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Speaker 1: This is Tony Pike Cincy three sixty about Cincinnati from Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: This is ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: What an honor, what a treat we have today on

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Speaker 2: this Wednesday afternoon. Since he three to sixty rolling along

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Speaker 2: a guy that really needs no introduction? Does he Austin?

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Speaker 2: Do we even want to give him an introduction?

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Speaker 3: Or just going right down?

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Speaker 4: I mean he's been a longtime contributors. Sometime this show.

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Speaker 4: He deserves it. He's on Mount rushmore of the show.

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Speaker 2: He's covering the Cincinnati Bengals for Sports Illustrated.

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Speaker 3: Had a stint in Cleveland. Who's a Browns.

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Speaker 2: Guy for a while, Cavz guy for a while. Now

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Speaker 2: he's back here where it all started for him. He's

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Speaker 2: rocking a beautiful Cincinnati Bearcats hat. He may have some

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Speaker 2: information on the next head coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats.

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Speaker 2: Our guy James rpen is with us right now. Hi, James,

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Speaker 2: how are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm great. I appreciate the introduction.

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Speaker 4: I will say clearly you're not going to be the

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Speaker 4: next head coach because you have your own Sincy three

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Speaker 4: to sixty. Your name's in the show now, so I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure you can go anywhere nowhere.

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Speaker 3: I'm locked in here until they.

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Speaker 4: Rushmore of this show. I'm shocked I didn't get a

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Speaker 4: vote on the name. I'm just gonna throw that out there.

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Speaker 4: I thought I would at least get some input. You

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Speaker 4: weren't the only one who didn't get a vote on

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Speaker 4: the name. Also, Tony just clapped for you, which I

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Speaker 4: don't remember him every clapping for a game. I think

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Speaker 4: it's because he can see me right now, right where

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Speaker 4: you guys are doing this new video version, which is cool,

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Speaker 4: and he's like, man, James is good looking.

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Speaker 3: I just feel like I.

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Speaker 2: Have to pay so much more attention now when I

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Speaker 2: do this that I've got to put on a show

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Speaker 2: for the camera.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of putting some Bowl games.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of putting on a show, how about those Bengals

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Speaker 2: and free agency?

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Speaker 3: Oh may that works? That works, That lines up transition.

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Speaker 2: It's it's very simple, because I think individually all three

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Speaker 2: moves that the Bengals made makes sense. What doesn't make

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Speaker 2: sense to me, James, is how how they've structured these deals,

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Speaker 2: how they've gone about in the guaranteed money in year one?

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Speaker 2: What do you make of of what has transpired and

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Speaker 2: what we've found out over the last couple of days

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Speaker 2: and how front loaded these deals are because it's great

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Speaker 2: for the future. But the idea I thought is win now,

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Speaker 2: win in twenty twenty six for the Cincinnati Bengals, what

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Speaker 2: did you make of it?

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Speaker 3: And it doesn't even really change the future.

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Speaker 4: Like the Cook one, you don't pro rate his full bonus,

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Speaker 4: and so you save a million dollars in cap space

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Speaker 4: next year when the CAP's going to go up like

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Speaker 4: crazy and you already have six figures or excuse me,

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Speaker 4: seven eight, eight digits, nine digits, nine digits. Man, I

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Speaker 4: just can't count that over one hundred million dollars in

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Speaker 4: cap space, right. So it's that's where it's frustrating, is

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Speaker 4: that they needed a lot. They needed to make up

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Speaker 4: for multiple years of underwhelming free agent periods and underwhelming

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Speaker 4: non instant contributor drafts in instant star drafts. And so

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Speaker 4: that's a hell of a lot to do in one

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Speaker 4: free agency, there's no doubt. But guess what, that's where

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Speaker 4: they were. And the sad part about this I was

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Speaker 4: kind of reviewing it and on my shows on Cincinnati

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Speaker 4: Bengals talking on Lockdown Bengals, we grated free agency this

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Speaker 4: week and they had a real chance to get an a.

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Speaker 4: They put themselves in position to just knock it all

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Speaker 3: They were two moves away on.

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Speaker 4: Defense, odd take with two moves, and they didn't do that.

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Speaker 4: The contract structure certainly part of it. Not restructuring Joe

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Speaker 4: Burrow certainly part of it. It's it's maddening because I

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Speaker 4: like their moves in a vacuum and it sucks because

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Speaker 4: then I have to say, but they didn't do enough,

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Speaker 4: and they had to dig themself, well climb themselves out

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Speaker 4: three years, and they just didn't do enough. That ladder

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Speaker 4: wasn't tall enough to get it done. They did not

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Speaker 4: do enough in free agent.

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Speaker 2: Say they didn't do enough. They also have not addressed

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Speaker 2: those players to begin with. I'll ask you now, as

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Speaker 4: Well, the plan was to get a real dude. And

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Speaker 4: I think that's the crazy part is like they were

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Speaker 3: There was real interest there.

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Speaker 4: They at least at one point, thought they would get

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Speaker 4: But if it's Kuai Walker or nobody set me up

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Speaker 4: for quay Baby, let's go it's Quaida. And that did

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Speaker 4: not happen at all. And that's the unfortunate part is

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Speaker 4: like you were in position. You had the cap space,

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Speaker 4: you had the ability, you had the cash. They still

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Speaker 4: haven't spent as much cash as I thought they would

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Speaker 4: and things like that. But you had the resources to

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Speaker 4: use a Duke Tobin word to address linebacker in a

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Speaker 4: big way and still be open in a draft that's

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Speaker 4: full of good linebackers. And now it's kind of the opposite.

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Speaker 4: It feels like you have to have a linebacker at

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Speaker 4: some point, and I don't like this team when they

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Speaker 4: have to force it in the draft, I think that's

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Speaker 4: when they really screw it up.

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Speaker 3: And I wanted them.

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Speaker 4: To put themselves in position to where they could just say, hey,

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Speaker 4: Caleb Downs is there, Let's take them. That Sunny Styles

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Speaker 4: two is there, let's take them in. They're not in

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: It feels like they're going to have to force a

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Speaker 4: need in each of their first few picks, and that's

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Speaker 4: just the wrong way to draft.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the first few picks, because this, to

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Speaker 2: me is the worrisome part. We've always talked about can

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Speaker 2: you get to a point in free agency that you

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Speaker 2: can take the best player available. We had this conversation

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Speaker 2: last time you were on about and you threw Jeremiah

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Speaker 2: Love out there, and it's like, Okay, I know, but

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Speaker 2: if they do their work, if they handle their business,

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Speaker 2: then you can be in that conversation. We've talked about

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Speaker 2: the name Francis Mauinoa a lot on this on this station,

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Speaker 2: and can you do enough that tackle is all of

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Speaker 3: But because of the lack.

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Speaker 2: Of getting the work done on the defensive side of

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Speaker 2: number ten right now?

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Speaker 3: I don't. I can't. It's not in my blood. I

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Speaker 4: And it's not because it's offense. I wouldn't take defense

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Speaker 4: mentioned the Browns earlier, guess what the brown should be

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Speaker 4: doing considering Caleb Downs and Ruben Bain because they're really

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Speaker 4: freaking good football players and David Bailey. Everyone in Cleveland

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Speaker 4: wants offense because they suck on offense. And that's fair.

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Speaker 4: I get it, I understand it. But you when you

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 4: In an ideal world, the Bengals would get Caleb Downs

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Speaker 4: Ruben Bain and then they would get a star safety

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Speaker 4: or vice versa, an interior pass rusher, and then a

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Speaker 4: linebacker and they'd all be stars in rounds one, three,

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Speaker 4: three would be great.

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Speaker 3: It would be rosy. You look at their drafts, even

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Speaker 3: in the Jamar draft. That's it.

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Speaker 4: That's where it ends. Outside of a kicker, they fail

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Speaker 4: And that's the problem is you cannot. I was talking

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Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be even more eventful

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Speaker 4: bank on these spots that you need to be much

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Speaker 4: better at. You cannot bank on a rookie coming in,

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Speaker 4: even with the tenth pick. It could take Ruben Bay

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Speaker 4: in eight weeks. Maybe Caleb Downs struggles a little bit

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Speaker 4: in that Nickel spot early on. You can't bank on

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Speaker 4: this guy, whoever you take at ten, to suddenly be

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Speaker 4: this game changer. And so that's why you address your

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Speaker 4: needs and they haven't fully done that. So to your point,

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Speaker 4: is it hard for me to envision them picking offense? Yes,

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Speaker 4: even for me, it is, and I hate it because

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Speaker 4: that's the wrong way to draft. Is there any thing

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Speaker 4: like obviously Al Golden said all this stuff about linebackers,

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Speaker 4: Duke Tobin used the words attack and use the word resource.

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Speaker 4: And I'm stuck on the linebacker spot because I've gone

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Speaker 4: back and I've watched these games. It's horrible. Is it's

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Speaker 4: And I'm not kidding, and I don't mean to take

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Speaker 4: they have seen or what could have changed? Or do

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Speaker 4: you think it's just oh, we added these two guys

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Speaker 4: do they justify the lack of activity at that position.

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Speaker 3: I think that they would say.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, I'm just thinking about how you

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Speaker 4: That's without question, and so that was almost met for

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Speaker 4: the Bengals linebackers.

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Speaker 3: But I look at this, it would be Tony Pike's

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Speaker 4: He'd be going in circles, all right, all right, but

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Speaker 4: I look at the the linebacker attack resource all of

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Speaker 4: those things and what Al Golden said, and I bet

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Speaker 4: you Al Golden, if you gave him truth serum, would

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Speaker 4: be like, man, I can't believe we're doing this. Like

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Speaker 4: there's some good linebackers in the draft, and we filled

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Speaker 4: these holes, but I can't believe. And they're probably reserved

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Speaker 4: Vel Reese for some miracle falls to ten.

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Speaker 3: Who knows. But I think.

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Speaker 4: If you gave them truth serum, they would admit that

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Speaker 4: they wanted a real guy there to help stabilize that room.

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Speaker 4: They probably do believe in Barrett Carter and Demetrius Knight

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Speaker 4: with that same truth serum. But that doesn't mean that

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Speaker 4: you didn't need a number one, a true LB one and.

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Speaker 3: To bring those guys along.

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Speaker 4: And that's what they thought, at least that's what the

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Speaker 4: plan was with Logan Wilson last year. Then they got

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Speaker 4: to Barrett Carter at some point anyway, And they went

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Speaker 4: earlier than they probably should have, but they did. They

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Speaker 4: went to Brett Carter and it was ugly and it

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Speaker 4: didn't do it. They whiffed, and that's it. Sometimes you

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Speaker 4: a hell of a strikeout in a very much a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough. It's tough.

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Speaker 3: But McCoy. McCoy's awesome.

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Speaker 4: He hasn't done anything football wise on record in like

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Speaker 3: Sure you do it well.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, what about about trading.

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Speaker 4: You can't rule it down, you can't rule it out,

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Speaker 4: thing that's hard about this, right, James, because the Bengals

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Speaker 4: players to do that. Yeah, I wonder where the animosity

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Speaker 4: at linebacker. But but you can tell I'm letting it go.

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Speaker 4: Is it because they didn't go out and get Al

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there should be. They should have done more.

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Speaker 4: Like there has not been one person that has said, James,

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Speaker 4: Why are we structuring deals this way? Why aren't we

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Speaker 4: need to for more space in adding what we need

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 3: Because it's almost like.

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Speaker 4: And the Bengals are like so against risking any type

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Speaker 4: and it's like, well, to give yourself more wiggle room

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Speaker 3: How do you think he would respond? I think he

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Speaker 4: I asked Joe about free agency in January and I

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Speaker 3: What you got to keep swinging.

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Speaker 4: And the crappy part is the Bengals would say, see,

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Speaker 4: look what we did. We've over one hundred plus million

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Speaker 4: And that's that's a tough that's overall a tough sell.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't mean he's not gonna go out there and

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Speaker 4: But there are levels to it, and they did not

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Speaker 2: If that is the standard, And again, it's one thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it'll become a real thing if they

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Speaker 4: better term, no excuses. Hey, look at this defense. We

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Speaker 4: never had a guy like that. And in Bain Bailey,

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Speaker 4: all these guys fall under the same talent umbrella, and

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Speaker 4: so they're gonna have to win.

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Speaker 3: And that's what it comes down to.

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Speaker 4: And I think the coaches, going back to the animosity part,

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Speaker 4: at some point they do flip the page and say,

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Speaker 4: all right, it's just time to go win. The problem

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Speaker 4: is is we've seen it year after year now where

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Speaker 4: they just haven't had enough talent to go within like

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Speaker 4: even if you do think that they're met coaches or

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Speaker 4: bad coaches. There's clearly been a talent issue. And it's

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Speaker 4: not like they didn't lose talent like Trey Hendricks. They

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Speaker 4: lost Trey Hendrickson. There are people that just gloss over it.

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Speaker 4: They lost Trey hendricks in this offseason, they lost Joseph

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Speaker 4: Osai and so far they brought in one edge.

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Speaker 3: And so that's that's a tough sell. And so yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think that's the key.

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Speaker 4: The key is winning, giving Joe enough to win if

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Speaker 4: he misses a month, giving hopefully Joe Flacco enough to win,

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Speaker 4: and giving them enough talent and building a roster that

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Speaker 4: is sustainable over the life of a full season. In

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Speaker 4: so far to this point, while they've done some good things,

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Speaker 4: I don't think they've they've done enough to say that

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Speaker 4: that's the case.

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Speaker 2: Before we let you go, James, who do you like

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Speaker 2: winning the whole thing?

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Speaker 3: Who's winning? March Madnus? Well you I'm gonna just tie

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Speaker 3: this in. Uh.

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Speaker 4: There's one big Bengals fan who I'm sure reads Bengals

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Speaker 4: Talk dot com and watches Cincinnati Bengals Talk on YouTube

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Speaker 4: and obviously listens to to locked on Bengals and it's

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Speaker 4: Dan Hurley, and I'm sure Dan Hurley would love to

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Speaker 4: hear that.

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Speaker 3: I'm all in.

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Speaker 4: I hope you can just rolls rolls baby, So that

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Speaker 4: that's where I'm at.

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Speaker 2: Dan Hurley officially off the board for the UC coach search.

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Speaker 4: No, I've actually at the pot form. There's a chance

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Speaker 4: I put it like that. I think he likes the

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Speaker 4: logo I have on my hat. I think there's a

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Speaker 4: small chance here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what's uh, what's the easiest way. It's obviously still

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Speaker 2: a lot of off season ago, a lot of draft coverage

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Speaker 2: coming up. What's the easiest way folks can follow along

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Speaker 2: with everything you got going on?

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Speaker 4: The one thing to land in Hurley, you're gonna have

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Speaker 4: to get that pocketbook ready for your the nil part

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Speaker 4: of it. Oh, all that NFL money might have to

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Speaker 4: go to n I L NFL to n I L. Well,

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Speaker 4: you've got all that money off the naming rights, so yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's all gone. I had to pay for this show's name. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 4: whoever you paid to name it, if you need your

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Speaker 4: money back.

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Speaker 3: I had a search company that put together the research. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: Anyways, you can check it out Bengals Talk dot Com.

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Speaker 4: That's not Tony Pikes Bengals Talk dot Com. Bengals talking

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Speaker 4: the right price in Cincinnati, Bengals talk on YouTube for

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Speaker 4: the right price.

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Speaker 3: Yeah for me, you have to pay me, all right,

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Speaker 3: let's talk. James, have a good one. Thank you, James.

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Speaker 4: Man, Tony, I'm sorry I have to be the one

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Speaker 4: that delivers the blows to you, my friend.

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Speaker 2: It's fine, I appreciate, it's fine. I'll accept it. See

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Speaker 2: you only hit me in the knee. James Rapene All over.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals coverage.

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Speaker 3: Got a giant looking our Number.

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Speaker 2: Three continues on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Better

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Speaker 2: welcome back since he three sixties. ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station. How about this Austin Tomorrow, we'll make it

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Speaker 2: one week away from Red's opening Day's right. We are there, man,

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Speaker 2: we're there. And today we've received a little more clarification

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Speaker 2: on what that day will look like. Obviously that day

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Speaker 2: for us Austin will start at Smoke Justice, just a

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Speaker 2: block in a bridge from the ballpark for this show,

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Speaker 2: as we'll be joined by Moegger and then we'll make

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Speaker 2: the walk block in a bridge to the ballpark.

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Speaker 4: We know now we've run into some important people on

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Speaker 4: that it's been that way back that bridge, and I

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Speaker 4: believe one year there was a like a Rigshaw ride.

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Speaker 4: There was something going on taking We narrowly avoided a

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Speaker 4: fight with a goose one year. Yes, we ran into

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Speaker 4: Jack Collinsworth one time. And the way back from the

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Speaker 4: ballpark or back from back to the ballpark.

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Speaker 3: So it's fun. You never know what's gonna happen. Star

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Speaker 3: studded day.

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Speaker 2: And how about this the grand marshal of the one

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventh Finley Market Opening Day parade, the cowboy

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Speaker 2: Jeff Brantley.

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Speaker 4: Fired up for Jeff Brantley to be able to do this,

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Speaker 4: and he was the name name the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 4: Ohio sportscaster of the Year. He deserves every bit of it.

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Speaker 4: You said today, the cowboy, that parade will be head

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Speaker 4: and where well, not only do they have the you

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Speaker 4: know the normal route, which of course is right down Broadway.

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Speaker 4: I think that's not that's not a good cowboy impression.

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Speaker 4: Cowboy probably insulting to him. But yeah, this is going

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Speaker 4: to be the one hundred and fiftieth opening Day in Cincinnati, unreal.

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Speaker 4: Gates will open to the ballpark at two ten pm.

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Speaker 4: Pregame ceremonies start at three point thirty pm, so just

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Speaker 4: in time for you to literally leave us at Smoke

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Speaker 4: Justice walk with us over into the ballpark. But there's

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Speaker 4: gonna be the big block party starting at eleven am.

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Speaker 4: The naked karate girls and our guy DJ Train gonna

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Speaker 4: be there as well. That's obviously benefiting the Reds Community Fund.

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Speaker 4: Got the grand Marshal of the parade. Just throw out

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Speaker 4: the first pitch. The first pitch is going to be

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Speaker 4: thrown by Reds and Red Sox legend Bronson Arroyo. Wow,

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Speaker 4: Red's Hall of Famer. He's gonna be the first overall pitch.

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Speaker 4: How about this the flyover? Oh, it is gonna take

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Speaker 4: place with three AH sixty four Apache helicopters and one

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Speaker 4: AGE sixty Blackhawk helicopter from the First Battalion, one hundred

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Speaker 4: and first Aviation Regiment called No Mercy.

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Speaker 2: You want to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. You want to talk

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Speaker 2: about a winner. You want to talk about someone that

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Speaker 2: represents the Red, the White, and the Blue.

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Speaker 4: How about Connor Current is going to deliver the official

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Speaker 4: game ball. Connor Kurran was here the other day. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I was.

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Speaker 3: I had no idea.

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Speaker 2: I was off and John John was like, hey, he's

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Speaker 2: here early, do you want to interview him?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: It was a day we were and we were on

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Speaker 2: Kentucky was playing, so we can't get him. But Connor

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Speaker 2: is a Cincinnati native, twenty twenty six winner, Olympic Golden Medalist,

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Speaker 2: and then of course the honorary Captain Davey conception on.

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Speaker 3: Now he's from Venezuela.

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Speaker 4: I wonder if Kenny has anything to say about that

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Speaker 4: great question anyways. Uh, yeah, So that's awesome day that's

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Speaker 4: gonna happen. And then the game starts obviously at four

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Speaker 4: to ten. It'll be Garrett Crochet and Andrew Abbott going

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Speaker 4: up against it, and of course seven hundred WLW and

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Speaker 4: the Reds Radio Network. We'll have Tommy Thrall and Jeff

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Speaker 4: Brantley on the call for opening day.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break, let's come back in one

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Speaker 2: of our favorite traditions around the masters. Yeah, it's figuring

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Speaker 2: out what they're going to serve for the pre master's meal.

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Speaker 3: Whatever. I need to just kind of settle the heart rate.

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Speaker 3: This is it right here? A little bit. I imagine

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Speaker 3: a drive down Magnolia Lane.

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Speaker 2: Let us tell you what Rory McElroy's got in store

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Speaker 2: for everyone. Next on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: The twenty twenty six Cincinnati Rags. He Bear God This

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Speaker 3: esp and.

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Speaker 6: Fifteen to thirty player profile Good Bar presented by rookie

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Speaker 6: Wisht in Recycling Don Wright. Also brought to you by

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Speaker 6: Dunnado's Pizza and Riverside Electric Bar.

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Speaker 3: Now with the name you need to know, Here's Moegger.

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Speaker 5: If the Reds are gonna have a more potent offense

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Speaker 5: than they did last season.

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Speaker 3: A rookie could be a major reason why.

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Speaker 5: Sal Stewart joined the Reds late last season, and he

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Speaker 5: instantly showed some pop, clubbing five homers in just fifty

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Speaker 5: five at bats. Add that to the twenty Stewart hit

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Speaker 5: in the minor leagues before his call up, and it's

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Speaker 5: easy to see why there's so much excitement around the

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Speaker 5: twenty two year old. His position is It's likely to

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Speaker 5: be first base, but he'll probably also spend some time

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Speaker 5: at third, and he has some experience playing second base.

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Speaker 5: Two and despite his cup of coffee with the Reds

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Speaker 5: last season, he still considered a rookie. I'm worth mentioning

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Speaker 5: as a possible Rookie of the Year. Canadate me rookie

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Speaker 5: first Baseman salth Stewart.

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Speaker 6: For more player profiles, cheap it here on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: Are you experiencing on oneed Achs and pain?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back side three to sixty, ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station. Just a moment here before we get to moegar.

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Speaker 2: What is Rory McElroy serving up at his Master's dinner

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Speaker 2: this year?

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Speaker 4: You know, we're just a couple of weeks away from

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Speaker 4: the Masters and the Masters Club dinner. A Champion's Dinner

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Speaker 4: will happen on April seventh, twenty twenty six, at Augusta

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Speaker 4: National Golf Club. Here's what mister Rory McElroy will be

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Speaker 4: serving up. Let's start with the appetizers. Oh, peach and

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Speaker 4: ricotta flatbread probably out on that baside, hot honey and basil,

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Speaker 4: rock shrimp tempura with a creamy spicy sauce, grilled elk

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Speaker 4: sliders with caramelized onion ic and elk mel and roasted garlic,

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Speaker 4: aoli and bacon wrapped dates.

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Speaker 3: With goat cheese, and almonds.

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Speaker 4: Nope, I'll be honest, every single one of those sounds

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Speaker 4: freaking fantastic. Touch one of them with a ten foot

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Speaker 4: They look and sound delicious. How about the first course

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Speaker 4: a yellow fin tuna carpaccio with a toasted baguette and shives.

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Speaker 3: Sounds delicious? What's keeping me out of the masters? And

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Speaker 3: then the main course your choice of a wago filet mignon.

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Speaker 3: Now we're talking rollers.

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Speaker 4: Seared salmon, traditional Irish champ sauteed brushels sprouts sounds delicious,

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Speaker 4: Glazed carrots with brown butter, come on, speak to me.

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Speaker 4: And a crispy vedalia onion rings. That all sounds wonderful

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Speaker 4: and poor dessert tom at Augusta National Golf Club.

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Speaker 3: How about a sticky toffee pudding? Now, I love toffee pudding.

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Speaker 3: We never had the sticky kind of.

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Speaker 4: Vanilla ice cream and warm toffee sauce, and several champagnes

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Speaker 4: Burgundy wines.

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Speaker 3: Let's see a nineteen eighty nine chateau. Yeah, a chateau

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Speaker 3: from nineteen eighty nine in there a list, and this,

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Speaker 3: of course all served in honor of Masters champion or

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Speaker 3: mister Roy maccar. Very good now, I look forward.

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Speaker 2: We can't promise you the same dinner, but we do

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Speaker 2: have something here for you on ESPN fifteen to thirty

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Speaker 3: There's a tournament coming up. Yep, it's a basketball one.

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Speaker 2: The winner also is going to get a two hundred

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Speaker 2: we'll take a break. We'll talk to Mo next. On

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for quick hits on Tony Pikes. Since

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Speaker 1: the three.

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Speaker 2: Sixty Loaga looking like Traymond Mark at the gun last week,

655
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 2: stepping in right as we come back for quick Hits

656
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Now, Mo has

657
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 2: his show this afternoon and then Moe's NCAA Tournament spectacular

658
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 2: whatever you do call it, from ten to noon tomorrow.

659
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 2: What an opportunity for folks to come down, get set

660
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 2: for the tournament, and win a really nice prize and then.

661
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 3: Just post up. You know we have it's we start

662
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 3: at ten am.

663
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 5: The doors open at nine to forty five, but it's

664
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 5: orton that you get there early because there's only six

665
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 5: starting tomorrow. You're only sixty four teams, and we'll give

666
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 5: you a team if you're among the first sixty four,

667
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 5: a team at random. If your team wins the whole thing,

668
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 5: you win a Bertram Golf get away. We can't golf

669
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 5: get away. Also to celebrate the Holy Grails fifteenth anniversary,

670
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 5: rollback pricing no way, five beers, fifteen bucks like that?

671
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 3: Now? Can you beat it? You don't want to put

672
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 3: the cart before the horse. You don't. What do you

673
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 3: got on today's show?

674
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 5: Well, we have on the show today we're going to

675
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 5: talk about the Miami Radhawks taking center stage tonight. We're

676
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 5: going to talk about Tito and DT's or DJ, sorry,

677
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 5: Tito and DJ's plan to have six starting pitchers in

678
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 5: a five man rotation. Magnificent which I love. I like

679
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 5: this idea. They're thinking outside the box. We're also are

680
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 5: the Bengals just trying to prove that they're not cheap?

681
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 5: We're going to ask that question. We're going to talk

682
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 5: with Vincent Dytouche. Oh call me Vincent Dytouche. He's with Apple, TV,

683
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 5: FC Cincinnati and montre All. We're gonna talk about how

684
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 5: the contract negotiations between Wes Miller and UC might be

685
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 5: playing out with our legal expert Stuart W. Penrose from

686
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 5: the Manila Log Group, and so much more. You mentioned

687
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 5: the game last night, First Team all names today it

688
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 5: is can I mention my favorite part of the game

689
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 5: last night? Sure, Dick Vital and Charles Barkley are doing

690
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 5: the game, and they had to do a little bit

691
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 5: more heavy lifting than he might ordinarily expect because Brian

692
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 5: Anderson had you can tell you it a cold and

693
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 5: vocal issues. So at some point during the game, dig

694
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 5: Vie Tal says to Charles Barkley, were you a top

695
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 5: one hundred NBA player?

696
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 3: Now?

697
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 5: I don't know if he was joking. I fear he wasn't.

698
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 5: What's interesting is I made reference to this on social

699
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 5: media and there were people who I believe considered themselves

700
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 5: basketball fans who are like not top one hundred.

701
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 3: Boy, do you know good Charles Barkley? I mean, I

702
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 3: get it.

703
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 5: He hasn't played and retired in two thousand. He's now

704
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 5: more known for TV persona. But really top one hundred

705
00:33:59,040 --> 00:33:59,959
Speaker 5: NBA players of all time?

706
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 4: Really?

707
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 3: Yeah?

708
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 5: So that frustrated me. But can I tell you about

709
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 5: something that happened to me today please. I mentioned to

710
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 5: you guys on Monday getting some car repairs. Yes, right,

711
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 5: And so I took my car to Donovan Tire in

712
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 5: Auto on Monday, plug for them because I love Dale Donovan.

713
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 5: They didn't have the part that they needed to fix

714
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 5: my car issue, so I had to take it back

715
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 5: today just up here in Blue Ash that's six minutes

716
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 5: from the radio station. So I drop it off, sure,

717
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 5: and the folks said Donovan Tire then drive me to work.

718
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 5: Then they text me and say, hey, your car is ready,

719
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,479
Speaker 5: and I called just to go, Hey, I'll be there,

720
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 5: like I'm good to go, and they go, yeah, the

721
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 5: guy who's driving people around is out and about it

722
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 5: might be a while, and I said, cool, no problem. Sure,

723
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 5: So I got a lift. Wow, right, go on the

724
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 5: app get a lift. Guy picks me up here at

725
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 5: the radio station. Yeah, and he says, as we're pulling out,

726
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 5: he goes, what's in that building? And I said, oh,

727
00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 5: there's like forty fifty businesses, medical offices, banks, financial places,

728
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 5: and there's eight radio stations. And so he's he's pulling away,

729
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 5: we're driving on our way to dotiv entire and he goes, well,

730
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 5: where do you work? And I go, I work for

731
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 5: one of the radio stations. Sure, he goes which one?

732
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 5: I said, w c KY, ESPN fifteen thirty, goes, Oh,

733
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 5: I listen to Mike and Mike every day. And I

734
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,479
Speaker 5: didn't have the heart to tell him, no, you don't

735
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 5: because that show hasn't been on. I mean, I just

736
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 5: I did not have the heart to sit in the

737
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 5: back of this guy's car and tell this man that

738
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 5: show went off the air like nine years ago. I

739
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 5: think he's listening right now, probably getting ready to find

740
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 5: out what's on Mike and Mike tomorrow.

741
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, So anyway, shout out to my left drive in.

742
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 3: It's like I hear Dan Patrick tell stories all the time.

743
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 4: If people say, hey, I love you on Sports Center,

744
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 4: I have it's been a while.

745
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 5: I have a distant relative who when I first started

746
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 5: working at the radio station, like one of these guys

747
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 5: that whenever we were together, we weren't around each other

748
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 5: enough to really have a meaningful dialogue, so he would

749
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 5: just say stuff like her Jonal with Burbank. Yeah, And

750
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 5: he would say this for years, and I would go, literally,

751
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 5: was never on that show man like her jon with Burbank. No,

752
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 5: you didn't, you did not. Yeah, why don't you just

753
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 5: talk about the weather. That's why the weather exists, for

754
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 5: us to have something to talk about when there's nothing else.

755
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 5: Or Johnny Galer Burbank like, I promise you nothing against

756
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 5: Gary God rest his soul.

757
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 3: You did not hear me el At Burbank didn't happen

758
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 3: listening to Mike and Mike every morning, that's awesome.

759
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 2: Is there pressure on Miami to win tonight because they

760
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 2: have this unbelievable regular season, but they lose in the

761
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 2: first round of the MAC Tournament. Now you're in the Dance,

762
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 2: you're essentially playing a home game against SMU. Is there

763
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 2: pressure on them to at least get one win here?

764
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 5: Some Yeah, I mean I don't think it invalidates what

765
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 5: they've done. They're MAC champions. They had a great year,

766
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 5: but you and I both know there are people waiting

767
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 5: to pounce if they lose that will claim they don't

768
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 5: belong to Well.

769
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of people don't validate that

770
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine Big East champion. I do because

771
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 2: of what happened in the Sugar Bowl.

772
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 5: I've tried to erase from my memory what happened in

773
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 5: the Sugar Meto and I did a very good job

774
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 5: the night of the Sugar Bowl.

775
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 3: Doing that perfect. You know, Yeah, I think there's pressure

776
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 3: on them.

777
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 5: I think there's less pressure because they did lose a

778
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 5: game last week, and you know, I think Travis Steele

779
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 5: would be the first to admit, you don't want to

780
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 5: lose a game. And if they didn't lose that game

781
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 5: on Friday, chances are they're not playing in Dayton. But yeah,

782
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 5: I mean, you've been the talk of college basketball all season.

783
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 5: I think to validate your inclusion in the tournament when

784
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 5: there are some who believe you didn't belong in the field.

785
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 5: If you win tonight, I think folks are going to

786
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 5: get off your back a little bit. Yeah, especially because

787
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,439
Speaker 5: they're playing less than two hours from.

788
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 2: It might be easy for them to win than Louisville

789
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 2: Without Mikel Brown Junior us SF, I feel like was

790
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 2: already a trendy upset pick. It's gonna be tough for

791
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey to win that one.

792
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 5: It is, So I will talk about my bracket. Oh,

793
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 5: which I've entered in your pool that has no prize?

794
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 3: Yes? And what about our office? We have you entered

795
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 3: that one I have? Did you see what our boss

796
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 3: Boston would get an off day? Yeah? Taking this one

797
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 3: a little more serious Noway, I'd rather have that than

798
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 3: the cash.

799
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 5: So, so the way I picked my bracket is I

800
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 5: don't I obviously mostly pick teams that I think will

801
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 5: win each game, but I look for spots to fade

802
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 5: the rest of the field. Sure, with MIKEL. Brown, I

803
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 5: have Louisville in the Elite eight. Okay, without him, I

804
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 5: still believe they'll beat USF. But like in that like quadrant,

805
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 5: UCLA can get to the Elite eight, U CELA can.

806
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 3: Lose to UCF. East is incredible. The East is insane.

807
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 5: Yukon is the worst team in the field against the spread,

808
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 5: so they play in games that are closer than they

809
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 5: should be.

810
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's still a Yukon right, former potential bear Louisville.

811
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. I just gotta see Ifield say no Louisville.

812
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 5: I thought was interesting because MIKEL Brown's a lottery pick, right,

813
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 5: But to drop off from that team with him to

814
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 5: without him, it would be unsurprising if USF won and

815
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 5: then got to the sweet sixteen, which you can get

816
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 5: at plus eight hundred.

817
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:57,959
Speaker 3: How about that? Yes?

818
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 2: Now, do you fill out your bracket from the beginning

819
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 2: to feel to the end or do you put your

820
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 2: champion and then work back?

821
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 3: I know people who do that. Yeah, I don't.

822
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 2: And you feel you like to write the bracket, Yeah, yeah,

823
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 2: it's the most.

824
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 3: Way to do it.

825
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 5: My daughter and I are sitting down tonight nice and

826
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 5: I think she's wondering, like, isn't there an online way

827
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 5: to do this?

828
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 3: And it's like, kiddo, we do. We believe in a

829
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: few things in this house. One of them is you

830
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 3: write out your bracket. Pan.

831
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 2: Now, when you are filling this out with Crosley, will

832
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 2: you help in any way?

833
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 3: Will you nudge her?

834
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 2: Like when I feel I filled one out with with

835
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: Wilder and Wesley yesterday I went ahead and just punched

836
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 2: the one seeds in everything else they can pick. Now,

837
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 2: do you give her free rein? No, you help our

838
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 2: line there. It's like our homework. I am there to

839
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 2: answer questions. Okay, you are doing the work.

840
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 3: Nice.

841
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 5: So she asks a question, I'm there to provide some

842
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 5: some guidance, by the way, in a pool that we're

843
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 5: in with our friends.

844
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 3: She came in third last year. Nice.

845
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, but I believe in it's just like doing homework.

846
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 5: I will not do the work for you. I will

847
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 5: not give you the answers. But if you ask a

848
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 5: good question and I'll give you, I'll tell you something. So, uh,

849
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 5: we're doing that tonight. We talked about it this morning. Nice,

850
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 5: gotta have it in by noon, and you got to

851
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 5: come up with your ten bucks.

852
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 3: Okay.

853
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 5: She looked at me like, who whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

854
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 5: whoa whoa Wait wait, hold.

855
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: On, did did you get the sense at all last

856
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 2: night of watching so many Reds games from last year,

857
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: the USA striking out a ton so closer walks the

858
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 2: lead off batter.

859
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 5: I don't know how closely you guys watched that with

860
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 5: like the announcers and stuff. But John Smolts and Joe

861
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 5: Davis were like flummixed as to how the US wasn't

862
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 5: scoring runs. Yeah, and I'm like, are you are you

863
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 5: watching the pitching?

864
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 3: Do you know?

865
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 5: This marks what good pitching beats good hitting? Really cool

866
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 5: for Suarez, Awesome for him, thrilled for him. That event,

867
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 5: which I will admit when it first was hatched, whenever

868
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 5: it was twenty seven, I didn't really buy into.

869
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 3: I love that event. Well, the players have bought in. Yeah,

870
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 3: and it means something to them.

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Speaker 5: And it makes you feel like if they could find

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Speaker 5: a way to put big leaguers in the Olympics, how

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Speaker 5: cool that could be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Of course they might be able to do that in

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Speaker 5: two years, because I don't know when the most baseball

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Speaker 5: season is going to be after this one.

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Speaker 3: Well, Mowger is Mike coming up tomorrow morning? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And uh, you are playing the best of you with Burbank?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, four to five today, John Burbank. Oh Man,

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Speaker 2: we're time. We won't see it until next week. Eg Man,

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Speaker 2: Kentucky basketball Friday, so we're not in and you're down

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Speaker 2: at the grail tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you next week. Yeah, the first day the

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Speaker 3: I think I'm producing your show Tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: Calendar comes out. I take those two days off smart, Smart,

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Speaker 5: Well done. Mowager is to have a third. If you're

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Speaker 5: in the challenge, have a.

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Speaker 2: Great Thursday on the ESPN fifteenth third. Well have a

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Speaker 2: great Wednesday on ESPN fifteen thirty. Cincinnati sports station.

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