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Speaker 2: newest week here on Cincy three to sixty on ESPN

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Speaker 2: go ahead and leave us at talkback. We'll get to

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Speaker 2: the talkbacks today in our number two. But it's not

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Speaker 2: just a normal start to the week here on ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. It is officially start of Opening Day week

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Speaker 2: on ESPN fifteen thirty, and that carries a little bit

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Speaker 2: more weight. If you're not familiar, you've never been to

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Speaker 2: an opening day in the city of Cincinnati, you know

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Speaker 2: that Thursday, Well, it hits a little bit differently here locally,

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Speaker 2: and we will celebrate that every day this week leading.

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Speaker 3: Up to Thursday.

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Speaker 2: There it is three days left until the Reds and

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Speaker 2: the Red Sox hit the field at Great American Ballpark

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Speaker 2: for Opening Day, so we obviously have a lot to

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Speaker 2: get to today, and we will talk college basketball. The

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Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen is set, we'll have the mid Major conversation.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about Thursday and Friday's games that are upcoming.

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Speaker 2: We'll recap the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament

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Speaker 2: as well. All throughout the afternoon today, we'll welcome in

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Speaker 2: your phone calls five, one, three, seven, four, nine, fifteen,

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Speaker 2: thirty and a slew of other topics with the Bengals

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Speaker 2: mock Draft Monday is here, and so much more. And

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Speaker 2: I will say, and I want this to be kind

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Speaker 2: of what drives us here in our number one Austin

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Speaker 2: on January sixth, What on January sixth?

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Speaker 3: What year? This year?

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Speaker 2: Okay, the Reds were slated to win eighty three and

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Speaker 2: a half games. As I look right now at DraftKings,

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Speaker 2: the Reds are slated to win eighty and a half games.

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Speaker 2: Their number has gone down by three games, and understandably so.

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Speaker 2: The Hunter Green news came out after January, so we

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Speaker 2: now know that the ace of the Cincinnati Reds is

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Speaker 2: not going to pitch and probably till at least July.

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Speaker 2: But I feel like, and we've talked about this a

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Speaker 2: little before the show Austin, it feels like everywhere we look,

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Speaker 2: there are not many people out there predicting the Reds

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Speaker 2: to go over five hundred this year. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 2: not talking about win the NL Central Playoffs. We're talking

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Speaker 2: about just get to the five hundred plateau. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: want to know why today. And if you're listening and

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Speaker 2: you're on the other side of the fence and you

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Speaker 2: think everyone else is wrong and you see this team differently,

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Speaker 2: then let's start a Monday with some positivity. Let's give

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Speaker 2: reasons for optimism. Why the folks that cover Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball are off, Why those that put out these lines

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas are often that the Reds are gonna

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Speaker 2: win over eighty and a half games if they do,

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Speaker 2: we want to know why.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk.

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Speaker 2: Biggest questions remaining between now and Thursday. We'll talk about

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Speaker 2: the lineup, who's going to be hitting cleanup. Also the

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Speaker 2: news that happened over the weekend. Nick Lodolo left in

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Speaker 2: a blister. We'll wait and see any updates from that,

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Speaker 2: But for Nick Lodolo Austin, it's not just like this

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Speaker 2: after he ripped open a blister. In June of twenty

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Speaker 3: In twenty two twenty one, when he was in.

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Speaker 2: Double A, he missed three weeks due to a blister

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Speaker 2: now it's now reared its head in spring training. And

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Speaker 5: being dangled in front of me again. The Reds went

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Speaker 5: But if you misstarts, sir Nicolodolo, if the blister becomes

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Speaker 5: a thing that leaks into the summer, if there's something

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Speaker 5: is not performing well at all through any of his

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Speaker 5: season is just going to get off to a slow start,

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Speaker 5: and I fear that they'll put themselves in a hole

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Speaker 5: because you just said, let's start with positivity. Positivity is offensively,

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Speaker 5: But I've just seen this movie so many times that

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Speaker 5: I am very skeptical that's it, that the Reds are

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Speaker 2: That to me is kind of where this starts. The

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Speaker 2: this path and not only derailing things Austin. It's and

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Speaker 2: I'm not this isn't just the Reds. We've had this

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Speaker 2: Brenneman said today that he doesn't recall ever seeing anyone

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Speaker 2: have a spring training like Matt McLain has had. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's quite the the praise for Matt McClain, but I

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Speaker 2: When Hunter Green went down, we said, well, they have

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Speaker 2: I would venture to say, if you've got to describe

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Speaker 5: say dread. I don't think dread's the right word. But

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Speaker 5: the doubt you feel about Andrew Abbott. Yeah, because of

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Speaker 5: course smtt McLean's not going to bat five hundred and

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Speaker 5: fifty for a one hundred and sixty two game season.

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Speaker 5: But I also don't think Andrew Abbitt's gonna give up

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Speaker 5: four runs every time he takes the mound. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 5: a balance there that I think some Reds fans might

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Speaker 5: that's like, I don't care about anything that happens in

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Speaker 5: spring training. It's an entirely different process in the big leagues.

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Speaker 5: And I agree with you. I think there's something to that.

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Speaker 5: But all I can do is go based off of

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Speaker 3: And I don't know if we get into.

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Speaker 5: It a little bit later on the way the red

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Speaker 5: schedule works in the first month, that to me will

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Speaker 5: a little bit better. But once May rolls around, you

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Speaker 2: So so, see what you just did there, You've now

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Speaker 2: made it imperative that this team does what out of

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Speaker 3: They don't do that, They don't do that.

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Speaker 5: So if they can go what if they can go

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Speaker 2: Okay, the great, but no like that. That to me

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Speaker 2: at Smoke Justice on Thursday. Every Thursday of opening Day

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Speaker 2: when you and me and Moager get together, we put

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Speaker 2: an emphasis on what the first day of the season.

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Speaker 2: This team has to start fast. And now when you're

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Speaker 2: looking ahead to May, Okay, well, if if the end

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Speaker 2: looking for today is the optimism. We'll do a lot

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Speaker 2: on the reds here in our number one. The latest

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Speaker 2: in the UC basketball coaching search will update obviously the

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Speaker 2: name Jared Calhoun. Why is that differently because Jared Calhoun

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Speaker 5: are you ready for this please? I can confirm in

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Speaker 5: talking to multiple sources that the next head coach of

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Speaker 5: the Cincinnati Bearcats will not be Wes Miller, because Wes

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Speaker 5: Miller has signed a five year deal today tone to

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Speaker 3: How about that.

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Speaker 2: And here's I think the weird part. And I don't

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Speaker 2: say weird part, but everything I said about Wes, I

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Speaker 2: hope West goes to Charlotte and crushes it. I hope

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Speaker 2: he has a great, great coaching career at Charlotte. Speaking

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Speaker 2: remember the name Diego Gevara, who at times crushed the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bearcats. I believe their coach at the time was

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Speaker 3: To have some battles this. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: With Wes going there, maybe you revive that that non

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Speaker 5: be a good decision on his part to maybe wait

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Speaker 5: a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati Austin, on the brink of disaster, salvaged one

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Speaker 5: They got up off the mat the lads. There's no

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Speaker 3: But FC Cincinnati, to their.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot to take in from the college basketball weekend.

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Speaker 3: Who's fun. We will h We'll dive into everything. The

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll dive into everything college hoops related. Didn't follow

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Speaker 2: Mock Draft Monday will happen this afternoon. Jackson Smith and

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Speaker 2: Jigba the highest paid wide receiver now in NFL history

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Speaker 2: Tyler Reddick. Austin won another NASCAR race over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: just another Sunday Death Taxes Michael Jordan and Tyler Reddick

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Speaker 2: UC baseball continuing to rise up the record boards. They

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Speaker 2: We have so much more that we need to get

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty. We're just getting started Sincy three sixty on

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Speaker 2: the Home of the Bengals, ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 3: No pressure on entry. They gained the inbounder.

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Speaker 5: It's Condon the league driving to the cup, underneath paying Away.

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Speaker 6: Taking a shot, an isle of wins.

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Speaker 3: A sun Side State stunner, isle of.

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Speaker 6: Bunsas Florida in Tampa, seventy three, seventy two, the rating

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Speaker 2: Now that voice on the call of Iowa knocking off Florida,

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Speaker 2: and we'll get to college basketball to start hour two,

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Speaker 2: a familiar voice, John Sadak on the con Sadak on

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Speaker 5: For Westwood Ones coverage of the NCAA Tournament, and John

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Speaker 3: Defending champs are bound, Sunshine State stunner, Gator's.

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Speaker 5: Gone love it one is done, well done, well done.

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Speaker 2: You're ready for the Big Ones six on Thursday one

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Speaker 2: sixty two. It's the length of the Major League baseball

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Speaker 5: are still working on stuff, and pitchers are ahead of hitters,

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Speaker 5: and you just don't are behind hitters. You just don't

436
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Speaker 5: know exactly what to put all the stock into. And

437
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Speaker 5: also like, over the course of time, we've seen where

438
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Speaker 5: a guy will have a monster spring and just have

439
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Speaker 5: an average regular season, or we've seen where a guy

440
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Speaker 5: has not performed very well in the spring and has

441
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Speaker 5: been a monster during the regular season. Like, there's no

442
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Speaker 5: exact science to it, there's no way to pinpoint, Okay,

443
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Speaker 5: this is indicative of that when it comes to spring

444
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Speaker 5: training in the regular season. I do like though, that

445
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Speaker 5: we went into spring training thinking, Okay, who's going to

446
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Speaker 5: be the number two hitter. Matt McClain was given the

447
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Speaker 5: first crack at it, and he did not relinquish it

448
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Speaker 5: at all. From day one. He dominated. He took control

449
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Speaker 5: of that. And from everybody who's been there and talked

450
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Speaker 5: to Matt McClain and been able to watch him in person,

451
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Speaker 5: they say there are tangible things about his swing that

452
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Speaker 5: you can look at and say, Okay, this is better

453
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Speaker 5: than it was a year ago. He's approaching this pitch better,

454
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Speaker 5: he's getting his foot down at the right spot, he's

455
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Speaker 5: getting the extension that he needed to get. His hands

456
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Speaker 5: are in the right spot, and that's going to equal

457
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Speaker 5: more of the Matt McClain that we saw a couple

458
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Speaker 5: of years ago. I don't know that there's really a

459
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Speaker 5: theme for what Andrew Abbott has done. And that's the

460
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Speaker 5: part that's frustrating, is like, Okay, well he's not hurt

461
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Speaker 5: and it's not like he's not locating his fastball. I

462
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Speaker 5: think his fastball has been pretty good. But it's the

463
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Speaker 5: other pitches. Is he not able to get hitters out

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Speaker 5: with his secondary pitches? And then also what exactly is

465
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Speaker 5: he working on? Like yesterday he threw or two days

466
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Speaker 5: ago he threw a three to two change up that

467
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Speaker 5: got rocked, and I was listening to the radio broadcast

468
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Speaker 5: and they're like, I don't think that's a pitch that

469
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Speaker 5: Andrew Arabbit's gonna throw in the regular season. Why would

470
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Speaker 5: he throw a change up in a three to two

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Speaker 5: count considering the circumstances, blah blah blah. So it's really

472
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Speaker 5: difficult to, I think, evaluate pitchers as opposed to hitters

473
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Speaker 5: in spring training. I feel like the technique in the

474
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Speaker 5: physical part of what Matt McClain has done to his

475
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Speaker 5: swing is more indicative of a successful regular season than

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Speaker 5: what we can look at with Andrew Abbot. And that's

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Speaker 5: that's hard because, like I said, there's no exact science

478
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Speaker 5: to it at all.

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Speaker 2: It is it's unique in the sense that you know,

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Speaker 2: you want to evaluate as much as possible, and it

481
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Speaker 2: is a analytic driven time in sports, So you want

482
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Speaker 2: to dive into the good. But when you do that,

483
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 2: you also have to dive in to the bad or

484
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Speaker 2: the uncomfortable as well. Another thing that I thought was

485
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Speaker 2: interesting since his return to red spring training, I think

486
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Speaker 2: a lot of people Austin just assumed when e Henio

487
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Speaker 2: Suarez was brought to the Cincinnati Reds that he was

488
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Speaker 2: going to slot in right behind Elie de la Cruz

489
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Speaker 2: in the lineup. And we pretty much know at this

490
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Speaker 2: point what one two three looks like.

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Speaker 3: TJ.

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Speaker 2: Friedo, Matt McClain, Elie de la Cruz, that's going to

493
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Speaker 2: be your one two three. But the interesting part now

494
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Speaker 2: about what the Reds, or at least Terry Francona, is doing,

495
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Speaker 2: is since Suarez has been back, he's tinkered a little

496
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Speaker 2: bit with the lineup and he's got South Stewart hitting

497
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Speaker 2: cleanup behind Elie de la Cruz and Suarez then hitting

498
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Speaker 2: in the five hole. Now, Charlie Goldsmith dug into this

499
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Speaker 2: a little bit more and just how rare this has

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Speaker 2: been and Terry Francona's entire career as a manager. Hitters

501
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Speaker 2: who are twenty two years old are younger to hit

502
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Speaker 2: cleanup in a season. Scott Rowland did it eighty times

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety seven, Lars Anderson did it once in

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Speaker 2: a Red Sox game in twenty ten, and South Stuart

505
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Speaker 2: three times last year.

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Speaker 3: That's the whole list.

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Speaker 2: Is this more about what it says about what Terry

508
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Speaker 2: Francona thinks about South Stuart, that opportunity is even being

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Speaker 2: talked about with a player as young as South Stewart

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Speaker 2: being thrown into a clean up role as early as

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Speaker 2: opening day.

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Speaker 5: I think it also says a lot about Ellie de

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Speaker 5: la Cruz, because the whole idea was au Hanio Suarez

514
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Speaker 5: is going to protect Ellie de la Cruz well, with

515
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Speaker 5: South Stuart behind him, maybe a pitcher is more apt

516
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Speaker 5: to pitch around Ellie to get to South Stuart. That

517
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Speaker 5: creates its own can of worms because you're putting Ellie

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Speaker 5: on the bases. Good luck with that if you're a pitcher.

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Speaker 5: But also I think it says that the Reds are

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Speaker 5: comfortable with Ellie's ability to understand how he's being pitched.

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Speaker 5: And I think that was a big step forward for

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Speaker 5: him last year, was not swinging at pitches he can

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Speaker 5: do nothing with and not getting himself into trouble and

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Speaker 5: getting himself into outs. I think it says a lot

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Speaker 5: about their trust in Ellie's ability to perceive the strike

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Speaker 5: zone and his discipline at the plate, and also, to

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Speaker 5: your point, says a lot about what South Stuart has done.

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Speaker 5: Francona says all the time he forgets he's a rookie,

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Speaker 5: which is a great quality to have for a big

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Speaker 5: leaguer because you know, you have this confidence in this

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Speaker 5: belief and this ability that like, yeah, I'm supposed to

532
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Speaker 5: be here, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 5: And you thrive in those type of roles when you

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Speaker 5: have that type of confidence. So yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 5: it makes a lot of sense. And oh, by the way,

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Speaker 5: you add that protection now to South Stewart because of

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Speaker 5: Auhaniosuarez behind him.

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Speaker 2: Terry Francona's quote about the lineup, he said, I kind

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Speaker 2: of reserve the right to make a lineup out that day.

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Speaker 2: The reason we've been doing it, and that's Gino in

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Speaker 2: the five hole is I think it sets Gino up

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Speaker 2: to drive in more runs because I think with Ellie

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Speaker 2: hitting third. He also said this, and we talked a

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Speaker 2: lot about this Ellie and Gino, that's a lot of strikeouts.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Terry Francona said, with doing that, we can separate some strikeouts,

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Speaker 2: but we also have a guy that can trail Ellie,

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Speaker 2: and I think Gino can clean up some of that mess,

549
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Speaker 2: which is the idea, and that is a chance to

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Speaker 2: be more productive. So I don't think, like, first of all,

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Speaker 2: I don't think this is an indictment of Eu Honeyosuarez, right, No,

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Speaker 2: this is not. This is Ellie and this is South Stewart.

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Speaker 2: So I think this is something to watch as it

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Speaker 2: relates to Opening Day getting a little bit closer. Here

555
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Speaker 2: for the Cincinnati read speaking of opening Day getting closer,

556
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Speaker 2: they're doing the scrimmage today and tomorrow Milwaukee.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Also, Terry Francona, thanks to Charlie Goldsmith, shed a little

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Speaker 2: light on that. He said, quote, we don't ever hit

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Speaker 2: in the stadium in spring. Hit on the backfields. Even

561
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Speaker 2: the stadiums are big, but most teams take VP in

562
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Speaker 2: the stadium we want to get into that. You want

563
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Speaker 2: to make sure you play Milwaukee is a guarantee because

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Speaker 2: they have a roof, so it doesn't mess up your

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Speaker 2: pitching schedule.

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Speaker 3: That's the idea, so.

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Speaker 2: More the idea of hitting in a Major League Baseball

568
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Speaker 2: park and not running the risk of going there and

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Speaker 2: then it.

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Speaker 3: Getting rained out.

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Speaker 2: So a little bit more clarification on why this team

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Speaker 2: is going to spend the next two days in Milwaukee

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Speaker 2: ahead of Thursday's opening.

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Speaker 5: If you remember, they've done those like showcase games where

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Speaker 5: they'll go to Dayton or they'll go to Louisville and

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Speaker 5: they'll play the prospects. Yeah, and the last couple of

577
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Speaker 5: times the weather has just been a troch. Yes, And

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Speaker 5: I think it means a lot to go up there,

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Speaker 5: and especially a place that you have not performed well at,

580
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 5: you guarantee to get the games in. You can have

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Speaker 5: complete control basically over the way you want to do it.

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Speaker 5: In conjunction with Pat Murphy or the Brewers, I think

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Speaker 5: it just makes a lot of sense. I think your

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Speaker 5: team gets more out of it than they would, you know,

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Speaker 5: maybe dealing with the weather and the nonsense in an

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Speaker 5: outdoor game in Dayton or Louisville or even here in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: I just think that makes a lot of sense. I

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Speaker 3: think that's a good move. Let's take a break.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about in particular, the first month of this

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Speaker 2: Red season that's upcoming, along with any reasons for hope

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Speaker 2: that you may have. We we pretty much understand what

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Speaker 2: the lineups for hope, reasons for hope. We know what

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Speaker 2: the lineup essentially is going to be at this point,

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Speaker 2: with maybe a little bit of tinkering, I.

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Speaker 5: Think the lineup is going to surprise some people on

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Speaker 5: opening Day. Yeah, Okay, we'll talk more about that. We'll

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Speaker 5: get to some phone calls after that. Here at the

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Speaker 5: endpur number one five, one, three, seven nine, fifteen thirty,

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Speaker 3: Station, Tony.

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Speaker 5: We've got some breaking news from Baton Rouge. Okay, LSU

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Speaker 5: Pro Day today, Okay, future Bengal cornerback mansor Delayne just

608
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Speaker 5: ran a four point three eight forty yard dash, just

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Speaker 5: picking them up and laying them down. Well, that'll do

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Speaker 5: man sore, that'll do four three forty man. I have

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Speaker 5: not seen if the Bengals are there. I am assuming

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Speaker 5: that they are. I know that is a big assumption

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Speaker 5: knowing this franchise. But LSU Pro Day is today. There's

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Speaker 5: a couple of my know, Michigan was over the weekend.

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Speaker 5: I think there's Georgia may have happened in Ohio. States

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Speaker 5: is coming up tomorrow, I believe so a lot we'll

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Speaker 5: get from those.

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Speaker 2: We will continue to pack pro days the first month

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Speaker 2: of the red season. Why is the first month and

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Speaker 2: the start of the season always is when we talk

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Speaker 2: about the Cincinnati Reds. Why does this year start so

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Speaker 2: much different in your opinion, I don't know that it's so.

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Speaker 5: Much different, but it makes me feel a little bit

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Speaker 5: better if they're not at full strength going into the start.

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Speaker 5: And the reason for that is over the first month,

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Speaker 5: so from when they play Thursday until the end of April,

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Speaker 5: they have five off days.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so that's.

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Speaker 5: Five days that you're able and that's part of the

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Speaker 5: reason also why they're doing this six man rotation. We'll

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Speaker 5: see if that changes, if Lodolo has to go on

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Speaker 5: the IL or not. But five off days, you play

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Speaker 5: a lot of home games, and you play teams that

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Speaker 5: you're supposed to be better than. Now, Boston's pretty good,

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Speaker 5: but we talked about last week. Ranger Suarez is not

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Speaker 5: going to pitch in Cincinnati. He's going to be moved

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Speaker 5: to the back of their rotation. Is he dealing with something?

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Speaker 5: So you're not gonna face their biggest free agent acquisition.

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Speaker 5: You are gonna face Garrett Crochet, but you've had success

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Speaker 5: against Garrett Crochet and he also was not very good

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Speaker 5: in spring training. You've got Pittsburgh. You are probably gonna

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00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 5: face Paul Skeian's one of those not great. But the

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00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 5: Texas Rangers, the Miami Marlins, the Los Angeles Angels, those

644
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 5: are teams that the Reds are top to bottom better

645
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,760
Speaker 5: than not even close. You also play the Minnesota Twins

646
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 5: who are openly tanking. The Tampa Bay Rays, who have

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Speaker 5: had some injuries. By the way, Gavin Lux hurt. He's

648
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Speaker 5: not starting. He's gonna start the season on the io

649
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Speaker 5: with shoulder impendum. Sure, you finished the season the month

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Speaker 5: with three against the Colorado Rockies at home. Abismo, horrible

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Speaker 5: team that's not trying to win. Your most difficult games

652
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 5: are three against the Giants, but those are in Cincinnati,

653
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 5: and three against the Tigers, and those are in Cincinnati.

654
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 5: So for that reason, I feel a little bit better

655
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Speaker 5: about out. Okay, maybe they're not at full strength, but

656
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 5: it's not like they're going through everybody in the National

657
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 5: League Central. They don't have the Dodgers, they don't have

658
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 5: the Phillies, they don't have the Mets in any of

659
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Speaker 5: that stretch, the teams that you're expecting to be at

660
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 5: the very top of the National League and you only

661
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Speaker 5: play three n L Central games in that entire stretch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that makes me feel a little bit better.

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Speaker 3: It's it to me.

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Speaker 2: That's that's it, the race to May, because then May

665
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 2: comes and you're on the road to start the first

666
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Speaker 2: seven days in May in the Division at Pittsburgh. In Chicago,

667
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 2: the Houston Astros come into town a good team, the

668
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 2: Nationals are an improved team. You go to Cleveland, that's

669
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Speaker 2: a team expected to compete. The Phillies are expected to compete.

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00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 2: That's on the road in May. Still you got to

671
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 2: go play three at the Mets. Then comes the Atlanta

672
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 2: Braves and then the Kansas City Royals. You got to

673
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Speaker 2: go to San Diego and as it's a lot, May

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Speaker 2: and June is a lot YEP, this team, with the

675
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 2: way the pitching staff is in question right now or

676
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 2: in a little bit of limbo right now, it is

677
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 2: imperative that this team start the season fast. I mean

678
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 2: you could make the case Austin that at home and

679
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 2: you are missing Ranger Suarez, go out and win the

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00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 2: first series. Beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in a series. Now, Texas,

681
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 2: I get it. Miami win a series, Angels win a serree,

682
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 2: they shouldn't be dogs in all, but probably through or

683
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 2: three of those series through April. What can you do

684
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 2: with that? And this I think was an issue that

685
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: this team's had for years. They've not beaten the bad

686
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 2: teams as well as they should. They've got to do

687
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 2: better at beatings of teams that they should beat, because

688
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 2: there's a lot of teams in April or in May

689
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 2: and June that on paper you're probably not supposed to beat.

690
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 2: They have got to get off to a fast start.

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00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 2: We talk about it every year. It feels just as

692
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: if not more imperative this year for this version of

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Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Reds, especially with the questions at the pitching staff.

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Speaker 5: It's also kind of crazy they don't play Milwaukee until

695
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 5: June twenty second. It's kind of hard to believe. And

696
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 5: then they play them twice over the course of three series.

697
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 5: But I mean, they're playing these two games up there

698
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 5: in this exhibition style and then they don't see them

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Speaker 5: until the end of June.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very very interesting. As the schedule will get underway,

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Speaker 2: we'll finish up our number one with some of your

702
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Speaker 2: phone calls. Next we'll talk college hoops to kick off

703
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Speaker 2: the second hour. I'm sorry, sorry, give me your reason

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Speaker 2: for optimism in your tall tacks today.

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Speaker 3: Are still upset about the Bearcats? A little upset.

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Speaker 5: I haven't heard any news yet, so I'm getting a

707
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 5: little choked up. Head over to the water fountain during

708
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Speaker 5: the break.

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Speaker 2: Give us your reason for optimism with your talkbacks today

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00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 2: around this version of the Cincinnati Reds. And we've got

711
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 2: a lot of NFL and football to get to in

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Speaker 2: our number three, including mock draft Monday. Your phone calls

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Speaker 2: finish up the hour next on sinty three to sixty

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Skyline, Chile on the Home of the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: Since he three sixty continues now on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: Here we go end of our number one. Since he

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Speaker 2: three to six you We're going to break down the

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Speaker 2: NCAA tournament here in just a few minutes. We've been

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Speaker 2: mostly red's in Major League Baseball. To start, Let's grab

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Speaker 2: a couple of phone calls before we wrap the hour.

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Speaker 2: John is starting this office up John.

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Speaker 4: Tony Austin, Happy Monday. How are you, fellows?

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Speaker 3: Copy Monday?

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Speaker 4: Happy Monday, Tony, you nailed it. I do not need

730
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Speaker 4: to see Joe Burrow play flag football. I'm done again.

731
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Speaker 3: Nope, yeah, so yeah.

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Speaker 8: Just take the alohead band high to from him so

733
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Speaker 8: he doesn't get to wear it on the field, Hide

734
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Speaker 8: the cleats, hide whatever we don't need about the I

735
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 8: don't know whose idea was to throw a pass pattern

736
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Speaker 8: to them. That's really completely idiotic. I mean, these guys

737
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Speaker 8: are competitive, right, Solomy, you know that better than anymore.

738
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Speaker 8: He's throwing up to catch the ball, it's his instinct

739
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 8: and he comes down and just you crush your fingers

740
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Speaker 8: that he's not hurt. And I think someone took a

741
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Speaker 8: run at his knees as well. Yeahsis of Jalen's hurt's arm?

742
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Speaker 8: And what's the logan Paul's doing out there? Like he

743
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 8: was like bizarre it is.

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Speaker 2: It's one thing if you're thinking of just like all right,

745
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 2: seven on seven, quarterback drops back and throws the ball.

746
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 2: It's not that you know you're getting free rushers. There

747
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 2: are two quarterbacks often on the field at once. They're

748
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,720
Speaker 2: throwing the ball to each other. You have quarterbacks cutting

749
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 2: and making moves after catching the ball, which just isn't

750
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Speaker 2: safe because that's not a move you.

751
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Speaker 3: Do often as a quarterback.

752
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Speaker 2: Like when Joe Burrow's training, he's training dropping back and

753
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 2: moving in the pocket. He's not training running full speed

754
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 2: down the field, putting his foot in the ground and cutting.

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Speaker 2: Especially in the month of March, I just thought it

756
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 2: was way different than what I expected it to be,

757
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: and definitely definitely a little bit too much that I

758
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 2: think a lot of Bengals fans would have liked to see.

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00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 8: Well, that leads me to bashing Tom Brady because now

760
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 8: the biggest rivalry in football is.

761
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Speaker 4: Tom Brady versus Joe Burrow.

762
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Speaker 8: So that's interesting, right, because oh yeah, I'm gonna I'm

763
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Speaker 8: gonna take over Skip Baylis stole my take when he

764
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 8: said that Brady's jealous of Burrow at this point. It's

765
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 8: almost like the senior hot girl in high school. All

766
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 8: of a sudden, the hawt girl comes in. It's a

767
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 8: haphomore that guys are even more into and fall.

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Speaker 4: Over and he gets she gets jealous. I mean I

769
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 4: almost get a feeling that he is jealous of him.

770
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Speaker 4: The part of being that is, and I'm.

771
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Speaker 8: Bit serious about this, Brady's had to really work hard

772
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Speaker 8: to cultivate this coolness that.

773
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Speaker 9: The people that he has, like, you know.

774
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Speaker 8: The hair transplant and the face lifts and the botox

775
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 8: and everything he's done is scripted. Was with Burrows just

776
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 8: seems natural, Like he may show up with purple hair

777
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 8: one day and it's kind of cool. And I just

778
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 8: find it funny that Brady, who has become less likable

779
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Speaker 8: in the retirement because now he's an owner with the Raiders.

780
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 8: He's the de facto GM with the Raiders. He's the

781
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 8: lead analyst on Fox Now. He's mentoring Jalen Hurts. Sure, Like,

782
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 8: if I'm part owner.

783
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Speaker 3: Of the Raiders, I'm like, what are you doing him for?

784
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 4: He plays for the Eagles. Yeah, we're gonna draft Mendoza. Yeah,

785
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 4: it's just it's just kind of weird.

786
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 8: He's developed himself into a weird guy, whereas Alex Rodriguez

787
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 8: in retirement seems.

788
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 4: To become more likable. Yeah, you know, yeah, he's part

789
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 4: owner of the Timberwolves.

790
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Speaker 8: We don't see in the moddle designing plays like Brady

791
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 8: was doing up in the booth on a Monday night game.

792
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 8: So Brady has become just like a kind of Childlike,

793
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 8: I mean, let someone else plays flag football, even for

794
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 8: the NFL guys.

795
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 4: Let's let's the other guys play. Keep the quarterbacks out

796
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Speaker 4: of it.

797
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Speaker 8: We don't want to lose a mottle of stupid play

798
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 8: like Edwards into his career with twenty some one years ago.

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Speaker 3: Correct, deal, appreciate you, John.

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Speaker 9: Guys.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk to you on Wednesday to preview Red Sox Red.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir, have a great one. All right, brothers,

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Speaker 3: Okay to thank you John. One more here before the

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Speaker 3: top of the hour.

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Speaker 9: What's up, Mike, Hey, those what a fun weekend of

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Speaker 9: who yes?

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Speaker 3: Yes, so good?

808
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 4: A lot of fun, a lot of fun.

809
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 9: I pad Orlovsky convinced me this morning on ESPN that

810
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 9: Ty Simpson is a better quarterback than Fernando Mendoza. Totally

811
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 9: convinced me.

812
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of people pushing that direction, and

813
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 2: every year we get a lot of the buzz leading

814
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 2: up to the draft, and and and I understand, but

815
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 2: from I listened to it today as well, and I

816
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 2: was impressed with Ordorolofski said. And then to double down

817
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 2: and see Tannebaum say, well, that's just not something that

818
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 2: he thinks. That's that's something that a lot of other

819
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 2: gms across the NFL buy into as well. So as

820
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: we in closer to the draft, I think that can

821
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 2: become a little bit of a talking point and it

822
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 2: is one that benefits the Bengals if another team tries

823
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 2: to get into the top ten to get Ty Simpson.

824
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, that's how I was thinking. One brother, Okay, college up,

825
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 9: so I know you're going to get into it. Next

826
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Speaker 9: hour but I won't feel over to be on, although

827
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 9: I will be listening. You can bet on that. I

828
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 9: still think the greatest college basketball call by an announcer

829
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Speaker 9: I've ever heard was mister Marty Brenham calling the Christian

830
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 9: Latner around seventeen footer not to win the championship. A

831
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 9: lot of people think it was to win the championship

832
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,479
Speaker 9: for Duke, it was just to advance to the Final four.

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00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 9: I think, yeah, But that called by Marty. Marty is

834
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Speaker 9: a great basketball announcer. I mean, you know, he was

835
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Speaker 9: an announcer for the Virginia Schoires in the ADA before

836
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Speaker 9: he came to the Reds, so he was. He was

837
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 9: so good at it. The Florida game and Iowa, you

838
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 9: tell me how in the hell you let them get

839
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 9: three on two. I would get three on two and

840
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 9: a wide open. That was bad.

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00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 3: We'll discuss it too in the next hour.

842
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 2: But but Golden at Florida, the coach, his rationale made

843
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,839
Speaker 2: no sense because they were up to and he said

844
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 2: we were He said, we wanted to foul, and I'm like,

845
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: why would you want to file? He said, we wanted

846
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 2: to foul, and that way put pressure on them to

847
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,479
Speaker 2: make the free throws, we would get the last shot

848
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 2: and then overtime. And I've never heard a coach with

849
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 2: the two point lead say well, we want to foul them.

850
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 2: That just made no sense to me.

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00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 9: You know, I was kind of disappointed in him.

852
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 3: I agree that.

853
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 9: So that sounds I mean, even you're saying it right now,

854
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 9: it sounded dumb. I mean, he's won the championship with you.

855
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 9: The other game, Patino, the genius of Patino, the genius.

856
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 9: He says, uh, they were planning. Did you hear him talk?

857
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 9: They were planning on some different plays and backcuts blah

858
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 9: blah blah blah blah. And then Rick all of a

859
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,919
Speaker 9: sudden says, wait a minute, Darling hasn't scored a bath

860
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 9: in this game. Yeah, and he can go, coach, Let's

861
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 9: just let him go coast to coast. And they watched

862
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Speaker 9: him do.

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00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 2: It, yep, after using up all the fouls. What I

864
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Speaker 2: like the most about Patino after the game is he

865
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 2: was he made reference. You know, I wouldn't mind one

866
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Speaker 2: more game winner. I'd like to beat Duke on a

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Speaker 2: game winner, so maybe we can get a little retribution.

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Speaker 2: And everyone stops talking about the Latner shots. So I

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Speaker 2: think the way Patino's handled it back and forth. It's

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Speaker 2: it's been so fun to watch, and uh, it's it's

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Speaker 2: gonna make for some really enticing games on Thursday and Friday.

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Speaker 9: You better be ready, Duke, You better be ready if

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Speaker 9: you're not gonna have physical this team, this team is

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Speaker 9: going to play you like a dog.

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Speaker 3: Correct, correct?

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Speaker 9: Thanks guy, Thanks, Mike, appreciate you as Thank you, buddy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, let's let's piggyback that Austin. Let's let that

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Speaker 2: start our college basketball tournament conversation to kick off hour

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