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Speaker 2: You want answers?

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Speaker 1: I think I'm entitled.

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Speaker 3: You what answer the truth? You can't handle.

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Speaker 2: The true, True, True?

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Speaker 4: Six ZHO nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati, Chick

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Speaker 4: laud Wig, This is sports Talk. Awesome to be filling

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Speaker 4: in for Lance McCallister tonight. Russ Jackson is producer. We

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Speaker 4: are going all the way to nine o'clock and Sterling

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Speaker 4: will take you to midnight. We are twenty seven days

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Speaker 4: away from opening day Thursday, March twenty six, four to ten,

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Speaker 4: first pitch against the Boston Red Sox. The Cincinnati Red

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Speaker 4: stand three and three in Cactus League play after dropping

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Speaker 4: a four to three decision today to the La Angels.

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Speaker 4: And here to talk to us about baseball's first professional

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Speaker 4: team from Locked On Red's our good friend Jeff kar Jeff,

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Speaker 4: how are we doing today?

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Speaker 5: Takes sure we're getting ever close to the regular season.

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Speaker 2: I am so pumped. It's like above sixty outside. I'm

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Speaker 2: thinking baseball, man.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so fired up. We're ready to run through

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Speaker 4: a wall with snot bubbles. Jeff, There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 4: And hey, the res of three and three a lot

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Speaker 4: of good coming out of up spring training right now.

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Speaker 4: And how about today with Rhet Louder, he really was

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Speaker 4: the story even in a four to three loss. He

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Speaker 4: was awesome for three innings, one gosh up, three strikeouts,

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Speaker 4: one walk, a one eighty e R eight Rhet Louder

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Speaker 4: And you heard cowboys say it, Jeff Brantley, he almost

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Speaker 4: looks in mid season form.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it really looks like this fifth rotation spot battle

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Speaker 5: is good versus great. Like I really love what I've

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Speaker 5: seen from both Rhet Louder and Chase Burns, and I

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Speaker 5: know that Brandon Williamson's a little bit of a dark

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Speaker 5: horse in that competition. Two those three guys have really

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Speaker 5: pitched well. I still tend to think that Chase Burns

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Speaker 5: wins the job out of camp, but I would expect

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Speaker 5: that Chase Burns, Red Louder, Brandon Williams and those guys

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Speaker 5: are going to combine for somewhere between like forty and

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Speaker 5: forty five starts, and not all of them are going

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Speaker 5: to get just one of it. Not all of those

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Speaker 5: think that ultimately the Reds are in a really good

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Speaker 5: position for once where you know, in the years past,

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Speaker 5: it kind of feels like we're talking about how they

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Speaker 5: get to five starters. Now we're like, boy, how do

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Speaker 5: you whibble it down to just five starters? They've got

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Speaker 5: so much talent there.

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Speaker 4: Well, and the Cowboy talked about the challenge will be

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Speaker 4: because both combining Burns with Louder here a match of

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Speaker 4: two hundred and forty innings, So how those are going

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Speaker 4: to be allotted? Is is going to be fun to

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Speaker 4: watch on fold?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because that's the other part about like, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think it's well documented how much we're like, well,

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Speaker 5: Chase Burns probably only has so many innings for the season.

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Speaker 5: That's the same with Rhet Louder. He only pitched five

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Speaker 5: games in Triple A trying to rehab and get back

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Speaker 5: to the major leagues last year, dealing with a myriad

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Speaker 5: of injuries, and so he's really not to the point

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Speaker 5: where you can just let him loose and see if

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Speaker 5: he can go start thirty ball games. Like, these guys

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Speaker 5: are the future of this rotation. So as much as

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Speaker 5: they bring value to this team this year, they bring

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Speaker 5: value to this team for multiple years, and the Reads

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Speaker 5: really need to make sure that they take care of

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Speaker 5: that and secure that.

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Speaker 4: And another thing that Jeff Brantley brought up a couple

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Speaker 4: days ago with Rhet Louder, Why burn his starts in

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Speaker 4: triple A. If he is ready to pitch now in

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Speaker 4: the majors, use him here, and you could use Chase

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Speaker 4: Burns really stretch him out. Gosh, in the bullpen, the

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Speaker 4: guy can close. It just looks like a great problem

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Speaker 4: to have, Jeff definitely does.

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Speaker 5: It really feels like they have got a lot of

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Speaker 5: different avenues that they can attack this rather than, you know,

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Speaker 5: just hoping, because there's definitely been points during each of

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Speaker 5: bring up some guy from TRIPAA who just has no

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Speaker 5: business being on a major league mound. I don't see

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Speaker 5: that happening at all this year, and I don't see

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Speaker 5: them going through the dreaded bullpen day whenever they've ran

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Speaker 5: out of starting pitchers. Like they've got enough this year

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Speaker 5: because you feel really good about the chances.

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Speaker 4: No doubt. We're talking with Jeff Carr from Locked on Reds.

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Speaker 4: You can follow him on Twitter at Jeff je Ff

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Speaker 4: F three F's car And what I love about this

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Speaker 4: team is just so many moving parts, so much versatility

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Speaker 4: with the infield, and gosh, the outfield's awfully crowded with

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Speaker 4: and being on the bench is going to be a

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Speaker 4: strong Well that's what we're seeing here, you know, with

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Speaker 4: all the great competition, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: There's really just four bench spots to hand out to

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Speaker 5: guys this season, and honestly, Chick, I think it's down

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Speaker 5: to one spot that's really up for grabs after they

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Speaker 5: added Nathaniel Low. I have a hard time thinking that

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Speaker 2: Doesn't make this team.

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Speaker 5: So you see him on the bench, You see Dane

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Speaker 5: good option as a right handed bat in the outfield

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Speaker 5: comes down to is it JJ Bleda or is it

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Speaker 5: the competition to this point. Albeit it's really hard to

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Speaker 5: say who has won it this early on in spring training.

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Speaker 5: It's just clear that neither.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and JJ bl Day a couple of hits today.

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Speaker 4: It was nice to see Reese Hines a really good

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Speaker 4: Blake Done goes yard in the ninth inning today. So

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Speaker 5: Yeah, those guys could really provide some value as you

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Speaker 5: Reds fans have seen a little bit of Reese Hines

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Speaker 5: Guys have a lot more left to show, and both

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Speaker 5: I mean, really thinking about this outfield check, Like I

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Speaker 2: That is the biggest question.

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Speaker 5: But he's got the power, he's got the speed, he's

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Speaker 4: We see Dan Myers as as a center fielder filling

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Speaker 4: in when TJ needs a break. TJ can definitely play

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Speaker 4: A lot of versatility here. I'm excited about sal Stewart.

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Speaker 4: He dropped some weight, he looks he looks fresh. I'm

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the statement that he made this offseason was loud

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Speaker 5: He's already made his first adjustment and I don't think

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Speaker 5: And we've definitely seen in limited spring action like he's

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Speaker 2: Power, Not a chance. Dude is still hitting tanks well.

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Speaker 4: And I like his eye too, because in his first

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Speaker 2: So yeah, first challenge that was successful.

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Speaker 4: You love to see that, no kidding, and just a

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Speaker 4: Who gets the first shot, Jeff Carr.

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be Nowelvie Marquee.

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Speaker 5: And I think that we'll continue to see that early on.

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Speaker 5: There's a chance, though he could move into the middle

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Speaker 5: But there's a really good chance of by the end

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Speaker 5: long as Matt McCain proves that he deserves to go

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Speaker 5: back into that spot. That's what we'll see come October

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Speaker 5: when we should be hopefully he's seeing our Reds in

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Speaker 5: the playoffs again.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was under the impression that they might give

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Speaker 4: Matt McClain first chance there at number two. But it's

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Speaker 4: just such a critical, critical spot that player has to have,

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Speaker 4: a versatile bat, has to do a lot of sacrificing

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Speaker 5: Right And I think that that's the interesting part about

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Speaker 5: the Reds lineup where a lot of the talk this

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Speaker 5: offseason was how did the Reds protect Ellie get somebody

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Speaker 5: they went out and they got Geno. But at the

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Speaker 2: And I friendly believe that's the case.

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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty six, great stuff from Jeff Carr. Jeff,

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Speaker 2: The show at Lockdown Reds.

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Speaker 4: Jeff, thank you so much, great stuff. Appreciate you, Chick Sir,

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Speaker 4: war number twenty seven for your Cincinnati Reds. This is

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Speaker 4: Chick Ludwig Sports Talk on seven hundred WLW six into

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Speaker 4: Queen City, Cincinnati. Chickloudwig seven hundred with WLW, this is

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Speaker 4: sports Talk and the number twenty one ranked Miami RedHawks

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Speaker 4: are in action at Western Michigan as we speak, attempting

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Speaker 4: We turn to my newest BFF from the City of

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Speaker 4: to welcome in Chad Smith. Chad, welcome to seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 7: Oh thanks Chick, thanks so much for having me. I'm

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Speaker 7: I'm thrilled to be on the big one, seven hundred

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Speaker 3: Well fantastic.

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Speaker 4: And before we get started here, Chad, just how exciting

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Speaker 7: It's been unbelievable. Mallett Hall has been sold out for

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Speaker 3: No doubt. And is it safe to say that millions

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Speaker 4: No doubt, and gosh, Cook Field a beautiful expanse of

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, there'll be some plans to uh to duplicate

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Speaker 4: Yeah, faculty, staff and students softball the year before COVID

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Speaker 7: Love to hear that love and honor indeed, and you're

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Speaker 3: It would look bad for the NCAA. I think they're in.

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Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, there's such a story. And you know, I

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Speaker 7: we love the students that pour into our little town

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Speaker 7: and make it such a unique place. And then of

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Speaker 7: course the surrounding community folks. You know here in the

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Speaker 7: city of Oxford and the surrounding townships, and we all

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Speaker 7: know that it's it's a special place and we you know,

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Speaker 7: we're glad to share it with, you know, those in

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Speaker 7: the other parts of the region and nationally now as

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Speaker 7: we have a great basketball program and you know, we're

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Speaker 7: kind of a sneaky mid major. So we hope that

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Speaker 7: this success continues and we can continue to build on something.

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Speaker 3: I believe.

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Speaker 4: The red Hawks play Toledo at home and then they

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Speaker 4: go to the Comprecation Center in Athens, Ohio for an

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Speaker 4: absolute showdown against rival Ohio.

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Speaker 3: Youu, the Battle of the Bricks.

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Speaker 2: That's going to Battle the Bricks Part two.

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Speaker 3: That is going to be special, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: And man, it's uh, it's just a fun time because

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Speaker 4: I remember when the red Hawks knocked knocked out is

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Speaker 4: a fifteen seed knocking out Arizona at University of Dayton

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Speaker 4: Arena back in the day with Devin Davis and those guys.

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Speaker 4: So and then there's the fear always that a great

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Speaker 4: coach could possibly move on because there would be so

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Speaker 4: many suitors.

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Speaker 3: I sure hope that Travis Steel stays at Miami.

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Speaker 7: We we certainly all share that sentiment. He's got the

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Speaker 7: support of a town on the community behind him, and

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Speaker 7: we're we're just we're just so proud of the work

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Speaker 7: he's done. And and we we've always known we've had

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Speaker 7: a great university here, you know, and you know, we've

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Speaker 7: had success in other sports, football and basketball in the past,

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Speaker 7: hockey of course, and baseball, field, hockey, they've they've all

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Speaker 7: done done such great job, and we we love to

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Speaker 7: see winning programs like that stick around and and continue

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Speaker 7: to build. So yeah, we're couldn't be couldn't be happier,

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Speaker 7: couldn't have more support, And we hope that your listeners

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Speaker 7: decided to make the trek up twenty seven North and

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Speaker 7: stop by Skippers, you know, maybe stop by Bagel and Delhi,

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Speaker 7: you know, hit some ock Vegas Chicken, and come check

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Speaker 7: out these local businesses and some of the local nightlife

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Speaker 7: and come and enjoy a good Miami basketball game while.

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Speaker 8: We have have a few more to go.

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Speaker 4: Well, and Lance McAllister recently interviewed Chad Smith. He recently

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Speaker 4: interviewed David Saylor, the director of athletics at Miami and

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Speaker 4: just all sports trophy belongs in Oxford and with the

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Speaker 4: success of so many gosh, the women's basketball team, the

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Speaker 4: hockey team, Chuck Martin's football team.

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Speaker 3: It just goes on and on.

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Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, it's really a hitt and gym, and you

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Speaker 7: know they do it kind of that quote unquote correct

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Speaker 7: way right. You know, they bring student athletes in here

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Speaker 7: and it's a great school. They walk away with a

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Speaker 7: great education and have all these great memories and yeah,

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Speaker 7: you get to get the seed up close here.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 7: I tell my wife and kids, we're so fortunate to

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Speaker 7: live in a town with a Division one sports program,

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Speaker 7: you know, a couple of miles down the road, so

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Speaker 7: growing up and being able to see these teams compete

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Speaker 7: and all those memories people you meet, it's it's just

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Speaker 7: a wonderful place. And we have a very supportive business

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Speaker 7: community that you know loves to support our Red Hawks,

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Speaker 7: and we're looking forward to what the future will bring.

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Speaker 3: Chad.

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Speaker 4: This has been an awful lot of fun from the

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Speaker 4: Chamber of Commerce and the City of Oxford. Chad Smith, Hey,

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Speaker 4: appreciate your time tonight and all the best and we'll

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Speaker 4: be in touch.

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Speaker 7: Thanks Chick, Thanks for having me on and I appreciate

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Speaker 7: all you're doing for us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Chad.

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Speaker 4: That is Chad Smith and with one twenty two to

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Speaker 4: go in the first half, Western Michigan has a one

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Speaker 4: point lead over the Red Hawks twenty seven to twenty six. Wow,

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Speaker 4: when we come back, I promised to unleash the number

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Speaker 4: of twenty seven. That's how many days are left till

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Speaker 4: opening day and the Reds who wore that uniform number

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Speaker 4: when we return. This is chick Ludwig Sports Talk seven

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Speaker 4: hundred WLW, Queen City, Chick Ludwig, seven hundred WLW. This

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Speaker 4: is sports Talk. We're rolling till nine o'clock tonight and

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Speaker 4: that's when Sterling takes over these airwaves.

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Speaker 3: He will take you all the way to midnight.

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Speaker 4: Big shout out to tonight's producer Russ Jackson, keeping the

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Speaker 4: chickster off the legend in the Fairway. As we are

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Speaker 4: twenty seven days away from Red's Opening Day, a national

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Speaker 4: holiday here in the Natty, and it all takes place

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Speaker 4: Thursday March twenty six, four to ten, first pitch against

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Speaker 4: the Boston Red Sox, whom the Reds did beat in

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Speaker 4: the nineteen seventy five World Series four games to three.

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Speaker 4: Twenty seven days away, Well, who wore number twenty seven?

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Speaker 4: For your Cincinnati Reds. How about Ernie Lombardi in nineteen

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Speaker 4: thirty four, Hall of Famer Johnny Vandermere double no hit

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Speaker 4: Johnny in nineteen thirty seven, in nineteen sixty six. In

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Speaker 4: nineteen sixty seven, the number was worn by Jack Balchin,

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Speaker 4: who was involved in the worst trade in Red's history.

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Speaker 2: When in.

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Speaker 4: December ninth of nineteen sixty five, the Reds traded the

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Speaker 4: immortal Frank Robinson to the Baltimore Orioles for Milt Pappis,

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Speaker 4: Dick Simpson and relief pitcher Jack Balchin in Balchin War

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Speaker 4: number twenty seven in nineteen sixty six, in nineteen sixty seven,

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Speaker 4: the Great Jose Rijo War number twenty seven from nineteen

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Speaker 4: eighty eight through the two thousand and two season. Of course,

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Speaker 4: there were several comebacks there with arm injuries, but Jose

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Speaker 4: Rijo immortal in Cincinnati Red's lore. But Jeff Keppinger, Scott

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Speaker 4: Roland War number twenty seven, twenty ten, eleven and twelve

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Speaker 4: Hall of Famer Philip Rvin, Trevor Bauer, Matt Kemp, and

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Speaker 4: Jake Frayley all War uniform number twenty seven For your

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati Reds Coming up after the top of the Hour News.

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Speaker 4: We're going to hook up with Mike Petralia of CLNS

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Speaker 4: since Sports and what I'm going to ask Mike is

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Speaker 4: what happens if Caleb Downs, David Bailey, and Ruben Bain

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Speaker 4: are all gone by the tenth pick when the Bengals draft,

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Speaker 4: would they select an offensive tackle? Because Orlando Brown Junior

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Speaker 4: enters the final year of his contract in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk with Trags next. This is Chick Ludwig Sports

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Speaker 4: Talk seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 3: The following takes place between seven pm and eight pm,

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Speaker 3: seven oh seven into Queen City of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: Chick Lugwig, this is Sports Talk and our next guest

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Speaker 4: is spending time at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis at

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Speaker 4: the NFL Combine. Kind enough to join us for a

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Speaker 4: second straight night from CLNS Sincey Media and host of

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Speaker 4: the Jungle Roar podcast, the one and only Mike Petralia, Trags,

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Speaker 4: how are we doing tonight?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Check pull disclosure.

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Speaker 9: I made it back to Cincinnati and I am now

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Speaker 9: watching and observing the Combine from AFAR, but really had

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Speaker 9: my antenna up for the Cincinnati Bengals and all Bengals

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Speaker 9: related news from the last three days, and admittedly.

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Speaker 2: Not a lot of news.

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Speaker 9: What the Bengals are doing is what the other thirty

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Speaker 9: one NFL team should do, and that is collecting information

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Speaker 9: as much as they can, gathering data about particular prospects

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Speaker 9: that might be on their board, and doing a lot

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Speaker 9: of research and doing a lot of interviews. This is

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Speaker 9: the get to know you part of the process for

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Speaker 9: most of the NFL teams.

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Speaker 4: No doubt, the world's largest job interview and the world's

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Speaker 4: largest meat market. And I got all excited, Mike when

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Speaker 4: I saw mil Kuiper's latest mock draft with Rubin Bain

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Speaker 4: of the Miami Hurricanes the defensive end coming to the

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati Bengals at number ten. But what I wanted to

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Speaker 4: ask you is what happens if Caleb Downs, David Bailey.

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Speaker 3: And Rubin Bain are all gone?

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Speaker 4: Could the Bengals possibly draft an offensive tackle because Orlando

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Speaker 4: Brown Junior is headed into his final season on contract.

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Speaker 2: That is an excellent question.

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Speaker 9: And if they have the kid out of alim and

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Speaker 9: I apologize, but I don't have the list in front

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Speaker 9: of me, But if they have the Alabama tackle high

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Speaker 9: on their board, and he hasn't gone, then I would

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Speaker 9: say they very well might take him.

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Speaker 2: However, by most.

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Speaker 9: Projections, that offensive tackle for Alabama is not expected to

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Speaker 9: be around and if what you said is the case,

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Speaker 9: I would expect the Bengals to take Sunny Styles.

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Speaker 2: I love that guy. I think he would be a

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Speaker 2: terrific fit.

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Speaker 9: I know Al Golden hinted and even Duke Tobin, director

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Speaker 9: or player personnel, hinted that they want a versatile off

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Speaker 9: the ball edge type of linebacker who can do a

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Speaker 9: lot of things, get after the quarterback, play in space,

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Speaker 9: and I think that's kind of what you're looking at

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Speaker 9: in a Sunny Styles.

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Speaker 2: He obviously had production.

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Speaker 9: He played in a premium defense, one of the best

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Speaker 9: college defenses.

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Speaker 2: Ever in Ohio State.

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Speaker 9: And I think he would be an force multiplier. That

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Speaker 9: is the buzzword that the Bengals are throwing around this

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Speaker 9: week in Indianapolis. We want force multipliers. I can't think

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Speaker 9: of a better force multiplier if Caleb Downs is not

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Speaker 9: available than a Sunny Styles. I think he would be

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Speaker 9: a terrific fit in what al Golden wants to do.

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Speaker 9: Even Al Golden admitted yesterday that they love the development

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Speaker 9: of Demetrius Knight Junior. He had his bumps in the road,

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Speaker 9: no question, but they don't want him necessarily playing on

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Speaker 9: the line of scrimmings where they had him when you

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Speaker 9: know you have a five man front.

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Speaker 2: And Demetrius Knight Junior was the fifth man. The Bengals

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Speaker 2: don't want to be in that.

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Speaker 9: Position next year, and Sunny Styles could absolutely fill that

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Speaker 9: role for the Bengals next year.

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Speaker 3: Drags is with us and tracks.

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Speaker 4: I'm a little bit jealous because when I covered the Bengals, uh,

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Speaker 4: during the combine, free agency was going on at the

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Speaker 4: same time.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 3: Finally, they don't know how you did that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you juggled things like that.

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Speaker 9: You must have been on so much caffeine to get

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Speaker 9: through that that that period of time, because my mind

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Speaker 9: would be pinballing all over the place to handle both

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Speaker 9: of those. But you know, you know the they I

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Speaker 9: guess you were tougher back in the day.

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Speaker 2: Chick.

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Speaker 3: Well, uh, at.

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Speaker 4: Least it's separated now, and we know that free agency

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Speaker 4: in the draft. I mean, they've got to compliment one another.

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Speaker 4: So if you get some studs on defense, you know

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Speaker 4: that's going to determine hopefully, what you do in the

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Speaker 4: uh you know, in the draft, and what I want

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Speaker 4: to say here trags. Over the years, the Bengals have

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Speaker 4: tried here at defensive tackle with Larry Yogajobi, with DJ Reader,

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Speaker 4: with Sheldon Rankins, with TJ.

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Speaker 3: Slayton for crying out.

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Speaker 4: Now, they're trying and they're probably going to keep on

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Speaker 4: trying this year to get that defensive line. It's great

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Speaker 4: to have secondary players, but when you get after the quarterback,

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Speaker 4: it just helps the secondary not cover as long.

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Speaker 9: Okay, the other name that I did not mention that

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Speaker 9: I omitted that I should definitely mention Peter Woods out

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Speaker 9: of Clemson. I think he is somebody that would fill

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Speaker 9: the role you're talking about in the middle of the

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Speaker 9: defensive line, a force multiplier, disruptor. You want that kind

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Speaker 9: of guy in the middle of that defensive line. And

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Speaker 9: he grades very well in a lot of the physical

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Speaker 9: attributes that you're looking for in a nose in a

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Speaker 9: defensive tackle. And you know, not having watched his tape

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Speaker 9: super close, I understand that he is a very versatile

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Speaker 9: defensive tackle. So that certainly would fill the need that

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Speaker 9: the Bengals were looking at. The Bengals haven't had that

662
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Speaker 9: guy in the middle really since DJ Rey and if

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Speaker 9: you if you want to be honest about it, they

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Speaker 9: haven't had him since. They're looking for a Geno Atkins

665
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Speaker 9: and I know those don't come around every year, they

666
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Speaker 9: don't come around every five years, but they need a

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Speaker 9: Geno Atkins kind of disruptor. And what made Gino great,

668
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Speaker 9: really great was Pekou to Mottoe in the middle along

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Speaker 9: Yeah Delmotot thank you, Beco in the middle of the

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Speaker 9: defensive line with him, and you had those two. That's

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Speaker 9: what the Bengals need to get back to it. You

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Speaker 9: could get that kind of force in the middle of

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Speaker 9: the defensive line. What it would do for the rest

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Speaker 9: of the defense is exponential. You would have You already

675
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Speaker 9: have two very good cornerbacks. I think they think, and

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Speaker 9: I agree with them. I think in DJ Turner and

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Speaker 9: Dax Hill, you've got your outside corners set.

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Speaker 2: They believe in Jordan Battle.

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Speaker 9: But they are going to have to obviously get another

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Speaker 9: safe to replace Ginostone. They've got to do better in

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Speaker 9: the safety department. And that's why everybody loves Caleb Downs.

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Speaker 9: If he's on the board, take them. But if he's not,

683
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Speaker 9: they're going to have to fill it, probably in free agency,

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Speaker 9: and they're going to have to look really close. Maybe

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Speaker 9: they bring Kobe Bryant back and put him in the

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Speaker 9: position he was originally at at the University of Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: Who knows you jogged my memory with Domata Peko. I

688
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 4: can see the hair, the long hair flying underneath that

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Speaker 4: that helmets, and he came into the locker room wearing

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Speaker 4: a grass skirt and he invited me to Pago Pago,

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Speaker 4: and I have not gone but love the guy.

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Speaker 3: Actually unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: What does a strong defensive line with edge rushers and

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Speaker 4: push up the middle, what does that do for this defense?

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Speaker 9: Well, I mean you've got, first of all, what it

696
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 9: does for Al Golden. It allows him to run more

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Speaker 9: stunts and try and disrupt and confuse opposing offensive lines.

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Speaker 9: Golden on Wednesday said that he cannot remember a time

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Speaker 9: where he called fewer pressures and fewer stunts than he

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Speaker 9: did this year with the Bengals. And part of that, obviously,

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Speaker 9: when you have three rookies. Shamar Stewart was also hurt.

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Speaker 9: But Shamar Stewart and he had the two rookie linebackers

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Speaker 9: and Barrick Carter and Demetrius Knight. They were learning their way,

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Speaker 9: so he didn't want to expose those rookies even more

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Speaker 9: by calling stunts. And if you bring in guys that

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Speaker 9: are established and know more, even rookies who have high,

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Speaker 9: high football intelligence coming into the program, then I think

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Speaker 9: Al Golden would feel a little more freedom to be

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Speaker 9: more aggressive along the defensive line. That's one thing certainly

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Speaker 9: you would look for, and certainly it would allow guys

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Speaker 9: Sjamar Stewart and Miles Murphy, who needs to take that

712
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Speaker 9: next step. He took a good step last year, no

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Speaker 9: question about it, the first rounder in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 9: He needs to take that next step next year. And

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Speaker 9: if he does, and if you solidify the middle of

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Speaker 9: the defensive line, then you're talking about getting after the

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Speaker 9: quarterback and starting to dictate the terms of the game

718
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Speaker 9: at the line of scrimmage, and Bengals have not done

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Speaker 9: that defensively for the last four seasons.

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Speaker 4: Mike Petrelli has written a awesome story on Bengals offensive

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Speaker 4: coordinator Dan Pitcher.

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Speaker 3: I read it all and I can just imagine what

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Speaker 3: he is going through.

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Speaker 4: Living, eating, breathing, sleeping offense with the Big three and

725
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Speaker 4: trying to get those wide receivers open down the field

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Speaker 4: for Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let me tell you something, Chick.

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Speaker 9: One of my basic takeaways from that and it went

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Speaker 9: a little bit under the radar, but not too much.

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Speaker 9: I think they would like to get Joe Burrow under

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Speaker 9: center more next year. We saw the impact that it

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Speaker 9: had with Joe Flacco. Teams were guessing a little bit more,

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Speaker 9: which I think gave Flacco a little more opportunity in

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Speaker 9: the pocket because they because now with Chase Brown emerging

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Speaker 9: as a true running back threat and you know, Samaj,

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Speaker 9: you had samajp Ryan as well, but when you had

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Speaker 9: Chase Brown as a legitimate threat in the backfield, having

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Speaker 9: him under center, defenses don't know, and you can sell

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Speaker 9: the play action so much better. And I think that gives,

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Speaker 9: you know, a second and a half more time to

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Speaker 9: the quarterback and the receivers to get open, you know,

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Speaker 9: and you also see more man coverage right off the

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Speaker 9: ball when you're under center. I think that's something that

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Speaker 9: the Dan Pitcher is going to certainly explore this year.

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Speaker 9: And I don't I'm not here to say that it's

746
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Speaker 9: definitely going to happen because Joe Burrow is clearly on

747
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Speaker 9: record as saying he's most comfortable when he's like Brady

748
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Speaker 9: and Peyton Manning in the shotgun, reading the defense pre snap.

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Speaker 2: That's his expertise. You don't want to take away that.

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Speaker 9: Significant advantage that Burrow has when he's reading the defense,

751
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Speaker 9: but you're also want to put him in an advantageous

752
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Speaker 9: position where the defense is guessing a lot more and

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Speaker 9: maybe Burrow can play action and throw the ball downfield.

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Speaker 9: It's a fascinating discussion and debate that damn Picture is

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Speaker 9: going to have with his coaching staff before the players

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Speaker 9: meet in April.

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Speaker 4: We expect a Cincinnati renaissance with the Reds and the Bengals.

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Speaker 4: And when I came into the studio tonight and stopped

759
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Speaker 4: in and saw awesome Austin Elmore. He had on the

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Speaker 4: NFL network watching the combine and the name popped up

761
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Speaker 4: Ephesians Price Sock, So I had to look up Ephesians.

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Speaker 4: He's a defensive back for the University of Washington. That

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Speaker 4: is a great, great name.

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Speaker 9: Mike, Yeah, yeah, I'd have to learn to spell that

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Speaker 9: when if he comes to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: Ephesians Price Sock awesome. Before I let you go and

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Speaker 4: You've been generous with your time as always, Trags. There

768
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 4: are two arena teams locally that are due to play

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Speaker 4: this spring, the Cincinnati Slingers at Heritage Bank Center in

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Speaker 4: the Kentucky Barrels at Truest Arena. Is there enough money

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Speaker 4: from folks who are struggling to pay their mortgage? Are

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Speaker 4: they going to come out and watch arena football?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Are you asking me?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: What do you say?

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Speaker 9: That's a long stretch that is. Let's put it this way.

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Speaker 9: I think both of those Arena Football League franchises are

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Speaker 9: going to have to get super creative with their marketing

779
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Speaker 9: to draw fans into the building. And given the creative

780
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Speaker 9: marketing minds in the greater Cincinnati area in northern Kentucky,

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Speaker 9: I don't doubt that it can be done.

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Speaker 2: How's that for an answer? I love it.

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Speaker 8: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Sorry to throw that curveball at you, but you handled

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Speaker 3: it like a true pro that you are.

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Speaker 10: Man.

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Speaker 3: Love your stuff, Mike. Thank you so much for taking.

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Speaker 6: Time out tonight anytime, chick.

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Speaker 3: You have a good one, all right, Appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: And while we're at it here, go to Cincinnati Slinger's

791
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Speaker 4: Facebook page and it's buried a little bit, but scroll

792
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Speaker 4: down because they've signed some players. And I'm going to

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Speaker 4: read this to you since he this is your shot.

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Speaker 4: There are tryouts tomorrow nine am to noon in Fairfield.

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Speaker 4: Now I'm going to give you the address game Time

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Speaker 4: Training Center Saturday, February twenty eighth. It's at five thirty

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Speaker 4: Quality Boulevard, Number C, Fairfield, Ohio. Once again, Game Time

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Speaker 4: Training Center, five point thirty Quality Boulevard, Number CE tryouts

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Speaker 4: for the Cincinnati Slingers. Think you've got what it takes

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Speaker 4: to compete at the arena level, It's time to prove it. Speed, strength, heart,

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Speaker 4: bring it all. Athletic shoes only, no cleats. This is

802
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 4: more than a workout. It's an opportunity. Show up, show out,

803
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Speaker 4: earn your spot tag someone who needs to be there,

804
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 4: who's pulling up ready to make a statement.

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Speaker 3: That is on the Cincinnati Slingers Facebook page. Check it out.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to Sports Talk with your host, Chick Ludwig

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Speaker 4: on seven hundred WLW High Times Tomorrow night, seven o'clock

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Speaker 4: truest arena Wright State at Northern Kentucky in a Horizon

809
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: League showdown. Wright State is nineteen and eleven overall fourteen

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Speaker 4: and five in the Horizon League, and they've won the

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Speaker 4: regular season championship NKU eighteen and twelve overall ten and

812
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Speaker 4: nine in the Horizon League. And it all happens tomorrow

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Speaker 4: night Truest Arena, Highland Heights, Kentucky. The place is going

814
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 4: to be off the charts, going to be awesome. After

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Speaker 4: the bottom of the hour news, we're going to welcome

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Speaker 4: in Chris Collins, the voice of Right State Basketball, to

817
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Speaker 4: talk about this game. And there's a big shin dig

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Speaker 4: beforehand with as from the Cincinnati area having a big

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Speaker 4: tailgate there. So I just get the feeling there's not

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Speaker 4: a lot of hatred and animosity among these teams that

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Speaker 4: are separated by only what fifty miles, But these two teams,

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Speaker 4: they battled back in the division two days and Wright

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Speaker 4: State went Division one quicker than Northern Kentucky. But both

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Speaker 4: teams solid in the Horizon League, and I just absolutely

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Speaker 4: love the mid Majors. Now I mentioned two local arena teams.

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Speaker 4: They'll be playing in different leagues, but indoor football is

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Speaker 4: coming this spring to Northern Kentucky and to Greater Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: The Cincinnati Slingers are in the International Arena League and

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Speaker 4: They open play April twenty fifth against the Arizona Juggernauts

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Speaker 4: at Heritage Bank Center. And the Kentucky Barrels are playing

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Speaker 4: in the Arena Football One League and they will be

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Speaker 4: playing at Truest Arena in Highland Heights, Kentucky on the

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Speaker 4: campus in Truest Arena on the campus of Northern Kentucky University.

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Speaker 4: So I wanted to get that out there so when

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Speaker 4: we come back, appreciate Mike Petralia joining us. We're in

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Speaker 4: for a Cincinnati renaissance. That's all I can say. With

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Speaker 4: the Reds and the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals should be

838
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Speaker 4: able to dominate the AFC North this year. Chris Collins

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Speaker 4: and then we will have an off the Beaten Path

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Speaker 4: topic in the eight o'clock hour. We'll promo that shortly.

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Speaker 4: Chris Collins is next on seven hundred WLW EULW. It's

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Speaker 4: going to be a wild night Tomorrow night, seven o'clock

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Speaker 4: tip off Truest Arene in Highland Heights, Kentucky on the

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Speaker 4: campus at Northern Kentucky University. And the Invaders are the

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Speaker 4: Right State Raiders regular season champions of the Horizon League.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a big time night.

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Speaker 4: And here to talk to us about it, the voice

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Speaker 4: of the Right State Raiders, my good friend Chris Collins.

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Speaker 3: Chris, how are we doing?

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Speaker 8: Oh, Chick, I'm feeling great. I want to thank you

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Speaker 8: for having me on tonight. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you're welcome. And hey, the Right State Raiders have

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Speaker 3: it going on.

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Speaker 4: They have been swept this year by Robert Morris, and

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Speaker 4: I hear Robert Morris. I have not seen them play.

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Speaker 4: I hear they are big, they are tall, and it's

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Speaker 4: just a tough matchup for the Raiders. They are and

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Speaker 4: they're also well coached. Andy Toole course. Last year, everybody

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Speaker 4: knows that they followed the Horizon League. You know, they

860
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Speaker 4: were the champions and they gave Alabama scare on the

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Speaker 4: opening round of the NCAA tournament. But you know, this

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Speaker 4: year in the Horizon League tournament, if you get there,

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Speaker 4: if you can get to Indianapolis, I think anybody has

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Speaker 4: an opportunity to win. That's that's the way it is

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Speaker 4: in the Horizon League. It's it's tough to win on

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Speaker 4: the road, and it's every game just seems so close.

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Speaker 4: And Chris is going to be a fun night tomorrow night,

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Speaker 4: the Right State Cincinnati Alumni Network, they're going to have

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Speaker 4: a pregame tailgate with drinks appetizers at Billy's Skyline Tavern,

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Speaker 4: Skyline Tavern. Yeah, before the before the game at Truest Arena.

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00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 4: And yeah, a fifteen dollars ticket includes heavy appetizers, one

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Speaker 4: drink at the Skyline Tavern, and the game ticket.

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Speaker 3: Man, you can't beat that deal, you.

874
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Speaker 10: Know, no, it is.

875
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,359
Speaker 8: And ever since Northern Kentucky came into the Horizon League,

876
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 8: we've always enjoyed the matchups. Northern Kentucky and Wright State

877
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 8: so successful in this league. Ever since NKU has joined,

878
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 8: you know, the Horizon Like Darren Horton has just done

879
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,919
Speaker 8: a terrific job with this team. And I know they're

880
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 8: going to be honoring seven seniors before tomorrow night's game.

881
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 8: And also NKU has a chance, a chance. The top

882
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 8: five teams in the first round of the tournament have

883
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 8: an opportunity to or rather to host an opening first

884
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 8: round game. NKU is going to have to beat Right

885
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 8: State and have to get some help from the way

886
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 8: I understand a chick. Green Bay has to win over

887
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 8: Youngstown State at green Bay for due fort, Wayne has

888
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 8: to lose at IUND and also Detroit Mercy has to

889
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 8: lose at Oakland. So if all those things happened, NKU

890
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 8: would be in the fifth spot and they would have

891
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 8: a home game in the opening round.

892
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 3: Oh fantastic that I did.

893
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 4: Just get the feeling, Chris, that there's not a lot

894
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 4: of animosity in this series. There's no hatred, similar schools

895
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 4: that really just respect one another.

896
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 8: Absolutely. You know, I can remember going back to when

897
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 8: the games were played in Detroit at the tournament a

898
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 8: few years back, Rice State won the first one. They

899
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 8: were Joe Lewis or not Joe Lewis, I should say,

900
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,800
Speaker 8: but at Little Caesars Arena. The next year, Drew McDonald

901
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 8: came back and had an outstanding, I mean an outstanding tournament.

902
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 8: And you know, we have nothing but praise know what

903
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 8: they were able to accomplish. And you know, NKAU has

904
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 8: just been a terrific a terrific opponent. And we look

905
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 8: forward to tomorrow night's game.

906
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 3: And this this rivalry really goes back to the Division

907
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 3: two days.

908
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 8: Man, Yeah you remember those, don't you check?

909
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 2: I do?

910
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 4: I absolutely do, And just great, great matchups and then

911
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 4: to see him both you know, Wright State got to

912
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 4: Division One quicker. But yeah, Northern Kentucky's just done a

913
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,439
Speaker 4: whale of a job getting to the Horizon League.

914
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 3: And I just love the mid major conferences.

915
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, they're fun to watch. And you know, things

916
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 8: have changed obviously with NIL and also with a transfer portal,

917
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 8: and that's something that Clint Sargent has had to deal

918
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 8: with that last year was his first year as the

919
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 8: head coach, and I think he's done a terrific job.

920
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 8: And I'm trying to be objective, but I really believe

921
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 8: he deserves to be Coach of the Year this year

922
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 8: because you look at this team, it's the most consistent

923
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 8: team in the Horizon League this year. I mean, chick

924
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 8: after a loss, they always had to win. They never

925
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 8: had a losing streak in conference games all year long,

926
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 8: so they never had They've never lost two in a

927
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 8: row at one point. Everybody else has had that situation

928
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 8: happen to them. So you've got to give this team

929
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 8: a lot of credit. And you know, twenty nine years

930
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 8: I've been doing games for Right State. This is the

931
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,760
Speaker 8: most fun team I have ever been around.

932
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 4: That is fantastic, and it's very well balanced for guys.

933
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 4: Everything in double figures, a ton of guys getting minutes.

934
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 4: So Clint Sergeant Man, I hope Right State can hang

935
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,359
Speaker 4: on to this guy. He represents he's a very classy guy.

936
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 4: And this is a well coached.

937
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 8: Team, you know they are, and his staff is excellent.

938
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 8: Also we got I mean Right State was humbled last

939
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 8: year by Robert Morris in the quarterfinals of the tournament

940
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 8: at Robert Morris And after that game ended, they got

941
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 8: to work, They rolled up their sleeves, they learned what

942
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 8: they had to do and they were able to do it.

943
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 8: They brought in six newcomers this year and everybody has

944
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 8: contributed in fact, chicks. So you know, Wright State is

945
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 8: the youngest Horizon Like regular season champion since twenty fifteen.

946
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 8: I mean, this is a very young team, but a

947
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 8: very talented team.

948
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 2: Wow.

949
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 4: And how would you describe their style and how would

950
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 4: you describe Northern Kentucky's What we can expect is fans

951
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 4: watching this game.

952
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 8: Northern Kentucky, I mean, not the telefans there. They are

953
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 8: one of the best fast breaking teams in the country.

954
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 8: I mean they are the top five I think it

955
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 8: is in fast break points this year. And also they

956
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 8: also create a lot of turnovers. So I think tomorrow

957
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 8: you're gonna have to look to see right. State's gonna

958
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 8: have to protect the basketball, something you know they do

959
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 8: when they win, but they also have to be efficient offensively,

960
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 8: which they have been this year, you know, So who's

961
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,240
Speaker 8: going to step up, who's going to make the shots?

962
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 6: You know?

963
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 8: For the Raiders, they've been a little inconsistent from three

964
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 8: here of late. But that's what won in the game

965
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 8: at Perdue Fort Wayne in the clincher on Wednesday night.

966
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,399
Speaker 8: Sullivan Callahan, who's a redshirt sophomore, he went off six

967
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 8: of seven outside of three, you know, for twenty four

968
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 8: points in that game.

969
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,399
Speaker 4: That is fantastic, Yes, and four guys averaging and double

970
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 4: figures the same with Northern Kentucky and a fifth guy

971
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 4: right on the cusp for both clubs. So a lot

972
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 4: of balance there and it's going to be just.

973
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 3: A fun time.

974
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 2: Well it is.

975
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,720
Speaker 8: And if I can see one thing that the Raiders

976
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 8: may have an advantage of, and that would be inside.

977
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 8: But again, it's difficult to get the ball inside against

978
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 8: that Northern Kentucky defense with the zone that they play.

979
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 8: The Raiders have had some success with that over the

980
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 8: past few years, you know, but you know, we'll see

981
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 8: what happens. All I know is I really look forward

982
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 8: to this game every time every year and always enjoy

983
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 8: seeing Jim kelch Rick growing, you know, and Brady down

984
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 8: there at the games too. So they do a great

985
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 8: job in the broadcasting for the Norse.

986
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 4: Can you tell us Chris Collins is with us the

987
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 4: voice of the Right State Raiders. How the tournament? How

988
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 4: that has structured the Horizon League tournament.

989
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's different this year, and it's different for one

990
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 8: reason because they have a new team coming in next

991
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 8: year in Northern Illinois. All right. What you have now

992
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 8: is you have eleven teams, Teams ten and eleven which

993
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 8: have already been secured at Cleveland State is going to

994
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 8: host IU Indy on Monday in what called the play

995
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 8: in game. Okay, all right, So the winner of that

996
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,919
Speaker 8: game will play the number one seed at the number

997
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 8: one seed, which is Right State. Now, all the other

998
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 8: seeds have not been determined yet, you know, two through nine,

999
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 8: all right, but the top five, the top five will

1000
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 8: have a home game, will have a home game in

1001
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 8: the first round, all right. And if Rice State were

1002
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 8: to win their opening round, they automatically go to the

1003
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 8: to the semifinals of the tournament in Indianapolis, all right,

1004
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 8: and then everything else is on seeding. You know, then

1005
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 8: the lowest seeds of those five games, the lowest seeds

1006
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 8: who come out, will have to play each other on Sunday,

1007
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 8: all right to determine what the fourth team will be

1008
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:45,760
Speaker 8: in the semifinals on Monday.

1009
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 4: Okay, wow, So yeah, the top five teams get home games.

1010
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 4: So that's that's fantastic. And so you know that Wright

1011
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 4: State hits secure the home game and hopefully well with

1012
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 4: a VIC and then a lot of things happening for

1013
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 4: Northern Kentucky, maybe they can squeeze into that top five.

1014
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 8: But right well, right now, three teams, four teams, four

1015
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 8: teams have already secured it a top for a first

1016
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 8: round game, and that's Green Bay along with Robert Morris

1017
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 8: and Oakland and Right State.

1018
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 3: Okay, but what a great I love the conference.

1019
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 4: Like we mentioned, it's very balanced and every game is

1020
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 4: a battle, and that's what drives me crazy. Here with

1021
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 4: Miami University twenty first ranked in the in the country,

1022
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 4: They've got a tough game here tonight at Western Michigan.

1023
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 4: But winning on the road, Kent you know, Kent State

1024
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 4: and Akron and all these squads. It is difficult to

1025
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,360
Speaker 4: win on the road, and that's why I believe they

1026
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 4: deserve a trip to the NCAA tournament.

1027
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 8: Oh, no question, no question. Chick Wright State hosted Miami

1028
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 8: earlier this year, back in December and lost by seven.

1029
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 8: Uh we could tell right there that that team was

1030
00:55:57,440 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 8: playing with a lot of confidence, obviously still undefeated at

1031
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 8: that time, and they came away with a big win

1032
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 8: at the Nutter Center, which is you and I was

1033
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 8: so difficult to win there, you know, So you know,

1034
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 8: we could tell they were a great team, and you know,

1035
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 8: coach Steele has had a tremendous season, you know, with

1036
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:11,839
Speaker 8: that team, and I agree with you. You know, even

1037
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,399
Speaker 8: if they were to drop the game or two even

1038
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 8: one in the tournament, obviously, they still need to be

1039
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 8: in that large team.

1040
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 4: And right now it's Western Michigan with a fifty seven

1041
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 4: fifty lead over Miami with seven and a half minutes

1042
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 4: to go. Well, Chris, hey, all the best, really take

1043
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 4: thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule

1044
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 4: here and good luck to you and the Raiders. On

1045
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 4: Tomorrow night, seven o'clock tip and a big shin dig

1046
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 4: for the Right State Cincinnati Alumni Network up with a

1047
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 4: tailgate prior to the game, and.

1048
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 3: All the best to you and your granddaughter.

1049
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 8: Yes, I was going to tell you, Chick, thank you

1050
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 8: so much. She has got she's got a gig here

1051
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 8: this summer. She's going to be a teacher to where

1052
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 8: she's going to do some research work for stem at

1053
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 8: at Rice State University. You know, this is her final

1054
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 8: year teaching. He'll should be certified at the end of

1055
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 8: the summer and she's looking for a full time job,

1056
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 8: but she was able to get something that's going to

1057
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 8: pay her pretty well. And she's very thankful for all

1058
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 8: the help that you've given her.

1059
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 4: That is fantastic love helping young people. Yeah, and she

1060
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 4: is fantastic. Well, Chris really appreciate it, and thanks so.

1061
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 8: Much, and have a great weekend, Chick, I appreciate it.

1062
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 8: Have a good night. Talk to you later.

1063
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 3: Right, thank you.

1064
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 4: That's Chris Collins and you are listening to seven hundred

1065
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 4: WLW at the top. Get ready for the top of

1066
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 4: the hour. We've got a fun off the beaten path

1067
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 4: topic that I'll announced when we come back. This is

1068
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 4: Chick Ludwig Sports Talk seven hundred WLW. Chick Ludwig Sports

1069
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 4: Talk on seven hundred WLW really appreciate all the Chick

1070
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 4: Magnets checking us out tonight and all the loyal listeners

1071
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:58,959
Speaker 4: of seven hundred WLW. Tonight's producer Russ Jackson, we're talking

1072
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 4: off the air right now. The Miami RedHawks trail the

1073
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 4: Western Michigan Broncos in Kalamazoo five minutes and twenty two

1074
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 4: seconds to go sixty one to fifty six. It was

1075
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 4: nine points just a minute ago. Now it's down to five.

1076
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 4: Can Miami pull off another incredible comeback? But we both agreed,

1077
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 4: wouldn't it be ironic that on the day when the

1078
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 4: Board of Directors and their Board of Trustees at Miami

1079
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 4: University decides to demolish the world's largest living room, Molett Hall,

1080
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 4: could the Red Hawks go down in Kalamazoo. And I

1081
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 4: totally agree Russ Jackson. The trip into Michigan, to Yipsilanti

1082
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 4: with Eastern Michigan, to Mount Pleasant with Central Michigan, and

1083
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 4: Kalamazoo with Western Michigan.

1084
00:58:58,440 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 3: It is not a picnic.

1085
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 4: And the Red Hawks, known for shooting fifty percent from

1086
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 4: the floor, A majority of the season forty four percent

1087
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 4: tonight twenty of forty five. And what's really disappointed, just

1088
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 4: thirteen of twenty two at the foul line for the

1089
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 4: Red Hawks. They're three of fourteen from three point range,

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Speaker 4: so forty six percent from the floor, just fifty nine

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Speaker 4: percent from the foul line, twenty one percent from three

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Speaker 4: point range. So now it is sixty one to fifty

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Speaker 4: eight with just over four minutes to go. So Miami

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00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 4: seems to be turning it on late here. But what

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00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 4: I want to mention to the fans out there in

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Speaker 4: the eight o'clock hour, the off the beaten path topic,

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00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 4: have you ever been able to successfully sneak into a

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00:59:55,480 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 4: sporting event, like a major sporting event. That's part one

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Speaker 4: of this two part question, And the other part is

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Speaker 4: have you ever been thrown out of an event? Certainly

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01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 4: there's some folks out there who've tried to slip the

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Speaker 4: usher or the ticket taker or whatever a twenty dollars

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01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 4: bill or more get me in, or they've doctored up

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01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 4: some credentials, maybe talk to the security and then just

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01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 4: walk past them. Has that ever happened? And then if

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01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 4: you did buy a ticket to a sporting event, were

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Speaker 4: you able to get into an area that you really

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01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 4: shouldn't have been in.

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01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 3: I had an uncle that would long time.

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Speaker 4: Visitor to the Indianapolis five hundred race, and yes he

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01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 4: had a ticket to get in, but then you'd look

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01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,919
Speaker 4: for him and you'd find him down on Pitt Road

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01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 4: hanging with the drivers before the checkered flag or excuse me,

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01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 4: before the green flag dropped.

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Speaker 3: So just crazy some things that happened.

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Speaker 4: I'll have a couple of things I really never got

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Speaker 4: thrown out, but I was the track and cross country

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01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 4: manager at Ohio State for four years and one year

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Speaker 4: prior on a Friday prior to the Ohio State Michigan game,

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Speaker 4: me and another one of the student managers, we kind

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Speaker 4: of got lost in Ohio Stadium and were watching Michigan's

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01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 4: practice when Bo Schembeckler saw us. He pointed to us

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Speaker 4: and security came up and got us out of Ohio Stadium.

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Speaker 4: And then another time me and my three brothers were

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Speaker 4: at and we we didn't have thrown out, but security

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01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 4: came and said it's time to leave. And that was

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Speaker 4: when we visited as a four boys, four brothers, we

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Speaker 4: visited Augusta National for a practice round at the Masters.

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Speaker 4: We were the last ones off the course on a

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Speaker 4: practice day. We were laying on the hillside behind twelve

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01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 4: T right there at Amen corner and laying on the

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Speaker 4: hillside as the sun right at dusk, and security came

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01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 4: and said, it's time guys get off the course. So, uh,

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Speaker 4: those are my two forays I would love to hear

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01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,959
Speaker 4: from you at five one, three, seven four nine, seven

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01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 4: thousand one eight hundred The Big One. Have you ever

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01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 4: been able to sneak into a major sporting event? And

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01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 4: you have you ever been thrown out of a sporting event.

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01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 4: I've got my coffee, I've got my computer. Once again,

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01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 4: all I need is you at five one, three, seven

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01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 4: four nine, seven thousand one, eight hundred The Big One

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01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 4: Chick luud Wig Sports Talk Off the Beaten Path on

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01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 4: seven hundred WLWA.

1144
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 3: The following takes place between eight pm and nine pm.

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Speaker 4: Eighth eight in the Queens City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig,

1146
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 4: seven hundred WLW. This is sports Talk two hours down,

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01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 4: one to go and Sterling takes over at nine o'clock.

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01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:47,439
Speaker 3: He will take you all the way to midnight. We've

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01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 3: entered the.

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01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 4: Off the Beaten Path stage of tonight's program, and I'm

1151
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 4: asking fans a two part question. Number one, did you

1152
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 4: ever get to successfully sneak into a sporting event? And

1153
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 4: have you ever been thrown out of a sporting event?

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01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 4: In leading US off tonight, Jeff in Westchester, Man, I

1155
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 4: heard you got a story for US tonight.

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01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 8: Hi, Jeff.

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01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 2: The the answer is yes and yes in both regards.

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01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 11: I and when I heard, I'm a loyal listener, and

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01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 11: when I heard this segment when I was coming back

1160
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 11: listening to your uh to your broadcast, I'm like, oh God,

1161
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 11: this is this is set up for me to call in.

1162
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 2: So I just I just had to do it. And yes,

1163
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 2: I've done both.

1164
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:50,840
Speaker 12: Proud of the first segment, not so proud of.

1165
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 2: The second segment.

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01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 12: So yeah, back in the day, would sneak into an

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01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 12: older Panther football game when the gates were stormed, when

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01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 12: when it was sold out and the cops couldn't handle

1169
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 12: everybody coming into the stadium, and so we just stormed

1170
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 12: the gates.

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01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 2: I ducked down and came in. It was always on

1172
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 2: the the big games.

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01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 12: I mean, you know the stadium hell holds what ten thousand,

1174
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 12: and you know there's another three thousand at the gate.

1175
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 12: And so I got in a couple of different times

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01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 12: in that instance. But the other instance that I'm not

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01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 12: so proud of and not one of my stellar moments,

1178
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 12: was when Ohio State played UC at Paul Brown Stadium

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01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 12: back in the day two.

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Speaker 3: Two nineteen.

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01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:04,200
Speaker 10: We escaped, Yes, the Buckeye. The Buckeye escaped. And so

1182
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 10: to set it up, I had some.

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01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 12: Food service folks that I was entertaining outside at a

1184
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 12: tailgate party. We went inside. We had great seats up

1185
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 12: in the red seats, but I don't think that they're

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01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 12: called red seats anymore. Yeah, they were up high, and

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01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 12: so the folks in back. Of course, I'm all clad

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01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 12: in Ohio State gear, scarlett and gray. The guys right

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01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 12: in back of me, we're all UC fans, and rightfully so.

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Speaker 12: And they had been cocktail in the entire time. I

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01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 12: had been cocktailing in my posse and business customers with me,

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01:06:53,240 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 12: and so when he took the lead, they were they

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01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:01,880
Speaker 12: were poking the bear.

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01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:02,959
Speaker 2: The entire time.

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Speaker 12: And then and finally I sort of had had enough.

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01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 12: I had a rolled up program in my hand, and

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01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 12: I swiftly came around and hit the dude with my program,

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Speaker 12: And of course I was called out.

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Speaker 2: The police came up.

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Speaker 12: Everybody's pointing at me, and I, you know, I did it,

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01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 12: and they escorted me out. But the crazy thing is

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01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 12: when I stood up to leave, I look over like

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01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 12: two sections to my right and my oldest brother is

1204
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 12: standing up looking right at me, and our eyes met,

1205
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 12: and he's like, what the hell are you doing?

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01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 6: I just.

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01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 12: I just said, uh, yeah, I'm going out, and the

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01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 12: cops are at scorting me out. And we went out

1209
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 12: to the mezzanine and they said, you know, what the

1210
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 12: hell is going on? I told them, and they said, well,

1211
01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 12: you got two choices. You can either get arrested and

1212
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,320
Speaker 12: go down into the holding pen down in the basement

1213
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 12: of the stadium, or you can leave the stadium. I said,

1214
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:25,600
Speaker 12: I'll take the ladder, yes, and so I left the

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01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 12: stadium turned you came, came back and watched the rest

1216
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:34,679
Speaker 12: of it from uh from a little viewing area. But yeah,

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01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 12: not one of my stellar moments, but it was all in,

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01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 12: you know, Uh, it was all good.

1219
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 3: Great memories because Ohio state one.

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Speaker 12: Yes, yeah, yeah, all right, yep, and yeah, absolutely so,

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01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:51,440
Speaker 12: Jef my moment.

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Speaker 3: Fantastic stuff. Appreciate the call, absolutely, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Chick.

1224
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,680
Speaker 4: Thank you doing a great all right, appreciate it. Hey,

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01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 4: let's go to Lee and Cole Hi.

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01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:01,559
Speaker 5: Lee?

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01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you hear me?

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01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 3: Sure?

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01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 6: Can?

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Speaker 13: I'm driving?

1231
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 14: Uh much like that caller. I was removed from Paul

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01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:16,640
Speaker 14: Brown Stadium during a Chargers Bengals game. I at halftime.

1233
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 14: Chargers were up.

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01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 13: By twenty something and I stick a vape in with

1235
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 13: me and I wasn't I knew.

1236
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 14: I wasn't allowed to smoke cigarettes.

1237
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 13: But I didn't know I wasn't allowed to bait.

1238
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 14: I was using the bath Yeah, the whole game halftime.

1239
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:32,600
Speaker 13: Somebody walks up to me.

1240
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:34,519
Speaker 14: The biggest security guard I've ever seen in my life,

1241
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 14: seven foot, three hundred fifty pounds, tells me that I'm

1242
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 14: not allowed to bathe.

1243
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 13: I need to leave. I tell him that I need

1244
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 13: to see he needs to show me somewhere that I'm

1245
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 13: not allowed to bathe.

1246
01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 14: The only thing he could tell me was, it tells

1247
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 14: you at the ticket office that you're not allowed to bathe.

1248
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:51,639
Speaker 13: I bought my tickets online.

1249
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:57,559
Speaker 14: Well, during this altercation, my girlfriend's getting mad.

1250
01:09:57,840 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 13: She's a Bengals fan. I'm not.

1251
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 14: And they took six seven, Hamilton County's finest to remove

1252
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 14: me from the stadium. We were right by the visitors entrance.

1253
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 2: They're real good seats. Yeah.

1254
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:16,879
Speaker 3: Did he get physical.

1255
01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:21,759
Speaker 14: No, they didn't get physical. So some of the police

1256
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:23,640
Speaker 14: knew me when they when they walked up to me,

1257
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 14: they said.

1258
01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 13: My last name. I told me it's time to go.

1259
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 14: But at the time at the time, my girlfriend she

1260
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:32,840
Speaker 14: she was out to the car before I. Harman left

1261
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 14: the stadium. But they told me the same thing they

1262
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 14: told him the last previous caller. You could either leave

1263
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,120
Speaker 14: on your own or we can detain you, and then

1264
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 14: either way I'm I'm not allowed back.

1265
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 8: To Paul Brown.

1266
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 13: I don't know now that this pay Court.

1267
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:47,600
Speaker 14: If I'm allowed to go back to pay Court, I

1268
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:51,639
Speaker 14: don't know. But they had it was I think late November,

1269
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 14: early December game. I don't know if you remember last

1270
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 14: time they played each other, Paul Brown. I think the

1271
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 14: Chargers up by twenty plus.

1272
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 4: Uh I remember, Yeah, I remember a game where Cincinnati

1273
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 4: led the Chargers I think at halftime, and then the

1274
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 4: Chargers turned it on and uh one going away.

1275
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:15,240
Speaker 3: I vaguely remember that.

1276
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 14: This was I think two thousand and three, maybe two thousand, Yeah,

1277
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 14: two thousand and three Chargers were up by twenty at

1278
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 14: halftime and won the game by twenty plus.

1279
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 8: Okay, they told me to leave.

1280
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:29,719
Speaker 14: I turned around. Uh if I got the visitor tickets

1281
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 14: taking it, I'd be around a bunch of Chargers fans

1282
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 14: when the police escorted me out. I left to uh

1283
01:11:36,479 --> 01:11:38,320
Speaker 14: ten or two of no, no, no no.

1284
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:40,679
Speaker 2: A Bengal man.

1285
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 14: Got a picture from the Santa Claus and left, and

1286
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 14: I ain't been back.

1287
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 4: Says all right, all right, Lee, appreciate the call man.

1288
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 4: Good shime, joy your show, good stuff. Hey, thanks so much.

1289
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:56,320
Speaker 4: All right, hey, our good friend. Thanks, our good friend.

1290
01:11:56,400 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 4: Kevin in Columbus, Hi, Kevin, Kevin?

1291
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 3: Are you there?

1292
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 8: You hear me?

1293
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, yeah.

1294
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:13,679
Speaker 15: We snuck into the Glass Bowl University of Toledo game.

1295
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:16,320
Speaker 2: Over the north wall. It's just like a rock wall

1296
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 2: with the rocks sticking out top.

1297
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:21,759
Speaker 15: Of it, you know, sort of like loose not loose rocks,

1298
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 15: but like found stones. We we got some shopping carts

1299
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 15: and somehow we're able to scale the wall and we

1300
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 15: got in. We just ran once. We kind of hurt

1301
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 15: myself getting over the wall, but you.

1302
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:33,679
Speaker 6: Know, you're young.

1303
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 2: We just got up and ran and I mean we

1304
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:36,280
Speaker 2: didn't get.

1305
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 15: Caught it's not as spectacular as these other guys stories.

1306
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,600
Speaker 15: But I guess yeah, University of Toledo, it's it's not

1307
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 15: the NFL, but it's oh it's Division I college football.

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01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:46,600
Speaker 6: You know.

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01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 3: You wu over a wall.

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01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, from the north end of the glass bowl.

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01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 4: Okay, was there a fence or just just a wall

1312
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:57,840
Speaker 4: to it was like it was a rock wall, like

1313
01:12:58,360 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 4: like loose rocks.

1314
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 15: They weren't loose, but they're like falling stones or something

1315
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 15: with the one sticker of the top. And I scraped

1316
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:08,439
Speaker 15: myself real bad and everything.

1317
01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 2: But we were laughing so much and we just got

1318
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 2: up and ran. I mean we didn't get caught or anything.

1319
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 15: But we used to do a lot of like say that,

1320
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 15: try to sneak into high school games and things like that.

1321
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 2: You know, you know, you could get in for a

1322
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 2: couple of bucks.

1323
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 16: We didn't care. It was a challenge to try to

1324
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:28,080
Speaker 16: sneak in, you know. And another guys, these other guys

1325
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:29,760
Speaker 16: I didn't do. These other guys they tried to run

1326
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 16: in with the visiting team, like when they run through

1327
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 16: the gate, and they tried to run in like they

1328
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 16: were with the team.

1329
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:35,719
Speaker 2: But they got caught.

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01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:36,000
Speaker 17: You know.

1331
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:39,040
Speaker 2: Oh man, Wow, tried to look like they belong.

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01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 6: Hey, great topic though, I'm all right, Hey, talk to

1333
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 6: you later, all.

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01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:47,479
Speaker 4: Right, Kevin, appreciate it. Beautiful stuff. Hey is it Buddy

1335
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 4: and del High? We got Buddy in del High? Looks

1336
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 4: like he he disappeared. Uh, it's time to take a break.

1337
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 4: And I love this subject. Uh have you ever successfully

1338
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 4: been able to sneak into a sporting event? And then

1339
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 4: have you also been thrown out of a sporting event?

1340
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 4: And the Chickster likes to say, I've got my coffee,

1341
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 4: I've got my computer. All I need is you at

1342
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 4: five one, three, seven, four nine, seven thousand, one, eight

1343
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,439
Speaker 4: hundred the Big One. This is Sports Talk off the

1344
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:28,920
Speaker 4: Beaten Path with your host Chick Ludwig on seven hundred

1345
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 4: WLW eight twenty two in the Queens City of Cincinnati.

1346
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:37,439
Speaker 4: Chick Ludwig, seven hundred WLW. This is Sports Talk.

1347
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:39,960
Speaker 6: The final.

1348
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:42,839
Speaker 3: From Kalamazoo, Michigan.

1349
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 4: The number twenty one ranked Miami RedHawks sixty nine the

1350
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:54,559
Speaker 4: Western Michigan Broncos sixty seven.

1351
01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:56,640
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

1352
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 4: Michigan led fifty nine to fifty with what just over

1353
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:09,760
Speaker 4: five minutes to go. Miami outscores the Broncos nineteen to

1354
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 4: eight down the stretch in they win by two to

1355
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:17,640
Speaker 4: push their record to twenty nine and oh sixteen and

1356
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 4: oh in the Mid American Conference. Incredible. Let's go back

1357
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:26,320
Speaker 4: out to the phones. Buddy is with us from Dell High,

1358
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 4: my old stomping grounds. Buddy, you got a story for me?

1359
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 2: Hello?

1360
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:32,400
Speaker 1: Check you hear me?

1361
01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, thanks so much for calling back.

1362
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 13: Sorry, thanks for your patience with me.

1363
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 6: Click set up.

1364
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:41,679
Speaker 13: I have I hadn't uncle.

1365
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 17: He's passed away, but it was my wife's uncle. And

1366
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 17: we go off the way.

1367
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:49,120
Speaker 13: Were avid friends and good guy, good old boy. And

1368
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:51,839
Speaker 13: he calls me on a Saturday of the memorial.

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01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 2: He said Glenn.

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01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 13: He said, my real name is Plann. He said, Glenn,

1371
01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 13: you want to go up to the memorial with me tomorrow.

1372
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 14: I said, sure, I'll go up to go with you.

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01:16:00,280 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 17: Tell me where to meet.

1374
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 13: So we met north of Cincinnati, whereabouts you lived. And uh,

1375
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 13: so I get in the van with him and a

1376
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 13: friend who I never met before. So I put I

1377
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 13: get in the back and so we get almost up

1378
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 13: to Columbus and he looks around. He said, you got

1379
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 13: a ticket. I said, you're kidney right, He said, no,

1380
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:19,640
Speaker 13: you have a ticket. I said, no, I have no

1381
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 13: damn ticket. Do you think you know whatever? He said,

1382
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 13: I said, you got one, right, You're just kidding me, right,

1383
01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 13: He said, no, I don't have a ticket for you.

1384
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:28,040
Speaker 17: I said, how the.

1385
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 15: Hell am I going to get in?

1386
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,640
Speaker 13: He said, well, we'll work it out. So all the

1387
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 13: way up to Dublin, I'm in there. I'm in the van.

1388
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 13: I'm thinking, and how are we going to do this?

1389
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:39,120
Speaker 13: I just sitting there. So we pull into the parking

1390
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 13: lot and he said, here's what we're gonna do. He said,

1391
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:44,320
Speaker 13: I'm gonna go first, and we'll put you between me

1392
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 13: and Steve I think his name was.

1393
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 17: I said, all right.

1394
01:16:47,479 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 13: So we we got went up to the the bus

1395
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 13: that took us to the from the parking lot to

1396
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 13: the golf course, and uh so I'm in there. We

1397
01:16:57,360 --> 01:16:59,599
Speaker 13: went right through and they didn't ask me for any

1398
01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:03,839
Speaker 13: idea or no, no, nothing, no ticket, So that meantime

1399
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 13: they had gotten their tickets but I did not, So

1400
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:08,639
Speaker 13: I'm thinking, wow, am I going to get in there?

1401
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 13: So sure enough we get in and I walked in

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01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,880
Speaker 13: and the gate and here I was the memorial and

1403
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:18,240
Speaker 13: I'm thinking, man, this ain't good. Everybody had a badge on,

1404
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 13: Marbles had a badge on, and I I, well, I

1405
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 13: don't know what to do here, Uncle Verel, I said,

1406
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:26,040
Speaker 13: I'm gonna I'm gonna just give me.

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01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 6: The key to the van.

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01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 13: I'm going back. I don't want to say you can

1409
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 13: lend you wait all this time, but I said, I

1410
01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 13: don't want to go to jail, you know. So he said, well, okay,

1411
01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 13: So he gave me the keys, and I went back

1412
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 13: to the van, and and I ended up going up

1413
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 13: to some bar up there and watching the Reds and

1414
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 13: the watching the Memorial, all the TV's.

1415
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:45,320
Speaker 6: At the head.

1416
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 13: And so I told my wife I got home, I said,

1417
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:50,080
Speaker 13: your uncle's crazy.

1418
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 2: He said.

1419
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 17: She says, what do you mean?

1420
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 13: I said, he didn't have a ticket for me.

1421
01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 17: She goes, what?

1422
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 13: And so I I thought, well, I was gonna.

1423
01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 14: You know, it's just like I told the.

1424
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 13: Producer, I got intimidated by walking in the Everybody had

1425
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 13: a badge on. So I could have had a good

1426
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 13: friend of mine that lived I worked up there. So

1427
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 13: I called in like a couple of days later. I say,

1428
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:12,439
Speaker 13: if I would if I would have got arrested up there,

1429
01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:15,920
Speaker 13: what would happen is it. You've been arrested, put in jail.

1430
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:19,920
Speaker 13: I got three thousand dollars fine, and you have not

1431
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 13: been able to go to Themorial and anymore your lifetime,

1432
01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 13: I said, And I told him, he said, but for

1433
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,960
Speaker 13: those instance, we could have worked something out. Buddy, Now

1434
01:18:29,040 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 13: you tell me.

1435
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:30,599
Speaker 8: Yeah, by that way.

1436
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 2: Oh wow, So it was good.

1437
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:35,200
Speaker 13: I got a mutual friend of yours, James, who cuts

1438
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:35,719
Speaker 13: your grass.

1439
01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, yeah, you know James.

1440
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, please tell him hello for us.

1441
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:44,640
Speaker 13: We'll do, we'll do. I appreciate your faces. Will be

1442
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 13: good to see you again.

1443
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 4: All right, buddy, thank you so much. Hey, we've got

1444
01:18:48,320 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 4: time for Paul and Anderson.

1445
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 17: Hey, Paul, very chick, doing a great job, great show tonight.

1446
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:56,080
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

1447
01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 17: So I'm gonna take you back in the time machine here.

1448
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:02,680
Speaker 17: It was Marvin Lewis's first year. I think it was

1449
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 17: two thousand and three. I want to say, uh, as

1450
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 17: a coach, there reb a Bengals game and uh, tailgating beforehand,

1451
01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:15,759
Speaker 17: because as you know, the best experience as a Bengals

1452
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:20,760
Speaker 17: fan at that time was basically tailgating the games. So

1453
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 17: I was, uh, we're big tailgaters. We had like like

1454
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:27,439
Speaker 17: eight or ten people, and you know, was going to

1455
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 17: the game, and we're we're heading in. We're about to

1456
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:34,759
Speaker 17: head in beforehand. I'm dressed up in elvis outfit or whatever.

1457
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 17: We're just doing our things.

1458
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 2: Took that offense.

1459
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 17: We started to walk in, and I'm usually.

1460
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:40,600
Speaker 13: What we do.

1461
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:44,000
Speaker 17: We always usually stuck in a few adult beverages, some

1462
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 17: beers or whatever.

1463
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:46,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. I turned to my friend.

1464
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 17: I go, uh, who was uh? Yeah, he was uh

1465
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 17: he was definitely not gonna be driving that that that night.

1466
01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 17: I go, hey, can you see anything I had like

1467
01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 17: pocket in my pockets from like that.

1468
01:19:58,080 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 2: He's like, no, you're good man, You're good.

1469
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,760
Speaker 17: So we uh we started headed in and uh you know,

1470
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:06,599
Speaker 17: got through uh security, got to our seats and upper

1471
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 17: level sat down and I must have unloaded probably like

1472
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:13,160
Speaker 17: seven or eight peers that were uh in the pants

1473
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:16,920
Speaker 17: and everywhere else, and uh the nash anthems about to start,

1474
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 17: and all of a sudden, I looked at my right

1475
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:22,560
Speaker 17: and there's uh three or four uh police officers and

1476
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 17: security uh people there and they said, sir, we're we're

1477
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 17: gonna you can't bring that in.

1478
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 8: You gotta go.

1479
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 15: Uh.

1480
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:32,719
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you talking about?

1481
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 17: I'm like, you know, just nothing. So they took me

1482
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 17: to the elevator and I'm going down in three like

1483
01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 17: uniform police officers and I'm not giving it, you know,

1484
01:20:43,280 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 17: any any you know pushback or anything like that. I go, hey,

1485
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:48,840
Speaker 17: the real crime here is is the price of the beer.

1486
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 17: And uh, you know, got a little laugh.

1487
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 10: Uh.

1488
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:54,840
Speaker 17: They took my uh you know, my license or you

1489
01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 17: took my information down and said you got to leave

1490
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 17: the game. And I'm like okay. Uh So as I left,

1491
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:05,720
Speaker 17: member is two thousand and three. So Bengals were not good.

1492
01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 17: There were still some scoffers outside, so I went ahead

1493
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 17: and I bought a key ticket. It was like no

1494
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 17: ten or fifteen bucks. Went back to the car, put

1495
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 17: my elvis outfit on, went back through the stadium into

1496
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:25,160
Speaker 17: my elvis outfit. Got there, I saw my brother in

1497
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 17: law in the beer line. I got right behind him

1498
01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:30,639
Speaker 17: and I tapped him on the shoulder and he turned.

1499
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 17: He turns back and he sees me help myself, and

1500
01:21:33,640 --> 01:21:35,800
Speaker 17: he look like he looked like a ghost, and he goes,

1501
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 17: what is going on? I go, hey, I'm sitting like

1502
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:42,600
Speaker 17: ten rows to your guys. As left and I was

1503
01:21:42,880 --> 01:21:46,360
Speaker 17: back up there in the game, and one at a time,

1504
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 17: each of these guys that were in our party would

1505
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:50,160
Speaker 17: come up. There was a lot of empty seats and

1506
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 17: they came and sat with me, and I wore that

1507
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:56,960
Speaker 17: outphit the whole game, and that was one of our

1508
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 17: best seasons right there. I think we went five, you know,

1509
01:21:59,040 --> 01:21:59,559
Speaker 17: five hundred.

1510
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 3: I think that unbelievable. You get tossed out and you

1511
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:03,680
Speaker 3: come back in.

1512
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:09,799
Speaker 17: That is fana Is And ever since then my nickname

1513
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:10,719
Speaker 17: has been Elvis.

1514
01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 3: So outstanding. Paul and Anderson appreciate the call. Thank you

1515
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 3: so much.

1516
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 4: I want mel in Mount Carmer to hold along with

1517
01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:23,160
Speaker 4: Mark and Evendale. We've got to hit the bottom of

1518
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:25,720
Speaker 4: the hour news here. Please hold. I will get back

1519
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:27,800
Speaker 4: to you as soon as we come back. This is

1520
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:31,000
Speaker 4: Chick Ludwig the off the Beaten Path topic. Did you

1521
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 4: ever sneak into event? And did you ever get thrown

1522
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:38,000
Speaker 4: out of a sporting event? On seven hundred WLW Sinnati

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01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 4: Chick Ludwig, seven hundred WLW. This is sports Talk the

1524
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:46,719
Speaker 4: off the Beaten Path topic Sneaking into a sporting event

1525
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 4: and getting thrown out of a sporting event? Did either

1526
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 4: one or both happen to you, and before we go

1527
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 4: back out to the phones, I just want to say

1528
01:22:55,720 --> 01:23:00,240
Speaker 4: one thing here about the University of Dayton Flyers locked

1529
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 4: in a battle tonight against George Washington on the road.

1530
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:06,400
Speaker 4: I was invited to the Saint Louis game the other

1531
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:11,760
Speaker 4: night at U the Arena and the refurbishment. The renovation

1532
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:16,680
Speaker 4: at U the Arena is absolutely phenomenal. You need to

1533
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:20,599
Speaker 4: experience a college game there. It is a combination town hall,

1534
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 4: rock concert, frat sorority party, and a high school reunion.

1535
01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:28,120
Speaker 3: It's an incredible place.

1536
01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 4: And at one point, Yeah, they smoked Saint Louis twenty

1537
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 4: third ranks Saint Louis the other night, and all I

1538
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 4: could think of the entire game was looking at that atmosphere.

1539
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 4: How badly I miss Xavior and UD Home and Home,

1540
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 4: the Blackburn McCafferty Trophy. It's dead. God, I wish that

1541
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:56,800
Speaker 4: rivalry would come back to life. Let's go out to

1542
01:23:56,840 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 4: the phones. Mark is an Evendale. How we doing tonight?

1543
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 2: Really good? Love this topic?

1544
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 3: Awesome.

1545
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:10,920
Speaker 6: Here's my story, fond memories. We're going to go way

1546
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:15,639
Speaker 6: back to the opening of Paul Brown's Stadium. Yes, first

1547
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 6: night was a public open house where people could get

1548
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:22,799
Speaker 6: on the field, locker rooms, suites, everything.

1549
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1550
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 6: The second night was the season ticket holder open house,

1551
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:30,240
Speaker 6: which was really just a dry run. We were going

1552
01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 6: to watch our flag football game and you know, find

1553
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 6: our seats by something. And my season ticket holder friend

1554
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:40,479
Speaker 6: invited me to go, and he's hissing and moaning the

1555
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 6: whole time.

1556
01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,320
Speaker 2: I can't believe it was a season ticket over.

1557
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 6: We're gonna go to the locker room blah blah blah

1558
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:46,719
Speaker 6: and before the general public.

1559
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:48,760
Speaker 2: So he's hissing and moaning the whole time.

1560
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:52,240
Speaker 6: On the way out, we come down the ramp and

1561
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 6: the doors to the second upper deck of the luxury

1562
01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 6: suites is wide open and no security. So we shoot

1563
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 6: him and my friend he's having time.

1564
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:04,960
Speaker 2: Of his life.

1565
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 6: He's in the suites checking out the sliding glass. People

1566
01:25:08,160 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 6: are asking we have a sandwich left?

1567
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:10,840
Speaker 2: You want one? Sure?

1568
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:15,599
Speaker 6: You know, club lounge everything. So we're in the club lounge,

1569
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:18,320
Speaker 6: we see a ramp. It heads us down and we

1570
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:19,959
Speaker 6: end up down at the field.

1571
01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 2: Level entrance to the suite. Yes.

1572
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 6: Well, of course we ran into security, yes, and so

1573
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:29,439
Speaker 6: they ask us, how do you like your luxury box

1574
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:34,720
Speaker 6: and we're like, well, we don't have lecture box. They go, oh, well,

1575
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 6: then where are your club seats? And they're like, we

1576
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:42,599
Speaker 6: don't have club seats, And as the smile drained from

1577
01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:45,800
Speaker 6: their faces, they look at us and they go, you're

1578
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:46,840
Speaker 6: not supposed to be here.

1579
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:52,280
Speaker 2: And we're like, well, we're lost.

1580
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 6: And they laughed and said, well, we'll show you how

1581
01:25:57,479 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 6: to get out.

1582
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:00,320
Speaker 2: And so after we had.

1583
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 6: Roamed around everything for half an hour after the flag

1584
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 6: football game, we were shown the door. And so our

1585
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 6: badge of honor is that we were thrown out of

1586
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:09,320
Speaker 6: Paul Brown Stadium.

1587
01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:10,519
Speaker 2: Wow.

1588
01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:14,719
Speaker 4: I would have maybe lied and said, love the club seats,

1589
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 4: is there any chance I could see the locker rooms?

1590
01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 6: I should have said that we didn't think quick enough.

1591
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 6: It was about a quick enough for me to say

1592
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:23,719
Speaker 6: that we were lost.

1593
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:27,920
Speaker 4: Oh fantastic. Oh well, I hope they were nice to you.

1594
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:31,799
Speaker 4: It sounds like they were. Man, they were good stuff.

1595
01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:36,720
Speaker 4: Good stuff. Mark, appreciate it, man, Thank you. And we've

1596
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 4: got mel In mount Carmel.

1597
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 6: Hi.

1598
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 12: Mel h Hey chick, good to talk to you tonight.

1599
01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:47,680
Speaker 12: I'm going to run you back to like nineteen fifty nine.

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01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 2: I'm around eleven years old.

1601
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 12: Okay, visiting, visiting my cousins down. They lived off of

1602
01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 12: Cole Raine Camp, Washington area. Yeah, and so we had

1603
01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:59,960
Speaker 12: cruise over to Crosley Field and stand behind the left

1604
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 12: field wall and hope that Wally Post or Frank Robinson

1605
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:06,800
Speaker 12: a jerk went over it. And so we do this

1606
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 12: off and on. We notice that after the top of

1607
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 12: the seventh inning, after the seventh inning stretch, excuse me, well,

1608
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 12: they open up the gates on the left on the

1609
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 12: left field side of the wall there, and so we

1610
01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:23,320
Speaker 12: stand back and one of my cousins is about a

1611
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 12: year older. He's the gang leader.

1612
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:26,120
Speaker 17: Let's go.

1613
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 12: Yeah, so we slide through this thing and we're pretty

1614
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 12: happy with ourselves. We hop way up and maybe the

1615
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:35,160
Speaker 12: last couple rows on the field level between third base

1616
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 12: and the left field ball. Well, we do this off

1617
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 12: and on a few times during the season, and hey,

1618
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:45,560
Speaker 12: this is working pretty good. We'd stand there after the

1619
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:47,720
Speaker 12: seventh inning stretch, like I say, the usher takes a

1620
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 12: walk down towards the red stugout on that side. That's

1621
01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:55,040
Speaker 12: when we make we'd made our entrance into it.

1622
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:57,760
Speaker 2: Yes, So this goes on for a while. We get

1623
01:27:57,800 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 2: into maybe the.

1624
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:02,240
Speaker 12: Last night game of that seaton, and you know, Hey,

1625
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 12: this is working like a charm. We get up there,

1626
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 12: gets towards the end this usure. We kind of got

1627
01:28:10,439 --> 01:28:12,800
Speaker 12: to know him from just looking at him. We knew

1628
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:14,760
Speaker 12: what he looked like. Yeah, and we think he's never

1629
01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:18,839
Speaker 12: seen this. He's walking up the aisle towards us, stops

1630
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:23,760
Speaker 12: up there, smiles and says, Bellas, We've been watching you

1631
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:24,200
Speaker 12: all year.

1632
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:26,520
Speaker 2: That was good all season.

1633
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:30,519
Speaker 6: And we didn't get thrown out.

1634
01:28:30,560 --> 01:28:31,680
Speaker 13: But he was a heck of a guy.

1635
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 12: I had a real, a real you know, I really

1636
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 12: like the ushers. After that, he get a bad rap

1637
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:40,880
Speaker 12: and this guy was watching us, and all that is fantastic.

1638
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:43,320
Speaker 2: I was thinking the bragumupp and then.

1639
01:28:43,400 --> 01:28:45,400
Speaker 4: I was thinking you were going to say, you get

1640
01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:47,639
Speaker 4: in like in the seventh inning, and then it goes

1641
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:49,920
Speaker 4: extra innings and you've got to see like a twenty

1642
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:51,400
Speaker 4: inning game or something.

1643
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:54,679
Speaker 2: Never got that lucky, Yeah, yeah.

1644
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:58,000
Speaker 4: Oh, fantastic love Crosley Field. I was born in nineteen

1645
01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 4: fifty four and dad was a firefighter. Took me to

1646
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:02,719
Speaker 4: several games.

1647
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, you guys just got a few years on

1648
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 12: him from forty eight and loved all the teams back then,

1649
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 12: and Crosley Field. You could stand there on the third

1650
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:14,840
Speaker 12: base side, and the visiting teams would come in and out.

1651
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:17,240
Speaker 12: That's where they went to their clubhouse down pay us.

1652
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 12: The Reds dugout and we'd hang down there. And I

1653
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:25,160
Speaker 12: always remember, like Walter Alston, they take time to talk

1654
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:25,519
Speaker 12: to us.

1655
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:30,080
Speaker 3: Oh, man, smokey man. I worship I worship him.

1656
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:30,800
Speaker 8: Here.

1657
01:29:30,880 --> 01:29:34,719
Speaker 4: He is the manager of the Dodgers, signed what twenty

1658
01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:38,880
Speaker 4: plus years, signed a one year contract every year and

1659
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:42,560
Speaker 4: then he goes back in the too jar town in

1660
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:45,479
Speaker 4: Butler County to live the off season.

1661
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 3: How sweet is that?

1662
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:47,679
Speaker 8: Yeah?

1663
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:49,200
Speaker 2: That is great, that's great.

1664
01:29:49,240 --> 01:29:51,880
Speaker 12: I always admired him, you know, and loved a lot

1665
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:54,320
Speaker 12: of the Dodgers, Gil Hodges, Duke Snyder, you can tell

1666
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:55,160
Speaker 12: him old school man.

1667
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:59,720
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, yeah. All right, Mal, thank you so much, man,

1668
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 4: appreciate it.

1669
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 3: All right. How about Mike on a cell?

1670
01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:07,559
Speaker 18: Hi, Mike, how are you doing tonight?

1671
01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:08,400
Speaker 3: Fantastic?

1672
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:09,360
Speaker 5: How are you doing about it?

1673
01:30:09,680 --> 01:30:09,920
Speaker 8: Great?

1674
01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 9: Hey?

1675
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:13,000
Speaker 1: Uh, that's a heck. That's a heck of a Miami finish.

1676
01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 1: But from up here in Trenton. You and I talked

1677
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:19,759
Speaker 1: before about going to hides and eating Pope.

1678
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:21,280
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, hides.

1679
01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:23,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we talked.

1680
01:30:24,160 --> 01:30:27,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've talked about. Okay, I know you umpired, correct?

1681
01:30:28,280 --> 01:30:28,599
Speaker 3: Correct?

1682
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:33,640
Speaker 1: Did you ever officiate basketball? I no, no, okay, So

1683
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:35,840
Speaker 1: this is about being thrown out of this forty events.

1684
01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell the school because I don't

1685
01:30:38,400 --> 01:30:41,200
Speaker 1: want to embarrass some. But I was official scorer for

1686
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:44,080
Speaker 1: a high school team up there in Black County, late

1687
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:49,280
Speaker 1: night nineties, early two thousands, and the referees I can

1688
01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:51,960
Speaker 1: give you the two names, but I'm not gonna say

1689
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: it other than the ones name rhyme with lame o,

1690
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:59,360
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, anyway, he'd come and just the calls

1691
01:30:59,400 --> 01:31:02,200
Speaker 1: were terrible. And we had a boy going for a

1692
01:31:02,280 --> 01:31:06,479
Speaker 1: breakaway basket and the player pushed it, just two hands, pushing,

1693
01:31:06,720 --> 01:31:10,280
Speaker 1: just you know, into the match cut. A hurting referee

1694
01:31:10,360 --> 01:31:13,920
Speaker 1: comes over and he's making it and I'm just looking

1695
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:18,439
Speaker 1: at him. I am so mad they didn't they didn't

1696
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:21,000
Speaker 1: call it, you know, and I'm just mouthing, that's a

1697
01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:24,200
Speaker 1: terrible call. Where did you get your license?

1698
01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:27,400
Speaker 17: Blah blah blah, And he looks right at the head

1699
01:31:27,720 --> 01:31:28,400
Speaker 17: of our head.

1700
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:33,759
Speaker 1: Coach Kady goes, Steve, Steve Tramir, you remember, Coach Tamir.

1701
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:35,720
Speaker 17: He goes, if you.

1702
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:39,400
Speaker 1: Don't get control of your score, I'm throwing him out.

1703
01:31:39,240 --> 01:31:39,719
Speaker 2: Of the game.

1704
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then I just lost it and I said, well,

1705
01:31:43,560 --> 01:31:46,960
Speaker 1: if I see an attempted murder take place, I can't

1706
01:31:47,040 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 1: say anything. And that's all it took.

1707
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:58,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, this official score unbelievable. But it was just I

1708
01:31:58,600 --> 01:31:59,320
Speaker 2: just had enough.

1709
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:03,280
Speaker 1: I just couldn't take it. But you know, everybody gets

1710
01:32:03,320 --> 01:32:06,640
Speaker 1: wound up. You go them Middletown Hounds and games.

1711
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:07,240
Speaker 2: There, yea.

1712
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:11,200
Speaker 1: That the best front row of that front row of

1713
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:14,240
Speaker 1: fans right there. They were always someone was always getting

1714
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 1: thrown out there.

1715
01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:16,519
Speaker 17: From working on the risk.

1716
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 3: That is fantas. That reminds me of the of Chuck Mayshock.

1717
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:24,519
Speaker 17: You know, yeah, I was that.

1718
01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:30,960
Speaker 1: Okay chick love less than tell you, but hey go

1719
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 1: RedHawks man absolutely.

1720
01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 4: Out down tonight, down fifty nine to fifty with like

1721
01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:42,200
Speaker 4: five to six minutes to go, outscore of nineteen.

1722
01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:46,439
Speaker 1: Yes, Wolffork come up big for him down the stretch

1723
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:49,439
Speaker 1: air and it was just but they know they stopped it.

1724
01:32:50,040 --> 01:32:53,559
Speaker 1: They got a shot clock violation and they just, hey,

1725
01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: let's hope they let's hope they run the table regular

1726
01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:57,360
Speaker 1: season anyway.

1727
01:32:57,479 --> 01:33:01,599
Speaker 4: Beautiful twenty nine and sixteen and and the Mac fantastic, Mike.

1728
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:02,680
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call it.

1729
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:04,519
Speaker 2: Thank you, right, buddy.

1730
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:04,760
Speaker 6: Bye?

1731
01:33:04,880 --> 01:33:10,040
Speaker 3: All right, you see Chris in Walton, Kentucky. How are you, Chris?

1732
01:33:11,240 --> 01:33:12,320
Speaker 2: You know a great chick.

1733
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:15,719
Speaker 19: I've listened to you for years, and for whatever reason,

1734
01:33:15,880 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 19: I have never called you on the radio.

1735
01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:19,120
Speaker 3: I believeable.

1736
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:20,840
Speaker 4: I think of you all the time, and we have

1737
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:23,840
Speaker 4: never my apology, that's all right, we never talked. Hey,

1738
01:33:23,920 --> 01:33:27,160
Speaker 4: I'm back on tomorrow after you see, from about four

1739
01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:30,800
Speaker 4: thirty to six o'clock, so you'll be you'll be on.

1740
01:33:30,880 --> 01:33:33,360
Speaker 19: An a lounge. I'll be listening, all right. So I'm

1741
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:39,720
Speaker 19: nineteen ninety graduate University of Cincinnati Industry. When we graduated,

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01:33:40,080 --> 01:33:44,040
Speaker 19: by college roommate, and I had a season ticket.

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01:33:44,880 --> 01:33:46,520
Speaker 8: To Bearquae basketball.

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01:33:46,800 --> 01:33:48,800
Speaker 2: Yes, so check this out, and this is it.

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Speaker 19: I don't know if this is fully getting thrown out,

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01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 19: but it kind of was. In nineteen ninety four. If

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01:33:55,479 --> 01:34:02,200
Speaker 19: you recall, Cincinnati and Shoemaker Center hosted right Midwest Tournament.

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01:34:02,439 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 6: Okay, do you recall that.

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01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:07,479
Speaker 3: Yes, I remember when they were in the Great Midwest.

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01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:09,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, and.

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01:34:11,160 --> 01:34:14,160
Speaker 19: We attended and our tickets were in the third row

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01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:15,760
Speaker 19: in the upper deck. We don't like the upper deck,

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01:34:15,840 --> 01:34:19,280
Speaker 19: so we always tried to migrate and cheat cheets down

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01:34:19,360 --> 01:34:22,640
Speaker 19: to the lower X. We moved into the behind the

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01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 19: end zone area where the Marquette band was. We were

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01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:30,800
Speaker 19: playing them in the semi finals and Cincinnati did something

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01:34:30,880 --> 01:34:38,000
Speaker 19: amazing and basically ended the game, and I accidently accidentally

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01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 19: jumped up and kicked the Marquette band members trumpet down

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01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:47,800
Speaker 19: the stairs. I was like, oh my gosh, and there

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01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:51,040
Speaker 19: was chaos there, and finally somebody came over said I

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01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:53,439
Speaker 19: think it's time to leave. I said, you know what,

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01:34:53,640 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 19: You're probably right, and we got out of there real quick.

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01:34:56,920 --> 01:35:04,120
Speaker 3: Wow. Kicked a Marquette instrument, yes, down.

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01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 19: The steps accidentally, But you know what, I still have

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01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:11,559
Speaker 19: my great Midwest Conference T shirt.

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01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:13,400
Speaker 3: Awesome.

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01:35:13,720 --> 01:35:13,920
Speaker 2: Wow.

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01:35:14,120 --> 01:35:16,439
Speaker 4: Was Al McGuire still the coach at that point or

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01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:22,000
Speaker 4: was it Hank Raymonds or I wonder that was ninety four?

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Speaker 12: It was It was not al McGuire, was it I

1771
01:35:25,800 --> 01:35:29,160
Speaker 12: can't remember? It was it Tom Crean, you know what,

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01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:31,559
Speaker 12: I have to look it up. I got to meet

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01:35:31,600 --> 01:35:32,799
Speaker 12: Al McGuire in Dayton.

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01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:37,400
Speaker 4: He came in for an Agonis Club banquet and I

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01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:39,839
Speaker 4: just loved that guy, absolutely loving.

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Speaker 19: It wasn't now McGuire, But I want to say it

1777
01:35:43,080 --> 01:35:45,320
Speaker 19: was Tom Creane because that was back in the Great

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01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:47,200
Speaker 19: Midwest c USA days.

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01:35:47,439 --> 01:35:51,360
Speaker 4: Yes, gosh, Louisville was in there. Dayton was even in

1780
01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 4: the Great Midwest for a while.

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01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:57,439
Speaker 19: Yeah, it was when Memphis was Memphis State.

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01:35:58,320 --> 01:36:02,800
Speaker 4: Kevin O'Neill to see of our awesome production. There you go,

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01:36:03,680 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 4: Rush Jackson deal, Okay, yes, yeah, yeah, Well Russ.

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01:36:07,400 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 19: Jackson's an old gay that came back to Cincinnati.

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01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 2: Oh it's good.

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01:36:11,479 --> 01:36:16,080
Speaker 4: He's working the boards. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful, great stuff. You see, Chris,

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01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:17,599
Speaker 4: Let's do it again, man.

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01:36:18,120 --> 01:36:19,840
Speaker 19: You know what, check, I'm gonna try and make it

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01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 19: a little more often, man, because it's stupid that I

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01:36:23,120 --> 01:36:23,760
Speaker 19: haven't called you.

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01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:25,679
Speaker 2: You're all these years of listening.

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01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:26,760
Speaker 3: That's fantastic.

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01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:31,400
Speaker 4: Well, uh, I'm kind of the Saturday guy, and uh,

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01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:36,040
Speaker 4: I know, looking forward to my first extra innings the

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01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:40,240
Speaker 4: Saturday after the opener, and uh gosh, it'll be a

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01:36:40,240 --> 01:36:42,519
Speaker 4: four to ten first pitch again. It'll be kids opening

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01:36:42,600 --> 01:36:45,400
Speaker 4: Day and I should be on around seven o'clock till

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01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:47,760
Speaker 4: nine that that Saturday night.

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01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:51,519
Speaker 3: So we're twenty seven days away. Just cannot wait for revs.

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01:36:51,600 --> 01:36:52,000
Speaker 8: Baseball.

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01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:56,320
Speaker 2: Now, you got that right, my friend. All right, chick, Yeah,

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01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:57,720
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you soon.

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01:36:57,880 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 4: And even though I'm a Buck Eye man, I grew

1804
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:04,799
Speaker 4: up and still love UC basketball, no doubt.

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01:37:04,760 --> 01:37:05,320
Speaker 17: That's all right.

1806
01:37:05,439 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 19: I don't dislike the buck guys.

1807
01:37:07,240 --> 01:37:08,440
Speaker 2: But Avis Sama.

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01:37:08,240 --> 01:37:12,120
Speaker 4: Bearcat fantastic, all right, one of the best, that's for sure.

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01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:16,400
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Chris. You see Chris out of Walton, Kentucky.

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01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 4: Do we have Gary in Middletown?

1811
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:22,800
Speaker 2: Gary, how are you doing?

1812
01:37:23,320 --> 01:37:23,920
Speaker 3: Fantastic?

1813
01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:27,560
Speaker 4: I substitute teach a whole bunch all over Butler and

1814
01:37:27,640 --> 01:37:32,680
Speaker 4: Warren County, especially especially at Middletown High School, where I

1815
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:34,719
Speaker 4: was today and yesterday.

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01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:37,840
Speaker 2: No kidding, Well, that's a good story. I love that.

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01:37:38,479 --> 01:37:40,560
Speaker 18: I'm an old Midian back in the fifties. I was

1818
01:37:40,600 --> 01:37:43,639
Speaker 18: born in nineteen fifty when we had the big Jerry

1819
01:37:43,720 --> 01:37:46,960
Speaker 18: Lucas days. I know you've been there.

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01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:51,000
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, you the old the old Wady Miller, the

1821
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:52,519
Speaker 4: old Miller Building.

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01:37:52,960 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 3: I wish it could have just been preserved.

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01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:56,400
Speaker 13: I know.

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01:37:57,640 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 3: It just was a great, great place.

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01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:01,840
Speaker 18: Yeah, but of course every game was sold out, and

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01:38:01,920 --> 01:38:03,439
Speaker 18: then the hamlets and games they had to move down

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01:38:03,479 --> 01:38:05,200
Speaker 18: to the gardens. It was it was such a big

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01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:09,759
Speaker 18: crowd but my dad was a referee for the JV games. Okay,

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01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:12,160
Speaker 18: and I'm seven, eight, nine years old, and he would

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01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:14,599
Speaker 18: come on, we're gonna go down. What's the minis play?

1831
01:38:14,760 --> 01:38:16,080
Speaker 18: And I'm going to referee the first game.

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01:38:16,080 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 2: He would take me in.

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01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:19,519
Speaker 18: He had the guy say, come on in, bring the

1834
01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:20,040
Speaker 18: sun with you.

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01:38:20,760 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 2: And he put me down at the.

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01:38:21,880 --> 01:38:24,720
Speaker 18: End of the bench and he said after the JV game,

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01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:27,280
Speaker 18: I'll come down and sit with him. He would would

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01:38:27,320 --> 01:38:31,720
Speaker 18: watch the JV game in the big game. Awesome, And

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01:38:32,360 --> 01:38:34,040
Speaker 18: it wasn't really like sneaking in, but it was.

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Speaker 2: It was just so good.

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01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:36,600
Speaker 3: That is fantastic.

1842
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:42,879
Speaker 4: And wow that gen steratur the the NCAA basketball official

1843
01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:48,320
Speaker 4: and NFL referee. Now he's the analyst for CBS, does

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01:38:48,360 --> 01:38:50,840
Speaker 4: a phenomenal job. He came back to Elder High School,

1845
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:53,840
Speaker 4: spoke at the stag, the annual stag that they had,

1846
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:59,519
Speaker 4: and he his dad was a referee, and he told

1847
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:02,080
Speaker 4: new there were stories about sitting in the backseat of

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01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:05,880
Speaker 4: that car just listening to his dad and friends talk

1849
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:09,519
Speaker 4: talk sports, and yeah, beautiful stuff.

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01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:10,400
Speaker 8: Great.

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01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 18: My uncle was going to UC at the time as

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01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:17,400
Speaker 18: a electrical engineer, and we had season tickets at the

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01:39:17,720 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 18: Henriyfield House when Oscar Robertson paid there, and I mean

1854
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:24,080
Speaker 18: I saw just about every game he played, and my

1855
01:39:24,160 --> 01:39:26,240
Speaker 18: first Final Four was in nineteen fifty nine.

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01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:27,360
Speaker 6: I saw Oscar and.

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01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:32,080
Speaker 18: Jerry West's last games, and then I was at the

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01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:35,240
Speaker 18: game in nineteen sixty three when Loyal Chicago beaters. So

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01:39:35,280 --> 01:39:38,720
Speaker 18: I've got a lot of memories from from my basketball days.

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Speaker 3: That is fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Gary.

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Speaker 3: Really appreciate you, all.

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01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 6: Right, it meets you one of these days. I have

1864
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:45,920
Speaker 6: a lot of stories to tell you.

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01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:49,560
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks so much, man, Okay, all right, beautiful And

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01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 4: the brand new Wady Miller at Middletown High School is

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01:39:54,400 --> 01:39:59,160
Speaker 4: just the taj Mahall of high school arenas. It is

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01:39:59,400 --> 01:40:02,640
Speaker 4: just the app best and all the great players with

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01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:05,760
Speaker 4: their uniforms up in the rafters.

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01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:08,839
Speaker 3: Just awesome.

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01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:10,120
Speaker 8: Wey.

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Speaker 4: I want to thank today's guests Jeff Carr talking reds,

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01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 4: Chad Smith from the Oxford Chamber of Commerce. Wow with

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01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:23,719
Speaker 4: all the money being poured into Oxford with the success

1875
01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:29,000
Speaker 4: of the Miami University men's basketball team. Mike Petralia from

1876
01:40:29,120 --> 01:40:33,720
Speaker 4: CLNS Sincy talking Bengals, and Chris Collins giving us a

1877
01:40:33,760 --> 01:40:36,000
Speaker 4: preview of the right State, the voice of the Right

1878
01:40:36,080 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 4: State Raiders given us a preview of Right State and

1879
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:41,160
Speaker 4: Northern Kentucky tomorrow night, and then all the great callers

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01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:44,559
Speaker 4: tonight on our off the Beaten Path topic. The final

1881
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:48,680
Speaker 4: from Kalamazoo, Miami goes to twenty nine to zero with

1882
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:53,360
Speaker 4: a sixty nine sixty seven come from behind victory over

1883
01:40:54,479 --> 01:40:57,200
Speaker 4: the Western Michigan Broncos. And until next time, this is

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01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:02,000
Speaker 4: the Chicksenter Chick Ludwig, thanks for listening to the home

1885
01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:05,400
Speaker 4: of the Reds and the best Bengals coverage. Sterling is

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Speaker 4: next on news radio seven hundred WLW