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Speaker 3: All Right, here we go six oh nine, seven hundred

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Speaker 3: Let's take care of those so we can go. We

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Speaker 3: start with baseball. Red's pitchers and catchers report in five days,

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Speaker 3: five days, fifty days until Red's opening Day.

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Speaker 2: Coming up.

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Speaker 3: In a you'll hear from Nick Crawl, You'll hear from Aohaneo Suarez.

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Speaker 3: Louisville Bats announced today that Bronson Arroyo will be performing

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Speaker 3: at Louisville Slugger Field in a postgame concert Saturday, June

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Speaker 3: twenty seventh. Football, the Seahawks and Patriots continuing work and

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Speaker 3: night at NFL Honors in San Francisco. We will find

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Speaker 3: the NKU Norris welcoming Green Bay at seven o'clock on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports thirteen sixty. You know Green Bay coach by

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Speaker 3: Doug Gottlieb, the former national sports talk radio host who

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Speaker 3: fifteen Baylor six point thirty. Action on the Project Hockey.

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Speaker 3: the three week Olympic break after tonight. The Washington Post

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Speaker 3: the meeting and the impact of one au Heneo Suarez,

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Speaker 3: They had to ultimately expand the payroll to make it

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Speaker 3: So budgetary concerns were an issue. Nick talked about that yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Keep in mind Salad only played two games at first

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Speaker 3: so that's a possibility. And then Spencer Steer is the

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about his new book. And welcome in, Matt Snyder.

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Speaker 3: How are you.

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Speaker 5: I'm great man. Thank you for that introduction.

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Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, it's you always hope for natural growth from

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Speaker 3: All right, So the book is The Leadoff Man, the

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Speaker 5: on the leadoff man. You need to get on base

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Speaker 5: to start the game, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, Without revealing the entire list, if I were to guess,

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Speaker 3: if I were just take a wild guess and say

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Speaker 3: that Ricky Henderson might be number one?

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Speaker 2: Would I be close?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's spot on. That's easy. He's easiest one

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Speaker 5: on the board.

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Speaker 2: All right, yeah, I'll quit on ahead.

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Speaker 3: Then I'll make everybody read the book to get the

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Speaker 3: rest in the fact. Tell them how they can get

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Speaker 3: the book If they want to read The leadoff Man,

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Speaker 3: The History of the Evolution of and Fun with the

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Speaker 3: Greatest cattlest in Sports, where can they find it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's on Amazon dot com. So just go to

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Speaker 5: Amazon and type in the leadoff Man and it should

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Speaker 5: be the top option there. You can also go to

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Speaker 5: my social media accounts, for example Matt Snyder, CBS on

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Speaker 5: X and I've got a pen tweet with a direct

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Speaker 5: link correct to it.

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Speaker 3: All right, last question, I save the worst scenario for last.

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Speaker 3: Look into your crystal ball, Matt Snyder, cbsports dot com.

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Speaker 3: What does the conclusion of the twenty twenty six season

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Speaker 3: into the off season into a labor situation look like

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Speaker 3: from where you sit right now?

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Speaker 5: Oh, there will absolutely be a lockout. But I'm a

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Speaker 5: glass half full guy by nature, so I'm going to

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Speaker 5: continue to go down that path that I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 5: It will be similar to last time. It'll be a

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Speaker 5: couple months of contentious and annoying and then maybe early

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Speaker 5: March or so that they will come to some kind

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Speaker 5: of agreement and we're still going to get one hundred

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Speaker 5: and sixty two games and twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 3: Do you see in that scenario a salary cap and

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Speaker 3: floor or not.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that it's going to be a hard

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Speaker 5: cap or anything like that, but I think it's going

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Speaker 5: to be there will be more training wheels thrown on,

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Speaker 5: or constrictor plates or whatever we want to say. There

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Speaker 5: are gonna be some guardrails thrown on teams like the Dodgers,

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Speaker 5: but it's not going to be anything like what I

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Speaker 5: would imagine most red Sands rightfully would want. I think

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Speaker 5: there will be something in there to tamp down on

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Speaker 5: at least the deferrals, something like Shoho Tani deferring almost

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Speaker 5: all the seven hundred million so the Dodgers can keep. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I think they're going to try to tamp down on that,

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Speaker 5: but we're not going to see a hard cap or

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Speaker 5: anything like that.

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Speaker 2: Hey, it is great catching up with you. I'm so

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Speaker 2: happy for you with the book.

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Speaker 3: Congrats on it, and uh, I'm gonna bug intour in

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Speaker 3: the baseball season, so uh so make sure you answer

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Speaker 3: my text.

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Speaker 5: All right, absolutely will, Thanks Matt, take care, have a

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Speaker 5: good one.

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Speaker 2: All right, there you go.

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Speaker 3: Matt snydercbsports dot Com with thoughts on the Reds and

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Speaker 3: thoughts on a new book about the I've read thousands

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Speaker 3: of bag Okay, maybe close to thousands of baseball books.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's ever done a book on leadoff hitters that I've read,

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Speaker 3: so I'm kind of curious to see that list.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's do this.

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Speaker 3: Uh, we're rolling through our first hour. How about a

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Speaker 3: little college basketball. We'll tip off that.

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Speaker 1: Ha ha.

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Speaker 2: How about that for our next segment, as we.

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Speaker 3: Roll on with RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey

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Speaker 3: Chevrolet seven hundred WLW five minutes, five minutes.

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Speaker 2: Here's big news.

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Speaker 3: Mike Dwyer WCPO dot com tweeting the following that Lakota

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Speaker 3: West Princeton boys basketball showdown Friday night is.

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Speaker 2: Moving to Sentas Center. Holy Cow.

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Speaker 3: Lakota West seventeen and one, ranked number one in the

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Speaker 3: state by Max Preps. Princeton is fourteen and one and

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Speaker 3: ranked number two. It's one, it's two head to head

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Speaker 3: they're moving at to Centas Center Friday night at seven.

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Speaker 3: Mike Dyer indicating on Twitter the coaches from Xavier and

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Speaker 3: NKU expected to be in the house on Friday night

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Speaker 3: for big time high school hoops. Last night, Xavier got

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Speaker 3: drilled by yukon ninety two to sixty. It was fifty

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Speaker 3: to twenty two at halftime. The Huskies lead grew to

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Speaker 3: thirty eight at one point. You com went on runs

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Speaker 3: of ten to nothing, thirteen to two, and sixteen to

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Speaker 3: two if I remember correctly. Here's Richard Patino after the

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Speaker 3: game with Joe and Byron talking about what happened.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, obviously they're a terrific, terrific team, and

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Speaker 7: you know, we've got a lot of work to do

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Speaker 7: to catch up to that level. Really proud of the

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Speaker 7: second half the fight, you know, but we just didn't

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Speaker 7: match their physicality. We didn't disrupt enough, indicative of twenty

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Speaker 7: six assists for.

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Speaker 1: Them, you know.

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Speaker 7: So not a lot to really really take from a

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Speaker 7: positive standpoint from that game, except that, you know, we'll

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Speaker 7: get a little rest here and we'll just get back

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Speaker 7: to work.

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Speaker 3: Xavier falls again ninety two sixty. They dropped to twelve

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Speaker 3: and eleven overall in the season four and eight in

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Speaker 3: the Big East. He mentioned the assist also the rebounding

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Speaker 3: numbers that rebounded by seventeen. Xavier shot ten more free

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Speaker 3: throw attempts and outscored Yukon by four points at the line,

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Speaker 3: but lost by thirty two. How oft did you see

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Speaker 3: somebody outscore the other, out attempt the other team by

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Speaker 3: ten at the line and lose by thirty two. Six

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Speaker 3: assists for Xavier to thirteen turnovers, twenty six assist for Yukon,

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Speaker 3: Forty six points in the paint for the Huskies last night.

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Speaker 3: Then there's the Miami RedHawks and just keep on keeping

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Speaker 3: on twenty three to zero after a seventy three seventy

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Speaker 3: one road win at Buffalo, they have set a program

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Speaker 3: record for the most consecutive road wins in a season

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Speaker 3: at nine. They again shot better than fifty percent from

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Speaker 3: the field fifty five last night. They continue to be

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Speaker 3: the best shooting team in the country. I think I

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Speaker 3: think that's the seventeenth time in twenty three games they've

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Speaker 3: shot better than fifty percent. They dominated the paint forty

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Speaker 3: eight to twenty eight. They took thirty shots in the

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Speaker 3: lane and hit twenty four of the thirty in the lane.

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Speaker 3: Luke Skaljak at fifteen of his nineteen in the second half.

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Speaker 3: He was a finalist for Ohio Mister Basketball three years

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Speaker 3: ago out of Brexville, Ohio and Ray Perry. Last night,

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Speaker 3: the Pride of Lakota East. The freshman nice plays on

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Speaker 3: both ends. Six points, four rebounds, played just over nine

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Speaker 3: minutes last night, and they continue to find ways to win.

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Speaker 3: We were talking about that with Travis The last time

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Speaker 3: he was on. They had what I think it was

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Speaker 3: the Kent State game. They only shot thirty eight percent,

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Speaker 3: yet still won that game. Had an off night from

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Speaker 3: the field. They win last night being held twenty points

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Speaker 3: below their season average in scoring seventy three points for

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Speaker 3: their last five wins have been by two, two, six,

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Speaker 3: and three, and two of those in overtime. And this

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Speaker 3: stat from Elias they lead the country in scoring. They're

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Speaker 3: scoring ninety two point eight points a game. Ninety two

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Speaker 3: point eight. The last MAX school to lead Division one

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Speaker 3: basketball in points per game for a season Marshall nineteen

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Speaker 3: fifty seven fifty eight Holy Cow. Next up for the RedHawks,

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Speaker 3: they play in that MAX Sun Belt Challenge there at Marshall.

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Speaker 3: Ironically enough, Saturday tip time in Huntington is four, and

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Speaker 3: then ESPN announced today the RedHawks are being flexed next

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Speaker 3: Friday night. They are moving the Battle of the Bricks

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Speaker 3: versus the Ohio Bobcats to it's ESPN or ESPN two.

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Speaker 3: They're moving it to nine o'clock. That's a game at

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Speaker 3: Malet National TV for one of the ESPN family stations.

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Speaker 3: But more and more eyeballs to the Miami RedHawks as

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Speaker 3: they chase perfection. All right, I don't know if that

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Speaker 3: first hour was perfect.

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I hope you did.

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Speaker 3: Now I've set myself up for colossal failure in the

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Speaker 3: second hour. Let's talk eu Anio Suarez. You're gonna hear

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Speaker 3: a couple of things he said that caught my ear.

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Speaker 3: We'll open up the lines. We'll talk some Reds and Sworez,

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Speaker 3: some Bengals around the corner, and so much more.

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Speaker 2: But let's check news. It's the top of the hour.

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Speaker 2: It's what we do.

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Speaker 3: RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WW.

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

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Speaker 3: All right, second hour unfolding before your very ears, Thanks

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Speaker 3: for being here at seven o eight on seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 3: It's Arnel Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. I'm

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Speaker 3: Lance Forcloster Russ Jackson producing tonight. Thanks for tuning in

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Speaker 3: from various parts they're checking in listening on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 3: app tonight in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Oh you know what

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Speaker 3: the temperature is there right now? Big time hockey, Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: world if you missed. Matt Snyder earlier MLB writer for

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Speaker 3: CBS Sports dot com. Podcast is available at seven hundred

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Speaker 3: WLW dot com and through the iHeartRadio App. I love

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Speaker 3: the fact that Matt Snyder is a kid. What do

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Speaker 3: you say like eight nineteen eighty six eighty seven somewhere

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Speaker 3: around there, listening to the postgame show after going to

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Speaker 3: a Reds game. Listening to the postgame extra innings, hearing

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Speaker 3: the debate about the lineup being wrong and about who

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Speaker 3: should be leading off, and the host suggesting Cal Daniels

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Speaker 3: and the caller pushing back on he's got too much

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Speaker 3: power for the lead off and as a ten year

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Speaker 3: old him hearing that and saying and being intrigued by

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Speaker 3: the leadoff batter and writing a book about it today

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Speaker 3: as the national baseball writer for cbssports dot com, that

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Speaker 3: was a fun conversation. It's always fun here in au Ineos.

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Speaker 3: I'm just like rolling seamlessly from one transition to the next.

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Speaker 3: Auanio Suarez is always a fantastic listen. He met with

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Speaker 3: the media yesterday and there's a couple of things he

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Speaker 3: said that I really think you're gonna like and I

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Speaker 3: thought we're worth listening to again. Here is au Haneo

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Speaker 3: on the decision and why he chose the Reds.

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Speaker 6: It's perfect. That's why I'm here because it's perfect, perfect workout.

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Speaker 6: Everything is right now. It's perfect, beautiful, happy and very

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Speaker 6: excited to be back home. And when you see when

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Speaker 6: you put everything together, is make it easy for me

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Speaker 6: to be back home. You know, I tell how my

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Speaker 6: part of my family here, you know, my daughter sheep

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Speaker 6: worn here and my wife and I I think we

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Speaker 6: make it a good decision that'd be back here.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Henio yesterday.

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Speaker 3: So he joins the Reds team that won eighty three

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Speaker 3: games a year ago, finished third place, made the playoffs

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Speaker 3: first time in a full season in thirteen years, but

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Speaker 3: got swept in two against the eventual world champion Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Au Haneo talked about coming here with a chance to win.

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Speaker 3: Take a listen, the chance.

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Speaker 6: To win, the chance to bring the playoff playoff for

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Speaker 6: the to the CD and and and the chance that

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Speaker 6: we have with me and make a playoff and win

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Speaker 6: and winning at all it was high. So that's why

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Speaker 6: I think that made everything easier, you know, more than

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Speaker 6: the personal whyse I knows everybody, I know the CIT

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Speaker 6: and I feel very very happy to be back, and

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Speaker 6: I think that the boat are going to make my

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Speaker 6: career really keep keep on the good. Check that the

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Speaker 6: division is very very easy for me. And like I say,

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Speaker 6: I know already and that made that everything easy.

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Speaker 3: Talking point for three years around this team has been

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Speaker 3: the search for that elusive bat. They have found one

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Speaker 3: in au Radio Serez. You know, I'd asked earlier this

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Speaker 3: week on Twitter x Atlanta Bacallister, how many home runs

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Speaker 3: you anticipate Suarez hitting this season. Here's the breakdown as

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Speaker 3: of tonight, Almost nine percent said fifty or more. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 3: I'm like the most optim missed an enthusiastic person, I'm

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Speaker 3: one of the most. I can't. I can't go fifty

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Speaker 3: or more as a reasonable anticipation. What I love, yes,

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Speaker 3: what I push back on it, not at all, But

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Speaker 3: fifty or more, well, I mean, let's remember he's top

656
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Speaker 3: fort He's hit forty or more twice in twelve years.

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Speaker 3: He's going to be thirty five, so maybe tap the brakes,

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Speaker 3: dial back a little bit. Twenty four percent voting said

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Speaker 3: they anticipate him hitting.

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Speaker 2: Forty to forty nine home runs.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, now, this is where I fall, and

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Speaker 3: this is where the majority falls. Fifty three percent said

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Speaker 3: the anticipation is in the thirties. Thirty to thirty nine.

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Speaker 3: I think that is very doable. Thirty five is certainly

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Speaker 3: I just look at it from this standpoint. I won't

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Speaker 3: look at thirty five as a drop from forty nine.

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Speaker 3: I'll look at thirty five homers being added to this

668
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Speaker 3: lineup and taking my chances on the ripple effect and

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Speaker 3: the impact it is going to have on this slide up.

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Speaker 3: Can't wait, and I think mid thirties. I take thirty.

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Speaker 3: I think that's doable. About fifteen percent said fewer than thirty. Ooh, well,

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Speaker 3: that happens au anyway. Yesterday talking about this team and

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Speaker 3: what he believes he can offer.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen.

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Speaker 6: I faced this guy the last couple of years, and

676
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 6: I see how good they've been. The pitching stop being great.

677
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 6: The offense has been there that I know they can speed.

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Speaker 6: They fast on the basis they got really good. Different

679
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Speaker 6: they're looking for something like I yam and they might

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Speaker 6: be looking for something different on me. And I'm here

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Speaker 6: now to help the team, to help the line on

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Speaker 6: now to be superhero, be my best version and put

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Speaker 6: everything on the field, do my best, try to help

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Speaker 6: the team win games.

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Speaker 2: That's more important to me.

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Speaker 3: I love that I'm here to be the best version

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Speaker 3: of myself, not sooner. I love that mentality of not

688
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Speaker 3: feeling coming in There will be some pressure and expectations

689
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Speaker 3: and fans support, but it won't be the weight of

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Speaker 3: the world and needing to hit sixty home runs on

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Speaker 3: his shoulder. If he adheres to that attitude. He just

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Speaker 3: articulated I think the other aspect of this that I

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Speaker 3: love is the influence in impact on two things, the

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Speaker 3: hitters around him in the batting order and the fact

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Speaker 3: pitchers now have to And I relate this to the

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Speaker 3: manager turning to his pitching coach during a game saying,

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Speaker 3: you know, he's coming up this inning. That used to

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Speaker 3: be just Ellie. Now that's got to be a conversation

699
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 3: about Auanio that changes how guys are pitched to. I

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Speaker 3: also love the element of the veteran and his willingness

701
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Speaker 3: to be a mentor and a sounding board for young guys.

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Speaker 3: Take a listen to what Auanio said about Ellie and

703
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Speaker 3: a potential in fluence or rubbing off on him.

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Speaker 2: Here's au Hennu swarez help them.

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Speaker 6: I know how how good he is and I and

706
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Speaker 6: and he might be helped me too a lot. And UH,

707
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Speaker 6: like I say, I came here to help the team

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Speaker 6: win games, and uh and be the best version of

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Speaker 6: the Cincinnati Reds. And and that cause to to be

710
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 6: one of the guys who helped those junk kids, UH

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Speaker 6: be better not only on the field, but off the field,

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Speaker 6: you know, a bit more strong mentally, because it's not

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Speaker 6: just about physical, it's more about mentally.

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Speaker 2: You got to be strong.

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Speaker 6: Here and and and and that gonna help you be

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Speaker 6: your best version on the field. So I think whatever

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00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 6: Eli needed to me already have I already had tech

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Speaker 6: from him. And it's very happy. It's very good to

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Speaker 6: have it. And uh, I'll be there for him, for

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Speaker 6: him and not only for him, for everybody on the

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Speaker 6: on the on this team.

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Speaker 3: That's like the sound by the day, that the way

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Speaker 3: that was articulated to help the young guys on the

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Speaker 3: field and off the field. Then in the physical aspect

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Speaker 3: of this, for what he's been through as a thirty

726
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Speaker 3: five year old to be major league veteran, I love that.

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Speaker 3: I also love he went a little bit deeper into leading.

728
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Speaker 3: And there's different ways you can lead. You can lead

729
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Speaker 3: by example, you can lead with your voice. You can

730
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Speaker 3: lead like if you're a Greg Vaughn with a stare,

731
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Speaker 3: like just a Scott Rowland had a stare. Listen to

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Speaker 3: au Haaneo talking about leading in this clubhouse here it is.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to be the guy who they have

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Speaker 6: to listen to me because I'm the older guy. No, No,

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Speaker 6: it's not for me. That'sn't word like that I want

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Speaker 6: to be a good example. I want to be a

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Speaker 6: good model, and I want to be the guy who

738
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Speaker 6: who they if whatever they need from me, I want

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Speaker 6: to be there.

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Speaker 5: You know.

741
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Speaker 6: If they want to talk about baseball, I talk about baseball.

742
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Speaker 6: If they want to talk about something else, I want

743
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Speaker 6: to be that guy. You know, it's not that guy.

744
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Speaker 6: Not want to be the guy who they they have

745
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Speaker 6: to listen to me, or they have to do what

746
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Speaker 6: I say. No, No, it's not about that, you know.

747
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 6: I want to be the good model. And the good

748
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:09,760
Speaker 6: model is the guy who do good things even when.

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Speaker 2: You don't feel good.

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Speaker 6: You have to do something good for him and make

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Speaker 6: everybody else happy and make everybody else like I have

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Speaker 6: a good smile. And that's that's something that I want

753
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Speaker 6: to be on this this time on the Claha.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 3: I absolutely you could not have scripted written out gone

756
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 3: looking for a better articulation of what will be huge

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Speaker 3: for this team, specifically a team with a lot of

758
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Speaker 3: young guys who yeah, learned last year through a Pennant

759
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 3: stretch and scoreboard watching in September and then a quick

760
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 3: flame out on the postseason. And it's there and then

761
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 3: it's gone. But that that perspective and that willingness, you

762
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Speaker 3: just like bottle that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Forget it. I don't want to say forget statistics, but

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Speaker 2: those it was intangibles.

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Speaker 3: What he just said, Oh, I can't wait to see

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Speaker 3: that feel that play out on this team. One more

767
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Speaker 3: from A and Suarez about a conversation he's already had

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Speaker 3: with the manager Terry Francona.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen.

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Speaker 6: He told me how excited he is, and I told

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Speaker 6: him back, how excited I am. It's a pleasure for me.

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Speaker 6: I told him he's an honor for me. He play

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Speaker 6: for him. I know for me, he is one of

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Speaker 6: the best manager on the on the game. He for

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Speaker 6: me is a Hall of Fame manager. And you know,

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Speaker 6: we already talked about a couple playing about where I

777
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Speaker 6: gonna play, where I'm what's gonna be my role in

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Speaker 6: the field, you know. And I told him, and I'm

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Speaker 6: open to do my one hundred percent every day that

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Speaker 6: he needed me, whatever he need me, I will give

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Speaker 6: you one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Percent, Sarez. Yesterday.

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Speaker 3: So now with pictures and catchers reporting on Monday, the

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Speaker 3: verbial hey is.

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Speaker 2: In the bar.

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Speaker 3: Nick Crawls basically said they're they're pretty much done. They're

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Speaker 3: likely done other than maybe a minor league deal or two.

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Speaker 3: But before Monday. Here's where you come in and we'll

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Speaker 3: open up the lines at five one three, seven four nine,

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Speaker 3: seven thousand, one eight hundred, the Big One. If you

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Speaker 3: want to jump into this conversation tonight. It's funny I

792
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 3: had this topic prepared over the weekend before the Suarez

793
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 3: News because the cot The Sporting News handed out their

794
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 3: off season grades for every major league team last week.

795
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Speaker 3: They gave the Reds. Prior to this deal, they gave

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Speaker 3: the Reds and f f is in failing off season grade.

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00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 3: That grade clearly needs changed based on the Suarez News.

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Speaker 3: What should it be changed to? Five one three, seven

799
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Speaker 3: four nine, seven thousand, one eight hundred the Big One.

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Speaker 3: I will give you my Reds off season grade. When

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Speaker 3: we continue, you will give me yours. Let's converse. S

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Speaker 3: you here tonight. I've got the big red marker out.

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Speaker 3: This needs to be redone. I need some white owl.

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00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 3: I am about that for an old school reference. The Sporting

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00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 3: News last week handed out off season grades for every

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Speaker 3: major league team. They gave the Rents an F F.

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00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 3: They gave it Cubs an A, the Pirates of B minus,

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Speaker 3: the Brewers at D, the Cardinals at D minus, the

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Speaker 3: Reds and F.

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Speaker 2: What would you give them now if.

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Speaker 3: This were redone and re published at sportingnews dot com.

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Speaker 3: Let's uh, let's go to the topeboard. They signed au

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Speaker 3: Andeus Suarez. They add right handed reliever Pierce Johnson. They

817
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 3: had left handed reliever Caleb Ferguson. They a sign outfielder

818
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 3: JJ Blade. They acquire in trade left handed reliever Brock Burke.

819
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 3: They acquire and trade outfielder Dane Myers.

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00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 2: So they have They've signed the big bat. That was

821
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 2: the goal.

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Speaker 3: They've bolstered the bullpen, and they kept the starting pitching intact.

823
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Speaker 3: They did not have to deal Brady Singer to do it.

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Speaker 3: Add it all up, I would give them a BEE.

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00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 3: I give them a probably get. I give them a

826
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Speaker 3: B minus only from the standpoint of if you look

827
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Speaker 3: at losing Hayes Lux and do horror and adding Suarez,

828
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Speaker 3: I'll need to see it before I believe it about

829
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Speaker 3: JJ Billay and Dane Myers. I think there's a little

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00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 3: bit in how don't want to say it this in

831
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Speaker 3: total that is lost. We know what Suarez individually will do,

832
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Speaker 3: but across the board, that's that's three from your postseason

833
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 3: starting lineup in Hayes, Lux and and do Horr. Yet

834
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 3: they have upgraded the bullpen significantly. And back to what

835
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 3: we were talking about with Matt Snyder, now comes the

836
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Speaker 3: internal pressure of guys within have to get better. Matt

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Speaker 3: McClain's got to be better this year if the Reds

838
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 3: are going to be better. Jueve Marte's got to be

839
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Speaker 3: better this year. But I give him a B minus.

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Speaker 3: I think that's fair and reasonable. You let go to

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Speaker 3: ken Wood and ken you were on seven hundred wlw.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, hey, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 8: Sure, and he said, listen, I think your B minus

844
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 8: grade is a fair thing to say, being from the

845
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 8: market and what we expect from Cincinnati. But I think

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Speaker 8: it's a very very average thing that they did based

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Speaker 8: on their needs. I mean, Suarez was half the price

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Speaker 8: per year and Scharver would have been and they signed

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Speaker 8: them for twenty percent of the length of the contract.

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Speaker 8: So they gave us that little doost for this year

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00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 8: to say we've got a chance. But beyond that, I

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00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 8: think it was a very average way of saying, we've

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Speaker 8: got needs we've got to address, and let's do it

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Speaker 8: cheap the sway we can.

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00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 3: Well, I mean they paid, I mean Suarez to start

856
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 3: the off season was projected to make almost twenty five

857
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 3: million a year, so I mean they paid for their

858
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 3: bat and then they invested in three upgraded arms in

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00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 3: their bullpen. So to me, I just looked at it

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00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 3: as the two biggest things that had to happen. They did,

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Speaker 3: And I think we're under selling the fact they did

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Speaker 3: all that without having to trade a starting pitcher, because

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Speaker 3: it'd be a whole different story if they were minus

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00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 3: Brady Singer right now and we were trying to figure

865
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 3: out if RT. Louder was going to be able to

866
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 3: be a starter in this rotation throughout the season.

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Speaker 8: I agree, And I think the more players that we

868
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Speaker 8: have on this roster from the manager that we have now,

869
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 8: more time we give them, we'll see dividends from that.

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00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 8: So you hope to making the right moves with the

871
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 8: manager who we believe knows what this team needs.

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00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 2: Ken, thank you for me.

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00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 8: I think as a grade, I think S was that,

874
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:55,479
Speaker 8: but see is fair?

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00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 2: Okay, mark it down. Ken, you're the man. I appreciate

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00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 2: you listening. Thanks for Colin.

877
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 3: I put this on or X Atlance Pacallister and a

878
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 3: round up. Fifty nine percent say B B, twenty seven

879
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 3: percent say C nine percent give it an A, and

880
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 3: five and a half give it a D.

881
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 2: What say you still ahead? I was posed a question.

882
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 3: About uh Auhenio Suarez and the Reds all time home

883
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 3: run list.

884
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:26,879
Speaker 2: I'd like to get to.

885
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 3: And I will admit when when we come back on

886
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 3: the other side of news. I had a Zach Taylor

887
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 3: topic for tonight on the anniversary of his hiring on

888
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 3: this date, twenty nineteen, I had a Zach Taylor topic

889
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 3: to go. Already, I've changed my mind based on information

890
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 3: and circumstances from the weekend. I'll tell you that tale

891
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Speaker 3: after we check news. It's RNL Carriers and you you

892
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Speaker 3: you can join us. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,

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Speaker 3: seven thousand one are the big One. This is RNL

894
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Speaker 3: Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. Seven hundred WLW

895
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Speaker 3: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. Man are they listening

896
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 3: tonight and using the iHeart Radio app. Hello Dallas, Texas,

897
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 3: Hello Grand Forks, North Dakota. Love when you check in

898
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 3: through the iHeart Radio app. If you follow on Twitter,

899
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 3: thank you. I'm Atlance Pacallister. If you'd like to, I'd

900
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 3: be honored and let me know where you're listening from

901
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 3: as well. Listener Mark Meeks sent me this this morning

902
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 3: and he said, where do you think au Aeo Suarez

903
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 3: winds up on this list ultimately? And it's a list

904
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 3: of the Red's career home run leaders Right now, au

905
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 3: Aio is thirteenth in Red's history and home runs with

906
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty nine. If he hits three this

907
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 3: coming season, I think it's safe to say Heaven help

908
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 3: us if he doesn't hit three. If he hits three,

909
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 3: he moves past Brandon Phillips into twelfth place all time.

910
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 3: If he hits ten, he moves past Barry Larkin into eleventh.

911
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,919
Speaker 3: If he hits fifteen, he'll pass Eric Davis and move

912
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 3: into tenth place all time in franchise history. Twenty two

913
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 3: Homers moves him past King Griffey Junior to number nine.

914
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 3: And let's get uh, let's get bold. If he hits

915
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 3: forty five, he would pass Jay Bruce and move into

916
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 3: eighth in franchise history. Then what if what if each

917
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 3: side picks up the option and he returns for another season?

918
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 3: Then what eleven more would get him passed George Foster

919
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 3: up to seventh. But let's just start in the first season.

920
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 3: Let's just hope he gets passed three to move past

921
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 3: Brandon Phillips, and then we'll go from there, one rug

922
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 3: at a time. All but in New York we go, Hey, Dan,

923
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 3: you're on seven hundred WLW.

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00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:46,919
Speaker 5: How you doing?

925
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 2: I'm good? What's on your mind?

926
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: He's thirty five years old.

927
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 2: He will be yes during the season.

928
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 5: Signing him?

929
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 1: Does that means they're not going to sign Hayes again?

930
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 3: Correct? Yeah, Hayes signed with the Chicago White Sox. He

931
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 3: did win over the weekend. It was officially announced tonight.

932
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 3: One year, six million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's sure? How did the right?

934
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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Soear as will mostly be the DH, occasionally sliding over

936
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Speaker 3: to first or third to give some guys days off.

937
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Speaker 5: What do you think of this change age of the day.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what to make of him, Dan, Thank you?

939
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 3: If he's the twenty twenty four version great if he's

940
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five version not great because he was

941
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 3: sent to the miners twice and then he was designated

942
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Speaker 3: for assignment by the Oakland A's. He had had a

943
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 3: kind of a breakout resurrection of his career in twenty

944
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 3: twenty four, but the most recent numbers were were not good.

945
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 3: And I guess he falls into that category of a

946
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 3: change of scenery guy. As they say, thank you for

947
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 3: checking in. So this is what I was going to do.

948
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Speaker 3: I had initially plotted out over the weekend this segment

949
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Speaker 3: based on and on this date. Note you know how

950
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Speaker 3: much I love on this date, and on this date,

951
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Speaker 3: the Bengals hired Zach Taylor twenty nineteen, seven years ago.

952
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 3: Today they announced Zach Taylor, and I started thinking about it.

953
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:24,720
Speaker 3: There are four coaches who have coached at least four

954
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 3: full seasons with the Bengals since Paul Brown retired. Now

955
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 3: there's some who got fired in their fourth year, but

956
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 3: there's just four since Paul retired that have coached the

957
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 3: Bengals at least four full seasons. Marvin Lewis, Sam Wish,

958
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor, and Forrest greg and the conversation we had

959
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 3: at lunch was this, how would you rank those four

960
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 3: in this franchise's history. You know, when I think of

961
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 3: when I think of Forrest, Greg and Forrest has the

962
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,959
Speaker 3: best winning percentage of the four, five point fifty seven

963
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 3: winning percentage, Marvin five eighteen winning percentage. Marvin's won two

964
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Speaker 3: times as many games as anybody else in that group.

965
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 3: Sam's winning percentage was four eighty five, Zach's four fifty three.

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Speaker 3: You know, Forrest did four years, Marvin did sixteen. Of

967
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 3: course Sam did eight and Zach did seven. When I

968
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 3: think of Forest Gregg, what immediately comes to mind is

969
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 3: a fierceness, a no nonsense, disciplinarian kind of an aura

970
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 3: around him when he came here as the former you know,

971
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 3: Green Bay Packer. And when I think of Marvin, it's

972
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 3: hard not to think Owen seven. And yet, to be fair,

973
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 3: Marvin brought a brought a professionalism back, a a credibility

974
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 3: back to this franchise. And we know seven playoff appearances,

975
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 3: more than anybody on this list. Zach's gone to the

976
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 3: playoffs twice, Sam went twice, Forrest went twice, Marvin went seven,

977
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 3: but he didn't win a game. And a lot of

978
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 3: what Marvin accomplished obviously comes from longevity and a leash

979
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 3: that was given him that probably no other coach would

980
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 3: have received in another franchise, having lost seven playoff games.

981
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 3: But I think of Sam, I think of innovative and

982
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 3: fun and emotional and animated and even controversial. And when

983
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 3: I think of Zach, the first thing that comes to

984
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 3: mind is Joe Burrow.

985
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 2: And that's probably unfair.

986
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 3: Well, it is unfair, but I think many look at

987
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 3: Zach as a product of Joe Burrow's quarterback. And yet

988
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 3: I would argue, well, I mean Forest Greg had Kenny Anderson,

989
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 3: who might be voted in the Hall of Fame tomorrow night,

990
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 3: and sam Wich had Boomery Siazin. And I look at

991
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 3: playoff wins, and Zach has more playoff wins than any

992
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 3: of them. Zach's won five playoff games, Sam won three,

993
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 3: Forrest one two, Marvin one none. Zach has gone to

994
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 3: more AFC Championship games than anybody in the history of

995
00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 3: the franchise. Obviously, we were having that conversation, I thought

996
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 3: of this, and it's a story that developed over the weekend,

997
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 3: and it's why I'm not going to make it a

998
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 3: topic tonight. Jay Morrison is a longtime beat writer who's

999
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 3: covered the Bengals for What, The Hamilton Journal, the Dayton Daily, Newstheathletic,

1000
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 3: Bengals Talk dot Com, you name it. For decades, Jay

1001
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:38,240
Speaker 3: Morrison has been synonymous with Bengals coverage and Jay's wife, Nicki,

1002
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 3: tragically died from medical complications on December twenty second. This

1003
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 3: past weekend, there was a celebration of life for Nicki. Family, family, friends,

1004
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 3: coworkers was held in a ballroom at a hotel in Hamilton.

1005
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 3: Blocks of rooms reserved for family and friends who even

1006
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 3: traveled out of town for this celebration of her life.

1007
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 3: There was music and a dinner and snacks and desserts

1008
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 3: and an open bar, and there were shared stories and

1009
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 3: there were laughs, had tears shed all in memory of

1010
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 3: Jay's wife. Zach Taylor showed up at the event. I'm

1011
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:42,919
Speaker 3: told spent about the first hour of it with Jay

1012
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 3: and with his children, consoling them, offering his support. Spent

1013
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 3: about an hour before I had to leave a kid's

1014
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 3: game from what I'm told. But that's not all, and

1015
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:02,959
Speaker 3: Jay mentioned this in his speech to the gathering, which

1016
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 3: Jay has posted on social media Today and he has

1017
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 3: shared this story, and he asked Zach for permission to

1018
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 3: share what happened publicly and was given permission. So Jay

1019
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 3: addressed the gathering and told this story that I'm about

1020
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 3: to relate. Zach Taylor and the Bengals former offensive coordinator

1021
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 3: Brian Callahan covered all the expenses, all of them, credit

1022
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 3: card at the front desk. I'd like this taken care of.

1023
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 2: Use This.

1024
00:55:53,239 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 3: A what a kind and caring and generous and human

1025
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:12,919
Speaker 3: offer from two guys that many probably just view through

1026
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 3: the lens of their coaching abilities. An absolutely incredible story.

1027
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 3: And if you watch Jay's speech and him relating this story,

1028
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 3: it's very emotional for him.

1029
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 2: I go back to.

1030
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 3: Just after Nicky's passing, Zach had a news conference that week,

1031
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 3: part of standard weekly news conference, and before Zach took

1032
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 3: any questions that week, I think it was on a Monday,

1033
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 3: so it would have been a game week preview. He

1034
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 3: started the news conference by sending thoughts and prayers and

1035
00:56:56,280 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 3: offering his condolences to Jay and the family. And then

1036
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:09,399
Speaker 3: Saturday night shows up, spends almost an hour and as

1037
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:15,720
Speaker 3: he's leaving, tells Jay that he and Brian are thinking

1038
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 3: about Jay, his kids will keep them in their prayers.

1039
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 3: And we've got this tonight, unbelievable, unbelievable story. Good for

1040
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 3: Zach Taylor, and please continue to offer thoughts and prayers

1041
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 3: to Jay and his family. And as they said, initially,

1042
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 3: this was going to be a topic, and then you

1043
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 3: look at a sheet with statistics and a one loss

1044
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 3: record and playoff appearances, and you compare and contrast that

1045
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 3: to a day where that story is shared publicly. And

1046
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 3: I didn't feel like doing a topic ranking Bengals coaches.

1047
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 3: We'll head down the stretch do it on this date

1048
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 3: in sports history. Squeeze in your calls at five, one, three, seven, four, nine,

1049
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 3: seven thousand, what eight hundred the big one and get

1050
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 3: you to news in about twelve minutes. It's RNEL Carrier

1051
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 3: Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet. Seven hundred WLW. All

1052
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 3: right down the stretch we go new six minutes away,

1053
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 3: six minutes away. I'm at you tomorrow at six, leading

1054
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 3: into UC basketball Bearcats at home against West Virginia tomorrow night.

1055
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 3: This is RNL Carrier Sports Talk presented by Kelsey Chevrolet.

1056
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 3: Let me give you some things that happened on this

1057
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 3: date in sports history. Nineteen sixty nine, the twenty four

1058
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 3: Major League owners unanimously select bouie Qun as commissioner that

1059
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 3: split season of what nineteen eighty one, which hose the

1060
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 3: Reds out of a playoff spot. The idea of one

1061
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:04,479
Speaker 3: buuiequed and I get looking back, the idea made sense

1062
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 3: that were coming off a strike and how to regenerate

1063
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 3: interest for the second half of the season. Yet nobody thought, well,

1064
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 3: what if a team could possibly wind up with the

1065
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 3: best record in baseball but not make the playoffs under

1066
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 3: this format? And nobody seemed to think of that. Reds

1067
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 3: didn't win the first half, they didn't win the second

1068
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 3: half before the striker. After the strike added off, they

1069
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 3: had the best record in baseball, finished a half game

1070
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 3: back of what the Astros in the first half, and

1071
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 3: I don't know, pick a game back of the Dodgers

1072
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 3: in the second whatever it was, and missed the playoffs

1073
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 3: because of the format. This date, in nineteen sixty nine,

1074
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 3: John Madden named head coach of the Oakland Raiders at

1075
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 3: the age of thirty two. This one in nineteen sixty nine,

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Speaker 3: I was looking at a program of this Today, the

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Speaker 3: largest NBA crowd ever watches a doubleheader at the Astrodome

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Speaker 3: featuring the Cincinnati Royals versus the Detroit Pistons and the

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Speaker 3: San Diego Rockets versus the Boston Celtics. Forty one thousand,

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Speaker 3: one and sixty three were on hand at the Astrodome.

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Speaker 3: The Royals won behind thirty seven points, eight rebounds and

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Speaker 3: ten assists from Oscar the Big O and uh Oh

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Speaker 3: just eighteen points and twenty six rebounds from Jerry Lucas unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety one, Boy, this day, the Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 3: Fame Board of Directors creates Rule three E, declaring anyone

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Speaker 3: deemed permanently ineligible for Major League Baseball may not be

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Speaker 3: considered for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. It

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Speaker 3: was the Pete Rose rule they created on the fly,

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Speaker 3: just prior to Rose becoming eligible for consideration for the

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Speaker 3: first time. It took voting consideration out of the hands

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Speaker 3: of the writers. Rather than leaving Pete's fate up to

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Speaker 3: the riders. The Baseball Hall of Fame said, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: If you're ineligible, you're not allowed to vote for him.

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Speaker 3: This date, nineteen ninety six, Bengals quarterback Jeff Blake starts

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Speaker 3: the Pro Bowl throws a ninety three yard touchdown pass

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Speaker 3: the Steelers wide receiver Yancey Thigpin. It was not a

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Speaker 3: classic Jeff Blake bomb, the pretty deep ball. It was

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Speaker 3: a crosser over the middle, and it broke the previous

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Speaker 3: Pro Bowl record two thousand and seven. On this date,

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Speaker 3: Rocky Boyman, Peyton Manning, Tony Dungee in the Indianapolis Colt

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Speaker 3: rally for a twenty nine seventeen Super Bowl went over

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Speaker 3: the Bears in South Florida and the rain. Devin Hestri

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01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 3: had returned the opening kickoff ninety two yards for a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Two thousand and six. Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight resigns.

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Speaker 3: Twenty and eighteen. The Philly Special, Nick Foles and the

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Speaker 3: Eagles beat Tom Brady and the Patriots in Super Bowl

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Speaker 3: fifty two. It has mentioned seven years ago today the

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Speaker 3: Bengals name Zach Taylor head coach. It all happened on

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Speaker 3: this date in sports history. All right, looking ahead at tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: and I hope this doesn't come out. Actually, I hope

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Speaker 3: this doesn't come out during the day, since we have

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Speaker 3: a short show leading into basketball tomorrow night. It'll be

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Speaker 3: announced at some point tomorrow. I would prefer later so

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Speaker 3: we have full time to discuss on Friday. There is,

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Speaker 3: and I say this with fingers crossed, there is potentially

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Speaker 3: good news developing for Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson. The report

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Speaker 3: yesterday from ESPN was that Patriots owner Robert Kraft, along

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Speaker 3: with Bill Belichick, not selected for entry into the Pro

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Speaker 3: Football Hall of Fame class this year. We knew Belichick

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Speaker 3: last week, we now know Craft this week. Neither one

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Speaker 3: is getting in this year. Kenny is one of three

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Speaker 3: senior players in the finals, with ELC. Greenwood Pittsburgh Steeler

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Speaker 3: and Roger Craig San Francisco forty nine Er. Those three

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Speaker 3: were head to head with Belichick and Craft. Voters could

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Speaker 3: vote for three of those five. We now know Belichick

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Speaker 3: and Craft are out. You got to get eighty percent

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Speaker 3: of the vote. The class of twenty twenty six will

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Speaker 3: be revealed tomorrow night at NFL Honors in San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: Man oh Man, come on, Kenny Anderson. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: in the more, I guess it's the Modern Era category.

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Speaker 3: Willy Anderson will learn his fate in that category as well.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine tomorrow night if Kenny Anderson and Willie

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Speaker 3: Anderson were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: And we close with this fifty days the Red's opening day.

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Speaker 3: Here are some, if not all, that wore the number

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Speaker 3: fifty at some point in Red's franchise history.

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Speaker 2: You're ready.

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Speaker 3: Willard Hirshberger catcher sad story behind Willard Hirschberger. He committed

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Speaker 3: suicide during the season, was going through a tough stretch.

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Speaker 3: Ernie Lombardi was hurt. Hershberger was the number one catcher

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Speaker 3: during that stretch and wasn't playing all that well. Felt

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Speaker 3: like he cost himself some games and took his own

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Speaker 3: life in his hotel room. Brad the Animal Leslie wore

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Speaker 3: number fifty. Tommy Helms at one point, War fifty, Scott

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Speaker 3: Bankhead Scott's service. Friend of the show might be listening

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Speaker 3: right now, Rob Bell, Joey Hamilton, Brian Reath, Kent Merker,

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Speaker 3: War fifty.

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Speaker 2: At one point.

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Speaker 3: Dan Sarafini was signed by Dan O'Brien, if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 3: Don Trell Willis as well. All right, I gotta get

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Speaker 3: out of here. I wish I had more time, I don't.

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Speaker 3: The news is next. Thanks to Russ Jackson for producing tonight.

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Speaker 3: Thanks to you for listening, it's been RNL Carrier Sports Talk,

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Speaker 3: presented by Kelsey Chevrolet seven hundred WW