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

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

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Speaker 2: Here we go our three Cincy three sixty, ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 2: thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Good to have you along. Thanks

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Speaker 2: latest happening in the National Football League. Let's talk a

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Speaker 2: little more Austin about Hunter Green and the Cincinnati Reds.

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Speaker 2: It was reported earlier today our good friend Charlie Goldsmith.

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Speaker 2: I'm using Charlie's chalkboard, which is fantastic. If you don't

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Speaker 2: follow along and subscribe with Charlie's chalkboard, you are missing

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Speaker 2: out on a ton. But we were made aware last

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Speaker 2: week of the news around Hunter Green and the elbow

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Speaker 2: issue that he was going through. And actually in this piece,

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Speaker 2: Nick Crawl kind of could tell early on in spring

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Speaker 2: training because he wasn't throwing his split finger at all.

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Speaker 2: He was having trouble pulling his slider. So here's the timeline.

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Speaker 2: Last year, Hunter Green dealt with elbow discomfort in the

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Speaker 2: final month of the season. In late October, he met

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Speaker 2: with doctor Neil Elatrosh and it was recommended that Hunter

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Speaker 2: Green did APRP injection. The injection helped Hunter Green felt

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Speaker 2: better in the offseason, but then a week before spring training,

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Speaker 2: hunter Green felt the discomfort again. And it has ultimately

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Speaker 2: led to where we're at now. And where we're at

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Speaker 2: now is Hunter Green scheduling to have a scope of

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Speaker 2: his elbow tomorrow to remove loose bodies and bone chips.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen to sixteen week is the timeline for Hunter Green

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Speaker 2: where he hopes to be back on the mound at

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Speaker 2: some point in July, says Charlie Goldsmith. Now, the part

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Speaker 2: that I think stood out to you, I know, Austin,

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Speaker 2: and to me right away was this quote from Terry

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Speaker 2: Francona about Hunter Green at the end of last year.

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Speaker 2: He never told me directly any of that. He has

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Speaker 2: mentioned it to Derek Johnson. He was always telling me

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Speaker 2: he was good. I like the way he was pitching.

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Speaker 2: The trainers were never going to send someone out there

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Speaker 2: if they shouldn't pitch or play. Ever, it's hard. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: if you sat everybody, you'd never have a team. You

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Speaker 2: can't see inside people's bodies. It can be a little difficult.

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Speaker 2: And to be clear, you can see inside bodies with

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Speaker 2: an MRI or an X ray or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: But let's start there. Austin then he never told me directly.

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Speaker 2: He was always telling me he was good. What do

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Speaker 2: you make of that chain of command and those conversations

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Speaker 2: between Hunter Green, who was obviously telling Derek Johnson he

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Speaker 2: or the manager for the Reds nink.

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Speaker 3: There's two ways to look at a number One. Hunter

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Speaker 3: Green wants to pitch, he wants to compete, He wants

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Speaker 3: to help the Reds get to the playoffs. He felt

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Speaker 3: like he was good enough to do that, so he

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Speaker 3: wasn't gonna raise an alarm about his elbow to Terry Francona.

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Speaker 3: And I think there's probably some validity to that. If

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Speaker 3: you look at Hunter Green's last five starts, he was

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Speaker 3: fantastic in every single one of them except one. On

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Speaker 3: September thirteenth in Sacramento, he pitched two and a third

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Speaker 3: innings gave up five earned runs a couple of homers.

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Speaker 3: The Reds lost that game to the A's, but at

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Speaker 3: the beginning of September, he went six and the thirds

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Speaker 3: gave up one run. Red's won on September seven against

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Speaker 3: the Mets, huge game when seven innings gave.

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Speaker 2: Up one run.

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Speaker 3: Reds won the Cubs game on September eighteenth, complete game, shutout,

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Speaker 3: nine innings, gave up just one hit, struck out nine,

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Speaker 3: and the final game of the season his final start

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Speaker 3: he went six innings and gave up just two runs.

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Speaker 3: So clearly the ability, despite dealing with the elbow was there,

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Speaker 3: and so Hunter Green afterwards talks to Neil Elatrosh and

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Speaker 3: after pitching really well down the stretch, Elatrosh says, you

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Speaker 3: might be good with just an injection, So he does that.

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Speaker 2: I don't blame.

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Speaker 3: Him, especially considering how well he pitched through that, to think, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I can still pitch through this and it's not as

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Speaker 3: big of a deal maybe as I think, especially with

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Speaker 3: the consultation with the best elbow doctor in the world

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Speaker 3: that says, hey, I think this is going to help you.

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Speaker 3: Now that I understand that part of it, and that

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Speaker 3: he met with Neil Latrosh it makes more sense to me.

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Speaker 3: But I also can't help but think, if this is

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Speaker 3: going to be a long term issue, if this is

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Speaker 3: going to be something I have to pitch through constantly,

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Speaker 3: why not get it cleaned up right away? But to

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Speaker 3: your point, the fact that he's communicating with Terry Francona

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Speaker 3: through Derek Johnson, I think that's cause for concern.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I guess my only thought is, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: why not just clean it out so it never becomes

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Speaker 2: it doesn't become a problem again, Like put it past you,

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Speaker 2: use the offseason rest and make sure you're one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent healthy. It's a player that's been compromised every year.

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Speaker 2: Why run the risk of putting it putting it out

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Speaker 2: there in that way? Why run the risk of allowing

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Speaker 2: this door to be opened to where the injection ultimately

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Speaker 2: doesn't work, and now you've wasted a whole offseason and

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Speaker 2: you've put yourself well behind.

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Speaker 3: I think the best explanation for that is nobody wants

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Speaker 3: to have surgery if you don't have to have surgery.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see, I could see that. But for

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Speaker 2: Hunter Green, who's dealt with multiple different things and has

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Speaker 2: kind of By the way he talked, I thought Hunter

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Speaker 2: Green knew he's had these for a while. Get him

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Speaker 2: cleaned up, move on, don't allow it to become even

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Speaker 2: more of an issue. Regardless. Now it is an issue. Now,

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Speaker 2: Hunter Green is going to be out till at some point,

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Speaker 2: probably in July, if everything goes well, that being the case, Austin,

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Speaker 2: can this team survive a team that has a small

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Speaker 2: margin frere already? Can this team survive with Chase Brown's

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Speaker 2: Reht Louder or Chase Burns Reht Louder Brandon Williamson picking

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think so. I was asked this morning,

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Speaker 3: how does this change the outlook for the Reds? And

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Speaker 3: I said, hopefully not that much. I mean, if Louder

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Speaker 3: and Burns are who we think they are, and the

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Speaker 3: offense is better like we expect it to be, then

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Speaker 3: they should be able to withstand that stretch of time

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Speaker 3: without putting themselves in a complete hole in the National

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Speaker 3: League Central You would think, how much pressure does it

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Speaker 3: put on you know, let's say a blister from Nickelodolo, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: or something, it completely cuts down the margin Freyr, especially

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Speaker 3: with an abbot in Lodolo at the top of that rotation.

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Speaker 3: And it's not like any of those dudes have really

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Speaker 3: been dominant in spring training. Abbot's been okay, Lodolo's been fine,

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Speaker 3: Louder and Burns have been okay, They've been fine. Brady Singer,

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Speaker 3: I feel like he's barely pitched.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I've not heard anything about Brady

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Speaker 2: Singer either way. It's like, Okay, that's fine.

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Speaker 3: And then I think the bullpen has the worst era

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Speaker 3: not a good sign. I guess you could say I'm

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Speaker 3: always stuck because I don't feel like it's right to

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Speaker 3: come up with an opinion based off what happens in goodyear.

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Speaker 3: But also, this is all I have to go off of.

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Speaker 3: I can't really go off of last year.

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Speaker 2: And and the issue becomes, what is everything we talked

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Speaker 2: the premise of what they've got, such a good pitching staff,

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Speaker 2: they just got to be an okay offense, right if

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Speaker 2: the pitching staff takes another hit, is this offense equipped

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Speaker 2: to carry the load and score enough runs consistently based

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Speaker 2: on what we've seen, you hope again everything is built

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Speaker 2: off the gifts and the hopes that we've talked about,

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Speaker 2: but everything around this offense was built in the sense

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Speaker 2: of and they just got to be an okay offense

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Speaker 2: because their pitching is going to be so good and

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Speaker 2: the ceiling of their staff is one of the top

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Speaker 2: five staffs in all of baseball. And now all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden you start to talk in a little bit

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Speaker 2: different sense because there is an unknown with Hunter Green,

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Speaker 2: and let's call it what it is. For a long

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Speaker 2: time now, there has been an unknown with Nick Lodolo

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Speaker 2: and the consistency of what he can make starts, and

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Speaker 2: all that now comes into question going forward. There was

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Speaker 2: one positive that happened with the Reds yesterday, and that

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Speaker 2: was Rees Hines hit a ball that has the ball

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Speaker 2: actually landed one nineteen off the bat. I think it

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Speaker 2: was you mentioned earlier about a possible outfield problem for

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Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Reds, and I don't think an outfield problem

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Speaker 2: that many thought we were going to be talking about.

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Speaker 2: But is the outfield Austin has said as we thought

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Speaker 2: it was, or are there players that are making a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a push.

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Speaker 3: At this I don't think it's ever been set. I mean,

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Speaker 3: other than TJ. Friedel, I mean, Noelvi Marte has not

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Speaker 3: had a good spring training, Spencer Steers still hasn't played

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Speaker 3: that position at all. JJ Blede and Will Benson are

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Speaker 3: seemingly going pound for pound every single opportunity. And then,

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Speaker 3: as you mentioned, Reese Hines continues to improve his plate

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Speaker 3: discipline and his defense has gotten better. He's one of

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think the way that that whole thing

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Speaker 3: I understand it's hard to play outfield in Arizona, but hell,

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Speaker 3: I mean that all of a sudden feels like one

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's take a break, let's come back. We'll put

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: We're heating up again in the National Football League. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: You've got a couple of moves happening over the break.

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Speaker 2: Would be saying. No, I don't want to even think

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Speaker 8: And that might have just bruk Hunter Green, you know

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Speaker 3: It just seems weird to me. Yeah, that's all. Yep,

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Speaker 3: Six players gone, Two first round picks gone Max Crosby

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Speaker 3: But hell, maybe they could.

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Speaker 2: Would be nice. But I think or you could just

437
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Speaker 2: draft Geno Atkins in the fourth round. Well, you're right,

438
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Speaker 2: Geno Atkins is available. Essent Is Geno available?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 2: What's he doing? He seems to be having a lovely life.

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Speaker 2: Is he that busy right now?

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Speaker 3: He's got a ton of kids. Yeah, he's got a

443
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Speaker 3: bunch of kids, and I mean, good for him. I've

444
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Speaker 3: been follow him around on Instagram for a while and

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Speaker 3: Gino is just one of my favorite athletes ever, A

446
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Speaker 3: right honster. It's a shame he's all happy in retirement,

447
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Speaker 3: doesn't want to come I know.

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Speaker 2: Uh, let's take one final break before, by the way,

449
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Speaker 2: quick hits today. When we get back a phone caller

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Speaker 2: two five, one three seven, fifteen thirty, maybe we'll talk

451
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Speaker 2: about how the Reds are going to take the field

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Speaker 2: today against the Colorado Rockies. On ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: Sports Station.

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Speaker 7: Moeger here, if you're a Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is since he three sixty on ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station. Uh, let's go. Let's grab

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Speaker 2: a phone line. Call here real quick, Mike. What's going on?

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, thank you very much, very informative show today.

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Speaker 7: I learned a.

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Speaker 9: Lot, so I appreciate, Thank you, Thank you. Yeah, of course,

461
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Speaker 9: I I'm so proud of the Bengals. I'm just I

462
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Speaker 9: haven't been able to say this for a long time,

463
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Speaker 9: but I'm almost emotional about the fact that they're doing

464
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Speaker 9: something that looks like they care about the city of

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Speaker 9: Cincinnati and the fans of Cincinnati, and that's all I

466
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Speaker 9: care about, more than anything else, more than Joe Burrow,

467
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Speaker 9: more than Mike Brown, more than Duke Tom and I

468
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Speaker 9: care about the people of Cincinnati that have been devout

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Speaker 9: of fans and have endured a lot of crap and

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Speaker 9: have hung in there. So it looks like maybe we're

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Speaker 9: making some strides. And I love the fact that they

472
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Speaker 9: got to simone guy out of out of Seattle. I

473
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Speaker 9: just I have an affinity for some Olan football players

474
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Speaker 9: because they're just really typically very very tough, tough, tough players.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they and I think they sent a message that

476
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Speaker 2: they have heard a lot of what's being talked about

477
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Speaker 2: them in the offseason and a lot of the words

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Speaker 2: that they've said. And more importantly, I think they understand

479
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Speaker 2: how important it is to attack this offseason much differently

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Speaker 2: than they've done in the past. And again from Dalton

481
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Speaker 2: Reisner and people called that a layup, and I agree

482
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Speaker 2: it was. But from the Dalton Reisner signing to moving

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Speaker 2: on from Trey Hendrickson, which seems like the right decision

484
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Speaker 2: that was made now to so many other things, it

485
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Speaker 2: feels like they have They've started this offseason in this

486
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Speaker 2: period very well.

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Speaker 9: Has the I haven't been able to keep up with

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Speaker 9: le puts it like you guys, But has the activity

489
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Speaker 9: slowed down a little bit today on the free agency?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not been as much that's happened up to

491
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Speaker 2: this point. I think the The latest movement was Geno

492
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Speaker 2: Smith heading back to the the the Jets from the Raiders,

493
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Speaker 2: so a quarterback on the move and the Houston Texans

494
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Speaker 2: finally got some blocking up front for CJ. Stroud.

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Speaker 9: Hey, Tony, you know, it's kind of funny with Geno Smith.

496
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Speaker 9: You know, people go on, you know Smith, He's just

497
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Speaker 9: been around the guys, made a great license in the NFL,

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Speaker 9: yep for not being the top line quarterback. And I

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Speaker 9: have the utmost respect for him for that. Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 2: That's not easy, right Tom No, for sure, for sure,

501
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Speaker 2: he's he's one about it the right way and there

502
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Speaker 2: are people that look at negatively on his season last year,

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Speaker 2: but it was also very dysfunctional with the Raiders as well.

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Speaker 2: So an opportunity at another fresh start and kind of

505
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Speaker 2: going back to where it started for for Gino Smith.

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Speaker 9: Now, let me ask Luki, guys, and I know you

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Speaker 9: got to go, Well, if you had the pick, who

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Speaker 9: would you say are the two what two teams have

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Speaker 9: been the most successful in you? In your opinions so

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Speaker 9: far after day one, Austin.

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Speaker 2: Who would you who stands out to you?

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Speaker 3: I think the Raiders, I think the Bengals, Bears, have

513
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Speaker 3: done a lot. The Bears have done a lot.

514
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Speaker 2: Panthers have been very active as well. They actually just

515
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Speaker 2: re signed their versatile linebacker Isaiah Simmons, the player from

516
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Speaker 2: Clemson as well. So I like what the Carolina Panthers

517
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Speaker 2: have done as well.

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Speaker 5: So are we.

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Speaker 9: Still looking for a possible replacement for mister Brown at

520
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Speaker 9: left tackle?

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Speaker 2: I think that could be on the table at some point.

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Speaker 2: I think they need to addres linebacker. If I had

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Speaker 2: a checklist of what's next, I would say linebacker needs

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Speaker 2: to be addressed for this team.

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Speaker 3: I think a backup or swing tackle, the person that

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Speaker 3: you know would take Cody Ford's spot, is on the

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Speaker 3: list of things that they're gonna look at and potentially

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Speaker 3: to challenge Orlando Brown in training camp.

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Speaker 9: Yes, all right, thank you guys. I appreciate it. Have

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Speaker 9: a great day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Mike, appreciate that. Uh do we have a

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Speaker 2: lineup today for how the Reds are gonna line this

533
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Speaker 2: thing up? We sure do. We haven't double of these

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Speaker 2: in a while.

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Speaker 3: I know it feels like it's been a while since

536
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Speaker 3: we've had a Reds lineup, but.

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Speaker 2: I guess some updated batting.

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Speaker 3: They keep playing games and they'll be playing one today

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Speaker 3: in Scottsdale, up against the Colorado Rockies. Here's how the

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Speaker 3: Reds are lining up. Line them up leading off the

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Speaker 3: DHTJ Freedom batting second. The second basement Sal Stewart. The

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Speaker 3: third better is shortstop Elie de la Cruz, cleaning up

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Speaker 3: and batting, cleaning up and playing right field. See I'm

544
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Speaker 3: a little rusty, JJ Bleda. The fifth batter is left

545
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Speaker 3: fielder will Benson. Nathaniel low bats sixty, plays first base today.

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Speaker 3: The catcher is seventh batter, Jose Travino, batting eighth and

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Speaker 3: in center field Reese Shines. The ninth batter is third

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Speaker 3: baseman PJ. Higgins, with the left hander Brandon Williamson on

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Speaker 3: the mound. Once more for Cincinnati, it's Friedol, Stuart De

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Speaker 3: la Cruz, Blade, Benson, Lowe, Travino, Hines, Higgins with Williamson

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Speaker 3: on the mound. All right, baseball in Arizona for the

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Speaker 3: Cincinnati Reds. We'll get to Mowacker who was in Arizona

553
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Speaker 3: and in just a few moments. One quick note college

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Speaker 3: basketball wise, the Big Twelve Tournament is underway right now,

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Speaker 3: the Phillips sixty six Big Twelve Tournament with one second remaining.

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Speaker 2: Were you giving them some free club? Who's Phillips six

557
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Speaker 2: to who? I don't know. Well, maybe they're going to

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Speaker 2: come on board with us here, I don't know. With

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Speaker 2: a second remaining, Arizona State leads Baylor eighty three to seven.

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Speaker 2: Arizona State is going to move on and they will

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Speaker 2: take on Iowa State. With one second remaining, down four,

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Speaker 2: Arizona State has the ball. The Baylor head coach just

563
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Speaker 2: called a timeout, which I just don't understand. Just let

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Speaker 2: this game end because waiting by patiently and I'm guessing

565
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Speaker 2: twenty to thirty minutes in between games is what you get.

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Speaker 2: Once this game wraps up, you'll get an official start

567
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Speaker 2: time for game number two in the Big Twelve Tournament,

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Speaker 2: which is Cincinnati taking on Utah. Rest of the day

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Speaker 2: BYU Kansas State, Colorado, Oklahoma State as well. So that's

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Speaker 2: what's next this afternoon. And I think Austin we talked

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Speaker 2: about this off air today. I think it's a game

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Speaker 2: Wes Miller has to win. I think if they somehow

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Speaker 2: lose as a twelve and a half point favorite in

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Speaker 2: Round one of the Big Twelve Tournament, after they had

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Speaker 2: a chance to get the sixth seed on Saturday and

576
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Speaker 2: turn the ball over nineteen times. If they fall from

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Speaker 2: that to the nine and then lose to the sixteen

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Speaker 2: seed despite what they did down the stretch, that might

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Speaker 2: be enough that they would look to move on from

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Speaker 2: West Miller. I think if they get a win today

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Speaker 2: and get to eighteen wins on the season and have

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Speaker 2: a chance to play UCF tomorrow, then I think you

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Speaker 2: got a chance to get to that game on on

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Speaker 2: Thursday against Arizona for a chance, an outside chance to

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Speaker 2: get yourself into the bubble picture. Let's take our final break.

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Speaker 2: We'll come back. We'll welcome Moe eggerback right here on

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Speaker 2: ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 10: Station WCKY Cincinnati and iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed Human ESPN fifteen

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Speaker 10: thirty I heard radio.

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Speaker 7: From the Stacey Heating Temp Star Weather Center. Here's your forecast.

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Speaker 7: This report is sponsored by the Our American Stories podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is Mantu mcgomnermy.

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

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Speaker 1: the three sixteen, I.

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Speaker 2: Was looking for Mo. Mo's back, sun kissed from the desert.

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Speaker 2: How was Arizona, Mo? It's good to have you back,

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00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 2: Arizona was awesome. Weather looked decent. We got I think

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Speaker 2: eighty seven degrees on Sunday. Are you brought back this?

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Speaker 7: This is nice?

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Speaker 2: It's been nice.

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Speaker 7: I came back yesterday. I felt like just a continuation

602
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Speaker 7: of the trip.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 7: I saw five games in four days and an absolute blast.

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Speaker 2: When you were out there, did you see Hunter and

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Speaker 2: Terry Francona talking it all?

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Speaker 7: I think Hunter Green talked to me about as much

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Speaker 7: as he talks to his manager or anybody else off.

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Speaker 2: The mast earlier does Tito the Great? Is that how

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Speaker 2: Hunter refers to Terry Francona as well, the Magnificent?

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Speaker 7: What would have been funny if if? When if? When

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Speaker 7: Tito was asked about Hunter Green, He's like, who who?

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Speaker 2: This is odd? Right?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 2: The chain of command, the lack of communication, getting the

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Speaker 2: injection at the end of last year, now going on

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Speaker 2: on the the scope, all of this is just weird,

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Speaker 2: especially the communication lack thereof between a player and a manager.

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Speaker 7: It just feels like there's a disconnect and go back

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Speaker 7: to last year like it just Hunter and the Reds

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Speaker 7: didn't appear to be on the same page when it

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Speaker 7: came to his return from injury. Disconnect this feels like

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Speaker 7: an extension of that. But like you know, I guess,

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Speaker 7: on one hand, you could take today as hey, look

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Speaker 7: it's not season ending, it's not Tommy John. He should

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Speaker 7: be able to pitch this year. At the same time,

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Speaker 7: can you really count on Hunter Green? Like I hate

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Speaker 7: to say that, but there's there's just sort of a

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Speaker 7: build up of things here. And like last year was

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Speaker 7: a leg injury, it was a lower body injury. The

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Speaker 7: two things aren't related, I guess.

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Speaker 6: But it just.

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Speaker 7: I don't you can go, well, he's gonna be here

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Speaker 7: in early July and he'll make seventeen or eighteen starts.

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Speaker 7: Can you count on that, because I don't think you can.

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Speaker 7: What you hope though, is that over the next two

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Speaker 7: or three months that these two sides can build a relationship. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: because it doesn't feel like they have one right now.

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Speaker 7: And like you may think the Red should trade Hunter Green. Okay,

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00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 7: you may think Hunter Green's overrated or overpaid. That's fine.

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Speaker 7: He is a key piece. It would be great if

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00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 7: you didn't have a disconnect with your key piece. That

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Speaker 7: disconnect may be mainly Hunter Green's fault, It may be

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Speaker 7: mainly a reflection of the Reds I kind of feel

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Speaker 7: like whenever there's a breakdown into relationship, it's the fault

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Speaker 7: of all the parties.

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Speaker 2: But it's got to get fixed.

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00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 7: Hunter Green's elbows got to get fixed, and I feel

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00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,240
Speaker 7: like the relationship between Hunter Green and the Reds also

650
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Speaker 7: has to get fixed.

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Speaker 2: Basketball coming up in just a few minutes now. Tarn

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Speaker 2: floated an idea yesterday about just live streaming and maybe

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Speaker 2: not having volume, but just your reactions here. We've done

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Speaker 2: this before, have you guys? Have you approved this yet?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, good, Yeah, you sound pumped for it.

657
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Speaker 7: Yeah. Today today doesn't feel like so much about UC

658
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 7: making the NCAA Tournament as much as it feels like,

659
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Speaker 7: if you're Wes Miller, you do not want to lose

660
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 7: this game, because I feel like there's a little bit

661
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 7: of a difference between losing today and tomorrow. We're losing

662
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 7: against Arizona. You lose this one, you toss terrible Bearkats

663
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 7: almost lost to them already. Yeah, Like, I feel like

664
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Speaker 7: if they lose today, it's gonna undo a lot of

665
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Speaker 7: the good will built up over the last few weeks.

666
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Speaker 7: And you and I were talking about this earlier, like

667
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 7: it wasn't that they lost on Saturday. It was how

668
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Speaker 7: sloppy they were.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 7: They didn't look that.

671
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 2: Prepared, didn't look like a team fighting for their life.

672
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 7: Right, No, it did look like last regular season game,

673
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 7: and you legitimately have something to play for. So if

674
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 7: we see something like that today and it results in

675
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 7: a loss, like, we're not talking about the bubble, We're

676
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 7: talking about Wes Miller's bubble maybe bursting. So yeah, I

677
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 7: guess we're gonna do the chance to watch me watch

678
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 7: the game as I try to do a show. That's

679
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 7: gonna be a lot of fun. I don't want the

680
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 7: Bearcats to spoil your birthday.

681
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Speaker 2: No, No, I just want to win on my birthday

682
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 2: so I can have more hope for tomorrow. Yes, so

683
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 2: an advance and then advance win tomorrow the hope that

684
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Speaker 2: I would have for Thursday.

685
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean today's day. Whether it's Santa Clara tonight,

686
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Speaker 7: whether it's Virginia Tech, Stanford, SMU. Like, there's lots of

687
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Speaker 7: teams playing that are in a similar position to Cincinnati,

688
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 7: maybe not the same position as.

689
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Speaker 2: Right now, Stanford's down at eight to Pittsburgh. Yeah at half.

690
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Speaker 7: If you win today, I think you give yourself another

691
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 7: chance to play a game tomorrow that matters. You probably

692
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 7: still need to win another one after that, but it's

693
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Speaker 7: you know, make tomorrow matter. Make tomorrow when you guys

694
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Speaker 7: are off tomorrow, so you're you're not going to be you.

695
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: Know, we don't know about it could be Thursday to

696
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: what the Kentucky Wildcats do.

697
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Speaker 7: So because you guys are off tomorrow and maybe off

698
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 7: the rest of the week. I've stolen from you. I've

699
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 7: stolen Charlie Goldsmith.

700
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Speaker 2: If you had to go get one, you got yours.

701
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 7: Man, Like I've told him this, Like Charlie, I love

702
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 7: your work, like Tony and Austin have you're there guy.

703
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 7: But Tarren and I were talking before it's like, well,

704
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 7: they're not having them today. They may not work the

705
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 7: rest of the week. Charley has been just crushing it

706
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 7: on the Reds and Bengals, So Charlie's gonna join us.

707
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 7: Paul Danner Junior in the first hour.

708
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 2: He's like, Brian Cook, you know your top target.

709
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Speaker 7: I don't know. I flew back yesterday and I woke up.

710
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 2: Are your arms tired? Ah?

711
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 7: I had a two flights. On both flights, I fell

712
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 7: asleep in one city and I woke up in the

713
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 7: next the second flight plane hits the ground. First thing

714
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 7: that happens, I get duped by the fake Jordan Schultz. Yeah,

715
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 7: first time in twelve years I've been duped by a fake.

716
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 7: Then you got to put up with all the people lecturing.

717
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 7: You're like, oh, you can't do that, Like all right, man,

718
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 7: give me.

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Speaker 3: A break, man, Okay, you got me as well, because

720
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Speaker 3: as you know, I have your tweets sentiment phone and

721
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 3: have for almost fifteen years now, and I'm oh, mo

722
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 3: retweeted it. It must be legit, right, And so I

723
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 3: went down the how I told Terrence and hey, Bengals

724
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 3: got John Franklin.

725
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 7: So here's what I've done to make up for. I

726
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 7: got the real Jordan Schultz on Monday next week.

727
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 2: Wow, So that's what I did.

728
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 7: Am I good?

729
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 5: Now?

730
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 7: Like always like Rando's like, you know, you know, hey, Mo,

731
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 7: here's how Twitter works. Like thanks, speaking of I've been

732
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 7: on it for seventeen years.

733
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Speaker 3: You weren't on the air yesterday telling people that Trey

734
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 3: Henderson signed one hundred and ninety million dollar contract with

735
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys.

736
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Speaker 7: Oh, don't want to be that guy. So anyway, playing

737
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 7: hits the ground yeah. First thing I do, look at

738
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 7: the woman next to me with that look like, hey,

739
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 7: I know it's Price Norrin. Second thing I do is

740
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 7: I get duped by the fake Jordan Schultz. Then I

741
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 7: see the Brian Cook news.

742
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you literally could.

743
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 7: Not have hided me. Like if today was my birthday,

744
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 7: that'd be my birthday present. We are taking my least

745
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 7: favorite Bengals player ever and replacing him with one of

746
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 7: my top five all time favorite UC players, a guy

747
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 7: who does specifically what we hated Gino Stone for not doing.

748
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Speaker 2: Who are the other four?

749
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 7: Haruki Nakamura Love, Harkie, Desmond Ritter right right, Zach Kolaro's beast,

750
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Speaker 7: I'll give it to you. It's it's Harookie, Yeah, Tony Pike, Yeah,

751
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 7: des Ritter, Brian Cook. And it's the other guy who

752
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 7: got paid yesterday, Kobe Bryant.

753
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 2: Yeah.

754
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 7: My top five two at the back end of that

755
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 7: defense may might not be the five best, but they're

756
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 7: my five favorite.

757
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 2: By the way, you having Charlie on today, Charlie got

758
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 2: duped yesterday, and Paul Dana Junior commented off to Twitter,

759
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 2: jail and Charlie, I thought one of the best responses

760
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 2: in recent memory said six more weeks in goodyear for me.

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Speaker 7: That's his By the way, his penalty does Twitter jail

762
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 7: mean I don't have to be on it?

763
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 2: Oh, because it's a great question, right, Yeah, okay, it

764
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 2: was fine by me now. Like I was talking like

765
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Speaker 2: if they if they got Lloyd last night, it's like

766
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Speaker 2: a Grand Slam. Yes, but they hit two two solid

767
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 2: plays yesterday at positions of need, and they still have

768
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 2: the money and resources available. Like if it's me, next

769
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Speaker 2: on that list is a linebacker, and I think Chanel

770
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense if they crossed that off.

771
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 2: Like we talked, Reisner was a layup. Yeah, Trey Hendrickson,

772
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 2: they made the right move. He's still out there, can't

773
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Speaker 2: get what he wants. And they addressed two big means

774
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Speaker 2: like they've batted one hundred so far in the offseason. Yeah.

775
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Speaker 7: I think if if you're able to get one of

776
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 7: the better linebackers available and then you know, spend the

777
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 7: next few weeks just finding other guys to build depth,

778
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 7: you can then really go into the draft going best

779
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 7: player available. You can draft an offensive guy, you could

780
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Speaker 7: take your left tackle of the future. They're suddenly to me,

781
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Speaker 7: that's what's really fun about what they've done so far

782
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 7: in free agency. I don't think for a second that

783
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 7: signing Brian Cook means that Caleb Downs is off their board.

784
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Speaker 7: I don't believe that that signing boy A Mafe makes

785
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 7: Ruben Bain not somebody that they would draft. But I

786
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Speaker 7: just I love the idea of you go get free

787
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 7: dudes that kind of headline the class, fill in some

788
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 7: depth pieces, and then you're not drafting out of desperation

789
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 7: next month. Yeah, that's what's exciting to me. Look, Duke

790
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 7: Tobin has been a punching bag and deservedly so. He

791
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 7: did what he said he was gonna do. And the

792
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 7: other thing is, and I heard Paul and Charlie and

793
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 7: Jay and Mark Shallafood talk about this on Paul's podcast yesterday,

794
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 7: they didn't get so preoccupied by the John Franklin Myers miss. Yeah,

795
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 7: they were caught with their pants down as it relates

796
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 7: to these other two guys. So that's progress because typically

797
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 7: it feels like the Bengals can only do one thing

798
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 7: at a time.

799
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Speaker 2: Two quick things. Do you have a problem with cal

800
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 2: Rowley not dopping up Randy and Rose Arena at the

801
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classical? I don't either. No, people praise Kobe

802
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 2: for running through Palcasol in the Olympics.

803
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 7: But I do love those World Baseball Classic games.

804
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 2: Have been awesome. Atmosphere has been awesome. Secondly, a lot

805
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 2: of reports over the last couple of days in Ohio

806
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,720
Speaker 2: about Bigfoot sightings. Do you believe in Bigfoot?

807
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Speaker 7: No?

808
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 2: Well, in that case, we're done here.

809
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 7: At this when you see him at this stage in

810
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 7: the evolution of Bigfoot, which is weird for me to

811
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Speaker 7: say for something that doesn't exist. Okay, with all the

812
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,959
Speaker 7: people we have, our country has never been more dense.

813
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 2: How many like five ers, Because when I.

814
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Speaker 7: Say our country has never been more dense, I mean

815
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 7: intellectually and I mean from a person per square foot.

816
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 7: At some point we like we would have seen Bigfoot

817
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 7: and like legitimately would have encountered them.

818
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 2: Maybe we have Harry and the Henderson's We're done. Heroldo

819
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Speaker 2: most next on air and also available to watch as

820
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 2: he watches and be fun for everybody. The Bearcats and

821
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Speaker 2: the Utes coming up in just a few the game

822
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 2: on the screen. It's next Cincinnati Sports Station. Have a

823
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Speaker 2: great rest of your.

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Speaker 10: Death until you see khy Cincinnati, make us the number

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