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Speaker 1: The following takes place between six pm and seven pm.

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Speaker 2: You want answers. I think I'm entitled. You what answer

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Speaker 2: the truth? You can't handle the truth?

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Speaker 3: Truth?

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Speaker 4: Truth.

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Speaker 5: Hi, Hello, and welcome in Sports Talk on a Friday night,

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Speaker 5: seven hundred wl W.

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Speaker 6: My name is Austin Elmore.

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Speaker 5: Happy, honored to be with you, filling in for one

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Speaker 5: Lance McAllister on a beautiful Friday night in the Tri

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Speaker 5: state area. Gonna be a perfect night for high school football.

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Speaker 5: Big one at the pit tonight between Mohler and Elder,

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Speaker 5: and we'll keep you updated with anything we can find

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Speaker 5: out about high school sports. We're gonna talk Reds, We're

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Speaker 5: gonna talk Bengals. Shocker, I know. On Sports Talk an

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Speaker 5: hour from right now. Joe Daneman from Fox nineteen. He

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Speaker 5: was in Los Angeles covering the Reds trip to the

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Speaker 5: wild Card round to take on the Dodgers. We'll get

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Speaker 5: his perspective from somebody who was there and someone who

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Speaker 5: was in the clubhouse after their season came to an

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Speaker 5: end and a sense of accomplishment is what he got.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to him about that. We'll do

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Speaker 5: that at seven o'clock. We'll also talk to Joe about

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Speaker 5: the Bengals, who get set to host the three to

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Speaker 5: one Detroit Lions at pay Corps Stadium on Sunday afternoon,

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Speaker 5: a four to twenty five pm kickoff. You'll hear it

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Speaker 5: right here on the Home of the Best Bengals coverage.

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Speaker 5: The Bearcats are in action tomorrow nip at noon against

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Speaker 5: number fourteen ranth iow number fourteenth ranked Iowa State. The

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Speaker 5: Bearcats actually favorites in this game due to a bunch

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Speaker 5: of injuries for Iowa State. And earlier this week on

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Speaker 5: my other show, since He three point sixty that I

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Speaker 5: co host with Tony Pike, Tony talked to UC quarterback

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Speaker 5: Brendan So and the interview was fantastic. It was really

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Speaker 5: really good. So I'm going to bring back a good

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Speaker 5: Lance normally does on Friday nights, which is get to

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Speaker 5: an off the beaten path topic, because one week from

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Speaker 5: right now, I will be in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I'm

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Speaker 5: going up to lambeau Field to watch the Bengals play

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Speaker 5: the Packers. Lambeau Field is towards the top, if not

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Speaker 5: the very top of my sports bucket list, and so

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Speaker 5: I want to get into that topic with you sports

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Speaker 5: bucket list? What is on your list? What have you

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Speaker 5: to lambeau Field, and if you've been to lambeau Field,

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Speaker 5: I would love any recommendations you might have for my

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Speaker 5: trip coming up next week. That is in our number three,

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Speaker 5: but in hour number one we start with the Reds.

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Speaker 5: I think it's fair to say that the twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: five Red season was a failure. I think it's fair

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Speaker 5: to say that. I think it's also fair to say

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Speaker 5: that it was a success.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 5: I have a hard time saying that because I don't

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Speaker 5: believe it was a success, but I can see the

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Speaker 5: also think it's fair to say, more than anything, that

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Speaker 5: it was a failure, a failure because a couple of

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Speaker 5: years ago, when this young corps of players was brought

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Speaker 5: they were in a tight playoff race. They were in

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Speaker 5: a race for the most part in twenty twenty four

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Speaker 5: more than enough big league experience. And then they went

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Speaker 5: out and signed a manager and Terry Francona, who has

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Speaker 5: had a terrible offensive season. They won just eighty three games,

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Speaker 5: and quite frankly, I thought they were embarrassed against the Dodgers,

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Speaker 5: because that could have been a series that you, at

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Speaker 5: the bare minimum, pushed the Dodgers to three games, But

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Speaker 5: the season, to me, has a bad taste in my mouth.

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Speaker 5: It left a bad taste in my mouth because I

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Speaker 5: firmly believe that the standard should be to compete for championships,

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Speaker 5: and this team really wasn't close, and you could tell

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Speaker 5: I understand that those two teams are not even remotely

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Speaker 5: like to see a Reds team that's more competitive than

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Speaker 5: no excuse for the awful season that Matt McClean had,

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Speaker 5: No excuse for the regression there, there's no excuse for

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Speaker 5: another awful defensive season from Elie de la Cruz. To me,

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Speaker 5: there's no excuse for the power outage that De la

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Speaker 5: very end of the year. There's no excuse for continuing

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Speaker 5: to ask guys to play injured. There's no excuse for

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Speaker 5: significant games that were played by Connor Joe and Garrett

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Speaker 5: Hampson and Christian Incarnassi owned strand there's no excuse for

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Speaker 5: him taking another step back in his development. This season

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Speaker 5: could have and should have went a lot better for

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Speaker 5: we made the playoffs. That's cool. It's a successful season

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Speaker 5: in the eyes of many, because hey, we made the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Shouldn't the bar be higher than that? Shouldn't the standard

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Speaker 5: be bigger than that, Shouldn't it be more than just, Hey,

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Speaker 5: we made the playoffs. It's been thirty one years, almost

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Speaker 5: thirty one years since they've advanced in the postseason. That's

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Speaker 5: the longest drought in North American professional sports for a

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Speaker 5: Cleveland Browns have won a playoff game in the last

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Speaker 5: we're often told about the rich history of this franchise

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Speaker 5: great teams, and yet the Reds don't live up to that.

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Speaker 5: And while I am happy that they made the postseason,

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Speaker 5: Cincinnati was thirty three and thirty two. In that same stretch,

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Speaker 5: So forgive me for not feeling like this season is

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Speaker 5: they just made the playoffs. Now let's go from there. No,

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Speaker 5: this is year three of this young core, and they

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Speaker 5: have two playoff games in which they gave up eighteen

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Speaker 5: should just be happy that they got there, I don't.

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Speaker 5: That doesn't sit right with me, And I don't think

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Speaker 5: And I think now this off season is the time

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Speaker 5: I've already heard this offseason. I heard it several times today,

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Speaker 5: enough for them, That's just good enough. Just make the

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Speaker 5: that's good enough for the Castellini family. Just enough, just

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Speaker 5: be competitive. If you're the Reds, is that what you

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Speaker 5: eighty three wins. Shouldn't the Reds want to change that

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Speaker 5: seven thousand. Phone lines are open. Is this Red season

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Speaker 5: Talk on seven hundred WLW. Sports Talk seven hundred wl W,

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Speaker 5: Austin Elmore with you talking Red's here in the first

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Speaker 5: half hour and maybe the whole hour, we'll see five one, three, seven,

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Speaker 5: to Miamisburg and talk to Barry. Hello, Barry, what's up?

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Speaker 8: Hey?

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Speaker 9: How's it gone?

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Speaker 10: Star?

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Speaker 6: I'm good man? What's on your mind?

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Speaker 10: I'm quietly optimistic, and I'll explain why. Okay, how many

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Speaker 6: Quite a bit, very a lot.

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Speaker 10: We have marginal improvement in a couple of different areas,

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Speaker 10: Of those miserable one to one losses one run ball

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Speaker 10: It doesn't matter. If you move ten of those miserable

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Speaker 10: and respectable in other ways. Also, you know, it's doable

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Speaker 11: To smile on us.

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Speaker 6: Well, how is it doable with what they have?

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Speaker 5: Where do you feel like that improvement is going to

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Speaker 10: I'm hoping we don't have extended bad luck with batting.

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Speaker 10: And let's say that something that's just beyond your control.

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Speaker 10: You know, as a batter, you're not having a good

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Speaker 10: and hopefully, you know, a couple other things fallow our

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Speaker 10: way that our fifty to fifty and didn't fall our way.

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Speaker 5: So you're basically your strategy is hope they get luckier.

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Speaker 10: Marginal improvement, so that you know, instead of walking off

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Speaker 10: a few of those borderline games.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I hear you, Barry, and I think that's

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Speaker 5: I certainly think it's within the realm of possibility, and

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Speaker 5: thank you for the phone call. I mean, I think

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Speaker 5: it's in within the realm of possibility. I went into

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Speaker 5: the lineup would have a huge impact and that would

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Speaker 5: marginally improve them in every category. He had the worst

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Speaker 5: offensive season, one of the worst in Red's history. Keep

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Speaker 5: Bryan Hayes was good for a couple of weeks, really

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Speaker 5: good defender, nothing offensively. Where is it going to improve

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Speaker 5: in the margin? That's what I want to know. What

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Speaker 5: about Jason and Williamstown what's up Jason?

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Speaker 6: Good man?

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Speaker 13: What's on a so real quick to the previous call

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Speaker 13: it real fast that's fine and dandy, but the problem

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Speaker 13: is they still have to win a playoff game, and

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Speaker 13: the last time I checked, we lost without what like

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Speaker 5: It was right after Hunter Green got shelled and gave

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Speaker 5: They could spend more, they could be more aggressive, but

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Speaker 6: Scouting has to be nails.

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Speaker 5: Your minor league system, your minor league development, your hitting philosophy,

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Speaker 5: What's up, Tony?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 6: I was going good?

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Speaker 14: So I feel like there were successes.

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Speaker 15: There were failures obviously.

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Speaker 7: Everybody, everybody had a highlight.

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Speaker 16: And it's gonna be Perry's job this off season two

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Speaker 7: I have faith in Terry.

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Speaker 6: Let's go to Ryan, Ryan, what's up.

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Speaker 17: Well, he made my point a few of my points

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Speaker 2: We got to spend more money.

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Speaker 17: We need a backup for everybody we got that is

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Speaker 17: I think they did go out and spend the money.

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Speaker 7: To win championships.

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Speaker 18: Eight dollars tickets, three dollars beers, get thirty thousand people

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Speaker 18: in that stadium, build new Reds fans, create hy When

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Speaker 18: I was at all the Cups games, all the Mets games,

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Speaker 18: all the Pirates games, that's the energy we need in this.

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Speaker 7: Town, all the time for the Reds.

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Speaker 18: I was hoping for a World Series threade this year

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Speaker 18: because I thought.

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Speaker 7: Hey, never know, but that was our World Series. We

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Speaker 7: just played the champions out there. They're the big dogs.

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Speaker 18: They got the best of the best of the best,

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Speaker 18: the highest paid players, the most hampered players.

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Speaker 7: They got it all.

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Speaker 18: So we did great. You know, I thought we were

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Speaker 18: gonna we just we can't like the last color said consistency.

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Speaker 5: When what is your definition of great? Do you think

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Speaker 5: they were great? The Reds were great and out in

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Speaker 5: LA that's what you thought.

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Speaker 7: Listen, Hunter Green got choice.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you hadn't performed great and that Martinez was not great.

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Speaker 5: Matt McClain defensively was not great.

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Speaker 8: No, Matt McClain blew.

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Speaker 11: He should have He shouldn't have been.

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Speaker 18: In LA he should have been sent down.

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Speaker 5: And that's that's your that's your boy, Tito, that's your boy.

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Speaker 5: Nick Krawl, Ryan, thank you for the phone call. That's

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Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Like, there are positive it takes from

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Speaker 5: this season, Don't get me wrong, there absolutely are. But

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Speaker 5: at the same time, it's like I was supposed to

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Speaker 5: count on on Matt McClain to be the guy this

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Speaker 5: year that's really gonna help this offense, hump.

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Speaker 6: He was terrible.

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Speaker 5: So now going into the offseason, he's a huge question mark.

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Speaker 5: Who's gonna play second base. You can't look me in

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Speaker 5: the eye right now with a straight face and say,

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Speaker 5: Matt McLean is the opening day second basement next year.

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Speaker 5: You can't do that. He's got to go and earn

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Speaker 5: that this year, at least in my opinion. Let's go

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Speaker 5: to Springboro and talk to Aaron.

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Speaker 12: What's up, Aaron, say Austin, I'm gonna take the other

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Speaker 12: side of a couple of these arguments. Okay, the first

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Speaker 12: off and McClean that this was a comeback season from

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Speaker 12: a terrible shoulder injury, okay, and that's a very, very

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Speaker 12: tough injury to come back. So I think next year

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Speaker 12: will be the telling factor whether or not he reverts

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Speaker 12: back to his rookie season or if you know, it's

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Speaker 12: more of the same for this year. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 12: give him some grace. But you got to move him

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Speaker 12: over to short stoff. You got to get Ellie out

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Speaker 12: in left field or possibly even right, moving Barka, you know,

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Speaker 12: over to the other side. I don't think he was

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Speaker 12: touched Freedol. He's too good at a center fielder. But

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Speaker 12: get Ellie the hell out of short stop, no doubt

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Speaker 12: about it. You can put Stewart at second base. But

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Speaker 12: the bottom line is the castelines are on the clock

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Speaker 12: right now. They're good people, good community leaders, all that.

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Speaker 12: But you know, when they bought the Red they said

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Speaker 12: they would bring a championship baseball to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Clearly they haven't delivered.

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Speaker 12: It's one of your other callers was talking about, you know,

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Speaker 12: the fan support was there this year. I went to

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Speaker 12: more games, watch more games than I have in many,

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Speaker 12: many years. And they're an exciting team, but they're also

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Speaker 12: very frustrating team. You know that they did two point

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Speaker 12: one million and in attendance, and guy only knows what

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Speaker 12: they did in merch sales, alcohol, food, all that good stuff.

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Speaker 12: So the Castolines can spend some money and still be

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Speaker 12: very profit. Well, we all know they're not could go

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Speaker 12: out and get Schwber, but there are some big bats

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Speaker 12: out there that they could get. I think you put

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Speaker 12: one more big bat in that lineup, and you give

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Speaker 12: La some protection, and you give Steers some protection. I think,

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Speaker 12: you know, if they're pitching can hold together, I think

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Speaker 12: they're they're very close to make a deep run in

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Speaker 12: the playoffs. They're not that far away from the Dodgers.

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Speaker 12: They're really not. You look at the you know, the

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Speaker 12: seven games or eight games they played against them, they

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Speaker 12: were all pretty tight.

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Speaker 4: They were all pretty darn close.

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Speaker 12: Obviously, Hunter Green, you know, scrapped the bed the other night.

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Speaker 12: But you know they didn't. They didn't lay down even

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Speaker 12: in Game two. You know, my son was out there

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Speaker 12: in Los Angeles in that game. He's a he's Dodgers fan.

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Speaker 12: He's out there playing for college baseball. But bottom line is,

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Speaker 12: you said it was exciting they brought in Sasaki and

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Speaker 12: you know red side the bases loaded in the ninth

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Speaker 12: you know, freedom was a tying run at the.

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Speaker 5: Plate, and again they couldn't get that big hit by

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Speaker 5: Mike Count. In eight games against the Dodgers this year,

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Speaker 5: the Dodgers outscored the Reds forty eight to twenty four. Well,

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Speaker 5: but I do see what you're saying, and I appreciate

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Speaker 5: the optimistic side of it.

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Speaker 6: Aaron, thank you for the phone call.

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Speaker 5: And I think the Eli to the outfield conversation, I

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Speaker 5: think that's a conversation that needs to be had. He

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Speaker 5: had his worst season defensively, and I think you know,

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Speaker 5: there was a lot going on. He lost his sister,

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Speaker 5: he was trying to play one hundred and sixty two games.

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Speaker 5: There were some other off the field stuff going on

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Speaker 5: for him. He was dealing with a quad injury. He

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Speaker 5: had tweaked this swing. I felt like there was just

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Speaker 5: a lot on the plate of Elie de la Cruz

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Speaker 5: this year, and I'm gonna trust that he's going to

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Speaker 5: get better next year, but again I can't bank on that.

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Speaker 5: And defensively it was really bad. And my whole thing

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Speaker 5: with moving Ellie to the outfield, which I was finally

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Speaker 5: on board with this year after how poorly he played

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Speaker 5: at shortstop, My whole thing was, well, you get Matt

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Speaker 5: McClain to play shortstop. Well, now, I don't know if

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Speaker 5: that's the case. I don't know if he can play shortstop.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if he's going to be a part

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Speaker 5: of this lineup. And yes, McClain is coming back from

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Speaker 5: a devastating shoulder injury, and historically it takes time for.

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Speaker 6: Those people to return to form.

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Speaker 5: However, if it's about winning right now, and specifically winning

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Speaker 5: before the end of this decade, when Ellie de la

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Speaker 5: Cruz's contract is up, you don't have a bunch of

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Speaker 5: time to wait, you don't and so there needs to be,

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Speaker 5: in my mind, urgency now. Our caller said that the

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Speaker 5: cash Delini's are on the clock. I don't think that

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Speaker 5: they are. I mean, it's their clock. They can set

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Speaker 5: it to whatever they want. But I do think there

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Speaker 5: is got to be some urgency this year because number one,

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty seven, I don't think we're gonna play

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Speaker 5: baseball because of the lockout. Number two, I don't think

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Speaker 5: Terry Francone is gonna manage much longer. So there has

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Speaker 5: to be urgency now about getting it in and trying

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Speaker 5: to find a way to win. In my opinion, there

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Speaker 5: is and there are plenty of good things to take

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Speaker 5: from this season. But I just don't know if I

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Speaker 5: fully believe in the plan and then the people making

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Speaker 5: the plan and executing the plan to execute said plan.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to Joe Dana and when we

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Speaker 5: come back after the news, because Joe, even though he's

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Speaker 5: out at the high school game right now, I think

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Speaker 5: has decided to give us some time. And he was

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Speaker 5: out there in Los Angeles and he talked about there

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Speaker 5: being a sense of accomplishment in the Reds clubhouse after

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Speaker 5: they lost to the to the Dodgers, and that kind

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Speaker 5: of rubbed me the wrong way. I'm looking for some

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Speaker 5: perspective on that from Joe Daneman when we return. Easier

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Speaker 5: said than done, all right here on the Home of

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Speaker 5: the Reds, seven hundred WLW.

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

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Speaker 5: Hi, Hello, Welcome in our number two sports talk on

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Speaker 5: a Friday night, seven hundred WLW. My name is Austin

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Speaker 5: Elmore in for Lance McAllister. Tonight, we've talked Reds and

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Speaker 5: Bengals in hour number one. I want to continue that

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Speaker 5: split conversation with a man who covers both for Fox nineteen.

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Speaker 6: His name is Joey d.

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Speaker 5: Joe Danoman surely somewhere near a high school football field

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Speaker 5: right now, but shows to take time to spend with us.

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Speaker 5: And Joe was in Los Angeles covering the Reds and

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Speaker 5: the Dodgers in the National League Wildcard round. Joe, what

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Speaker 5: was that experience like for you?

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Speaker 19: Well, I'm sure we're going to talk about one of

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Speaker 19: the tweets I put out there after the game, the

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Speaker 19: sense of accomplishment one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and listen, it's on my paper.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, I know it is. And it's a great debate point.

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Speaker 19: It's a great talking point because you never know what

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Speaker 19: you're going to walk into when you walk into a

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Speaker 19: locker room or a clubhouse after the season ends. I

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Speaker 19: think people would be surprised sometimes how emotionless it can be,

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Speaker 19: especially for guys who woul played such.

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Speaker 2: A long season.

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Speaker 19: So I wasn't sure how what it was going to

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Speaker 19: be like when I walked in young team, first playoff experience,

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Speaker 19: had some chances to do some damage late in both games,

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Speaker 19: couldn't come up with the big hit when they needed.

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Speaker 19: When we walked in, it was a lot of handshakes.

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Speaker 19: It was a lot of hugs, and you could just

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Speaker 19: feel the tone in the room. And I asked multiple

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Speaker 19: guys this. I wanted to make sure I wasn't misreading

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Speaker 19: the room. I said to Spencer Year and A TJ. Friedel,

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Speaker 19: I said, correct me if I'm wrong, if I'm misreading

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Speaker 19: the room. But it feels like a sense of accomplishment

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Speaker 19: in this room. And they both agreed with it. And

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Speaker 19: we can debate whether that's the correct reaction the Reds

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Speaker 19: should have had. Should fans be disappointed, should the team

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Speaker 19: be disappointed? I think that's different for every fan how

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Speaker 19: they digest the season. But let me say this for

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Speaker 19: the team, they were all row one hundred percent disappointed

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Speaker 19: in the way they played. They're disappointed that it came

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Speaker 19: to an end after two games. They thought they would

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Speaker 19: have tooken that to a third game and taken the

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Speaker 19: Dodgers to the break. But the idea of a sense

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Speaker 19: of accomplishment, to me, I think personally, is the correct

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Speaker 19: tone for this team to have when it's such a

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Speaker 19: young group and they set a goal before the season

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Speaker 19: of getting to the playoffs. They backed in. Let's be

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Speaker 19: honest about it, that the Mets had to have a

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Speaker 19: collapse again, and that happened, but the red did get there.

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Speaker 19: They accomplished what we said before the season they should accomplish,

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Speaker 19: and that's getting to the playoffs. That's why, to me,

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Speaker 19: it felt like the right reaction for the Reds to

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Speaker 19: feel like they accomplished something. Whether the season was a

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Speaker 19: success or not, I think that's a different debate, but

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Speaker 19: that's absolutely how it felt in there, and I confirmed

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Speaker 19: that with multiple players that that was the correct feeling.

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Speaker 5: Do you think the organization itself feels a sense of

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Speaker 5: accomplishment after this season.

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Speaker 19: That's tough to say, because that's different the sense of

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Speaker 19: accomplishment for the players. The young players who did this

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Speaker 19: for the first time understand that this could be step

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Speaker 19: one and a multi step process that a young group

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Speaker 19: has to go through to ultimately get to where they

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Speaker 19: want to go. That should be looked at as a

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Speaker 19: sense of accomplishment. The organization's a different conversation because the

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Speaker 19: organization understands what they have, understands what they need to

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Speaker 19: build around, and did they do enough to build around

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Speaker 19: this team? That's the question.

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Speaker 15: Now.

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Speaker 19: If we looked at what they were at the All

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Speaker 19: Star break and what they added to get better. I

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Speaker 19: think we would all argue they did a pretty good

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Speaker 19: job they being the front office of getting guys who

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Speaker 19: can supplement and help this team make a push in

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Speaker 19: the second half, that if there was an opportunity they

655
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Speaker 19: could take advantage and do it. And the guys like

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Speaker 19: Miguel and Douhrer and Zach Lettel, those guys did help.

657
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Speaker 19: Kee Brian Hayes would argue for a month's help before

658
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Speaker 19: he just stopped hitting the ball altogether. But organizationally, no,

659
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Speaker 19: they have to look at it different. The organization. While

660
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Speaker 19: it's so hard to try to compare this team to

661
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Speaker 19: a Dodgers team or to a Yankee team, or pick

662
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Speaker 19: your high dollar organization, Uh, it feels like you're comparing

663
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Speaker 19: apples to oranges just because of what they can spend

664
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Speaker 19: and what they can build. But but if we have

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Speaker 19: conversations with Reds players and red Off Reds Off front

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Speaker 19: office members in spring training pointing to what the Arizona

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Speaker 19: Diamondbacks did a couple of seasons ago, then it can

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Speaker 19: be done and they know it can be done, and

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Speaker 19: so organizationally, I wouldn't say this was an accomplishment, uh,

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Speaker 19: because just getting to the playoffs for any organization should

671
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Speaker 19: not be the standard should not be enough. But that

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Speaker 19: also comes with the understanding of what I saw watching

673
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Speaker 19: the Dodgers play that that was different. I mean that

674
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Speaker 19: what they have talked about them is just different from

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Speaker 19: the Reds and and and so maybe maybe it's a

676
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Speaker 19: hard thing for us to hold the organization to a

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Speaker 19: higher standard. But if if you're going to be a

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Speaker 19: professional organization and an ownership group in a professional organization,

679
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Speaker 19: you have to have a higher standard than just getting

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Speaker 19: to the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: What did we learn about Terry Francona this season and

682
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Speaker 5: how can that shape what we can expect from the

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Speaker 5: Reds moving forward.

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Speaker 19: You know what's interesting is they played one hundred and

685
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Speaker 19: sixty two games and two playoff games, so one hundred

686
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Speaker 19: and sixty four games, and it never felt like they

687
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Speaker 19: ever landed on an offensive identity or maybe even just

688
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Speaker 19: an identity for the team. It kind of felt like

689
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Speaker 19: it changed given on the matchup. And maybe that's what

690
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Speaker 19: he had to do with a team that did have faws. Right,

691
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Speaker 19: is the idea that in some games you have to

692
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Speaker 19: lean on pitching and defense, and then in some games

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Speaker 19: you have to put an extra stick in a lineup

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Speaker 19: and just try to outscore another team depending on the matchup.

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Speaker 19: But understanding how Terry Francona manages a game, it doesn't

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Speaker 19: feel like that's what he wants it to be. I

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Speaker 19: feel like he wants to have an identity, whether that's

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Speaker 19: different from what he managed twenty years ago to looking

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Speaker 19: at how you manage now. Certainly you can make that argument,

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Speaker 19: but the idea that it's just felt unsettled all the

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Speaker 19: way to the final game. I mean, you think about

702
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Speaker 19: these teams, especially the Dodgers, and the Dodgers might not

703
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Speaker 19: be a great barometer for this conversation Austin, because they

704
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Speaker 19: have what they have said at the top of the lineup.

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Speaker 19: It's pretty simple, right, it's a square.

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Speaker 2: Peg in a square hole.

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Speaker 19: It's show Hey, it's Mooki, it's Freddy, it's the ostre,

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Speaker 19: and we're not moving these guys. But it felt like

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Speaker 19: for the Reds even up to the final day, like

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Speaker 19: who's hitting third, who's hitting clean up? And if you

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Speaker 19: make the playoffs and still have that kind of turnover

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Speaker 19: where it's such important positions inside your lineup, it's interesting

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Speaker 19: and so I wonder if that will change next year,

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Speaker 19: that the fact that they didn't run at all this

715
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Speaker 19: year was so different from what they were and that

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Speaker 19: seemed to be the identity of this team and that

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Speaker 19: went away this year. So I don't know, even after

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Speaker 19: having a full year of Jerry Francona, the idea that

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Speaker 19: the lineup was just unsettled all year long, to me

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Speaker 19: was surprising, And I wonder if that'll change in year

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Speaker 19: two or if that's just the way it's going to

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Speaker 19: be with a team that's just never going to have every.

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Speaker 5: Whole filling Talking to Joe Daneman, Fox nineteen final Reds

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Speaker 5: question for you, the biggest question for this organization going

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Speaker 5: into the offseason is what.

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Speaker 19: How are they going to remake this bullpen?

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Speaker 2: Because the bullpen was a big.

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Speaker 19: Part of what they did in the second half of

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Speaker 19: the year. I would say it became a strength if

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Speaker 19: you look at what they were early in the season

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Speaker 19: to where they were at the end, where they had

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Speaker 19: so many guys they could go to guys we didn't expect.

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Speaker 19: They could go to the guys like a Connor Phillips,

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Speaker 19: and then you had Chase Burns in the bullpen even

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Speaker 19: you know, Big Sugar gave them, gave them some innings

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Speaker 19: out of the bullpen. I'm just naming guys, but a

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Speaker 19: lot of these guys are going to leave, you know,

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Speaker 19: the the Emelio Pegans, that Tony Santion. It turned out

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Speaker 19: to be a strength, but that's where so much turnover

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Speaker 19: might happen for this team. And I always said, if

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Speaker 19: you look at the Reds and this, they've got of

742
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Speaker 19: young pitchers and yet on young position players. When they

743
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Speaker 19: start investing in a bullpen, you'll know they feel they're ready.

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Speaker 19: And they started investing a little bit in the bullpen

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Speaker 19: this year and it helped them get to the playoffs.

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Speaker 19: So while everybody's gonna say you got to get the

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Speaker 19: outfield back, you got to get that right handed back,

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Speaker 19: that might be Noelvie Marte that might be taking care

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Speaker 19: of already within the organization. To me, the big question

750
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Speaker 19: of the offseason is they're going to lose some pictures

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Speaker 19: from their bullpen from attrition. Guys are going to sign

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Speaker 19: other places.

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Speaker 2: How are they going to rebuild that.

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Speaker 19: And what kind of urgency are they going to have

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Speaker 19: to make sure it's a strength for next season, because

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Speaker 19: we saw how important it is for them.

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Speaker 5: Let's flip over to the Bengals. A big game coming

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Speaker 5: up at pay Corpse Stadium against the Detroit Lions. What

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Speaker 5: is a after the last two weeks. What is a

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Speaker 5: realistic expectation for the Bengals on Sunday afternoon?

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Speaker 19: That it has to look better? And I know that

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Speaker 19: might be a cop out, because when you play in

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Speaker 19: the NFL, it's the any given Sunday you should be

764
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Speaker 19: out there thinking you're going to win. But let's be

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Speaker 19: realistic that the Lions are one of the best and

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Speaker 19: most dangerous offenses in the NFL, and the Bengals have

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Speaker 19: looked like they've looked the last two weeks. I think

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Speaker 19: for the coaches to keep this locker room and for

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Speaker 19: the players to still believe for the final eleven weeks,

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Speaker 19: after this game, there has.

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Speaker 2: To be belief that it can be better.

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Speaker 19: It just has to look and feel better than it's

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Speaker 19: felt in Minnesota then it felt in Denver. I don't

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Speaker 19: know what that means or what that looks like. I

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Speaker 19: think we'll know when we see it, but it just

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Speaker 19: has to look better than it has the last two weeks.

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Speaker 19: It can't be a blowout, it can't be scoring less

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Speaker 19: than ten points. This team has to play better football

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Speaker 19: for Zach Taylor, for the coaching staff and for the

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Speaker 19: players all to look at each other and say, Okay,

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Speaker 19: we believe we can still be competitive for the rest

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Speaker 19: of the season. If this thing is another blowout, you're

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Speaker 19: going to start wondering about a locker room that's going

784
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Speaker 19: to become fractured and coaches that might start losing players.

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Speaker 19: So it just has to look better on Sunday. Whatever

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Speaker 19: that is, I think we'll know at once we see it.

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Speaker 5: Zach Taylor said this week that he has unwavering faith

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Speaker 5: in Jake Browning. What was your responsor what was your

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Speaker 5: reaction to that, and what do you make of the

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Speaker 5: movement that the Bengals should look elsewhere for another quarterback

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Speaker 5: not named Jake Browning.

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Speaker 19: I give Jake Browning a two or three week window

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Speaker 19: here to prove needs to be the quarterback for the

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Speaker 19: rest of the season. And I don't know what the

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Speaker 19: other options might be, whether it's everybody's talking about Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 19: They're not going to take on the payroll of Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 19: but there are other quarterbacks out there that they could

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Speaker 19: go get. But the question is once you get them

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Speaker 19: to Cincinnati, how long does it take them to get

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Speaker 19: them comfortable in the playbooks so they can go out.

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Speaker 2: And help you win football games.

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Speaker 19: I don't know what that answer is. The shame of

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Speaker 19: the season is is the AFC feels open, the AFC

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Speaker 19: North feels vulnerable, and the Bengals are in a position

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Speaker 19: where right now it does and feel like they can

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Speaker 19: take advantage.

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Speaker 14: But to answer your.

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Speaker 19: Question, he's got the Lions game, he's got the Packers game,

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Speaker 19: and I think maybe the short week with the Steelers

810
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Speaker 19: they had no option but to play him. So I

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Speaker 19: think he's got a three week window to do exactly

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Speaker 19: what I said last question, and that's just feel better.

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Speaker 19: It has to feel better than Jake Browning because you

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Speaker 19: think back to twenty twenty three, and we all do

815
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Speaker 19: this auction, right, we go back to twenty twenty three

816
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Speaker 19: and we say, oh, Jake was four and three and

817
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Speaker 19: they were competitive, And you think about anybody in life

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Speaker 19: you have this baseline test. Think about like athletes with

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Speaker 19: the concussion baseline test they take and then you use

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Speaker 19: that to evaluate if something's wrong. So if we use

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Speaker 19: twenty twenty three as the baseline, I don't think the

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Speaker 19: roster is that much different two years later. I don't

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Speaker 19: think they're that much worse on the roster two years later.

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Speaker 19: So at some point the fingers kind of do go

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Speaker 19: back to Jake Browning and say, what's up, man, Why

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Speaker 19: aren't you playing like you did two years ago. So

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Speaker 19: I think the spotlight and the cross hairs are on

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Speaker 19: Jake Browning a little bit more or than people might think.

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Speaker 19: He's got this window here of a few weeks to

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Speaker 19: prove he should be the guy for the rest of

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Speaker 19: the season. And let's be honest, Look, the Lions are

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Speaker 19: an unbelievable offense. Maybe I would argue the best offense

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Speaker 19: in the NFL. If you can score on their defense,

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Speaker 19: the Bengals should score some points against the Lions. If

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Speaker 19: they're not able to move the ball, score touchdowns and

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Speaker 19: score points against the Lions, those crosshairs get even bigger

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Speaker 19: on Jake Browning. I think he's got a three week

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Speaker 19: window to prove he should be the guy for the

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Speaker 19: rest of the year.

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Speaker 5: Talking to Joe Danavan Fox nineteen, Joe, it's a Friday night.

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Speaker 5: I know you guys are all over the high school

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Speaker 5: football coverage. My sources tell me you're at the pit

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Speaker 5: right now, getting set for Elder and Moler. What do

844
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Speaker 5: you expect tonight? What's the atmosphere going to be like tonight?

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Speaker 5: I hear a band back there.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, you can hear right now. The band is finishing

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Speaker 19: up last minute preparation. So it sounds great. It sounds

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Speaker 19: like high school football. It was really cool Austin. When

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Speaker 19: they were bringing the band out, the announcer said, the

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Speaker 19: best place in the country to watch high school football

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Speaker 19: is right here at the pit.

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Speaker 7: It's one of those.

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Speaker 19: Goosebump kind of things.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 19: You got Moeller who's only got one loss. You've got Elder,

856
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Speaker 19: who's undefeated after six weeks for the first time at

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Speaker 19: almost twenty five years. This is a Cincinnati as a

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Speaker 19: yet evan y two brand name teams playing in Cincinnati's

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Speaker 19: best high school venue. And the greatest part, Austin, you

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Speaker 19: can watch this game live on TV on Fox nineteen

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Speaker 19: ninety Wow nineteen point three digital station. You can watch

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Speaker 19: it live tonight on Fox nineteen Pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: That is incredible. Joe, thank you so much. Thanks for

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Speaker 5: making some time for me. Man really appreciate it. Have

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Speaker 5: a great weekend.

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Speaker 19: Talk to you Tuesday. Cincondadi Cincondadi's ESPN fifteen thirty on

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Speaker 19: Cincy three fifty Austin.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Joe, Yes, yes, yes, Joe joins us every Tuesday

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Speaker 5: on our show down the Hall, and he made some

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Speaker 5: time for me. And that is a sold out game

871
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Speaker 5: at the pit by the way, ten thousand standing tall

872
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 5: on a purple Friday. We'll keep you updated as it

873
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 5: goes along. Let's get into a little bit of Bengals conversation.

874
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 5: Let's do that next right here, seven hundred WLW just

875
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 5: about halfway through, coming up half an hour from right now.

876
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 5: We're gonna go off the beaten path with your sports

877
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 5: bucket list? What's on it? What have you crossed off?

878
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 5: What have you added to it? This, of course, because

879
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 5: I'm going to lambeau Field next week to watch the

880
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 5: Bengals play the Green Bay Packers. I booked this trip

881
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 5: a long time ago, and I keep reminding myself it's

882
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 5: because I love football more than I love the Bengals.

883
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 5: That's what I keep reminding myself, because I don't think

884
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 5: it's gonna go well. Most people don't think it's gonna

885
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 5: go well for the Bengals on Sunday against the three

886
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 5: and one Detroit Lions. And we'll get into a little

887
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 5: bit after the news, because really it is as simple

888
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 5: as what Joe Daneman said, play better. That's at least

889
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 5: what most of us are looking for. And earlier this week,

890
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 5: Zach Taylor met with the media as he normally does,

891
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 5: and a lot of people don't realize Zach and Dan Campbell,

892
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 5: the head coach of the Lions, kind of came up

893
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 5: in the NFL together in Miami, and he was asked

894
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 5: if he ever reflects on those days with Dan and

895
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 5: Miami and his relationship with Dan Campbell. I thought it

896
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 5: was interesting his response. Take a listen to Bengals head

897
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 5: coach Zach Taylor.

898
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 20: Got a lot of respect for him. He's done an

899
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 20: unbelievable job. I do reflect back on in twenty twenty

900
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 20: one when we went up there his first year. I

901
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 20: don't think they'd won a game yet. I could be wrong.

902
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 20: Maybe they'd won one. I don't think they'd want any

903
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 20: knowing what they were building. You could tell they played

904
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 20: with a lot of undrafted free agents on defense, and

905
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 20: you could just tell they had the identity of their

906
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 20: coaching staff, their head coach, the way that they played,

907
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 20: and they might have had all the talent in the

908
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 20: world then, and we got the best of them that day,

909
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 20: but you could see something that was building in the future.

910
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 20: Whether people believed it at the time or not, it

911
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 20: was very clear. And so now you're here in twenty

912
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 20: twenty five and they've had the success they've had over

913
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 20: the years, they have the success they've had this year,

914
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 20: win in three in a row. It's a really good

915
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 20: football team. I love personally playing playing these types of games.

916
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 20: These are my favorite games to play. This is why

917
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 20: we do it again. Our backs against the wall a

918
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 20: little bit going in this game off of two losses.

919
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 20: That's perfect. You know, I'd like to see Howardbery responds.

920
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 20: Who lives in fear, who thrives in the university. It's

921
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 20: it's a great opportunity for a coach to really assess

922
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 20: what guys are made of, myself included. And so again

923
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 20: it's a tremendous opportunity that we are. We are not

924
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 20: running from, we are running directly into.

925
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 5: What do you think the identity of the Bengals is

926
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 5: if it matches the identity of their head coach. If

927
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 5: it is like the Detroit Lions and they are made

928
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 5: in the image of their head coach, what then is

929
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 5: the Bengals identity. I think the Bengals identity is more

930
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow, which is calm, cool, collected, confident, and I

931
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 5: think Zach has some of those traits as well. But

932
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 5: I think right now the Bengals are searching for their

933
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 5: identity without Joe Burrow, and it's going to be difficult

934
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 5: to find it. Let's talk a little bit more about

935
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 5: Sunday's game after the news right here on the Home

936
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 5: of the Best, Bengals covered seven hundred WLW. Matt Ponatowski

937
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 5: led the Mohler Crusaders on a thirteen play drive resulting

938
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Speaker 5: in a touchdown to Cooper McCutcheon, and the Crusaders have

939
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 5: a seven to nothing lead at Elder to start the night.

940
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 5: We'll keep you updated as it goes. Let's keep talking football.

941
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:37,839
Speaker 5: Let's talk Bengals as I've got as we've gone through

942
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 5: the week trying to figure out this team. Right now,

943
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 5: I've realized there's really not that much to say. They

944
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 5: have to play better, and until they play better, you

945
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 5: really have no idea what the future of the team is.

946
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 5: If they play that poorly, you can't really evaluate and

947
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 5: look towards the future. You just start talking about blaming

948
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:04,240
Speaker 5: coaches and firing people, and you start wondering about should

949
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 5: Burrow come back, will Burrow come back? Should they go

950
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 5: get another quarterback. I think you look to Friday's game

951
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 5: or to Monday's game, and you think, yeah, Jake Browning

952
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 5: could have played better, should have played better. If he does,

953
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 5: maybe it's more competitive. But I also look at it

954
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 5: and say, the defense continues to struggle. The run game

955
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 5: was okay, but was not existent because they were losing

956
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 5: the entire time. I counted Denver as having two negative

957
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 5: plays the entire night. The Bengals had one tackle for

958
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 5: loss and then they forced the interception in the red

959
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 5: zone on a terrible decision by bow Knicks. This team

960
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 5: is just stuck in the mud, and they've been embarrassed

961
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 5: two weeks in a row. They've gotten their face bashed

962
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 5: in two weeks in a row. And to the final

963
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 5: point that Zach Taylor made in that clip before the break,

964
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:56,959
Speaker 5: which is that you find out a lot about people

965
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 5: in moments like this, He's exactly right.

966
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 6: Who are they? How are they going to respond?

967
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 5: Because right now you come into Week five against one

968
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 5: of the best offenses in the National Football League, and

969
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 5: it's supposed to be a stripe the Jungle game, a

970
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 5: game that gets the fans excited. This was supposed to

971
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 5: be a four to twenty five national TV window with

972
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,720
Speaker 5: Kevin Burkhart and Tom Brady on the call, but instead

973
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 5: only a fraction of the country is going to see

974
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 5: this game on television because the Bengals are so bad

975
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 5: and it's supposed to be a stripe the Jungle, but

976
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,839
Speaker 5: because Detroit is so good and Bengals fans are understandably

977
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 5: fed up with the way this team has played through

978
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 5: the first two weeks. There's going to be twenty thousand

979
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 5: Detroit Tiger fans or Detroit Lions fans there and Honolulu

980
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 5: Blue is going to ruin the Stripe the Jungle.

981
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 6: That's my expectation for Sunday.

982
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 5: It's hard to do stuff like that when the team

983
00:52:57,120 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 5: does not the performance on the field doesn't match the

984
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 5: performance off the field with the stuff you're trying to

985
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 5: do as an organization in your marketing and that sort

986
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 5: of stuff. At the end of the day, it is

987
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 5: really as simple as they have to play better, and

988
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 5: this week specifically, you have got to show signs of life,

989
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 5: because even if you look at the film and you

990
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 5: look at what Zach Taylor was trying to do. There

991
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 5: were plays where receivers were open, Jake Browning played poorly,

992
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 5: he missed them. There were plays where the concept the

993
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 5: call was right against the coverage, but the offensive line

994
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 5: didn't give Browning any time. There was times where penalties

995
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 5: derailed thirty yard completions and chunk plays.

996
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 6: That sort of stuff. You've got to clean it up.

997
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 5: How are you going to react to a team that's

998
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:50,879
Speaker 5: going to come into your building and try to take

999
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 5: it over? And are you ready to really quit on

1000
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 5: the year if you're the Bengals. You know, the thing

1001
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 5: about Zach Taylor is that over his years as the

1002
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 5: Bengals head coach, I never felt like they quit on him.

1003
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty, when Burrow went down, I felt like

1004
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 5: it was the exact opposite. Instead of quitting, they dug

1005
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 5: their heels in and they found a way to win

1006
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 5: some difficult games, most notably on a Monday night against

1007
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 5: the Pittsburgh Steelers. They dug their heels in and twenty three,

1008
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 5: when Burrow went down, they did not quit. Even when

1009
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 5: Browning played poorly in that first game, they dug their

1010
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 5: heels in They didn't quit for Zack.

1011
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 6: Minnesota.

1012
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 5: With all the turnovers in Denver, with the penalties, it

1013
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 5: felt like the Bengals maybe quit a little bit, and

1014
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 5: you've got to nip that in the butt. And I

1015
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 5: wonder who's the guy to step up in the locker room.

1016
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 6: Burrow's hurt.

1017
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 5: Can't be him. Ted Carris is playing atrociously. Can't be him.

1018
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,919
Speaker 5: Same with Orlando Brown, Junior Von Bell's gone, Mike Hilton's gone,

1019
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 5: Sam Hubbard's gone. Trey Hendrickson is he one of those

1020
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 5: guys in the locker room? He had really showed up

1021
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 5: much either. Who's gonna step up?

1022
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 6: So far?

1023
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 5: It seems like it's Jamar Chase. That's interesting, you know,

1024
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 5: Zach and that clip with Dan talked about how the

1025
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:20,280
Speaker 5: Lions at the time in the twenty twenty one season

1026
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 5: hadn't won a game, but yet you could tell that

1027
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 5: they were building something. You could say the same thing

1028
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 5: about Zach's Bengals in twenty twenty. They weren't that good,

1029
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 5: but you could tell they were building something. There was

1030
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 5: a clear direction for the organization.

1031
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 4: Now.

1032
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 5: Nobody expected them to just rebound and go to the

1033
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 5: Super Bowl the way that they did, but now I'm

1034
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 5: wondering what direction really is the organization going here and

1035
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 5: can anything be salvaged this year? And so I don't

1036
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 5: know that anybody expects them to win this game on Sunday.

1037
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:04,319
Speaker 5: It might be a lot to ask, but can you

1038
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 5: at least show signs of life that make me feel

1039
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 5: like this season isn't already in the tank?

1040
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 6: Can you do that?

1041
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 5: Because you know, coming up, you've got the Pittsburgh Steelers,

1042
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 5: who I think have gotten pretty lucky so far this season.

1043
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 5: You've got the Pittsburgh Steelers on a Thursday night at home.

1044
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 5: The expectation should be to win that game. Baltimore is

1045
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 5: without Lamar Jackson this week and they're already one in three.

1046
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 5: Their season could be over before it even starts. Cleveland

1047
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 5: is formidable in a tough matchup to a lot of

1048
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,800
Speaker 5: people across the league. But by the time Week eighteen

1049
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 5: rolls around, when they come back here, should or Sanders

1050
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 5: is going to be starting and they're going to.

1051
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 6: Be playing for the number one pick.

1052
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 5: The division is certainly still in play, you would think, right,

1053
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 5: And that's with or without Borrow. Just because of the

1054
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 5: state of affairs in the AFC North and across the

1055
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 5: AFC outside of Buffalo. I don't think anybody's really gonna

1056
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 5: pull away, are they? I wouldn't think so. So this

1057
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 5: is a game where it's like, Okay, are there signs

1058
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 5: of life here at all? We're checking a pulse. Are

1059
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 5: the Bengals alive? Are they willing to fight? It really

1060
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 5: is that simple. I don't even care about the stats.

1061
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 5: I don't care if they win or lose. It is

1062
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 5: has this team given up? And can this be indicative

1063
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 5: of the direction of the organization. The result that happens

1064
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 5: on Sunday against the Detroit Lions, that's all that matters.

1065
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 5: There's another result that we're gonna be looking forward to

1066
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 5: coming up tomorrow. It's gonna be the UC Bearcats hosting

1067
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 5: number fourteen Iowa State. Tony Pike caught up with Brendan Soresby,

1068
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 5: the Bearcat quarterback, earlier this week. We're gonna play some

1069
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 5: of that conversation for you when we get back. This

1070
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 5: is Sports Talk on a Friday night. Seven hundred Wlwaircats,

1071
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 5: fresh off of a win at Kansas host number fourteen

1072
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 5: Iowa State, and the Bearcats are actually favored in this

1073
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 5: game number one because of the way that they played

1074
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 5: against Kansas last weekend. And number two, because Iowa State's

1075
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 5: defense is banged up, there is a long list of

1076
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 5: guys that are hurt for the Cyclones not going to

1077
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 5: be able to go. So the Bearcats have an opportunity

1078
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 5: to take advantage of they hope tomorrow at Nippert Stadium,

1079
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 5: I co host a show down the Hall weekdays from

1080
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 5: twelve to three. It's called Sincy three to sixty and

1081
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 5: I do that with UC Hall of Famer, the legend

1082
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 5: Tony Pike.

1083
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 21: Well.

1084
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Speaker 5: Earlier this week, the current u SE quarterback Brendan Soresby

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Speaker 5: was on the show and Tony interviewed him and I

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Speaker 5: wanted to play some of that conversation. It starts with

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Speaker 5: Brendan talking about what these last few days have been

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Speaker 5: like after the win over Kansas, highest rated quarterback as

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Speaker 5: it relates to QBR in the country, authoring one of

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Speaker 5: the best offenses in the country, off a win against

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Speaker 5: a very good Kansas team in a hostile environment, and

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Speaker 5: now we're turning to Nippert Stadium against the fourteenth ranked

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Speaker 5: Iowa State Cyclones. Brendan Soresby is joining us right now. Brendan,

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Speaker 5: what's going on.

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Speaker 7: Man, what's going on? Thanks for having me absolutely?

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Speaker 2: How you doing, man?

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Speaker 22: How's the week going? You come off a big win

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Speaker 22: against Kansas, you know better than anyone. You get to

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Speaker 22: enjoy it for a few minutes and then you're onto

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Speaker 22: Iowa State. What's the last couple of days been?

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Speaker 7: Like a lot of recovery. Body was a little banged up.

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Speaker 9: Right after the game. You know, traveling after a win

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Speaker 9: is definitely a lot better. So that was a fun experience.

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Speaker 9: And then you know, once we got back, just making

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Speaker 9: sure we got our bodies right ready to go for

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Speaker 9: our Tuesday practice. So the preparation has been good, everybody focused,

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Speaker 9: everybody blocked in and ready to.

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Speaker 7: Go on Saturday.

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Speaker 22: How big of a weight does it lift off the shoulders,

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Speaker 22: because you guys have been very competitive and there have

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Speaker 22: been times where it's just come up a player too

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Speaker 22: short to get the ball back laid against Kansas to

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Speaker 22: play as efficiently as you guys did offensively, you didn't

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Speaker 22: have Joe Royer in the second half defensively, no Dante

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Speaker 22: Corleone in the game to get that ball back, go

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Speaker 22: down and finish that off. How much momentum does that

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Speaker 22: now build for a team.

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Speaker 9: Well, I know, just like you know the fans have

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Speaker 9: gone through it with the one score ball game is

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Speaker 9: not going our way.

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Speaker 7: I trust me.

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Speaker 9: You know as a player that whenever you're on the

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Speaker 9: losing side of those, you start to lose confidence. And

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Speaker 9: we were finally on the right side of one of

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Speaker 9: those and came out victorious. So, you know, being able

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Speaker 9: to carry that momentum going for it would be huge

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Speaker 9: for us, knowing that we can do it, knowing that

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Speaker 9: we can win those close games and go close it out,

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Speaker 9: you know, and just playing playing a complimentary football on

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Speaker 9: all three phases. You know, that was a really good

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Speaker 9: offensive team over there in Kansas, and you know, we

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Speaker 9: knew that they were gonna be able to score points

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Speaker 9: just you know they do.

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Speaker 7: On they do on everybody.

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Speaker 9: So you know, our defense bailed us out whenever they

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Speaker 9: needed to, and you know, we were able to put

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Speaker 9: some drives together and put points on the board and

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Speaker 9: at the end of the day, we won. So we

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Speaker 9: got to find a way to carry this into this

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Speaker 9: week right here and find a way to go be

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Speaker 9: a competitive team. And I Aloway stayed really good coach

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Speaker 9: team and you know, obviously top fifteen team in the country.

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Speaker 22: I thought about two thousand and nine, a game that

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Speaker 22: I played against Pittsburgh. We're down, we get the ball late,

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Speaker 22: and before taking the field, nothing was ever really said,

1146
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Speaker 22: but you could just tell and looking in the guy's eyes,

1147
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Speaker 22: there was a confidence that you were going to go

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Speaker 22: down and win the game. You guys got the ball

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Speaker 22: back down thirty four to thirty with a minute forty

1150
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Speaker 22: five left, you go on a ten play drive. Take

1151
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Speaker 22: me to the sideline before the drive started, Was there

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Speaker 22: anything that needed to be said or did you guys

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Speaker 22: kind of know what was ahead of end what needed

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Speaker 22: to be done.

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Speaker 9: You know, everybody understood what needed to be done.

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Speaker 7: Obviously.

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Speaker 9: You know we're dapping each other up saying, you know,

1158
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Speaker 9: we we got this, we know what we're going to do.

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Speaker 7: We know we're going to go put it in the

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Speaker 7: end zone. And you know that was that. I don't

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Speaker 7: think I don't.

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Speaker 9: Ever think there was too much, you know, disbelief from

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Speaker 9: anybody on that sideline. I think everybody understood that we

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Speaker 9: were going to do whatever it took to put it

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Speaker 9: in the end zone. And everybody knows how hard it

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Speaker 9: is to go do that, especially when the defense knows

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Speaker 9: you have to score a touchdown, and we still had

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Speaker 9: some adverse situations that drive you know, obviously the illegal

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Speaker 9: touching and you know, just just a couple other things

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Speaker 9: that went against us.

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Speaker 7: But you know, we found a way to persevere and

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Speaker 7: go punch it in the end zone.

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Speaker 9: And I think that's just a testament to this group

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Speaker 9: of the eyes that we have, and you know, everybody's got.

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Speaker 7: A common belief in a common goal that we want

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Speaker 7: to go.

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Speaker 9: We want to go win some ball games this year,

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Speaker 9: and we knew what it was going to take and

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Speaker 9: we did it.

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Speaker 22: I want to get to your your offensive line in

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Speaker 22: just a moment. But talk about the receiving corps. I

1182
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Speaker 22: know Joe Royer didn't play in the second half, but

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Speaker 22: he had a huge third and long grab for twenty

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Speaker 22: yards that kept the drive alive. We've seen Jeff Codwell,

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Speaker 22: Noah Jennings with the one handed catch, Gavin Grover almost

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Speaker 22: getting to the end zone getting stopped a few inches short,

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Speaker 22: Caleb Goodie, Cyrus Allen with the career day. How fun

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Speaker 22: is it now that you've got these guys in the system,

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Speaker 22: you can see their confidence growing. How fun is it

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Speaker 22: to be able to spread the ball around to your

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Speaker 22: receiving corps.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a blast.

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Speaker 9: You know, it makes my life easy, It makes my

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Speaker 9: job you know, fun for sure, to just be able

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Speaker 9: to go out there and say, hey, you know, let

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Speaker 9: these guys will make plays and you know they make

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Speaker 9: me look a lot.

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Speaker 7: Better than I am.

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Speaker 9: So just finding a way to get these guys the ball,

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Speaker 9: and like you said, grow over stepping up whenever Joe

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01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 9: went down. After Joe made an amazing catch on third down,

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Speaker 9: you know, we'll be able to get Joe back this week.

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Speaker 9: And I believe he's the best tid end of the country.

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Speaker 9: So that's huge for us. So you know, just the

1205
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Speaker 9: ability of guys to step up whenever we need them

1206
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 9: to and just make plays is huge for us. And

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Speaker 9: having confidence and you know, eight guys to go out

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Speaker 9: there and catch a pass for you is huge for sure.

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Speaker 7: So we're really excited.

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Speaker 9: About this group of guys that we have, you know,

1211
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Speaker 9: out wide for us and you know, at tight end especially.

1212
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Speaker 9: So we've been saying it for a long time, but

1213
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 9: people think I always give the quarterback answer. I was

1214
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Speaker 9: telling the media on Tuesday that you know, I believe

1215
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Speaker 9: in all of our guys, but I truly do. And

1216
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 9: you know, I'm willing to throw it to whoever because

1217
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 9: at the end of the day, I know they're gonna

1218
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Speaker 9: make a play for me.

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Speaker 22: I look at your guys backfield, and whether it's Tyler

1220
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Speaker 22: Walker or Evan Pryor, I just can't imagine a defense

1221
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 22: having to negotiate who's getting the ball, because, make no

1222
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 22: mistake about it, Walker doesn't want to run around you.

1223
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Speaker 6: He wants to run through you.

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Speaker 22: That's demoralizing for a corner or a secondary player coming

1225
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Speaker 22: up to make a tackle and then all of a sudden,

1226
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Speaker 22: Evan Pryor's got the ability to bounce one or to

1227
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:22,959
Speaker 22: make you miss and then take one the distance You've

1228
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 22: got the ability to run. How much does it put

1229
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 22: on a defense though, when you've got that that power

1230
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Speaker 22: and the speed that can hit in the backfield on

1231
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 22: any given day, Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 9: It puts a ton of stress on you and especially

1233
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Speaker 9: you know, like you said, I am able to move

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Speaker 9: a little bit, which makes it harder on the defense

1235
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Speaker 9: back to account for me. And then it gives our guys,

1236
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 9: you know, one less body to have to worry about. Hopefully,

1237
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,800
Speaker 9: if I can take somebody away in the run game

1238
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Speaker 9: and you know, our guys do a really good job

1239
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 9: in one on one situations and making people miss, running

1240
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Speaker 9: through people, whatever that may be.

1241
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Speaker 7: So just I think, I think, especially.

1242
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Speaker 9: In our back quote right now, we have a ton

1243
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 9: of different different threats and stuff that we present. Like

1244
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Speaker 9: you just said, Leads a little bit more power back,

1245
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 9: but he can shake you.

1246
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 7: Evans more of a home run hitter.

1247
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Speaker 9: And then I don't even know what you want to

1248
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 9: call me, but I can run a little bit.

1249
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Speaker 7: So that definitely helps now.

1250
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Speaker 9: And then just a pass game obviously being explosive right

1251
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Speaker 9: now is helping the run.

1252
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 7: Game as well. So if we can keep that going.

1253
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Speaker 14: I think we're going to be a really tough offense

1254
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Speaker 14: to stop.

1255
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Speaker 9: It's just up to us to continue to execute and

1256
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 9: make sure that we're we're on our.

1257
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Speaker 7: P's and q's.

1258
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Speaker 22: The first SAT giving up of the season happened against Kansas.

1259
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Speaker 22: I thought it was just the right play call at

1260
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 22: the right time for Kansas. They brought a pressure when

1261
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Speaker 22: you guys were running. A little play action makes it

1262
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 22: a little bit tougher to block. But the offensive line

1263
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Speaker 22: up front. You look at your running numbers, you look

1264
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 22: at the passing game numbers, you look at your ability

1265
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 22: to stay clean at times in the pocket. How important

1266
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:47,840
Speaker 22: is that group up front, Ben.

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Speaker 9: I mean, they've been they've been a huge help for

1268
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 9: us this year, especially you know in the past game

1269
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 9: in the Run game. You know, they've been doing a

1270
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Speaker 9: really good job of blogging for the Run, and then

1271
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Speaker 9: they've been doing an excellent job of of walking and

1272
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Speaker 9: protecting for the Past. That one sack is is very

1273
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 9: unfortunate because, like you know, on a little boot leg

1274
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Speaker 9: like that, the old line really doesn't have anything to

1275
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 9: do with it, So that was unfortunate.

1276
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Speaker 7: I was I was trying to do everything.

1277
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Speaker 9: I could to throw it away on you know, avoid

1278
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Speaker 9: that sack, especially.

1279
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Speaker 7: For the big guy's sake.

1280
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Speaker 9: But you know, they're playing really well up front and

1281
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Speaker 9: couldn't be.

1282
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 7: Happier for that group.

1283
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 9: I love that group of guys, and you know, I

1284
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 9: hope they continue to love me and protect me throughout

1285
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 9: the rest of the season. I'm gonna try to take

1286
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Speaker 9: care of them as much as possible because they're putting

1287
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Speaker 9: their bodies in the line.

1288
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Speaker 7: Every player.

1289
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Speaker 22: Well, as long as you keep getting to these steak dinners,

1290
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Speaker 22: I think they're gonna they're gonna take care of you. You

1291
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Speaker 22: said earlier in the week that after wins, you're taking

1292
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Speaker 22: the offensive lineman to Jeff Rubies.

1293
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Speaker 6: Is that right?

1294
01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 7: I take them there. I try to take them there

1295
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 7: after every win.

1296
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Speaker 9: You know, obviously Jeff Rubis is a very top spot

1297
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Speaker 9: in Cincinnati, so it's kind of tough to get reservations,

1298
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:51,040
Speaker 9: but they usually look us up.

1299
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Speaker 22: So are you we talking just the starting five linemen

1300
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Speaker 22: or any lineman that plays in the game. How how

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Speaker 22: do you decide who gets.

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Speaker 4: To go us?

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Speaker 7: It's any lineman that plays in the game.

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Speaker 9: So after after the Northwestern State we had to make

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Speaker 9: some adjustments.

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Speaker 7: We had boys I don't know, I don't know about this.

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Speaker 9: One, but no, it was, uh, it's usually any lineman

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Speaker 9: that plays in the game, and you know, we try

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Speaker 9: to make sure that they're taken care of because they're

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Speaker 9: doing a heck of a job up for sure.

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Speaker 22: They're pushing for those those heavy linemen sets. Then they

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Speaker 22: want to they want to get six to seven linemen

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Speaker 22: in the game.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, No, they're they're trying. They're trying to coach.

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Speaker 9: Carbo keeps trying to throw other guys in there.

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Speaker 7: I'm like, hey, we don't, we don't need to keep

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Speaker 7: going this thing.

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Speaker 5: That is Tony Pike with Brendan Soresby. Just a really

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Speaker 5: impressive dude, really really good conversation. You can find the

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Speaker 5: whole thing on the iHeartRadio app with Tony and Brendan.

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Speaker 5: And obviously a huge game. If he keeps playing the

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Speaker 5: way he's playing, the Bearcats definitely have a chance to

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Speaker 5: knock off Iowa State tomorrow. Coming up in the final hour,

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Speaker 5: we go Off the Beaten Path your sports bucket list

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Speaker 5: five one, three, seven, four, nine thousand. That's after the

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Speaker 5: News on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.

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Speaker 5: I Hello, and welcome in to the final hour of

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Speaker 5: Sports Talk seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 6: My name's Austin Elmore.

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Speaker 5: Happy to be with you on this lovely Friday night

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Speaker 5: in Cincinnati, the tri State and the world. And Lance

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Speaker 5: typically does an off the Beaten Path topic on Fridays,

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Speaker 5: and you know, I wanted to join in on that.

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01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 5: I wanted to, in the spirit of that, do an

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Speaker 5: off the Beaten path topic, and I figured, you know what,

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01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 5: next week, I am going to something off of my

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01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 5: sports bucket list that I am unbelievably excited about. And

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Speaker 5: I want to know about your experiences, your sports bucket list.

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01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 5: What have you crossed off your list? What have you

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01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 5: added to your list? What have you you know? What

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01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 5: do you have planned to cross off your list? I,

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Speaker 5: of course I am talking about next week when the Bengals

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Speaker 5: play the Green Bay Packers. I'm going up to lambeau Field.

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Speaker 5: I'm so excited about this. This is like the mecca

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Speaker 5: of football. One of the oldest stadiums, one of the

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Speaker 5: most historic stadiums in this small and sleepy town in

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Speaker 5: Wisconsin that is literally all Green Bay Packer football. It

1349
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 5: is woven into the culture there, and so I'm doing

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Speaker 5: the whole experience.

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Speaker 6: I'm going up a few days early.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to tour the stadium, I'm gonna check out

1353
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 5: the Packers Hall of Fame, and then I'm just gonna explore.

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01:09:57,439 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 5: I've been making a list of different restaurants that I

1355
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 5: want to try, people I want to try to get

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Speaker 5: in touch with when I'm there, the whole nine yards,

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01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 5: just to experience this little town that loves football so much,

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Speaker 5: in this historic stadium, which is just a bowl all

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Speaker 5: the way around, and I can't wait to check it out.

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Speaker 5: So if you've been I would love any recommendations you

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01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:25,759
Speaker 5: have for me, or if you have recently crossed something

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01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 5: off your sports bucket list or are about to, or

1363
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 5: just want to tell me what's at the top.

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Speaker 6: Of your list. I'd love to hear from you.

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Speaker 5: Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand is the

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Speaker 5: phone number. Now I don't know that this is at

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Speaker 5: the top of my list, it definitely is towards the

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Speaker 5: top for me. My number one is still Augusta National

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01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 5: Golf Club. I want to go to the Masters. I

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01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 5: want to experience the grounds at Augusta. I have been

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Speaker 5: able to cross off one off my sports bucket list,

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Speaker 5: and that is Ohio State Michigan. The game the top

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01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 5: rivalry in my opinion, in all of sports, and I'm

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Speaker 5: an Ohio State fan. So I wanted to go to

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Speaker 5: the game at Michigan. I wanted to experience the big

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01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:17,640
Speaker 5: house and the fans and the whole nine yards, and

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Speaker 5: so I got to do that at in twenty nineteen,

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01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 5: right before you know they shut it down with COVID

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01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 5: and then really right because actually the last time Ohio

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Speaker 5: State beat Michigan, I was there and I was blown

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Speaker 5: away by how cool that place was. And I don't

1382
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 5: have many nice things to say about the folks in

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01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,719
Speaker 5: ann Arbor. I mean, there is a true hatred there

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01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 5: for that university. But the stadium was pretty dankole and

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01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 5: I think about that all the time, that moment walking

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Speaker 5: into it, and then just the feeling that you get

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Speaker 5: when you're in an.

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Speaker 6: Environment like that.

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Speaker 5: My producer, Drew wester Heidi he and I were talking

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01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 5: about this on the break. Drew, what what's at the

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01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 5: top of your sports bucket list?

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Speaker 23: Well, Augusta National for one, Now, that is the that

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01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:11,640
Speaker 23: is the top. That is the peak. But how attainable

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Speaker 23: that is? So the top attainable one I have is

1395
01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 23: Fenway Park. Oh, that's a great one in Boston.

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Speaker 7: It is.

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Speaker 23: I think it's for my money, it's the coolest ballpark

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01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:26,480
Speaker 23: in the country. The history around it, just how it's

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01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 23: you know, changed so much, but also kept like the

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01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:33,839
Speaker 23: original design of it. Seeing the Green Monster in person,

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01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 23: that whole like area around the ballpark is really cool.

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Speaker 23: So that that is at the top of my attainable

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01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 23: sports bucket list. That's cool. Have you ever been to

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01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:45,720
Speaker 23: Wrigley Field. I've been to Wrigley Field. I've not seen

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01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 23: a baseball game at Wrigley Field. I've been to a

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Speaker 23: concert at Wrigley Field, but I'm I'm hoping to scratch

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Speaker 23: that one off. Next season. The Reds have a road

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01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 23: series in Chicago towards the I think believe it's in August,

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Speaker 23: so we're gonna try and get that one crossed off.

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Speaker 23: I know, if you'd have told twelve year old Drew, hey,

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01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:05,680
Speaker 23: when you go to the first the first time you

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Speaker 23: ever go to Wrigley Field, it's gonna be for a concert,

1413
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 23: not a baseball game, twelve year old me may have

1414
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:10,920
Speaker 23: like broke down crime.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's so.

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Speaker 5: But what's cool about Wrigley and I would assume is

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Speaker 5: the same about Fenway Park, is it feels like you're

1418
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 5: walking back in time. Yes, it's like a time machine

1419
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 5: because so much of it is the exact same and

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01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 5: the ivy and it hasn't changed.

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Speaker 6: Really.

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Speaker 5: I went once before they renovated it and once after

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01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 5: they renovated it to Wrigley and it's still like the

1424
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 5: same feeling. It really is like walking into a time machine.

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Speaker 6: It's amazing.

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Speaker 5: Let's go to the phones five one, three, seven, four, nine,

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Speaker 5: seven thousand. Let's go to Glenn in Cincinnati. What's up, Glenn, Hey,

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01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 5: not much. How you doing tonight? I'm wonderful man. What's

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01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 5: on your mind?

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Speaker 11: Great?

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01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 24: Not much, Hey, you've been been very blessed. Been to

1432
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Speaker 24: Augusta National for uh oh practic and the regular rounds.

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Speaker 24: That's a side that you've got to take and if

1434
01:14:01,240 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 24: you if you ever get the opportunity. But great story.

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Speaker 24: You were just talking about Lambeau. We had an opportunity

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01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 24: to go up there a few weeks ago for the

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01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 24: Thursday night game against the Washington Commanders.

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Speaker 6: Although I still call him the redskin kid.

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Speaker 24: Yeah, and great story. But first of all, you got

1440
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 24: to take in the sights. I'm glad you're gonna get

1441
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:26,760
Speaker 24: into the museum. But so we were in the in

1442
01:14:26,840 --> 01:14:29,760
Speaker 24: the seats on the lower area and there was a

1443
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 24: medical emergency enough to make fun of that, and a

1444
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 24: gentleman was having a really bad time.

1445
01:14:36,479 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 6: We had to carry him up to the to the tunnel.

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01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:42,640
Speaker 24: The EMTs came and was working on him and he

1447
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 24: was in kind of bad shape. But ten minutes later

1448
01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 24: is his buddy who was with him comes back down.

1449
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Speaker 16: He's set in his seats.

1450
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:53,679
Speaker 24: And I looked over and I said, hey man.

1451
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 11: I said, how's your friend?

1452
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 5: What's going on?

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01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:57,479
Speaker 6: He goes, well, he.

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01:14:57,479 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 7: Seems to be doing all care.

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01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 24: Now they're take him to the hospital, he said, But

1456
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 24: I drove two and a half hours to come watch

1457
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 24: the game. So I'm gonna get them that after the

1458
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 24: after the game's arm and gonna pick them up.

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01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 5: That's awesome. I came all this way to watch a

1460
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:15,200
Speaker 5: game at Lambeau. I canna go to the hospital with

1461
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Speaker 5: my friend. He got the doctors there, he's fine.

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Speaker 25: That's exactly what he said. And we just looked each

1463
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 25: other and laughed, you know.

1464
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:25,799
Speaker 24: And and I'm a Bengals fans, but obviously my customer

1465
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 24: gave me the tickets and couldn't turn down the opportunity.

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01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 6: But that's awesome. But glad to hear you're going. You're

1467
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Speaker 6: gonna love it.

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Speaker 19: Great fans.

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Speaker 24: They don't care if you're opposing team. They treat you

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Speaker 24: with respect. There was three women, older women setting in

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Speaker 24: front of us, and they would come out to the

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Speaker 24: formation and these women were calling the plays and the

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Speaker 24: formations those anybody.

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Speaker 5: Else they know they're football man, Yeah, they sure do.

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Speaker 5: But glad to hear your going. Hope you have a

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Speaker 5: good time, Glenn, Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean the Packers and like their season tickets is

1478
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 5: like legendary. I don't know if you know the story,

1479
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 5: but you know, people when their babies are born immediately

1480
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:11,680
Speaker 5: put them on the Packers' season ticket waiting list. Has

1481
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:14,240
Speaker 5: actually saw a tweet this morning from Darren Revel, the

1482
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:17,080
Speaker 5: sports business reporter used to be with ESPN. He's now

1483
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 5: with collect Media, and he said he started an experiment

1484
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 5: nineteen years ago, in two thousand and six, he put

1485
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 5: his name on the Packers season ticket waiting list just

1486
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:30,600
Speaker 5: to see how much his name moves.

1487
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 6: Over the years.

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01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 5: So in two thousand and six when he put his

1489
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:36,680
Speaker 5: name on the list, he was seventy three thousand, two

1490
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty seventh, seventy three thousand, two hundred and

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01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 5: fifty seventh. Nineteen years later he got his updated report.

1492
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,960
Speaker 5: He gets one every year, but here nineteen years later,

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01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five, he is at forty eight thousand,

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01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 5: six hundred and sixty ninth. So he's moved up twenty

1495
01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 5: five thousand spots in twenty years and is still forty

1496
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 5: eight thousand spots away for Packers to season tickets. That's unbelievable.

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01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 5: Let's go to Doug in Cincinnati. What's up, Doug?

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01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:12,760
Speaker 19: In twenty years and it's still forty eight.

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01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 6: Oh, Doug's gonna catch up in just a second. He's

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01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 6: listening to me. Hey, Doug, what's up?

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01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:21,559
Speaker 7: Well?

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01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 3: I was calling about sports, and I would like people

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01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 3: to think that our sports are us running marathons, running or.

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01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:48,360
Speaker 7: Haddling.

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01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,680
Speaker 4: Sports are us.

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01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 5: I like that, Doug, Thank you very much. Let's go

1507
01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:57,559
Speaker 5: to Jeff in Virginia. Jeff beat that.

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01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 26: Jeff and Kenwood Rightwood. I went went over to Indian

1509
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 26: Hill to catch our stud quarterback and it's forty two

1510
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 26: to nothing at halftime. So I'm right down the street

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01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:12,639
Speaker 26: from you, getting ready to get some ice cream.

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01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 6: Right here, you Gov, But.

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Speaker 26: Much like yourself, I'm going to Lambeau next Sunday. I've

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01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:24,719
Speaker 26: never been. I'm really blessed. My list is so short.

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Speaker 26: I've been to World Series, SEC Championship games, Stanley Cup,

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01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 26: Super Bowls. Yeah, when the Caps made that run in

1517
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:41,599
Speaker 26: twenty nineteen, I got to go to one of those

1518
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 26: games between the Reds and the Nats. With the World Series.

1519
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:47,600
Speaker 26: I've been really, really blessed. But next year I just

1520
01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:49,840
Speaker 26: found out last month I won the lottery for the

1521
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:55,120
Speaker 26: British Open and I was looking at the calendar. I'm

1522
01:18:55,160 --> 01:18:58,920
Speaker 26: going to try to pull off the trifecta of Wimbledon

1523
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:03,360
Speaker 26: F one race and the British Open if possible.

1524
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:07,959
Speaker 6: That's like a sneaky good one would be Wimbledon.

1525
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 26: Yeah, any F one race is probably the top of

1526
01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 26: my list right now, but none of none of the

1527
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:16,519
Speaker 26: ones they're in the US. I want to go to

1528
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 26: one of the ones in Europe. But if I can

1529
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 26: squeeze that out in three weeks and maybe even jump

1530
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:24,719
Speaker 26: over and catch the Tour de France for one day,

1531
01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:28,400
Speaker 26: that would be about as good as it gets, I think.

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01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know that.

1533
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 11: Well.

1534
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:36,240
Speaker 26: And plus, while I'm the two days I'm at the

1535
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:39,800
Speaker 26: British Open are the semifinals of the World Cup, and

1536
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 26: heaven forbid, England is in the semifinals.

1537
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 11: Of the World Cup.

1538
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 26: It'll it'll make the Ryder Cup last weekend look like

1539
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 26: a little baby's crib if England's in the in the

1540
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 26: Ryder Cup.

1541
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, that's that's awesome.

1542
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:57,439
Speaker 26: Great topic. Yeah, great topic. Thanks for hosting Austin.

1543
01:19:57,520 --> 01:19:59,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jeff, thanks for calling in. I appreciate that and I.

1544
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:02,120
Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll see each other in Green Bay. Yeah,

1545
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean that that's hard to beat. I

1546
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 5: have one of our co workers got to golf at

1547
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:13,200
Speaker 5: Royal Liverpool, which I mean, that's pretty tough to be.

1548
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 23: That's another on my list, yeah, is to play the

1549
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 23: old course Saint Andrews. Yes, which is which is attainable.

1550
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:24,560
Speaker 23: That is That's what I was thinking, that that is attainable.

1551
01:20:24,600 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 23: So that in terms of you know, Doug was talking

1552
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:29,640
Speaker 23: about like sports that we actually do. I have a

1553
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 23: long list of golf courses that I would love I

1554
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:32,719
Speaker 23: would love to play.

1555
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:33,040
Speaker 6: Now.

1556
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 23: I was just thinking, I'm going to play Augusta the

1557
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 23: seventh at Pebble Beach and yeah, like Pebble Beach would

1558
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:38,800
Speaker 23: be on that list.

1559
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 6: Probably.

1560
01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:41,880
Speaker 23: There's there's a ton of golf courses that I would

1561
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:43,639
Speaker 23: love to play throughout the world.

1562
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 5: You know, our guy Bill Cunningham, Willie, he had an

1563
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 5: opportunity to play Augusta National and he turned it down

1564
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:55,599
Speaker 5: to interview a political leader.

1565
01:20:57,479 --> 01:20:59,320
Speaker 23: Well, the next time I see Willie, I might just

1566
01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 23: smack him up. That's what I told him. I said,

1567
01:21:01,240 --> 01:21:03,600
Speaker 23: I've lost all respect for you. I won't name the

1568
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:05,760
Speaker 23: political leader that he interviewed. I don't want to call it.

1569
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 23: That's not that this isn't that type of show. But

1570
01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:12,599
Speaker 23: he had been waiting for years, and he the way

1571
01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:15,640
Speaker 23: he told the story to me at least, was the

1572
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 23: person that his contact at Augusta had called him and said,

1573
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 23: we can get you on. You fly down tomorrow morning

1574
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 23: at you know, seven am. We get there, you golf,

1575
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:31,679
Speaker 23: you fly back, you're back home at eight, eight o'clock

1576
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 23: at night. It was a The whole thing was a

1577
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 23: thirteen hour ordeal. And he's had to say no, I mean,

1578
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 23: that's incredible. Can't believe.

1579
01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 5: Let's go to Mount Orab and talk to Mike. Mike,

1580
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:45,280
Speaker 5: what's on your sports bucket list?

1581
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 7: Hey, Austin, thanks taking my call.

1582
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:50,479
Speaker 4: I was a friend of mine.

1583
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:54,560
Speaker 12: He went to every single major league park.

1584
01:21:54,520 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 24: In the United States, and him and his son did

1585
01:21:58,800 --> 01:22:01,800
Speaker 24: And I'm telling you what, father and son to take

1586
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 24: trips like that.

1587
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 3: That's just awesome.

1588
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:05,799
Speaker 7: That would be that would be great.

1589
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 6: That is really cool.

1590
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 5: I've I've met a lot of people because I go

1591
01:22:10,280 --> 01:22:12,160
Speaker 5: to a lot of baseball games. I went to to

1592
01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:15,120
Speaker 5: twenty five Reds games this year, and I saw him

1593
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 5: on the road a few times. And I went to

1594
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:19,920
Speaker 5: the Bristol Debacle and all that, and there are so

1595
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 5: many people that they they set out to do that

1596
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 5: over the course of a single summer, and that just

1597
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:26,680
Speaker 5: sounds like so much fun to me to go to

1598
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:27,519
Speaker 5: all those balls.

1599
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that would be great.

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01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:33,000
Speaker 6: Do you do you have a favorite ballpark, Mike.

1601
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:38,360
Speaker 7: I'd like to see Fenway, be honest, Yeah, that would

1602
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 7: be That would be a good one. Yeah.

1603
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:41,640
Speaker 6: I'm right there with you, Mike. Thank you for the

1604
01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 6: phone call.

1605
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:43,800
Speaker 7: All right, thanks luck guy.

1606
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 6: That's good stuff there.

1607
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 5: I mean the ballparks that I would most want to

1608
01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 5: go to, not besides Fenway Park, Oracle Park in San

1609
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:55,559
Speaker 5: Francisco looks really cool. That looks like one of those

1610
01:22:55,600 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 5: picturesque different level of ballparks. Yankee Stadium doesn't have the

1611
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:03,800
Speaker 5: same allure that the old Yankee Stadium had to me

1612
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 5: the new one. And I know people that have been

1613
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:10,799
Speaker 5: to that stadium and they say it's fine, it's nothing special.

1614
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 5: But yeah, talking sports bucket lists right here on Sports

1615
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 5: Talk seven hundred WLW. Got a little bit of time

1616
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:22,479
Speaker 5: before the news, and it would behoove me not to

1617
01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 5: be late again. I don't want to upset Jack Crumley.

1618
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:27,960
Speaker 5: I'm Austin Omore. This is Sports Talk. We're off the

1619
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 5: beaten path on a Friday night talking about sports bucket lists.

1620
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 5: Because I'm going to lambeau Field next week. We'll continue

1621
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:36,040
Speaker 5: the conversation half the news. We do have a minute

1622
01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:39,639
Speaker 5: or so here to talk to Dick in Dayton. Hello, Richard,

1623
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 5: what's up?

1624
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:44,120
Speaker 27: Hello Austin, How are you, buddy?

1625
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:46,479
Speaker 6: I'm wonderful man. What's going on? What are you up

1626
01:23:46,479 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 6: to tonight?

1627
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 8: Well?

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01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:51,759
Speaker 27: Nothing, I'm just watching TV. But was telling your screener.

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01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,280
Speaker 27: I think the bucket list I would want to do

1630
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 27: is I have much music and my friends. I would

1631
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:01,439
Speaker 27: love to go to Nashville, Oh, perform down there, maybe

1632
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:04,600
Speaker 27: as a group, you know, maybe go to the Kentucky

1633
01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:05,880
Speaker 27: Bluegrass Festival.

1634
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:08,880
Speaker 5: Okay, but what about like like what about like the

1635
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:09,879
Speaker 5: Grand Old Opry.

1636
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:10,760
Speaker 6: That'd be kind of cool.

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01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:16,200
Speaker 27: Oh yeah yeah, woa yeah yeah. But another thing too,

1638
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:19,360
Speaker 27: I was honored that I got to meet with Dave.

1639
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:22,720
Speaker 27: I think that was one of the best things the

1640
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:26,560
Speaker 27: iHeartRadio in Cincinnati to meet you guys there.

1641
01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 5: You know, like, yeah, that was that was one of

1642
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 5: your bucket lists. You got to come down here and

1643
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 5: meet all of us and.

1644
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 6: Hang out for a couple of guys.

1645
01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:37,719
Speaker 27: Yeah, yeah, I haven't talked to Dave, but I thought

1646
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 27: that would be and then, uh, you know, in my

1647
01:24:40,280 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 27: musical career, I'm making a lot of friends. But I'd

1648
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 27: say that's a pretty good bucket list.

1649
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 6: That's a that's a great one.

1650
01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 7: Dick.

1651
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 5: Thanks for the call, buddy. Okay, Yeah, you know, Dick

1652
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:52,599
Speaker 5: is a huge fan of us and listens to us

1653
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 5: all the time, so it was a pleasure to meet

1654
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:56,840
Speaker 5: him a couple of months back. We'll take a break,

1655
01:24:56,840 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 5: we'll continue. I just thought of two more for my

1656
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:02,080
Speaker 5: bucket list. Michael is in Lynchburg. We'll talk to him

1657
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:05,240
Speaker 5: as well. This is Sports Talk on a Friday night,

1658
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:07,160
Speaker 5: seven hundred WLW.

1659
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:08,840
Speaker 6: You're WLW high.

1660
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 5: I'm Austin Elmore with you for the next twenty minutes

1661
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 5: in for Lance McAllister coming up after the nine o'clock news.

1662
01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 5: That'll be our friend Sterling. Sterling will take you up

1663
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:22,600
Speaker 5: to midnight tonight here on the big one off the

1664
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 5: beaten Path. We're talking sports bucket lists in honor of

1665
01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:28,439
Speaker 5: my trip to lambeau Field next week to watch the

1666
01:25:28,439 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 5: Bengals and the Packers. And although I don't have high

1667
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:35,600
Speaker 5: expectations for the Bengals. I do have high expectations for

1668
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:38,960
Speaker 5: lambeau Field and crossing that off my bucket list. I

1669
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 5: was thinking of another one too, the Rose Bowl. The

1670
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:46,360
Speaker 5: Rose Bowl would just be chef's kiss for me. Don't

1671
01:25:46,360 --> 01:25:48,840
Speaker 5: even care whose plan doesn't have to be my Ohio

1672
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:54,479
Speaker 5: State Buckeyes that setting Pasadena, California, January first, to go

1673
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:58,479
Speaker 5: to the Rose Parade, the whole experience. How awesome would

1674
01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 5: that be? To go to the the big stealth bomber

1675
01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 5: that flies over, that would be so sick. Let's go

1676
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 5: to Lynchburg. Let's talk to Michael, find out what's on

1677
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 5: his sports bucket list.

1678
01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 25: What's up, Michael, Hey, Als, how you doing tonight?

1679
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 6: I'm wonderful man.

1680
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 25: So I have been to two of my bucket lists.

1681
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 25: I have been to Cubs and Reds game at Wrigley

1682
01:26:19,160 --> 01:26:21,920
Speaker 25: Field and we sat out on the bleachers. It was

1683
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:26,760
Speaker 25: so much fun, got very fun.

1684
01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 5: Those people in the bleachers are crazy at Wrigley Field.

1685
01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:33,479
Speaker 25: Yes, yes there. But I've also been to a Nordre

1686
01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 25: Dame game twice at Norda me chills man. And my

1687
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 25: next one I want to do. I want to go

1688
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:42,440
Speaker 25: to WrestleMania.

1689
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, that's a I kind of forgot about that.

1690
01:26:45,880 --> 01:26:49,320
Speaker 5: I was in Phoenix one year when WrestleMania was at

1691
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:53,040
Speaker 5: State Farm Stadium there in Glendale. I did not go

1692
01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 5: to the event, but the setup for it was insane.

1693
01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 5: I'd never seen anything like that. That's a good one.

1694
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,759
Speaker 5: That may reminds me two of the Western the Waste

1695
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:04,240
Speaker 5: Management open out there in Phoenix, which is a crazy

1696
01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 5: golf turned especially that was it the sixteenth hole or

1697
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 5: whatever that is. That's awesome though, I mean Notre Dame,

1698
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 5: so like, who did they play?

1699
01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:17,160
Speaker 25: The first game I went to, they played in Massachusetts,

1700
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:20,120
Speaker 25: and then the second one I went to, they played

1701
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 25: the Miami Hurricane.

1702
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 6: Okay, that's pretty cool.

1703
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:26,040
Speaker 25: My brother, my brother is a Hurricane sand and I

1704
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:28,639
Speaker 25: got thrubbing in a safe that Dame won that game.

1705
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:31,439
Speaker 5: So a little bit of trash talk that that's off.

1706
01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:34,439
Speaker 5: That's a great one, Michael, thanks for calling man, Thank you.

1707
01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:34,840
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1708
01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:39,719
Speaker 5: Notre Dame legendary stadium. I mean I don't I don't

1709
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 5: have like any real connection to Notre Dame or like,

1710
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 5: but that is that. That's I think in the same

1711
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:48,160
Speaker 5: vein as lambeau Field in the sense of like just

1712
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 5: a historic venue for what it means to college football

1713
01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 5: and the history of college football. I feel that way

1714
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:56,559
Speaker 5: a little bit about Ohio Stadium as well. If you've

1715
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:59,640
Speaker 5: never been inside Ohio Stadium, you should go. Even if

1716
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 5: you hate Ohio State, and I know a lot of

1717
01:28:01,160 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 5: people here do, but just the enormity of Ohio Stadium

1718
01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:11,720
Speaker 5: and how big it feels when one hundred thousand are

1719
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:14,320
Speaker 5: all cheering is hard to beat. And I'm sure Notre

1720
01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 5: Dame is very similar. Drew, you said you had another

1721
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 5: one that you got to experience.

1722
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:23,000
Speaker 23: Yes, the Lahina Civic Center in Maui for the Maui Invitational.

1723
01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:23,800
Speaker 6: That's a good one.

1724
01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 5: College basketball enters the Fray the Maui Invitational, Yes, the

1725
01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:30,000
Speaker 5: first tournament of the year basically right.

1726
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:33,320
Speaker 23: Pretty much, Yes, so you always know it's over Thanksgiving week.

1727
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 23: I've been lucky to lucky enough to go out there twice.

1728
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:38,720
Speaker 23: I went in twenty nineteen oh when Dayton had that

1729
01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:42,080
Speaker 23: very very good team. They played Kansas in the final,

1730
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:44,639
Speaker 23: who was also I believe they were the number three

1731
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:47,200
Speaker 23: ranked team at the time. So you basically saw a

1732
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 23: final four game and what is essentially high school gym

1733
01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 23: that's crazy. It is because there was no Final four

1734
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:56,240
Speaker 23: that year. That's right, correct, that that was the COVID year.

1735
01:28:56,439 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 23: And that game was just it was so loud. The

1736
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:05,960
Speaker 23: sound was just reverberating everywhere around you. You know you're

1737
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 23: sitting it literally is because like one side of the

1738
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:11,559
Speaker 23: arena was Dayton fans and then the other side of

1739
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:15,720
Speaker 23: the arena were Kansas fans. A high schools, yeah, like

1740
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:18,240
Speaker 23: a true high school game, but it was two high

1741
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:21,280
Speaker 23: level college basketball teams playing against each other. And then

1742
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:26,880
Speaker 23: I also crossed off playing the Plantation Course in Conna Pauli,

1743
01:29:27,479 --> 01:29:31,439
Speaker 23: which is where the kapelou excuse me, which is where

1744
01:29:31,479 --> 01:29:35,719
Speaker 23: the PGA Tournament of Champions is always held in January.

1745
01:29:35,720 --> 01:29:38,600
Speaker 23: So I got to play that this past event that

1746
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:40,720
Speaker 23: is in Maui. Yes, so I got to do that

1747
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:41,679
Speaker 23: this past time.

1748
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:44,599
Speaker 6: This do you have a home there all the time?

1749
01:29:45,080 --> 01:29:46,639
Speaker 6: Twice in six years.

1750
01:29:46,680 --> 01:29:49,919
Speaker 23: And my dad, who was a University of Dayton graduate,

1751
01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:53,160
Speaker 23: you know, he's he's sixty five years old. We went

1752
01:29:53,160 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 23: out in twenty nineteen and he told us he goes, well, guys,

1753
01:29:57,439 --> 01:29:59,800
Speaker 23: whenever Dayton's out here, I'm coming out here, told dead.

1754
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 6: So if you guys want to come. You let me know.

1755
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 23: That's a good move right there. So that's yes, that's

1756
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:06,000
Speaker 23: the couple that I've gotten across.

1757
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mauley is in and of itself a bucket list

1758
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:11,639
Speaker 5: I'm sure for a lot of people. And yeah, college basketball.

1759
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:14,400
Speaker 5: I've been to some First four games in Dayton, so

1760
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:16,800
Speaker 5: I guess the NCAA Tournament you can cross that off.

1761
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:19,679
Speaker 5: I know it's not the exact same environment, the exact

1762
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 5: same thing you're looking for. It did make me think, though,

1763
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:26,120
Speaker 5: a Duke North Carolina game at Cameron Indoor in that

1764
01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:29,759
Speaker 5: stadium would be pretty cool because that's another really intimate,

1765
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:35,800
Speaker 5: really small venue that is a huge part of college basketball.

1766
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:38,280
Speaker 5: So that's one that comes from I'm trying to think,

1767
01:30:38,280 --> 01:30:42,360
Speaker 5: like a an NBA Finals game. It obviously depends on

1768
01:30:42,400 --> 01:30:45,880
Speaker 5: the team and the player, whether that be like a

1769
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:48,000
Speaker 5: Michael like a Lebron James.

1770
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:49,639
Speaker 6: I guess that would be kind of cool.

1771
01:30:49,760 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 23: I have been to Cameron Indoor, yes, when I was

1772
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 23: very young. I was I think I was six or

1773
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:58,760
Speaker 23: seven years old. Maybe Dayton played there. I believe it's

1774
01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 23: two thousand and three. If you can't well, if you

1775
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 23: can't tell, Drew is a big Daton fan.

1776
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 6: That's true.

1777
01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:07,679
Speaker 23: I believe that was like the Reddick team, like JJ,

1778
01:31:08,800 --> 01:31:11,680
Speaker 23: like that team was really really good. We went to

1779
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 23: so we went to that game. We got to see

1780
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:17,240
Speaker 23: a game there. Awesome place. Like you know, it's kind

1781
01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:20,519
Speaker 23: of the same principles as you have put at Ohio Stadium,

1782
01:31:20,840 --> 01:31:23,519
Speaker 23: but different because of how small it is. Sure like

1783
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 23: Cameron Indoor is a is a small gym, but it's

1784
01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:28,160
Speaker 23: you know, the history. You walk into it, you can

1785
01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 23: you know, you just see, Yeah, you look out on

1786
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 23: the court and you just think about all the moments

1787
01:31:32,240 --> 01:31:34,280
Speaker 23: that have happened on that on that floor.

1788
01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a that's cool. That's a really good one.

1789
01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:39,639
Speaker 5: Let's go back to the phones five one, three, seven, nine,

1790
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:43,400
Speaker 5: seven thousand sports bucket lists on this off the beaten

1791
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:45,760
Speaker 5: path on a Friday night. Let's go to Franklin and

1792
01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:47,599
Speaker 5: talk to Wayne. Wayne, what's up?

1793
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:51,280
Speaker 4: Hey, I got two that I got to cross off

1794
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:55,320
Speaker 4: my list, all right, hit me one with the Kentucky Derby,

1795
01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:59,360
Speaker 4: Oh great one. Yeah, and the other one was the

1796
01:31:59,400 --> 01:32:00,799
Speaker 4: Indianapoli Spike hundred.

1797
01:32:01,280 --> 01:32:02,680
Speaker 6: Yes, that's another good one.

1798
01:32:02,720 --> 01:32:04,800
Speaker 5: Now, did you go to the infield at the NDY

1799
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:07,479
Speaker 5: five hundred because I've heard that place and of itself

1800
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 5: is is it just a ridiculous experience?

1801
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:12,919
Speaker 4: It's a zoom that's the only.

1802
01:32:12,760 --> 01:32:13,960
Speaker 7: Thing you can say.

1803
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:16,960
Speaker 4: It's not for a children under eighteen.

1804
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:20,600
Speaker 5: So what was like take me through the Kentucky Derby, Like,

1805
01:32:20,640 --> 01:32:21,200
Speaker 5: what was that?

1806
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 21: Like?

1807
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:22,439
Speaker 6: What was your favorite part?

1808
01:32:24,320 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 21: Uh?

1809
01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:31,200
Speaker 4: Probably about an hour before it's post time, seeing all that,

1810
01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:35,200
Speaker 4: how people dress. You have a women in their hat,

1811
01:32:36,439 --> 01:32:38,840
Speaker 4: a drinking of the mint ju look, which I didn't try.

1812
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 4: I stuck with bourbon. It was just the whole abbiance

1813
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:43,680
Speaker 4: of it.

1814
01:32:43,840 --> 01:32:46,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of like the the experience of just like

1815
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 5: participating in this thing with everyone.

1816
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:52,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, well great show, buddy.

1817
01:32:52,720 --> 01:32:54,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, Wayne, thank you, I appreciate. That's a good one.

1818
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:57,120
Speaker 5: I had written down Kentucky Derby. I hadn't talked about

1819
01:32:57,120 --> 01:33:00,719
Speaker 5: it yet. I've never been to like a legit horse race.

1820
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 5: I've been to like some of the smaller ones, and

1821
01:33:04,520 --> 01:33:07,160
Speaker 5: admittedly I don't know very much about horse racing or

1822
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:10,639
Speaker 5: gambling or anything when it comes to that sense. But yeah,

1823
01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:15,639
Speaker 5: Kentucky Derby, I mean the just the image of the building,

1824
01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:17,200
Speaker 5: I guess is the best way to say it. The

1825
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:19,439
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a clubhouse or this this

1826
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,519
Speaker 5: what am I thinking of the stables? That's what I'm

1827
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:25,440
Speaker 5: trying to say, the stables. Let's go to John and Cincinnati.

1828
01:33:25,479 --> 01:33:26,120
Speaker 5: What's up, John?

1829
01:33:27,720 --> 01:33:29,000
Speaker 7: I have an unusual one.

1830
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:32,160
Speaker 21: My daughter made it to the American Ninja Warrior, and

1831
01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 21: I'd like to see her real show.

1832
01:33:35,840 --> 01:33:36,040
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1833
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:39,559
Speaker 21: She beat out a lady that actually was on this show,

1834
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:42,640
Speaker 21: which I think was cool. Yeah, and then when she

1835
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:46,679
Speaker 21: was offered to go up there, she couldn't. She says

1836
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 21: she's going to try again. She couldn't because she had

1837
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:54,160
Speaker 21: an important exam. Oh my god, damn, this exam couldn't

1838
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:57,000
Speaker 21: can be repeated, Right, you didn't take you can say

1839
01:33:57,200 --> 01:33:58,599
Speaker 21: that day she would have been out.

1840
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:03,160
Speaker 4: Wow, that's it's a poll bolter.

1841
01:34:03,479 --> 01:34:08,880
Speaker 21: So certain mountain climbers I think make make good and

1842
01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:13,000
Speaker 21: poll all kinds of Yeah, different sports people make it

1843
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:13,559
Speaker 21: to the show.

1844
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:16,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fascinating, John, thank you for the call. That's

1845
01:34:16,160 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 5: a really good one. I hadn't thought about that, like, uh,

1846
01:34:19,280 --> 01:34:22,599
Speaker 5: the I mean just the sheer strength, that's that. That

1847
01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:25,599
Speaker 5: sort of stuff takes. Which he talked about pole vaulting

1848
01:34:25,640 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 5: and kind of those other different Olympic style sports, which

1849
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:31,200
Speaker 5: brings up the Olympics. How could you not want to

1850
01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:34,679
Speaker 5: go to the Olympics, Like specifically Olympic swimming. I think

1851
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:37,599
Speaker 5: would be really cool. To watch track and field I'm

1852
01:34:37,720 --> 01:34:39,760
Speaker 5: enamored with. I love to watch track and field when

1853
01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:44,320
Speaker 5: that's in season. Some of the other like Olympic sports

1854
01:34:44,360 --> 01:34:45,760
Speaker 5: like speed.

1855
01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:46,880
Speaker 6: Skating, I think would be cool.

1856
01:34:46,920 --> 01:34:48,640
Speaker 5: I might just be nerding out on that one, but

1857
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 5: speed skating or a hockey Olympic hockey, just especially after

1858
01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:55,120
Speaker 5: what we saw with the four nations face off last year,

1859
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:57,320
Speaker 5: that would be kind of cool. All right, now we're

1860
01:34:57,320 --> 01:35:00,240
Speaker 5: getting into it. Let's go to Brooksville, Kentucky and talk

1861
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:00,719
Speaker 5: to Matt.

1862
01:35:00,720 --> 01:35:03,679
Speaker 15: What's up, Matt, Hey, how are you doing.

1863
01:35:03,840 --> 01:35:05,240
Speaker 6: I'm wonderful. What's on your mind?

1864
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:06,720
Speaker 4: Well?

1865
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:10,320
Speaker 15: I have two off my bucket list and I've got

1866
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:12,439
Speaker 15: one that I can just say I did.

1867
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:13,760
Speaker 6: It, Okay, hit me.

1868
01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:17,400
Speaker 15: The two bucket lists was the Kentucky Derby. It was

1869
01:35:17,439 --> 01:35:20,680
Speaker 15: the year that affirmed one the triple crown and him

1870
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:23,719
Speaker 15: and aladar Ran, Neck and net Man. They're all three races.

1871
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 6: That's cool, that's really cool.

1872
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:31,479
Speaker 15: The other was Municipal Stadium in Cleveland. It wasn't for

1873
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:33,960
Speaker 15: a sporting event. I got to see the rolling Stones

1874
01:35:34,120 --> 01:35:34,680
Speaker 15: council pair.

1875
01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:37,080
Speaker 6: That's awesome, that's really cool.

1876
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:41,640
Speaker 15: Yeah, and then the one, the one a couple of

1877
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:45,640
Speaker 15: the Municipal stadium, it's not there. The third one is

1878
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 15: just to say I did it. I've been there many times.

1879
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:52,160
Speaker 15: I thought the place was pasted. Cincinnati Gardens.

1880
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:55,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I got to go to sin Cincinnati

1881
01:35:55,400 --> 01:35:58,679
Speaker 5: Gardens once and I think it was for like a

1882
01:35:58,720 --> 01:36:04,320
Speaker 5: Cincinnati Jungle Cats game, like Arena football. But I thought

1883
01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:05,840
Speaker 5: it was a really cool place. It was kind of

1884
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:11,600
Speaker 5: old obviously at that point, but yeah, that's a good.

1885
01:36:10,600 --> 01:36:15,240
Speaker 15: But I was there to see hockey games, saw to

1886
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:19,320
Speaker 15: Xavier basketball games there, saw the Shrine circus there two

1887
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:22,840
Speaker 15: or three times, and I just love the place.

1888
01:36:23,040 --> 01:36:24,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's cool.

1889
01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 5: There's there's a lot of people in matt thank you

1890
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:29,559
Speaker 5: for the phone call that I've heard over the years

1891
01:36:29,600 --> 01:36:33,240
Speaker 5: that have spoken glowingly at their memories of the Cincinnati Gardens,

1892
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:36,200
Speaker 5: especially back when the Royals were there way back in

1893
01:36:36,240 --> 01:36:38,760
Speaker 5: the day in the NBA, which it kind of makes

1894
01:36:38,800 --> 01:36:41,880
Speaker 5: me think now he mentioned Xavier basketball. I have lived

1895
01:36:41,920 --> 01:36:45,439
Speaker 5: in this city and been in this business for nearly

1896
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:49,080
Speaker 5: ten years now. I have not been to a crosstown

1897
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:54,200
Speaker 5: shootout between Xavier and Cincinnati, and obviously that they're they're

1898
01:36:54,200 --> 01:36:56,959
Speaker 5: back and have been for a while now on campus

1899
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:00,120
Speaker 5: for each that would be really cool. That would be

1900
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:03,240
Speaker 5: cool to see, just because I get to experience it

1901
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:08,280
Speaker 5: every day, the true dislike for one another between Xavior

1902
01:37:08,320 --> 01:37:10,800
Speaker 5: and Cincinnati. That would be cool to see. Let's go

1903
01:37:10,840 --> 01:37:14,320
Speaker 5: out to Batavia, Batavia and talk to Joe. What's up, Joe?

1904
01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:16,280
Speaker 7: Hey, how are we doing?

1905
01:37:16,439 --> 01:37:17,200
Speaker 6: I'm great man.

1906
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 8: Uh So I want to set this up. So me

1907
01:37:21,560 --> 01:37:22,000
Speaker 8: and my.

1908
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:26,639
Speaker 11: Brother, well half brother whatever, grew up, whatever got tickets,

1909
01:37:26,720 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 11: got tickets to that. I think it was the Bengals

1910
01:37:29,240 --> 01:37:31,400
Speaker 11: and Cardinals maybe.

1911
01:37:31,640 --> 01:37:33,760
Speaker 10: But we went to the game.

1912
01:37:33,560 --> 01:37:35,440
Speaker 8: Where Jerome Simpson did the summersault.

1913
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:40,439
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I was there. Me and my brother were there.

1914
01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:42,320
Speaker 7: We were at the opposite end zone.

1915
01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:45,200
Speaker 11: All I saw were his feet in the air, I

1916
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:47,519
Speaker 11: over the heads of everybody else.

1917
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 7: Where we were sitting.

1918
01:37:48,640 --> 01:37:50,920
Speaker 8: We had to look up at the jumbo tron and

1919
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:53,360
Speaker 8: we saw him do the summersault and it was insane.

1920
01:37:53,439 --> 01:37:55,840
Speaker 8: Me and my brother we high five, We hugged like

1921
01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:59,760
Speaker 8: we we made up for all our past transgressions.

1922
01:38:01,479 --> 01:38:04,160
Speaker 6: That was That was Christmas Eve. If I'm not mistaken

1923
01:38:05,320 --> 01:38:05,519
Speaker 6: it was.

1924
01:38:05,760 --> 01:38:07,160
Speaker 7: It was, Yeah, it was.

1925
01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 8: It was awesome.

1926
01:38:08,360 --> 01:38:12,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great, Thanks Joe, that's a great that's

1927
01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:15,519
Speaker 5: a sports moment there. I was at that game as well,

1928
01:38:16,280 --> 01:38:18,720
Speaker 5: and it was a Christmas Eve game. I want to

1929
01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:23,160
Speaker 5: say this was twenty eleven. I think it was Andy

1930
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:27,640
Speaker 5: Dalton's rookie year that Jerome Simpson gets the ball in

1931
01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:31,040
Speaker 5: this crosser route, gets a block, is running to the

1932
01:38:31,120 --> 01:38:33,280
Speaker 5: end zone and just flips over a guy. If you're

1933
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:36,000
Speaker 5: a Cincinnati sports fan, you've seen the clip a thousand times.

1934
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:37,559
Speaker 6: I was lucky.

1935
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:40,880
Speaker 5: We were six rows up in that corner of the

1936
01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:44,240
Speaker 5: end zone, so I saw it, like with the naked

1937
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 5: eye right in front of me, clear as day, and

1938
01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:51,720
Speaker 5: could not believe what I had just seen. I mean,

1939
01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:53,920
Speaker 5: that was That was one of those moments where you're like,

1940
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:57,439
Speaker 5: what the heck is happening. Another one that comes to

1941
01:38:57,479 --> 01:39:00,360
Speaker 5: mind when you think of a moment was the two

1942
01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:05,000
Speaker 5: thousand and nine Bengals opener against the Denver Broncos. The

1943
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:09,800
Speaker 5: Bengals had been awful on offense all day long, and

1944
01:39:09,920 --> 01:39:13,680
Speaker 5: Cedric Benson scores a touchdown with twelve seconds left. I

1945
01:39:13,720 --> 01:39:15,599
Speaker 5: want to say, or it might have been like thirty

1946
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:20,360
Speaker 5: thirty five seconds left and Denver with I believe Kyle

1947
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:24,120
Speaker 5: Orton as their quarterback throws one up. It's tipped by

1948
01:39:24,200 --> 01:39:28,519
Speaker 5: Leon Hall, caught by Brandon Stokely, taken to the house.

1949
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:32,320
Speaker 5: Gus Johnson loses his marbles in the broadcast booth and

1950
01:39:32,560 --> 01:39:35,559
Speaker 5: Cincinnati loses the opener. I think the final score was

1951
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:39,040
Speaker 5: twelve to seven. You want to talk about some heartbreak

1952
01:39:39,120 --> 01:39:41,439
Speaker 5: right there for a young man like me, Let's go

1953
01:39:41,479 --> 01:39:42,479
Speaker 5: to Pat in Dayton.

1954
01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:44,280
Speaker 6: We you got Pat.

1955
01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 11: Hey, what's up man? I was just about fifteen years ago.

1956
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:53,759
Speaker 11: I went to a sugar Shane Moseley ooh, and caught

1957
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:56,760
Speaker 11: for guests boxing match in Vegas.

1958
01:39:57,080 --> 01:39:57,320
Speaker 6: Huh.

1959
01:39:57,360 --> 01:40:00,160
Speaker 11: And you want to talk about saying, where you're in

1960
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:02,640
Speaker 11: a stadium and you've never seen a place like that

1961
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:05,000
Speaker 11: in arena and the way the punch is hitt, I

1962
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:08,599
Speaker 11: mean you can hear them from everywhere in that place.

1963
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:12,360
Speaker 11: And the other thing, it's a smaller arena and you

1964
01:40:12,520 --> 01:40:17,040
Speaker 11: brush shoulders with I mean, my nephew was like twelve

1965
01:40:17,120 --> 01:40:20,920
Speaker 11: at the time and he got pictures with the vander Holyfield,

1966
01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:25,280
Speaker 11: Rashid Wallace. Oh my god, he had no clue who

1967
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:26,559
Speaker 11: these people were, but I'm.

1968
01:40:26,400 --> 01:40:27,719
Speaker 7: Like, man, get a picture.

1969
01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:30,280
Speaker 11: I'm like a picture that's Vander Holyfield, Like look.

1970
01:40:30,160 --> 01:40:30,639
Speaker 3: At his ear.

1971
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:37,559
Speaker 11: Oh, Christian Slater and you know all these celebrities that

1972
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 11: you're just walking by you. It was blew me away.

1973
01:40:42,360 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great one. Thank you for the call, Pat,

1974
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:48,200
Speaker 5: that's really good. I hadn't thought about a boxing match,

1975
01:40:48,439 --> 01:40:50,599
Speaker 5: but I've heard that in the past, like with NFL games,

1976
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:53,639
Speaker 5: like you don't realize how violent it is unless you're

1977
01:40:53,680 --> 01:40:57,080
Speaker 5: on the sidelines and you can like hear them hitting

1978
01:40:57,160 --> 01:40:59,759
Speaker 5: each other. I never would have thought about that with boxing,

1979
01:40:59,800 --> 01:41:02,200
Speaker 5: but that's a great observation one that I did not

1980
01:41:02,320 --> 01:41:04,599
Speaker 5: think of. If somebody brought to the table at the time,

1981
01:41:04,640 --> 01:41:06,960
Speaker 5: fight would be really really cool. Yeah, yeah, that would

1982
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:09,200
Speaker 5: be cool, especially in those those types of arenas. We

1983
01:41:09,320 --> 01:41:13,439
Speaker 5: got time for one more. Let's talk to John and Anderson. John,

1984
01:41:13,880 --> 01:41:16,160
Speaker 5: you're finishing it off tonight. What do you got for us?

1985
01:41:17,200 --> 01:41:17,519
Speaker 12: Thanks?

1986
01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:17,800
Speaker 2: Brother.

1987
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 14: I got two of them boats baseball related. The first

1988
01:41:21,320 --> 01:41:24,720
Speaker 14: one trip to Cooperstown to see Mark and get inducted.

1989
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:26,439
Speaker 6: Oh, that was just awesome.

1990
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:27,559
Speaker 12: Uh.

1991
01:41:27,800 --> 01:41:29,599
Speaker 14: And the next I got to see the Red Steet

1992
01:41:30,080 --> 01:41:34,400
Speaker 14: the Red Sox at Senway.

1993
01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 4: Oh.

1994
01:41:35,560 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 5: I've heard a lot of good things about Cooperstown, and

1995
01:41:38,640 --> 01:41:40,920
Speaker 5: you got to be there for a red being inducted.

1996
01:41:40,960 --> 01:41:42,479
Speaker 5: That's even cooler than normal.

1997
01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:45,880
Speaker 14: Oh man, you're bumping elbows with all the greats just

1998
01:41:45,920 --> 01:41:48,440
Speaker 14: walking down the street. Can't put a price.

1999
01:41:48,200 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 5: On that because it's a really small town, right, It's

2000
01:41:50,520 --> 01:41:52,960
Speaker 5: just that it's basically just the Hall of Fame.

2001
01:41:53,400 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, it's the smallest town. It's just little stores

2002
01:41:58,120 --> 01:42:01,000
Speaker 14: here and there, little rep Thank you, aunt. I mean

2003
01:42:01,240 --> 01:42:04,200
Speaker 14: you're walking in and Pete Rose is walking down the

2004
01:42:04,200 --> 01:42:06,400
Speaker 14: street next to you, Eric Davis down the hall.

2005
01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:07,759
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was awesome.

2006
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Speaker 6: That's cool John, Thank you. Man, I appreciate the.

2007
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Speaker 14: Call, no problem, thank you.

2008
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Speaker 6: That is that's good stuff.

2009
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Speaker 5: I was hoping that the topic would take off a

2010
01:42:15,720 --> 01:42:18,400
Speaker 5: little bit and we'd get to hear some sports bucket listen,

2011
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:20,080
Speaker 5: and gladly we did, and there were some good ones

2012
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 5: in there, and definitely some ones that I hadn't thought of.

2013
01:42:22,560 --> 01:42:25,080
Speaker 5: So I appreciate everybody for being a part of the

2014
01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:28,519
Speaker 5: show that way. I'm out of time, though, which means

2015
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:30,680
Speaker 5: I going to turn things over to Sterling. Sterling's going

2016
01:42:30,720 --> 01:42:32,360
Speaker 5: to take you up nine to midnight. If you liked

2017
01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:35,280
Speaker 5: what you heard tonight. You can hear me weekdays from

2018
01:42:35,320 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 5: noon to three on ESPN fifteen thirty. I co host

2019
01:42:38,040 --> 01:42:41,280
Speaker 5: Cincy three sixty over there with Tony Pike. I also

2020
01:42:41,439 --> 01:42:44,160
Speaker 5: have a podcast. It's a Bengals podcast. It's called Ball

2021
01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:47,160
Speaker 5: Don't Lie. It's available wherever you get your podcast. You

2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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2026
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2027
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