127
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 4: Chocolate Thunder, Darryl Dawkins, and I'll raise you at Jason

1128
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 4: Williams White Chocolate, the guard who played I believe at.

1129
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 2: Florida played in the NBA.

1130
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 4: May have run into trouble once or twice, but we

1131
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 4: got chocolate added to the mix as well. I like

1132
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 4: it all right to close the hour, I had a

1133
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 4: Bengals note for you, and now I don't. Oh, here's

1134
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 4: where I put it over the Maybe we'll do this

1135
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 4: next week when I have more time. But I saw

1136
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 4: Jeremy Faller today wrote about the eighteen teams in the

1137
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 4: NFL that didn't make the playoffs and put he put

1138
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 4: him in tears in terms of their chance to return

1139
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,919
Speaker 4: to the playoffs next season. And those six tiers were

1140
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 4: like Category one was no need to panic, they'll be back.

1141
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 2: That includes a team like the Ravens and the Chiefs.

1142
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 4: The second tier was a few moves away like the

1143
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 4: Cowboys and the Colts and the Vikings. Tier three was

1144
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 4: sneaky good trajectory, somebody like the Falcons on the track

1145
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 4: could get to the playoffs next season. Tier four was

1146
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,920
Speaker 4: somewhere between contention and reset, like in between like the Commanders,

1147
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 4: Which way are they gonna go? Tier five was in

1148
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:31,439
Speaker 4: the middle of a rebuild that's the Browns. And Tier

1149
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 4: six was full blown overhaul. That's the Raiders and the

1150
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 4: Dolphins and the Jets and the Cardinals blowing it up,

1151
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 4: overhauling the whole thing. My question to you would be,

1152
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 4: of those six tiers, where do you think he put

1153
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 4: the Bengals. Put the Bengals at Tier two? A few

1154
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 4: moves away from returning to the postseason, and I thought

1155
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 4: this line stuck out. He wrote, the defense lacks high

1156
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 4: end talent and playmaking, and it's about to lose Trey

1157
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 4: Hendrickson a unit that was supposed to improve finish thirty

1158
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 4: first in total defense. Eventually, bad defense will become the

1159
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 4: identity and not an aberration unless addressed in a major way.

1160
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 4: Let the offseason begin for your Cincinnati Bengals. All right,

1161
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 4: eight o'clock hour, the off the beaten path topic. It's

1162
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 4: gonna be this. It's gonna be related to Valentine's, it's

1163
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 4: gonna be related to things you love sports wise, it's

1164
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 4: simply gonna be this. Things we love and loved about sports,

1165
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,440
Speaker 4: things we love in the present the now, and things

1166
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 4: we loved in the past. Then about sports, that seems

1167
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 4: pretty open ended, seems like we could do something with that.

1168
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 4: Let's find out after we check news. Rn L Carrier

1169
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 4: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevallet seven hundred WLW.

1170
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm at nine pm.

1171
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 2: All right, here we go, Here we go, Here we.

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01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 4: Go, eight o'clock hour underway on a Friday night. Thanks

1173
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 4: for hanging out. What do I always say? It's Friday night.

1174
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 4: You got places to go, people to see, things to do.

1175
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 4: If you are hanging out with me, it is much appreciated.

1176
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 4: Let's have some fun on this hour, the off the

1177
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 4: beaten path topic. I will admit. Oh, by the way,

1178
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 4: I just I think I have found my favorite Olympic sport.

1179
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 4: They just went to commercial and I assume it's called

1180
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 4: simply Olympic snowboarding. It's four people competing on a snowboard,

1181
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 4: I mean one on each board, snowboard cross. I gotta

1182
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 4: tell you. I watch in utter amazement. They hit these

1183
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 4: hills on this course and they fly up into the

1184
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 4: air as a group of four, and the landing and

1185
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 4: the turns, and I don't know how new this is

1186
01:03:58,400 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 4: to the Olympics.

1187
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 2: I don't I don't call. Maybe this is the first year.

1188
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 2: I don't know. I love it.

1189
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 4: And what they're doing with the drones, I can't even

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01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 4: the downhill ski last night, with the drones giving you

1191
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 4: the perspective of how fast and how tight the turns

1192
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 4: are in that blue line, and trying to stay in

1193
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 4: the blue line, and one went out and went flying

1194
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 4: into the netting, and it just it.

1195
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 2: Was spectacular last night.

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01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 4: But I love the what do we call it, russ

1197
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 4: the snowboard cross, snowboard cross.

1198
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Speaker 2: I love that.

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01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,200
Speaker 4: I think I would have liked trying that when I

1200
01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 4: was younger. I would not like trying it now, all right,

1201
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 4: truth be told. I came up with this off the

1202
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 4: Beaten pat topic yesterday afternoon at four fifty, which is

1203
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 4: rather late in the week, and I changed my mind.

1204
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 4: I've been holding on to I always hold one in

1205
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 4: reserve in case I get to a week where there's nothing,

1206
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 4: and instead of panic, I can say, all right, I've

1207
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 4: got one in my pocket. And we have not usually

1208
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 4: the first off the Beaten Path topic, if ever New Year,

1209
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 4: is Brush with Greatness, and it's it was the original

1210
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 4: off the Beaten Path topic, and it's storytelling of meeting

1211
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 4: somebody of note, sports or entertainment, music, whatever it is,

1212
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 4: and the story of how you bumped into them, you know,

1213
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 4: not in line for their autograph, but how you bumped

1214
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 4: into somebody? And I was going to do that tonight

1215
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 4: because I'm always looking for tie ins. And I saw

1216
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 4: a story this week involving Donovan Mitchell, the Cleveland Cavaliers

1217
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 4: and a little kid at the game. And I saw

1218
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 4: a story about Mark Fidrich, and both would have been

1219
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 4: great tie ins to present Brush with Greatness tonight. But

1220
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:39,920
Speaker 4: then yesterday I'm sitting in the car ready to walk

1221
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 4: into the building and it hit me. I said, any

1222
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 4: it's Friday night and it's Valentine's Day. I said, I've

1223
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 4: got to do something sports wise tied into Valentine's Day

1224
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 4: or things we love. And then it hit me, I said,

1225
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 4: wait a minute. We will do things we love in

1226
01:05:56,840 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 4: sports in the present and things we loved in sports

1227
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 4: in the past. A chance to live in the moment,

1228
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 4: a chance to appreciate the past and talk sports examples.

1229
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 4: Things I love day baseball with a hot dog and

1230
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 4: a beer, the first Thursday and Friday, the NCAA tournament,

1231
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 4: A cool story like twenty four in oh Miami.

1232
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 2: I love cool stories.

1233
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 4: I love the speed and the power of the in

1234
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 4: person experience of the Cincinnati Open.

1235
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 2: Tennis.

1236
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 4: I love solving the scoreboard stumper things I loved. I

1237
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 4: loved having a catch in the backyard, be it with

1238
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 4: my dad as a kid or with Casey and Peyton

1239
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 4: as a dad when we had the first catch in

1240
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 4: the backyard where we still live, me my dad and

1241
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 4: Casey h Hairstan up on my arms. I loved reading

1242
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 4: box scores. I miss that aspect of newspapers. Hell, I

1243
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 4: miss actual print edition ink on your hand newspapers. I

1244
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 4: loved Marty and Joe on the radio. I loved guessing

1245
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 4: the start of the game. Who Joe is going to have?

1246
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,600
Speaker 4: We're back in the day, got Aeric River Friends Stadium

1247
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 4: where tonight the Reds have beaten the Braves four to three.

1248
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 2: I love.

1249
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 4: Managing along with a baseball game man on a game

1250
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 4: night and I'm doing extra innings, and I'm taking notes

1251
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 4: and jotting things down and things we're going to talk

1252
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 4: about after the game, and kind of managing along and thinking,

1253
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 4: all right, we're going to count outs. Now they've gone

1254
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 4: to the pen. How do they get the ten outs

1255
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 4: tonight to seal this game? Who do they go to

1256
01:07:54,640 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 4: in what order? I love that. Loved the Sunday Sports page,

1257
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:10,919
Speaker 4: the back page with the baseball player statistics. I would

1258
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 4: lay on the living room floor and open that newspaper

1259
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 4: to the back page, and I'd take a pen and

1260
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 4: I I'd highlight all the Reds players, and it was

1261
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 4: just their batting average, their home runs and their RBIs,

1262
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 4: and I would draw a line under all the Reds

1263
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 4: and the back page of the newspaper. I love the

1264
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 4: electricity and the anticipation of watching Lae de la Cruz

1265
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 4: and wondering what I could see here that maybe I've

1266
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 4: never seen before. Boy, they're back from commercial that snowboarding cross.

1267
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 4: It's just it's mesmerizing. I love it. It's the coolest thing.

1268
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 4: I loved the pursuit of collecting a complete set of

1269
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 4: baseball cards. I talk about it every year. I didn't

1270
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 4: buy a set. I collected all six hundred and sixty

1271
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 4: pack at a time. How about you the now and

1272
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 4: the then, the then and the now, the things you

1273
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 4: love about sports, the things you loved about sports. And

1274
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:28,560
Speaker 4: it's not even meant to bring it up from the

1275
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 4: standpoint of like, oh, it's just not the same anymore,

1276
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 4: you know, sports Today's uh, because I used to love this,

1277
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:37,680
Speaker 4: I'm looking at as just kind of a celebration of

1278
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:40,439
Speaker 4: things you love about sports, and remember you used to

1279
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 4: love about sports as well. Five one, three, seven, four nine,

1280
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 4: seven thousand, one eight hundred the big one in Dayton,

1281
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 4: we go, Dave want of a sports talk plans.

1282
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 19: I love this topic and I'm glad you switched it.

1283
01:09:55,200 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 19: It's appropriate with Valentine's Day. And I'm a proud Miami alump.

1284
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 2: I love.

1285
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 19: Yeah, and I love the buzz going on for tonight's game.

1286
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 19: I love Mark Adams, and I love Wally Zerbiak, and

1287
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 19: I love Ron Harper, who I was in school with

1288
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 19: back in the day. Yes, and I loved and miss

1289
01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:28,639
Speaker 19: dearly Charlie Coles and the best of the best. And

1290
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 19: I just would love to be an Oxford right now

1291
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 19: and say with me, Lance, you can't stay Miami without saying.

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Speaker 2: What are we saying?

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Speaker 7: Love?

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01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 2: Honor? Yes, love and honor. I love loving.

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01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 19: Honor, and to stay with basketball, love old school, under

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01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 19: the rim, basketball, backcuts and just mark basketball. I was

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01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 19: AU coach girls coach for twenty years and just playing

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01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:03,679
Speaker 19: under the ram. I love that style of basketball, and

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Speaker 19: I love the buzz of the Udy Arena, and I

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01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 19: love the upsets and the tears ago with the upset

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01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 19: and sports making you cry. I've cried more at sports

1302
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 19: sporting events, and my family teases me about it than

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01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 19: like anything else.

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01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 7: That is.

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01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 4: That is a perfect lead off to this, Dave, you

1306
01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 4: were the man in jury your weekend.

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01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,679
Speaker 2: All right? Thanks you two, Lam.

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01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 4: You as well, Thank you. I'll pass it along to

1309
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,600
Speaker 4: it to Kell and man. He made me think I

1310
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 4: loved what is he he talked about back to the basket.

1311
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:38,479
Speaker 4: I immediately flashed you, I love the up and under

1312
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:39,720
Speaker 4: move of Kevin McHale.

1313
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 2: He was just so.

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01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 4: Long and and and gangly and just that up and

1315
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 4: under he did. But I also loved. To me, there

1316
01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:53,559
Speaker 4: was nothing better than watching Steve Alford running Indiana's Bob

1317
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:58,600
Speaker 4: Knight motion offense and coming off a baseline screen catching squaring,

1318
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 4: shooting and swishing from the corner or from up top.

1319
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:07,679
Speaker 4: And the added bonus his hair never moved because Steve

1320
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 4: Alford had perfect hair. In fact, there was a time

1321
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 4: I tried to model my hair after Steve. I shouldn't

1322
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 4: be admitting this publicly, but I didn't like my hair

1323
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:18,759
Speaker 4: moving because Steve Alfred's hair didn't move. He had perfect hair.

1324
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:21,639
Speaker 4: And when you carried an ace comb around in junior high.

1325
01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 4: The objective was you know what your hair messed up?

1326
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:26,639
Speaker 4: I was a big fan of the plastic black ace

1327
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 4: comb in my back pocket. What is happening to this topic?

1328
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 4: We'll take a time out. Come back, Ryan and Andy

1329
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 4: and Joe. Give me something you love and or loved

1330
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 4: about sports in keeping with the holiday theme. Well, you

1331
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 4: know what, Wait a minute, I'm looking at this. I'm

1332
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 4: gonna go I'm gonna take one more. I can expand this.

1333
01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:48,679
Speaker 4: I'll make this segment longer and make the next segment

1334
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 4: shorter because I want to go to Jacksonville and hear

1335
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:52,560
Speaker 4: from my guy Joe.

1336
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 2: What do you know.

1337
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 3: How you're doing?

1338
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 6: Lance?

1339
01:12:56,360 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 2: I am great and this is fantastic.

1340
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 13: Let me let me, let me, let me, let me

1341
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 13: go for a second.

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Speaker 20: First of all, when I was a boy, When I

1343
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 20: was a boy, I loved listening to Trump. Yes and

1344
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:20,600
Speaker 20: now is a bad older guy now in Jacksonville. I

1345
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 20: love plugging in l W and hearing you doing sports talks.

1346
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:30,759
Speaker 20: It connects us all of us transplants, all of us transfer,

1347
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 20: all of us transplants. It gives us a tie back

1348
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 20: into home, and that means a lot you. I loved,

1349
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:42,720
Speaker 20: loved three dollars top six.

1350
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 2: Yes, is there anything better?

1351
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 13: I love youth sports now, and I mean this in

1352
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 13: this way. My daughter is seven, she's playing soccer. In fact,

1353
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 13: we're just driving back from a soccer game that you

1354
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 13: played it. And I love watching kids get better. I

1355
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 13: love the fact that my brother is coaching his son

1356
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:16,080
Speaker 13: in eight you basketball. I love the fact that my

1357
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 13: best friend and the former head coach at Roger Bacon

1358
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 13: High School is coaching his third grade son team. It's

1359
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:32,799
Speaker 13: just the very very very best, the things that connect

1360
01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:36,559
Speaker 13: us back to family and back to home. That's what

1361
01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 13: sports is all about. You You mentioned having the catch

1362
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 13: with your dad, and you're gonna I'm gonna try to

1363
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 13: get through this without without crying. But I lost dad

1364
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 13: second week of December.

1365
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 2: And my dad loved.

1366
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:58,759
Speaker 13: NASCAR and we would he was up in Cincinnati Scalp

1367
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 13: and Mason, I'm down here and we would watch NASCAR

1368
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:07,599
Speaker 13: races via text message. And I'm gonna miss that this Sunday.

1369
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 13: So you know, take the time, do the damn thing,

1370
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:14,719
Speaker 13: get the ticket top six or not three to dollars.

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01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:19,479
Speaker 13: Those days are gone, But do the damn thing, get

1372
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 13: the ticket. Meet up with your boys and enjoy what

1373
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:25,799
Speaker 13: we all love about sports.

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01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,719
Speaker 4: Amen to that, Joe, thinking about you and good hearing

1375
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 4: your voice.

1376
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 2: Take care.

1377
01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 13: I appreciate you, right you.

1378
01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 4: You as well, very much appreciate you. Thank you, you know.

1379
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:38,560
Speaker 4: And he made me think of the going to his

1380
01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:42,200
Speaker 4: daughter soccer game. I loved and I would pay I

1381
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 4: would pay good money right now to have another weekend

1382
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 4: traveling to a soccer tournament with Peyton or a baseball

1383
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:52,720
Speaker 4: tournament with Casey. I love those. And you know, the

1384
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 4: the old cliche is, you know, enjoy it because it

1385
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 4: goes so fast. There may have been times back then

1386
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 4: where maybe it was a long drive, or it was

1387
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 4: going to be incredibly hot, and it was going to

1388
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 4: be three games in one day, and you may have

1389
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 4: had the thought cross your mind, like, oh man, that's

1390
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 4: gonna take up a lot of the weekend.

1391
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now.

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01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:15,639
Speaker 4: I eventually loved it once we got to the spots,

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01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 4: and as I think back now, to have one more

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01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:21,559
Speaker 4: of those, just give me one more, whether we go

1395
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:24,600
Speaker 4: to Fisher's, Indiana for a soccer tournament, or somewhere in

1396
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:27,919
Speaker 4: Kentucky for a soccer tournament, spend the weekend the hotel.

1397
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:32,679
Speaker 4: You hear all the Peyton's teammates in their younger days

1398
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 4: running up and down the hallways at night in the hotel,

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01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 4: the night before the tournament starts. To have those I

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01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 4: love those times, loved them. I like what we've done

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01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 4: with this early. Let's add some more to it as

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01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:47,719
Speaker 4: we continue. RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet

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Speaker 4: seven hundred WLW. Should run that catch radius and then

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01:16:56,040 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 4: the ability to either make you miss or shake free

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01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:05,160
Speaker 4: of somebody in change direction. I loved the physicality and

1406
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 4: intimidation of the Bob Huggans bear cats and those black uniforms.

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01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 4: I love when I manage the clock much better instead

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01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,480
Speaker 4: of coming back from one break and going to news.

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01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 4: I unfortunately have mismanaged this segment. I'll grab more of

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01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 4: your calls. We'll head down the stretch towards Sterling at

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01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 4: nine o'clock after a check on.

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Speaker 2: News, hitting it on.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 4: The good news is I can hit the next break

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01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 4: on time, which I'll do. This is RNL Carrier Sports

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Speaker 4: Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet, and it's right here on

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Speaker 4: seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 2: Oh you better believe it.

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Speaker 14: Everywhere we look around.

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Speaker 15: Every citing your sound.

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Speaker 2: And I don't live in Oh, yeah, don't know, but

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Speaker 2: it's something I'm gone, and it's.

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01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 15: You know what.

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01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 2: I may sing this to Kelly tomorrow night.

1425
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 4: I may sing this tomorrow when she wakes up tomorrow

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01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:18,640
Speaker 4: comes down for coffee. I may handle the coffee and

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01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:21,800
Speaker 4: sing this on one knee in the middle of the kitchen.

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01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 15: And after.

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Speaker 2: Maybe a good.

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01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 4: All right, we got a hustle. We're heading towards nine

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01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:35,639
Speaker 4: in the sterling time. Hey, let's do the Kelsey Chevrolet

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Speaker 4: College Basketball weekend preview and from my guy Josh Wilking,

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Speaker 4: the Kelsey pre Owned Deal of the Week. This is

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Speaker 4: a special deal. It's a twenty twenty three gmc Acadia SLT.

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Speaker 4: Why is it special, you say, because I'm driving it

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Speaker 4: right now. Well, if I'm going to talk about it,

1437
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 4: I like to drive it so I can tell you

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01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 4: about just over fifty three hundred miles, summit white exterior,

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Speaker 4: jet black leather interior, all wheel drive, one owner, no accidents,

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Speaker 4: remote starting, heated seats. And let me tell you over

1441
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Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks those two features, the heated seats, oh,

1442
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 4: came in handy value in price ranked number two out

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Speaker 4: of all twenty three GMC acadias in the Cincinnati area.

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01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 4: Number two twenty five hundred in price reduction on this

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01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:27,439
Speaker 4: specific vehicle. So the average market price on a similar

1446
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 4: vehicle is twenty eight eight seventy five.

1447
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 2: This one.

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Speaker 4: Right now twenty six six ninety nine. And you can

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01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 4: say you're driving a car that I drove. Check it

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Speaker 4: out kelseyschev dot Com slash used my guy Josh Wilking

1451
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 4: and all my guys at Kelsey Chevrolet getting it done

1452
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:54,799
Speaker 4: and selling the Kelsey Chevrolet pre Owned deal of the week.

1453
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,679
Speaker 4: Just call and tell them the one that Lance is driving.

1454
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:02,879
Speaker 4: I've got an update on our college basketball weekend preview.

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01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:05,679
Speaker 4: According to Tom Gamble on the scene at maled Hall

1456
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 4: for the showdown tonight, in attendance Ohio Bobcat, John Popovich,

1457
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 4: the legendary WCPO sports anchor, Proud Bobcat in the house tonight,

1458
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:19,559
Speaker 4: the Governor Mike DeWine, a proud red Hawk in the

1459
01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:22,680
Speaker 4: House tonight. Tom Gamble tells me it is wall to

1460
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 4: wall people around the town, around the arena. It is

1461
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 4: sold out, the vibe throughout the town and the arena

1462
01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 4: absolutely bonkers in anticipation of the showdown tonight in an

1463
01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 4: ESPN national television broadcast that officially is You're Kelsey Valet

1464
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:44,640
Speaker 4: College Basketball Weekend Preview. Let's go to Fairfield, Andy. What

1465
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:47,080
Speaker 4: do you love or loved in sports?

1466
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 9: Hey, Lance, I'll be quick to give others a chance,

1467
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:53,479
Speaker 9: but I'll go with the loved category. Saturday, you finished

1468
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 9: the Super Friends, you finish Bugs, Bonnie, but you get

1469
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 9: this week in baseball with Mel Allen and Johnny Bench,

1470
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:03,120
Speaker 9: the Baseball Bunch, with the Wizard and the Chicken. Yes,

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01:21:03,520 --> 01:21:04,240
Speaker 9: nothing better.

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01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:06,720
Speaker 2: Yes, those are going on the list. You're the man.

1473
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend, you too, all right, thank you.

1474
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:13,719
Speaker 4: I love the sound of batting practice, the the the

1475
01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 4: crack of the bat, and the pop of the mint

1476
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:22,760
Speaker 4: in spring training. I loved the rainbow colored seats at

1477
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:27,799
Speaker 4: Riverfront Coliseum. I loved the fact that your Red's tickets

1478
01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:30,439
Speaker 4: at Riverfront were the color of the section you were

1479
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:31,120
Speaker 4: sitting in.

1480
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:33,840
Speaker 2: I love Opening Day.

1481
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 4: I love buying my first base still today, I love

1482
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 4: buying my first pack of baseball cards. Every spring I'm

1483
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 4: out of the point I only buy one pack, and

1484
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:45,200
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, the last couple of years, I've got

1485
01:21:45,240 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 4: my very first pack of the Year at Ace Hardware

1486
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:51,559
Speaker 4: and Independence. It's like I'm shopping at Kroger and I realized, Wait,

1487
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:53,719
Speaker 4: we're into March, and I need to buy my first

1488
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 4: pack of cards. And I always find them at the

1489
01:21:56,560 --> 01:22:03,719
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware and Independence. I loved Kenyon Martin's senior year

1490
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 4: of dominance as the college basketball Player of the Year.

1491
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:14,960
Speaker 4: I love vacation stops at minor league ballparks. I love

1492
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:17,960
Speaker 4: grilling on the back porch and listening to the Reds

1493
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:22,080
Speaker 4: on the radio while I do it. And I loved

1494
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 4: the glide and the grace of Isaac Curtis. Back to

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01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,560
Speaker 4: the phones, Ryan, Welcome to Sports Talk.

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01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 2: Love is in here. I'm well heavy Valentine's Day.

1497
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 14: I'm gonna try to be quick with a very long

1498
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 14: story here. Okay, I loved being a kid in the eighties.

1499
01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:53,480
Speaker 14: I loved growing up watching the Cincinnati Bengals, watching Icky,

1500
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:57,960
Speaker 14: watching Boomer. A few years later, I got with a

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01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:01,320
Speaker 14: company where my boss and his dad had season tickets

1502
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:04,240
Speaker 14: to the Bengals. Okay, second row, right beside the tunnel.

1503
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:09,519
Speaker 14: Super Bowl year. My boss is building his house, so

1504
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:11,080
Speaker 14: he goes to no games.

1505
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 2: I bought a.

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01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 14: Joe Burrow Bert Jersey that first game. I went with

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Speaker 14: his dad to every home game that year. I ended

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01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:23,640
Speaker 14: up being in the second row for the first playoff

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01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:29,759
Speaker 14: win in thirty one years. Do you remember when Tyler

1510
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:33,960
Speaker 14: Boyd and the Higgins and Mixing jumped up on the wall.

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01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm in second row.

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01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 14: I'm in that picture in that jersey. Okay, I gotta

1513
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 14: fast forward. I took that jersey. We went to Tennessee,

1514
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:48,760
Speaker 14: we went to Kansas City. We were gonna go to

1515
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 14: the super Bowl. Dude said I got two tickets to

1516
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 14: the super Bowl six thousand dollars and we were like,

1517
01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:56,759
Speaker 14: bet we're there. He was like, I'm at six thousand

1518
01:23:56,800 --> 01:24:02,000
Speaker 14: a piece. So we didn't go to the super Bowl. Okay,

1519
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:04,599
Speaker 14: fast forward a little bit. I'm trying to give everybody

1520
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 14: a chance. Look this picture up.

1521
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:07,280
Speaker 17: Man.

1522
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:12,000
Speaker 14: Boomers then got inducted into the Bengals Ring of Honor

1523
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:19,799
Speaker 14: with o Jo. He's wearing that jersey. He's wearing my jersey.

1524
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 14: He picked me out of the crowd.

1525
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 2: No, and he.

1526
01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:27,599
Speaker 14: Said, let me wear that jersey. Oh, I need your help, Lance.

1527
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:30,400
Speaker 14: Does you know when I tell this story, I have proof.

1528
01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:33,559
Speaker 14: I have witnesses, I got pictures, I got video. You

1529
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 14: know what everybody says, did he sign it? Boomer wore

1530
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 14: my jersey to get inducted into the Ring of Honor

1531
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:44,320
Speaker 14: and did not sign my jersey.

1532
01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 4: Oh but that's still a fantastic That would have been

1533
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 4: a great story for my brushes with greatness as well.

1534
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 2: That is, that is fantastic. I'm so glad you.

1535
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,880
Speaker 14: Told That's really amazing, dude, I could. I can prove

1536
01:24:56,960 --> 01:24:59,519
Speaker 14: every bit of it it was. I loved it. I

1537
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:02,920
Speaker 14: love it. I love you, I love this. You've inspired

1538
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 14: me tonight. I'm so glad I waited.

1539
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:08,800
Speaker 4: I'm so glad you got on. Enjoy your weekend, and

1540
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:09,800
Speaker 4: let's talk again soon.

1541
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 2: All right, all right, all right, thank you.

1542
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 4: That would classify as a brush with sports greatness or

1543
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:18,080
Speaker 4: a brush with greatness story Barbarie's size and warminder.

1544
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 2: I love that.

1545
01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:24,479
Speaker 4: I loved the website Baseball Reference. It is my go

1546
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 4: to for every baseball stat I need to find out.

1547
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:29,639
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, if you, if you like the game

1548
01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 4: of baseball, like the history of baseball Baseball Reference the website.

1549
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 4: I loved hitting the very first pitch of the game,

1550
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 4: a fresh, new, bright white baseball right up the box

1551
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 4: into center field for a base hit. There was nothing

1552
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:48,840
Speaker 4: I enjoyed more when I played baseball because I let off.

1553
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 4: Every game of my life I let off, and I

1554
01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 4: love starting the game first pitch, swinging on a strike

1555
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 4: down the back and light it right back up the box.

1556
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 4: There is no better feeling your calls as we continue

1557
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:06,880
Speaker 4: RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WLW.

1558
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:09,519
Speaker 4: People I know who are at Malett tonight who are

1559
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 4: describing it as a scene that is difficult to describe

1560
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 4: right now and absolutely nuts. Never see anything like it,

1561
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 4: they say. And we are approaching what about ten minutes

1562
01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 4: away from tip off tonight for the National TV game

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01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:31,639
Speaker 4: between the Miami RedHawks and Ohio Bobcats with a sold

1564
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 4: out packed Malette Hall tonight. Hey, iHeartMedia in seven hundred WLW.

1565
01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 4: Salute Cincinnati's own Procter and Gamble. If you've got somebody

1566
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,000
Speaker 4: there you'd like for us to recognize on air textas

1567
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 4: five to one, eight eight one, five to one, eight

1568
01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:52,240
Speaker 4: eight one, and be listening thanks to Procter and Gamble.

1569
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:54,559
Speaker 2: All right, Sterling's in.

1570
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 4: At nine and at home on Not that I'm being

1571
01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:02,160
Speaker 4: distracted in anything, but I continue to get stuff from

1572
01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:06,920
Speaker 4: from Malette. Who I just they they're struggling to find

1573
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:10,080
Speaker 4: the words. And these are people who are longtime Miami people,

1574
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:14,080
Speaker 4: and and some that are that are news saying you

1575
01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:16,720
Speaker 4: gotta be you gotta be kidding me. Well, it's like

1576
01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 4: the roof is about to be blown off of Mallett

1577
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:21,760
Speaker 4: Hall right now. Uh back to the off the beaten

1578
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 4: pat topic. How about uh, Richard Richard, give me something

1579
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:27,360
Speaker 4: you love or loved in sports?

1580
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 9: Yeah?

1581
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 17: I love the truly great radio broadcasters kept me company

1582
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:35,439
Speaker 17: through the ups and downs of my life. Oh, Marty

1583
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 17: and Joe, Marnie Harwell, Jack Buck and Mike Shannon.

1584
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:41,879
Speaker 3: Listening to them.

1585
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 17: Guys on a summer night. Oh, it's just like, no

1586
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 17: matter what you're going throughing your life, maybe you just

1587
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:48,800
Speaker 17: feel like you has a friend on a raid.

1588
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 2: Yes.

1589
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:52,720
Speaker 17: And then even when I was out in California in

1590
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 17: my Navy days, going through the ups and downs of

1591
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 17: all that, you know, the Vin Scully and Jerry Coleman,

1592
01:27:58,040 --> 01:28:01,920
Speaker 17: you know, in a beautiful California not the beach. It

1593
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 17: just makes you feel good, you know, or what you're

1594
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:04,880
Speaker 17: going through.

1595
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 2: Oh, so well said, that is perfect.

1596
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:13,920
Speaker 17: And one more you forgot on the names relating to

1597
01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 17: Valentine's say, Ls Valentine.

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01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:21,800
Speaker 4: That's a good one. Hey, have a great weekend one,

1599
01:28:21,960 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 4: all right, thank you. You know he made me think

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01:28:23,960 --> 01:28:26,559
Speaker 4: of something else I love. I love the crackling of

1601
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:30,080
Speaker 4: the radio as you're driving, when you're on vacation, you're

1602
01:28:30,120 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 4: driving at night and you're you're spanning the AM dial

1603
01:28:33,400 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 4: and you're you're hitting trying to hit baseball games like

1604
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,520
Speaker 4: random baseball games, like the crackling and it's barely getting

1605
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 4: and you like I would always try to hear, like

1606
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 4: one name, give me one name, and oh, I know

1607
01:28:43,720 --> 01:28:46,000
Speaker 4: what game it is, Ul Washington come into the plain.

1608
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:48,120
Speaker 4: I's all went to Kansas City Royals game and out

1609
01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 4: of Kansas City, and just that experience when when I

1610
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:54,599
Speaker 4: was a kid, I will never forget. And even now

1611
01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:57,639
Speaker 4: I love doing that when we're on vacation, just hearing

1612
01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:00,960
Speaker 4: that crackle, looking for that slightest break where you pick

1613
01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:04,840
Speaker 4: up the signal of a baseball game. I loved when

1614
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:08,759
Speaker 4: I went on vacation. I would drive, I drive Kelly crazy.

1615
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:14,680
Speaker 4: I would take quarters because I would wherever we would go,

1616
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 4: I would immediately go, and wherever we stay, I'd go

1617
01:29:17,439 --> 01:29:19,200
Speaker 4: to the parking lot of like the hotel we were at,

1618
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:21,599
Speaker 4: and I would buy every single newspaper out of all

1619
01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 4: the newspaper machines, so I could sit on the beach

1620
01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 4: where wherever we were at on vacation and read the

1621
01:29:26,439 --> 01:29:29,280
Speaker 4: sports section of all the newspapers in that city or

1622
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 4: around the area that we're being sold. And I would

1623
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:33,559
Speaker 4: take a handful of quarters with a thing on every vacation,

1624
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 4: just specifically to buy newspapers. I love that about Uh oh,

1625
01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 4: let me go to Florence. Hey, Logan, welcome to sports talk.

1626
01:29:45,479 --> 01:29:47,320
Speaker 2: I'm very well. How about you.

1627
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:51,360
Speaker 3: I'm doing good, great shots out. I loved the weird sports.

1628
01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:54,760
Speaker 2: Uh thank you?

1629
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 3: Tell me what that and the and the part about

1630
01:29:57,320 --> 01:30:02,559
Speaker 3: uh the Indiana Guard he said, had the hair. You

1631
01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:05,439
Speaker 3: know what, Leah what your hair doesn't move anymore?

1632
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:09,000
Speaker 2: Hey, that's a that's like, well that's true.

1633
01:30:10,360 --> 01:30:15,439
Speaker 3: That's right baby, all right. So uh, things that I loved.

1634
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:18,479
Speaker 3: I'm born and raised the whole family and white daughters,

1635
01:30:18,520 --> 01:30:20,600
Speaker 3: everybody what you see. So I still love going to

1636
01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 3: you see football games, you see basketball games. I'm a lifer,

1637
01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 3: just been that way in my whole life.

1638
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 4: Yes, oh oh, I see it that that experience, Yes,

1639
01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:33,920
Speaker 4: sharing it person and.

1640
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:36,519
Speaker 3: I and things. I'm going to ask you one one

1641
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:39,600
Speaker 3: thing I know you is a sports and geek like

1642
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:42,559
Speaker 3: I was at that age. I loved getting a bunch

1643
01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 3: of all Star ballots and booting for all the reds, yes,

1644
01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:48,439
Speaker 3: and then figuring out who to voote for and all

1645
01:30:48,479 --> 01:30:49,240
Speaker 3: the other positions.

1646
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:49,559
Speaker 12: Yes.

1647
01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:51,000
Speaker 3: I absolutely love that.

1648
01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:54,080
Speaker 4: And I loved when the ushers would hand them out

1649
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:56,840
Speaker 4: at Riverfront. I would always take like a big gob

1650
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 4: of them and then hand like six or seven down

1651
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 4: the rest of the row. And I'd sit there the

1652
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:02,559
Speaker 4: whole inning, and then I looked on the on the

1653
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:04,880
Speaker 4: ground my seat, and there'd be all the little white

1654
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:06,840
Speaker 4: chads that were laying on the ground.

1655
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 2: I'll never forget that as a kid, that was awesome.

1656
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:12,800
Speaker 3: Now, one game I got two. Two games that we

1657
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:15,800
Speaker 3: used to play when we were really young, Grateful Sports

1658
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:18,800
Speaker 3: Illustrated Baseball, yep.

1659
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:21,360
Speaker 2: I remember that, and I used to.

1660
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:23,479
Speaker 3: You know, it was funny because we played it so much.

1661
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 3: Three Finger Brown, Honus Wagner, Whitey Ford, all these guys.

1662
01:31:28,320 --> 01:31:30,720
Speaker 3: We had all these names memorized and everything, like, how

1663
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:34,800
Speaker 3: the hell do you know that?

1664
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 2: That is fantastic?

1665
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 4: Hey, Logan, I got to run have a great weekend.

1666
01:31:37,920 --> 01:31:39,400
Speaker 4: Thanks for listening, Thanks for calling.

1667
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:40,720
Speaker 7: Thank you.

1668
01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:42,720
Speaker 2: Enjoy your evening. I got two, I got two and

1669
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:44,120
Speaker 2: I got like two and a half minutes. I can

1670
01:31:44,200 --> 01:31:44,439
Speaker 2: do this.

1671
01:31:45,479 --> 01:31:48,600
Speaker 4: Matthew, you were on seven hundred WLW Welcome.

1672
01:31:50,040 --> 01:31:50,560
Speaker 15: Highlands.

1673
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:53,080
Speaker 2: Hey, hey here we okay, Loud and Claire. What do

1674
01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:53,439
Speaker 2: you got?

1675
01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 8: All right?

1676
01:31:55,400 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 5: Well, you were talking earlier about sold out in the

1677
01:31:58,160 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 5: latt hall. Yes, how about so sold out Omens Center

1678
01:32:03,040 --> 01:32:05,920
Speaker 5: at Indiana State University during the Larry Bird era.

1679
01:32:06,080 --> 01:32:07,360
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

1680
01:32:08,720 --> 01:32:13,200
Speaker 5: I was a student during that era, and so just

1681
01:32:13,280 --> 01:32:16,559
Speaker 5: thinking back to especially that magical run. He has seen

1682
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:21,200
Speaker 5: your year yah, and like miracle man Bob, he's hitting

1683
01:32:21,200 --> 01:32:23,719
Speaker 5: that ridiculous shot at the end of the game against

1684
01:32:23,960 --> 01:32:24,599
Speaker 5: New Mexico.

1685
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:27,479
Speaker 2: Yes, oh my goodness.

1686
01:32:27,200 --> 01:32:27,960
Speaker 3: Oh my word.

1687
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:31,719
Speaker 5: Yes, And so that's what I'm calling about.

1688
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 3: What I love is sports.

1689
01:32:33,760 --> 01:32:36,000
Speaker 2: That is perfect. Hey, Matthew, enjoy your weekend.

1690
01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:37,960
Speaker 8: Thanks you as well.

1691
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:38,960
Speaker 2: All right, take care boy.

1692
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:41,599
Speaker 4: I just flashed that Indiana State team and Carl Nicks

1693
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 4: is one of the guards on that team, if I

1694
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:47,000
Speaker 4: remember correctly. James gets the final word tonight.

1695
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:47,760
Speaker 2: How are you.

1696
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:50,599
Speaker 21: I'm doing great, my friend, How are you doing?

1697
01:32:50,760 --> 01:32:53,120
Speaker 4: I am excellent? I've enjoyed this topic tonight. What do

1698
01:32:53,160 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 4: you got for me?

1699
01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 21: I loved George and Michael's sports machines.

1700
01:32:58,280 --> 01:33:00,240
Speaker 2: Yes, let's go to the highlights.

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01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:02,280
Speaker 13: Resonaly.

1702
01:33:03,560 --> 01:33:06,479
Speaker 21: Must watch, must watch. You have to rewatch the intro

1703
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 21: if you've not seen the intro, it's classic.

1704
01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:08,840
Speaker 15: Yes.

1705
01:33:09,560 --> 01:33:13,040
Speaker 21: And then also I loved ABC's Wide Little Sports And

1706
01:33:13,080 --> 01:33:16,800
Speaker 21: what's interesting about that one is also the intro. I

1707
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 21: love the intro to It always got you pumped up

1708
01:33:19,040 --> 01:33:22,519
Speaker 21: to watch whatever they're going to put on. And remember

1709
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:24,960
Speaker 21: the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

1710
01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:28,759
Speaker 17: Yes, so that guy who fell.

1711
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:31,760
Speaker 21: Off the ramp on the Skia thing, like, he's more,

1712
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,840
Speaker 21: he's famous because, like you know, he was out of

1713
01:33:34,840 --> 01:33:37,960
Speaker 21: the Olympics, went home and now you know every Saturday

1714
01:33:38,040 --> 01:33:41,080
Speaker 21: he would go to the pub with his buddies.

1715
01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:43,080
Speaker 17: And from Switzerland and Norway where he's from.

1716
01:33:43,320 --> 01:33:44,519
Speaker 21: Like, hey, Mac, look.

1717
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 7: You're on TV again.

1718
01:33:50,320 --> 01:33:53,759
Speaker 4: Those were man I And just think how many times

1719
01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:56,800
Speaker 4: people even today still use that line, the thrill of

1720
01:33:56,840 --> 01:33:59,280
Speaker 4: victory and agony of defeat. This many years later, it's

1721
01:33:59,280 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 4: still it's still part of our vernacular.

1722
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:04,840
Speaker 21: We've dated ourselves, my friend, we have done that.

1723
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:08,639
Speaker 2: Hey, James. Enjoy your weekend, all right. Take care.

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Speaker 4: Franco Bogatie the name of that skier, according to Rush Jackson,

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Speaker 4: sliding in under the gun to deliver that background information.

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Speaker 2: I had a blast with this.

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Speaker 4: I always say the I can only present the idea

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Speaker 4: for the off the beaten path topic. What you do

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Speaker 4: with it determines how it works. You took it and

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Speaker 4: ran with it tonight. I can't thank you enough. It's

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Speaker 4: Friday night, the Olympics are on. There's a heck of

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Speaker 4: a lot of stuff going on. You've got places to go,

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Speaker 4: people to see, and things to do. If you hung

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Speaker 4: out with me tonight, I very much appreciate it because

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Speaker 4: I really enjoyed it. I'll catch you on Monday. Thanks

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Speaker 4: to Russ Jackson. This has been Arnel Carrier Sports Talk

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Speaker 4: presented by Kelsey Cheve Life seven hundred WLW